Sex is God’s idea… It is a thing to be celebrated, rejoiced, participated in. But here’s the deal: it’s unbelievably powerful. So God framed it up. But here’s what’s happened… all of us have a skewed view of sexuality that has us - in this culture particularly - chasing a pipe dream.

We have set sex so high on our world view that it’s going to be impossible for sex to live up to its promises. It’s tied to person-hood and identity… it’s tied to fullness of life and all of that’s ridiculous…

Sex, given by God, in the confines of a relationship where a man says to a woman, ‘I’m not going anywhere and I’ve seen the crazy part of you. This is a covenant before God, it’s not an emotion; this is not a feeling. I’m committing to you, come hell or high water. I’m a mess, you’re a mess. Let’s see what the Lord’s gonna do,’ and the woman says, ‘I will respect and honor you; you and you only; this is not an emotion, not a feeling; this is a covenant before God Almighty…’

…In those confines, you have an opportunity of intimacy, friendship and togetherness that all the promiscuity in the world would never be able to deliver.