Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth says we need to be reminded of one obvious conclusion from the song of Solomon.

Physical intimacy is good.

It's beautiful.

It's holy.

It's wonderful.

It's created by God.

It is a great gift.

Today we'll talk about how to protect this good gift.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, March 22, 2016.

In a world that doesn't value purity, how do you make pure choices? Nancy will give you several practical principles today.

We've been in the series How to Fall and Stay in Love with Jesus.

It's been an enlightening study in the Song of Songs.

Primarily, the series has been about our relationship with Christ, but we're taking a few

days to focus on how Song of Solomon relates to marriage.

Here's a principle I see in the Song of Solomon, and that is exclusiveness. We're going to

see more about this as a real emphasis in the last section of the Song of Solomon,

which we're going to get to starting in the next broadcast.

But the concept that marriage is a covenant of companionship between one man and one woman. And not a contract that can be broken,

but a covenant. And it's between a man and a woman and nobody else. Not between the Lord,

obviously, but nobody else can enter into that marriage appropriately and rightly. So it's a

pledge. Marriage is a

pledge to reserve the deepest and most precious parts of a couple's body and soul and spirit

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