Today, on Redoing Your Mind.

We are now at the time of uninterrupted joy and bliss.

But as it turns out, marriage is hard work.

Yes, there are times of great joy, but there are also times of isolation and loneliness

and anything but joy.

The key is understanding how to deal with those bad days.

And to help us do that, here's Dr. R. R. C. Spoll.

I'd like to welcome you again to this session of our study on Christian marriage.

This segment, we're going to look at the question of knowing one another in marriage.

I've always been impressed by the fact that when the Old Testament speaks of intimacy and of sexual intimacy,

it frequently uses the verb to know.

For example, the Bible might say that Abraham knew his wife and she conceived,

or Adam knew his wife and she conceived.

And we hear that expression and I wonder why isn't it?

Is it because the biblical writers are embarrassed to say the word that they go to euphemisms,

circumlocution, ways of getting around, being graphic or sexually explicit?

They just said, Abraham knew his wife and she conceived.

Well, does that mean that Abraham walked on the street and he met this lady on the street

and said, this is low, my name's Abraham and she said, my name's Sarah, they were introduced

and all of a sudden Sarah's pregnant.

That's not what the Bible means.

It's using that verb to know, to communicate the deepest level of human intimacy.

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