{"id":5781,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/sex-and-guilt\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:44","slug":"sex-and-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/sex-and-guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"SEX\n  AND GUILT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Behavior; Guilt; Sex; Shame; Uncleanness<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Genesis 1:27\u201331; 2:24; Matthew 19:5; Ephesians 5:31<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>In <i>Music through the Eyes of Faith<\/i>, Harold Best tells the true story of a young man who became heavily involved in a satanic cult that developed an elaborate liturgy focusing on the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach. The young man later became a Christian and started going to church. Everything went well until the church organist played a piece composed by Bach. The young believer was overcome by fear and fled the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Bach\u2019s work \u201crepresents some of the noblest music for Christian worship,\u201d Best writes. \u201cTo this young man, however, it \u2026 epitomized all that was evil, horrible, and anti-Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Sex is that way for some Christians. Past associations and guilty feelings about sexual behavior have created severe spiritual roadblocks. Christians try hard not to believe that sex is inherently evil, but because of previous experiences, it certainly feels evil.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Gary Thomas, \u201cHow Sex Points Us to God,\u201d <i>Marriage Partnership<\/i> (Winter 2005)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>PART 11: HEALING<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Behavior; Guilt; Sex; Shame; Uncleanness References: Genesis 1:27\u201331; 2:24; Matthew 19:5; Ephesians 5:31 In Music through the Eyes of Faith, Harold Best tells the true story of a young man who became heavily involved in a satanic cult that developed an elaborate liturgy focusing on the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach. The young man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/sex-and-guilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SEX<br \/>\n  AND GUILT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}