Article 9: Sex - Heckuva Way to Ratify a Covenant
Throughout History, God makes promises to people and seals them with Physical Signs:
1) God to Noah - Promise? God will not destroy all creatures by the waters of a flood - Physical sign of this promise? Rainbow (Gn 9:11-17)
2) God to Abram - Promise? God is giving Abram the Land of Canaan as a possession - Physical sign of this promise? While Abram is in a trance, God, represented by a smoking brazier and flaming torch, passes between halves of animals (Gn 15:1-21)
3) God to Abraham - Promise? God will give Abram many descendants and Abram will become the father of a host of nations. Physical sign of this promise? Every male, eight days or older must have the flesh of his foreskin circumcised. (Gn 17:1-27)
4) God to Moses and the People - Promise? God will be their God and they will be His People. Physical sign of the promise? After the people heard and accepted the book of the covenant, Moses took bull blood and sprinkled it on the people saying “This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these works of his.” (Ex 24:1-11)
5) God to the people through Jesus - Promise? The Kingdom of God is at Hand (God is close) through this man Jesus and people can get close to God through Jesus. Phsyical sign of this promise? The Last Supper where Jesus breaks bread and drinks wine and says “Take it, this is my body” and “This is my blood of the covenant which will be shed for many”. (Mk 14:22-25)
6) God to the first persons - Promise? To solve the problem of original loneliness. Physical sign of this promise? God creates man and woman for each other “and the two of them become one body” (Gn 2:4-25)
Human sex then becomes the original anthropological covenant between God and Humans. God promises us that he will give us “all that we need to be happy” and solve the problem of our original loneliness. The physical sign of this promise, is the bodies of the man and the woman. The man and woman ratify this covenant with God every time they have sex. And the man and woman honor God and this covenant when they honor the sexual act itself. For God loved man and woman so much that he gave them a distinctive gift. The Human Sexual act is the power to create something eternal out of nothing. No other creature in the universe shares this power. Humans are extraordinary, privileged, blessed. God has given us a legacy that he has not even shared with the Angels. And some of them have rebelled out of Jealousy. These Jealous and Fallen Angels do not want Man and Woman to Honor this extraordinary Power of Creative Love. These Fallen Angels do not want Man and Woman to Ratify this Covenant to Each Other.
Today, these Fallen Angels want us to think things like “I need sex between me and my wife to be exciting and different….I need random sex with other partners….I need sex without the fear of a child…..I need, I need, I need….” But of course, in the gift of that Man and Woman to each other he gave them the unique power to be Like God; to be in a relationship of Creative Love. Thus God gave us All that we Need to Be Happy.
So, God makes promises to us and throughout History he has established physical signs of these promises. There is no more fundamental promise then the promise of our creation; that God is a good and loving God and he has given us all that we need to be happy. And having Sex with our Spouses in a way that Honors This Awesome Creative Power is how we Ratify this Covenant Promise!
So, next time your wife is tired, tell her that when God gave Her to You He gave you everything you need to be Happy…..and that you would like to go Ratify a Covenant with Her :)
