Sexual immorality is a temptation that is always before us. In movies and on televisions, sex outside marriage is treated as normal, even desirable part of life, while marriage is often shown as confining, boring and joyless. We can even be looked down on by others if we are suspected of being 'pure' .
The temptation to engage in sexual intercourse/activities outside the marriage relationship has always been powerful.
The temptation to engage in sexual intercourse/activities outside the marriage relationship has always been powerful.
Giving in to that temptation can have disastrous results. Sexual sins always hurt someone : individuals, families, businesses , relationships. Sexual desires and activities must be placed in Christ's control.
Sexual sins seem difficult to withstand because they appeal to the normal and natural desires that God has placed in us. Marriage provides God's way to satisfy these natural sexual desires and the partners against temptation.
God does not forbid sexual sins just to be difficult. He knows its power to destroy us physically and spiritually. We should not underestimate the power of sexual immorality. It can and has devastated countless lives and destroyed families, relationships, communities and even nations.
God created sex for procreation and pleasure and as an expression of love between a husband and wife. Therefore, the sexual experience must be limited to the marriage.
We are free to be all we can for God but we are not free from God. God in his wisdom and authority engineered our bodies and designed sex to be a beautiful and essential ingredient of marriage, but sexual sins - sex outside the marriage always hurts someone. It hurts God, our creator because it shows that we prefer following our own desires instead of the leading of the Holy Spirit. It hurts others because it violates the commitment so necessary to a relationship.
Besides the physical and spiritual consequences of sexual sins, there are also emotional consequences.It deeply affects our personality, which responds in anguish when we harm ourselves physically and spiritually.
No loving father would neglect the safety of his children, allowing them to walk into circumstances that might be harmful or fatal.God wants us to protect us from damaging ourselves and others, so he offers to fill us - our loneliness, our desires - with Him.
