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Fornication |
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“Flee
fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own body …. For this is the will
of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication” (1
Corinthians |
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Fornication
is the sexual intercourse between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman.
Therefore, if a man has sexual intercourse with his fiancée, both of them
commit fornication, because in the sight of God a man can have sexual
intercourse only with his wife, as it is written: “Therefore a man shall
leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become
one flesh” (Genesis 2:24 – NKJV). Note that God said: ‘He will be joined to
his wife’ and not ‘He will be joined to his fiancée’, in order to understand
that God commanded that a man should have sexual intercourse only with his
wife. But the world, which has perverted the straight ways of the Lord, doesn’t
think so, for it encourages the sexual intercourse between the betrothed, as
if it were a right thing which they are allowed to do, as if there were no
offence in it. Those who raise their voice against the sexual intercourse
between the betrothed are called ‘people full of taboos who refuse to conform
themselves to the times’. Well, yes, we refuse to conform ourselves to this
present evil age; we refuse to call evil good. It is crazy to call what the
Creator said it is harmful for man and woman a good thing; the God who made
the human body and put into it the breath of life knows very well what is
good for man and what is harmful for him. Sex before marriage produces a
sense of guilt because it is sin (instead, sex does not produce any sense of
guilt after marriage). For this reason we, as believers, refuse to listen to
those who pass fornication off as a lawful and beneficial thing, because they
boast and lie against the truth, being full of selfish ambition. God cannot
lie, and if He said through Paul: “Flee fornication”, it is because He knows
the evil consequences of fornication and He wants to spare us all kinds of
troubles and pains. Sometimes young believing men are tempted to think that
God, by forbidding them to have sexual intercourse with their fiancée before
marriage, does not pursue their good, but that’s not true; it is a lie, whose
father is the devil. It cannot be true because God is love,
God is good, God is right. They wilfully forget that it is God who made man
and woman, and that He knows very well whether a thing is good for us or not.
Young people, heed the Word of God and you will find good (Proverbs 19:8)! |
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However,
fornication is also the sexual intercourse between a man and a prostitute;
therefore we must flee any sexual intercourse with a prostitute. For Paul
wrote to the Corinthians: “Now the body is not for fornication, but for the
Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised
up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the
members of an harlot? God forbid [Certainly not!]. What? know
ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for
two, saith he, shall be one flesh” (1 Corinthians |
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We, as
believers in Christ Jesus, must always bear in mind that when we received
Christ we became the temple of God, that is, we became members of Christ in
that we became one spirit with Him, and let it be known to you that when the
Scripture states that we are the temple of God it means that we are His house,
as it is written: “And we are his house” (Hebrews 3:6 – NIV). Note that it is
His house and not ours; therefore our members, having been bought at a price
by Christ, do not belong to us any longer. We are His treasured possession,
we don’t belong to ourselves; for this reason we can’t use our members to do
whatever we like, because they are Christ’s. Fornicators sin against their
own body, and therefore they profane the |
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Fornicators
are punished by God as were those Israelites who committed fornication with
the daughters of |
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We must
not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is a fornicator, with such a man we must not even eat (1 Corinthians
5:9-11). |