{"id":301301,"date":"2007-02-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/gods-design-for-sex\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T17:00:00","slug":"gods-design-for-sex","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/gods-design-for-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Design for Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the broadcast, Tim Gardner, founding director of The Marriage Institute, talks with Dennis Rainey today about God&#8217;s beautiful plan for the sexual relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2007-02-08.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"10.49M","filesize_raw":"10997074","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2088],"tags":[4066,2991],"podcast_series":[7504],"cwp_profile":[9058],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301301","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romance-and-sex","tag-intimacy","tag-sex","podcast_series-sacred-sex","cwp_profile-tim-gardner","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/301301\/gods-design-for-sex","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301301\/gods-design-for-sex","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4F1FG24I2s\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/gods-design-for-sex\/\">God\u2019s Design for Sex<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/gods-design-for-sex\/embed\/#?secret=4F1FG24I2s\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;God\u2019s Design for Sex&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"4F1FG24I2s\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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desire for her husband, then the world will be the world, but a woman doesn't feel like she has to compete with the world because she's not getting that from her husband.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, February 8th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 There is a lot more to desire and feeling desirable than meets the eye.\u00a0 Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us.\u00a0 We're going to be talking about intimacy in marriage today, physical intimacy, and I know some moms or dads will thing, \"Well, we probably don't need to have this on during the car pool this morning while the kids are in the car,\" and that's appropriate, but we do want to talk candidly about something.\u00a0 And I think this is interesting, Dennis.\u00a0 I was looking at the title of this book we're going to be talking about, and I think a lot of people think that those two words really belong together.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You're talking about \"sacred sex.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yeah, I mean in this culture it sure doesn't seem like we treat this subject with any sense of reverence or holiness, you know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Right, and probably points out the need that we have in this culture for talking about it from such a perspective.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We do have the author of the book, \"Sacred Sex\" with us.\u00a0 Dr. Tim Gardner joins us on FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 Tim, welcome to the broadcast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0It is an honor to be here, thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Tim is a native of Austin, Texas.\u00a0 We do allow Longhorns to cross the border up in here to Arkansas but only on an allocation basis.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, you know, last year, for the first time, we were able to vault ahead of them in the polls \u2013 the first time in a long time, so that's when we said, \"Okay, it's all right to let Tim come up.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, even if it's only for a week, Bob, it's still fun.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0It's still worth it, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It's still fun to be ahead of a Longhorn.\u00a0 There are some of them listening right now to me, and they're going to write me, I know, for sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Anyway, Tim is the founder and director of The Marriage Institute, which is an outreach to marriages and families.\u00a0 He is a speaker, a teacher, and author, a licensed counselor.\u00a0 He and his wife, Amy, have three children, and they live near Indianapolis, Indiana.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, Tim, this book is intriguing.\u00a0 I want to begin it on more of a practical level.\u00a0 You tell a story in the book about a couple by the name of Sarah and Michael, and Michael felt like his wife needed counseling.\u00a0 Why don't you share about that couple with our listeners, and then let's talk about how it relates to the title of your book, \"Sacred Sex.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Sarah came into my office, as I have experienced on a number of occasions, and her mandate was to come and get fixed.\u00a0 Her husband felt that she must have a problem of some kind because she did not want sex near as much as he did.\u00a0 And instead of seeing it as anything wrong with him, he thought it must be her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And the first question out of my mouth was, \"Well, Sarah, tell me what you think the purpose of sex is.\"\u00a0 And she kind of hung her head and thought about it for a minute, and said, \"I don't know, I guess it's just something God created for men, and it's something that men need.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Only for me?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0That was pretty much her perspective.\u00a0 She just thought that in the Corinthians 7 passage of her body was not hers, had been used to illustrate that for her or to bring that point home, and so her perspective was this was just something that it was her duty to give but, beyond that, and being something for her husband, she saw no purpose of it beyond that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Now, when you hear a wife say something like that, what do you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Well, my first reaction is normally to say, \"I need to see your husband next week\" \u2013 get him in here as well.\u00a0 Second, I guess my initial response is, like so many people within the church, they have just never answered or even wrestled with this great question \u2013 why sex?\u00a0 What was God thinking?\u00a0 I mean, if it was just procreation, He really could have done this any way He wanted.\u00a0 It could have been a special, secret, super handshake \u2013 something.\u00a0 If He's God, He could have done anything He wanted.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0He chose sex, and since we have to ask the question why?\u00a0 And I think the answer is far bigger than it's something that men can do to have fun.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I just want to go on record that I'm glad it's not a super secret handshake.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 Some hidden button on the female body you just push and procreation begins.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0But there have to be a lot of Sarahs who have that same perspective and who look and think, \"This seems to be pretty one-sided.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Is that because we don't understand its purpose?\u00a0 Is that why it seems one-sided?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0I think that's a huge piece of it is again not knowing what God was thinking when He decided to create this thing called sex.\u00a0 Looking at the history of the church on this subject, we kind of morphed several times over 2,000 years the initial response from the church leaders was that sex is just for procreation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0The second response seems to be, \"Okay, pleasure can be part of it, but [whispers] we don't want to talk about that at all.\"\u00a0 So we just kind of keep that secret.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The third response in the last 20 or 30 years, or a third phase of the church history seem to be, \"Well, God intended it to be enjoyed, so let's do everything we can to learn how to maximize the pleasure to the fullest.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, I think that doesn't get us to the important phase, and that's understanding what God was thinking from a spiritual perspective.\u00a0 If we stop at that third phase, where sex is just a pleasure, and sex falls under the same law of diminishing returns as every other pleasure, it will ultimately fail to satisfy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So I think that the problem is that if we just talk about the pleasure piece, we miss so much of what God was thinking when He did this.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0All right, so if you look to the Scriptures and try to think \"Where do I find the verse that explains what God was doing,\" I mean, I've read through it, I don't find a verse.\u00a0 What have you come up with?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0The first thing we see, I think they're there, it just may not say it in the words that we are looking for.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, I think Bob's looking for a single verse.\u00a0 A lot of men are looking for a single \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Yeah, where is that verse?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Where is that verse, you know?\u00a0 But, truthfully, the Bible speaks of a number of purposes for this subject of sex.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely, and if we take it to the very beginning, to the Book of Genesis, the first description of sex is the word \"oneness.\"\u00a0 Whenever the Bible mentions the word \"oneness\" or \"becoming one,\" it is talking about sex.\u00a0 We like to think, \"Oh, spiritual oneness, emotional oneness.\"\u00a0 No, it's talking about sex, and so in the Garden of Eden, the first description of this relationship is \"the two shall become one.\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So, it seems to me, that the primary purpose of sex is this unifying factor, this creation of oneness.\u00a0 Even more powerful, we can go to Corinthians 6 and see that oneness is built into the system of sex.\u00a0 Paul asks the rhetorical question \u2013 why should you go unite yourself with a prostitute?\u00a0 Do you not know that he who does that becomes one with her?\"\u00a0 He doesn't say \"Don't go have sex with a prostitute.\"\u00a0 He doesn't say, \"Don't go have sex outside of marriage.\"\u00a0 He says, \"Don't become one with her.\"\u00a0 It's built into the system that idea of oneness begins to explain why sex outside of marriage is so painful in so many different ways.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But the concept of oneness that is repeated over and over again, you know, Christ refers to it in Mark 10, it's there in Ephesians 5, which we'll get into \u2013 is the important piece to understand.\u00a0 It is about creating and recreating marital oneness.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0So are you saying that God's design for sex is to somehow press us toward something beyond the act, which is oneness, that that's really \u2013 it's kind of a tool to get us there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely, and I think there's a beginning component to that we need to understand.\u00a0 Marriage is a covenant, you all talk about that frequently, and the idea of marriage is being a covenant relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, in the Bible and actually throughout Eastern cultures, covenants are always formed by two parts.\u00a0 There is a verbal declaration and then there's an oath sign.\u00a0 God said, \"I will never again destroy the earth with a flood,\" and the oath sign was the rainbow.\u00a0 Every covenant made has two parts.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Marriage is a covenant.\u00a0 The verbal declaration in our modern wedding ceremony is the vows.\u00a0 I think the original verbal declaration was Adam saying, \"Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh.\"\u00a0 Now, what's the oath sign?\u00a0 Well, in today's wedding ceremony, it's the giving of the ring or \"You may now kiss the bride.\"\u00a0 In God's design and God's plan, the oath sign is sex.\u00a0 That is the sealing of the deal, so to speak.\u00a0 That is the creation of the covenant, that is the oneness. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so understanding that God so uses sex in such a powerful way to create this oneness relationship to establish the covenant is, I think, where we have to begin in our understanding of what was God thinking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0So this is a part of the covenantal joining.\u00a0 This is God saying, \"I'm going to give you\" \u2013 like the rainbow with the flood, this is God saying, \"This is my blessing, my promise, my part of the covenant?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 In Orthodox Judaism still today, the chuppah that they get married under that symbolizes the marital canopy, the wedding chamber.\u00a0 The couple would say their vows and walk down the aisle into this awaiting room and have sexual intercourse as part of the wedding ceremony.\u00a0 Talk about pressure, trying to do that today, people are going, \"I'm glad I didn't live back then.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Do it privately, you're saying?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely, they go into this \u2013 it is private, but they are not married.\u00a0 They cannot be declared husband and wife until that occurs.\u00a0 That is the act that creates the covenant; that seals the deal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so taking that into understanding how we can relate in a healthy way as husbands and wives today, part of sexual intimacy in our marriage should be saying every time we engage sexually, \"Honey, I would marry you all over again.\u00a0 This is my re-commitment to you, this is my re-commitment to this covenant.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So, again, it's back to being about oneness and not about my pleasure.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Two people who are giving themselves to one anther are restating their pledge then.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I promise you to you, I pledge to you to forsake all others and to commit to you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to go back to Sarah and Michael.\u00a0 She wasn't interested, he was.\u00a0 And so I'm wondering, what did you say to her?\u00a0 In light of this definition you are giving us of sex being a sacrament; of it being sacred and set apart as a picture of oneness, what's the solution, then, of a woman who practically is not interested as much as her husband is?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0The first step for her was this process of understanding that sex isn't about pleasure primarily.\u00a0 Sex is primarily about oneness, and it is a God-ordained act to create and re-create oneness in marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0What also needed to occur in her situation was that Michael needed to understand that the way he was treating his wife was pretty much making her feel like a thing, an object; that she had been objectified by his constant sexual badgering, and so forth.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0He needed to begin to see sex in the same way that she did.\u00a0 It's not about his needs and her needs, it's about serving each other.\u00a0 So her wrestling with the idea that God has given her this permission to engage sexually, but, even more, God has even given her the permission to enjoy sexually.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There was a period of time that the church believed that women should not enjoy sex, or there was, even further back, St. Augustine believed that the pleasure part of sex was a consequence of the fall, was a consequence of sin.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, for that to be true, bluntly \u2013 a woman would have to grow an additional part that she didn't have prior to the fall, because there are female parts that are solely for physical pleasure.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So her understanding that God says it's okay for her to imbibe deeply, the Song of Solomon \u2013 to enjoy this relationship, but, again, it's not just about enjoyment.\u00a0 It's about a spiritual intimacy that she shares with no one else, that how powerful that can be.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You know, what you describe in Sarah and Michael's conversation is somewhat typical, right?\u00a0 You've got a standard scenario where a wife says, \"It's lower down my priority list than it is on my husband's priority list.\"\u00a0 Is that primarily because we've left women objectified, as you described it?\u00a0 They've been made into sexual objects?\u00a0 Was there a time in history when it was different for women than it is today?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Obviously, just based upon the Song of Solomon, we have the picture of a bride who is very sensual, who was very much open to sexual advances of her husband and making sexual advances of her own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0It brings up an important point \u2013 we talk a lot today that the problem is women not wanting sex as much as men.\u00a0 I think a bigger problem is we have men's sexual desires running rampant.\u00a0 They seem to have given themselves permission to walk around all day long staring at women, be it pornography or glancing at a co-worker, and they don't take Paul's advice and bringing every thought captive to Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So they are letting their minds run wild all the time, they are staring at sexual objects all day long, and they think, \"Hey, what's wrong with her?\u00a0 She doesn't want it as much as I do?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And, you know, I want to just add to that, I wish an older man would have come alongside me as a newly married man and had given me that advice \u2013 put his arm around me and smiled and not shamed me, but just said, \"You know, you're going to be exposed to a lot of images in your lifetime, and you've got to decide what you're going to do in terms of allowing your mind to feast on those images, continue to watch television, continue to watch the channel.\u00a0 Instead, turn away from them, realizing that it does you no good to just sit there and be bombarded by these images.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I think many men are easily taken captive by this culture because the images are everywhere.\u00a0 I mean, they're coming at us regularly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You know, as you describe that, I'm thinking of a place in our airport \u2013 a little gift shop that's right by the back gates, and when you walk by they have a popcorn machine out front, and they've got fresh popcorn that they're popping all day.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And you walk by that and the first thing that happens is you smell the popcorn.\u00a0 And you know how that is when you smell popcorn, you just \u2013 you've got to get some popcorn, you want popcorn.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, it's almost like the aroma of sexuality is all over the place in this culture, and guys are walking all day long sniffing, sniffing, sniffing, and, you know, with the popcorn, whether you're hungry or not, you still want the popcorn.\u00a0 Well, after you've been in this culture, you come home just kind of excited for sex because of what you've been smelling all day.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0And then it has become about my needs and my desires and what I want without any clue of what my wife might want.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, to take that further, I guess, I like that illustration of smelling the popcorn.\u00a0 The difference is I can go get some of that popcorn, and it's okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0One thing I try to tell myself and teach others is that if there is a woman \u2013 and I know this is hard.\u00a0 This is incredibly difficult for men to do but, the problem is, I don't see too many men trying.\u00a0 If I see another woman, see an image, whatever it might be, I have to remind myself, \"That's not mine.\u00a0 It's just not.\u00a0 That woman is not mine, it is not my prerogative simply to stare at her or to desire her.\u00a0 My wife is the one God has given me.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In the culture that objectifies women, turns them into objects, we have men who just think that it's okay for them to stare and look all day long.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And this is the side of men that women don't understand why men could be so preoccupied, but back to the popcorn illustration, Bob, which I do think is a good one, I think the aroma is most everywhere.\u00a0 And some of the place, men invite the aroma in.\u00a0 They turn on the TV when they arrive in the hotel, and they may go into certain channels where they shouldn't be going that provokes them even further.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But network TV, cable TV, if you channel surf long enough, it's just a matter of time before you're going to be exposed to those images.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Okay, so given the fact that we live in this kind of a culture where the aroma is everywhere, that's going to leave women feeling objectified, that's going to lead to a culture full of women who aren't going to respond because they feel objectified.\u00a0 So we have a pandemic in the culture, and guys are going, \"Well, what do I do?\u00a0 Move somewhere?\u00a0 How do I deal with this because I don't want my wife to feel like an object?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But it sounds almost like we're saying if you live in 21st century America, this is the reality, and it's going to be hard for a woman to transcend that and be in touch with her own need or desire for oneness in marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0And I think the answer to that goes back to the marital relationship.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, I heard at a FamilyLife conference years ago, at a Weekend to Remember conference, I don't even remember the speaker's name, but he said, \"If a woman is beautiful under the age of 40, she had something to do with it.\u00a0 If she's beautiful after the age of 40, her husband had something to do with it.\"\u00a0 Meaning that a husband's attitude towards his wife is just paramount.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0If I, as a husband, worked diligently and daily to let my wife know how much I love her, care for her, she is accepted \u2013 it goes back to what I think one of the core truths and understanding sex as God designed it is this idea of naked and unashamed.\u00a0 Where a woman can stand there and feel that my husband is happy and pleased with me just as I am.\u00a0 He wouldn't be happier if I was taller, thinner, different shaped, whatever it might be.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So the more a woman feels loved, cherished, cared for, and accepted and made to feel experientially and otherwise that she is the sole object of desire for her husband, then the world will be the world, but a woman doesn't feel like she has to compete with the world because she's not getting that from her husband.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You know, it reminds me of another story of clients that came in one time after they had wanted to do something to spice up their sexual relationship, and so the woman had breast surgery, and there for a while was their relationship more exciting?\u00a0 Well, yeah, because she felt better about herself and had to buy new lingerie and clothes for her but, after a while, that experience wore off, and so now they're saying \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0What now?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Yeah.\u00a0 Her husband walked in another time and said, \"Honey, what are we going to do to spice up our sex life,\" and she literally pointed to her chest and said, \"I thought that's what we did.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But I had another couple I spoke with one time where the husband asked her, \"Honey, would you ever consider having cosmetic surgery?\"\u00a0 And so now how did she feel not only when she was naked in front of him in the future but even if \u2013 every time she feels like \"He's not happy with me.\u00a0 He wants something more.\" \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Where the flip side of that is the husband that completely accepts his wife loves her, encourages her, makes her feel that she is everything he desires.\u00a0 That woman will not struggle with feeling like she's an object when she walks out the door of the house.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0What I hear you saying is, and you vividly illustrated it by the woman pointing to her chest.\u00a0 Instead, we need to point to our head and our hearts.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That this issue of human sexuality and us being made in the image of God really begins with who we are as we relate to Him and how He made us and embracing God's design for how he made us male and female.\u00a0 And then male and female being two different people, again, made in the image of God but coming together in the most intimate act on the planet, sexual intercourse.\u00a0 To do that, those people have to grow in their understanding of who God is, how He made them, and what human sexuality is all about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I do think the Bible \u2013 it's interesting, the Bible is not silent on this subject.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Not at all.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0God included an entire book of the Bible, the Song of Solomon, that I hope we can explore further and later, Bob, around this subject, because God didn't stutter.\u00a0 He spoke very clearly about this.\u00a0 He was not ashamed at what takes place within the Christian bedroom.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And I think this is one of those areas where Romans 12:2 comes into play, where the Bible says that instead of being conformed by the culture, we need to be transformed by the renewing of our mind, and that means we need to think biblically about what God created in the area of marital intimacy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And a book like Tim's book, \"Sacred Sex,\" helps us do that.\u00a0 It takes us below the surface and into the heart and mind of God on a subject that is profound and is deep and is important and is essential for a healthy marriage relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We've got copies of Tim's book in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 I want to encourage our listeners, go to our website, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 In the middle of the home page you will find where the red button used to be, a red heart, because with Valentine's Day coming up next week, they decided to go ahead and put the heart on there. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So you click on that heart, it will take you right to the area of the site where you can get more information about the book, \"Sacred Sex,\" by our guest today, Tim Gardner.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There's also information about other resources available from FamilyLife related to intimacy and romance and passion including the Simply Romantic Nights resource that our team put together to help you with some very practical ways to express your care and your love and your devotion for one another.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Simply Romantic Nights is a series of a dozen romantic date nights for you and a dozen romantic date nights for your spouse \u2013 ways in which you can creatively express your love for one another.\u00a0 And if any of our listeners are interested in getting both Tim's book and the Simply Romantic Nights collection, we can send out at no additional cost the CD audio of our conversation this week with Tim Gardner.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Get all the details on our website at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 Click that red heart, or that red \"Go\" button that you see there in the middle of the screen, or call us at 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 That's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 If you have a particular issue or question related to romance and intimacy in marriage, ask somebody on our team and maybe they can recommend a resource that can help you with that specific issue in your marriage relationship.\u00a0 Again, our toll-free number is 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0One additional resource I want to mention, and this is something that we are making available as a thank you gift this month to folks who help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today with a donation of any amount.\u00a0 This is an audio CD that features two messages \u2013 one from Pastor C.J. Mahaney and the other from his wife, Carolyn Mahaney.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Carolyn talks to wives about how they can better understand their husband's romantic interests and needs, and C.J. helps us, as men, understand how we can more effectively express our love to our wives.\u00a0 We call the CD \"Romance Basics for Husbands and Wives,\" and we're sending it out again as our way of saying thank you this month when you make a donation of any amount for the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We're listener-supported so those donations are how we stay on the air in this city and in cities all across the country, and if you'd like to help us do that, you can make a donation online at FamilyLife.com, and when you make that donation online, if you'd like the CD I talked about just write the word \"love\" in the keycode box, and we'll know to send a copy of the CD out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Or call 1-800-FLTODAY, make your donation over the phone, and mention that you'd like the CD that is the thank you gift this month, and we'll be happy to send that out to you as well.\u00a0 And, again, let me say thanks for partnering with us in the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, tomorrow we're going to talk more with Tim Gardner about what God has in mind when it comes to intimacy, romance, and passion in a marriage relationship.\u00a0 We're going to talk about the covenant of marriage tomorrow.\u00a0 I hope you can be with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll see you back next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t_______________________________________________________________\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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There is a lot more to desire and feeling desirable than meets the eye.\u00a0 Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us.\u00a0 We're going to be talking about intimacy in marriage today, physical intimacy, and I know some moms or dads will thing, \"Well, we probably don't need to have this on during the car pool this morning while the kids are in the car,\" and that's appropriate, but we do want to talk candidly about something.\u00a0 And I think this is interesting, Dennis.\u00a0 I was looking at the title of this book we're going to be talking about, and I think a lot of people think that those two words really belong together.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You're talking about \"sacred sex.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Yeah, I mean in this culture it sure doesn't seem like we treat this subject with any sense of reverence or holiness, you 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fun.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0It's still worth it, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It's still fun to be ahead of a Longhorn.\u00a0 There are some of them listening right now to me, and they're going to write me, I know, for sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Anyway, Tim is the founder and director of The Marriage Institute, which is an outreach to marriages and families.\u00a0 He is a speaker, a teacher, and author, a licensed counselor.\u00a0 He and his wife, Amy, have three children, and they live near Indianapolis, Indiana.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, Tim, this book is intriguing.\u00a0 I want to begin it on more of a practical level.\u00a0 You tell a story in the book about a couple by the name of Sarah and Michael, and Michael felt like his wife needed counseling.\u00a0 Why don't you share about that couple with our listeners, and then let's talk about how it relates to the title of your book, \"Sacred Sex.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Sarah came into my office, as I have experienced on a number of occasions, and her mandate was to come and get fixed.\u00a0 Her husband felt that she must have a problem of some kind because she did not want sex near as much as he did.\u00a0 And instead of seeing it as anything wrong with him, he thought it must be her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And the first question out of my mouth was, \"Well, Sarah, tell me what you think the purpose of sex is.\"\u00a0 And she kind of hung her head and thought about it for a minute, and said, \"I don't know, I guess it's just something God created for men, and it's something that men need.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Only for me?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0That was pretty much her perspective.\u00a0 She just thought that in the Corinthians 7 passage of her body was not hers, had been used to illustrate that for her or to bring that point home, and so her perspective was this was just something that it was her duty to give but, beyond that, and being something for her husband, she saw no purpose of it beyond that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Now, when you hear a wife say something like that, what do you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Well, my first reaction is normally to say, \"I need to see your husband next week\" \u2013 get him in here as well.\u00a0 Second, I guess my initial response is, like so many people within the church, they have just never answered or even wrestled with this great question \u2013 why sex?\u00a0 What was God thinking?\u00a0 I mean, if it was just procreation, He really could have done this any way He wanted.\u00a0 It could have been a special, secret, super handshake \u2013 something.\u00a0 If He's God, He could have done anything He wanted.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0He chose sex, and since we have to ask the question why?\u00a0 And I think the answer is far bigger than it's something that men can do to have fun.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I just want to go on record that I'm glad it's not a super secret handshake.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 Some hidden button on the female body you just push and procreation begins.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0But there have to be a lot of Sarahs who have that same perspective and who look and think, \"This seems to be pretty one-sided.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Is that because we don't understand its purpose?\u00a0 Is that why it seems one-sided?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0I think that's a huge piece of it is again not knowing what God was thinking when He decided to create this thing called sex.\u00a0 Looking at the history of the church on this subject, we kind of morphed several times over 2,000 years the initial response from the church leaders was that sex is just for procreation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0The second response seems to be, \"Okay, pleasure can be part of it, but [whispers] we don't want to talk about that at all.\"\u00a0 So we just kind of keep that secret.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The third response in the last 20 or 30 years, or a third phase of the church history seem to be, \"Well, God intended it to be enjoyed, so let's do everything we can to learn how to maximize the pleasure to the fullest.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, I think that doesn't get us to the important phase, and that's understanding what God was thinking from a spiritual perspective.\u00a0 If we stop at that third phase, where sex is just a pleasure, and sex falls under the same law of diminishing returns as every other pleasure, it will ultimately fail to satisfy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So I think that the problem is that if we just talk about the pleasure piece, we miss so much of what God was thinking when He did this.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0All right, so if you look to the Scriptures and try to think \"Where do I find the verse that explains what God was doing,\" I mean, I've read through it, I don't find a verse.\u00a0 What have you come up with?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0The first thing we see, I think they're there, it just may not say it in the words that we are looking for.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, I think Bob's looking for a single verse.\u00a0 A lot of men are looking for a single \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Yeah, where is that verse?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Where is that verse, you know?\u00a0 But, truthfully, the Bible speaks of a number of purposes for this subject of sex.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely, and if we take it to the very beginning, to 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into the system that idea of oneness begins to explain why sex outside of marriage is so painful in so many different ways.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But the concept of oneness that is repeated over and over again, you know, Christ refers to it in Mark 10, it's there in Ephesians 5, which we'll get into \u2013 is the important piece to understand.\u00a0 It is about creating and recreating marital oneness.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0So are you saying that God's design for sex is to somehow press us toward something beyond the act, which is oneness, that that's really \u2013 it's kind of a tool to get us there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely, and I think there's a beginning component to that we need to understand.\u00a0 Marriage is a covenant, you all talk about that frequently, and the idea of marriage is being a covenant relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, in the Bible and actually throughout Eastern cultures, 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have to begin in our understanding of what was God thinking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0So this is a part of the covenantal joining.\u00a0 This is God saying, \"I'm going to give you\" \u2013 like the rainbow with the flood, this is God saying, \"This is my blessing, my promise, my part of the covenant?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 In Orthodox Judaism still today, the chuppah that they get married under that symbolizes the marital canopy, the wedding chamber.\u00a0 The couple would say their vows and walk down the aisle into this awaiting room and have sexual intercourse as part of the wedding ceremony.\u00a0 Talk about pressure, trying to do that today, people are going, \"I'm glad I didn't live back then.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Do it privately, you're saying?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely, they go into this \u2013 it is private, but they are not married.\u00a0 They cannot be declared husband and wife until that occurs.\u00a0 That is the act that creates the covenant; that seals the deal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so taking that into understanding how we can relate in a healthy way as husbands and wives today, part of sexual intimacy in our marriage should be saying every time we engage sexually, \"Honey, I would marry you all over again.\u00a0 This is my re-commitment to you, this is my re-commitment to this covenant.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So, again, it's back to being about oneness and not about my pleasure.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Two people who are giving themselves to one anther are restating their pledge then.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I promise you to you, I pledge to you to forsake all others and to commit to you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to go back to Sarah and Michael.\u00a0 She wasn't interested, he was.\u00a0 And so I'm wondering, what did you say to her?\u00a0 In light of this definition you are giving us of sex being a sacrament; of it being sacred and set apart as a picture of oneness, what's the solution, then, of a woman who practically is not interested as much as her husband is?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0The first step for her was this process of understanding that sex isn't about pleasure primarily.\u00a0 Sex is primarily about oneness, and it is a God-ordained act to create and re-create oneness in marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0What also needed to occur in her situation was that Michael needed to understand that the way he was treating his wife was pretty much making her feel like a thing, an object; that she had been objectified by his constant sexual badgering, and so forth.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0He needed to begin to see sex in the same way that she did.\u00a0 It's not about his needs and her needs, it's about serving each other.\u00a0 So her wrestling with the idea that God has given her this permission to engage sexually, but, even more, God has even given her the permission to enjoy sexually.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There was a period of time that the church believed that women should not enjoy sex, or there was, even further back, St. Augustine believed that the pleasure part of sex was a consequence of the fall, was a consequence of sin.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, for that to be true, bluntly \u2013 a woman would have to grow an additional part that she didn't have prior to the fall, because there are female parts that are solely for physical pleasure.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So her understanding that God says it's okay for her to imbibe deeply, the Song of Solomon \u2013 to enjoy this relationship, but, again, it's not just about enjoyment.\u00a0 It's about a spiritual intimacy that she shares with no one else, that how powerful that can be.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You know, what you describe in Sarah and Michael's conversation is somewhat typical, right?\u00a0 You've got a standard scenario where a wife says, \"It's lower down my priority list than it is on my husband's priority list.\"\u00a0 Is that primarily because we've left women objectified, as you described it?\u00a0 They've been made into sexual objects?\u00a0 Was there a time in history when it was different for women than it is today?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Obviously, just based upon the Song of Solomon, we have the picture of a bride who is very sensual, who was very much open to sexual advances of her husband and making sexual advances of her own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0It brings up an important point \u2013 we talk a lot today that the problem is women not wanting sex as much as men.\u00a0 I think a bigger problem is we have men's sexual desires running rampant.\u00a0 They seem to have given themselves permission to walk around all day long staring at women, be it pornography or glancing at a co-worker, and they don't take Paul's advice and bringing every thought captive to Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So they are letting their minds run wild all the time, they are staring at sexual objects all day long, and they think, \"Hey, what's wrong with her?\u00a0 She doesn't want it as much as I do?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And, you know, I want to just add to that, I wish an older man would have come alongside me as a newly married man and had given me that advice \u2013 put his arm around me and smiled and not shamed me, but just said, \"You know, you're going to be exposed to a lot of images in your lifetime, and you've got to decide what you're going to do in terms of allowing your mind to feast on those images, continue to watch television, continue to watch the channel.\u00a0 Instead, turn away from them, realizing that it does you no good to just sit there and be bombarded by these images.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I think many men are easily taken captive by this culture because the images are everywhere.\u00a0 I mean, they're coming at us regularly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You know, as you describe that, I'm thinking of a place in our airport \u2013 a little gift shop that's right by the back gates, and when you walk by they have a popcorn machine out front, and they've got fresh popcorn that they're popping all day.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And you walk by that and the first thing that happens is you smell the popcorn.\u00a0 And you know how that is when you smell popcorn, you just \u2013 you've got to get some popcorn, you want popcorn.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, it's almost like the aroma of sexuality is all over the place in this culture, and guys are walking all day long sniffing, sniffing, sniffing, and, you know, with the popcorn, whether you're hungry or not, you still want the popcorn.\u00a0 Well, after you've been in this culture, you come home just kind of excited for sex because of what you've been smelling all day.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0And then it has become about my needs and my desires and what I want without any clue of what my wife might want.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, to take that further, I guess, I like that illustration of smelling the popcorn.\u00a0 The difference is I can go get some of that popcorn, and it's okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0One thing I try to tell myself and teach others is that if there is a woman \u2013 and I know this is hard.\u00a0 This is incredibly difficult for men to do but, the problem is, I don't see too many men trying.\u00a0 If I see another woman, see an image, whatever it might be, I have to remind myself, \"That's not mine.\u00a0 It's just not.\u00a0 That woman is not mine, it is not my prerogative simply to stare at her or to desire her.\u00a0 My wife is the one God has given me.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In the culture that objectifies women, turns them into objects, we have men who just think that it's okay for them to stare and look all day long.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And this is the side of men that women don't understand why men could be so preoccupied, but back to the popcorn illustration, Bob, which I do think is a good one, I think the aroma is most everywhere.\u00a0 And some of the place, men invite the aroma in.\u00a0 They turn on the TV when they arrive in the hotel, and they may go into certain channels where they shouldn't be going that provokes them even further.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But network TV, cable TV, if you channel surf long enough, it's just a matter of time before you're going to be exposed to those images.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Okay, so given the fact that we live in this kind of a culture where the aroma is everywhere, that's going to leave women feeling objectified, that's going to lead to a culture full of women who aren't going to respond because they feel objectified.\u00a0 So we have a pandemic in the culture, and guys are going, \"Well, what do I do?\u00a0 Move somewhere?\u00a0 How do I deal with this because I don't want my wife to feel like an object?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But it sounds almost like we're saying if you live in 21st century America, this is the reality, and it's going to be hard for a woman to transcend that and be in touch with her own need or desire for oneness in marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0And I think the answer to that goes back to the marital relationship.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, I heard at a FamilyLife conference years ago, at a Weekend to Remember conference, I don't even remember the speaker's name, but he said, \"If a woman is beautiful under the age of 40, she had something to do with it.\u00a0 If she's beautiful after the age of 40, her husband had something to do with it.\"\u00a0 Meaning that a husband's attitude towards his wife is just paramount.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0If I, as a husband, worked diligently and daily to let my wife know how much I love her, care for her, she is accepted \u2013 it goes back to what I think one of the core truths and understanding sex as God designed it is this idea of naked and unashamed.\u00a0 Where a woman can stand there and feel that my husband is happy and pleased with me just as I am.\u00a0 He wouldn't be happier if I was taller, thinner, different shaped, whatever it might be.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So the more a woman feels loved, cherished, cared for, and accepted and made to feel experientially and otherwise that she is the sole object of desire for her husband, then the world will be the world, but a woman doesn't feel like she has to compete with the world because she's not getting that from her husband.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You know, it reminds me of another story of clients that came in one time after they had wanted to do something to spice up their sexual relationship, and so the woman had breast surgery, and there for a while was their relationship more exciting?\u00a0 Well, yeah, because she felt better about herself and had to buy new lingerie and clothes for her but, after a while, that experience wore off, and so now they're saying \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0What now?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Yeah.\u00a0 Her husband walked in another time and said, \"Honey, what are we going to do to spice up our sex life,\" and she literally pointed to her chest and said, \"I thought that's what we did.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But I had another couple I spoke with one time where the husband asked her, \"Honey, would you ever consider having cosmetic surgery?\"\u00a0 And so now how did she feel not only when she was naked in front of him in the future but even if \u2013 every time she feels like \"He's not happy with me.\u00a0 He wants something more.\" \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Where the flip side of that is the husband that completely accepts his wife loves her, encourages her, makes her feel that she is everything he desires.\u00a0 That woman will not struggle with feeling like she's an object when she walks out the door of the house.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0What I hear you saying is, and you vividly illustrated it by the woman pointing to her chest.\u00a0 Instead, we need to point to our head and our hearts.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That this issue of human sexuality and us being made in the image of God really begins with who we are as we relate to Him and how He made us and embracing God's design for how he made us male and female.\u00a0 And then male and female being two different people, again, made in the image of God but coming together in the most intimate act on the planet, sexual intercourse.\u00a0 To do that, those people have to grow in their understanding of who God is, how He made them, and what human sexuality is all about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I do think the Bible \u2013 it's interesting, the Bible is not silent on this subject.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTim:\u00a0Not at all.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0God included an entire book of the Bible, the Song of Solomon, that I hope we can explore further and later, Bob, around this subject, because God didn't stutter.\u00a0 He spoke very clearly about this.\u00a0 He was not ashamed at what takes place within the Christian bedroom.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And I think this is one of those areas where Romans 12:2 comes into play, where the Bible says that instead of being conformed by the culture, we need to be transformed by the renewing of our mind, and that means we need to think biblically about what God created in the area of marital intimacy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And a book like Tim's book, \"Sacred Sex,\" helps us do that.\u00a0 It takes us below the surface and into the heart and mind of God on a subject that is profound and is deep and is important and is essential for a healthy marriage relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We've got copies of Tim's book in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 I want to encourage our listeners, go to our website, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 In the middle of the home page you will find where the red button used to be, a red heart, because with Valentine's Day coming up next week, they decided to go ahead and put the heart on there. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So you click on that heart, it will take you right to the area of the site where you can get more information about the book, \"Sacred Sex,\" by our guest today, Tim Gardner.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There's also information about other resources available from FamilyLife related to intimacy and romance and passion including the Simply Romantic Nights resource that our team put together to help you with some very practical ways to express your care and your love and your devotion for one another.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Simply Romantic Nights is a series of a dozen romantic date nights for you and a dozen romantic date nights for your spouse \u2013 ways in which you can creatively express your love for one another.\u00a0 And if any of our listeners are interested in getting both Tim's book and the Simply Romantic Nights collection, we can send out at no additional cost the CD audio of our conversation this week with Tim Gardner.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Get all the details on our website at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 Click that red heart, or that red \"Go\" button that you see there in the middle of the screen, or call us at 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 That's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 If you have a particular issue or question related to romance and intimacy in marriage, ask somebody on our team and maybe they can recommend a resource that can help you with that specific issue in your marriage relationship.\u00a0 Again, our toll-free number is 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0One additional resource I want to mention, and this is something that we are making available as a thank you gift this month to folks who help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today with a donation of any amount.\u00a0 This is an audio CD that features two messages \u2013 one from Pastor C.J. Mahaney and the other from his wife, Carolyn Mahaney.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Carolyn talks to wives about how they can better understand their husband's romantic interests and needs, and C.J. helps us, as men, understand how we can more effectively express our love to our wives.\u00a0 We call the CD \"Romance Basics for Husbands and Wives,\" and we're sending it out again as our way of saying thank you this month when you make a donation of any amount for the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We're listener-supported so those donations are how we stay on the air in this city and in cities all across the country, and if you'd like to help us do that, you can make a donation online at FamilyLife.com, and when you make that donation online, if you'd like the CD I talked about just write the word \"love\" in the keycode box, and we'll know to send a copy of the CD out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Or call 1-800-FLTODAY, make your donation over the phone, and mention that you'd like the CD that is the thank you gift this month, and we'll be happy to send that out to you as well.\u00a0 And, again, let me say thanks for partnering with us in the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, tomorrow we're going to talk more with Tim Gardner about what God has in mind when it comes to intimacy, romance, and passion in a marriage relationship.\u00a0 We're going to talk about the covenant of marriage tomorrow.\u00a0 I hope you can be with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll see you back next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t_______________________________________________________________\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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