An amazing revelation was given to me by God this week about sex. Sexual oneness symbolizes the God-man relationship. The husband-wife sexual relationship is used throughout Scripture to symbolize the relationship between God and man. The total way in which two people get involved with each other in a sexual experience-the ecstatic, frantic, intense union that can occur-is a symbol of the way in which we can be intensely involved with God. We become completely open and vulnerable with one another as we lose ourselves in the sexual experience. God desires the same oneness through union with us as the Holy Spirit yields us to Him in complete abandonment.
In Ephesians 5, Paul speaks towards marriage being like Christ and the church (the body-Gentiles).
In verses 28-32, Paul writes, "So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church."
A huge discovery here is that God desires husband and wife to love each other in the same way that they love themselves. When in union with Christ, the self includes (the love for) Christ as the union with Christ is one flesh already. Therefore, the foundation of the marriage between husband and wife is built upon the marriage between a believer and Christ, hence the term, in Christ.
In the total, intense fusion of body, emotion, and spirit, of the sexual experience we are connecting with what it can be like to be totally one with God. As we enter into the "total being" experience of climax, we are released from all control as the mystical union of two bodies create the closest merger of body and spirit. As we are in union with Christ, the more we release control, the greater the feeling of merger between body and spirit. Awesome! :-)
In Ephesians 5, Paul speaks towards marriage being like Christ and the church (the body-Gentiles).
In verses 28-32, Paul writes, "So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church."
A huge discovery here is that God desires husband and wife to love each other in the same way that they love themselves. When in union with Christ, the self includes (the love for) Christ as the union with Christ is one flesh already. Therefore, the foundation of the marriage between husband and wife is built upon the marriage between a believer and Christ, hence the term, in Christ.
In the total, intense fusion of body, emotion, and spirit, of the sexual experience we are connecting with what it can be like to be totally one with God. As we enter into the "total being" experience of climax, we are released from all control as the mystical union of two bodies create the closest merger of body and spirit. As we are in union with Christ, the more we release control, the greater the feeling of merger between body and spirit. Awesome! :-)
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