Sexual Purity

Romans 1:28-32 “Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.”

Pastor Kyle continued in our church’s Sunday sermon series “2020 Vision”. He proclaimed that the Word of God brings truth into a broken world, which is fallen in sin. Immorality is defined as any act or practice which contravenes the divine commands or the social duties. Injustice, dishonesty, fraud, slander, profaneness, gaming, intemperance, lewdness, are immoralities. Fornication is defined as the incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female. Sex outside of the context of marriage; it is not purely physical. It’s a matter of an act of casual sex for erotic pleasure verses godly intimacy that bonds and satisfies the soul, which is “right” in the eyes of the Lord God Creator Father. 

1 Corinthians 6:13b-19 tells us, “Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?”

It turns out that God is right on everything, including our sex life. By God’s design sexual intimacy between a man and woman in committed holy matrimony has no guilt or shame. In Matthew 19:4-6,(Jesus) said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” Those who “play the field” in any form of sexual immorality (casual sex, pre-marital sex, living in sin together, homosexuality, infidelity in extra-marital affairs, or so-called open marriages have chemistry, but no relationship and no place in glory.  Infidelity is defined as 1. In general, want of faith or belief; a withholding of credit. 2. Disbelief of the inspiration of the Scriptures, or the Divine original of Christianity; unbelief. There is no doubt that vanity is one principal cause of infidelity. 3. Unfaithfulness, particularly in married persons; a violation of the marriage covenant by adultery or lewdness.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God.”

Proverbs 14:8 says, “The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.” Prudent meaning those who are cautious; circumspect; practically wise; careful of the consequences of enterprises, measures or actions. Follow Jesus in every aspect of your life. Are you the person you are looking for is looking for? Are you the person that God is looking for? May we be the prudent of God; His delight in sexual purity.

In Christ, Brian