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Aug 31, 2025

Love Language Week 4: Love and Marriage (Part 2)

Scott Worthington

In Week 4 of our series Love Language: What God Says About Relationships, Pastor Scott Worthington shares God’s truth about marriage and sex. This is… Read More

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Love Language: What God Says About Relationships9-
Week 4 – Love and Marriage (Part 2)

“We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19

5 Disclaimers
1. This is a PG-11 Sermon
2. Clarity is kindness
3. There is a Holy Spirit, and you are not Him
4. If you’re not married, don’t tune out
5. This is a conversation starter

“By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established…” Proverbs 24:3

5 Wise Words about Marriage:
1. Marriage is God’s idea
2. Marriage is a covenant, not a contract
3. Marriage is not just about happiness, it’s about holiness
4. Sex is God’s gift for marriage

Two Truths about Sex
1. Sex is God’s Gift

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.’” Genesis 1:27-28a

The Mingling of Souls by Matt Chandler

“From the initial attraction to the covenant marriage that sanctions sex, from the thrill of the romantic chase to the consummate pleasure of the marriage bed, God designed it all, ordered it all, blessed it all… in a way that brings him great glory and us great joy.” Matt Chandler

Three Purposes of God’s Gift of Sex
1. For making babies
2. For intimacy and oneness

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” Genesis 2:24-25

“‘So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.’” Matthew 19:6

“Indeed, sex is perhaps the most powerful God-created way to help you give your entire self to another human being. Sex is God’s appointed way for two people to reciprocally say to one another, ‘I belong completely, permanently, and exclusively to you.’” Tim Keller

Three Purposes of God’s Gift of Sex
1. For making babies
2. For intimacy and oneness
3. For mutual enjoyment

“Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.” Proverbs 5:18-19

Two Truths about Sex
1. Sex is God’s Gift
2. Sex is for marriage

“For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God...” 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

“Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.” 1 Thessalonians 4:8

5 Wise Words about Marriage:
1. Marriage is God’s idea
2. Marriage is a covenant, not a contract
3. Marriage is not just about happiness, it’s about holiness
4. Sex is God’s gift for marriage
5. A healthy marriage is an intentional marriage

5 Practices of an Intentional Marriage
1. Prioritize time with Jesus
2. Love your spouse the way they like to be loved
3. Spend time together
· Connect Daily
· Date regularly
· Get away annually
· Have fun continually
4. Communicate openly and often
5. Have sex regularly

“Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.” 1 Corinthians 7:5

Questions for married couples
1. How do you give/receive love best? (Love Languages)
2. How do you feel like our time together is? How it can be more intentional about it?
3. What could we do to improve our communication?
4. What is one step we could take to increase our physical intimacy?

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