October 6th, 2025
by Matt Davis
by Matt Davis
This is from my friend Greg Mathis, a great pastor in Trenton, Kentucky:
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I am grieved that much of American Christianity has subtly bought into the claims of the Sexual Revolution. We fail to call people to the only repentance that can save because we are afraid of being perceived as judgmental. We are so self-absorbed that we would rather see people eternally separated from a Holy God if it means that our churches grow numerically and people don't become temporarily upset with us. But this is deadly.
The Christian Faith is on a collision course with the Sexual Revolution not fundamentally because the Sexual Revolution is a bag of temptations that people "shouldn't do," ??? ??????? ??? ?????? ?????????? ?? ? ????? ????????. It has its own claims about salvation and fulfillment. It says:
➡️ You can have genuine Faith without Repentance.
➡️ Bodily pleasures satisfy more than unity with God.
➡️ God comes to save from the eternal penalty of sin, but is disinterested in saving you from the daily power of sin.
➡️ The here-and-now (this life and its pleasures) matters more than the there-and-then (heaven).
The Gospel is acutely distinct from this vision of human flourishing, though. The Gospel teaches that:
✅ It is better to enter heaven lame and blind (read: having turned your back on all your physical desires) than to enter hell whole (Matt 18).
✅ Genuine grasp of the saving Gospel produces a hatred of and a turning away from sexual immorality (Eph 5:1-3; 1 Cor 6).
✅ The sweetness of communion with God brokers a closer intimacy and satisfaction than fornication, cohabitation, or pornography.
Few people who've made peace with the Sexual Revolution know that they've done it, recognize that their pastor has facilitated it through his silence, or acknowledge it as a completely separate religion to Christianity. But one story in the Bible completely reframed the way I think of our current moment. The story of the Rich Young Ruler (Mark 10). This man had kept "all of the law" since his youth. He thought that surely he would be justified before God. Until Jesus, that is, asked him to give up his riches. The Bible says he "went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions." In other words, he was competent in religiosity. But his affections had been unchanged. He loved what gave him pleasure.
Today, sexual expression/freedom is the coin of the realm, the idol of the age. And if you find yourself enslaved to it (or, even more critically, satisfied by it), look to the freeing words of 1 Cor 6. Paul said of the church at Corinth "Such were some of you, but you were washed."
Run to Jesus. He will receive you. Do not be deceived by the allure of the age.
You can follow Greg on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/gregwmathis
Or on X here: @GMathis89
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I am grieved that much of American Christianity has subtly bought into the claims of the Sexual Revolution. We fail to call people to the only repentance that can save because we are afraid of being perceived as judgmental. We are so self-absorbed that we would rather see people eternally separated from a Holy God if it means that our churches grow numerically and people don't become temporarily upset with us. But this is deadly.
The Christian Faith is on a collision course with the Sexual Revolution not fundamentally because the Sexual Revolution is a bag of temptations that people "shouldn't do," ??? ??????? ??? ?????? ?????????? ?? ? ????? ????????. It has its own claims about salvation and fulfillment. It says:
➡️ You can have genuine Faith without Repentance.
➡️ Bodily pleasures satisfy more than unity with God.
➡️ God comes to save from the eternal penalty of sin, but is disinterested in saving you from the daily power of sin.
➡️ The here-and-now (this life and its pleasures) matters more than the there-and-then (heaven).
The Gospel is acutely distinct from this vision of human flourishing, though. The Gospel teaches that:
✅ It is better to enter heaven lame and blind (read: having turned your back on all your physical desires) than to enter hell whole (Matt 18).
✅ Genuine grasp of the saving Gospel produces a hatred of and a turning away from sexual immorality (Eph 5:1-3; 1 Cor 6).
✅ The sweetness of communion with God brokers a closer intimacy and satisfaction than fornication, cohabitation, or pornography.
Few people who've made peace with the Sexual Revolution know that they've done it, recognize that their pastor has facilitated it through his silence, or acknowledge it as a completely separate religion to Christianity. But one story in the Bible completely reframed the way I think of our current moment. The story of the Rich Young Ruler (Mark 10). This man had kept "all of the law" since his youth. He thought that surely he would be justified before God. Until Jesus, that is, asked him to give up his riches. The Bible says he "went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions." In other words, he was competent in religiosity. But his affections had been unchanged. He loved what gave him pleasure.
Today, sexual expression/freedom is the coin of the realm, the idol of the age. And if you find yourself enslaved to it (or, even more critically, satisfied by it), look to the freeing words of 1 Cor 6. Paul said of the church at Corinth "Such were some of you, but you were washed."
Run to Jesus. He will receive you. Do not be deceived by the allure of the age.
You can follow Greg on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/gregwmathis
Or on X here: @GMathis89
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