Mark 12:18-27

Marriage is designed to reflect the fact that God is a covenant keeping God.

Marriage on earth, as we know it, will come to an end.

A call to singleness and celibacy is a temporal anticipation of the resurrected life.

I. Singleness is a gift of God.

II. Singleness has advantages.

III. Singleness is hard.

IV. Singleness is not permanent.

Genesis 2:21-25

All of the current questions in our culture are not about sex. They are about the human body and God’s original design and purpose.

The world sees marriage as a commodity. God sees marriage as a covenant.

I. Called to freedom (examine our nakedness)

II. Called to marriage and childbirth (echoing the Trinity)

Whatever forces us inward toward autonomy creates more guilt, fear
and shame. Whatever forces us toward God and one another produces freedom.

III. Called to self-donation

Matthew 19:1-12

1. We have a body!

2. Adam before the fall.

Just because the first Adam failed and our world is broken doesn’t
mean the original design and standard for sex, marriage and the body
has changed.

3. Adam as image - bearer.