060: Karam Ram – The Life of God and Human Sexuality

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With a short intro before hand
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talk.
You’re about to hear and now

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let’s hear more about this
week’s talk.

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This week’s talk is by our
brother Karim RAM and it’s

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titled the life of God and human
sexuality.

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It’s part 2 and a 2 parter that
he gave at a study Day in the UK

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at the surely Ecclesia called
holy.

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Holy H WL I holy, holy hly and
this talk was suggested to me

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after we played brother Joe
Miles as talk two weeks ago,

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which was actually from the same
weekend, and I was contacted

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saying He’s also listen to
brother Karen’s classes from

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that weekend really enjoyed
them.

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He specifically gotten in the
first class discusses how sex

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and sexuality outside of the
marriage bond is against the

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will of God and does not fulfill
what God wants or, you know,

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either symbolically or in any
way he talks about how it

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affects sex affects us mentally
physically emotionally.

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Silly and spiritually and when
abused and used outside of the

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design of God, it affects us
poorly in those ways in the

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second talk which is the one
I’ve played here.

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He talks about how God is a
relational and marriage God and

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how he’s commit he committed
himself to His People Israel and

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has now committed himself to us
and wants a marriage like

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relationship with us and he kind
of builds out that type to

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studying the word the Hebrew
word for know.

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Knowing and how God wants to
know us very symbolically in a

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sexual way.
It’s a excellent talk.

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I really enjoyed it at
definitely led me left me

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thinking and it’s going to stick
with me for a while.

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So I really did want to share
it.

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So this is that that second
class it is worth Annex claimer

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though that he does use fairly
specific words when talking

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about sex anatomic words, I
guess at near the end of the

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talk.
So I just wanted to touch the

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touch that as a disclaimer, but
still I think a very very

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beneficial study and that’s
really what it is.

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It is a study and an expansion
on an idea of what sex

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symbolizes and and how it should
be used and and a warning

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against how it should not be
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So here it is brother Karam Ram
from the Holy Holy weekend in

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2006.
My talk tonight is called the

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life of God.
And human sexuality.

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Okay, we touched on some of
these things this afternoon, but

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we’re going to develop them a
little bit more this evening.

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I want to talk about marriage.
Because it will help us to

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understand a lot of other things
if we understand what the Bible

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says about marriage.
Marriage in the Bible is more

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than just an actual contract in
which two people share a period

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of time worldly goods and a bed
together.

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You know, you can have civil
contracts now where you know two

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people of the same sex can be
inverted commas.

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Be married.
The point that I want to make is

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that that’s not really marriage
not in the sense that the Bible

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thinks of it.
As far as the Bible is concerned

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marriage biblical marriage is
the closest possible

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relationship between two people
because in marriage to a

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literally joined or glue
together to become one whole

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person.
Okay.

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So the the closest possible
relationship that you can have

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with another human being is
through marriage.

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There is no other way.
The most intimate relationship

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that you can have with another
human being is in marriage.

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Let’s just go to Genesis chapter
2 and have a look at this.

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Let’s just read from verse 21 to
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The Lord God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam and he slept

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and he took one of his ribs and
closed up the flesh instead

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thereof and the rib, which the
Lord God had taken from the man.

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He made a woman and brought her
unto the man.

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And Adam said this is now bone
of my bones Flesh of My Flesh.

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She shall be called woman
because she was taken out of

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man.
Therefore shall a man leave his

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father and his mother and shall
cleave unto his wife and they

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shall become one flesh and they
were both naked the man and his

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wife and they were not ashamed.
Just think about what this

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passage is saying we talked
about it this afternoon, but let

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me just remind you of some of
the points that came out of a

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discussion.
Adam who was made in the image

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of God Was separated into two
separate beings into Adam and

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Eve.
He wasn’t separated into Adam

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and to Yves or even into Adam
and Steve.

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Okay, but Adam and one Eve and
there is that profoundly Sublime

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moments and it’s it’s there in
in verse 23. when Adam

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recognizing himself because
that’s what Adam does he

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recognizes himself and he says
bone of my bones and Flesh of My

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Flesh.
I am thou and thou die.

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No distance, no fantasy.
No lust or foreknowledge

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intrudes here between the man
and his wife.

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There is only the Primal
recognition bone of my bones and

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Flesh of My Flesh and naked
before each other’s faces.

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They feel no sense of Shame no
sense of isolation in this state

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of total disclosure.
That completely insensible of

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each other’s awesomeness.
No shame of nakedness of

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Revelation exists in this state
of complete relation.

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How could they feel shame and
embarrassment in each other’s

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presence.
They were the same being now a

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United whole.
They say that a that a picture

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is worth a thousand words.
And so it is that the closest

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possible relationship between
God and the believer is also

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represented as a marriage.
Yes indeed.

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That is also a marriage as well.
This is why the Bible presents

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human marriage as a simile as an
image of the Union that God

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desires between himself and his
people God also wants to be one

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spirit with us. now that’s quite
an amazing idea when you start

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to think about it the God wants
exactly the same thing for

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himself and nothing from our
everyday experience gives us

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such a direct insight into God’s
life because marriage does

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Marriage is something that
really helps us to understand

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what can help us to understand
God and God’s life.

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Remember, we asked the question
this afternoon?

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Why does God say of Adam that it
is not good that the man should

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be alone.
Why does God say that?

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It’s because God recognizes
himself as a relational being as

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a marriage being.
God is a marriage thing.

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Profoundly, he is an atom was
made in His image.

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Adams Union with Eve was simply
just a picture of God’s desire

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to be with us to be married to
us to be married to human

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beings.
And this profound understanding

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of God’s character is the real
basis of biblical marriage.

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It’s not a case of giving God a
human qualities rather.

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Our experience of marriage is
actually an echo of the Creator

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who made us remember that we
were made in the image of God

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the Creator who made us who
created our universe who

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sustains everything who made
promises to the Patriarchs and

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has Future in mind for the world
that he created human marriage

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is just an echo of that.
I don’t know, you know, some of

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you are still fairly young here.
When I was a teenager.

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I didn’t grow up in a Christian
background actually came from a

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an Indian family but reading my
Bible for the first time.

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I was really struck by books in
the Bible like Jeremiah and like

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Ezekiel and Hosea the describe
God’s relationship with Israel

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as a marriage.
I used to read 60 Jose Jose.

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I was the one that I used to
read and I used to think.

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This is really weird.
I don’t understand this.

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Why does God talk about himself
being married to Israel?

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And the first I used to think
that this was just presumptuous

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that this was just the Hebrew
Hebrew Prophets.

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You Know making perhaps a great
deal maybe too much of God’s

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relationship with Israel.
Later on.

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I used to think that it was an
example of forgive the long word

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here anthropomorphism.
Now how many speakers get that

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into their toxic?
But then later I realized that

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God himself is a profoundly
relational being.

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Remember, what what Moses said
in Deuteronomy chapter 10 have a

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look just come with me.
Deuteronomy chapter 10 I’m verse

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20.
This is what Moses says to

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Israel.
He says Thou shalt fear the lord

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thy God and him shalt thou serve
and to him shall cleave and by

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his name Shield, I swear.
Okay, look at what it says there

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and to him shall cleave.
That’s exactly the same word

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that’s used to describe the
relationship between Adam and

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Eve in Genesis chapter 2.
Therefore shall a man leave his

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father and his mother and shall
cleave or be joined to his wife.

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Moses exalted Israel to cleave
to the Lord their God using

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exactly the same verb that
speaks of Adam and Eve cleaving

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to each other.
They were to stick to God be one

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with him in the same way that
Adam and Eve were to be one with

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each other.
The point is is that Adam and

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Eve in Genesis chapter 2 are the
closest picture that will get

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before Jesus returns of the
relationship that God wants with

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us.
Have you ever thought about it?

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The God wants to be married to
you.

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Have you ever thought about
that, but you could be one

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spirit with God?
Think about it.

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We may think that that Adam and
Eve were were just getting

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married.
We may think the Genesis chapter

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2 is only about marriage, but
actually what they’re doing is

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that they’re acting out
something for their and for our

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benefit as well.
Their marriage was a simile it

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was the picture of God’s
compassion God’s grace God’s

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patience God’s faithful loving
kindness towards us and our

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response of faithfulness and
worship to God Adam and Eve

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represented us and God and the
relationship that the God wants

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with us and relationship that we
should have with with God their

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relationship was the picture of
God’s desire to be with us.

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Adam was in the image of God.
He was God in the image of God.

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A truly wonderful and profound
thing.

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One of the Psalms says let all
the angels of God worship him

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which is actually applied to
Christ was probably originally

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about Adam as the image is the
representative of God who had

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rulership and dominion over all
creation.

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Adam was in the image of God in
this symbolic biblical exchange

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and Eve was the Israel or the
church or the bride of Christ

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the Israel of God the faithful
community of God.

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This is all about God really
everything in the Bible is

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really about God. in their love
in in the in the relationship

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that existed between Adam and
Eve which is described in terms

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of Flesh of My Flesh and bone of
my bones and that sense of there

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being no self-consciousness.
In that love the glory of God’s

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life was present among them.
They were the first Ecclesia.

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They were the first Jerusalem.
In the New Testament Eve as the

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as the wife of the private bride
of Adam is presented remember as

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a figure of the Ecclesia the
congregation of the community of

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Believers whose head or husband
is Christ have a look at

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Ephesians chapter 5.
Look at the way that Paul uses

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Genesis chapter 2 Ephesians
chapter 5 and verse verse 23 for

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the husband is the head of the
wife as Christ also is the head

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of the church being himself the
savior of the body, but as the

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church is subject to Christ.
So let the wives also be be to

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their husbands in everything
husbands.

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Love your wives even as Christ
also loved the church and gave

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himself up for it that he might
sanctify her having cleansed it

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by the washing of water and the
word that he might present the

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church to himself.
Glorious church not having spot

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or wrinkle or any such thing,
but it should be holy and

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without blemish.
It’s interesting that Paul there

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talks about the relationship
between Christ and the church in

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terms of a marriage.
Okay?

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It’s very much a marriage.
But have a look at have a look

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at verse 30.
For we are members notice now of

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his body of his flesh of his
bones notice the Illusions.

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They’re back to Genesis chapter
2 for this cause shall a man

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leave his father and his mother
and shall be joined on to his

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wife or as the revised version
says shall cleave to his wife

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and the two shall become one
flesh.

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Remember that this just Adam And
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he’s there was only one atom and
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This mystery is great.
But I speak in regard of Christ

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and of the church nevertheless
let every one of you in

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particular.
So love his wife even as himself

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and let the wife see that she
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Just look at those verses again
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quotes Genesis chapter 2 in
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but I’m actually talking about
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I’m not actually talking about
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I’m actually talking about
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nevertheless he says.
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reverences her loves his wife
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her husband.
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So what I want you to notice
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this up from Genesis chapter 2
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relationship between Christ and
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He’s as the Bride of Adam is
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Ecclesia the congregation or the
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head or husband is Christ.
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reading Genesis 2 in this way,
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marriage between Believers.
He states that Genesis is really

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speaking of Christ’s
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and the consequent relationship
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believers who are part of the
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verse 32 tells us Have a look at
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a look at this for a moment.
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and look what it says here.
And I John saw the holy city New

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Jerusalem coming down out of
Heaven from God made ready

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notice.
As a bride adorned for her

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husband.
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the throne saying behold the
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and he shall dwell with them and
they shall be his people and God

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himself shall be with them and
be their God. and if we just

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move over now to verse 9 and
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Angels who had the seven balls
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last plagues and he spake with
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I will show Thee the bride right
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the wife of the Lamb.
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spirit to a mountain great and
high and showed me the Holy City

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Jerusalem coming down out of
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The singer of the Bride of the
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used in Revelation in this
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with the terms Holy City.
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with the idea of the Tabernacle
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What does that mean?
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Why do we start off by talking
about marriage and then all of a

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sudden were talking about Christ
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Where’s the slippage?
The point is that these terms

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holy city New Jerusalem, the
Tabernacle of God these terms

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are motives for the community of
God for the people of God the

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community of God in its highest
and most idealized sense in

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fellowship with God.
This is the consistency this is

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consistent with the use of the
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Testament not just as a place or
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God’s relationship with his
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personal sense, and we could
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the book of Isaiah.
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The point is is that Genesis
chapter 2 isn’t just talking

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about marriage.
Is talking about the community

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of God?
in fellowship with God

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sustaining and having within it
the attributes and the qualities

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of God.
You may think that you have to

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be married to be in God’s image.
That’s the question that’s

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cropped up a couple of times in
some of the discussions that

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I’ve had because obviously, you
know, this very much gives that

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impression here is got you makes
man in his own image Adam and

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Eve are then Adam is then
separated into Adam and Eve and

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then we have even brought to
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And Adam said she’s bone of my
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the passage says therefore shall
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they two shall become one flesh
and being one flesh there in the

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image of God.
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This is the point that we are
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You may think that you have to
be married to be in God’s image,

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but you can be part of Eve.
You can be part of the Ecclesia

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in fellowship.
And so manifest squats God’s

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qualities.
Amongst the community of fellow

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Believers and in that way you
can be married to Christ and

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that’s something that we haven’t
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Really.
I think Andrew may have sort of

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mentioned it in passing in his
talk the idea that you could

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actually be married to Christ.
Remember what I said at the

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start of this talk God wants to
be married to us.

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It’s all about marriage.
It’s all about marriage all the

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way through God is a marriage
being Christ wants to be married

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to his people he wants to have
Union with Now I want you to

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think about what I’m going to
say now very carefully because I

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think this is really important.
The most profound and intimate

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Act of relation between a
husband and a wife is described

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in the Bible as knowing right?
Remember we put up some of the

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phrases that the Bible uses.
But in its most profound sense,

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it is an act of knowing.
Of knowledge of disclosure to

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become one flesh to be intimate
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And again, I put it to you that
this is exactly what God wants

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with you.
He wants that intimacy.

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He wants to know you and he
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Remember what God Said to
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He said to them.
He said of all the families of

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the earth only you have I known.
And the verb that God uses

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there.
Is exactly the same verb that’s

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used to describe the act of
sexual intercourse between a man

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and his wife.
God says to Israel only you have

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I known.
It’s the the Hebrew word yada.

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But I want you to have a look at
this passage Jeremiah says he

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won’t have a look.
Marriage is a wonderful thing.

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Human sexuality is a wonderful
thing in the proper context and

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because it derives itself from
God himself Jeremiah 31 and

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verse 33 and I want you to To
read these words very carefully.

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But this should be the Covenant
that I will make with the house

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of Israel.
God is also the god of

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covenants.
God is always making

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arrangements in relationships
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They shall be the Covenant that
I will make with the house of

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Israel after those days.
Saith the Lord and look at What

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God Says I will put my law.
In their inward parts and write

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it in their hearts and will be
their God and they shall be my

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people and they shall teach no
more every man his neighbor and

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every man his brother saying
know the Lord for they shall all

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know me from the least of them
unto the greatest of them.

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Saith the Lord for I will
forgive their iniquity and I

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will remember their sin no more.
Look what God is saying here is

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a wonderful thing the New
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God says I will put my law I’m
going to put my law in their

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minds and in their inward parts,
and they shall know me.

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What was the law of Moses
written on?

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tables of stone The law was no
longer going to be written on

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tables of stone.
But instead what God was going

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to do was that he was going to
put it inside them.

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God was going to put his law
inside them and that’s notice

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what Jeremiah 31 their says,
that’s how they would know God.

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God was going to put his law
inside them and that’s how they

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would know him.
They shall teach no more every

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man his Neighbour and every man
his brother saying know the Lord

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for they shall all know me from
the least onto them to the

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greatest of them.
Saith the Lord why because he

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was going to put his law inside
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I don’t know whether you’ve ever
thought about it.

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But what God is saying or what
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Is that the Ten Commandments?
What God’s seed?

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The Ten Commandments were God’s
seed they contained they contain

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God’s DNA.
What is the structure of God’s

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DNA is it a double helix?
Isn’t it rather his compassion?

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His graciousness his patience
his faithful loving kindness.

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And remember what John says and
he that is born of God does not

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commit sin because his seed
God’s seed remains in him.

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This is precisely what God wants
with us not just for us to know

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about him, but God wants us to
know him and he wants to know

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us.
So wonderful thing.

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This is what human marriage
draws itself from.

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This is what human marriage is a
picture of this is what human

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marriage is based on God’s
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And if in a marriage to
individuals only appreciated the

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mere facts about each other.
If that’s all they appreciated

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it wouldn’t be much of a
relationship. knowing about each

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other helps to build a
relationship, but it isn’t the

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essence of it marriage demands
knowing each other in a far more

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intimate way and that act of
knowing Should profoundly alter

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the individuals concerned
forever.

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It should alter them mentally
emotionally physically and

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spiritually remember what we
said this afternoon. intimacy

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physically emotionally
spiritually mentally God wants

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to know us God wants us to know
him.

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He doesn’t just want us to know
about him.

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I think collectively were very
good about knowing about God,

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you know, we can reel off all
the verses.

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But knowing god.
Knowing god in a personal way in

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the way that a man might know
his wife or in the way that a

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wife might know her husband is a
very different kettle of fish.

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It’s about taking into ourselves
God’s seed remember the the DNA

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of God the Ten Commandments God
qualities and characteristics

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knowing each other is different
to knowing about each other

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knowing each other when two
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They are altered they are
changed by their intimacy with

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each other.
It should change the way a

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husband and wife feel about each
other and themselves.

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They should become one being.
You know when I was when I was a

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bachelor, I didn’t really like
art.

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I didn’t really sort of like
coffee but my wife for instance

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likes art and coffee and wasn’t
an amazing thing that I learned

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to like art and I learn to like
coffee as well.

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You know when you’re in that
relationship with somebody.

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You take home some of those
characteristics, you know you

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grow together you change
together.

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And this also is profoundly the
knowing that God wants of us.

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This is the knowing that God
wants of us not just mere

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academic facts or apologetics,
but God wants to fill you.

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He wants to inseminate you.
He wants to fill me.

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He wants to inseminate me with
his word with his DNA.

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God wants to change me and God
wants to change you.

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He that is born of God does not
commit sin because his seed

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abides in him.
God doesn’t want me at academic

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facts or apologetics.
We may be able to make a

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thousand interconnections
between the Book of Revelation

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and the rest of the Bible.
But if we don’t know God it’s

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not worth a single penny.
Knowing god is what it’s all

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about.
He wants to fill us so that

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we’re altered mentally
emotionally physically and

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spiritually this is the true
knowledge or knowing of God.

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It’s a radical conception of
knowledge.

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It really is a radical
conception of knowledge

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transcending me enosis
transcending mere acquisition

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facts this type of knowing this
knowing of God is life eternal.

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Remember what Jesus says in John
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This is life eternal.
That they might Know Thee the

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only true God and Jesus Christ
whom thou Hast sent.

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Human sexuality when properly
conducted within the context of

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marriage should remind us that
this is precisely what God wants

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with us.
When God divided Adam into two

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separate beings as I said
earlier on she created a force

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whose real power is only really
clearly expressed in the Song of

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Solomon.
Which is the most logical book

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of the whole of the Bible set me
as a seal upon thine heart as a

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seal upon thine arms for love is
as strong as death jealousy is

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as cruel as the grave the
flashes thereof are flashes of

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fire of very flame of Yahweh.
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