I guess listen to a name of Hannah, right to end to ask this, Pastor John, I often hear

people and pastors say that sex between a husband and a wife is a picture of the love

between Christ and his church.

When this comparison is given, I almost always see people or the pastor speaking blush,

as well as the audience, as if it is an awkward and unexpected comparison.

I believe this picture of sex and Christ with his church to be true, but I am one of

many who has a hard time wrapping my mind around it and would have a hard time describing

it to someone else.

I have two questions regarding this, one, how is sex between a husband and a wife a practical

example of Christ and his church?

Number two, why is this truth something so many are so uncomfortable with?

Well I am not blushing and I'm excited.

I like this question.

So in answer to the second question, why is this truth something many are uncomfortable

with?

My guess is there at least three reasons, they're probably more, but here are my three.

Number one is that we don't have a robust enough vision of the beauty and depth and sacredness

of the actual event of sexual intercourse as God designed it.

Number two, our own experience of sexuality is so tainted with selfishness and pornographic

corruption, either in our head or in the media, that we can scarcity have a thought about sex

without the presence of those corruptions.

And to be fair, there's a third factor that creates discomfort.

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