Genesis 2:15-25
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.’
The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’
Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said,
‘This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called “woman”,
for she was taken out of man.’That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.”
1. Sex is Good
“‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’”
— Genesis 2:18
Sexuality is natural, good, and part of the healthy human experience.
Despite all of what the Scriptures say in support and celebration of human sexuality, the Bible makes it very clear that you can completely experience a happy and fulfilled life
2. Intimacy Precedes Sex
“‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;”
— Genesis 2:23
Sex that occurs before intimacy is empty, and attempts to
“Do not deprive each other except perhaps 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.”
— 1 Corinthians 7:5
3. Sex Forms a new Family
“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”
— Genesis 2:24
The
4. Sex is to be Celebrated
“Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.”
— Genesis 2:25
Through their nakedness, sexuality, and unification, Adam and Eve delighted in one another, and they had nothing to hide.
John 8:2-11
The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”