We live in a sex-saturated society. It has even got to the point that sexual relations (outside Gods laws) have penetrated the Christian church. Today, many Christians believe it is acceptable to engage in premarital sex as long as it is agreed upon by both parties involved. After all, such excuses to justify sex outside of marriage includes, "Sex before marriage is necessary to express one's feelings for the boy-friend or girl-friend." Besides, sex before marriage allows people to determine whether they are compatible with one another. Sex outside of marriage shows our commitment to each other and meets one another's physical needs. And the list goes on. The secular worldly view of having sex has invaded the church to the point that Christians believe whatever is done between consenting adults is okay. Further, the notion of abstinence until marriage is considered outdated and old-fashioned. The sexual revolution of the 1960s has influenced the last generation that sexual relations is acceptable and permissible regardless of being married in spite of what some preacher or religious institution says.

The late Hugh Hefner's Playboy pornographic magazine set the stage for the sexual revolution. This sex baron compelled and stated that individuals should be permitted to express their sexual proclivities and pursue their life-styles as they desire. Hence, if there are no moral absolutes, then absolutely anything goes. Further more, secular humanism says, "The nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values, thus, all values are manmade and not divine. When the moral Lawgiver is expelled from the culture, then so is the moral law. So without God and His law, humans make up their own law.

Sexuality affects all aspects of one's life. A person's gender (or sex) is a designed factor of an individual's life. Men are physically and spiritually created to fulfill the role of males, husbands, and fathers. Women are physically and spiritually created to fulfill the role of female, wives, and mothers. Not only are both created in the image of God, but they both possess equal dignity. The marriage relationship was established as the first institution. It is the only institution coming to us before the fall. God instituted it and officiated the first marriage. Afterwards, God's command was to be "fruitful and multiply" thus fulfilling His command to populate the earth. The limits for the use of sex, however, were within marriage. Thus it is still binding on all people (Heb 13:4).

In the gospels Jesus condemned fornication and adultery. The Jerusalem gathering in Acts 15 condemned sexual immorality in the early church. In other places it is clear that sexual immorality was considered to be part of the old life and that it is to be done away with (Col 3:5). It is also clear that it is the will of God for a person's sanctification that they abstain from sexual immorality and fornication (1 Thess 4:3). Sexual immorality does not benefit believers. It shows marks of ungodliness, a lack of restraint, and living in one's fallen sinful flesh (old man). Furthermore, throughout the New Testament, those who fell into sexual immorality received divine judgment (Rom 1:18-32). In the early church, one who refused to repent and continued in a coarse of immorality was excommunicated from the church (1 Cor 5:9-11). There was a twofold purpose for this separation: 1. So that the sins would not affect the church; 2. So that the sinning person's lack of fellowship would drive them to repent and to be reinstated into the church's fellowship. The most serious consequences for living in an immoral lifestyle would be forfeiting your future inheritance into the kingdom of God (1 Cor 6:9, Rev 22:15)


The three fold purpose (trinitarian) why Christians should not partake in any type of sexual immorality.
1. Sexual immorality is a sin against your individual body, God owns it (1 Cor 6:15-20). 2. Because of a believer's union and connection to the body of Christ (1 Cor 6:15-17). 3. Because it defiles the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:19-20). According to the New Testament, marriage is to be solely between one man and one woman (1 Cor 7:2). Any other sexual activity outside of the marriage union falls in the category of sexual immorality and is sin. Because of God's concern for the family, He has righteous standards, regulations and sanctions upon proper and improper sexuality.

In a fallen and sexually saturated society, it is difficult to get people (and Christians are not immune to this) to think objectively, let alone biblically, about the subject of sex. When sex is not kept in the holy confines in which God has outlined in His word, HIV, VD, guilt, divorce, broken lives, and broken families are only some of the consequences (not to mention eternal ramifications) of violating God's holy law. The truth is both God's general revelation "written on the hearts" of all persons and His revelation in Scripture give us ample instruction and warning on the misuse of sex.