God and Nakedness
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Marriage is meant to be a safe haven where shame does not exist. Today, R.C. Sproul uncovers the connection in Scripture between nakedness and shame.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | There's no human being in this whole world who knows me better than my wife. |
| 0:06.7 | Do you know what that means to me? |
| 0:08.0 | That the person who knows me the best loves me? |
| 0:11.6 | The person who has seen me naked, body and soul loves me? |
| 0:16.3 | Is it any wonder that God uses the human institution of marriage as the supreme image to communicate |
| 0:22.7 | to his people the relationship that he wants with them, that Israel in the Old Testament is the |
| 0:29.7 | bride of Yahweh. The church in the New Testament is the bride of Christ. |
| 0:36.3 | The church in the New Testament is the bride of Christ. |
| 0:48.2 | Marriage is a gift from God, not a burden, a precious gift providing a relationship, |
| 0:54.5 | companionship, where, as you'll hear today, a husband and wife can be naked and unashamed. |
| 1:01.6 | And it's also a gift because it paints the beautiful picture of God's covenantal relationship with His people. |
| 1:05.6 | This makes today's distortions of marriage even more grievous, and it should motivate us all the more to pursue a godly marriage. |
| 1:10.7 | Welcome to the Saturday edition of renewing your |
| 1:13.3 | mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. On Saturdays, R.C. Sprawl is helping us have a biblical |
| 1:20.8 | understanding of marriage. If you'd like to give deeper in your study of this topic, you can request |
| 1:26.7 | the DVD of this series |
| 1:28.2 | titled The Intimate Marriage, along with digital access to the messages and study guide |
| 1:33.6 | when you give a donation of any amount at Renewing Your Mind.org before midnight tonight. |
| 1:40.1 | Well, to continue our series, here's Dr. Sprawl on God and Nakedness. |
| 1:47.8 | I'd like to welcome you again to our series of studies on Christian marriage. |
| 1:54.3 | And in this session today, we're going to be considering the theme, God and nakedness. God and nakedness. And I'd like to |
| 2:05.7 | direct your attention, first of all, to a somewhat strange story that we find in the Old Testament |
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