Body: | Pre-Marital Sex and the Bible
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Sex before marriage, pre-marital experience, assuming one is talking of
sexual intercourse or perversion of the same, the word of God implies it
all by calling it fornication. It knows no exception. It allows none.
Renaming fornication does not change the act or remove the consequence.
Those who commit fornication, sin.
This message, like all other true Bible messages, is designed both for
believers and disbelievers. "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word
of God" Romans 10:17, so the purpose of the Bible revelation is to create
believers of those who would learn. The fact that premarital sex,
fornication, deviant sex, are laughed at by the world should be of little
consequence to one who seeks for truth, or to one who believes the truth.
It is the truth that shall make you free (John 8:32). Now let's consider
briefly the question of fornication, or pre-marital sex. Fornication is a
sin against God. Sin is transgression of the law of God (I John 3:4). It is
to go against, or across, what God has revealed. So if one believes God and
would follow His word, he must stand on the simple conviction that
fornication is wrong. Consider what the word says. "Marriage is honorable
in all and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will
judge" Hebrews 13:4. In the Bible, a prostitute, a harlot, a whore, were
all guilty of the same thing- fornication. One may prostitute himself for
any kind of gain, not just money. It may be the pride of continued
association, or perhaps a weekend all-expense trip paid to a neighboring
city. Prostitutes, street walkers, call girls, those who dwell in plush
penthouses, all have one thing in common: they commit fornication. It is a
sin against God, against His will, His word and His way. Judgement will
fall on those who are guilty of fornication and who fail to turn in
repentance.
Paul writes in I Corinthians 6:9-11, "Know you 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, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God". You say, "What am I to do
then? For I am guilty." Read the next verse, "But such were some of you".
According to Acts 18:8, "And many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and
were baptized". The guilty Corinthians were forgiven, redeemded.
Fornication is a sin against the other person involved. It is always a
mutual sin engaged in by two or more. Involving others in your own sin, You
sin against them. If your convictions had been strong perhaps they would
have been encouraged to do right. The sin, the shame, the wrong is shared
by both. For this reason Paul writes in I Corinthians 7:2, "Nevertheless,
to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife and every woman have
her own husband". Temptation is not a sin fornication is.
Fornication is a sin against oneself. Paul said, "Flee fornication. Every
sin that a man doeth is without the body, but he that committeth
fornication sinneth against his own body" I Corinthians 6:18. The body of
the believer belongs to God. He has been bought with a price and is to
glorify God while in the flesh. All of this is clearly taught in this
chapter. Fornication is generally committed. in private. This leads one to
believe that, since no one knows, or since the act was committed with a
prostitute or call girl, that the sin goes unnoticed and the consequences
are allayed. This is just not so. Pre-marital sex? An effort to reach
compatibility? An innocent game to play? Not according to the word. God
says it is fornication, sin, and those who commit such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God. It is not sex which God condemns, but it's
misuse outside the marriage bond.
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