"SEX, SEX, SEX!!! (Part 1)

As we look at what God intended sex to be, we must first go back to the beginning. In Genesis 1:26-28 God said:

"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 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."

My first thought here, is that given that God is mighty, powerful, all knowing, merciful, and the creator of the heavens and the earth--and if we were made in His image--we must be very special! So if God is a holy and pure God--He expects His children to be holy and pure.

Beyond God's expectation that we would live holy and pure, we see that man is superior to the animals and other living creatures and that man was told to be fruitful and multiply. So we can early on see that God must have had a very special plan for man to increase and multiply--which would obviously eventually require sex for that to happen.

A little further along in Genesis 2, we see that God saw that man needed a suitable helper and thus created woman. And soon thereafter, we see basically, the institution of marraige formed with this verse:

"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."

Lets ponder today, just how much God then would value this creation--the institution of marraige. We know that God does not do things haphazardly. If He so perfectly made the heavens and the earth--then His greater creation of mankind--He would have high expectations! When our children are born and are small children, we also have great expectations that they would grow up pure and with innocence and goodness--so maybe we can understand why our Father wants sexual purity for His kids just as we do.

Sex therefore was created for the marraige covenant. In my next entry, we will talk about why God would require sex to be only for those who are married.