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Now, following these four worship principles - mastery, eternity, unity and ownership - Paul only gives us two commands that are to set the boundaries of our sexual lives. Now, here's what's important to understand. These commands make no sense whatsoever without being rooted in the grace of the gospel of the four worship principles.
Commands That Rest on Worship Principles
It's only those principles of mastery, eternity, unity, and ownership that provide the foundation on which these two commands rest. If you take these two commands out, they just seem like abstract regulations. It's God raining on our parade. But they're not that at all.
The first command is flee sexual immorality. You see if sex is potentially addictive, if sex makes me think that physical pleasure in this moment is all I have, if sex can distract me so much to cause me to forget the oneness that I have with Christ, if sex is a place where I act like I own my body in ways that I don't, then I need to run, run, run, run from that danger.
Sex, created by God to be a gorgeous, beautiful, relational, worshipful, intimate thing; a place where two human beings in the context of marriage are naked and vulnerable, but are resting in God and resting in the love of one another has been broken by sin and has become a very dangerous thing, and a thing that out of its proper context, I should run from. Out of that narrow context is a place where God meant for sex to thrive, a man and a woman in the long-term commitment of marriage, sex is a dangerous, addictive, seductive thing.
And so. fleeing sexual immorality means I don't cut corners. I don't expose myself to things that I should not see and should not think about. I run away from those dangers. I do that not because I think that God's just laying His law on me and the only thing I can do is obey His law. I do it because I'm thankful that God, in His grace, is delivering and protecting me.
