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Anchor Point Films

Chad Kreuzer

Sex, Porn, Science and Scripture

Hi there, my name is Chad Kruiser with Anchor Point Films and my wife and I, Fadi, travel around full-time producing documentary films and also speaking, lecturing around the world on subjects like the gut-brain connection, overcoming depression.

We also talk on overcoming depression and overcoming addictions also.

And if you have any interest in learning more about our ministry, go to our website anchorpointfilms.com.

But before we begin talking about this very important subject of sexuality and finding victory in Jesus Christ, let's bow our heads for a word of prayer Heavenly Father Thank you for your love.

I pray simply that your Holy Spirit would rain down that you would Impress each and every heart in areas that are pertinent to each 1.

That you draw us nearer to you, in the name of Jesus, amen.

You know, 1 of my favorite verses is back in Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomy chapter 6 and verse 24 where it says, and the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes.

Meaning the Lord commanded us to keep all of his commandments.

Why did he command us to keep his commandments?

It goes on to say in the text, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive as it is this day.

So, meaning all of God's commandments are actually for our good, meaning they are not just arbitrary statutes, judgments, laws.

They are specifically written and designed for our good.

And so God didn't just give them to us, they were meant to be a blessing.

And then it says that He might preserve us alive as it is this day, meaning there's even a longevity benefit to God's commandments.

That the Christian group that has decided, hey we're going to try to follow God's law, even his health message has amazingly become the longest living group of people in the world today.

That God's commandments are actually for our benefit.

And there's a fantastic book called Mind, Character, and Personality.

It's actually 2 volumes, and I believe these 2 books are the 2 greatest books on psychology on planet Earth.

And it begins by saying, now they were written, you know, a hundred plus years ago, but this particular sentence begins, man's strongest impulse, or humanity's strongest desire, we could say.

And the Bible recognizes this desire and shows us that all heaven will unite with you in your efforts to gain true happiness.

What an incredible thought that God wants you to be happy.

We're told that God knows that your greatest desire is to be happy, and all of heaven is willing to unite together to make you happy.

That God, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and all the angels of heaven are literally willing to work together to bring you true happiness.

But the thing is, not everything that we do makes us happy, and not everything that we think will make us happy actually makes us happy.

But remember, God's commandments are for our good.

So anything we do in life that is contrary to God's will actually would take away from the true peace, the true joy that God intends for us to have.

Certain things may make us feel good temporarily, but then they bring a corresponding emptiness or maybe even shame.

The book of Jeremiah says in chapter 29 verse 11, it says, For I know the plans, God says, that I have for you, declares the Lord.

I love how the ESV states that God says, listen, I have a plan for your life.

I know what I want to happen in your life and I want your life to be whole.

What a beautiful thought, because we kind of live sometimes a disjointed life, a broken life, and God says, I want your life to be whole.

And then he says, I want to give you also a future and a hope.

You may not even look with joy to the future, but God says, listen, I want you to have hope in the future.

You see, he says, I want you to be whole.

I want the rest of your existence, regardless of what has happened.

You may be fragmented, you may be broken from your past, but God says, listen, I want to take your future and I want to make you whole.

I want to put you together the way I designed you to be, to have the joy, to have the fulfillment, to have the peace, to have the happiness that I designed for you to have.

You know, the reality is we kind of live a divided humanity and this comes from not only ancient Greece or Rome, but maybe even goes back to the time of the Egyptians and actually even further back than that.

But we have now what is common in society is something called the platonic view of the soul or of the human.

And the platonic view which has pervaded many religions.

They are body and a spirit, these 2 separate entities.

The things that pertain to the body in this Greek Platonic view are evil.

Things that pertain to this world are evil and this would include things like sex.

Now this is just evil from a platonic view but this is very different from the biblical view.

In contradistinction the Bible has a view that the person is whole.

It was designed by God to be pure, fulfilling, and a life-changing act.

And The reality is that sex is a life-changing act, but it may not bring the fulfillment that God intended it to when we do it outside of God's will and his word.

It's interesting, thinking of media and media's perspective of sexuality that they portray to the masses, that they broadcast, as it were.

I remember being a young person and watching a television show.

And I got much of my perspective on the world from television, because I watched so much of it growing up.

And this particular show was about a bunch of teenagers.

And they had sex together for the first time.

And then the next day, it shows the young lady.

And she's so happy that they had sex and the perspective was that this is life changing, this is awesome, this is such a great experience for her and it's interesting because it's so often not that.

Especially for some young people who just get together, they have sex for the very first time, they're not married, it's awkward, it's strange, it didn't go well, It was so much faster than they would have thought it may have been painful It may have been Felt forced and then a guilt and a shame and often the young lady ends up crying afterward and not tears of joy Not just rejoicing that she had just lost her virginity, but just the opposite.

Tears of guilt, shame, embarrassment, it wasn't what I thought it was going to be.

But it's interesting, the perspective of society is that, oh, it's just gonna be so nice if I just go and sleep with someone.

But so often that is not the actual case.

Now, God once again wants us to have a whole sexuality.

And this is from Richard Davidson's book the flame of Yahweh.

He says the holistic view of Sexuality means that the one-flesh experience of husband and wife in Genesis 224 involves not only the sex act But also a oneness a wholeness.

In all the physical, sensual, social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of life.

The holistic concept of the 1 flesh relationship between husband and wife implies that it is not sufficient to only seek physical compatibility in marriage Equally important is harmony between marriage partners in matters of religious faith The Bible teaches that we are also to be equally yoked.

That this is not just a physical experience of physical pleasure, but it is a holistic experience with the whole being, even a religious connection.

Now, thinking about this, this is the biblical perspective that is once again in contradistinction to the Platonic view that just says, listen, your body is evil.

The things the body does, like sex, are evil.

Now, it could be evil outside of the context of God's will, but it wasn't meant to be that way.

It was meant to be a blessing, and it was meant to be something that actually brings joy, fulfillment to life when done in the right context.

And this is quite powerful, looking at this research.

Research looking at spirituality and sex.

Research looking at 9, 566 people in 11 countries looking at people's level of spirituality and their levels of sexual satisfaction.

Now they discovered that those who were highly religious had better sex lives.

They found that women had the highest increase in satisfaction when they were spiritual or very spiritual.

And those who were married rather than cohabitating had higher levels of satisfaction in their relationships.

It's interesting that cohabitating, we're going to look a little bit more about this in just a moment, that they found greater happiness, greater satisfaction in their sexual life when they were married rather than cohabitating.

And we also saw that those who were more spiritual actually had better sex lives.

Oh, if you're a Christian, if you've given your life to Jesus, in reality you're going to be, you're holding back your sexual desires, these proclivities that you have that, that in reality that you would be more fulfilled if you would just live out every sexual whim and desire that you have.

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