Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. I'm your co-host, Christina Dodson. This is an Ask

Dr. Kim segment where people submit their questions for Dr. Kim Kim, and he answers them.

Thanks for listening. Today on this Ask Dr. Kim segment, we're going to be going over the question,

what advice do you have for dating couples that are trying to remain pure?

What a great question. I love that this person is even asking this question. So they're already after a great start because they're thinking about this. To kind of kick things off, Dr. Kim,

why is it so important to strive for purity while we're dating in life in general?

I probably just go to the bottom line to start with it. It's God's plan. He makes it pretty clear in scripture. And I think that a lot of times people, no matter how they look at God,

how they look at God, I think affects it a lot. If they think that God's this placement in the sky,

well, he didn't want me to do anything that's fun. You know, so people go through that. But the reality, what I've learned over time is that God has a plan for marriage and he has also a plan for

the sexual relationship in marriage. And the sexual relationship in marriage is such a deep,

intimate thing. And before we're married, we don't have that level of commitment. A lot of times

there's not the maturity and it's going to not come off right. Plus, there's the consequences

of unplanned pregnancy.

But just when two people join their bodies together, there is, you leave something

with the other person.

And so purity, our culture did put a lot of value on it because God still does, I think

we need to.

Yeah, absolutely. I agree. And I think too, like one way

to look at it is like you're, would you rather have like awesome like, well, I shouldn't say

awesome. Would you rather have like good like physical pleasure now and sex now? Or would you

rather have it for like the big commitment which is marriage and that's

the long term like the answer would be yeah i want great sex forever not for today you know um and i think

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