Sexual immorality

Sexual immorality is the act of engaging in sexual activities outside the sanctity of marriage.

In our generation,it is a new normal especially amongst the youth who only see as nothing but pleasure.

If you and your boyfriend have reached an age and stage of life where marriage is a feasible option, I'd encourage you to think seriously about setting a date for the wedding. There are a number of things you’ll have to take into account before making this decision, of course, including your parents’ perspective on the matter and your ability to support yourselves financially. Generally speaking, age is also an important factor: the best research on divorce indicates that a couple’s chances for a successful marriage are much greater if they wait until they’re at least 23 to tie the knot. If you’ve got green lights in all these areas, and if both of you are truly committed to Christ, to each other, and to God’s design for sexuality, then start moving toward the goal of marriage by undergoing some pre-engagement counseling .

If, on the other hand, you and your boyfriend are not in a position to get married within the next year to eighteen months, you should take an honest look at your circumstances and ask yourselves whether it’s a good idea to continue dating. It might be wise to put your relationship on hold until you’re older and better prepared to step into a lifelong commitment. The sexual pressures aren’t going to get any easier to bear, and the more time you spend together, the closer you will become emotionally. If sexual purity is important to you, there’s no reason to place yourselves in the way of these daily temptations. On the other side of the coin, if you aren’t committed to marriage, or if you’re not ready to assume the practical responsibilities it requires, why are you walking down this road in the first place? It’s a question well worth asking.

Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against the body itself. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body (1 Cor. 6:18-20).

You and I must be aware of our own vulnerability. The posture of self-righteousness that looks down at others who have stumbled into sexual sin is the epitome of spiritual arrogance and, frankly, sets us up for a fall.

I urge you to face the reality of your own sexuality and your own vulnerability to its distortion. It is important that we look at ourselves in the mirror and see ourselves as we are, created by God as sexual persons, healthy, vital, alive, but also engaged in spiritual warfare in which that sexuality can quickly become distorted.

Why would God be so strict? Is He an angry old grandfather somewhere up in the sky who wants to destroy our fun in life? Not for a moment! He created sex. He gave it to us as a positive, fulfilling activity. He wants it to be channeled for your very best interest. Far from His commands being negative and inhibiting, they are guides to the healthiest kind of sexual living possible. In fact, even if one is not a Christian and has no respect for biblical teaching, there are some good, common-sense reasons for avoiding premarital or extramarital intercourse

The main reason for avoiding premarital and extramarital intercourse is that it can be personally destructive, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. Premarital and extramarital sex is habit-forming. In most cases, it is not something a couple does once or twice and quits doing. It develops a personal interdependence wherein no real ultimate commitment has been agreed upon. It is an agonizing experience for a pastor to deal with the emotional, psychological and spiritual fragmentation, which so often is the experience of the man or woman who then gets jilted.

An example of a man who played with his sexuality in the old testament- His name was Samson. Read his biography—such a gifted man with so much potential. What he didn’t do was flee, shun immorality. Look at the price he paid.

The main intention of this message is to portray God’s view of what He created you to be as a sexual human being in a way that does not push you toward asceticism on the one extreme or sexual anarchy at the other extreme. It is to challenge you to claim the help of the Holy Spirit to keep yourself faithful to Jesus Christ and, in the process, be faithful to yourself and others, urging you to flee fornication, remembering that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.