Jesus Wants To Make You Sexier

I have been studying Jesus teaching on lust and marriage in the Sermon on the Mount this week. Here are a few things I have been pondering.

* Lust matters because it dehumanizes us and others. It turns people into things. The reaping sowing affect is that when you commodify others you commodify yourself. You become a thing.

* Lust has led to 12 billion dollar porn industry. 10 billion of that is hard porn. Most of the hard porn involves children.

* An FBI agent who seeks to break up child porn companies recently asked a friend of mine to pray with her. She watched a film that day of a four year old girl being raped by her father. Her mother filmed the rape. The little girl kept saying, "Mommy make him stop." This is the world lust creates.

* The Latin word for sex is secare. It means to "cut off." We feel sexually cut off. We feel most sexually satisfied when we are connected. This does not require intercourse. Some of the most sexual people I know are single and chaste. But they are super connected to God, themselves, people, the world, pain, suffering, beauty, joy.

* Jesus wants to make us more sexual not less. He wants us to be more comfortable with who we are, more connected. You could say he wants to make us sexy.

This is our topic this week at Restoration Community Church. For more information, check out Restorationcc.us. Hope to see you there.