30th Mar 26 | 13:54
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Luke 11 33-36 Light of our world Light of our world 10
📖 Luke 11:33-36
*Nurturing the sexual experience within marriage* _Luke 11:36_
The matter of sexuality is sadly, an area of relentless darkness in our world. The world wishes to promote all forms of sexual perversion calling it different forms of sexual orientation. The world is demanding that persons experiencing various types of sexual orientations must be allowed to freely practice their type of sexual expression and society must accept, approve and endorse the same. We are in a state of _free fall_ in this matter of sexuality.
How are we, as the church of Jesus, going to respond? This is our question, for we are called to be the light of our world and very importantly in the matter of sexuality.
Adam’s declaration/vow/commitment/understanding as soon as he saw Eve is crucial for us to understand marriage, _And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." Genesis 2:23._
He saw that she was so intimately and personally related with him and that they were made to complete each other. Adam also saw that Eve was completely distinct from him. She was different, unique, special and beautiful and definitely she was not a man but a woman. Therefore the whole matter of same sex marriage gets thrown out, right here. Marriage is for a man and his wife, who is a woman.
Marriage is a special relationship, which overrides all other relationships and it is the highest human relationship, on which society is built. If we destroy this beautiful framework of the husband his wife relationship, which God has set up, then we will destroy human society.
The husband, a man, and his wife, a woman, now become one flesh in marriage. This one flesh experience is the outcome or experience of marriage. They will be one in every way. They have been given the potential and possibility for oneness but they will need to trust God and learn oneness, which is the marriage journey. They need not become overwhelmed with the obvious differences that they will see between each other, at all levels but they must remember that God has brought them together for oneness and that this is their inheritance, which they together, will need to claim _Genesis 2:24._
The sexual experience within marriage is where they give themselves to each other in total freedom and without inhibition. The sexual experience, in marriage must be celebrated, enjoyed and nurtured by the husband and his wife. Why is this important? If this is not cherished here, let us be warned that temptation is at the door _Genesis 2:25._
The husband must render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. They owe each other, affection, always. The intimacy between the husband and his wife is about *giving* and not about getting affection. When we become selfish and demand affection, care and love in marriage, then we have completely misunderstood the marriage relationship.
Marriage is not about getting but it is about giving and giving and giving again. Very importantly, in the sexual experience, the husband and his wife must give to each other fulfillment, satisfaction and pleasure and not look to get it from the other, for in giving to the other, will be each one’s greatest delight _I Corinthians 7:2-5/Ephesians 5:33._
*Thought to ponder*
```Selfishness is a root cause for the staleness of our marriage relationships```