Today I want to talk about sex

I want to share a Word that the Lord has placed in my heart, that the Lord has troubled me a lot about it, obviously I know that it is not a very easy message to give but definitely in the name of Jesus we entrust ourselves to Him and ask that this message can be a blessing to each and every one of us.

But one thing that I have been reflecting on, of course, in these first months of the year we have wanted to reflect on how God is calling us to live in a new dimension of Faith. God is stimulating us as a Church, so that we can recognize that we are a community of Faith, that we are a community that we live not only looking at the things that we have in front of us but that there is a dimension of us that focuses on what cannot necessarily be seen with our physical eyes. There is a dimension to which the Lord calls us and that God challenges us so that we can learn to look at things from God's perspective. That is one of the aspects that I have been able to see and understand of what God wants to do with León de Judá in these times, in these days. The fact that we can be a community of Faith that does look towards the supernatural but has lost perspective of the tangible reality that we have around us.

And precisely thinking of that reality that surrounds us, the world in which we are, the world in which we live, the situations, the dramas through which each person, each woman, each man, each young person, each child that we have Around us.

God has prompted me to reflect on a topic that has caused me to think about how we as a community of Faith can restore people who have fallen in different aspects of their lives due to sin. I believe that God is calling us as a Church to be that community of Faith that can serve as a foundation and balm to restore people who arrive with a baggage of history who often do not even know what to do with a quarter of those stories.

I think most of us would agree that human nature is very fragile, human nature is very fragile, and that the flaws of sin can manifest in multiple ways. For some people the flaws of their sin are seen in an inward way, either with aspects or character traits that tend to be a bit hurtful or destructive; for others, the manifestation of their sin is seen in more external forms where more direct damage is already committed to the people around them and in the way that this can be manifested.

But in my journey of meditation God has called me, he has led me to consider a very particular aspect of our human nature that has great influence and power over us. I mostly think about this when throughout my life and even recently I have received so many news from people, friends, pastors that I hold in very high esteem who have failed in one way or another, due to this aspect that I want to talk about. .

And today, my brothers, I ask the Lord to cover me with his Grace because I want to speak in a very clear and very open way about how we should guard our sexuality in all aspects of our lives.

Yes, my brothers, today I want to talk about sex.

And I want to put a clarifying note before saying another word. I want, my brothers, that we can be very clear that with this message I am not targeting anyone, I do not want this to become a self-righteous message where people are targeted to judge... God forbid that That is the intention. And God knows very well that's not it.

If this message has some bitter medicine, I think I would be one of the first to swallow the medicine. But God knows very well that I approach this subject with great respect, I approach this subject with fear before God, because I know what God asks of us as human beings, as men and women, with respect to our sexuality; I respect the experiences that each person has had or has not had regarding this topic. I have a very fine level of respect regarding this.

But I also want this message to serve as encouragement to all of us who are here, I want it to also serve as an exhortation because there is a growing urgency that we as a Church can speak openly about this issue since there are so many people from children to young people to Adult people who suffer because they have not known how to defend well those fronts of their sexuality in their lives.

So, as the Apostle Paul would say in First Corinthians 10:12 "If any of you think you are firm on this subject, take care that you do not fall." And become a restorer.

But if any of you for any reason this subject touches a particular fiber in your life, in your heart, in your soul... then I invite you to go with me to the book of Galatians Chapter Six... beginning in Verse One, the The passage says the following: "Brothers, if anyone is caught in any fault..." -or in some sin, as some translations would say- "...you who are spiritual..." or in other words, you who are mature, "...in your life of Faith, they should restore you in a spirit of meekness considering yourself, lest you also be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ."

This law of Christ is talking about 'loving your neighbor as yourself' "Because he who believes he is something, being nothing, deceives himself. So, each one submits his own work or his own conduct to the test and then he will have reason to glory only with respect to his own history and not in another..." -or without comparing himself with another person- "... because each one will carry his own load. to the one who instructs him".

Look how Verse Seven says: "Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked, for everything that man sows that he will also reap; for he who sows for his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh; but he who sows for the Spirit of the Spirit shall reap eternal life."

Verse nine, may this stay well engraved in our hearts. Verse nine, let's all read it together, "Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not faint."

Hey, brothers, I am going to say something that may sound a bit strong for many, but I want to say something. Sex as God's creation is something beautiful, it's something beautiful, it's something rich, it's something pleasurable, it's something orgasmic... I have to say it that way. But only when it is practiced within the context for which God intended it, that is, marriage.

I want to start from that premise because for me this is crucial that we can understand it. That beauty and pleasure that was intended by God, sin distorted and even put into it a sense of shame for the entrance it had through the person of Adam and Eve. Yes, still to this day because of Adam and Eve we suffer these things. Today, something that in its original state had, and I understand that it still has, qualities that made it wonderful, the society in which we now live has turned it into something morbid.

Sex, itself as such, may seem like something that is merely physical.

But I understand that it is a much more complex and mysterious event than that. If we see when the Scripture says in Genesis Chapter Two, Verse 24: "A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will be one flesh", that phrase, itself as such, ' that they will be one flesh,' presents a dimension of sex that many times, or most of the time, is not taken into consideration by the standards by which today's society is governed.

Look, scientifically speaking, it is impossible for two similar objects to occupy the same space, it is impossible. Therefore if you are talking about two human bodies that can be made into one flesh, that is something that is not physically or scientifically possible. That is why this phrase brings a spiritual dimension, my brothers, that we cannot lose perspective.

When a man or a woman joins in the sexual act there is a transfer of energies that is taking place in that very act. Certainly there is a chemical energy that is being transmitted from one body to another, but at the same time there are a series of virtues and disabilities that are being transmitted from one body to another. In simpler words, when a man and a woman join in the sexual act, the good things that that person has are transmitted to the other and the bad things that the other person has also sneak through that same act.

I think that for a reason the Bible is so intentional when it says that "he who is going to get married has to look for a suitable help", because when it is talking about a suitable help, when one enters into that act, the good things that the other person has, they are going to stick to me and in some way or another they are going to complement the good things that I have so that I can become the type of man, the type of person that God wants me to be. And at the same time, if there are any defects in the other person that stick to me and that mine stick to that other person, then God's intention is that these defects can be corrected between both people with the help and the Grace of God, by then, to be able to reach the original plan that God had intended for that couple.

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But now, there are obviously some realities that we have to face and my brothers, I want to be very clear, sexuality today has so many ramifications. Sex today is one of the most complex issues. There are people who have had so many experiences that I don't expect to cover each and every one of them in this message, but I do want to touch on some key points. Because I believe that today more than ever the enemy is looking through heaven, earth and sea for how to denigrate God's creation in the human being using sexuality.

Many years ago, I came across a book by this author Richard Foster who is the one who wrote 'The spiritual disciplines'; he also wrote a book entitled 'Sex, money and power', the three forces of this humanity that most influence the human being. And obviously he puts sex as the first one, because it is one of the strongest, which has a very solid influence on the creation of man and woman.

But we have to be aware, my brothers, that for many years the Church has lived with certain parameters -and when I'm talking about the Church I mean the Church with a capital "i", I don't mean this church and that refers to the Church of the countries where we come from, be it Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Bogotá, Colombia, wherever we come from- and many times the perspective is that sex is viewed with this type of taboo that we cannot talk about it in the church and the only thing that is said is that sex is only for the procreation of children and after that nothing more.

But no, my brothers, sex as God's creation has purposes, intentions much stronger than those; much more specific than that, but then again, the world we live in has so misrepresented things that there are times when the church has to compete with the kind of teaching that society today gives people that we have to look for as we can unite those bridges that have been broken throughout history.

Today the Church cannot afford to rest on its laurels and just pursue the subject of sexuality as if it were a taboo. Because out there right now our children of 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 years old are receiving a type of education that I am sure that most of us if we expose ourselves to it we are going to stay... "Hail Mary purest!" Forgive me, conservative evangelicals, if I mentioned the Hail Mary, but that is the typical expression as it were.

We have around us many people who have suffered and who have well-marked wounds in the area of their sexuality. In different ways, my brothers, the singles community there are times when that aspect of what fornication is is something that is there very focused on them, but as many people have been carried away by the current of the world and the society in which in which we live there are times that has even lost the sensitivity of what it is, and of the seriousness that it has before God. Even within the context of marriage, many times, there are so many couples that have been damaged because they do not have a clear, concrete, biblical, God-directed understanding of what sex is between the couple and more so a Christian couple.

I believe that the world has stolen a lot from what God wanted for the Christian couple, it has stolen it from that context of marriage and has distorted it in too morbid ways and God still wants to restore that aspect of our life.

God wants to restore so that couples can enjoy a healthy, beautiful, precious sexuality, all those adjectives that I mentioned a few moments ago. God wants couples today to be able to enjoy that; that singles who are there struggling with their sexuality in some way or another, that they know how... as the passage from Galatians says that they do not get tired of doing good, that they do not get tired of doing what is right before God , so that when harvest time comes... Whoa! exploit the towns and castles.

I believe that God wants, and I faithfully believe, my brothers, that our young people, that our adolescents, that even our children, my brothers, can learn from everything that comes out of this place, that they can learn that sexuality is something beautiful. and precious but that has its point and has its place. But at the same time we live in a fallen world and God is calling us as a community of Faith, that can restore the fallen, that can restore the fallen. And that is why I want us to analyze this passage from Galatians that we have just read.

That verse First that we read, I am going to read it from the International Version that says: "Brothers, if someone is caught in some sin, you who are spiritual must restore him with a humble attitude but take care each one of you because you can also be tempted or tempted."

Look, the community of faith, a genuine and mature community of faith, has the responsibility and the call - I'm going to use those words very intentionally - to restore those who have fallen into some fault and it can be any fault, you fill in the blank. But now we are focusing on that area of sexuality. I believe that we must resist that self-righteous attitude of pointing fingers and accusing saying: 'Look over there, and even though the most Christian or the most Christian believes, and that with the same hands that praise God, with the He uses the same hands for something else'.

I do not believe that this is the Church that God is looking for today.

Verse Two says: "Help each other to bear their burdens and so you will fulfill the law of Christ."

I am convinced more than ever, my brothers, that today more than ever a Church is needed that can promote an environment where people feel free to express and vent their struggles and weaknesses without fear of being judged, without fear of be criticized and in the worst case to be rejected. God save us from being that kind of church.

I believe that God wants us to be a church, as the Pastor preached a few days ago, that we give the Gospel flesh, that we know that the Gospel is incarnated as the person of Christ Jesus, that even after he rose from the dead and came to this Earth, it had its body, it had its holes, it had all the organs of its body well placed in their place. And that is where the Gospel message reaches, it reaches the people, it is not only here, nor here, the Gospel message reaches all aspects of the human being and we as a church have to respond to that call to be able to restore the people who struggle with that aspect of their life.

Verse Six says: "He who receives instruction in the Word of God, share all the good things with him who teaches him." Do you know what that verse means? That verse is promoting that if you receive any kind of teaching, be it from this pulpit, be it in a discipleship class or be it in a cell in a home, be it in a prayer service, wherever it is, the person who instructs you that person you should feel free to come to that person and share the struggles you have as well. Yes, share the good things, but also those things that are a little mean... ugg!, dare to share them.

The Word of God in First Peter says: "Confess your trespasses to one another…" For what? To be judged, to be rejected, to be kicked from behind and get out of here? No The word says, “Confess your trespasses to one another so that you may be healed.” And that is a healing that God is calling us as a church to be able to convey today.

But we have to understand, my brothers, that at the moment that we assume the role of being able to restore the fallen, I want you to be prepared because 'all hell is going to break loose against you', in other words 'all hell is going to break loose against you'. it's going to turn against you'. To search for you, make you fall in the same way or in a different way.

Pastor Omar, where did you come up with this? Verse One What does it say? "Consider yourself, lest you also be tempted."

Brothers, it is very important that we can understand this dimension. This call for us to be able to restore people, we to be able to restore the fallen, is a spiritual warfare that we are getting into, because it is not only a fight with that physical part of the human being. But that it is a physical part that has a psychological dimension, it has a spiritual dimension and therefore if the enemy is looking to destroy people, whoever wants to get involved to serve as the Red Cross and restore those people, that person from Somehow or other you are going to be exposed to bullets and cannons as well.

There's no way that can be avoided. But this should serve as encouragement, my brothers, because when we act in this way considering ourselves that I can fall into the same things that these other people have fallen and that just as God can restore my life, God can also restore the lives of others.

That is the calling that God gives to all of us as a church. And we have to be very aware of all this, my brothers, we have to be well aware that God has a solid call on each one of you as people, and many times that restoration, depending on the case, also begins from the nucleus of the family. How all these things occur at the level of the family nucleus; how a husband treats his wife and vice versa how the wife treats the husband; how they seek to satisfy each other and that there is an openness and a level of genuineness that this is an issue that in that family nucleus they are willing to teach and educate their children in a healthy teaching, based on the Scriptures of the God's word.

That is where a teaching comes from that can really forge in our children, in our adolescents, a man and a woman who know how to live at that level of integrity. And perhaps, you will tell me 'Omar, that is easy to say but it is difficult to do', believe me, I have a two-year-old and two-month-old son and if there is a topic that I am already looking to talk to him about in the future It is about the subject of sexuality.

How am I going to do it? May God enlighten me! I entrust myself to the Grace of God.

Because if talking to youth today about sex is one of the hardest things you can do, I guess wow! In ten, thirteen years when Lucas has all his hormones running at full speed... How am I going to talk to this boy? Taboos are definitely not going to solve the problem.

And I know, my brothers, that God is challenging us too to be able to seek to do the same today, to be able to speak openly like this with our children, with our young people, but also in the groups of couples that are represented here.

God wants us to be able to fight a good fight at that level, God wants us to be able to protect those battlefronts of our sexuality. Whether you are an adult, a young person, a married person, a single person… this is a challenge that each of us faces every day.

The world in which we live, my brothers, its values have been distorted in such a way that one no longer knows what is good or what is bad, what is permissible from what is not permissible. It is very difficult to distinguish it.

Postmodernist thought - if you don't know what that phrase means, but postmodernism is like a type of philosophy that has become ingrained in the mentality of the North American nation - that one of the things that it promotes the most is that each human being, each As a person, you have the privilege and the freedom and the right to make your own reality and build your own truth, and have your life governed according to that truth.

So if I meet a person who tells me 'For me the truth is that I can sleep with any woman I want and that's how I run my life'; because that person is going to carry its consequences according to that truth.

If there is a person who is governed by the truth that "there is no authority, that there is no person like God" and that God is the air, the power of the Universe and they have their minds there thinking about pregnant birds, well, so it will be the life of that person.

But it is precisely because of this type of thinking that Machiavellian thinking has slipped under a façade of tolerance in the churches, that type of thinking too, thus causing the loss of sensitivity to be able to discern what God wants to do in lives, that ability of us to be able to truly recognize the authority on which we stand, so that we can then bring a sense of restoration and freedom to those people who have their understanding completely clouded.

I believe that God calls us so that we can live at that level, that the discernment that God has placed in us can receive its vitality once again, to know how to restore men and women who suffer in that aspect of their lives. .

Look, Verse Seven says: "Don't be fooled, don't be fooled, no one makes fun of God. Each one reaps what he sows. He who sows to please…" -or there I would say to satisfy- "… his sinful nature, of that same nature will reap destruction. And he who sows to please and please and satisfy the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life ".

Look, there is an illustration that I want to bring you. I share a lot with my brother Toño, he is a foreign car mechanic, Antonio Díaz. I share a lot with him, and there was a day when he was sharing a story about a person who arrives at his workshop and arrives because the car was smoking like that from the bonnet, and that person says: 'Ah! Toño I don't know what happened to the car, if yesterday the car was running as well', and Toño begins to ask him questions and says: 'But when was the last time you did maintenance on the car? ? and how do you guide this car?’

'Well you know how the streets of Boston are, full of holes everywhere…' and, 'Do you dodge all the holes or do you jump through the holes like you're in a car or a Humvee over the moon or something? ' And when Toño comes out he tells me: 'Omar many times people can avoid those headaches with cars if they knew how to maintain their cars and take care of them and treat them well.'

And that made me think like wow! There are times when we Pastors sit across the table with another person and these people come to tell us about the life ailments they have, the life dramas they have: 'Oh Pastor! If you knew the problem I have? Oh! What if I don't know what to do with this! And I don't know what to do with that, and I don't know what to do with the other…' And everything is “Oh!” And one has to take out the Kleenex box and put it there in the middle of the table and 'don't worry, wipe your nose,' and, 'don't worry, we're here to listen to you.'

But there are times when I start to think and I say to myself, wow! if only we understood the mystery of this verse that many times the things that we experience today are the consequences of the actions and decisions that we have taken in past years. What if those actions in the past were based on crazy decisions, on uncontrolled impulses, well look! It is impossible for me not to avoid getting into trouble in the future. Because each of those decisions will have a consequence.

'Oh! Pastor, what am I going to do now?’ Ouch!

Look how the Apostle Paul would say in Romans Chapter Seven, I believe that this Verse was inspired by God, Romans Chapter Seven verses 24-25 Paul says: "Wretched man that I am, who can save me from this body of death?" And then comes this unique statement in history, "Thank God for Jesus Christ, because He is the only one who can restore my life."

You know what, my brothers? I believe that God is calling us to be a sober people. God is calling us to truly be a people who seek to align ourselves with his truth, who seek to align ourselves with the principles of his Word. There are times when we can save ourselves so many headaches if we truly get involved and submit to God's treatment. But there are times when our mind is so inveterate to follow the current of the world in which we are, to listen to other voices that are not necessarily voices inspired by God and then we carry this series of things with us.

But these are fronts, my brothers, that God today more than ever is calling us so that we can defend and that we can fight for each one of them.

That Verse Nine says, "Look, let's not get tired of doing good. For in due time we will reap if we don't give up."

Hear me my brothers, if only we could understand the depth of this Word! Because many times sex has this power that is there seducing, seducing, seducing people, and it seduces around here and seduces in different ways.

Look maybe before… about ten, twenty years ago the most serious thing a person could see was a woman in a full bikini that came down to mid-thigh and covered her shoulders.

Oh what an aberration! when they saw that.

Today the magazines that one sees on the shelves, it's like... everything is on display.

What's more, they give you advice and everything: '10 ways to keep your man in bed', '10 ways to make your waist look sexy', or they tell men: 'Do these exercises and you'll see how you're going to have in glory'.

And one says wow! Where are we getting to? In other words, things have gone in somewhat dark directions and one has to learn, my brothers, how to control oneself, how to put oneself in line with what God truly asks for and what God wants us to live.

There are so many people who look at those magazines and start like, 'Hmm, really if I do those exercises, will I be able to do that?' or 'if I behave this way, am I going to achieve this?'

But we do not realize that the intentions behind those words are intentions that are well distorted, my brothers, and we have to seek to live without getting tired of doing good.

There are some statutes, some mandates that God has given us and perhaps you are going to tell me, 'Yes, but Omar it is difficult to live according to that.'

But you know what? As difficult as it may be, if you stand firm in what God asks of you, you will see the Glory when your time comes. And you have to know, my brothers, that if there are people who have fallen and scraped themselves hard on the floor, then look here is the church to be able to restore those people.

I believe that God is calling us not to get tired of living according to the standard that He asks for us. That if you are single and you struggle in some way with that area of that sexuality, look what you can find with someone who can tell you: 'Come here, let's talk, don't carry this load alone or you alone, let's talk about it!'

That maybe if you come across a person who compulsively masturbates using pornography and that person feels totally guilty, look, that person can find someone in church who says: 'Look, don't eat that! Palette all by yourself, come I'll help you restore yourself! 'Don't carry that by yourself!'

That if there are people who don't have a very clear sexual identity and are struggling in one way or another, that those people can come free and say, 'Look, I'm struggling with this,' and that they can find someone who can help them. say: 'Come here, we are going to help you with that, we are going to walk with you. I am not here to judge you, I am here to help lift your life, so that you can achieve God's purpose in your life.'

Listen, in the circle of marriages, my brothers, if there are problems in the marriage and that many times they are affected in that area of sexuality, and then one of the parties -because this is something that is seen in both genders, it's not just men and "no" women, but if there's something going on and one party is tempted to go find the neighbor to satisfy them, 'look! Don't go into the neighbor's house, come here! we are going to talk, we are going to seek to restore this marriage, there is opportunity, there is hope.’

That if perhaps there is a person who was in an abusive relationship, and I think these are one of the most difficult, if there are people who have been in abusive relationships in which sex was seen as something abusive, those people are the ones who more they need a church that can reach out to them. May they not only help restore your emotions, but may they also help restore your mind, heart, and body in some way or another.

That is the call that God is giving to us, my brothers.

Hey! I believe that today God wants to equip all of us, my brothers, so that we can be a community that restores the fallen in that area of their sexuality.

What if you are a teacher, a discipleship teacher, and maybe you come across a young man or woman who tells you about their history, about their sexuality and to you that sounds like 'But oh my God, this person is in Hell!” Look, don't accuse that person, rather keep your ears and heart open and allow God's discernment to permeate your whole heart to know how to help and build up that person's life.

The first time we point the finger, we lost that person.

And I am not saying, my brothers, that we pass our hand over sin, I am not saying that.

Because if there is someone who has benefited from correction, I would be one of the first to say that. But yes, it is a correction that comes loaded with love, that comes loaded with affection, but there is also firmness and authority in it. The authority that the world offers is flaccid, it is something that has no substance, it is something that falls off, permeates itself, every so often they have to change it to -as they say- give it validity.

But the truth that is found in the word of God is a solid, eternal truth, that there is no change, that there is not a shadow of variation in it and when we stand on that truth and when I recognize that I am a human and that I am also fragile and that my dependence is totally on God; If I hold on to that, then I can grab another here, another here and say, 'come, I understand that fight, I understand that test, but come. We are going to help you, we are going to lift you up and we are going to walk together in this.’

Listen my brothers, I believe that God wants a church that is a restorative community, a healing community. Thank you.

Already those times of being... 'Oh! Look what this guy did… Hmm, I'll see you in hell.' If you'll see him in hell, it's because you're going there too.

Brothers, look, I believe that the Christian people, and I want to focus on the Christian people now, the Christian people have suffered a lot from attacks in this area of sexuality.

I believe that in these last two months, I have received news from Pastors who are very close to me and who I hold in very high esteem, who have suffered for some lack in this aspect of their sexuality. A long-standing marriage that has been broken by a mistake, an adultery, which was very harmful. A practice in a Pastor who was too morbid for me to say. But these are things that have affected the Christian community.

And I know that there are many people out there who are accusing the church saying, 'Look, and they think they are Christians...' or maybe they are people who say, 'that's why I don't go to church, if I want to. there are all a bunch of hypocrites.'

But you know that, my brothers, when people have the correct perspective of what God is truly calling us to do, if we want to be a mature community, a community of Faith mature in God's principles, this is where our faith is tested. maturity. Christian maturity is not proven in the fact that I can accuse someone, Christian maturity is not proven in the fact that, 'Ah! Look, you have a tiny little straw there in your eye, but I'm not noticing a concrete beam so I have it in mine.'

True Christian maturity is seen at the level that I see someone who is hurt, I see someone who has suffered, I see someone who has fallen and I can go and approach that person and lift them up, lift them up, restore them. to that person, give him a word of encouragement, a word of support, give him a word of hope.

Tell him, 'Look, don't forget, this is what God asks of us in that area of sexuality. But I am not going to hit you over the head with the Bible, on the contrary I want to give you words of encouragement.' You will see that as you seek to restore your life in your relationship with God, each of these other things will fall into place.

We have left too much room for the devil, my brothers, to have his way in that aspect of sexuality. We have left too much ground for it, we have rested on our laurels and it is there eating away at everything like gangrene.

I believe that today more than ever we as a church have to get up and say: no more, no more.

But we also have to know, my brothers, that there is going to be a rampant struggle that is going to rise up against the people of God, who wants to restore people in that aspect of their lives. It is a spiritual fight and we have to be prepared for it and I want us to be able to leave here with that conviction in our minds and in our hearts.

Hey, my brothers, God wants, God wants our marriages to be healthy marriages. God wants and longs for a man to be able to look at his wife and say, "I don't have eyes for any other, only this one that God has given me," and vice versa that a woman can also look at her man and even if he has a little belly and all that you can say, “under that little belly, I delight in it.” That if you have the little ones here, well, look, hold them there very tightly and delight yourself in it too. They call it the "love handles" for a reason.

Look, God wants our population of single young people, God wants these young people to live a solid, healthy sexuality, that when the time comes to consume all that energy with the person that God has established for them, look, that they see the glory of God open and much more.

God wants our young adolescents to also grow in a healthy, healthy sexuality, not as distorted as what they are receiving out there and even our children, my brothers.

There are children - I have heard stories, I have seen reports of children - who at 9 or 10 years old are already sexually active. I am sorry, but that is not right and God calls us so that we as a church can work, we can restore those people from such an early age, until the moment they reach the grave.

I think that is why God has moved this church to implement programs like "Worth the Wait" and people who are there constantly receiving attacks that the best message to avoid teenage pregnancy is abstinence.

I remember, I heard a Pastor once, look at this; I once heard a Pastor say that, “the best way to avoid pregnancies is a little pill that is so tiny and anyone can take that little pill over-the-counter. But instead of taking it, it's a little pill so that they put it between their knees and they hold it very strong and they don't drop that little pill.”

Hey, my brothers, we have given the enemy too much space, we can't, we can't. We cannot afford to fall asleep on that aspect.

God wants us to be able to be transformed, God wants our marriages to be happy, solid marriages with respect to this dynamic of sexuality.

God wants you young people to be able to enjoy when your time comes, to enter into marriage and enjoy your life with a woman or a man that is something pleasant, solid, beautiful, pretty, that you can look back and say: wow ! that little pill really worked.

I invite you, my brothers, stand up. I believe that God wants to minister to us in this area and again, it is not that I am targeting anyone, but I know that many have suffered in one way or another in this area and God wants to restore lives and just as God wants to restore , God also wants to deposit in his people that gift of being able to restore people who have fallen in this aspect of sexuality.

God wants to restore people. God cries with those who cry because they don't know how to deal with those struggles, with those pressures, and God is calling us as a church. If there is a message that I want you to leave here with him, it is this: that you are an instrument for the healing and restoration of lives that have suffered in that aspect of their lives.

And that at the same time, God wants to restore his own life, God wants to restore his own heart. So the drop of water has fallen on someone, I invite you, that it is in you that we can pray in line with this.

Close your eyes where you are.

Lord Jesus, right now we recognize that our human nature is very fragile, Lord, and that we fall in many ways, Lord Jesus. But given today's topic, Lord, I ask that You help us know how to defend those fronts of sexuality in the midst of our lives, Lord.

Father, as Your Scripture says, that if there are people who believe they are firm, well, look, Lord, I ask that You bless that firmness, Lord, and that that aspect of that temptation, my God, that You free them completely, Lord of it.

And that those same people can become people who can restore the lives of others, but those people who have suffered and who have suffered, either because of crazy decisions that they have made or because of decisions that others made against them, against of his will... Father, I ask that You deposit a balm of Your Spirit right now, and restore those hearts, Lord.

That as only You know how to do it, Spirit of God, that You bring a sense of conviction to every heart that is here today. That You remove the veil of lies and deceit and that You bring that conviction that helps us to see ourselves, Lord, through Your eyes, that helps us to see ourselves, Lord, as You see us, that we are your creation. We are jewels, Lord Jesus, we are jewels in Your hands that You are forming, my God.

And we make spiritual warfare my God, we rebuke any trick of the enemy, Lord, any deceit of Satan, we cancel it in Your name, Lord. And I ask that every day we can put on our armor from head to toe to know how to defend those fronts of our battle, Lord.

So that we know how to protect our marriages, so that we know how to protect our children, so that we can protect the relationships we have with people of the opposite sex, my God. Father, help us, we need you, Lord. Bring conviction. You do not bring guilt, Lord, You bring conviction to the heart.

So Father, be You depositing Your Grace on each one of us, my God. Deposit Your Grace on children, on youth, on young single adults, those who are married, those who have been married for years, Lord. I ask that they can experience the intentionality that You have for the sex of the origin that You formed it, Lord.

Father, allow this church to be a house of restoration and that we can be your instruments to restore those lives, Lord.

Fill your town, Lord, fill your town. In the name of Jesus we declare it so, Lord.

Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Lord.