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Sex in Heaven?

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Does a sexless heaven sound boring to you? Randy Alcorn explains how our marriage to Jesus will enhance our earthly relationships, not diminish them.

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0:00.0

Randy Alcorn joins us again, filling in for John Piper.

0:09.3

Randy, we know from the Bible that there's no marriage in heaven, there's no childbearing

0:13.2

either, but it appears resurrected bodies will retain their biological distinctions between

0:18.2

the male and female sexes.

0:19.8

So the question is, will resurrected bodies be sexual bodies, capable of sexual activity?

0:27.0

If so, is heaven a place of perpetual celibacy or is there sexual activity in heaven?

0:32.2

What do you say?

0:34.0

I believe that there is sex in heaven, sex on the new earth in terms of sexuality, gender.

0:43.1

But in terms of actual sexual relationships and sexual experiences between people, the

0:50.3

very fact that Jesus said that there wouldn't be marriage in heaven, that in that respect

0:58.3

we would be like the angels.

1:00.7

And we need to realize that's a very limited respect in which we will be like the angels.

1:04.7

It's not that we'll become like angels in most respects, but that's a specific one that

1:09.9

we're told.

1:10.9

And therefore, I would not expect there to be any physical, sexual relationships and when

1:18.4

Jesus says what He says, and Matthew 22, 30, then I think that that would, in my mind

1:23.9

close that door, there's certainly, I've read Peter Krepp and many others who have argued

1:29.5

for their being, sex in heaven.

1:32.4

But I do think CS Lewis's insight was great when he talked about the boy who had heard

1:37.0

about sex and people having sex and said, well, do they chocolate while they're having

1:41.9

it?

1:42.9

Because he was told, it's this wonderful experience.

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