Memory Verse for the Week: Proverbs 5:21 (ESV)

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.

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Intro: What are three basic questions to help us think well?

THE BEAUTY OF EXCLUSIVE DELIGHT
How is God’s design of sexuality powerful and amazing?

THE TRAGEDY OF SEXUAL BROKENNESS
How has this power been profoundly affected by the Fall?

HOW DOES JESUS OFFER HOPE?
What does it mean for Jesus to redeem sexuality, and at what cost?

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …

1. Worship the LORD for His beauty and desire to rejoice in us as His own Bride. Praise Him, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, for His character to be devoted to us as His own people and His graciousness to be close to us.

2. How have you violated God’s design for sex and marriage? Confess your pride and sin to Jesus, asking Him to forgive you and to free you from the brokenness of violating His good design.

3. Give thanks to Jesus for His work to make us beautiful and cherish us as His own Bride. Thank Him for how He chose to come to save us even at the cost of giving up His beauty to be scarred by our guilt on the Cross.

4. Who do you know that has suffered because of sexual sin (theirs or someone else’s)? Pray for them, asking the Lord to heal them and persuade them that He is able to make them whole by His grace.

5. Ask the Holy Spirit to bear in you His fruit of faithfulness to the LORD as your Husband. Pray for sexual obedience and a heart to honor God and honor people in light of how He made us to treat each other.

Looking Back

The Facilitator is a study tool designed to help you engage with the weekly sermon through the five elements we incorporate in our Community Groups; Get Acquainted & Sharing, Sermon Study, Mission, Worship and Prayer. This tool will be made available Monday morning to give us the opportunity to look back at what we heard on Sunday.