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What is Eros?
Eros is the greek term that means Sexual Love.
BIG IDEA:
Eros love is a delightful form of love to be experienced within a biblical marriage. The use of Eros in any other context outside of marriage between a man and a woman, is sexual immorality.
Hebrews 13:4 NLT
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
1. Eros love is a gift from God to be experienced by a man and a woman who are married to each other.
Genesis 2:18 NLT
“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
Genesis 2:24 ESV
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Proverbs 5:18-19 NLT
18 Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you.
Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 She is a loving deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts satisfy you always.
May you always be captivated by her love.
Song of Solomon 4:16b NLT
“Come into your garden, my love;
taste its finest fruits.”
Song of Solomon 5:1 NLT
I have entered my garden, my treasure,[a]my bride! I gather myrrh with my spices and eat honeycomb with my honey. I drink wine with my milk.
Oh, lover and beloved, eat and drink!Yes, drink deeply of your love!
Song of Solomon 4:12 NLT
You are my private garden, my treasure, my bride, a secluded spring, a hidden fountain.
2. Eros should always be accompanied with Phileo and Agape love.
1 Corinthians 13 says LOVE does not Keep record of wrong.
1 Corinthians 7:3-4 NIV
3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.
EROS ALONE WILL NOT TAKE YOUR MARRIAGE THE DISTANCE.
The Best formula for Eros in marriage is:
Phileo + Agape = Eros
3. When Eros is misused it becomes sexual immorality.
Matthew 19:4-5 NLT
4 “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’” 5 And he said, “‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’
Exodus 20:14 NLT
“You must not commit adultery.
Leviticus 18:22 NLT
“Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.
1 Corinthians 7:1 NLT
Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations.[a] 2 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
BIG IDEA:
Eros love is a delightful form of love to be experienced within a biblical marriage. The use of Eros in any other context outside of marriage between a man and a woman, is sexual immorality.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 NLT
9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.