Thoughts on Sex (Pt. 1)
As a follow up to yesterday’s sermon, I want to do a couple of things. First, here are a couple of super helpful resources:
Sex, Romance & the Glory of God: What Every Christian Husband Needs to Know
7 Things He'll Never Tell You...
A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God’s Gift of Sexual Intimacy
Second, over the next week I want to blog some of the things Mandie and I talked about yesterday, and try to quickly elaborate on points we did not have time for on Sunday. Feel free to post comments or questions, I will try to respond as quickly as I can.
Today, I wanted to focus on the general premise that God created sex as a gift intended for pleasure and worship between a husband and wife. The definition is a loaded one, so let’s unpack that quickly. “God created sex,” remember sex was and still is God’s idea. He created us with the ability to be intimate.
“..as a gift...between a husband and wife,” God’s intent has always been for sex to be between a married man and woman. Sin, with respect to sin, is any type of sex that is not between a married man and woman. God is against all sexual sin, adultery, pornography, homosexuality, pre-marital sex. All of these are sin, and I find it grievous that the modern evangelical church has chosen to isolate certain sexual sins and ignore others. Often this isolation is more a result of bigotry and less a ferocity in fighting sin.
“God created sex as a gift intended for pleasure,” God created sex to be pleasurable. God did not create Adam and Eve, and say, “Oops how did those nerves get there!” Inside the confines of marriage sex should be fun, celebrated and insanely joyous! It should be life giving!
“God created sex as a gift for...worship,” sex, as with all gifts God gives us are to evoke worship in us. To not respond in worship of God is idolatry. Idolatry is to choose to worship the gift given, not the Giver of the gift! Worship of God should be our response to sex, because if sex is so amazing, so intimate, so joyous, then how much greater is our God who created sex? Sex tells us a lot about God, His nature and character as well; in addition, to this point, I believe there is a really beautiful metaphor between the sex life of a husband and wife, and our relationship, as the bride of Christ, to Christ. I am still unpacking this concept, and think it warrants a separate blog post, so keep an eye out.
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