I don't know what to say but I was so inspired even though I am 55yrs old. I hope the young people take Gods goodness and see there is so many things to learn about God and the goodness of his principals the freedom of his law. I like this verse in psalm 19 "the law of the lord is perfect converting the soul" It is so deep that it converts the flesh. Thank you and may his Grace, mercy and peace remain upon you!
I was saving myself for marriage but then I got raped. That was my "first time." The only words he spoke were, "I'm a demon and you're going to hell." God spared my life that night in 2003. It's been a very difficult road, but God has been so gracious to me. I didn't end up pregnant, but if I had, I would have definitely kept the innocent baby. I never did marry or have children but I will watch anyway. Actually looking forward to it.
@@SeanMcDowell wow, thanks. That means a lot even after all these years. He served 4 years in prison and is a registered tier 2 sex offender. I'm not his only victim,although I consider myself a survivor.
That was real good. I will for sure use this in some of my trainings and classes. Thank you so much for putting this out there and for going and speaking to these kids.
Part of the problem that no one ever talks about is that society has stigmatized marriage at younger ages i.e. 18-20 therein making it unecessarily difficult for Christian youth to keep God's commands.
I've been struggling for a long time now. My boyfriend lives with me. It's been almost 3 years. He cheated on me for the first year and a half. I used to want to marry him but now I don't know. I really really struggling. Should I marry hi. Since he is living with me or break up and kick him out.
Wow! Thanks so much Sean for sharing. I was blessed by listening and it refreshes God's love, blessings, and command for me. And thank you especially for the 'fruit in the garden exposition,' I never saw it that way, that faith in God was required from us right from the beginning and the lack of it bears its own consequences. Thanks again and God's blessings to you and yours always.
I don't really understand the idea of what Sean was talking about with the apple. "To connect the infinite with the finite" Did they not already have a personal relationship with God before? God, from what I know, did interact with Adam and Eve so where was the contradiction of thought needed? And if it was just a contradiction they needed in order to truly connect with God, why did the choice of the contradiction have such a dire consequence, one they could have never understood? It seemed more like a test of faith to see if they trusted him and he punished them for eternity for not.
NOTE: Importantly… Oxytocin is also released in the male as well. During sex, taking care of the baby, playing, feeding, etc. it’s released by both. That’s how the brain bonds both people biochemically. Netflix Docu Babies: it actually shows scientists measuring this in both parents in several couples around the world. Fantastic and highly recommend.
Sean, t he and you for the wonderful talk. I especially loved your assertion that promiscuity can be shown to be wrong without special revelation. I have made so many bad choices and now am facing the consequences of them. I was very sexually active when I was young. I also cohabitated and was sexually active with a fiancé until Christ came into my life. After a separation that has taken 4 years and counting to gradually heal from, I see how damaged it all has left me. I find it hard to “try again” because I doubt women can be faithful for a lifetime. I also experience, though less as I am more obedient to the Lord, sexualizing women too frequently. I have learned through my rebellion that his ways are good. They are for our flourishing. I do have one suggestion if you are willing to listen to it. I don’t think your assertion that “freedom is not the ability to do what you want without restraint” is true, at least when referring to freedom of the will and freedom of action. By definition, freedom is characterized by the mitigation of restraint. However, there is another form of freedom that I believe you are intuitively referring to that is dictated by our obedience to Gods design for our will and actions, and that is spiritual or emotional freedom which is characterized joy, peace, and fulfillment. Our feeling of joy, peace, and fulfillment is unrestrained (i.e. free) when we are in right relation to God, to people, and to creation. May the Lord bless you and your family Sean and continue to use you to build his glorious kingdom and combat the lies and destruction of the enemy.
What about DC comics? Because Superman is _clearly_ the best Superhero ever!! I mean, in pretty much any showdown between Spider-Man and Superman, Superman would be the victor. Plus he wears a cape. I guess that’s all I really needed to say. He wears a cape. 😀😆
I loved watching this a lot thank you Sean! I have researched this topic in the Bible and in books, but I just can’t find conclusive evidence that God designed a specific set of marriage vows or marriage papers that say “you two are married.” From what I can tell God, before the fall, made marriage in its perfection. The commandments “Be fruitful, multiply, and have dominion over all the earth,” and “Leave your father and mother and be joined to your wife, and the two become one flesh.” I read as: “Sex is good and for procreation, and sex is marriage and unifying.” Is there a verse that clearly states there’s some extra marriage ceremony thing? I don’t believe my view detracts from marriage or insights divorce, that’s the sin nature. I’m not concrete in anything though and pray that whatever God’s truth is I live it! Thank you again for this video.
I think the key is the commitment and then one-flesh union that seals the marriage. Obviously there wasn't a public commitment in Genesis when no one else was there. But since it is the kind of commitment that involves the public, it has typically taken on a public dimension (across cultures) with a ceremony celebrating the union.
I would disagree that a legal marriage ceremony is required to prevent the oxytocin bond from being damaged but I do agree that there needs to be a mutually agreed upon loving lifetime exclusive commitment of the man and the woman first which is how my common law wife and I did it. We waited for 6 months to make love until her mamma said we could and we definitely bonded in a very special strong way when we made love for the first time and it’s only gotten better and it’s been a few years now without the need for a useless state issued marriage license and a state sanctioned officiant performing a ceremony
Agreed. A government license means nothing. And neither does a church ceremony. Many churches are deeply corrupt. The union is between man, woman, and God. 🙏🙏🙏
I also disagree that there would be no abortions if ppl practiced monogamy because sometimes women need abortions to save their physical lives or physical health like for ectopic pregnancies or if a woman has diabetes
I notice no chapter and verse to back up your opinion about needing a marriage license Dr. McDowell. It’s because it is a meaningless piece of paper especially with no fault divorce and same sex marriage. It’s the commitment of the heart and the faithfulness of the body and the mind and the confession of your commitment to one another before others that makes a marriage. The paperwork means nothing
Thank you for blessing my marriage. God used your message in a profound way to move His blessing and heal wounds as old as they get. Thank you brother for listening to His Spirit and speaking His Truth. We can always put our trust in God and never believe that God is withholding anything truly good from us. But I need what we think is good is just the devil trying to get our trust and eyes off of God and onto Worldly things
I love ya Sean and I appreciate the gospel you've spoken to me in videos past. After spending some time listening to most of the video I shouldn't continue because my lustful temptations are great
This was Catholic theology of the body, so it was all good. The problem was it stopped too early. Taken to their logical conclusion, honoring both the procreative and unitive aspects of sex means contraception (human induced infertility in service of sterile sex) is immoral. I was hoping to hear him drop that and hear the audience gasp. Alas, no dice.
Jesus Christ suffered to give us freedom from the curse each person should get . Obviously the love God has for us looks like restraint like being imprisoned or solitary confinement I don' t know . If you read the Bible sex has a purpose for each individual usually we put it off bcuz of certain outcomes .
Reproduction is only an incidental outcome of sexual activity. It is not an essential part of it. Some relevant words: "It is a fundamental and willful falsification to call the sexual drive a drive to reproduction. Reproduction is only a potential outcome of sexual intercourse, but it is certainly not included in the actual experience of sexual excitement. The animal knows nothing of it; only man knows".
Galatians 5:18-21 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance-as I told you before-that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
There are some issues here. One, you're mixing morality with freedom; freedom is freedom and has no innate morality. Freedom is an abstract concept and therefore inherently neutral. It's the USE of freedom that brings morality in, but morality is not a component of freedom (no matter how you try to split hairs by talking about types of freedom). Two, your argue that sex was designed to be procreative (to fulfill God's command to have offspring and fill the Earth), but then you equivocate (change the definition of procreation) by saying sex is still procreative between infertile couples. It's NOT procreative between infertile couples because you're now inserting a different definition of procreation (an act that results in offspring; the act cannot lead to children without outside help, God or otherwise, and thus, it's not procreation but something else). Equivocation is not a helpful tactic, unfortunately, and your whole argument therefore falters because this is part of your argument's foundation.
1) There are certain acts, that interfere with your freedom in the long run, and have nothing to do with morality. Addiction is a classic example. 2) Even in the case of an infertile couple there is procreative potential, that can not be actualized for some reason. There is a reason, why we don't call a man infertile, if he can't concieve, because he inherently lacks the potential of getting pregnant. That is why the sex act between an infertile couple is still a procreative act.
I always find it hilarious we have humans in the world that think they know the particulars of something beyond existence and are in communication with it, when humans actually haven't discovered any other life/intelligence existing or any other life coming from elsewhere to earth. Humans have only just started to explore the cosmos. Believers love make believe
Always good to see christians yet again disagreeing, and pretending some imaginary being agrees with them and no one else. It's so cute when they all think that their personal hangups are "right wants".
Yet you didn't rebut any arguments he gave........ so you don't have anything more intellectual to say and you are just trolling. But at least you are here and hearing God's word for your life.
@@matthewlehman9496 Always remember: Your god commanded babies be drowned in the flood, the Amalekites babies be killed, the Canaanite babies be killed, the Midianites boy babies be killed, the Egyptian firstborn babies be killed and the babies in Sodom and Gomorrah be killed. . LOL
@@matthewlehman9496 All Sean has is that his imaginary god doesn't like sex to be anything different than Sean likes it. Since Sean can't show his god exists, or agrees with him, he is simply giving a baseless opinion. this is what sean claims "there's a truth about you and there's a purpose for how we're supposed to live " no evidence for that at all, just human opinion. "God you design sex you design marriage what is your plan and am I living according to your design" no evidence for this. "God gave us sex to make babies now by the way if a couple is infertile and can't have a baby they are still engaging in a procreative baby making kind of act even if a child doesn't result sex is a procreative kind of act first purpose of sex is to make babies" This is just hilarious, since nope, no baby making if you are infertile. Sex is a lot of fun. "men and women in particular women you have certain chemicals in your body that when these chemicals are released create a feeling and a desire to bond with somebody else" Happens in everyone, and doesn't require a man and woman to happen, so poor Sean's god either screwed up or there is no "design". I'm here showing how christians lie and try to force their lies on others. I am hearing the words that humans have invented and have tried to attribute to some god. "Yet you didn't rebut any arguments he gave........ so you don't have anything more intellectual to say and you are just trolling. But at least you are here and hearing God's word for your life"
@@velkyn1nothing you say matters because the Bible itself is proof of God because men could not have thought to write all that and be right about everything. It's impossible for 40 different men who lived at different times to have corroborated in order to write the Bible where there are no contradictions in its full context. 2000 prophecies have been fulfilled 300 of which were fulfilled by Jesus which was documented historically and not denied by any credible historian. So the Bible itself is proof of God and proof that Jesus is God. If you want to take that as some sort of coincidence you have the free will to do so but remember that there are consequences to your choices. If you want to gamble with your eternal soul on the assumption that there is no God and that everything banged itself into existence from nothing then I say that is foolish but you have every right to separate yourself from God because he will respect your free will and decision. Because that is true love
I don't know what to say but I was so inspired even though I am 55yrs old. I hope the young people take Gods goodness and see there is so many things to learn about God and the goodness of his principals the freedom of his law. I like this verse in psalm 19 "the law of the lord is perfect converting the soul" It is so deep that it converts the flesh. Thank you and may his Grace, mercy and peace remain upon you!
Awesome to hear, thanks!
I was saving myself for marriage but then I got raped. That was my "first time." The only words he spoke were, "I'm a demon and you're going to hell." God spared my life that night in 2003. It's been a very difficult road, but God has been so gracious to me. I didn't end up pregnant, but if I had, I would have definitely kept the innocent baby. I never did marry or have children but I will watch anyway. Actually looking forward to it.
Kim, I am absolutely heartbroken that happened to you. So sorry. Thank you for sharing. And I hope it’s helpful in some fashion.
@@SeanMcDowell wow, thanks. That means a lot even after all these years. He served 4 years in prison and is a registered tier 2 sex offender. I'm not his only victim,although I consider myself a survivor.
God bless you dear sister. I pray the Lord gives you peace and many blessings. ❤
That was real good. I will for sure use this in some of my trainings and classes. Thank you so much for putting this out there and for going and speaking to these kids.
Fabulous message. I’m sharing this with my sons. Thank you ❤
Part of the problem that no one ever talks about is that society has stigmatized marriage at younger ages i.e. 18-20 therein making it unecessarily difficult for Christian youth to keep God's commands.
I've been struggling for a long time now. My boyfriend lives with me. It's been almost 3 years. He cheated on me for the first year and a half. I used to want to marry him but now I don't know. I really really struggling. Should I marry hi. Since he is living with me or break up and kick him out.
Talk to your pastor about this.
So good! God’s design is always the best way and always leads to our flourishing ❤
Wow! Thanks so much Sean for sharing. I was blessed by listening and it refreshes God's love, blessings, and command for me. And thank you especially for the 'fruit in the garden exposition,' I never saw it that way, that faith in God was required from us right from the beginning and the lack of it bears its own consequences. Thanks again and God's blessings to you and yours always.
Thanks for the kind words!
I don't really understand the idea of what Sean was talking about with the apple. "To connect the infinite with the finite" Did they not already have a personal relationship with God before? God, from what I know, did interact with Adam and Eve so where was the contradiction of thought needed? And if it was just a contradiction they needed in order to truly connect with God, why did the choice of the contradiction have such a dire consequence, one they could have never understood? It seemed more like a test of faith to see if they trusted him and he punished them for eternity for not.
NOTE: Importantly… Oxytocin is also released in the male as well. During sex, taking care of the baby, playing, feeding, etc.
it’s released by both. That’s how the brain bonds both people biochemically. Netflix Docu Babies: it actually shows scientists measuring this in both parents in several couples around the world. Fantastic and highly recommend.
Sean, t he and you for the wonderful talk. I especially loved your assertion that promiscuity can be shown to be wrong without special revelation. I have made so many bad choices and now am facing the consequences of them. I was very sexually active when I was young. I also cohabitated and was sexually active with a fiancé until Christ came into my life. After a separation that has taken 4 years and counting to gradually heal from, I see how damaged it all has left me. I find it hard to “try again” because I doubt women can be faithful for a lifetime. I also experience, though less as I am more obedient to the Lord, sexualizing women too frequently.
I have learned through my rebellion that his ways are good. They are for our flourishing.
I do have one suggestion if you are willing to listen to it. I don’t think your assertion that “freedom is not the ability to do what you want without restraint” is true, at least when referring to freedom of the will and freedom of action.
By definition, freedom is characterized by the mitigation of restraint. However, there is another form of freedom that I believe you are intuitively referring to that is dictated by our obedience to Gods design for our will and actions, and that is spiritual or emotional freedom which is characterized joy, peace, and fulfillment. Our feeling of joy, peace, and fulfillment is unrestrained (i.e. free) when we are in right relation to God, to people, and to creation.
May the Lord bless you and your family Sean and continue to use you to build his glorious kingdom and combat the lies and destruction of the enemy.
Well said, thanks Alix. I will give that some thought!
What about DC comics? Because Superman is _clearly_ the best Superhero ever!! I mean, in pretty much any showdown between Spider-Man and Superman, Superman would be the victor. Plus he wears a cape. I guess that’s all I really needed to say. He wears a cape. 😀😆
I loved watching this a lot thank you Sean!
I have researched this topic in the Bible and in books, but I just can’t find conclusive evidence that God designed a specific set of marriage vows or marriage papers that say “you two are married.” From what I can tell God, before the fall, made marriage in its perfection. The commandments “Be fruitful, multiply, and have dominion over all the earth,” and “Leave your father and mother and be joined to your wife, and the two become one flesh.” I read as: “Sex is good and for procreation, and sex is marriage and unifying.” Is there a verse that clearly states there’s some extra marriage ceremony thing? I don’t believe my view detracts from marriage or insights divorce, that’s the sin nature. I’m not concrete in anything though and pray that whatever God’s truth is I live it! Thank you again for this video.
I think the key is the commitment and then one-flesh union that seals the marriage. Obviously there wasn't a public commitment in Genesis when no one else was there. But since it is the kind of commitment that involves the public, it has typically taken on a public dimension (across cultures) with a ceremony celebrating the union.
Thank you! And thank you and God for your other videos that have helped people find His Truth!
I would disagree that a legal marriage ceremony is required to prevent the oxytocin bond from being damaged but I do agree that there needs to be a mutually agreed upon loving lifetime exclusive commitment of the man and the woman first which is how my common law wife and I did it. We waited for 6 months to make love until her mamma said we could and we definitely bonded in a very special strong way when we made love for the first time and it’s only gotten better and it’s been a few years now without the need for a useless state issued marriage license and a state sanctioned officiant performing a ceremony
Agreed. A government license means nothing. And neither does a church ceremony. Many churches are deeply corrupt. The union is between man, woman, and God. 🙏🙏🙏
Good video keep up the good work
11:00-11:25. Um no, if a couple is sterile then their sex is not the procreative kind, that's why we call them sterile.
I also disagree that there would be no abortions if ppl practiced monogamy because sometimes women need abortions to save their physical lives or physical health like for ectopic pregnancies or if a woman has diabetes
Lies
Hard to watch after breaking up just a few weeks ago! Maybe I will have the stomach later!
I notice no chapter and verse to back up your opinion about needing a marriage license Dr. McDowell. It’s because it is a meaningless piece of paper especially with no fault divorce and same sex marriage. It’s the commitment of the heart and the faithfulness of the body and the mind and the confession of your commitment to one another before others that makes a marriage. The paperwork means nothing
Thank you for blessing my marriage. God used your message in a profound way to move His blessing and heal wounds as old as they get. Thank you brother for listening to His Spirit and speaking His Truth. We can always put our trust in God and never believe that God is withholding anything truly good from us. But I need what we think is good is just the devil trying to get our trust and eyes off of God and onto Worldly things
Amazing work right here
Appreciate that
I love ya Sean and I appreciate the gospel you've spoken to me in videos past. After spending some time listening to most of the video I shouldn't continue because my lustful temptations are great
Oxytocin plays a main part in breast feeding and the milk production regulation
Thank you! This was so encouraging.
You are so welcome!
This was Catholic theology of the body, so it was all good. The problem was it stopped too early. Taken to their logical conclusion, honoring both the procreative and unitive aspects of sex means contraception (human induced infertility in service of sterile sex) is immoral. I was hoping to hear him drop that and hear the audience gasp. Alas, no dice.
Jesus Christ suffered to give us freedom from the curse each person should get . Obviously the love God has for us looks like restraint like being imprisoned or solitary confinement I don' t know . If you read the Bible sex has a purpose for each individual usually we put it off bcuz of certain outcomes .
Reproduction is only an incidental outcome of sexual activity. It is not an essential part of it. Some relevant words: "It is a fundamental and willful falsification to call the sexual drive a drive to reproduction. Reproduction is only a potential outcome of sexual intercourse, but it is certainly not included in the actual experience of sexual excitement. The animal knows nothing of it; only man knows".
Huh. What you propose it was meant for?
@@MrWynne-zb4kp some would argue that God put Adam and Eve together for their pleasure
Galatians 5:18-21 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance-as I told you before-that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
T H A N K Y O U ‼️
Of course!
What a boring crowd. That joke about girl's having an agenda was funny. Lighten up people its just a joke
Keep on keepin' on!!! +++
Thx!
There are some issues here. One, you're mixing morality with freedom; freedom is freedom and has no innate morality. Freedom is an abstract concept and therefore inherently neutral. It's the USE of freedom that brings morality in, but morality is not a component of freedom (no matter how you try to split hairs by talking about types of freedom). Two, your argue that sex was designed to be procreative (to fulfill God's command to have offspring and fill the Earth), but then you equivocate (change the definition of procreation) by saying sex is still procreative between infertile couples. It's NOT procreative between infertile couples because you're now inserting a different definition of procreation (an act that results in offspring; the act cannot lead to children without outside help, God or otherwise, and thus, it's not procreation but something else). Equivocation is not a helpful tactic, unfortunately, and your whole argument therefore falters because this is part of your argument's foundation.
1) There are certain acts, that interfere with your freedom in the long run, and have nothing to do with morality. Addiction is a classic example.
2) Even in the case of an infertile couple there is procreative potential, that can not be actualized for some reason. There is a reason, why we don't call a man infertile, if he can't concieve, because he inherently lacks the potential of getting pregnant. That is why the sex act between an infertile couple is still a procreative act.
Oxytocin also generates aggression if the loved one is threatened. It has two sides.
I always find it hilarious we have humans in the world that think they know the particulars of something beyond existence and are in communication with it, when humans actually haven't discovered any other life/intelligence existing or any other life coming from elsewhere to earth. Humans have only just started to explore the cosmos. Believers love make believe
The prophets had a mouth to speak and a hand to write. The Apostles had ears to hear and a hand to write
Always good to see christians yet again disagreeing, and pretending some imaginary being agrees with them and no one else. It's so cute when they all think that their personal hangups are "right wants".
Yet you didn't rebut any arguments he gave........ so you don't have anything more intellectual to say and you are just trolling. But at least you are here and hearing God's word for your life.
@@matthewlehman9496 Always remember: Your god commanded babies be drowned in the flood, the Amalekites babies be killed, the Canaanite babies be killed, the Midianites boy babies be killed, the Egyptian firstborn babies be killed and the babies in Sodom and Gomorrah be killed.
.
LOL
@@matthewlehman9496 All Sean has is that his imaginary god doesn't like sex to be anything different than Sean likes it. Since Sean can't show his god exists, or agrees with him, he is simply giving a baseless opinion.
this is what sean claims "there's a truth about you and there's a purpose for how we're supposed to live "
no evidence for that at all, just human opinion.
"God you design sex you design marriage what is your plan and am I living according to your design"
no evidence for this.
"God gave us sex to make babies now by the way if a couple is infertile and can't have a baby they are still engaging in a procreative
baby making kind of act even if a child doesn't result sex is a procreative kind of act first purpose of sex is to make babies"
This is just hilarious, since nope, no baby making if you are infertile. Sex is a lot of fun.
"men and women in particular women you have certain chemicals in your body that when these chemicals are released create a feeling and a desire to bond with somebody else"
Happens in everyone, and doesn't require a man and woman to happen, so poor Sean's god either screwed up or there is no "design".
I'm here showing how christians lie and try to force their lies on others. I am hearing the words that humans have invented and have tried to attribute to some god.
"Yet you didn't rebut any arguments he gave........ so you don't have anything more intellectual to say and you are just trolling. But at least you are here and hearing God's word for your life"
@@velkyn1nothing you say matters because the Bible itself is proof of God because men could not have thought to write all that and be right about everything. It's impossible for 40 different men who lived at different times to have corroborated in order to write the Bible where there are no contradictions in its full context. 2000 prophecies have been fulfilled 300 of which were fulfilled by Jesus which was documented historically and not denied by any credible historian. So the Bible itself is proof of God and proof that Jesus is God. If you want to take that as some sort of coincidence you have the free will to do so but remember that there are consequences to your choices. If you want to gamble with your eternal soul on the assumption that there is no God and that everything banged itself into existence from nothing then I say that is foolish but you have every right to separate yourself from God because he will respect your free will and decision. Because that is true love