When your sexual relationship isn't good on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors where we seek to provide biblical solutions

for the problems that people face. This week on the podcast, I am thrilled to be joined by Brad

Vigny, actually one of the most personally encouraging people I've ever known, and I'm grateful for you.

I'm very thankful that he is a member of ACBC. He is the pastor of Grace Fellowship Church, and he is here this week to help us think about the issue of sexuality and marriage, and particularly how to think about it when your sexual relationship with your spouse is not going well.

As we start on this issue, we want to get started on the right foot, and that means we need to talk about the goodness of sex in marriage.

Sometimes it's easy to talk about problems with sex and the trouble and what we're against, but tell us what the Bible has to say about the goodness of sex in marriage.

Yeah, I think just like any issue in life, Heath, that's essential.

And it's shocking and disappointing and surprising, but we need to recognize it how often Christians don't have the framework of the Bible of things being good and the basis.

And so if it starts off not even have the right framework of it being good to begin with, chances of it being good in a marriage

or personally played out is not likely to happen. So yes, I find ask questions. And always just

like in so many issues, Genesis is the place to go to understand what God has done and it's good.

Our enemy, Satan, rarely comes up with some new wicked thing. He loves to take

God's good gifts and just twist them. And so that's the same way they're with our sexuality.

Sex is good. Indemacy in marriage is good. And there's dozens of perversions of that. But that's

where we want to start. That's good.

God thought of it.

He gave it to us.

That's our starting point.

Good.

So sex isn't bad.

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