Do you ever see other animals running around in the department stores buying suits and tie?

I mean, we see dogs with scarves and shirts and all of that, but only because humans put them there.

Why is it that of all of the species?

We are the only one who use artificial forms of clothing.

Where did clothes come from in the first place?

You know, when you think about it, Adam and Eve played the first game of Hyden's Seek.

They hid from God because they realized they were naked and they were ashamed.

Today, unrenewing your mind, Dr. R. C. Sproul continues a series, The Intimate Marriage,

with a message on why marriage is meant to be a safe haven where no games are played and shame

doesn't exist.

I'd like to welcome you again to our series of studies on Christian marriage.

And in this session today, we're going to be considering the theme, God and nakedness.

God and nakedness. And I'd like to direct your attention, first of all, to a somewhat strange

story that we find in the Old Testament that concerns the patriarch Noah. Everybody's heard of Noah,

Noah and the flood, Noah with the boat, the two by two and all of that.

But what happened to Noah after the flood?

What happened after the waters receded and they came safely to dry land?

Well, we read in the ninth chapter of the Book of Genesis, this very brief but I think

a strange story. It says in verse 20, and Noah began to be a husbandman and he planted a vineyard.

And he drank of the wine and was drunken and he was uncovered within his tent.

Now, ham, the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

And Shem and J. Peth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backward

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