Sermon Tone Analysis

I. Introduction

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.

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.

II.

God created sexuality–we did not!

III.

Sexual intimacy was created for two primary purposes in the context of marriage.

A. Being Fruitful and Multiplying

B. Marital intimacy, pleasure, and mutual enjoyment

Marital sexual love in the “Song of Songs”

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

2. Smelling Song 1:12

3. Tasting - Song of Solomon 2:3

4. Touching

5. Dreaming - Song 5:2

6.

Looking - Song 1:15

7. praising or complementing - Song 1:9-10

8. Rejoicing - Prov 5:18

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.

V.

All sex outside of marriage is condemned in Scripture.