Sex, Should we Wait?

GGod hasn’t changed His mind. Yes, the unmarried should abstain from having sex until they are married but clearly this is not strictly practiced in the modern church. No wonder, for the message of sex, only after marriage, is not often taught. The probability of you regularly attending a popular, First World, Western Hemisphere church and never hearing a message on the subject is very high.

The two women of Revelations are clearly different in that the Harlot wants her pleasure now while the virgin, the true bride of Christ, waits against all odds. We are living in the time of the rise of Mystery Babylon the harlot so there should be no surprise that the value of abstinence, for the sake of Christ, is slackening and nearly non-existent. Don’t feel condemned however, if you fell. Repent, get up, brush yourself off and take Jesus’ advice, “Go and sin no more.” Jesus can and will forgive you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness as if it never happened because He removes our sins as far as the east is from the west and remembers them no more. On the contrary though, there’s a warning for believers who are knowingly and continually indulging in sexual sin. Stop now or you’ll be judged by God!

God has a special kind of disgust for those who continue, unrepentantly to indulge in sexual impurity. Why? Because our bodies were created to be the place where God lives. The believer’s body is the temple of the Holy Spirit that must be kept holy, sanctified and pure. Sexual sin is the only sin that somehow directly destroys the human body. “Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.” 1 Corinthians 6:18 Because the illnesses in our bodies are not obviously linked to our sexual misconduct we seem to dismiss the reality of the consequences of such actions. Again Paul says in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.”

God didn’t destroy Sodom because of the murders that were committed there or for their injustice and mistreatment of their widows and orphans. Sodom was destroyed because of their sexual perversions and were made an example for anyone or any nation that will likewise indulge themselves.

The lure towards sexual impurity is much greater among the unmarried and sexually virile youth. To them especially we say, “flee youthful lust”. Your sexual virility will not be accepted as an excuse to indulge in impurity for God, with every temptation, will provide a way of escape, take it.

Paul gave the Galatians church a stark warning, “Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity... and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!” Galatians 5:19-21. p

By Homer Slack author, preacher, Bible teacher, IT tutor, programmer & graphic designer