What is Sexual Purity? To be sexually pure is to receive sexual pleasure and satisfaction only from your spouse, and to give sexual pleasure and satisfaction only to your spouse. For singles this means abstaining entirely from sexual pleasure & satisfaction as long as God keeps you single, and pursuing the greatest kind of pleasure and satisfaction — that of knowing God. To be sexually pure also means to be pure in your heart or mind. Even if you don’t engage in the act once you engage your mind in sexual activities you have committed the act.
"You know the next commandment pretty well, too: 'Don't go to bed with another's spouse.' But don't think you've preserved your virtue simply by staying out of bed. Your heart can be corrupted by lust even quicker than your body. Those leering looks you think nobody notices--they also corrupt.” Matthew 5:27-28 (Message Bible)
OTHER SEXUAL SINS
1. Homosexuality - A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex. This is divided into two Sodomy- sexual attractions between man and man that is committed by via the anus and Lesbianism – Sexual attraction by a woman to another woman. Lev 20:13; Gen 19:5; Rom. 1:26-27; 1Cor. 6:9; 1Tim. 1:10.
2. Bestiality – Sexual relation between a person (male or female) and an animal. Lev 18:23, Lev 18:25, Lev 20:15-16; Deu. 27:21
3. Incest – Sexual activity between two people who are very closely related in a family. For example a blood brother and sister, a father and child. Lev.18:6-18; Lev. 20:11-12; Lev. 20:17; Lev_20:19-21; Deu. 22:30; Deu. 27:20; 1Co_5:1
4. Masturbation - Manual stimulation of one’s own genital organs for sexual pleasure. 1 Cor. 6:18-20, Job 31:1, 2 Tim. 2:22, Matt. 5:28
Why Must We Keep Ourselves Pure Sexually
1. God expects us to do so:
“Since you are God's people, it is not right that any matters of sexual immorality or indecency or greed should even be mentioned among you.” Ephesians 5:3 (Good News Bible)
“Someone else will say, "Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food." Yes; but God will put an end to both. The body is not to be used for sexual immorality, but to serve the Lord; and the Lord provides for the body.” 1 Corinthians 6:13 (Good News Bible)
2. The consequences are grievous: Samson, Joseph, Mary, Esther etc. Samson lost his eyes, and his life was cut short because he couldn’t resist the temptation of sexual sin. Think for a moment if Joseph and Mary the ‘parents’ of Jesus Christ had committed fornication they would have disqualified themselves of the chance of being the channel by which Jesus Christ will be born. Esther would not have made it because the criterion for being invited to the contest in the first place was that the ladies must be virgins. There are some privileges that we cut ourselves from if we engage in sexual sins.
“He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.” Proverb 6:32-33 (Bible In Basic English)
“I saw among the young men one without sense, walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house, At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night. And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart; So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth; Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps. For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army. Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.” Proverb 7:7-27 (Bible in Basic English)
To be continued…
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