God Made Sex Good? Are You Sure? Tell Me More

In the book, "Sex and the Supremacy of Christ," John Piper writes, "Sexuality is designed by God as a way to know Christ more fully." He also writes, "Knowing Christ more fully is designed by God as a way of guarding and guiding our sexuality." In the same book, Ben Patterson has this to say about God and sex, and how sex is a gift from God for man and wife, "Sex is good because the God who created sex is good. And God is glorified greatly when we receive His gift with thanksgiving—for the gift points back to the God who gave it—and enjoy it the way He meant for it to be enjoyed." Amen

Ben Patterson also writes, "For marriage is the only natural condition for the pleasure of sex." God designed sex as the union between man and wife to conceive children, and this is beautiful, it shows the power and blessing of God for His glory in families in the world. God also designed sex for pleasure between man and wife. Amen When it comes to the big picture of God' s proper order, there is also warning against awakening love before its time, Ben Patterson also has this to say, "The pleasures and goodness of sex are heightened, not lessened by proper restraint, in the same way the Colorado River is made more powerful by the walls of the Grand Canyon. The very narrowness of the river’s channel there makes for a greater river. Farther south, as the river flows through the deserts of California and Arizona, it is shallow, wide, and muddy, even stinky in spots. Wider boundaries diminish the river; sharper, stronger, and narrower boundaries strengthen it. Less is more. The boundaries and proscriptions of sex in the Bible are for the sake of sex. Again, less is more—at least less as understood by one man and one woman together exclusively till death parts them." So God created sex for His glory. He doesn't hide pleasure from us. True and sustaining pleasure comes from Him, and only Him. But because of our sin we think the way God gives pleasure is boring. We think that He doesn't know what He's doing, we think that He is out of touch, as if He doesn't understand our "needs." As humans we are impatient and sinful, and we are unable to understand our needs in a way that ultimately pleases God. Amen Truly, God knows what we need; we need Him, point blank. Sin blinds us to think that sinful pleasures are actually true pleasures, but in actuality it's sin, and it will finally damn us forever. Ben Patterson writes, "The devil's grand strategy against pleasure is to twist it, to get us to misuse it." The devil, the world, and our sinful nature will guide us to broken pleasures, these broken pleasures may feel good temporally but in the end they will destroy us, because sin is ultimately against God. Sexual sin such as, fornication (sex before marriage), Incest (sexual relation with relatives), masturbation, homosexuality, bestiality (sexual relations with animals), adulatory, orgies and the list goes on for sexual immorality. These acts or habitual lifestyles reveal that we are "broken" sexual creatures, and in our brokenness we reject the God who made us, by putting His gift in the mud to use our bodies in a way that is displeasing to Him. Our sexual brokenness is seen everywhere. Sensuality has blinded us to stir poison in our hearts, leading us to confusinon and lack of true satisfaction. It's on televisions, websites, the radio, commercials, billboards, magazines, movies, books, it's everywhere, it's also in our hearts. As sinful humans we thirst for broken pleasures, it calls us to sin against God in thought and in deed. Sexual creatures we are, but we can only enjoy sex as humans through the lens and the redemption that's offered in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. True sexual pleasure comes when two repentant sinners, saved by the Grace of God, through the blood of Jesus Christ, come together as husband and wife to enjoy God through His gift, for His glory and their joy. The Word of God says this, "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous." (Hebrews 13:4) Amen. The Gospel of Jesus renews everything. His Perfect life on the behalf of mankind was what we needed as a perfect representation back to God. He came pleasing the Father in every way. He was perfect and without sin. He was tempted, but He did not sin, and His death on the Cross was because of our wicked hearts as sinners who are in need of God's saving and changing grace. Amen. Jesus' resurrection is our assurance for restoration with God if we turn to Him to be saved. He, Jesus, the Perfect GodMan, ascended back to heaven on our behalf and is now seated at the right hand of the Father interceding for His people.

By the Spirit, sinners who respond to the gospel will be restored and forgiven to be made alive by the finished work of Jesus. Born again through Jesus to love God because He loved them first. Through the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ; sinners who turn and believe in Him are able to experience new life through faith. All of God's gifts, including sex, have been redeemed and can now be enjoyed freely between man and wife. Throughout Scripture God approves of this union. This not only frees the husband and wife to live out their salvation in joy and obedience, but also the gospel will free the husband and wife to experience God's revealed gift as they experience each other by the Spirit through the Person of Jesus. Amen. Yes, through the gospel, the redemptive work of Jesus, husband and wife can both enjoy the pleasure that is theirs to enjoy in the marriage bed for the glory of God and their joy in glorifying Him.

“We were made to see and savor with everlasting satisfaction the supremacy of Christ. Our sexuality points to this, and our sexuality is purified by this. We are sexual beings so that we may know something more of the supremacy of Christ. And we must know the supremacy of Christ- we must know Him and His supremacy- in order to experience our sexuality as sacred and sweet and Christ-exalting and secondary- quietly, powerfully secondary.” John Piper

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. 1 Timothy 1:4, 5