God’s intentions for humanity with respect to sexuality.

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Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Jonathan Walter

Callie Williams

01 Counter-Cultural

Sebastien Braxton

Sikhu Daco

02 Naked

03 One of Two Gifts

04 Incredible Sex

05 Marital Sexuality: Oneness

06 Marital Sexuality: Twoness

07 Marital Sexuality: Sameness of Nature

08 Marital Sexuality: Difference

09 Interconnectedness

10 Pre-Marital Sexuality

11 When Things Go Wrong

12 Beyond Sexuality

13 Purity

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

Hi everyone, my name is Justin Kim, and you're watching Inverse.

And in the studio with me is Jonathan Sebastian and Callie, and we are talking about biblical sexuality.

It's a sensitive topic, and we want to encourage you that if you have minors in your area to be mindful of the topic matter and to do whatever you got to do with them in the room.

We believe in the primacy of scripture and scripture talks about these principles of sexuality.

And if you have not been with us in the past couple of weeks, we want to encourage you to go to hope tv.org slash inverse and catch up on previous episodes, but also go to inverse bible.org and download our Bible study guides, not just on biblical sexuality, but on Daniel and all the other books of the Bible that we're planning to put up online.

So let's go to Genesis chapter 2, verse 18 to 25.

And before we do so, I'm gonna ask Callie, Can you pray for us?

Father in heaven, we thank you for the gift that it is to be here right now and to study your word together.

We don't come to this topic confident in ourselves, but we come confident in who you are, confident that you desire to teach us through your word, confident that you desire to give us your spirit.

And so we pray that you'd fill us with your spirit now, guide us into all truth, just as you promised.

And I pray that you'd guide our conversation, that it may be uplifting, that it may be beneficial, and that we all be drawn closer to you through the process.

We ask and pray all this in Christ's name, amen.

Now we have been covering different topics from episode to episode, but there seems to be 5 principles that emerge when it comes to biblical sexuality.

1 is the goodness of sexuality, the difference of sexuality, the sameness, the oneness, and the twoness.

You take these 5 principles and you kind of combine them, you get really good, good parameter, good, good, good vicinity of what the Bible is talking about and for that optimal premium sexual experience that God has designed.

You take 1 of these principles out, then you get into some other form of sexuality that, at least in the New Testament, that is often not condoned.

So today we're gonna look at the principle of sameness in Genesis chapter 2, verse 18 to 25.

It says, And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone.

I will make him a helper comparable to him.

Out of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them.

And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field.

But for Adam, there was not found a helper comparable to him.

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept, and he took 1 of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.

Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, he made into a woman and he brought her to the man.

And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.

Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become 1 flesh.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." All right, Sebastian, share with us the principle of sameness.

How can we mine that out of this passage here?

Well, What we see is God is bringing animals to Adam.

And as he's bringing these animals to Adam, as Adam is looking at these animals and naming them, he notices that they each have a comparable partner.

So there's a monkey and there's a monkey rest, there's a lion, there's a lioness, right?

You can add that to Webster's Dictionary.

And the Bible says that Adam noticed there was no 1 comparable to him.

So what we immediately see is that this marital relationship, that is the very context for which physical intimacy is supposed to exist in the ideal of God had nothing to do with the objects of creation, had nothing to do with the animals of creation.

This was simply to be shared between 2 human beings, right, 1 Through whom Adam looked at and said bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.

She experiences reality in life The same way that Adam does on a physical level on a spiritual level on an intellectual level and on an emotional level So we're talking about this concept of sameness.

What we're saying is Sexuality exists between 2 human beings And that's the design that we see in God.

And he purposely sees that naturally by naming the animals.

That's your partner comparable to you, but this is now, bone of my bone flesh to my flesh.

Yeah, we'll look at the principle of differentness next week, and the differentness being there's a maleness and a femaleness.

And the principle of sameness, human and human.

And although that might seem very like, duh, and intuitive, we're entering into a world that's not so common sense anymore.

And people can feel fulfilled with an animal companion or not even an animal, but maybe even mechanical or an object or technological companion.

We are in the era of sexual exploration, they call it.

And we got to go back to the original manual to see what God has originally intended.

And even though we look at this text, we're kind of like, okay, maybe we're like reading into this too much.

Like we're just bringing this principle out.

But you know, verse 18, it's the only time in the creation account that the Lord God sees something says, it's not good.

It's just the Lord God sees there's something incomplete that there isn't a helper comparable.

And it's so important that God himself looks at creation and says, this small thing is not good.

Even though he is surrounded by the garden of pleasure, he's surrounded by all these different animals, these fruits, these vegetables, whatever, it's still not good because he needs someone, not just a helper, but a helper comparable to him.

On a fundamental level, God, obviously God knows this, but he also helps Adam realize, I need someone.

I was created for companionship with someone who is like me.

Yes, I have relationship with the animals, with nature, connection, but there is something missing.

And God makes sure that Adam realizes his need before he gives him his partner.

But on a fundamental level, Adam had to realize this and recognize that God always wanted him to have someone else because God created us in his image and God is a social being.

And so in the same way, we were designed to connect on a deeper level with creatures that are like us, meaning humans.

But other people love their dogs, right, Kelly?

But you cannot compare, as you said, you cannot compare that to the connection that you can have with another human being.

As you said, it's kind of like, obviously, but God has put a lot of purpose and intention into creation of humanity as a reflection of the God.

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Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

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Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

01 Counter-Cultural

27m

Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

08 Marital Sexuality: Difference

27m

Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

09 Interconnectedness

27m

Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

03 One of Two Gifts

27m

Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

02 Naked

27m

InVerse, 3rd Quarter 2020: Foundations of Discipleship

02-Goal of Discipleship

27m

InVerse, 2nd Quarter 2021: The Promise, God's Everlasting Covenant

06 The Two Covenants

27m

InVerse, 2nd Quarter 2022: James

03 The Importance of the Outward Man

27m

Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

12 Beyond Sexuality

27m

InVerse 3rd Quarter 2023: Leviticus

12 Purity

29m

InVerse, 3rd Quarter 2019: "The Least of These" : Ministering to Those in Need

12-To Love Mercy

27m

InVerse, 1st Quarter 2021: Romans

01 The Power of the Gospel

27m

Sound Doctrine