Marriage is meant to be a safe haven where shame does not exist. Today, R.C. Sproul uncovers the connection in Scripture between nakedness and shame. Request R.C. Sproul’s teaching series The Intimate Marriage on DVD, plus lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide, with your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3879/donate Meet Today’s Teacher: R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. Meet the Host: Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children. Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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There's no human being in this whole world who knows me better than my wife. Do you know what that means to me? That the person who knows me the best loves me? The person who has seen me naked, body and soul, loves me? Is it any wonder that God uses the human institution of marriage as the supreme image to communicate to His people the relationship that He wants with them?
that Israel in the Old Testament is the bride of Yahweh. The church in the New Testament is the bride of Christ.
Marriage is a gift from God, not a burden, a precious gift providing a relationship, companionship, where, as you'll hear today, a husband and wife can be naked and unashamed. And it's also a gift because it paints the beautiful picture of God's covenantal relationship with His people.
This makes today's distortions of marriage even more grievous, and it should motivate us all the more to pursue a godly marriage. Welcome to the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. On Saturdays, R.C. Sproul is helping us have a biblical understanding of marriage.
If you'd like to go deeper in your study of this topic, you can request the DVD of this series titled The Intimate Marriage, along with digital access to the messages and study guide when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org before midnight tonight. Well, to continue our series, here's Dr. Sproul on God and nakedness.
I'd like to welcome you again to our series of studies on Christian marriage. And in this session today, we're going to be considering the theme, God and nakedness. God and nakedness. And I'd like to direct your attention first of all to a somewhat strange story that we find in the Old Testament that concerns the patriarch Noah. Everybody's heard of Noah. Noah and the flood.
Noah with the boat, the two by two and all of that. But what happened to Noah after the flood? What happened after the waters receded and they came safely to dry land? Well, we read in the ninth chapter of the book of Genesis this very brief, but I think strange, story. It says in verse 20, began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.
And he drank of the wine and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent. Now Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. and their faces were backwards so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
Isn't that a strange account? Here's Noah. He begins to cultivate a vineyard, and then he harvests the grapes and makes wine and drinks too much. He goes into his tent, and he's in a drunken stupor. And in his drunkenness, He's rolling around, and he is exposed. He's nude. And then we read how his one son comes into the tent, and it says he looked upon his father's nakedness.
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