Sexual Relations

God links marriage and sexual intercourse. We’ve looked at three of four interrelated factors regarding Biblical manhood and womanhood: marriage, single life, and male authority. The fourth is sexuality. God tightly links marriage and sexual intercourse. It’s an integral part of marriage and a great blessing, a physical expression of marital love and unity that helps maintain and strengthen that oneness. Wayne Grudem put it well: The beauty of God’s created order for marriage finds expression in our sexuality within marriage. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall…