GYC 2017: Arise

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

The Truth About Sex & Sexuality

Keala Thompson

1. Empty in Sychar: Sexual Integrity for Women

2. Eyeless in Gaza: Sexual Integrity for Men

3. Purity & Passion

4. Escaping Soul Chains

5. Playing the Love Game

This message was presented at the GYC 2017 conference, Arise, in Phoenix, Arizona.

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This morning, I invite you to turn in your Bibles as we begin to opening text.

And we have handouts for you at this time.

With these handouts, I don't think there's enough.

You might have to take, share with your friends or maybe your family members, like 1 or 2 or whatever.

And I think we have a few handouts left over, like maybe 2 or 3 from maybe each session we found.

So if you're interested, you can see my wife right there afterwards.

And you can see in the back and you can get them for the previous seminars.

So this seminar was entitled, The Truth About Sex and Sexuality.

And it's about love, sex, and relationships.

And we've been going through our journey.

Beginning yesterday, we look at the struggles that women face sexually that's never talked about, and We learned that about emotional lusting of the heart.

And then we went to the men and their battles are different because of different hormones that men have than women.

And so they struggle with the physical lustings through the eyes.

And then we went on to discover about the purity in these last days that God wants for his people, the last generation, and so the sexual purity and the consequences of wrong action and how our sexual past can affect our future marriages.

And then we looked at how we can actually break free from the soul ties because sex is actually a spiritual thing.

So you can be tied to your past people you had sex with and bring those people into your marriages because of what has happened.

And then today we're gonna end with playing the love game.

And it's kind of built upon, especially the first 2, you've been here yesterday, you're gonna see how it's gonna come together.

And the games that men play against women, and women play against men in order to manipulate the opposite sex.

And a different type of games they do play, based upon what we learned yesterday.

My warning is also that, I guess this is presented in a way so that you would know what the games the opposite sex plays so that you won't be played by the players.

Also, the games that your sex plays so that you won't be the player, Can you hear amen, amen?

We don't want this to be used as a way to know the opposite sex so that you can play and be a player.

So we want to make sure that we are following the principles here to be godly young men and young women or older men and older women.

I know I need to share some things about yesterday and I want to apologize.

I know we had a Q&A afterwards and I was talking with someone and I think our ministry deals with root causes not just symptoms.

You deal with the root causes, sexual addictions is really meant to just numb your pain.

We're dealing with the root causes And if you deal with the root causes in here from these over here, then these addictions will fall away.

It'd be easier to fall away because the root cause is done away, where you experience healing.

And so in the questionings, I'm realizing that in a quick Q&A, 30 second answer, I felt like, and just looking upon their faces and talking to people afterwards, and reading your body language, and your intonations, and the questions that were asked, it wasn't just basic questions.

You were asking a lot of questions that were real life, intense, deep issues that you're actually you're going through, looking for a quick, you know, like a fast food answer in a sense.

And I feel like the issues are way more deeper and you really need to be sit down, hear the whole story, what you're coming from, because a short answer can actually be a wrong answer if that's not really pertaining to you.

And so that's, I know we like to just fast food answer, I'm okay, I'm healed, but it's a lot more than that.

I wanted to let you know we do have a school on emotional healing called Healing Rain.

It's a 10-day program and it helps you with emotional healing.

And the next 1 is actually going to be in Australia in March and it will have in Hawaii soon.

And if you have any other questions as well.

I'm going to have to leave maybe shortly.

I can take a few questions afterwards, but I have to leave shortly for an appointment.

So if you want to ask some questions, you can meet us at our booth in the exhibition hall.

With that, I think all the handouts are still being handed out, but let's begin.

Satan today, he has made this gift of love into a cheap game, okay?

And the men and women who play these games, they're called players.

You ever heard someone say, that guy, he's a player, watch out, right?

How many of you heard that before, right?

So, okay, so, and they do this, this term player also applies to women, cuz to play, man, and manipulate.

And what they're saying is that they're using the game of love to play.

And so, in this game, they're making love a game.

And so, we've learned that the women's battles are with the emotional lusting of the heart, And that happens through the ears.

And we also learned that men's battles is with the physical lusting, right?

And that's the avenue that Satan uses through the eyes, as we learned through the word of God yesterday.

And the crafty players in this game of love, whether they be men or women, understand these principles very well, and they use these principles to manipulate the opposite sex so that they can get what they want.

They don't care about the other party getting hurt, they're only concerned about their selfish pleasure and enjoying it themselves.

And so as Christians, we are not to play the game of love.

God doesn't want us to be a player, nor does he want us to be played.

For God knows that 1 wrong decision in our love life will affect us for the rest of our lives.

Could affect us for the rest of our lives.

I want to study from the word of God with you the tricks and games people play in order to manipulate the opposite sex.

And as we study this topic, may we never play any of these dangerous love games.

And if we are, then we may stop and surrender our wills to a God who loves us.

Father, As your word is open, we humbly ask this 1 last time, Lord, that you may speak to your people, move freely among your hearts whom you love.

We thank you, Lord, that you already answer our prayers.

Series

The Truth About Sex & Sexuality

5. Playing the Love Game

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Attachments

Occupy Wall Street with Jesus

4. Attracting Spiritual Interests

1h 1m

Why Jesus Can’t be Your Boyfriend

59m

True Love: Mission or Myth?

The Gateway

1h

#RelationshipGoals: God's Edition

05 From Dating to Destiny: Preparing for Forever

1h 1m

Victory Over Sin: How To Overcome Addictions

1. Victory Over Sin: How To Overcome Addictions

52m

Devotions For Decisions

5. By Every Word

1h 3m

Cosmic Conflict

2. Good God, Evil World?-Theodicy

1h 8m

Balanced Living Bootcamp

Balanced Living Bootcamp- Part 3

1h 5m

Seminars

Family in End-Time Perspective

51m

True Love: Mission or Myth?

The Heart of It

52m

Singleness, Dating, and Relationships in the Church

Swipe Right, Part 1

48m

Sound Doctrine