Sermon
Sex, Lust, Marriage, & Divorce
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
October 5, 2025 · 48 min
Summary
Jesus intensifies the command against adultery by addressing lust of the heart in Matthew 5:27-32. Believers must pursue radical purity by removing anything that causes sexual sin, understanding that God designed sex as a sacred gift within covenant marriage—not for casual gratification. Christ offers new hearts to those who repent.
Highlights
If you are a disciple of Jesus, we don't get to pick and choose from his words what we obey. Disciples of Jesus live under the word of God. We don't stand over the word of God.
God doesn't regulate sex because he wants to rob us, but because he wants to bless us. The truth is the sanctified sex life is the best sex life.
Everyone who has ever struggled with sexual immorality but is now walking in freedom from it had a cut off your hand moment. They said, 'I'm tired of this. I don't want to be this kind of man or woman anymore and I'm going to do whatever it takes.'