Welcome to the Marriage Day podcast. I'm Jimmy Evans. This is my wife Karen. And we're talking today about returning to intimacy. This is a teaching that I do, a series of teachings that I do.

And this will be the next upcoming podcast too. We're talking about this issue. But in order to understand intimacy, Karen,

and so a lot of people struggle, I did, you know, in our marriage, understanding intimacy,

every single married couple can experience true intimacy. But intimacy is experienced on four

levels. Jesus was asked the question, what's the most important commandment?

And Jesus said, love the Lord your God with all your heart,

your soul, your mind, and your strength.

We are not one-dimensional beings.

And a lot of times when people think of intimacy,

they think of sex. It's just physical.

Sex is only 25% of the equation of intimacy, but it's mental.

Jesus said, your mind, the number one reason that God gave us our minds was to love him,

but the number two reason was to love each other.

The number one reason that God gave us our bodies was to love him, but the second is to love

each other. And you take any

dimension of your being and all the dimensions of our being were created to love. We will never

be fulfilled as human beings until we're loving. And I think it's a great point because without

love, I mean, so why do you think it is, though, in today's society, it's so hard for people to just have that simple understanding to love?

Yeah. Well, I think that marriage is a mystery in our society. We are the most relationally ignorant culture probably ever. You know, and there's been some bad cultures in world history.

But I'm saying we're just very relationally ignorant and we've strayed and that's

the reason for this teaching.

But what I'm talking about, value, energy, sacrifice, and trust.

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