Message Notes

Sex Is Good Within The Commitment Of Marriage

Gen 1:27-28
27            So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28            God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."(NIV)

Gen 1:31
31            God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-- the sixth day.
Some people, even Christians can somehow adopt the viewpoint that sex is bad and even evil.  They think that sex is the result of the fall.

 Sex Is Good When It’s The Result Of Intimacy Not A Substitute For It

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
4              Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5              It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6              Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7              It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 Sex Is Good When Both Husband And Wife Seek The Other’s Pleasure Above Their Own

1 Corinthians 7:3-5
3              The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4              The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.
5              Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.