Marital Love and Sex
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I. Introduction
I. Introduction
In todays message we want to address the subject of sexual relations a subject often considered taboo in the church.
In todays message we want to address the subject of sexual relations a subject often considered taboo in the church.
Yet as we contend that if we, the church, don’t talk about it, and don’t explore what the Bible really says about sexual relations, then the church may be harming itself more than it may be attempting to protect itself from scorn, perversion, and misuse of sexual power.
Yet as we contend that if we, the church, don’t talk about it, and don’t explore what the Bible really says about sexual relations, then the church may be harming itself more than it may be attempting to protect itself from scorn, perversion, and misuse of sexual power.
This is especially pertinent for our children and future generations of disciples in helping them to understand God’s purposes and use for male and female sexual relations.
This is especially pertinent for our children and future generations of disciples in helping them to understand God’s purposes and use for male and female sexual relations.
So today, as we continue in our series on “Biblical Marriage and Family” we want to briefly speak to this sensitive issue from a Biblical perspective.
So today, as we continue in our series on “Biblical Marriage and Family” we want to briefly speak to this sensitive issue from a Biblical perspective.
II. God created sexuality–we did not!
II. God created sexuality–we did not!
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
III. Sexual intimacy was created for two primary purposes in the context of marriage.
III. Sexual intimacy was created for two primary purposes in the context of marriage.
A. Being Fruitful and Multiplying
A. Being Fruitful and Multiplying
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.”
23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
B. Marital intimacy, pleasure, and mutual enjoyment
B. Marital intimacy, pleasure, and mutual enjoyment
9 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Marital sexual love in the “Song of Songs”
Marital sexual love in the “Song of Songs”
1 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.
This song is apparently one of 1,005 of Solomon’s songs. (cf. 1 Kings 4:32)
This song is apparently one of 1,005 of Solomon’s songs. (cf. 1 Kings 4:32)
This song is called the very best song by using the expression “Song of songs” since Hebrew does not have a superlative form, but uses the repeated noun in a possessive mode (cf. “King of kings” and “Holy of holies”). Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Love by the Book: What the Song of Solomon Says about Sexuality, Romance, and the Beauty of Marriage (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016), 14.
1. Kissing Song 1:2
1. Kissing Song 1:2
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;
11 Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
2. Smelling Song 1:12
2. Smelling Song 1:12
12 While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.
3. Tasting - Song of Solomon 2:3
3. Tasting - Song of Solomon 2:3
3 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
4. Touching
4. Touching
6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!
4 Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.
5. Dreaming - Song 5:2
5. Dreaming - Song 5:2
2 I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”
6. Looking - Song 1:15
6. Looking - Song 1:15
15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.
7. praising or complementing - Song 1:9-10
7. praising or complementing - Song 1:9-10
9 I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
10 Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
12 While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.
13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh that lies between my breasts.
14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi.
8. Rejoicing - Prov 5:18
8. Rejoicing - Prov 5:18
18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
The images of the cistern, well, or fountain are used of a wife (e.g., Song 4:15) because she, like water, satisfies desires.
IV. Husbands and wives are exclusive sexual partners.
IV. Husbands and wives are exclusive sexual partners.
23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
V. All sex outside of marriage is condemned in Scripture.
V. All sex outside of marriage is condemned in Scripture.
4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.