1. God’s Gift of Love

2. When you want to give your spouse, your children, your family, your friend, a gift, you have to make a lot of thinking … how can my gift give happiness to that person?

3. That’s exactly what God did when He created Adam and wanted to give him a LOVELY GIFT….

4. So God created the woman, for the happiness of mankind, exactly the same way you think of getting a gift for the person you love.

5. But why did HE create us in the first place…..
The main reason is

6. Our Lord is
THE GREATEST ENERGY OF LOVE
HE LOVED US,
THIS IS WHY HE CREATED US
ON HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS….
AN ENERGY OF LOVE

7. However, God created man and woman having TWO NATURES
Body Soul
God created Man and Woman to live in a state of LOVE, using both
Body + Soul/Spirit

8. The spiritual and physical expression of
that God created in Man and Woman from day one =
SEX

9. So our Lord wanted Human Beings to enjoy SEX in a Love relationship ….
MAN WOMAN

10. He then ordered them to live in
LOVE UNION

11. LIVING IN HARMONY + IN UNITY AND IN LOVE
So there was
GOD
MAN WOMAN
LIVING IN HARMONY + IN UNITY AND IN LOVE

12. God gave man ONE COMMANDMENT
“DON’T EAT FROM THIS FRUIT OTHERWISE YOU WILL DIE…”
(death here is being separated from The Lord)
But …. both of them disobeyed

13. At this same moment …
They were no longer ONE with the LORD
They betrayed HIS LOVE
They broke the UNION between them and the LORD, by the SIN of THEIR DISOBEDIENCE….
And MAN felt NAKED

14. When MAN’s BODY got disgraced and corrupted by Disobeying the Lord … (SIN), this body was doomed to DEATH
But our LORD who is full of LOVE, wouldn’t leave us to suffer far away from HIM….
HE planned to bring us back to our original state of UNION & Happiness with/in HIM…

15. HE MADE a GREAT ACT OF
The ONLY WAY that OUR BODIES could be MADE HOLY ONCE MORE …. Was through …
Jesus Christ HIMSELF taking up OUR BODIES … our flesh
Coming to us on EARTH to RESTORE our FALLEN NATURE and FALLEN BODIES

16. When Jesus came to our earth and took our OWN FLESH …
HE made our bodies HOLY ONCE MORE…

17. But our Lord gave us ONE other COMMANDMENT
Sex is NOT TO BE PRACTICED EXCEPT IN MARRIAGE …
Christ calls it: Holy Matrimony

18. It is a return to the original state of Heaven
GOD
MAN WOMAN
LIVING IN HARMONY + IN UNITY AND IN LOVE
IN HOLY MATRIMONY

19. This is what does Christianity tell us about our bodies.
Christianity tells us that our …
body is Holy …

20. But why is my body holy? My Body is HOLY because
1 – It is the work of GOD… He made it
2 – Christ came in flesh and took our same Body
3 - Our Body receives the Holy Sacraments

21. 1 – My body is the work of GOD
HE MADE IT … in HIS LIKENESS …
& HE is HOLY … Therefore my body is HOLY
Let’s see what the Bible tells us:
"Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness …”Genesis 1:31
When God created everything that He made, He saw that it was very good… Genesis 1:26-29

22. 2- Christ came in flesh and took my same body
"The word became flesh and dwelt amongst us…" (John 1 :14)
Even after Ascending, our Lord chose to continue dwelling in our bodies, through His Holy Spirit which we receive from the very first moment we are BAPTIZED!!!
This is HIS WILL and HIS DECISION from the very BEGINNING, and HE SURELY IS INSISTING ON IT
For HE LOVES US and wants to be with us ALL the TIME

23. 3- My body receives the Holy Sacraments
Sacrament means that God is using a physical object to SANCTIFY it = to MAKE IT SACRED
1 – In Baptism (He makes water holy & makes US HOLY)
2 – In Communion (He makes bread and wine holy & makes US HOLY)
3 – In Holy Matrimony (He makes the relationship between Husband and Wife HOLY)

24. What does the LORD tell us in His Bible?
"Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; Therefore glorify God in your body." (1Corinth 6:19)

25. Glorifying Our Bodies… How?
The goal we have to put ahead of us is that God’s will is not just abstaining from wrong, but our PURITY and HOLINESS

26. The body is like anything else in the world… It is two-sided, you can either:
Use it in accordance to God's will (SEX IS TO BE PRACTICED ONLY WITHIN MARRIAGE) or
Abuse it in an evil manner (do whatever you wish and practice sex as we like, disregarding what the LORD tells us)

27. What happens when we Abuse our Bodies
We show…disrespect …
hatred …scorn … to our bodies
To the other person
and… MORE IMPORTANTLY
To God, our LORD, who LIVES INSIDE US through His Holy Spirit that teaches us Love and Holiness

28. But … What does Jesus want….
Jesus wants us to be in full control over our bodies …
As it is said, the Lord will punish men for all sins
We have been warned that He is the ‘avenger’ …especially in this sin

29. Now, IS IT possible for me AFTER KNOWING ALL THIS to disgrace this body… WHETHER MINE OR SOMEONE ELSE’S !!!
OUR BODIES HAVE TO REMAIN HOLY

30. Sex is an energy of Love…not Lust
So Sex in human beings is one of the ways of explaining how our God is “A God of Love”
What do you think was God’s aim in putting that love energy inside us?
The answer is :
So that human beings can express their LOVE to one another and reach a state of UNITY together WITH and IN HIM

31. When God created Man, as explained in Genesis … the second page goes straight to marriage .. as the Bible says …
“Therefore a MAN shall leave his father and mother and be united to his WIFE, and they shall become ONE FLESH.” (Genesis 2: 24)

32. Our Lord compared the relationship between Christ and the Church… to that between a HUSBAND and WIFE … Saying:
“Just as Christ loved the Church, each MAN must love his WIFE…”
Husband and WIFE become ONE WITH and IN the LORD JESUS CHRIST.. Who BLESSES and SANCTIFIES their RELATIONSHIP

33. SEX in Marriage Vs. in Adultery
The result of Holy Body + + Real Love
In the LIGHT
The target is Unity
Life-Long
Commitment & Pledge
Satisfaction
Sacrifice
God IS There
The result of False Passion + Lust
In the DARKESS
The target is Pleasure
Very Temporary
Has no commitment
Frustration
Selfishness
God is NOT There

34. GOD
SEX IS HOLY
ADAM EVE
Husband Wife

35. Now, the WHOLE WORLD around me may tell me
Well …. It’s OK… this is what EVERYBODY else is doing….
Why NOT that I too live like the rest of the people around me…
This is the way things are going on.. so why should I BE DIFFERENT!!!

36. Well My Friend … here is the MAIN ISSUE why should you BE DIFFERENT!
YOU are A CHRISTIAN…YOU ARE DIFFERENT…
Christ came to YOU on EARTH so that HE shows YOU that YOU SHOULD BE DIFFERENT

37. HE Suffered ON THE CROSS and DIED so that YOU BECOME DIFFERENT

38. HE ROSE from the dead to show YOU that YOU TOO CAN RISE from YOUR sins and LIVE A DIFFERENT LIFE
A LIFE ACCORDING TO HIS WILL
HIS WILL IS YOUR PURITY & YOUR HOLINESS

39. HE OFFERES YOU HIS FLESH and BLOOD to eat and drink in COMMUNION so that YOU should be DIFFERENT and HOLY

40. How do I keep my body HOLY?
PRAY AND ASK FOR JESUS CHRIST’S HELP
& the Grace of His HOLY SPIRIT, that is inside YOU

41. REPENT … HE IS ALWAYS READY TO ACCEPT YOU

42. AVOID ANYTHING THAT CAN LEAD TO SEXUAL IMMORALITY

43. BE READY TO EXERT A LOT OF Hard Efforts
Be always busy …
Have self esteem
Play lots of Sports
Consecrate your senses
Love God
PRAY … PRAY … PRAY
For it is HE who will be able to give you the TRUE SUPPORT and HELP

44. Have the Lord always between you… He will always protect you from any harm and bless your lives to stay HOLY

45. ALL IS HOLY …