03.16.25 | NCCpm | Sunday Service PM

Relationship Status is not the Pathway to Identity and Fulfillment in the Kingdom of God.

Romans 6:12-13 (CSB)

Romans 12:1 (CSB)

How we use our physical bodies matters deeply to God

If we think our bodies don’t matter in eternity, we won’t value them now

We have a choice in whether we use our bodies to serve sin or to serve God

How we use our bodies is a conformation to our cultural norms or as a sacrifice to the God who gave them life

1 Corinthians 15:12-21 (CSB)

Philippians 3:21 (CSB)

If God values our bodies as worthy enough to be resurrected one day, then we should treat our bodies with that same value

Genesis 4:1 (ESV)

Yada: to intimately know

Psalm 46:10 (ESV)

Psalm 139:1-2 (CSB)

Sex is designed as an intimate and sacred form of knowing, through both physical unity and deep relational connection

Biblical sex is designed within the context of a covenantal and committed marriage between a man and a woman

The biblical view is that anything outside of marital sex between a man and woman is sexual immorality

Pleasure — enjoyment and fun.

Proverbs 5:18-19 (CSB)

Procreation — a place where the product of your love is new life. 

Genesis 1:28 (CSB)

Genesis 4:1 (ESV)

Adoration — a place to express deep love, respect, and reverence.

“If you believe in what it says in Genesis 1 about God making heaven and earth—and the binaries in Genesis are so important—that heaven and earth, and sea and dry land, and so on and so on, and you end up with male and female. It’s all about God making complementary pairs which are meant to work together. The last scene in the Bible is the new heaven and the new earth, and the symbol for that is the marriage of Christ and his church. It’s not just one or two verses here and there which say this or that. It’s an entire narrative which works with this complementarity so that a male-plus-female marriage is a signpost or a signal about the goodness of the original creation and God’s intention for the eventual new heavens and new earth. If you say that marriage now means something which would allow other such configurations, what you’re saying is actually that when we marry a man and a woman we’re not actually doing any of that stuff.” —NT Wright