SEX….When done God’s way (in a Marriage) is a blessing…However, when it’s done outside of the way God intended it, it’s sin. Today’s blog deals with Purity.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” – Romans 12:1-2
We live in a fallen world that has a lot of ungodly things going on. And if we’re not careful, we can start to compare ourselves to the World focusing on the things “we’re not doing bad” instead of focusing on being in God’s will. The above scripture lets us know what our reasonable service is (regardless of how bad the world gets).
Sex outside of marriage has become the norm for a large portion of the world’s population. However, the bible makes it clear that sex outside of marriage is wrong… “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;” –Ephesians 5:3. Fornication is premarital sex, uncleanness is sexual impurity, and covetousness is excessive desire of someone else’s possessions.
An unmarried Christian should not be taking part in sex, nor should they take part in activities that sexually arouse them. And rather than going down a list of things that people shouldn’t be doing, I’ll go to Matthew 5:28 which says “ But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
The specific things that cause people to be aroused may very from person to person, so an individual should abstain from the things that they know will lead them down that road (even if it’s not one of the things often mentioned by other people as being wrong). For example, if an individual spends an excessive amount of time looking at pictures of people they are attracted to (I’m talking about pictures of people who are fully clothed with nothing sexual going on in the pictures) and that gets them aroused, that is still wrong.
It’s important that we look at the motives of our heart. Sometimes we can put a lot of emphasis on trying to abstain from specific actions (don’t get me wrong it’s important that we conduct ourselves the right way) to the point where we lose focus of the fact that those actions are byproducts of what’s going on in our heart. If we find ourselves in sexual lust (or any other type of sin) we should repent, and put our focus back on Jesus. Meditating on, and obeying the scripture passage I mentioned at the beginning, (Romans 12:1-2) can serve as a great help to living a life of sexual purity. God Bless and continue to fight the good fight of faith!!!
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” – Proverbs 4:23
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” – Romans 12:1-2
We live in a fallen world that has a lot of ungodly things going on. And if we’re not careful, we can start to compare ourselves to the World focusing on the things “we’re not doing bad” instead of focusing on being in God’s will. The above scripture lets us know what our reasonable service is (regardless of how bad the world gets).
Sex outside of marriage has become the norm for a large portion of the world’s population. However, the bible makes it clear that sex outside of marriage is wrong… “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;” –Ephesians 5:3. Fornication is premarital sex, uncleanness is sexual impurity, and covetousness is excessive desire of someone else’s possessions.
An unmarried Christian should not be taking part in sex, nor should they take part in activities that sexually arouse them. And rather than going down a list of things that people shouldn’t be doing, I’ll go to Matthew 5:28 which says “ But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
The specific things that cause people to be aroused may very from person to person, so an individual should abstain from the things that they know will lead them down that road (even if it’s not one of the things often mentioned by other people as being wrong). For example, if an individual spends an excessive amount of time looking at pictures of people they are attracted to (I’m talking about pictures of people who are fully clothed with nothing sexual going on in the pictures) and that gets them aroused, that is still wrong.
It’s important that we look at the motives of our heart. Sometimes we can put a lot of emphasis on trying to abstain from specific actions (don’t get me wrong it’s important that we conduct ourselves the right way) to the point where we lose focus of the fact that those actions are byproducts of what’s going on in our heart. If we find ourselves in sexual lust (or any other type of sin) we should repent, and put our focus back on Jesus. Meditating on, and obeying the scripture passage I mentioned at the beginning, (Romans 12:1-2) can serve as a great help to living a life of sexual purity. God Bless and continue to fight the good fight of faith!!!
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” – Proverbs 4:23