If you want to know your husband and you want your husband to know you, you have to talk,

and you have to talk about stuff besides the weather. We have to get to what I call the second level of communication, not just commonplace reactions, but down into how we feel about things.

That's when intimacy starts to take place.

If you're married, do you really know your spouse?

Are you aware of their cares and concerns,

their desires and aspirations, their needs? It's intentionally seeking this kind of understanding

in marriage, R.C. Sprole will say today, that helps promote a flourishing and intimate marriage.

It's good to have you with us today for this Wednesday edition of

renewing your mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. In just a few months, my wife and I will

celebrate 20 years of marriage. After knowing each other for more than two decades, it's such a

joy to hear a story about my wife's childhood that I haven't

already heard several times. I'm sure you can relate. It can seem that we've exhausted the

depths of our spouse's stories. But Dr. Sprawl will give you tips today to help you push deeper,

to continue to pursue greater intimacy in your marriage. Here's Dr. Spraw.

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

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