Tag: sex

  • My Love – 5 – Sex

    My Love – 5 – Sex

    The lure of eros

    as a bird rushes into a snare;
        he does not know that it will cost him his life.

    – Proverbs 7:23b

    When a Man Loves a Woman

    heart when a man loves a woman

    Then the LORD God said,

    “It is not good for the man to be alone.

    I will make a helper who is just right for him.”

    Genesis 2:18 NLT

    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.

    25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. – Genesis 2 ESV

    Eros: sexual love of a man for a woman and of a woman for a man; often misleading us into sin, though God intends this most intimate love exclusively for a man and his wife to join them together as one.

    By sexual intercourse we become one in the flesh and in the spirit with another human being. It is a great and wonderful mystery.

    Genesis 4: Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” And again, she bore his brother Abel… 25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

    In the beginning, a husband and wife and children.

    Do you recall that the controversy between Cain and his brother was over worship of God? Two kinds of love both dependent on the love of God.

    It’s all relational and Genesis continues with these themes of interconnected types of love which all affect our relationship not only to God, not only between a husband and wife, and not only between parents and sons and daughters; but all relationships within families and beyond the love and boundaries of family.

    These intimate relationships all become quickly complex. (Just take the love of Jacob for Rachel, for example.) At the middle of many intimate controversies we will often find eros, the sexual attraction between a man and a woman.

    We remain united in spirit to one we have engaged and known in the flesh. It is an unknowable mystery. The awesome connection of sex becomes even too weighty for our own hearts when we stray outside of God’s will.

    Yet Love Is a Many Splendored Thing within the boundaries, commitment and vows of marriage.

    Let your fountain be blessed,
    and rejoice in the wife of your youth. – Proverbs 5:18

    Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
    be intoxicated always in her love5:19b

     

    He who finds a wife finds a good thing
    and obtains favor from the LORDProverbs 18:22

    Man adam, and woman taken from man and given to man by God that they might be one. A godly wife for a godly husband to bear godly children, to keep boundaries of godly families… from this we have strayed far in these last days.

    Eros is a sensual soft linen of the marriage bed, perfumed with the nectars of passion between a man and a woman in love.

    How lightly does the world of the flesh misrepresent this beautiful love given to us by God.

    Song-of-solomon engagementThe Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.

    The Bride Confesses Her Love

    She

    Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
    For your love is better than wine;
        your anointing oils are fragrant;
    your name is oil poured out;
        therefore virgins love you.
    Draw me after you; let us run.
        The king has brought me into his chambers.

    Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other

    He

    If you do not know,
        O most beautiful among women,

    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.

    song8_6-7Do you not know how the stallion and the mare mate in passion?

    The love song of Solomon for his bride becomes as sensual as any erotica or story of sexual love you will ever read. I commend it to you, lovers betrothed, husband and wife. God has intended our love for good and for our pleasure.

     Song of Solomon – read by Max McLean

     

  • Sexual Devolution

    Sexual Devolution

    SEX

    Preaching from Dr. Albert Mohler

    Contraceptive revolution.

    Divorce revolution.

    Premarital sex revolution.

    • even senior citizens ‘living together’ unmarried & calling themselves christians.
    • Abortions
    • Homosexual agendas
    • Cloning and other sexual issues…
    • much more also in this one sermon

    http://www.albertmohler.com/about/

    A few quotes:

    “… the exchange of a tradition of moral wisdom that had been shaped by Christianity… and is now seen as something that has to be overcome in order to liberate humanity.

     

    “For most of human history heterosexual people who had sex had babies. For most (now) that is an unusual thought.

     

    “NO-Fault Divorce has led to the most rampant destruction of the family in the modern age!

     

    Parents, teens, preteens and twenty-year old’s who never had ‘that talk’ that parents never seem to get to…

    We have better listen to Dr. Mohler’s words of URGENT warning to our Christian Families.

    http://www.ligonier.org/learn/conferences/overcoming-the-world-2014-west-coast-conference/sexual-devolution/?format=audio

  • The Mirror of Church Hypocrisy

    The Mirror of Church Hypocrisy

    The hypocrisy of Christians becomes most evident in the issues we pursue and the righteousness we do NOT pursue.

    I would like to help the unbeliever understand the motives of christians of the church and the issues we most frequently address in the public arena, while ignoring the log in the eyes of our christian private lives.
    • Look at a mirror;
    • look into a mirror;
    • look through a mirror…

    what do you see? 

    A different image from every perspective.

    1. FALSE IMAGE #1:
      • The Church is NOT the building, whether grand cathedral or quint country landmark with a cross on top.
    2. FALSE IMAGE #2
      • Christians are the ONLY hypocrites. NO, far from it. ALL of us frequently try to put on our best face for others.

    The Church is the people, that is: each witness of a particular church and all Christians.

    Therefore, wherever people gather (in a church building or anywhere) and what ever we call ourselves (catholic, Baptist, orthodox, born again, etc.); sin remains and hypocrisy dwells nearby.

    IF a Christian will admit to you that THEY are the sinner (saved by Christ) who is pleading to you (another sinner), they speak nearer the truth than those who set a standard for unbelievers and will not talk about the fruit of their own lives and family members.

    The two issues most frequently associated with the agendas of Christians may be:

    HOMOSEXUALITY & ABORTION .

    The two SINS most evident in the church are:

    SEX outside of marriage & DIVORCE.

    As brief review of the facts, there is virtually NO DIFFERENCE in the divorce rate of Christians and non-Christians, even though we call our vows “holy” and confirm them as “covenants” with God “… until death do us part.”

    And Christian teens (like their christian parents) seem to act just like the world once they hit puberty. Christian families OFTEN have children who are having SEX with others.

    HYPOCRISY, as I have confessed throughout the previous calls to christians for REPENTANCE and a return to the Christianity of our proclaimed faith.

    HYPOCRISY, THAT A WIFE MAY DIVORCE HER HUSBAND (and call herself a ‘single mom’) and at the same time call herself a ‘christian.’

    HYPOCRISY, divorce by christians AND witness against Christ Jesus.

    HYPOCRISY that two teens, regular members of the youth group ‘at church,’ are known to be “IN A RELATIONSHIP.”

    Where do we think that babies come from? INTERCOURSE; and our TEENS are doing it.

    Where do we think abortions come from?

    The HYPOCRISY of christians (and other parents) trying to HIDE the evidence of their child’s child!

    (OR perhaps they will send the baby quietly away to be adopted by some loving homosexual or other couple.)

    Was this God’s plan for families? Was this God’s intention for the generations? Certainly not!

    Let me be perfectly clear on my position: ABORTION is a sin. Abortion is the murder of a baby created by God in the womb of the mother from the seed of its father.

    A baby is a miracle of life; an abortion is a sentence of death.

    As to SEX outside of marriage, it is sin.

    DIVORCE is sin, just as intercourse before marriage is sin, just as adultery is sin.  (I have confessed my former sin; never-the-less it remains sin, as it is sin by our children IF we, as parents and the church condone it.)

    CHRISTIANS may NOT divorce (but FREQUENTLY do); therefore (as a church), we take on other sexual sin, like homosexuality.

    The sins of homosexuality often include many of the same sins of adultery. Never-the-less, these are sins for either the married or the unmarried.

     To be continued…