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The Doctor makes a strong point below, but I wonder if he might think differently in this society where our kids will learn about sex at school, and unless we are eternally vigilant, on TV. I do want my children to learn about these things form me, but at the same time I want to talk about it in a way that they are neither encouraged to sin, nor given the idea that sex is dirty and sinful. For more about sex and marriage, see Tope\u2019s recent sermon series<\/a> which is ongoing. The Doctor\u2019s point here is that legalism doesn\u2019t contain sin:<\/p>\n

As a Christian I have never believed in morality teaching. Nor have I ever agreed with those who argue, \u2018Tell people of the evil effects of that sin, and it will keep them from it,\u2019 because it will not. It will inflame their desire for that very thing that you are telling them not to do. And that is why people quite often delude and defile themselves by reading books about such things. They say that what they want to do is to see the evil of the thing. What is actually happening is that they are enjoying it. They are sinning in their minds and in their imaginations. That is what is meant by concupiscence; this passion, this flame, this fire, that can even misuse the law of God, and turn it into a kind of bellows that makes the flame worse. Tell a man not to and it may drive him to do it \u2014 indeed, you are introducing him to it. So it is a dangerous thing for fallen man to think like that and to imagine that moral instruction about sex and such things is going to control the moral problem. It is having exactly the opposite effect; and to believe in that kind of teaching is to misunderstand the essential biblical teaching about sin. No, our fathers were right. They did not tell their children about sex and morality, and there was less immorality than there is now. It is a dangerous thing to talk about these things; it is like pouring petrol on the fire. Concupiscence \u2014 that is the great argument of the seventh chapter of the epistle to the Romans.
\nDavid Martyn. Lloyd-Jones, The Assurance of Our Salvation : Exploring the Depth of Jesus\u2019 Prayer for His Own : Studies in John 17 (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2000), 454.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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