PART 2: GOD’S DESIGN OF THE MAN’S BODY
What we will discuss may feel uncomfortable, especially if you are taking this course in mixed company. But we need to become comfortable with it because, again, it is foundational to understanding His purposes for us. It is not evil or dirty but will transform the way we see ourselves and those of the opposite sex.
1. Penis – The word derives from the Latin word “marem” from which also is derived the English word marriage.
a. The Hebrew word for male organ is “Shophkah” meaning a pipe for pouring forth. It has 3 purposes: Expelling Urine (waste), Releasing Semen (reproduction), Sexual Pleasure (which I call favor). The Hebrew term signifies the pouring forth of testimony, testifying of the powers of generation, pouring forth the seed.
It is representative of the pouring forth of the testimony of God’s covenant with His people, the power and blessings of generations to come. This reveals the holy aspects of male-female intercourse, which should never be done casually and should always be kept for oneness and procreation within the marriage covenant, as God ordained it.
God promised Abram a son and countless offspring as His part of a covenant between Himself and Abram. God’s literal promise to Abram in Genesis 12:2-3 was, “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
A covenant requires two or more parties, with each party fulfilling their responsibilities and obligations to the other party.
2. God’s part of the covenant was His promise to Abraham, and Abraham’s part was to remain loyal to Yahweh exclusively as evidenced by CIRCUMCISION, the removal of the foreskin. Obedience to this command was a declaration of loyalty to Yahweh, setting oneself apart from loyalty to other gods.
The sign of circumcision, cutting the most sensitive part of the man’s body, was the responsibility of Abraham for this covenant. It signifies the extreme importance of sexual purity and holiness as God is holy, producing holy offspring.
God made His promise to Abram and Sarai in their old age. But he and Sarai were childless. “CLICK’: In Genesis 16, after years of waiting for God to fulfill His part of the covenant and remaining childless, Sarai followed the customary practice of the culture of the day and gave him her servant Hagar to try to obtain children through her. This was not out of faith, but a human decision made to fulfill God’s promise for Him. Abram was 86 years old when Ishmael was born. ‘CLICK’: In Gen 17, when Abram was 99 years old, God commanded him, “I am God Almighty; walk before Me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make My covenant between Me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.” God then made it clear to Abram that His covenant would not be fulfilled through Ishmael but through the offspring of Abram and Sarai. He still blessed Ishmael and promised to make him into a great nation as well. Even in their sinful decision to produce a child out of lack of faith in Yahweh, God still endorsed Ishmael’s generational line. It was at this point, before God fulfilled His promise by blessing Sarai’s womb with Isaac, that Yahweh changed Abram’s name to Abraham and Sarai’s to Sarah, renaming them with part of His own name: Abraham and Sarah.
in Deuteronomy 10:12-22, Moses commanded God’s people to ‘CLICK’: “Fear the LORD your God” through obedience, love, and service and discusses how God set His affection on their ancestors and chose them and their descendants. He then commanded them to ‘CLICK’: Circumcise their hearts. This goes along with keeping the covenant God made with His people and their descendants. In other words, the Israelite’s part of the covenant was loyalty to Yahweh and no other god through obedience and holy living. The Bible has a great many passages on ancestors and descendants, once again magnifying the value God puts in our offspring. His first command to Adam and Eve in Genesis 1:28 was to “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.”
a. In Deuteronomy 29 and 30, Moses renews the Israelites’ covenant with the Lord. They were to carefully (29:9), not casually, follow the terms of the covenant in order to prosper. The covenant included blessings for keeping it and curses for breaking it.
Their obedience was a declaration of loyalty to Yahweh that God originally asked Abram to make. Their disobedience by disloyalty to Yahweh by worshipping other gods was their downfall. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:3) “You shall not make yourself an image…bow down to them and worship them” (Exodus 20:4) and the rest of the ten commandments. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:5 Jesus repeated this command and added a second, “Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Why? Because mankind is created in the image of God!
They were given a choice with this covenant: Life and prosperity or death and destruction. If they loved the Lord, walked in obedience to Him, keeping His commands, they would live and increase, and He would bless them in the land they would possess. If their hearts turned away in disobedience and worship of false gods, they would be destroyed and not live long in the land.
With the heavens and earth as witnesses against them, they had to choose between life and death, blessings and curses. Their actions depicted their choices. “For the Lord is your life…” (Deut 30:20)
b. Moses exhorted the Israelites to choose life so that they and their CHILDREN would live, that they would love God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him (Deuteronomy 30:19-20).
c. The testimony that must pour forth from godly men is that God grants His favor through the reproduction of DESCENDANTS within the covenant of marriage.
3. Testicles – Physically, the testicles produce and discharge semen. They are located in the scrotum, the pouch of skin that contains them.
The word derives from the Latin word “testis” which means WITNESS. It is the same root word for: Testament, testimony, test, testify, the Word, a man’s word – all related.
It is derived from Indo-European word for number 3 – a third trusted party, one who stands aside from the dispute and can tell it how it really was.
Romans used it figuratively to mean testicle – the testicle was witness to a man’s virility.
a. The spiritual meaning is that the very design of the male body is TESTAMENT to the truth of God’s Word, His command to pro-create in Genesis 1, and His Commandments.
The testicles can represent the godly man as the witness who pours forth the life-giving testimony of the Word of God, and the power and blessings of descendants.
b. The man can stand as a TESTIMONY in the dispute between God’s Word and the world’s ways, testifying to truth. Every young man needs to be taught these things, learning the deeper meaning behind this part of their body.
c. Dr. Taylor Marshall, Catholic Theologian said: Abraham’s instruction to his servant who was to find a bride for Isaac (Genesis 24:2-9) – 2 Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household who was in charge of all that he owned, “Please place your hand under my thigh, 3 and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live; 4 but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” Put your hand under my thigh – euphemistic way to refer to swearing upon Abraham’s testicles – a sign of Abraham’s descendants because they contained the “seed” of God’s promise to bless in Genesis 15, 17, and 22.
The Abrahamic covenant – powerful sign of the powers of a generation in bringing about redemption in God’s economy. Abrahamic Covenant is sealed upon the genitals of Abraham and his descendants
d. Semen – Derives from the Latin word for plant or SEED, signifying seed of plants, animals, or men; race, inborn characteristic; posterity, offspring; or figuratively as origin, principle, or cause.
e. Figuratively, semen can be seen as the principle, cause, or origin of a man’s posterity, progeny, or OFFSPRING.
f. The same Hebrew word “zera” and Greek word is “spérma” mean a sowing, seed, or offspring and is translated as child, grandchildren, DESCENDANT, fertile, grain, family, offspring, semen, race, and more.
g. The purpose of semen is to transport sperm to the woman’s egg for the purpose of PROCREATION. Without semen to propel it, the sperm would just swim in circles.
h. The seminal vesicles are a pair of glands along the back of the bladder that produce 70% of the seminal fluid. The prostate, the gland surrounding the neck of the bladder and the urethra, all produce about 25%, with the ‘CLICK’ bulbourethral glands producing the rest.
1. Semen contains sugars, proteins, vitamins, and minerals. The hormones in Semen are:
· Androgens – develop masculine features, deeper voice, beard.
· Testosterone – male reproduction, sperm production.
· Prostaglandins – Since the female body views sperm as a foreign agent, it works to reject it. This fluid contains prostaglandins that help the sperm sneak by undetected.
2. Sperm (male reproductive cells) Continually produced by the testes and is stored in the epididymis.
· The epididymis is a tube near each testicle that moves sperm to the vas deferens which is the tube that connects the epididymis and urethra through which urine and semen exit the body, a reservoir at the back of the testicles. Produces up to 200,000 per minute/several million per day.
· Each ejaculation releases between 20 million to 300 million sperm, though the sperm make up only 1-5% of the semen expelled.
· Sperm that make it into a vagina can live up to 5 days. They live only up to a few minutes elsewhere. A cold surface or hot water kills them.
· Men make sperm as long as they are alive, but the quality and motility decline with age.
· Men pass their Y CHROMOSOME to their sons (not their daughters), and this can be traced back to Adam.
i. Semen is needed to create life. Planted seed grows into a plant. The purpose of semen is to procreate.
j. You go to seminars and idea seeds are planted in your mind. People go to seminaries where seeds of biblical truth are planted in minds and hearts, and you procreate spiritually.
HOW AMAZING ARE THESE MEANINGS!
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