Yada Yada Yada | Difficult Conversations Week 3 | Pastor Candace Cortez

Bible lesson for the day! 

Translations:

• Hebrews 1:3 in the ESV (word-for-word):

“He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature”.

• Hebrews 1:3 in the NLT (thought-for-thought):

“The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God”

• Hebrews 1:3 (ish) MSG (Paraphrase) 

After he finished the sacrifice for sins, the Son took his honored place high in the heavens right alongside God, far higher than any angel in rank and rule.

YADA YADA

-Sexuality was God’s design and plan.

Genesis 1:28 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 

Genesis 2:24-25 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Genesis 4:1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.”

–Model for marriage

• New covenant
• Monogamy
• Public
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– Rule of First Mention

• Genesis 4:1
• “Knew” = YADA – to know
  • Intimately revealed Himself to them, and made available

• Amos 3:1-2 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: 2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
• Exodus 19:3-6
• Deut 28:1-14
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-Satan turned Yada into Shakeb

Removes the sacred and replaces it with the common

Because the Lord knew the enemy was distorting His design, HE gave us guardrails to protect us.

–Marriage

• Hebrews 13:4
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– Heterosexuality

• Leviticus 18:22-23
• Leviticus 20:13–16
• Mark 10:6–9
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– Equality and Mutuality

• 1 Corinthians 7:2–5
• Hebrews 13:4
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–Guarding and Fleeing

• Genesis 39:6-12

-Guard Your Heart

• Matthew 5:27–29
•  Mark 7:21–23
• Job 31:1 
• Song of Solomon 8:4
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