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It's amazing how creative parents can become when it's time to explain the
facts of life to a child, especially in the vocabulary they choose. A parent says to
their child, "This is your chin. This is your neck. That's your stomach. That's your ...
oogieboogiewagaboogie!" I've really heard some pretty funny names for human
anatomy - words invented by red-faced parents, but not recognized by any doctor
on earth. Of course, they're better than a lot of the words our children come home
from school asking about. But when it comes to sex, it's important to use the right
words - especially one.

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from the Inventor of sex, who is,
of course, God Himself. Our world seems to have forgotten who invented sex - and that
the Inventor knows best. In the first experience of sexual love in human history, Genesis
4:1 says, "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived." Now this is sex as it was
meant to be, still unspoiled, still the best. And the word God uses to describe it is "know."

When two people come together physically, it's designed to be the ultimate knowing.
When two people have sex that isn't an expression of a deep, intimate friendship and
commitment, they aren't going all the way - they're only going a small part of the way.
That's not ultimate knowing!

The Hebrew word for "know" here is "yadah." It conveys the intimacy of two people
who know each other as they really are - a deep, personal, intimate, experiential knowledge
of another person. That's why God designed this kind of bonding to be for a lifetime commitment,
confined within the protective fence He calls marriage.

Ironically, when you take sex out of marriage, it actually slows down the knowing process.
The physical tends to take over the relationship. The relationship becomes more self-centered.
A couple stops talking and focuses on the physical. And, as a result, too many people end up
married to a stranger - someone whose body they know, but not their heart. Because so many
relationships between men and women have been so physical, a lot of those relationships are
strangely lonely. With sex dominating so many relationships, a lot of men and women have
never developed a friendship - and maybe never will.

When the physical starts to take over, it often masks serious weaknesses and dangers
in the relationship - hormones make you blind. Consequently, many people have married the
wrong person because their passion blinded them. It actually kept them from really knowing
their partner. And they made a lifelong mistake.

Remember how the Inventor designed sex: two people {male & female} bonded in a
lifetime knowing experience, expressing it through the unparalleled intimacy of sex. Anything
less is a cheap, twisted, ultimately disillusioning counterfeit. If you've made that mistake,
there's a Savior who died for every sin, including our sexual sin, who will forgive it if you'll
repent of it - and He'll begin to restore your emotional and spiritual virginity. Don't settle
for anything less than Designer love where the right word for sex is K-N-O-W. Know - as
in knowing your best friend forever.

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THINGS WE DON'T UNDERSTAND

Wisconsin's Beloit College starts every school year with a list of things kids entering
college today think have always existed. Topping the list for the Class of 2011 born in 1984:
-- A Southerner has always been president of the United States.
-- Richard Burton, Ricky Nelson and Truman Capote have always been dead.
-- Cars have always had eye-level rear stop lights, CD players, and air bags.
-- We have always been able to choose our long distance carriers.
-- Weather reports have always been available 24-hours a day on television.
-- The "evil empire" has moved from Moscow to a setting in some distant galaxy.
-- "Big Brother" is merely a television show.
-- Cyberspace has always existed.
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WHO AM I? #1

--1. I was Born October 5, 1902, in Oak Park, Illinois.
Fibbing about my age, I became an ambulance driver
during World War I, at age 15.

--2. At age 20, I began to work as a salesman selling
paper cups. I also worked as a jazz pianist.

--3. For 17 years I sold mixers across the country until
meeting Dick and Mack in their restaurant. I
negotiated a deal to have unlimited use of their
name and concept.

--4. I modeled my business on principles of cleanliness,
quality, speed, and low prices, and even established
special "University" to train employees.

--5. The Golden Arches and a clown named Ronald that
identify my places are two of the most recognizable
symbols in the entire world.

WHO AM I? (Ray Kroc, McDonald's Entrepreneur)

--WHO AM I? #2

--1. I am a film actor, director, and producer born
Joseph Levitch in Newark, New Jersey in 1926.

--2. As a zany, mugging, sentimental comic, I worked
as a one night stand entertainer.

--3. In 1946 I met a famous singer with whom I teamed
up to make the film "My Friend Irma" in 1949; we
made 16 more films in the next 18 months before
we split up.

--4. Once on my own, I began producing and then directing
movies, becoming a special favorite in France.

--5. A dedicated campaigner for charitable causes, I am
identified with the annual Labor Day fundraising
telethon for "my kids" and the Muscular Dystrophy
Association.

WHO AM I? (Comedian, co-star with Dean Martin,
and telethon co-host Jerry Lewis.)
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