1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
(3) For this is the will of God, even your
sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
(4) That every one of you should know how to
possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
(5) Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the
Gentiles which know not God:
1 A Gift from God
I am reminded of the fellow who was raised in a Christian
church who tried hard to keep it’s youth from entering into fornication. He said I was a little confused about the
subject. They told me sex was a dirty
thing that you can catch diseases and then they would turn around and say “You
should save it as a special gift for the one you love...”
It is clear in the bible that God intended mankind to enjoy
sex not only for procreation, but also recreation. That the pleasures of physical intimacies
were intended by God to be enjoyed in a committed marriage relationship.
Genesis 1:28 (KJV)
28 And God
blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
23 And Adam said,
This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called
Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a
man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they
shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and
his wife, and were not ashamed.
The bible even goes so far as to say we have a duty to our
spouse to meet their physical, sexual needs, and to not do that is to steal
from them.
1 Corinthians 7:2–5 ((KJV)
2 Nevertheless,
to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every
woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the
wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The
wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the
husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud
ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may
give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan
tempt you not for your incontinency.
So we see that God was the one that designed sex, He was the
one that gave it to us as a gift to be enjoyed.
He even tells us that if we are married, we are forbidden to keep back
ourselves from our spouses.
Sex is a good thing.
So if fire. Fire in a
fireplace can warm the whole house, it can cook our food, it can light up the darkness. Fire is good...when it is in the fireplace. When fire gets outside of that fireplace, it
is destructive. Now that which was
intended for good, is destroying, fire outside of the fireplace burns up the
house, could possibly kill the people living there.
That is the same with sex.
Sex in the place where God intended it, between a man and a woman inside
a marriage relationship is wonderful.
Sex outside of that marriage relationship is destructive. It can burn down our whole life, it can even
kill you physically, and spiritually.
And lest you think I am being over the top in my
descriptions, consider this:
A SOUTH FLORIDA WOMAN is in jail tonight
because of her shocking confession to officials.
According to police reports,
the young woman went down to the station to make a report against herself
telling officials “I buried the good girl in me... “ When questioned by police
,the woman then proclaimed “My goal was to infect as many as possible” she
explained.
When asked how many men had
she infected with the virus,she said at least fifty or more. She also went on
to say her eventual plan was to infect a thousand men with the virus before
year’s end, but only because she didn’t have money to buy medication is the
reason for her being forth coming.
Relatives close to the teen
say they’re equally as shocked as everyone else because they had no idea what
the young woman known as Gabie was up to. Relatives of the teen also went on to
say “when Gabie discovered she was infected with HIV,she then became very
depressed and became a slave to alcohol and drugs wanting die and even went as
far as eating poison, but even that failed, which only resulted in further
anger and rage.
When speaking with Gabie,she
said the pain of knowing her fate was unbearable,and she just couldn’t face the
world anymore, so as her life became a mess her only joy was to make all men
who she came into contact with pay the price. That price was with their lives.
The stories are many.
A simple google search can reveal many similar situations. So sex outside of the marriage covenant can
sometimes be a death sentence physically, and will always be a death sentence
spiritually.
The culture is not what defines what is right or wrong. The
culture is ever changing. God’s Word is
standing sure.
Matthew 5:18,19,27-28
(18) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all
be fulfilled.
(19) Whosoever therefore shall break one of these
least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the
kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be
called great in the kingdom of heaven.
(27) Ye
have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit
adultery:
(28) But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on
a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his
heart.
God’s Word is the final authority, our hearts, our emotions,
our mind, can deceive us into thinking that we are right, or what we are doing
isn’t so bad, this is why the scriptures tell us:
Proverbs 16:25
(25) There is a way that seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 30:12
(12) There is a generation that are
pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Mat 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is
the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many
there be which go in thereat:
2 Sex
Outside The Marriage
Recently in the headlines
there has been a big brouhaha about restrooms and men who identify themselves
as women being able to use the women’s restroom and vice versa. The inevitable
outcome that we have already seen, is that there have been men arrested for
using the women’s room and filming women and girls inside the restroom.
In our society, so many
don’t want to be seen as a bigot, or narrow minded, that they keep quiet about
things that they see that are common sense.
Should grown men be allowed in the restrooms alone with little girls?
NO!
So what does the bible
say about homosexuality, and transgender?
The bible is very clear
on the subject.
Matthew
19:4
(4)
And he answered and said unto them, Have
ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and
female,
God created us different. We think different, we look different, our
physiology is different. Not better or
worse, just two different sexes to complement each other.
God didn’t make any
mistakes.
So what does a man do
that finds himself having same sex attraction?
Or a woman that finds herself attracted to another woman? RESIST THE TEMPTATION! The same way that a man that finds himself
wanting a drink, or attracted to a woman that is not his wife.
The scripture was so
urgent that Paul wrote to the Corinthians to:
1
Corinthians 6:18
(18) Flee fornication. Every sin
that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication
sinneth against his own body.
In Paul’s letter to the
believers at Rome, he was very explicit about homosexuality and it’s results:
Romans
1:21-28
(21) Because that, when they knew God, they
glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in
their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
(22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became
fools,
(23) And changed the glory of the uncorruptible
God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted
beasts, and creeping things.
(24) Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own
bodies between themselves:
(25) Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for
ever. Amen.
(26) For this cause God gave them up unto vile
affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is
against nature:
(27) And likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of
their error which was meet.
(28) And even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those
things which are not convenient;
What about transgender
and cross dressing?
Deuteronomy
22:5
(5) The woman shall not wear that which
pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all
that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
The Florida zookeeper who
was fatally mauled by a tiger last week broke protocol by entering the animal's
enclosure, a zoo official said.
Tiger expert Stacey Konwiser, 38, failed to
follow the zoo's policy when she entered a portion of the creature's enclosure
on April 15 "after it was clearly designated as accessible by a
tiger," Palm Beach Zoo president Andrew Aiken said in a statement Friday.
Why did this lady die? She got comfortable doing things that were
wrong. She didn’t think it could happen
to her. She thought she knew better.
That is the same thing
for people that are engaging in sex outside of marriage. They get comfortable doing what is wrong,
they think nothing will ever happen to them, or that God understands.
Sex promises so much that
when the inevitable end comes, and it doesn’t satisfy as we thought it would,
people get depressed.
One result is seen in the
spiking suicide rate.
WASHINGTON — Suicide in the United States
has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis
has found, with increases in every age group except older adults. The rise was
particularly steep for women. It was also substantial among middle-aged
Americans, sending a signal of deep anguish from a group whose suicide rates
had been stable or falling since the 1950s.
So what is the answer then?
How does a man or a woman keep
themselves pure in this sex soaked society?
Psa 119:9
(9) Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
thereto according to thy word.
Psa 119:11
(11) Thy word have I hid in mine
heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Before we come to Christ, we are led by our emotions, we
feed sinful desires until they become raging beasts that can not be tamed, ever
demanding more.
The little tiger cub eventually becomes a 1000 pound beast
that can not be denied. It will kill
you!
The pornography that started with the women’s underwear in
the J.C. Penney catalogs that led to an insatiable addiction to internet porn
and a life lived in a make believe world.
What is the answer?
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin
which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver
me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jesus came to set the captives free.
We so often picture that as being held in captivity by the
devil, but usually we are held in captivity by our own lusts, our own desires,
our own greed and covetousness.
Ever desiring, never satisfied.
Jesus satisfies!
When we acknowledge that we have sinned, that we are held,
that we can’t get free ourselves, and we look to Jesus and ask Him to forgive
and set us free, He, who died for us, sets us free from the addictions, desires
and habits that have plagued us for so long!
When Jesus comes in to our lives, He gives us the power to
overcome.
What if you are single?
Is it possible to live a clean sexually pure life? YES!
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
(3) For this is the will of God, even your
sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
(4) That every one of you should know how to
possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
(5) Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the
Gentiles which know not God:
