Sex And The City
"There is no question that if you were to put the Ten Commandments to a vote in terms of popularity, this commandment would be voted the least popular of all. To this commandment we have a culture today that is saying, even to God himself, "What we do behind closed doors is our private life and it is nobody's business - not even Yours."
"Whether it is an adulterer or fornicator or a homosexual, the idea that sex should be limited only to a man and a woman who are married to each other seems not only to be woefully out of date, but absolutely intolerant.
"Just turn on your television and you will see a medium that refers to sex outside of marriage thirteen times more frequently than it mentions intimacy between husband and wife. In other words, whenever sex or sexual intercourse or illusions to sex are mentioned on television, eighty-eight percent of the time it will be outside the context of marriage.
"In the real world, half of all adults under the age of thirty will live with someone before they get married and sixty-percent of those recently married, acknowledged they lived with their new spouse before they got married.
"Something just hit me as I was thinking about this whole concept of adultery. Do you realize that three times in the Gospels Jesus talks about a "sinful and adulterous generation?" Why didn't He talk about a "sinful and lying generation" or a "sinful and murderous generation?" I think it is because Jesus realized that adultery and sexual sin would always be a great problem in the human race. I grew up in the days of a revolution that took place in this country known as the "sexual revolution." I think the word "revolution" is the right word to describe what happened. A revolution, as you know, was when someone revolts against an authority that is over them. The sexual revolution was a revolt, both against God and the seventh commandment."
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Keywords: purity, homosexuality, adultery, seventh command, ten commandments
