Welcome to EQUIP15

When it comes to our bodies, we struggle between idolizing them and despising them. And the world only adds to our confusion - encouraging an obsession with diets and fashion whilst celebrating sexual laxness.

1 Corinthians 5-7 gives us a powerful if unexpected answer. It reminds us to whom our bodies belong.

We’ve got a good but uncomfortable day ahead as God’s Word challenges us on these core issues - our bodies, our relationships and sex.

Isobel Lin Chair of EQUIP women

“Only one life, ‘twill soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last.” C.T. Studd PROGRAM

CONTENTS

DAYLIGHT PROGRAM TWILIGHT PROGRAM Bible Passage: 1 Corinthians 5 & 1 Corinthians 6:1-12 2

Talk 1: Glorifying God with your Body 5 8:50 Welcome to livestream 3:20 Welcome to Livestream Carmelina Read 9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 3:30 – 5:00 Session 1 Talk 2: Glorifying God with your Sexual Desire 7 Talk 1: Talk 1: Dr. Patricia Weerakoon Glorifying God with Glorifying God with your Body your Body Talk 3: Glorifying God with your Life 11 Carmelina Read Carmelina Read Jane Tooher 10:30 - 11:15 Morning tea (provided) 5:00 – 5:45 Afternoon tea (provided) EQUIP 2015 Song Words 13 11:15 - 12:30 Session 2 5:45 – 7:00 Session 2 Talk 2: Talk 2: Glorifying God with Glorifying God with your Sexual Desire your Sexual Desire Dr. Patricia Weerakoon Dr. Patricia Weerakoon

Q&A with Q&A with Dr. Patricia Weerakoon Dr. Patricia Weerakoon and Carmelina Read and Carmelina Read (SMS 0419 548 751) (SMS 0419 548 751)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch 7:00 – 8:00 Light Dinner

1:30 - 2:30 Session 3 8:00 – 9:00 Session 3 Talk 3: Talk 3: Glorifying God with Glorifying God with your Life your Life Jane Tooher Jane Tooher ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

Dr. Patricia Weerakoon is a We live in a culture author of ‘Teen Sex By the Book’, soaked with sex. ‘Growing Up by the Book’ and From sexy clothes ‘The Best Sex for Life’. As a for children to a porn Christian, she is convinced that when it comes to sex and relationships, God’s industry worth billions way is best. of dollars every year… sometimes Christians Patricia will be encouraging us to live with sexual integrity and purity in the face of feel powerless against our sexualized culture. Patricia will also be such a tide. speaking at the Teens Conference, answering the questions they have about sex and relationships.

Carmelina Read is the Dean of I used to think that Women at Christ College. In this role, she has pioneered and only priests could developed the ‘Ministry Training read the Bible, so I’m for Women’ course which aims to passionate about train any woman who is serving in her church. She is also a minister’s wife at getting women to Chatswood Presbyterian and relishes leading the read God’s Word for Connect Women’s Group there. themselves.

Carmelina says we are confused by all the our bodies. She is looking forward to sharing the truth about our bodies from 1 Corinthians 5-7.

Jane Tooher has been teaching My role on the faculty and training women for over 20 of Moore is to help years in Sydney, London and now at Moore Theological College. She work out how we is the Director of the Priscilla can teach and model and Aquila Centre whose goal Biblical manhood and is to encourage the ministries of women in partnership with men. womanhood at the college and beyond. 1 Corinthians 7 is one of Jane’s go-to Bible passages for teaching on being ‘devoted to the Lord’ whatever your relationship status.

1 READ 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1-13 (NIV) WHAT STANDS OUT TO ME?

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality Readingamong you, 1 and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? 3 For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the WHAT QUESTIONS DO I HAVE? name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. 4 So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5 hand that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been HOW CAN I APPLY THIS? 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is HOW CAN I SHARE THIS? sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”

2 1 Corinthians 5:1-13

READ 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1-12 (NIV) WHAT STANDS OUT TO ME?

6 If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people? 2 Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4 Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those WHAT QUESTIONS DO I HAVE? whose way of life is scorned in the church? 5 I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6 But instead, one brother takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!

7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this HOW CAN I APPLY THIS? to your brothers and sisters. 9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. HOW CAN I SHARE THIS? 12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.

3 1 CORINTHIANS 6:12 – 7:7 (NIV)

12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything mastered by anything. 13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You ideas and digital resources to help with sharing Jesus. are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. For more on reading the Bible 1-1 and the Swedish Method https://gotherefor.com/equip15/ Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not 7 to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. 3 The the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7 I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

4 Talk 1 GLORIFYING GOD WITH YOUR BODY

1 Corinthians 6:12-7:7 Carmelina Read 1. The world’s view: “My body, my choice” 2. The Lord’s view

a. “My body, my choice” has eternal consequences (6:9-11)

b. My body is for the Lord

5 Talk 1 GLORIFYING GOD WITH YOUR BODY

1 Corinthians 6:12-7:7 Carmelina Read 3. The Christian woman’s view: “The Lord’s body, the Lord’s choice” a. My choice … will I honour God with my body?

b. Flee … sexual immorality dishonours God (6:18)

c. Don’t deprive … married sex honours God (7:1-6)

6 Talk 2 GLORIFYING GOD WITH YOUR SEXUAL DESIRE

Dr. Patricia Weerakoon 1. The science of sexual desire: c. Attitudes towards anyone who says otherwise a. A testosterone induced feeling ‘I want sex’ Difference between a ‘want’ and a ‘need’: A need is something without which there will be health and life consequences. To want is to have a strong feeling of craving (longing, urge) to have something or to wish for b. What determines desire? something to happen.

3. God’s pattern for sexual desire a. A good gift, powerful, seductive and fragile Genesis 2:18-25; Song of Songs 8:6-7; Proverbs 6:27-28

c. Desire is not static: variation between individuals, with age, relationships b. To be treated with care, caution and self-control and gender. Song of Songs 2:7; 3:5; 8:4; 1 Corinthians 5:6; 1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 6:12- 20; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 d. Do we have control over sexual desire?

c. Celebrated in the context of marriage 2. Understanding the world view on sexual desire 1 Corinthians 7:3-5; Ephesians 5:21-33 a. Sexual desire as an irrepressible need that must be met

d. And joyously lived without as a celibate single 1 Corinthians 7:8-9; Matthew 19:11-12

7 Talk 2 GLORIFYING GOD WITH YOUR SEXUAL DESIRE

Dr. Patricia Weerakoon 4. Dealing with sexual desire a. Self-Stimulation

b. Same Sex Attraction

c. Pornography

8 Q & A WITH DR. PATRICIA WEERAKOON AND CARMELINA READ Dr. Patricia Carmelina Weerakoon Read SMS your questions to 0419 548 751

9 1 CORINTHIANS 7:8-40 (NIV)

8 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay 25 Now about virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment unmarried, as I do. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy. 26 Because of the present crisis, marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is. 27 Are you pledged to a woman? Do not seek to be released. Are you free from such a commitment? Do 10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not not look for a wife. 28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin separate from her husband. 11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face many troubles in else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. this life, and I want to spare you this.

12 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not 29 What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. From now on a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13 those who have wives should live as if they do not; 30 those who mourn, as if And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, with her, she must not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband has been as if it were not theirs to keep; 31 those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away. through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. 32 I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord. 33 But a married man is 15 But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— 34 and bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. 16 How do his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or, how do you know, the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. husband, whether you will save your wife? But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband. 35 I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, 17 Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situation but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord. the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches. 18 Was a man already circumcised when he was 36 If anyone is worried that he might not be acting honorably toward the virgin called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man uncircumcised he is engaged to, and if his passions are too strong and he feels he ought to when he was called? He should not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is marry, he should do as he wants. He is not sinning. They should get married. nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what 37 But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no counts. 20 Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind called them. not to marry the virgin—this man also does the right thing. 38 So then, he who marries the virgin does right, but he who does not marry her does better. 21 Were you a slave when you were called? Don’t let it trouble you—although if you can gain your freedom, do so. 22 For the one who was a slave when called 39 A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord. 40 In my when called is Christ’s slave. 23 You were bought at a price; do not become judgment, she is happier if she stays as she is—and I think that I too have the slaves of human beings. 24 Brothers and sisters, each person, as responsible Spirit of God. to God, should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.

10 Talk 3 GLORIFYING GOD WITH YOUR LIFE

1 Corinthians 7:8-40 Jane Tooher 1. Principle of the passage: remain… 2. Why remain? (as you are when God called you to be a Christian)

But… 3. Paul’s motivation for telling the Corinthians & us to remain (for some you can change your situation)

11 Talk 3 GLORIFYING GOD WITH YOUR LIFE

1 Corinthians 7:8-40 Jane Tooher 4. Different life situations 5. Summary a. The unmarried & the widows (v8-9)

b. The married (verses 10-11)

c. The Christian married to an unbeliever who is willing to keep living with the Christian (verses 12-14)

d. The Christian married to an unbeliever who is not willing to keep living with the Christian (verses 15-16)

e. Live the life God gives you (verses 17-24) Resources for further thinking Singleness, courtship, engagement, widowhood, separation, divorce, remarriage http://www.moore.edu.au/paa/papers-and-talks http://www.thegospelcoalition.org f. Virgins (verses 25-38) Same-sex attraction http://www1.libertychristianministries.org.au http://www.livingout.org Spiritual Friendship: Finding love in the church as a celibate gay Christian g. Widows (verses 39-40) by Wesley Hill homosexuality by Wesley Hill

12 SONG WORDS

HOLY HOLY HOLY ENDLESS LIGHT

Verse 1 Verse 4 Verse 1 Hope of every heart Holy holy holy Holy holy holy From the highest throne to the earth Let Your Name be lifted higher Lord God Almighty Lord God Almighty below All our hearts Early in the morning All Thy works shall praise Thy name You laid down Your life for the likes of us All our hearts sing Your praise Our song shall rise to Thee In earth and sky and sea Great is the love of the Saviour Holy holy holy Holy holy holy Bridge Merciful and mighty Merciful and mighty Verse 2 God be exalted God in three persons God in three persons From a wounded heart to a life made God be exalted in everything Blessed Trinity Blessed Trinity whole We live for Your glory Every human heart will declare as one Live for Your glory Verse 2 Great is the love of the Saviour CCLI Song # 1156 Holy holy holy John Bacchus Dykes | Reginald Heber Chorus 2 All the saints adore Thee © Words: Public Domain Chorus 1 Lord of endless light Music: Public Domain Casting down their golden crowns Lord of endless light Let Your glory shine forever Around the glassy sea For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. Let Your glory shine forever All the earth All rights reserved. www.ccli.com Cherubim and seraphim All the earth All the earth sing Your praise

Falling down before Thee All the earth sing Your praise Hope of every heart Which wert and art Let Your Name be lifted higher And evermore shalt be Verse 3 All our hearts From the mountain heights to the All our hearts sing Your praise Verse 3 valleys low Holy holy holy All created things given life to show Bridge(repeat) Though the darkness hide Thee Jesus we live for Your glory God be exalted Though the eye of sinful man God be exalted in everything Thy glory may not see Verse 4 We live for Your glory Only Thou art holy From the rising sun to the still of night Live for Your glory There is none beside Thee Every waking moment for Your delight Perfect in power Jesus we live for Your glory CCLI Song # 6177300 In love and purity Dean Ussher | Karl Cashwell Chorus 2 © 2011 Hillsong Music Publishing Lord of endless light For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use All rights reserved. www.ccli.com Let Your glory shine forever All the earth All the earth sing Your praise

13 SONG WORDS

NO OTHER NAME ALL I HAVE IS CHRIST

Verse 1 Verse 3 Hallelujah all I have is Christ In any way You choose There is no other name No other throne endures Hallelujah Jesus is my life O Father use my ransomed life In heaven can be found No other song remains In any way You choose Through whom we are redeemed But worthy is the Lamb Verse 1 And let my song forever be Through whom Your grace abounds Who was for sinners slain I once was lost in darkest night My only boast is You No other name can save When every knee shall bow Yet thought I knew the way But Jesus Christ our Lord And tongue confess You are Lord The sin that promised joy and life Chorus You are Lord Had led me to the grave Hallelujah all I have is Christ Chorus I had no hope that You would own Hallelujah Jesus is my life My joy in sorrow’s tears Chorus A rebel to Your will Hallelujah all I have is Christ My strength to cast out fears My joy in sorrow’s tears Hallelujah Jesus is my life No other name My strength to cast out fears I would refuse You still But Jesus Jesus No other name CCLI Song # 5174122 My hope in darkest night But Jesus Jesus Verse 2 My broken soul’s delight My hope in darkest night © 2008 Sovereign Grace Praise (Admin. by But as I ran my hell-bound race Crossroad Distributors Pty. Ltd.) No other name My broken soul’s delight Indifferent to the cost But Jesus Jesus No other name For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use You looked upon my helpless state All rights reserved. www.ccli.com But Jesus Jesus And led me to the cross Verse 2 And I beheld God’s love displayed

There is no victory CCLI Song # 5737284 You suffered in my place Trevor Hodge You bore the wrath reserved for me © 2010 Trevor Hodge No other cure for sin Now all I know is grace But that our Saviour died For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com No other hope we have Chorus But that He rose again Hallelujah all I have is Christ He rose again Hallelujah Jesus is my life Hallelujah all I have is Christ Chorus Hallelujah Jesus is my life My joy in sorrow’s tears My strength to cast out fears Verse 3 No other name Now Lord I would be Yours alone But Jesus Jesus And live so all might see My hope in darkest night The strength to follow Your commands My broken soul’s delight Could never come from me No other name O Father use my ransomed life But Jesus Jesus 14 SONG WORDS

BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD HERE IS LOVE

Verse 1 Verse 1 Before the throne of God above Here is love vast as the ocean I have a strong and perfect plea A great High Priest whose name is Love When the Prince of Life a ransom Who ever lives and pleads for me Shed for us His precious blood My name is graven on His hands Who His love will not remember My name is written on His heart Who can cease to sing His praise I know that while in heav’n He stands He can never be forgotten No tongue can bid me thence depart Throughout heav’ns eternal days No tongue can bid me thence depart Verse 2 Verse 2 Fountains opened deep and wide When Satan tempts me to despair And tells me of the guilt within Flowed a vast and gracious tide Upward I look and see Him there Grace and love like mighty rivers Who made an end to all my sin Flowed incessant from above Because the sinless Saviour died Heaven’s peace and perfect justice My sinful soul is counted free Kissed a guilty world in love To look on Him and pardon me Verse 3 To look on Him and pardon me Let me all your love accepting Love you ever all my days Verse 3 Let me seek your kingdom only Behold Him there the risen Lamb And my life be to your praise My perfect spotless righteousness You alone shall be my glory The great unchangeable I Am Nothing in the world I see The King of glory and of grace One with Himself I cannot die Jesus, you have set me free. My soul is purchased with His blood My life is hid with Christ on high CCLI Song # 4799065 With Christ my Saviour and my God Alex Yim | Robert Lowry | William Edwards | William Rees With Christ my Saviour and my God © Words: Public Domain Music: Yim, Alexander

CCLI Song # 4113586 For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com Charitie Lees Bancroft | Vikki Cook © Sovereign Grace Worship (Admin. by Crossroad Distributors Pty. Ltd.) Arrangement by King’s Kaleidoscope

15 SONG WORDS

LET YOUR KINGDOM COME

Verse 1 Chorus Your glorious cause O God Let Your kingdom come Engages our hearts Let Your will be done May Jesus Christ be known So that ev’ryone might know Your Wherever we are Name We ask not for ourselves Let Your song be heard ev’rywhere on But for Your renown earth The cross has saved us so we pray Till Your sov’reign work on earth is Your kingdom come done Let Your kingdom come Chorus Let Your kingdom come Chorus Let Your will be done Let Your kingdom come Corinthians 5-7 and share it. So that ev’ryone might know Your Let Your will be done Name So that ev’ryone might know Your On our website at http://www.equip.org.au/takehome/ Let Your song be heard ev’rywhere on Name there are: earth Let Your song be heard ev’rywhere on Till Your sov’reign work on earth is earth Till Your sov’reign work on earth is done Let Your kingdom come done Let Your kingdom come Verse 2 Give us Your strength O God CCLI Song # 4804046 And courage to speak Perform Your wondrous deeds © 2006 Sovereign Grace Praise (Admin. by Crossroad Distributors Pty. Ltd.) Through those who are weak For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. Lord use us as You want All rights reserved. www.ccli.com Whatever the test By grace we’ll preach Your Gospel till Our dying breath

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