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Monday, June 7, 2010

Fornication (Sexual Immorality)

Fornication is a term that typically refers to consensual sexual intercourse between unmarried heterosexual adults. For many people, the term carries a moral or religious association. Fornication is regarded differently by various religions, societies and cultures. Fornication is sometimes defined as premarital sex.  The Bible clearly identifies fornication as sin.  


Fornication  is always a mutual sin engaged in by two or more. Involving others in your own sin, You sin against them. If your convictions had been strong perhaps they would have been encouraged to do right. The sin, the shame, the wrong is shared by both. For this reason Paul writes in I Corinthians 7:2, "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife and every woman have her own husband". Temptation is not a sin fornication is.   Fornication is a sin against oneself. Paul said, "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body, but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body" I Corinthians 6:18. The body of the believer belongs to God. He has been bought with a price and is to glorify God while in the flesh. All of this is clearly taught in this chapter. Fornication is generally committed. in private. This leads one to believe that, since no one knows, or since the act was committed with a prostitute or call girl, that the sin goes unnoticed and the consequences are allayed. This is just not so. Pre-marital sex? An effort to reach compatibility? An innocent game to play? Not according to the word. God says it is fornication, sin, and those who commit such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. It is not sex which God condemns, but it's misuse outside the marriage bond.  


 That you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Acts 15:29


In our age today, the Devil has successfully convinced many that God will not exercise judgment.
That the rules are somehow different today, but God says "He changes not"(Malachi 3) and that "He is the Same Yesterday, Today and Forever."(Hebrews 13)
It's important to understand that we worship and serve the same Creator that Destroyed the world with a flood,
that rained fire and brimstone on the sexually perverse and wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah,
that didn't spare the Angels that sinned, but will cast them into outer darkness forever at His return,
the same God that killed all the first-born of Egypt when the Pharaoh refused to obey Him,
the God that took the Holy Spirit from King Saul because of disobedience giving him a evil spirit to terrify him,
the God that caused ancient Israel to be slaughtered by the Assyrians and the survivors enslaved because of disobedience,
the same God that opened the ground at the foot of Mt Sinai and swallowed up thousands of men, women and children because of their disobedience,
the same God that sent ancient Babylon to conquer and destroy His people the Jews because they refused to obey Him even after He warned them through His Preachers, as you are being warned at this moment,
and God knows this and is watching to see what you do.
Don't let Satan deceive you my friends, you will reap what you sow. If you sow SIN you will reap DEATH. RUN FROM SIN AND TO YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER, WHO IS EAGERLY WAITING FOR YOUR REPENTANCE! Your life will be SAVED,fulfilled, happy and blessed, and you will have the assurance of ETERNAL LIFE
Notice what God says about even the prayers of the unrepentant, - 




Proverbs 28:9, -"He who turns away his ear from listening to the law.(Commandments) Even his prayer is an abomination." God will not listen to the prayer of one who refuses to obey His Law. But if we turn from PRACTICING SIN, and PUT IT OUT OF OUR LIFE, God is faithful to forgive us of our SINS. 
We can not serve two Master's one is your flesh the other is God. God wants you to love him more than you do your flesh.  While I know that many  among you, are single and your flesh is tempted by the internet by the media and by society. You must abstain from the desires of your flesh.  

















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