WELCOME TO Central Gathering July 31, 2016 newhopeks.org

We’re excited to celebrate the end of summer (well, according to the academic calendar) together with an open pool party at Northview Pool on Wednesday, August 10th, 7:15-9:30pm. Free. Invite your friends!

PRAY FOR THIS WEEK Our Fusion youth are in Arlington, Texas this week on their summer missions trip! They are partnering with an organization called Mission Arlington to reach out to kids in inner-city neighborhoods through VBS day camps. Please support them through prayer this week: for our youth to love each other well, for our leaders to be refreshed daily, and for the kids and family members who come to these camps to be touched with the love of Christ. Why not set a smartphone reminder right now to pray?

Has just joined the Elder Team! Dale Bremer Has just joined the Elder Team!

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GOD’S VIEW ON SEX Sex is GOOD Hebrews 13:4, Genesis 2:24   Sex is GOOD Hebrews 13:4, Genesis 2:24 Sex is about PROCREATION Genesis 1:28, etc. Sex is about PLEASURE Proverbs 5:18-19, Song of Solomon Sex is about UNITY Genesis 2:24, Ephesians 5:31-33 Sex is about MEETING OUR SPOUSE’S NEEDS 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

PROVERBS 5:1-6 1My son, give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding; 2That you may observe discretion And your lips may reserve knowledge. 3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey And smoother than oil is her speech; 4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. 5Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol. 6She does not ponder the path of life; Her ways are un- stable, she does not know it.  

PROVERBS 7:6-23 6For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,7and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense, 8passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house 9in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness. 10And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostit-ute, wily of heart. 11She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home; 12now in the street, now in the  

PROVERBS 7:6-23 market, and at every corner she lies in wait. 13She seizes him and kisses him, and with a bold face she says to him, 14“I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows; 15so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. 16I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen; 17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cin- namon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight  

PROVERBS 7:6-23 ourselves with love. 19For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; 20he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.” 21With much seductive speech she persuades him; with  her smooth talk she compels him. 22All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast 23till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.  

PROVERBS 7:6-23 ourselves with love. 19For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; 20he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.” 21With much seductive speech she persuades him; with  her smooth talk she compels him. 22All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast 23till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.  

3 WAYS TO AVOID THE TRAP OF ADULTERY FLEE  

3 WAYS TO AVOID THE TRAP OF ADULTERY FLEE Proverbs 5:7–14 7Now then, my sons, listen to me and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 8Keep your way far from her and do not go near the door of her house  

3 WAYS TO AVOID THE TRAP OF ADULTERY FLEE Proverbs 5:7–14 7Now then, my sons, listen to me and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 8Keep your way far from her and do not go near the door of her house 1 Corinthians 6:18a Flee from sexual immorality.  

3 WAYS TO AVOID THE TRAP OF ADULTERY FLEE Proverbs 5:7–14 7Now then, my sons, listen to me and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 8Keep your way far from her and do not go near the door of her house 1 Corinthians 6:18a Flee from sexual immorality. Proverbs 6:25a Do not lust in your heart after her beauty  

3 WAYS TO AVOID THE TRAP OF ADULTERY FLEE CONSIDER THE COSTS  

3 WAYS TO AVOID THE TRAP OF ADULTERY FLEE CONSIDER THE COSTS Proverbs 5:9–11 …9lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, 10lest strangers take their fill of your strength,     and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 11and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed  

3 WAYS TO AVOID THE TRAP OF ADULTERY FLEE CONSIDER THE COSTS HAVE A GREAT SEX LIFE WITH YOUR SPOUSE  

3 WAYS TO AVOID THE TRAP OF ADULTERY FLEE CONSIDER THE COSTS HAVE A GREAT SEX LIFE WITH YOUR SPOUSE Proverbs 5:15-19 15Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.16Should your springs be scat-tered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 17Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18Let your fountain be blessed,     and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be exhilarated always with her love.  

3 WAYS TO AVOID THE TRAP OF ADULTERY FLEE CONSIDER THE COSTS HAVE A GREAT SEX LIFE WITH YOUR SPOUSE Proverbs 25:24 It is better to live in a corner of the roof than in a house shared with a contentious woman.  

3 WAYS TO AVOID THE TRAP OF ADULTERY FLEE CONSIDER THE COSTS HAVE A GREAT SEX LIFE WITH YOUR SPOUSE Proverbs 25:24 It is better to live in a corner of the roof than in a house shared with a contentious woman. 1 Corinthians 7:5 Do not deprive one another sex- ually, except perhaps by agree- ment for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.  

OTHER APPLICATION QUESTIONS Is pornography adultery?  

OTHER APPLICATION QUESTIONS Is pornography adultery? Matthew 5:27-28 27“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; 28but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”  

OTHER APPLICATION QUESTIONS Is pornography adultery?  

OTHER APPLICATION QUESTIONS Is pornography adultery? What about parents?  

OTHER APPLICATION QUESTIONS Is pornography adultery? What about parents? What about those dating or engaged?  

OTHER APPLICATION QUESTIONS Is pornography adultery? What about parents? What about those dating or engaged? What about singles?  

OTHER APPLICATION QUESTIONS Is pornography adultery? What about parents? What about those dating or engaged? What about singles? What about Jesus?