Is sex on the Sabbath wrong?

Scripture: Isaiah 58:13
Is sex on the Sabbath wrong? Before sin entered our world there were things God created for our enjoyment. Food is an example of this, as would be intimacy. Now, there would be times when we might fast from food or intimacy for a purpose. But nothing explicitly is stated on this.
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3 years ago
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anonymous
In marriage, sex is uplifting and heartwarming. It is certainly not defiling.
During the week, my husband often has a later bedtime than I usually do. He works hard, and so do I. If the week has been a busy one, during the Sabbath hours, when everyone is in bed earlier, we can relax and enjoy some uplifting, heartwarming time together. There is no shame there. Of course this is not the only thing that we do together during the Sabbath hours.
3 years ago
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Mr.Edwards
Jubilee 50
7 Six days shall you labor, but on the seventh day is the Shabbat of YAHWEH your Sovereign Ruler. In it you shall do no manner of work, you and your sons, and your men- servants and your maid-servants, and all your cattle and the sojourner also who is with you.

8 And the man that does any work on it shall die: whoever desecrates that day, whoever lies with (his) wife, or whoever says he will do something on it, that he will set out on a journey thereon in regard to any buying or selling: and whoever draws water thereon which he had not prepared for himself on the sixth day, and whoever takes up any burden to carry it out of his tent or out of his house shall die.
6 years ago
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Anonymous
I would disagree that having sex on the sabbath is now justified. Pastor Doug stated that Adam & eve would have had their honeymoon on the sabbath and therefore would have kown his wife. I would agree to an extent that before sin entered the world adam & eve were innocent and did not even understand nakedness because their eyes were not open to the knowledge of evil. After sin entered the world we now have knowledge and to indulge in pleasures of the flesh for self gratifying on the sabbath would not be keeping the day holy and turning away from our own pleasure. My mind would not be on the Lord if the sabbath became the only day for marrital sex which could preocupy the mind in anticipation each week. The sabbath is a day of rest.
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4 years ago
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Mike
That doesn’t make sense. So it was ok to have sex on sabbath before sin entered the world but now it has having sex on sabbath becomes sinful? Sin is the transgression of the law. Whether before or after sin came into the world. Is it not?

I’m searching for answers before and against but this argument is not valid.
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4 years ago
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Pastor J
I have to agree with you. Our pleasure needs to be in Him on Shabbat. Becoming unclean on Shabbat would be another case in point.
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4 years ago
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Mike
By that logic If sex is unclean on sabbath, it is unclean on any day of the week so therefore shouldn’t be partaken of at all. It’s like saying it’s wrong to eat pork on sabbath but not on any other day.
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2 years ago
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Dube
Very correct and biblical.... never to be unclean on Sabbath.
2 years ago
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Dube
You are not the one to sya a thing is unclean or clean--- it the bile that speaks it to be unclean.

Pastor Doug:  In Isaiah 58, it’s talking about not doing your own pleasure on Sabbath, and you’re wondering does that include intimacy between a husband and wife on the Sabbath Day.  Correct?

Caller:  Right.  Yes.

Pastor Doug:  Um, I don’t think so.  And I could be wrong.  I hope the Lord will forgive me if I am but let me tell you why.

God created some things before sin that He ordained man to enjoy that are not considered evil.  God created food and He intended for man to enjoy food.  That’s why it says everything pleasant to the taste.

God also created intimacy in marriage.  Now there are times when a person may fast from their food and, Paul says in Corinthians, that a husband and wife might agree to separate and to fast for a period of time but not too long.

It equates intimacy in marriage, or sex, with fasting from foods – so then you have to ask the question, ‘Are we expected to not eat on the Sabbath day because you enjoy it?’

This about this now – one more question:  What day of the week did God make Adam and Eve?

Caller:  Sixth day.

Pastor Doug:  Sixth day correct?

Caller:  Yes.

Pastor Doug:  What day of the week would have been their honeymoon?

Caller:  The next day.

Pastor Doug:  The next day.  The Sabbath was their first day together.  At the end of the day He gets Eve – because I mean here he already named all the animals, it must have been the last half of the day – God presents this ravishing, beautiful woman.  And He says, ‘Now tomorrow is the Sabbath.  Don’t touch her.’  That would be hard to imagine!

I think that everything He made in the garden was innocent.  We sometimes think that sex is dirty.  It can be, but food can be gluttonous too.

So I think that there are times when a person should fast from food and from intimacy for a purpose.  Paul talks about that – but there’s nothing in the Bible that says sex on the Sabbath is wrong.

Now there was one other time when God was going to speak to the children of Israel in Exodus.  He told them do not come near your wives.  Well He was about to give them the Ten Commandments I think.  So it was a time of real setting aside.  But that was not a general rule.  Ok?

Caller:  Ok.

Pastor Doug:  All right.  I hope that helps.

Caller:  Thank you so much.

Pastor Doug:  God bless.

Co-Host:  Thanks for the call Nicolas.

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