MUTUAL MARITAL SANCTIFICATION
Chibuogwu Onyemaechi
ICT-Pro || M.Sc-graduate at University of Huddersfield || Christ Jesus Crucified Ambassador
God created human being in His own image and likeness BUT MAN IS NOT GOD
Man is a creature of GOD and remains a creature (an object/vessel of use for GOD to glorify HIMSELF) NOT FOR HIM TO BE A GOD
But in creating man in His own image; Man is like a container carrying a content
The content that man carries is GOD
which differentiates man from every other creature
this is what makes man to be eternal like GOD
being eternal is that man has a soul and a spirit like GOD
which does not die by biological death but lives-on after biological death either with eternal life in Heaven with God or eternal death in hell-fire(the eternal place/position of God’s wrath)
Hence man is a spirit which has a soul but dwells in a mortal-body.
Man is not the physical or mortal-body that we see;
hence through His Spirit; He can enter the spiritual realm(Heaven/Hades/Hell-fire) even while he is still present in this physical body to fulfill some specific task or commune with the spirits just like Jesus physically hanging on the Cross but spiritually subjected into the eternal punishment of hell-fire for sin because He was carrying human sin upon his body
which some theologians call separation from the GOD-HEAD which is not actually true because if Jesus separated from the God-head in 1-second; He cannot be said to be GOD because God cannot be separated from HIS GOD-NATURE EVEN IN 1 SECOND BECAUSE HE REMAINS GOD FOREVER AND EVER
thus His Father called him GOD in Hebrews 1:8
thus
“But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.” (Hebrews 1:8 )
Another example is John the apostle in Revelation who was in the human body in the Island of Patmos and at the same time in Heaven seeing all that was happening there, wrote them down and shared with us as the book of revelation
also what Daniel saw and recorded in the prophetic book of Daniel
also Paul confirmed how he was carried into Heaven and shown mysteries that he was not permitted to communicate in human language.
The man that God created was sexual and remains sexual being
since every good and perfect gift comes from God; sexual-desire is holy, pure and beautiful in the eyes of God;
but it was meant only for married man and woman for procreation and pleasure
since it is God who gave man this gift whenever married couple are having sexual intimacy that is pure and holy; they are giving GOD PLEASURE PRIMARILY not even themselves primarily thus ” Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for *thou hast created all things*, and for thy pleasure they are(in existence/manifestation) and were created .” (Revelations 4:11 KJV)
Pure sexual intimacy for married couple sees both spouse as Christ body being poured into each other not just object of sexual-gratification or lust hence
“Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock.
5 For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God.
6 So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them,
7 And Tobias said: Lord God of our father, may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy creatures that are in them, bless thee.
8 Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper.
9 And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever.
10 Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow old both together in health .” (Tobit 8:4-10 DRA)
hence sexual penetration for born-again does not have anything to do with anal-sex, video-sex, oral-sex, condom, contraceptive-pills, withdrawal-methods, party, adultery, pornography, masturbation, e.t.c. but a sincere body to body; soul to soul and spirit to spirit POURING INTO EACH OTHER AS CHRIST POURED HIMSELF INTO US ON THE CROSS WITHOUT WITHHOLDING ANY PART OF HIMSELF FROM US just like GOD also gave HIS SON COMPLETELY TO US without withholding any part of HIM to us(human beings) this can be seen in the following scriptures
“He that spared(withheld) not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?” (Romans 8:32 DRA)
“Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
22 Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.
23 For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, Himself the Savior of [His] body.
24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
26 So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word,
27 That He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless].
28 Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
29 For no man ever hated his own flesh(body), but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
30 Because we are members (parts) of His body.
31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
32 This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church.
33 However, *let each man of you [without exception] love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly] * .” (Ephesians 5: 21-33 AMPC)
If you read through this passage especially in the bolded words, you will see the sanctification of each others body, soul and spirit that takes place when couples joined in Christ just like Jesus death on the Cross and Resurrection merged/joined humanity in an intimate love affair with THE GOD-HEAD takes place
The fluid coming out of each others sexual organ is the washing of the water by the word
Each others body is the water;
each couples body being the body of Christ by faith is THE WORD.
Both the man and his wife wash each others soul, spirit and body IN CHRIST BY FAITH with the LIVING WORD OF GOD/ETERNAL LIFE dwelling consistently and progressively by faith through your daily bible studies and quiet-time with the Holy Spirit thus we are born-again by the living word of God which is incorruptible (1 Peter 1:23)
hence anything that we stop any of the couple from pouring into each others soul, spirit and body unreservedly is sin and unacceptable as strange fire on the marital intimacy/bed/altar for Christian couples just as I have earlier listed some of them above.
At the same time; this sexual intimacy between those who were joined by faith in Christ not by chance/priest/pastor/fake-prophecy/fake-vision/personal-sentiments/personal-selfishness is THE HIGHEST PRAYER THAT GIVES GOD PLEASURE AND SANCTIFIES BOTH COUPLE AND THEIR CHILDREN/FAMILY AND THE WHOLE WORLD (Heavens/earth/underworld)
This is why the devil has introduced alot of these strange fires/ideas/styles in marriages to deprive God from receiving this pleasurable sacrifice and not allow couples to sanctify their soul, body and spirit as well as children and families and whole universe according to *the perfect-will of God for creating sexual desire in mankind and marriages between a man and a woman
hence all these sexual sins like homosexuality, lesbianism, abortions, contraceptive-pills, condoms, fornication, adultery, masturbation, pornography, video-sex, sex-toys, anal-sex, oral-sex, withdrawal-methods, abortions, bestiality, voyeurism, exhibitionism’s e.t.c.
The citation he gave about Paul calling people to become celibate is a misinterpretation because GOD SAW THAT IT WAS NOT GOOD FOR MAN TO BE ALONE BUT I WILL MAKE HIM A HELPER THAT IS SUITABLE FOR HIM
“Now the Lord God said, It is not good (sufficient, satisfactory) that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.” (Genesis 2:18 AMPC)
So marriage is good FROM GOD’S ORIGINAL PLAN.
Not minding all the unfruitful marriage or bad stories that is seen in marriages all over the world today
GODS WORD IS TRUTH every other thing that can be seen in the physical or spiritual realm remains the LIE
God meant marriage for sexual intimacy between man and woman thus
“And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air and to every [wild] beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and while he slept, He took one of his ribs or a part of his side and closed up the [place with] flesh.
22 And the rib or part of his side which the Lord God had taken from the man He built up and made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
23 Then Adam said, This [creature] is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of a man.
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not embarrassed or ashamed in each other’s presence.” (Genesis 2: 20-25 AMPC)
Genesis 2:20 declares God’s observation that none of the other created things could be a helper to man,
then God created a woman to be his helper just like the Holy Spirit is our helper and GOD; a wife is a physical aspect of God’s Holy Spirit for a man so also is the husband towards his wife
verse-24 talks about both man and woman leaving their parents to CLEAVE IN THE FLESH; this is sexual intimacy for married couple. It is also means that *both intended couple should depart/surrender all the ideology concerning marriage which they acquired from their parents/lineage/customs/traditions/culture and submit to the Holy Spirit who will help them build their own NEW UNIQUE MATRIMONY IN CHRIST JESUS CRUCIFIED*
then verse-25 confirms it by saying both of them were naked in the presence of each other and they were not ashamed which defines both naked of body, soul and spirit between a man and a woman who are joined in marriage through faith in Jesus Christ Crucified
the man or woman should not keep secrets from each other unless what the Holy Spirit tells them to keep as secrets which is usually about THE MYSTERIES OF GOD AND THE GOSPELS FOR GOD’S DESTINED TIME not things concerning their marriage. None of the couple should also deny each other sexual intimacy.
Jesus being quoted as speaking about everybody remaining unmarried/eunuch is also a misinterpretation from some teachers according to Matthew 19:10-12
Jesus was not married because it was How He was born (agreed with the God-head) that when He takes human body; He will not engage in human marriage with a woman but A SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE with all human being through His death on the Cross and His Resurrection just as we saw in Ephesians 5 above
then here in these scriptures
“And I, if and when I am lifted up from the earth [on the cross], will draw and attract all men [Gentiles as well as Jews] to Myself .” (John 12:32 AMPC)
“And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert [on a pole], so must [so it is necessary that] the Son of Man be lifted up [on the cross],
15 In order that everyone who believes in Him [who cleaves to Him, trusts Him, and relies on Him] may not perish, but have eternal life and [actually] live forever!
16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
17 For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.
18 He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation—he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ’s name.]” (John 3:14-18 AMPC)
Those who are born-eunuch are those whom God designed that they will not marry; which is the last category in that bible passage of Matthew 19:10-12 but yet they have the free-will to agree or disagree with God’s prefect-will for them *before the foundation of the world just like angels were not created to have sexual intimacy but they have free-will which some of them used to choose disobedience to God’s will in Genesis 6 hence they began to have sex with human females and got married to them and were dethroned from God’s service as angels
So also with men or women whom God has designed not to marry for the sake of His kingdom like Jesus, Paul, John, 4-daughters of Philip the deacon who were prophetess and unmarried in the early church in Acts 21:8-9
but it does not mean they do not have sexual organs or sexual desires or cannot have sex or that sex was a sin for them if they should marry.
Jesus is the 2nd person of the Trinity who created man; gave him marriage, sexual desires and sexual intimacy as A HOLY GIFT AND A PERFECT GIFT even said a member of the God-head that He hates divorce (Malachi 2:14-16)
Prompted by the Holy Spirit, Solomon declared that married couple should drink from the bossom of their wives which is also confirming God’s approval for sexual intimacy between married couple
The forbidden fruit in eden remains a literal word which connotes disobedience NOT SEX
Because Jesus declared in Matthew 5:27-28 that looking at a woman or man who is clothed/dressed with a desire to have sex with him/her is already considered sexual intimacy between the person having such imaginations and the person being imagined whether physically/videos/pictures/magazines/write-ups/novels/songs/images hence if you have such imaginations with someone who is not your legally married couple/spouse through faith in Christ Jesus Crucified it is considered sin in heaven/earth/underworld.
Then Adam and his wife had already cleaved to each others’ body as ONE in Genesis 2:24 then saw each others unclothedness not just imaginations and they were not ashamed/guilty nor had guilty conscience in Genesis 2:25 before they ate the forbidden fruit in Genesis 3:6-7.
hence the forbidden fruit is not sex
In Genesis 1:26-28; God made man and woman in His own image; gave them instruction to multiply and subdue the earth which means reproduction in human beings that is achievable through penetrative sexual intimacy between the sexual organs of both male and female between their legs AS GOD CAUSES SUCH ACT of total self giving of the soul, spirit and body to MANIFEST FERTILIZATION BETWEEN THE MALE SEX-CELL AND THE FEMALE SEX-CELL
thus
“And Adam knew Eve as his wife, and she became pregnant and bore Cain; and she said, I have gotten and gained a man with the help of the Lord.” (Genesis 4:1)
This (???)
is the Hebrew word for knowledge in Genesis 4:1
which also means expertise and know-how
apart from just knowledge which defines that both the man and the woman now knew how to use each others body and unclothedness and imaginations/inspirations of GOD’s life within them to obtain pregnancy and a child
hence those who are not married are not more holy than those who are married because they do not have sexual intimacy
all those who believe in Jesus Christ Crucified are SONS/EQUAL-MATES whether the Holy Spirit calls them to marriage or celibacy hence NO BELIEVER IS A GRAND-SON OR LOWER-ANOINTING OR UNHOLY BECAUSE OF MATRIMONIAL SEXUAL INTIMACY;
thus “But as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:12-13 KJV)
Great Grace Brethren!!!
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