Sermon

Sexuality and Christian Hope

Tim Keller |  April 18, 2004

Topics:
  • Sexuality
  • Marriage
  • Hope
Duration:
41:37
Scripture:
1 Corinthians 6:13-20; 7:27-31
SKU:
RS 173-5

Overview

There are obvious ways Christian hope affects us, like in the way we face death and troubles. But I’d like to show you that Christian hope affects everything, every area of our lives.

The biblical understanding of hope is a life-shaping, joyous certainty that your future is the eternal love and glory of God and a new heavens and new earth. And this Christian hope even determines and revolutionizes our whole attitude toward sex, romance, singleness, and marriage.

This passage in 1 Corinthians 6 and 7 is outrageous in all sorts of ways. It shows us that 1) Christianity gave the world a revolutionary view of sex, 2) Christianity gave the world a revolutionary view of singleness and marriage, and 3) Christian hope radically reshapes our approach, our actions, and our attitudes in this area.

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