Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing. Noise is a deceptive, addictive, and false tranquilizer. The tragedy of our world is never better summed up than in the fury of senseless noise that stubbornly hates silence. This age detests the things that silence brings us to: encounter, wonder, and kneeling before God.
CHARACTERISTICS AND CONSEQUENCES OF SIN
for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
THE DISFIGUREMENT OF SIN
''he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.'' Isaiah 53:2b–3 (ESV)
SEXUAL SIN PART 2
The Bible is not sex or pleasure negative. And you see that in Proverbs 2. And so, you can't really look at this issue of sexual sin without thinking about the theology of pleasure in Scripture. It's not necessarily godly to deny pleasure because God, in His wisdom, created a gloriously pleasurable world for us.
SEXUAL SIN PART 1
Well, if you are reading the Proverbs and you don't leave understanding the seriousness of sexual sin, you just haven't been paying attention. It’s one of the cardinal themes of this book. In fact, the way Proverbs deals with sex is one of the things Proverbs is known for, and there's a level of seriousness that is so important in this generation that we’re in.