Good morning and welcome in everyone. Today, we are going to take a look at a passage of scripture, but before we do that, I wanted to ask you a question.
Have you ever played sports? Whether it’s tennis, baseball or basketball there are certain lines that are drawn that you must stay within if you truly want to win the game. If the ball goes outside of those boundaries, they are considered out of bounds because the game is restricted to a specific area.
This reminds me of the Christian Life.
We have boundaries and restrictions that we need to follow if we’re going to obey Jesus Christ, one of which is the use of sexuality.
Colossians 3:5-6 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
To participate in sexual favors between two consenting people is to engage in fornication. These activities were created by God to be used within the marriage bond between a man and his wife. It’s a reward for those who have chosen to tie the knot and become joined with each other in the flesh for the rest of their lives. In a marriage you’re no longer twain but you become one flesh, joined together through a sexual relationship. In a marriage God teaches that the bed is undefiled. Any sexual desire for things of this world can be fulfilled in a bedroom so that you can keep your spouse from committing fornication out in the world.
The sexual drive can be at times very powerful, but this is why your spouse is there. They are there to gratify your physical needs. I think in most cases, sexuality is a fairly small part of a marriage, I mean if you’re actually going to figure out how much time that you actually require each week to be satisfied. The rest of the time is spent raising your family, working and supporting your wife and your children’s needs, and enjoying one another’s company.
I have known many people in my life who got married, only to find out during their honeymoon, that their new wife had been abused repeatedly in their life, by friends, relatives and even their own dad. When the new groom was excited to be with her on their first night, she had no desire for sexuality with him at all. She really didn’t even want him to be near her. As sad as a situation like this may be for her, and for many other women, you really don’t want to do this to somebody who wants to marry you. If they truly love you, they will remain by your side as your friend. Marriage goes a step beyond friendship; because it has to do with sexuality and fulfilling earthly desires. When you enter into a Christian marriage, you enter into an agreement and responsibility to sexually satisfy your spouse. This is why marriage was created, so that each of you could help each other avoid fornication or sexual desires.
When you cannot serve and satisfy your spouse in the bedroom, other things can happen. In a marriage your body becomes the property of your spouse to be used for physical gratification in the bedroom. To deny them this is to deny them conjugal rights, which is to sin against the commandments of Christ. My council to any woman who has undergone any type of sexual abuse like this is to think about the man that you want to choose as your husband. A man is expecting certain things when they get married, and as a Christian you’re going to need to be there for him. (And vice versa men) If you truly love him, it’s unfair to deny him the things that he was hoping to have for the rest of his life, especially springing it on him during a honeymoon. It’s a denial of why God created marriage in the first place. I completely understand that certain women have been hurt in their past, and my heart truly grieves for them, but if you are going to choose to be married you must understand the expectations that are demanded of you, not only from your husband, but also from the teachings of Christ. The hurt that you have experienced will only result in hurting your future husband, unless he is made aware of these things beforehand, and chooses to marry you regardless.
Some people claim that sexuality is inherently evil, but I have never believed that, because it is something that has been created by God. The problem is that people have sexual relationships outside of the boundary of which it was meant to be used in, marriage. Even a simple kiss can end up going in a direction that you should not go. Certainly you may have met a handsome beau, or pretty girlfriend, but physical relationships need to wait until you decide to tie the knot with each other. God will bless you for doing this.
Not everybody is the same, because some men such as the Apostle Paul chose to be a bachelor. If you have no sexual desire, that’s a good thing, and there is no need to be married. People can always remain friends. If people are looking for children, there are plenty of them in the church, and in the world who need help, and that you could adopt spiritually.
Sexuality is a gift from God but is meant to be used within the boundary of marriage between a man and his wife. Getting involved fornicating with others is not love, it’s lust, because it’s a desire of the flesh. God hates fornication so much, that He will punish it.
Jude 1:7 – Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
He destroyed many people who were in the act of fornication.
1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Fornicators will not inherit God’s kingdom.
1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Corinthians 6:18 – Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Fornication is not love, it’s a work of the flesh and is the evidence of someone who obeys their carnal nature.
Galatians 5:19-21 – Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,..
Someone who professes to be a Christian and is involved with these deeds, you need to part ways with them.
1 Corinthians 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
It’s such a serious matter that it’s not supposed to be named even once among believers of Christ.
Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Jezebel is a woman who professes spirituality but she is a fornicator. God hates this sin.
Revelation 2:20-21 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Sexual sin is highly offensive to God, but I’m so thankful that he gives us away to avoid temptation, marriage. Those who are going to make an attempt at living the Christian Life need to make sure that you steer clear of fornication and those who are involved with it, because it is an act that is clearly……
…….Out of Bounds.
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