This was a good video. Pregnancy should ONLY be allowed to result if both parents are ready and desiring of BOTH creating offspring AND becoming parents. If that is not the present tense situation then preventing conception is the only spiritually appropriate course of action.
It’s up to each individual to decide if they should have children. But God did not design childbearing to be like a death sentence for us. After all, the process of childbearing starts with a loving husband and wife who has come together as one flesh in marriage. Although God says a woman is to submit to her husband, likewise a husband has to love his wife in order for her to submit willingly. And when this relationship works out well, it is actually both persons submitting to each other. Marriage is about giving yourself fully to your spouse, and it clearly also means giving of your nakedness and your sexuality to your spouse. God has designed marriage in that way because the world has fallen into sin. Marriage helps men and women to satisfy their sexual desires in a lawful way with that one special partner which you have been joined together with till death. Pregnancy occurs when we enjoy God’s gift of sex with our spouse without the use of birth control. In essence, it is about man and woman who come together with lots of love for each other to the extent of partaking in the most intimate form of expressing love; which is sexual intercourse or love making. When the woman conceives the child, she knows that this child is a biological product of her husband and herself. Men only contribute through love making to fertilise the egg, but women are the ones who carry the child inside her body. She nourishes the child and feel it getting larger and heavier by the day. She feels the movements of her child and witness the wonderful way that God has created her body to be able to stretch and carry the child. This child is a gift of love to its parents because they loved each other. And no one is ever ready to have children. It comes naturally and one will just learn along the way. And if they have a subsequent pregnancy, they will realise how prepared they actually are because of their learning experience in the first pregnancy.
Your comment is a complete non-sequitur @@CadenMcMullen. Perhaps you are a Catholic and obey the Church regarding their rule that the only point of marriage is procreation. There is nothing automatically "spiritually mature" about desiring to become a parent. There is nothing automatically "spiritually immature" about desiring sexual pleasure without procreation. (The RCC definition not withstanding. Their rules are for being a member in good standing of their organization. There is nothing "absolutely true" about their rules as far as any non-member is concerned.)
I done disagree with this. Who decides Kingdom reasons... Us? I don't think so. "we determined that for God's longterm purposes for us..." Whoa Whoa, you also determine your longterm purposes for God? No no no. Be fruitful and multiply is the first command of the Bible and it never stopped being a command. And you are not told to take your life into your own hands but trust in the one who provides the birds with food: How much more will he provide for you AND your children. Have kids. Please have kids.
This was a good video.
Pregnancy should ONLY be allowed to result if both parents are ready and desiring of BOTH creating offspring AND becoming parents.
If that is not the present tense situation then preventing conception is the only spiritually appropriate course of action.
It’s up to each individual to decide if they should have children. But God did not design childbearing to be like a death sentence for us. After all, the process of childbearing starts with a loving husband and wife who has come together as one flesh in marriage. Although God says a woman is to submit to her husband, likewise a husband has to love his wife in order for her to submit willingly. And when this relationship works out well, it is actually both persons submitting to each other. Marriage is about giving yourself fully to your spouse, and it clearly also means giving of your nakedness and your sexuality to your spouse. God has designed marriage in that way because the world has fallen into sin. Marriage helps men and women to satisfy their sexual desires in a lawful way with that one special partner which you have been joined together with till death. Pregnancy occurs when we enjoy God’s gift of sex with our spouse without the use of birth control. In essence, it is about man and woman who come together with lots of love for each other to the extent of partaking in the most intimate form of expressing love; which is sexual intercourse or love making. When the woman conceives the child, she knows that this child is a biological product of her husband and herself. Men only contribute through love making to fertilise the egg, but women are the ones who carry the child inside her body. She nourishes the child and feel it getting larger and heavier by the day. She feels the movements of her child and witness the wonderful way that God has created her body to be able to stretch and carry the child. This child is a gift of love to its parents because they loved each other. And no one is ever ready to have children. It comes naturally and one will just learn along the way. And if they have a subsequent pregnancy, they will realise how prepared they actually are because of their learning experience in the first pregnancy.
Why are you getting married if you are not spiritually mature?
Your comment is a complete non-sequitur @@CadenMcMullen.
Perhaps you are a Catholic and obey the Church regarding their rule that the only point of marriage is procreation.
There is nothing automatically "spiritually mature" about desiring to become a parent.
There is nothing automatically "spiritually immature" about desiring sexual pleasure without procreation.
(The RCC definition not withstanding.
Their rules are for being a member in good standing of their organization.
There is nothing "absolutely true" about their rules as far as any non-member is concerned.)
Thank you so much for this, it proved helpful!
What a funny episode ! Thank you Pastor John !
Thank you!
1st comment 😁
Hugely useful!
I done disagree with this. Who decides Kingdom reasons... Us? I don't think so. "we determined that for God's longterm purposes for us..." Whoa Whoa, you also determine your longterm purposes for God? No no no. Be fruitful and multiply is the first command of the Bible and it never stopped being a command. And you are not told to take your life into your own hands but trust in the one who provides the birds with food: How much more will he provide for you AND your children. Have kids. Please have kids.
It's not right for everyone.
Nice insight
I had the same question too....
I was just thinking about this yesterday...woah
Me too
This has nothing to do w Christianity. Couple can have kids when they darn well want to.
Agreed
Did you at all listen to what he said?
Nope sorryyy GOD said I have other plans for you to fulfill before becoming a mother
Y’all baptized? 😂