Mom’s we love you. You have a difficult and often thankless job. God has given you a great opportunity by giving you the role of mom. Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Southbridge Fellowship.
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Here is an amazing passage of scripture about freedom from condemnation as we think about people we know who are trapped in a prison of secrecy.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, 4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. 5 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7 the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. 9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
Well at least the title made you read this far. Sex, sex, sex, it is everywhere in our society. Wherever you go there is sex. On television, on billboards, at the mall, at schools, everywhere you go there is sex. Everywhere you go the message is the same; “Do it, do it, do it.” There is one refuge though. There is one place where we don’t talk about it…church. If the church does talk about it, you know what they will say, “Don’t do it! Don’t even think about it!”
The problem is that is not what the Bible teaches. We are actually commanded to do it…and get this to enjoy it!
15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well. 16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? 17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. 18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe, a graceful deer– may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love.
Did you notice God says to be captivated by? Her love. You can enjoy her breasts, but God’s context for this enjoyment is in a loving exclusive marriage relationship between a man and a woman. In the proper context God commands us to have sex, and to enjoy sex.