Saturday March 23rd, 2024
« Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his/her body, but the person who sins sexually sins against their own body »
27 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman/man to lust for her/him has already committed adultery with them in their heart.
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
As we continue with our study on “Who said what?”, we need to be mindful that the Creator of heaven and earth gave us a user’s manual – the Bible.
The Bible is called the word of God because it contains all that God has to say about everything in creation.
Therefore, you look into the Bible to know the mind of God about any issue of interest.
For example, in Hebrews 13:4 GWT, the Bible says
« Marriage is honorable in every way, so husbands and wives should be faithful to each other. God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery »
Genesis 2:24 NKJV further says
« Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh »
The Christian marriage is therefore a covenant ordained by God which establishes and defines the marital relationship between a man and a woman.
Marriage is sanctified by God as a means of maintaining family life.
Above all, marriage is honorable in all that it entails, with a strong warning against whoremongers, adulterers, and anything that defiles the marriage bed.
Marriage is a sacred bond between a man and his wife and vice versa.
Those who break the marriage covenant are equally pursued by God’s judgment, just as murderers are.
The emphasis here is on sexual immorality.
The Bible holds that sex is honorable within the marriage setting immorality then comes in when sex is contracted before marriage or outside wedlock.
Obviously, sexual immorality is not something that a child of God pursues as an ambition; many times it occurs as the result of a careless and unserious attitude to some seemingly harmless but very dangerous behavior.
These include immodest dressing and comportment, undue closeness to persons of the opposite sex, exposure to books, audio, and video materials with explicit sexual content, partial or complete nudity, and other compromising behavior. 1 Corinthians 6:18NLT says
« Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body »
Also, 2 Timothy 2:22 ESV says, ” So flee from youthful passions…” The main warning in our user manual- the Bible, against sexual immorality is to flee.
Beloved, if you go against the provisions of your manufacturer, you would run into a malfunction.
A word is enough for the wise.
Prayer focus – Father, please deliver me and my family from sexual immorality, in Jesus’ name.
Author – Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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