You’re listening to OKY. The place where we discuss what we believe and why we believe it to be true! So, I’ve put off diving into the topic of sexuality. But I’ve had a few people ask me questions about this. I want to handle this respectfully - not because I’m scared to share the truth. But because I never want to say things in a way that is disrespectful or harmful to others. So, I will take a few days. . . maybe even the next week or so, and share with you thoughts about sexuality, gender, pornography, and oth...
You’re listening to OKY. The place where we discuss what we believe and why we believe it to be true! So, I’ve put off diving into the topic of sexuality. But I’ve had a few people ask me questions about this. I want to handle this respectfully - not because I’m scared to share the truth. But because I never want to say things in a way that is disrespectful or harmful to others. So, I will take a few days. . . maybe even the next week or so, and share with you thoughts about sexuality, gender, pornography, and other things in alignment with this topic. My hope, is to make sure you understand a Biblical viewpoint of how all these things matter and what they mean for us today.
First, I want you to remember what I said back in January. God is a God of order. He created Wisdom first according to Proverbs 8. This shows that he has a specific plan for things and the way they should work.
Now a couple of days back I talked about Genesis 26 and how God said, “Let US make mankind in our image.” I want to start with this concept again. God is completely in unity with himself. That’s three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - all working in complete harmony with one another. While they are one, each of them has a different expression in how they work to bring all things into harmony with him as well.
Now this first part is often taken wrong by modern feminism so please listen through the entire things before shutting this off.
Genesis 1:27-28
“So God created mankind in his own image,
In the image of God he created them;
Male and female he crated them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves not eh ground.”
Here we have the first reason for sexuality. God created man and women. This implies that there is a distinct difference between two parts of the human race. One is meant to be female and the other male. This is a 50/50 line of diversity that God designed from the beginning. When we get to the gender conversation we will talk more about this, but know that this is the first invitation to unity with God. Just as the Triune God is one - he called male and female to be one together in unity as well. Unity can only happen when two things are different and they function as one. If two things are the same, they aren’t unified - they are just the same. When you bring two differing things together and they are able to function as one, then you see unity.
God invited us to join in with this demonstration of unity by bringing man and women together to function as one. And so we see this first command as a demonstration of that unity. Be fruitful and multiply. Now these are two different words but both leading to the same conclusion. Man and woman together have the ability to increase productivity on the earth.
So the first things we see with sexuality, is that it has a functional part designed into it. When a man and a woman come together, they have the ability to increase the earth. A man and a man can’t do that, and a woman and a woman can’t do that together. It has to be a man and a woman.
Why?
Because the purpose is that we would experience the same thing that God experiences when making the earth. The triune God was in unity with all three parts as the world came into existence. Remember what I said a few podcast ago. God the Father spoke, The spirit hovered over the water and began to breath through the person of Jesus to create the physical world. All three parts were in unison as they said, “Let US, make.. . “
And by inviting mankind into the process, God is making room for us to also be united with him in the unity of creation. But it starts with us experiencing the same unification that the triune God experiences. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, invite, Male and Female into the process of continuing creation on the earth.
This is why in Genesis 2:18 it says that “it is not good for man to be alone.” The word Good here actually indicates an incompletion. Everywhere else when God said part of creation was good, it was because he saw the pieces working together to fill the canvas and function in the way he designed them to function. Man alone - apart from woman - was not able to continue filling the canvas as designed. He was not able to experience the unity of creating with a co-part. So God gave male and female together in order to be united as one, that they might experience the same unity God has.
This is what is meant in Genesis 2:24 - “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.” This is the process of becoming one. Male and female functionally fit together and they experience the unity of two different parts becoming one. That’s why the male and female body fit physically together like a puzzle. It’s to show what unity looks like between two differing body types.
Without this diversity in sexuality, the first point of God’s ordered design is lost.
So it isn’t as much about what God said not to do. This isn’t a defining of why a lifestyle is wrong or how it perverts God’s plan. It’s just an explanation of how it completely misses the first part of God’s plan. Without diversity of body parts - there is no ability to find the unity of becoming one.
So God created sexuality, that we might have the chance to become one flesh, and join in the process of being fruitful and multiplying while understanding the unity of God.
So what do we do with this?
Well, we understand it and pursue it for ourselves.
Culture has perverted sexuality and made it something it is not. I can tell you that a same sex couple will not experience the same unity with God and as a heterosexual couple will. It’s not because they don’t love good enough or that they don’t have the best intentions toward one another. There is a component of diversity that is missing which will always prevent the possibility for unity. Again, two similar things can’t be unified. They can only be the same. Two differing things on the other hand, have every opportunity to be unified. Which then gives them the chance to be fruitful and then multiply.
So to sum it up,
The first thing we see sexuality doing for us is showing us how to find unity. The same unity experienced by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I’ll just tell you from almost 23 years of marriage, there is nothing better than having someone who is so different from you that you are able to help one another fully thrive and complete God’s plan for each other’s lives. This is why marriage is so special, and so specifically made by a wise God full of order. When you do things God’s way, you experience the blessings of unity and grace!
