Sex Education

The point: Parents must seek to furnish their children with all necessary knowledge, disciplines, patterns of life, and habits to make them commensurate with God's Word in their homes, society, and church.

Martin uses the analogy from Hebrews that if God doesn't chasten us, we are bastards, to argue that parents who don't discipline their children don't love them, treating them as unclaimed children.

If we're without chastisement, the writer to the Hebrew says, it's a proof we're outside the orbit of God's love. We're bastards. He doesn't claim us as his children. Implication being, any parent who doesn't discipline his child doesn't love him.

2:25 - 2:38 Read in full sermon

The point: Parents must ensure they themselves have a scriptural concept of their own sexuality, thinking biblically about sex and sexual roles.

He uses the metaphor of a brain being 'marinated' in the fluid of God's Word to illustrate how deeply biblical truth should permeate one's thinking about sexuality.

Now I'm not asking if you have some deep convictions that you may have picked up along the way. I'm asking you when it comes to this whole matter of your sexuality, is that thing which sits in there, and you all have one, has it been marinated in the Word of God? Now just try to picture your brain being taken out and the Word of God being fluid and it's laid in there long enough until it's marinated, you see? And has the very flavor of Scripture permeated your head?

19:35 - 20:12 Read in full sermon

The point: Parents must have a practical subjection to and expression of biblical concepts of sexuality in their daily lives, evidencing this through natural actions and reactions with their children.

Martin provides an example of a father clutching his mother by the sink, even with messy hair, as a 'hallowed memory' for a child, illustrating how natural, unembarrassed expressions of affection between parents are a great form of sex education.

I don't mean that you go around in each other's arms waltzing from room to room three hours a day, but I pity the child who grows up in a home and doesn't have the fond memory of seeing a dad with his mother clutched in his arms by the sink, maybe with her hair a mess and all the rest, and mummy very obviously enjoying that being clutched in the arms. Maybe even those times when you've got a clutcher from a distance because there's another little one on the way. What a hallowed memory for a child to have. I was so tickled the other day when Joel said something, and we've been kidding him about...

24:13 - 24:50 Read in full sermon

The point: Parents must have a practical subjection to and expression of biblical concepts of sexuality in their daily lives, evidencing this through natural actions and reactions with their children.

A personal anecdote about his son Joel commenting on his parents 'smooching' is used to show how children observe and internalize the climate of openness and affection in the home.

He said, Oh, you two, you're always smooching. I said, What do you mean we're always smooching? He said, It's all right for you to come home, but when I do it, then it's smooching. I said, How come?

24:50 - 25:00 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Three prerequisites for effective formal sex education are presented: establishing strong lines of communication with children, possessing accurate biblical and technical…

Martin shares a personal story of his son's joyful reaction ('Boy, Daddy, isn't it great how God's made us') after reading 'Susie's Babies,' contrasting it with his own negative experience of learning 'the facts of life' in the gutter, to highlight the positive impact of biblical sex education.

When she explains that the hamster whose name is Susie has been mated and explains the significance of this in terms of the beginning of life, and the question is asked, how come there's a lady down the street who works for Mrs. So-and-so and she's not even married and she's going to have a baby. And she very discreetly and beautifully answers this from a scriptural standpoint, how though God has ordained the family relationship, men can abuse what God has given and violate His holy law and handles these things so beautifully that I heartily recommend this. I know the joy it was in using it an...

50:21 - 51:32 Read in full sermon