Sexual immorality is a big deal to God because our bodies are the temple of God. We think of temples as buildings where we gather to worship, but God has made our bodies to be temples for His Holy Spirit to inhabit. Therefore, God has set strict guidelines of what is acceptable sexual behavior. To start with the basics, in the beginning, God created male and female. God ordained marriage to join a man with a woman for a lifelong commitment. Any sex beyond this is immoral and sin in the eyes of God. If you are in an immoral relationship, I encourage you to repent. Some of you should get married others should separate. You need to pray and seek God of how you should move forward. If the other person doesn’t support your decision to get things right with God, then you have your answer. The Bible teaches for us not to be unequally yoked, meaning that a believer should not marry an unbeliever. As to all non-biblical relationships, I encourage you to seek God for deliverance. For those who say that is Old Testament, read Romans 1:26-27 (see below). God didn’t change His mind about it being an abomination.
God created our bodies, and He has the right to decide what is sinful and what is not. The marriage bed (male with female) is undefiled. Repent and stop sinning that includes watching porn and having sex with yourself. Get it right with God while you still can. Ask Him to help you. Time is short! Jesus is coming back soon. We will all have to answer to Him for what we have done. Don’t burn in Hell for eternity just to satisfy your lust. This life is temporary. Eternity is not.
Scripture References
1 Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV
[18] Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. [19] Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; [20] you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
1 Corinthians 6:13 NIV
You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
2 Timothy 2:22 KJV
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Ephesians 5:31 NIV
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
Hebrews 13:4 NIV
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Revelation 21:8 NIV
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
2 Corinthians 6:14 NIV
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
Romans 1:26-27 NIV
[26] Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. [27] In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Leviticus 18:22 NIV
“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
Leviticus 18:22 KJV
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Ephesians 4:22-24 NIV
[22] You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; [23] to be made new in the attitude of your minds; [24] and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Note: The King James Version uses the word fornication for sexual immorality.
Deborah K. Givens, Admin
