Dumb, Defective Daters Go Off-Road
The dumb decision that defective daters make with the Ferrari, with their sexuality is, they take it off road. Are you ready for that? They take it off road.
If you had a Ferrari you would take care of it. You would put good fuel into it and you would baby the car. Yet, every time we take our Ferrari off road, every time we have sex outside of marriage, we're messing our lives up because a Ferrari is not wired to go off road. What happens when we go off road? Maybe we're dating someone, and instead of building real community in the dating relationship, instead of understanding what each other is all about, instead of working through conflict resolution, instead of thinking about character issues and all these other points, we put a ramp on God's freeway and we jump over God's freeway. We jump over God's guard rails and we prefer the thrills and chills of sex outside of marriage to the real work it takes in the dating relationship. In other words we're using a God given gift in a God forbidden way. And the more we're involved in premarital sex, the deeper it gets, the more messy it gets. We get stuck, we rev the engine and mud is slinging everywhere and the mud covers the windshield. Then we can't see anymore.
Ed Young Fellowship agrees that's some people hook up with the wrong person. It's the power of sex. Sex is not just a one dimensional thing. It's not just the physical thing. If it was just a physical thing you could have sex with someone and€¦ no big deal. But sex is physical, it's emotional, it's spiritual, it's psychological. It's multifaceted and multidimensional. And the more we're involved in it, the deeper we sink, the more we hydroplane and the more we miss the greatness that God has for us.
A while back I was following Lisa on a busy freeway, in fact we were leaving Houston traveling on I-45 north in stop and go traffic. And for a while we could go pretty fast. So I was following her and suddenly she stopped and smashed the car in front of her! I slammed on the brakes and smashed her! And then another car smashed me! We were in a pile up, a chain reaction accident and it was not pretty. It was an ugly thing, especially when you rear end your wife's brand new car!
If you had a Ferrari you would take care of it. You would put good fuel into it and you would baby the car. Yet, every time we take our Ferrari off road, every time we have sex outside of marriage, we're messing our lives up because a Ferrari is not wired to go off road. What happens when we go off road? Maybe we're dating someone, and instead of building real community in the dating relationship, instead of understanding what each other is all about, instead of working through conflict resolution, instead of thinking about character issues and all these other points, we put a ramp on God's freeway and we jump over God's freeway. We jump over God's guard rails and we prefer the thrills and chills of sex outside of marriage to the real work it takes in the dating relationship. In other words we're using a God given gift in a God forbidden way. And the more we're involved in premarital sex, the deeper it gets, the more messy it gets. We get stuck, we rev the engine and mud is slinging everywhere and the mud covers the windshield. Then we can't see anymore.
Ed Young Fellowship agrees that's some people hook up with the wrong person. It's the power of sex. Sex is not just a one dimensional thing. It's not just the physical thing. If it was just a physical thing you could have sex with someone and€¦ no big deal. But sex is physical, it's emotional, it's spiritual, it's psychological. It's multifaceted and multidimensional. And the more we're involved in it, the deeper we sink, the more we hydroplane and the more we miss the greatness that God has for us.
A while back I was following Lisa on a busy freeway, in fact we were leaving Houston traveling on I-45 north in stop and go traffic. And for a while we could go pretty fast. So I was following her and suddenly she stopped and smashed the car in front of her! I slammed on the brakes and smashed her! And then another car smashed me! We were in a pile up, a chain reaction accident and it was not pretty. It was an ugly thing, especially when you rear end your wife's brand new car!
