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Ever wonder why sex was created? Or why would the Bible speak of waiting til marriage when God created us as sexual beings with natural instincts to engage in sex? Not to worry. I've wondered the exact same thing. First let's examine the culture today and do some comparisons.
First, no one really wants to wait til marriage to have sex. The emphasis becomes, will I like it with this person? Will they satisfy me? So the focus immediate denotes to selfish desires. This does not mean that you shouldn't be curious. But it is to say that this thought alone should not be the deciding factor on if someone should wait to give themselves sexually to their partner.
Next, our culture is ingrained with sex, from movies, to music, and even cartoons. And the interesting part is, sex becomes a part of everything. It engulfs how things are sold and how ideas are constructed. It's the stamp on anything worth having or valuable. We are affected in every capacity, when we go to work, go home, surf the net, or even walk down the street. This ultimately creates a social pressure to have sex. A woman may feel as though someone she is attracted to, may refuse her if she holds out. A teenage boy may sense criticism from his friends if chooses to wait to have sex.
So the question then becomes if God knew created man, knew the nature of man, and even knew the state of sexual explicit content we are exposed to daily, then does he acutally expect us remain pure until marriage? The answer is yes. And here's how.
Even without digging to deep into the Bible we can agree that before there was Adam and Eve, there was Adam and God. Here's my point. While single, the Lord wants us to establish a relationship with Him. He gives us the tools and power we need to live in a manner that flees from sexual immorality and waits for marriage. The scripture says:
1 Corinthians 6:18
"Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body."
Here is what this scripture means. The bible says that our bodies are temples of the Lord (1 Corinthians 6:19). When we accept Christ in our hearts and lives, we essentially invite Him (His character, His likeness, His Word) to live in the house we label the human body. Once we commit fornication, we not only sin against His word, but also against the body we declared was His and invited Him into during salvation. For those who have chosen not to accept Christ, we still sin against our body but we do so in the sense that our bodies were originally intended for sex during marriage, and we defile and tamper with this intent every time premartial sex occurs.
The excuses for sex before marriage are limitless. Many include sexual compatibility, believing its natural, feeling you've already done it before so what's the big deal, seeking pleasure or commitment, peer pressure, feeling its stupid to wait, that religion dictates some people's decisions and so on. Here are some scriptures from the Bible regarding this matter.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 warns us, "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, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God."
And 1 Corinthians 6:13b, 18 tells us, "Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without (outside) the body; but he that commiteth fornication sinneth against his own body."
And Galatians 5:19-21 reads, "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness ... of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel (body) in sanctification and honor, not in lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which do not know God."
If you are reading this, it's not too late to confess your wrong, and ask Christ to help you flee from fornication. I know. I was living with a man, in a relationship and somehow didn't think anything was wrong with it. But it is wrong. God calls us to a standard that is impossible to attain without him but includes so many wonderful rewards. All we have to do is say yes. Will you say yes?
