Sex Is Not Natural but Supernatural, Like Enriched Uranium, Says Christian Seminary President
Land continued to emphasize the purpose of our creation and the importance of cleaving and how that reflects the Triune relationship.
"God created the gift of gender and the sexual act of making two people one," Land said. "It is beyond our ability to actively describe. The Apostle Paul calls us to flee fornification. You become part of the person you engage in sex with. There is no such thing as casual or recreational sex.
"We have a secular worldview that is propagandized by porn – that it is unhealthy and unnatural if we try to restrain it. Culture tells us this is the way it is."
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Land said this is a lie that is "narcissistic," centered on the self, and "self-absorbed." He called the culture's teaching on human sexuality "dehumanizing" and "unsatisfying."
Land offered a story of a counselor who said, "Coeds at my school come up to me and say we just want sex to mean something."
"Christian teaching tells us that sex is not merely natural but it is supernatural," Land said. "Sex is like enriched uranium, an incredibly powerful blessing within the boundaries God created it. Outside of that it is destructive."
He called the "societal landscape" one that is "littered with the catastrophic casualties" of sexual sin.
"The Christian worldview says sex is not just merely natural but is supernatural. God is the one who created male and female, who has given us gender, and cleaves us together," he emphasized.
Land said it was essential that parents and churches teach on human sexuality in an educated, biblical, and responsible way. For Land, it is non-negotiable: "They are either going to get sex education from us or from the pornographers.
"Sex isn't dirty. Sex is holy. Sex is sacred," he added.
Land proclaimed that First Baptist Church of Lakeland Florida is offering excellent programs for those who suffer from sexual addiction and praised the church for having programs that are tested for effectiveness and offering deliverance for those in their programs.
He noted of Christians and the Church, "We got to inoculate our people. We got the anecdote. We got the vaccine."
He called on the Church to echo Jesus' words to the disciples to remind believers to "be salt of the earth," and said "but a salt that has lost its savor is not good for anything but except to be used as road pavement.
"Think of what it would mean to have our Christian churches to be outposts of reconciled sexual purity," he declared. "What a witness to the world to have marriages that are as God intended them to be."
He said that every Christian church in the country should be pro-marriage and a "pro-sexual purity lighthouse in a world of sexual darkness."
He called on the Church to fully realize its potential and be a safe-haven for those trapped in sexual bondage and a safe place where those trapped in a destructive lifestyle are offered the full resources to be delivered. "We will help you through the Lord's help to be made whole," he said.
"Every church needs to be a sexual statue of liberty." Land ended his talk by reciting the words on the Statue of Liberty and said, "The cross is our statue of liberty, and every one of us needs to do everything to be make our churches a spiritual statue of liberty."
