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31 août 2011
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9781441225115
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English
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1 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
31 août 2011
Nombre de lectures
0
EAN13
9781441225115
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
2007 Lakita Garth
Published by Revell a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.revellbooks.com
Revell edition published 2014
ISBN 978-1-4412-2511-5
Previously published by Regal Books
Ebook edition originally created 2011
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version ®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
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Contents
SESSION 1
The Naked Truth
SESSION 2
It Can’t Happen to Me
SESSION 3
America’s Most Unwanted
SESSION 4
I’ll Practice Safe Sex
SESSION 5
They’re Going to Do It Anyway
SESSION 6
Everybody’s Doing It
SESSION 7
Marriage Is Just a Piece of Paper
SESSION 8
Make a Decision, Make a Commitment
SESSION 1
The Naked Truth
Introduction
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and the woman were both naked, and they felt no shame .
—G OD (G ENESIS 2:24-25)
Pick almost any movie made for teenagers and adults (PG-13 or R) and you are guaranteed to see someone in bed or in the shower with someone else. Most of us have watched intimate encounters on television and in the movies for much of our lives.
By the time most of us are in high school, we begin to wonder, What would it be like to have an intense romantic relationship? Will I ever fall in love and have great sex?
There’s a reason sex is such a big part of our culture: God made us not only to want sex but also to enjoy sex for a lifetime.
From the very beginning, God created man and woman to enjoy each other. We were shaped to find pleasure in the opposite sex: their bodies, their minds, and their spiritual lives. We were created to fully know someone and to be fully known.
God’s plan for you includes a great, satisfying and—yes!—amazing sex life. Do you want to know God’s plan for a great sex life?
The Naked Truth with Lakita
Now it’s time to meet Lakita! In each lesson you will have a chance to hear from Lakita Garth, who has lived her life following God’s call to abstain from sex until marriage. As you watch this video, write down any questions or thoughts that come to you in the journal space provided below. Enjoy the video!
Take a moment to talk with your leader and others in the group about questions and comments you have after watching the video.
The Hook-Up
Whether we realize it or not, all of us have an opinion about sex. Below are some typical comments you might hear people say about sex before marriage:
• “Other people may contract a sexually transmitted disease, but it won’t happen to me; I’ll be careful.”
• “Sex is just for having babies, it’s not something to enjoy.”
• “Oral sex and touching are a safe way to show love physically without actually having sex.”
• “Condoms are the best way to practice safe sex.”
• “If I’ve already had sex, there’s really no good reason to not have sex before marriage since I’m no longer a virgin.”
• “If I’m dating the person I know I’m going to marry, then it’s okay to have sex because they will eventually be my spouse.”
• “Everybody, except for really religious or ugly people, enjoy sex.”
• “Sex just happens.”
Are these statements, ideas and assumptions true? Yes, no, maybe? The problem with discovering truth is that sometimes a lie wears a mask that looks a lot like the face of truth. In fact, a really good lie needs to have some truth in order for it to be believable.
Check out the situations below and think about what seems true and what seems like a lie.
Situation #1
Bobby and Sharon were celebrating their one-month anniversary since they began dating. One night, after going to see a movie, Sharon told Bobby that her roommate had gone home for the weekend and that they had her dorm room to themselves. Bobby and Sharon started making out and pretty soon found themselves wanting to go all the way. Sharon said they had better not because she didn’t want to get pregnant. Bobby said, “We won’t do this all the time. We love each other and this is our anniversary. After all, it’s not likely that you’ll get pregnant if we do it just once. It can’t happen to us.”
What seems true about Bobby’s opinion?
What seems untrue about his opinion?
Situation #2
Katrina had lots of questions about sex. She had just attended a Christian retreat with her church group and the speaker told them to “just say no to sex.” In fact, he told them that listening to hip hop, watching music videos and viewing R-rated movies was evil. The problem was, Katrina was curious about sex even though she knew that God intended for her to wait until she was married. So, she talked to her older cousin, Regina, who was living with her boyfriend. Regina laughed when Katrina told her about the guest speaker at the retreat. Regina pointed out, “Having sex before you are married prepares you to have a better and more satisfying sex life with your future spouse because you have more practice.”
What seems true about Regina’s opinion?
What seems untrue about Regina’s opinion?
Everyone has an opinion about sex. Many of us grow up in church learning that sex before marriage is wrong, yet most of the time it’s never explained why it’s wrong. Sex and drugs are often under the category of “just say no.” If our parents are single and have an active dating life, we might learn that sex outside of marriage is acceptable, as long as “you love each other,” are in a “committed relationship” or if you do it “responsibly.”
How do you know what’s really true about sex?
That’s what we are going to be studying for the next eight weeks. You are going to learn to know the difference between truths and lies that are wrapped in truth’s clothing to deceive people.
Now let’s take a look at a couple of stories from the Bible in which someone needed to decide the difference between the truth and a lie.
The Gospel Truth
What would paradise look like to you? How about eating all the food you want, having great weather, walking close with God, and being able to run around completely naked with the person created especially for you? In fact, you would feel so loved and accepted by God and the other person that you would not feel any sense of embarrassment or shame. Well, that’s what it was like for the first man and woman.
Everything was perfect. But even in paradise the man and the woman were tempted to turn away from God. Every day they could choose to enjoy the great life they had been given or they could choose to pursue what seemed like a greater pleasure. God loved the man and woman so much that He gave them a warning. Like a parent who warns their children of possible dangers, God warned the first humans about what not to do in their own little paradise.
Read Genesis 2:16-17.
Write in your own words how God described what was good and what was dangerous about life on Earth.
Even though God told the man and the woman the truth, they began to question whether what God said was completely true. In fact, the woman began to talk to the greatest deceiver of all time. The ancients described the “great liar” as a serpent. Jesus called him Satan. Eve was deceived into thinking that Satan had her best interests at heart and that God was keeping her from pleasure. Satan dressed up a lie to look like truth and the results were disastrous.
Read Genesis 3:1-7.
What lie did the serpent tell the man and woman that may have seemed true but, in fact, destroyed their paradise?
Read Genesis 3:6 again and describe the emotions you think the man and woman were feeling when they were faced with the decision to follow God’s plan or to follow their passions.
What did they feel after they ate the “forbidden fruit”? Why do you think they felt that way?
Read Genesis 3:8-20.
How many consequences can you discover that the man and woman experienced as a result of choosing not to abstain from the forbidden fruit?
God commanded the man and woman to abstain from eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God knew that if they ate from that particular tree, they would face some real and grave consequences. Unfortunately, the man and woman ignored the warning and chose another option that brought about some pretty devastating results. They chose to believe a lie that looked a lot like truth.
The Gospel Truth: Undressing Satan’s Lies
In the video, Lakita tells the story of two characters: Truth and Lie. At the end of the story she describes how each of us are going to be faced with the same challenge the town’s people faced: Are you going to believe a lie in truth’s clothing or the Naked Truth?
In The Gospel Truth section, we saw the devastating consequences of Adam and Eve’s choice to believe the lie in truth’s clothing. Fortunately, Scripture does not just give us examples of people who failed but also of people who succeeded.
Did you know that even Jesus had to decide whether He wanted to follow God or not? It’s true! Jesus was just as human as you and me and at some point He decided to follow God’s call. It all began when He was baptized. After His baptism, He had to decide whether He was going to believe a lie in truth’s clothing or believe God’s truth.
Read Matthew 4:1-17.
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