God's Design for Sex
The following is an excerpt from my sermon, "God's Design for Marriage" which I had given as part of my series on Nehemiah. The topic in the text was God's prohibition against intermarriage between Jews and the surrounding nations. You can find the entire sermon in audio or PDF format at http://fbcaberdeen.com/site/audiodownloads.asp?sec_id=180007979 . God’s Design for Sex To understand the nature of marriage, we need to reflect at the beginning – the stories in the first chapters of Genesis. In the beginning, God created. He didn’t create because he needed to do so. God has no needs. He created simply for his own pleasure and as an expression of his nature. God’s nature is one expressed in three persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Indeed, when God went to make man, the Scriptures say “Let us make man in our own image” (Genesis 1:26). Now within the Trinity – the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – there is a ...