I Know | Part 1

In Genesis, God divinely creates human beings institutes marriage and sex. To ‘know’ someone was the description of a sexually intimate act and was not casual but sacred and committed.

Knowing this, we can understand how we should conduct ourselves in such an individualised and over sexualised society. We consider the changing attitudes towards sex in culture and how effectively we, as a church community, can respond in a biblical manner of surrender, self-sacrifice, faithfulness and holiness - whether married or single!

In this series we aim we want to provide a biblical, positive outlook of the context for sex and show how this is a great thing for humanity in both marriage and singleness. To give a clear biblical picture for God’s divine intention for sex and relationships and to teach this as the foundation for our church community.

Transcript

3. DO YOU KNOW A THING OR TWO?
4. 1 CORINTHIANS 10 – ‘REASONABLE PEOPLE’ ACTS 16 – ‘SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES’
6. Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.” And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.” Genesis 4:1 & 25 (ESV)
7. KNOW = YADAH
8. Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. Matthew 19:1–12 (ESV)
9. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. Matthew 19:1–12 (ESV)
10. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.” Matthew 19:1–12 (ESV)
11. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27 (ESV)
12. Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:18–24 (ESV)
13. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones
 and flesh of my flesh;
 she shall be called Woman,
 because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:18–24 (ESV)
14. SUITABLE = KENEGDO
15. UNITED = DABAQ
16. BELIEVE THE BIBLE LOVE PEOPLE
17. BELIEVE THE BIBLE LOVE PEOPLE