Touré Roberts - Sexual Wholeness

Tonight, we’re going to talk about sexual wholeness. Well, don’t get quiet on me! Don’t—sex is everywhere; it is everywhere. When I said God puts sex on my mind, some of you thought, «Me too! I must be in the spirit.» Okay, I know that’s not what I’m talking about, but as we step into the things of God this year, it is going to be critical that we do not have anything hindering us from moving forward, and sex is powerful. Yeah, you’re thinking, «Why did I come on tonight? I wish I would have known what he was going to talk about tonight!» But I felt real strongly that if you don’t see sex rightly, sex is going to control you. Are you hearing me? I wish someone had brought me the understanding that I have today about sex when I was 12 years old, which, by the way, was the first time I was exposed to sex. I wish I would have had somebody to teach me what sex was, how powerful it was, but I didn’t. As a result, from 12 to 26 years old—that’s 14 years—I had 14 years of unhealthy, broken, perverted sex. You say, «Perverted sex? What does that mean?» Perverted sex—perverse; it comes from a Latin word. It comes from the Latin word «pervertere,» which simply means to face the wrong way, to see it wrong. If you don’t see it right, all of us are going to see it wrong, and guess what? Most people don’t understand what sex is. Yeah, it’s interesting how when the average person thinks about sex, they think about a feeling—that’s how you got here. That’s how you got here. Yeah, more than likely, God bless the baby; we love the baby. But my point being as we get into it, as I share with you tonight, I’m going to show you some things, and we’re going to discuss some things, then we’re going to pray tonight because I believe that there are some, even in this room, or some who are watching via livestream, who are clouded because of sex. Sex clouds things; it clouds your eyes. It’s tricky, and you can’t walk in your full strength unless you have it under control. Are you tracking with me? You can’t walk in your full strength unless you have an understanding and a revelation about sex. As I mentioned, I wish—man, I wish—I wish somebody would have taught me a long time ago. It’s funny, so when we look at sex without a text, let me show you something. When we look at sex, most of the hype around it—if we’re honest, we may not say it—but most of the hype around sex is the feeling. Are you tracking with me? Orgasm being the climax of it. Oh, it’s real church tonight! Just know it’s real church tonight. It is the feeling of it that drives it; the stimuli. It feels good, and I want to do it. So much about sex is built into the stimuli. But what is interesting concerning that truth is that if you go to scripture, there isn’t one place in scripture that mentions that the benefit of sex is stimuli. Oh, okay, think about it! Just think! When you think «sex,» you don’t think, «Oh, this is awful! I’m getting ready to have a terrible experience.» No, that’s usually not the case. I guess it’s possible, but that’s usually not the driving factor. Usually, the driving factor is, «This is getting ready to be amazing!» But we put the emphasis on sex being the stimuli—hello, somebody! But when you go to scripture, it says nothing about how it feels! So, when I try to understand the truth about it, you know, that the language I wanted to say is when you have sex, it’s going to be awesome and amazing. That language is nowhere in there because the purpose of sex is not physical; it’s spiritual. It always has been and always will be, and anything that is spiritual you cannot be trivial about. Are you tracking with me? So, I want to show you something. Let’s go to—I always go to Genesis. When I want to understand sex or just about anything, it says, «So God created man in His own image, and in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.» That’s heavy! That’s very heavy because it says, «In the beginning, God created man in His own image; in the image of Him, He created him,» and He created him male and female. What we’re going to see in just a second is that Adam had the female in him. Okay? Just put that—just check that! Just check that! I’m coming to go to Genesis chapter 2, verses 21 through 25. So, it says right there, «God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him,» and it says that He created him male and female. Then it says, «And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept. He took one of his ribs"—say «reached inside of him.» He took one of his ribs, closed up the flesh in its place, and in verse 22, it says, «Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, He made into woman and brought her to the man.»