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Explore the divine nature of sexual intimacy in this seminar. Learn biblical principles, address common challenges, and strengthen your marital bond. Discover the beauty of God's design for sex in your relationship.
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Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex In the beautiful Garden of Eden, the first commandment that God gave to Adam and Eve was: “Thou shall have sex!”
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex Jesus endorsed sexual intimacy!
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “So then, they are no longer two but one flesh ” Matthew 19:6
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex Made by our Holy Father, and Blessed by our Loving Savior, Sex Is not filthy. It is holy! Is not dirty. It is clean! Is not common. It is sacred! Is not only human. It is also divine!
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “You shall not commit adultery.” Exodus 20:14
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex There is a variety of cases to which God’s “You shall not” applies. • Extra-marital affairs. Genesis 39:7-10 • Premarital sex. • Concubinage. Hebrews 13:4 • Prostitution.1 Corinthians 6:15,18 • Homosexuality and lesbianism. Romans 1:26-28
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex Wife says:“Awake, o north wind, and come, o south! Blow upon my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat its pleasant fruits.”
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex Husband responds:“I have come to my garden, my sister, my spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey.”Song of Solomon 4:16; 5:1
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.”
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.” 1Corinthians 7:3-5
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex What strong language! My body is not my own! First, it belongs to God. Second, it belongs to my spouse. In God’s Happy Family each spouse should make timeto maintain the sexual relationship and experience seasons of intimacy. Sex should be an important item on the agenda
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex Early years of marriage : Sexual satisfaction Wife’s menopause : decrease in sexual desire Husband’s midlife : less ability; more desire Man’s advances rejected : marital conflict! Sinful effort to prove : extra marital affair! Marital sexual satisfaction : aid to fidelity!
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “In lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interest, but also for the interests of others.” Philippians 2:3,4
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” Ephesians 5:31,32
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex • As a husband and wife get close to each other so Christ wants to get very close to me. • As spouses become precious to one another, so Jesus should become very precious to me. • As the couple bonds intimately, so Christ and I should become bonded eternally.
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.” Matthew 6:6
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, He went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed”Mark 1:35
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “Pour out your heart before Him.” Psalm 62:8 “Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend”.
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.” John 5:39
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “My meditation of Him shall be sweet.”Psalm 104:34,KJV.
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex I reply: “I love the Lord, because He has heard my voice” Psalm 116:1
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex If You Love Me: 1. Have no other gods before Me. 2. Make no graven images. Don’t bow down 3. Do not take My name in vain. 4. Remember My Sabbath day – the 7th day. 5. Honor your father and mother. 6. Do not kill. 7. Do not commit adultery. 8. Do not steal. 9. Do not bear false witness. 10. Do not covet what is your neighbor’s.
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex My Reply “My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine; For Thee all the follies Of sin I resign; My gracious Redeemer, My Savior art Thou; If ever I loved Thee, My Jesus, ’tis now.”
Six Things Every Couple Should Know About Sex “I love Thee because Thou hast first loved me, And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree; I love Thee for wearing the thorns on Thy brow, If ever I loved Thee, My Jesus, ‘tis now.” William Ralph Featherstone
