Lastly, Rodgers said, finding community is key in the effort to “respond rightly” to the temptation of sexual sin, stating that “you need people who will lovingly seek to challenge and correct you with compassion and care because they love you and they have your best interest in mind.” He could have walked away, but he inquired about the woman.” “And if you continue to feed it, it will only get more and more hungry and it will lead you down a path to destruction. “Resist the urge or feed it,” said Rodgers. Rodgers then cited Proverbs 18:1, which says: “Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire,” adding that he believed that many young adult believers will feed their sexual urges instead of resisting temptation. Looking at things that cause you to be sexually aroused, entertaining yourself.” “Sex, oral sex, sex in ways that shouldn’t be sex, getting too handsy, making out while bumping and grinding, getting hot and steamy. I’m not going to say yes or no,” he said regarding making out, then listed examples of sexual sin. “I’m going to leave that between you and the Lord. Rodgers also responded to the question of “what even classifies as sexual sin” and whether things like making out constitute “sexual sin” or if it’s acceptable.
If you have a recurring problem in your life, if you have an addiction in your life, look at the pattern that leads to the problem.” “Another way of saying this is we have to look for patterns, patterns often point to problems. “If we’re going to fight the battle against sexual sin, we have to recognize where we are susceptible to fall into sexual sin,” Rodgers said. He advised those gathered to remove from their life the things that cause them to fall into sexual sin. Mentioning step two on his list, Rodgers said that many young adult Christians who struggle with sexual sins often don’t think about what is leading to their sinful battle. You are his very own possession,” Rodgers added, referring to 1 Peter 2:9. “That is who you are: chosen, royalty, a nation set apart and you are personally important to God. Rodgers said it’s vital for Christians struggling with sexual sin to remember who they are based on what the Bible says about their identity rather than what the world says. That is often when you will fall, is when you are at home when you’re meant to be in the battle.” “But because he forgot who he was, and his purpose and his calling, because he neglected his character and his calling, he found himself home when everyone else was at war. Because if he remembered, ‘I am a king, anointed and chosen by the God of the universe, called to lead and stand up and be a man and go to war,’ it would have changed everything about this moment,” Rodgers preached. “David clearly forgot who he was and what he was called to do. You will be or you will do based on what you believe you are.”įocusing his sermon on the story of King David from 2 Samuel 11, where David was described as “a man after God’s own heart,” Rodgers noted that David committed adultery with the wife of Uriah because he failed to take time to think about his identity. “Remembering requires something mental,” Rodgers said. Remember who you are and what you’re called to do.He then listed five steps that all start with the letter “R” that young adult Christians can apply in their lives to win the battle against sexual sin: Rodgers recalled how when The Porch leaders reviewed the “thousands upon thousands” of cards, a lot of them mentioned struggles with lust, pornography addiction, homosexuality and “past sexual perversion.” In a June 1 sermon titled “Battling Sexual Sin,” Rodgers began by reminding the audience that they were instructed in last week’s sermon to write on a card the thing that makes them most shameful and to submit it to the ministry. JD Rodgers of Watermark Community Church in Dallas, Texas, who serves as the young adults creative director of The Porch Ministry, warned a primarily young adult audience about the perils of sexual freedom, labeling it “one of the biggest rip-offs or scams that the world sells us.” A young adult ministry leader from a Texas megachurch recently shared five ways believers can battle against the temptation of “secret” sexual sins, such as porn, lust and masturbation.