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Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Jonathan Walter

Callie Williams

01 Counter-Cultural

Sebastien Braxton

Sikhu Daco

02 Naked

03 One of Two Gifts

04 Incredible Sex

05 Marital Sexuality: Oneness

06 Marital Sexuality: Twoness

07 Marital Sexuality: Sameness of Nature

08 Marital Sexuality: Difference

09 Interconnectedness

10 Pre-Marital Sexuality

11 When Things Go Wrong

12 Beyond Sexuality

13 Purity

We'll find out on this episode of Inverse.

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

Love and marriage, and we'll even put the word sex in there.

On this episode, we're looking at the concepts of biblical sexuality and as we are talking about a sensitive matter we want to encourage you that if you have minors in the area to be mindful of the subject at hand.

We're going to go to the Bible, we're going to go to 1st Corinthians chapter 7, 1 through 9 and we're going to ask Jonathan to read but Israel if you can pray for us.

And by the way, hey, I didn't welcome you guys to the studio.

And we're so excited about the topic today.

The episode is called Pre-Marital sexuality.

And for about the last 9 weeks, we've been looking at different aspects of biblical sexuality, not sexuality as a whole, but what the Bible has to say, and different presuppositions of scripture.

And we want to encourage you to go to inversebible.org where you can catch up and binge watch all these exciting episodes that have been very, very, very efficacious, very, very teach worthy, very, very, very juicy.

Father in heaven, we are addressing a topic that is extremely important, especially in today's society.

And we pray that you would bless us with your presence in Jesus' name, amen.

Now, concerning the things of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection due to her and likewise also the wife to her husband.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does.

And likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Do not deprive 1 another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment, For I wish that all men were even as I myself, but each 1 has his own gift from God, 1 in this manner and another in that.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

But if they cannot Exercise self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

This is a very interesting passage and we're going to dive deep into this passage.

I want to ask Callie, our topic is on premarital sex.

Why many people think it's wrong or maybe think the church is wrong.

There's no Bible verse that talks about being wrong.

For the same reason we believe in the Trinity.

Just like in the Bible, there's no verse that says there is a Trinity and this is who it is.

But there are many passages that emerge that it implies that there's a Trinity.

And then you see principles like that makes sense here, here, here, here, here, here.

And there we bring a composite picture of the Trinity is real.

And in the same way, there is no verse that says, thou shalt not have premarital sex, full stop.

But there are principles throughout scripture that say, This is how sex should happen in these parameters.

And this is good, this is not good, this is good, this is not good.

And even though premarital sex, that phrase, and even something that's a very strong synonym isn't used, all the principles together say, yeah, that's what it is.

What are, well, let's get into the text here, okay?

Israel, share with us, and what's going on in this text, and how does it feed into our topic of premarital sexuality?

I think if you were to take up the whole text and sum it up, essentially what Paul is saying is that sexual fulfillment is not the ultimate goal in life, right?

And many times that's kind of what we believe as human beings, especially when we're younger, right?

You see that in every supermarket, you see it in every movie, you see it in every...

Yeah, sexual fulfillment, sexual fulfillment, But that's not the goal.

That's what, that's what Paul is saying, right?

That sexual fulfillment at the end of the day, that's not the greatest concern that God has for our lives.

And neither is, and by, by extension, sexual fulfillment is not the greatest fulfillment that 1 can experience, Right?

We think that we cannot be happy unless we are sexually fulfilled.

It is still a gift from God that he does give for us to experience, but it is not the all in all of experiences and you've achieved Nirvana afterwards.

As a matter of fact, he, he, he continues to say that you can experience fulfillment even without it, and that's what he's saying, he's saying, I wish there were people that were even as I am, but the fact is that in many cases, there is a lack of self-control, and so in many cases, the problem with the human race is the fact that we come to the topic with the position of a lack of self-control.

And so scripture then has to provide boundaries in which we can kind of function, but that's what kind of success.

That is a strong presupposition you find all throughout scripture, right?

But the presupposition of the world is you need to have sex.

This person died because he did not have sex.

And I'm being humorous but that is a presupposition that a lot of people have.

A lot of people it's a script that a lot of a lot of young adults have grown up with and even though they they there's just overwhelming societal pressure to and you can yes you know all of this.

And well I was gonna say even if like sometimes people say they want to wait but then they can't like I remember when I was single and someone asked me like oh so you don't but you don't like sleep around like you don't like to talk I was like no I don't they're like I wish I could do that I would die I'm like so even like people express a desire to do that, but that's impossible because of that script.

So you're even limiting your ability to live a certain way because you think it's impossible for you to physically not do something.

Really, when it comes down to it, you know, what are the motivations in your life, obviously?

As a Christian, the way I look at it, while, and I want to acknowledge that, of course, as Paul acknowledges this, you know, the sex drive, we are sexual beings.

There is a desire in us to experience this and there's nothing wrong with that.

But when we understand that, as you said, Israel, it is not the most important thing in life, number 1.

Series

Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

10 Pre-Marital Sexuality

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