Shun Sexual Immorality

Why do the scriptures bluntly put the strictest prohibition on sexual immorality and fornication as of the first thing among other wicked and evil ones? Why does God treat sexual sins so severely? Humans are basically sexual. The sexual drive is one of the most powerful forces in humanity. It doesn’t mean we must abstain from all kinds of sexual activities. God made and gave sexual desire, so it is good for us to enjoy God-given sexuality. Just as the desires for food and sleep need to be restrained appropriately, so also the sexual urges do need to be guarded and constrained according to the Law of God. Leviticus Chapter 18 lists out all sorts of sexual sins and wrongdoings which God has forbidden. These are eternally wrong and wicked in the eyes of God. Within the marriage only between one man and one woman, God allows the full enjoyment of sex. Anything outside of the holy union of marriage between one man and one woman is wrong, absolutely wrong.

Why did God make man a sexual being and allow the most fascinating enjoyment of pleasure in humanity? God did not make anything without purpose. God wants to teach man something out of the mysterious union of marriage and the enjoyment of sex. He wants man to learn how to fulfill his life by giving up everything to his spouse. The age of secular human mind treats woman as a disposable thing. That is the perverted and evil mind which distorts and twists God-given sex into something playful at random. That is far cry from the truth. Such a mind inevitably ends in sheer futility, void, emptiness, meaninglessness rather than fulfillment and satisfaction at all. That is merely the act of selfishness and self-centeredness and pride. That is not from God but from the devil. No, man can fulfill and satisfy in full measure when he gives up his egoistic way of fulfillment and offers his body for his wife.

Is it not what our Lord Jesus Christ did for us? He offered His own body to the Father in order for the elect to have life in full, eternal life. Apostle Paul commands husbands to love their wives as Jesus Christ loved His church and gave His life for her (Ephesians 6:25). How did Jesus love the church? He sacrificed His body with blood as the fragrance offering acceptable to God for us to have the forgiveness of sins, the redemption of soul, body and spirit, and the full impartation of His resurrection life. By His wounds and scars we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). He paid the full price for redemption to possess His church as the temple of God (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Sex is the act of possession. Man urges to possess his wife through God-given sex. That possession is only possible as he exercise selflessly like Jesus did for His church. That’s what God wants us to learn through sex.

Shun any and every form of sexual immorality, especially pronography, premartial sex, fornacation, adultery. 

“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 NKJV)

“But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.” (Ephesians 5:3-4 NKJV)