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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jun 3, 2024
In Matthew 5:27–29, Jesus pushes past the seventh commandment's prohibition on adultery to expose the deeper root: lust in the heart. Pastor Daniel argues that our porn-saturated culture has not ushered in freedom but bondage, because God designed us for genuine intimacy — not objectification. The solution is not willpower alone but a four-part response: admitting brokenness, fleeing sexual immorality, fighting for healthy intimacy, and waging war against the flesh by the Spirit. Ultimately, lasting change comes not from striving harder but from falling so deeply in love with God that the lesser gods lose their grip.
Pastor Daniel Goulding · Sep 12, 2021
Pastor Daniel argues that the enemy's most persistent lie is that sex is purely physical and pleasure is its only goal. Drawing on Exodus 15, Genesis 2, and 1 Corinthians 6, he contends that God designed sex as a powerful, sacred gift meant exclusively for one man and one woman within a committed marriage covenant. When taken outside that context, sex produces shame, guilt, and brokenness rather than the oneness God intended. Every believer's sexual choices, therefore, reveal whose authority they have chosen to live under — the Lord's or the enemy's.