There are wires attached to it, emotional wires, psychological wires, physical wires, spiritual wires.  That is why when you have a man and woman involved in sex outside the marriage bed, reason is blinded and then at the breakup there are serious problems.  You deal with guilt and pain and alienation and separation.  Don’t ruin the recipe by practicing sex outside the marriage bed.  If you are, confess your sin to God, turn from your sin and keep yourself pure until you get married.  Follow God’s recipe because God’s recipe for sex and intimacy works.  It works every single time.

I want to talk to you about some recipe wreckers in marriage.  See those thumbs down signs on your outlines?  Let’s first start with the men.  Let’s just beat up on the men.  And, men, you just might see yourself in some of these characters that I am going to describe.  The first one is Rick Rude.  Rick is that T-shirt wearing, bad breathed, belching husband who pinches his wife on the posterior and says, “Hey, baby, tonight is the night.” Next, is Al Average.

Al is into percentages, batting averages, stock market averages and he wants to hit the national average of lovemaking with his wife.  So he has to have sex a certain amount of times because it says in GQ magazine or Esquire that that is how many times most people do it.  Next is Mark Monotony.  Mark’s idea of romance is dinner, movie, sex, dinner, movie, sex, dinner, movie, sex, dinner, movie, sex.  Now and then in marriage, Mark gets creative.  It is dinner, sex, movie.  Also, there is another one.  Curtis Critique.  Curtis cuts down his wife, the apartment, her cooking but he expects his wife to make passionate love to him.  Any Curtis Critiques in the house?