What Does God and the Bible Say About Masturbation? Tough Questions With Pastor Mike // Mike Novotny

are things of self-pleasure such as masturbating  harmful to the body since you are the temple of   god oh there's like three pastors in the house  today does anyone want to help me out here all right it's a good question actually thank  you um takes courage uh do you know james dobson   he's like the kind of family christian guy  for many years he had a quote years ago   that was 99 of men masturbate and the  other one percent is lying about it not entirely true but his point was it's  kind of a conservative christian voice   it's something we don't talk about but there's  something that happens it's not just men   you know sexual desire is strong not everyone  is married with a willing sexual partner every   moment that that they desire it so masturbation is  a thing now here's the question is that harmful to   the body since you are the temple of god i think  that reference comes from first corinthians 6. it says flee from sexual immorality do not know  that your bodies are temples of the holy spirit   who is in you whom you have received from god  you're not your own you are bought at a price   therefore honor god with your bodies so  masturbation breaking this idea that you   are the temple of god um let's break this down  uh where in the bible is masturbation mentioned   yeah never no phrase doesn't come up it's not  alluded to a single time um what do we know though   from matthew chapter five and first corinthians  chapter six we know that sexual immorality   even with the eyes in the mind breaks god's desire  for our sexuality so a lot of the times a person   is fantasizing they're looking at pornography  they're doing something with their eyes or their   mind that they shouldn't and then they masturbate  with their body there's a connection there so   is is that wrong the answer would be yes it's  violating god's design for marriage sexuality   and our body um actually so if you don't know this  the very first um small group that i ever hosted   we gathered a whole bunch of people in our  living room and a lot of people were just   brand brand new to christianity super honest and  awesome first question was pastor what does the   bible say about dinosaurs second question was  pastor what's the bible say about masturbation like on the first night too so i'm  looking at my wife like all right this is   this is happening so i answer the question we  all you know lust is wrong in matthew chapter   five first corinthians chapter six and the  person followed up and said well what if   you're what if you're not thinking thoughts like  that you know just a physical thing i think the   um the woman asked like what if i'm just  like staring at a tree out the window to which i said well that's  concerning [Laughter] so i thought a bunch about this and and here's  what i think you know i don't add rules   so i'm not going to just categorically say every  time is sinful but here's what i think is true um i think that god let's just assume uh we're  talking about a married couple for a second   i think that god put this sexual drive in us in  part to help us self selflessly serve our spouse right so let's say i'm attracted to kim i wanna  have sex with her if i just come up and say hey   huh she's gonna be like uh like i gotta i got  a bunch of stuff to do and i gotta take care of   this i'm gonna put all the dishes away and stuff  like okay if i wanna connect with her emotionally   physically to becoming one flesh i have to  humble myself selflessly surf her right i've   got to take her out on a date got a romancer  got to love her got to listen to her problems   like you gotta you have to connect in more than  just a physical way right but if i take that that   drive that's within me and i take it other places  even let's say mindlessly masturbating like then   that kind of drive that god has put within me i  don't have it anymore so let's just let her do her   thing i'm good i'm gonna read a book or something  so i think there's a connection between the way we   serve each other and love each other in marriage  and the drive that god has put within us now let's   say you're single like what about then i think  it's just very very dangerous to start developing   a sexuality in a way that is disconnected  from the person that will share it with you right i know very very few people who have  walked like a holy road that they wouldn't   be embarrassed to talk about publicly okay  here's what i did with masturbation and yeah   i'm not ashamed of that god's cool grandma  have i told you about it right you'd be like i think you know there's an old shakespeare  line me thinks thou protesteth too much right   if you're looking for some path it's difficult to  get it lots of us get it but should we resist that   probably to honor god with our bodies i think  so i'm not going to add a page to the scripture   but um by the way there's something we can talk  about okay thanks for having the courage to be   here and not blush too much if it's happening in  the church we should talk about it in the church   because if we don't talk about it in the church no  one gets help or encouragement or truth or grace   or forgiveness so please please please be the next  generation here at our church that helps questions   like this be asked and answered with open  bibles and open hearts did you enjoy this video   make sure you subscribe to us on youtube so you  don't miss a single message click right here

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Published: Thu Jan 20 2022