Welcome to the 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

My name is Keith Simon and right now we're going through the book of Exodus.

Even if you can't name all the Ten Commandments, I bet you can name the Seventh Commandment.

It's found in Exodus chapter 20 verse 14 and it says you shall not commit adultery

Adultery is marital infidelity. It's any kind of sexual intimacy that breaks the bonds of a marriage covenant. But as we've seen in all

these ten commandments, each commandment teaches about more than simply what it

prohibits. So in our time together, let's talk about seven lies that we believe about sex.

The first lie is this. Sex is dirty. Sex isn't dirty, it's divine. God created sex, that's why it's so powerful.

Back in Genesis 1, it says,

God created human beings in his own image.

In the image of God he created the male and female

he created them. So God created men and women differently.

That was on purpose. He created their human body parts and nerve endings and all the things that are

a part of sex and then he looked and called it very good. This is the way that he designed it.

God's intention was that in the context of a marriage a husband and wife would engage in a mutually satisfying

sexual relationship.

But the church has not always taught this well.

Between the third and tenth centuries, the church issued edicts that forbid husbands and

wives from having sex on Thursdays because that was the day of

Christ's arrest and on Fridays because that was the day of his death and on

Sundays out of remembrance of the Saints. And then eventually the church said

because there was this kind of suspicion about sexuality the church said because there was this kind of suspicion about sexuality

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