Slides: Becoming Renewed in Sexual Intimacy and Our Sexual Desires

Becoming Renewed in Sexual Intimacy and Our Sexual Desires 

Henry and Pamela Reyenga

Renewed

When a person becomes a believer, he or she is now born again into a redemptive relationship with Jesus Christ. The past sins and sinful struggles are covered. They have a way to stand in confidence with God and become renewed in the image of their creator. 

Colossians 3:10    ...and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Sexual Identity and Practice Is Something to Renew

1 Corinthians 6:18     Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 10:14    Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

1 Timothy 5:6   But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still living.

Become Honest About Sexual Struggle

1 John 1:8     If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1:9    If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Keep Your Fallen Sexual Appetites from Harming Yourself and Others

Embark on a path of sanctification.

Wherever you have been, start on a sanctification path as you go forward in Christ.

Colossians 3:5-8     Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.  Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these.

Keep Your Fallen Sexual Appetites from Harming Yourself and Others

Ephesians 2:1-6    As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,  made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

Putting Sanctification Boundaries in Place

If married, serve each other to meet each other’s sexual appetites.  This is an adventuresome journey of physical, spiritual, and emotional oneness.  

Sometimes, it is more about what you want or obey than how you may feel. 

1 Corinthians 7:5   Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.