Humans deviate from God’s design in numerous ways. Nearly every sinful heart is prone to struggle with sexual impurity in some way. In this message, Pastor David Platt exhorts followers of Christ not to undermine our message and our integrity by sexual impurity. Pastor David Platt encourages believers to turn to biblical truth and the guidance of the Holy Spirit as we strive to be set apart from sexual impurity.
- Struggles with Sexual Impurity
- The Importance of Purity
- We All Fall Short
- Turning to the Word
Watch Full Message Of “The Cross and Christian Sexuality – Part 1”
Transcript
All of us are bent towards sexual deviation from God’s design in some way. Maybe it’s homosexual, maybe it’s heterosexual, maybe it’s both. But this is not just something that a few people struggle with. This is something that every sinful heart it’s prone to struggle with in some way or the other.
Recognizing Your Own Sinfulness Before Judging Others
And so we’ve got to be careful. Just a side note here, we got to be really careful not to be guilty of selective moral outrage when it comes to the issue of homosexuality. Yes, it is right to stand upon and speak about what God has said regarding homosexuality, but let me just confess the obvious. I represent the class of people responsible for the vast majority of sexual immorality in the world today, male heterosexuals. And I and every other heterosexual person would be wise to stop looking at the specks in others’ eyes when there are planks in our own eyes.
If we roll our eyes and shake our heads when we see the Supreme Court ruling this case, yet we turn the channels on our TVs to watch the trivialization of sex on shows and advertisements, to search the internet in search of images to satisfy our lust, to go to movies that glamorize sex outside of marriage and entertain sexual thoughts and desires outside of our own marriage, then we have missed the entire point.
Are these sins acceptable merely because they’re the sins of the majority?
David Platt serves as a Lead Pastor for McLean Bible Church. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Radical, an organization that helps people follow Jesus and make him known in their neighborhood and all nations.
David received his B.A. from the University of Georgia and M.Div., Th.M., and Ph.D. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Some of his published works include Radical, Radical Together, Follow Me, Counter Culture, Something Needs to Change, and Don’t Hold Back.
He lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area with his wife and children.
