So one of the things a lot of couples struggle with, a lot of Christian couples struggle with, is marriage and intimacy within marriage.

Does God care about how often married couples are having sex? The answer may surprise you.

So obviously this is a very sensitive topic and one which it's actually unfortunate. We don't talk about it a lot in the church.

This is a shame I'd say because according to scripture, sexual intimacy isn't taboo, but something

that should be celebrated within a Christian marriage. Maybe you've heard the fireplace illustration. Marriage is the fireplace where intimacy is supposed to burn. If you light the fire anywhere else in the house, you run the risk of burning the whole thing down, or something like that. There's an entire book of the Bible that highlights a positive view of sexuality called The Song of Solomon.

It's an erotic love poem that describes the blessedness of marital intimacy.

You also have proverbs like Proverbs chapter 5 versus 18 and 19.

Let your fountain be blessed and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

A lovely dear, a graceful dough.

Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight,

be intoxicated always in her love. So look, the Bible isn't shy or prudish when it comes to sex,

but it does condemn sexual immorality. And frankly, our culture is quickly learning about how

devastating the quote-unquote sexual revolution has been on families and on

young women especially. You think of things like the Me Too movement and what that shows about

a culture of sexual perversion and sexual abuse. Sex outside of marriage is dangerous, but so is a

sexless marriage. When Paul wrote to the Corinthians in the 8050s, he was, among other things, responding

to a series of questions that they had asked him.

He received a letter from the Corinthians sometime earlier, and he responds to their questions

and one of the questions that the Corinthians asked Paul was about whether or not they should

abstain from sex

within marriage. Here's the text. Now concerning the matters about which you wrote, it is good for a man

not to have sexual relations with a woman. But because of the temptation to sexual immorality,

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