Is Sex the Primary Purpose for Marriage?
Is that the question? One of the most common misunderstandings is that marriage exists for the purpose of legitimizing sexual relations; which is not true. Marriage should never be equated with sex because sex is not the primary purpose of marriage. A sexual union is not and never has been the same thing as a marital union.
Focus Point: Marriage is a union that implies and involves sexual relations as the establishment of a blood covenant, a central obligation and a pleasure, but the three are not the same.
Constitutional Scripture: I Corinthians 7:3-5 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4) The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5) Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Focus Point: Here are some facts that you should consider. All marriages involve commitment. Sex has very little to do with commitment. Sex is 100 percent physical response to physiological and biochemical stimuli. Sex is one expression of commitment in marriage, but it never creates commitment.
Please note: Sex by itself, neither makes nor breaks a marriage. Marriage is broader and deeper than sex, and transcends it. Now here is something that will surprise you...Marriage is about one percent sex, the rest is regular ordinary everyday life.
Question: If you marry for sex, how are you going to handle the other 99 percent? Do you have the answer?
Focus Point: For many years it has been a common belief that someone's spouse breaks up a marriage when they commit adultery. That just isn't the truth. Sex does not create a marriage, so how can it break a marriage?
Please note: Adultery is definitely sin, and according to the Constitution, the only legitimate grounds for divorce for a kingdom citizen and believer. Even then it is not automatic. Divorce is not mandatory in such instances. Adultery does not break the marriage. Breaking the marriage is a choice.
Please note: A sexual union and a marital union aren't the same, and they have to be recognized as such.
Please note: Now I am speaking to you from my experiences. One is commitment, the other is lust and convenience.
Focus Point: It is also essential in understanding divorce and remarriage. Again I am speaking from experience, as well as the Word. Marriage is bigger than and distinct from, but inclusive of sexual union.
Focus Point: Now please remember this...Absence of sexual activity will never unmake a marriage, nor will its presence alone turn a relationship into a marriage.
Please note: Marriage and sex are related but they are not the same.
Focus Point: Marriage is a union that implies and involves sexual relations as the establishment of a blood covenant, a central obligation and a pleasure, but the three are not the same.
Constitutional Scripture: I Corinthians 7:3-5 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4) The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5) Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Focus Point: Here are some facts that you should consider. All marriages involve commitment. Sex has very little to do with commitment. Sex is 100 percent physical response to physiological and biochemical stimuli. Sex is one expression of commitment in marriage, but it never creates commitment.
Please note: Sex by itself, neither makes nor breaks a marriage. Marriage is broader and deeper than sex, and transcends it. Now here is something that will surprise you...Marriage is about one percent sex, the rest is regular ordinary everyday life.
Question: If you marry for sex, how are you going to handle the other 99 percent? Do you have the answer?
Focus Point: For many years it has been a common belief that someone's spouse breaks up a marriage when they commit adultery. That just isn't the truth. Sex does not create a marriage, so how can it break a marriage?
Please note: Adultery is definitely sin, and according to the Constitution, the only legitimate grounds for divorce for a kingdom citizen and believer. Even then it is not automatic. Divorce is not mandatory in such instances. Adultery does not break the marriage. Breaking the marriage is a choice.
Please note: A sexual union and a marital union aren't the same, and they have to be recognized as such.
Please note: Now I am speaking to you from my experiences. One is commitment, the other is lust and convenience.
Focus Point: It is also essential in understanding divorce and remarriage. Again I am speaking from experience, as well as the Word. Marriage is bigger than and distinct from, but inclusive of sexual union.
Focus Point: Now please remember this...Absence of sexual activity will never unmake a marriage, nor will its presence alone turn a relationship into a marriage.
Please note: Marriage and sex are related but they are not the same.
