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    Why Sexual Sin Is Weakening the Body of Christ

    Why Sexual Sin Is Weakening the Body of Christ
    Bert Farias

    Excessive sexual sin and nakedness is one of the marks of our Western culture and much of the world today. Everything is sensual. Everything must be sexy. We live in a sex-craved world, and nakedness jumps out at us from everywhere. It is becoming more and more difficult for men and women to keep themselves in a state of moral purity. The devil is endeavoring to get more and more people naked before Jesus comes. This applies both physically and spiritually (2 Cor. 5:3).

    Sexual sin and neglecting the laws of purity in the body of Christ are one of the elements that can potentially bring weakness, sickness and even premature death to many in the church. It is one forgotten aspect of not discerning the Lord's body (1 Cor. 11:29-31).

    Those last statements sound so primitive in today's contemporary church. There is a lack of ministry from our pulpits in this area because of the fear of forthcoming accusations of being unloving, judgmental, legalistic, and ministering guilt and condemnation. Frankly, we've lost our way in this regard. Correction, rebuke and reproof are clearly missing from our counsel in these new crooked days of false comfort and unscriptural mercy.

    In days of old, it was rather common for correction to be made not only using the Scriptures but through the manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. For instance, it was observed by one old timer that in praying for the sick, individuals who had been unfaithful in their marriage and had not repented, but who nevertheless sought healing, had been rebuked sternly by the Spirit of God. Back then they understood that only through deep repentance and cleansing through the precious blood of Christ could the gravity of such a sin be pardoned.

    Today, as I said, we are considered condemning and judgmental if we minister in such a manner. Yet it is common for many to get in a healing line and seek deliverance, or submit prayer requests while living in gross immorality without any earnest desire for genuine repentance. Those who practice sexual sin, or any other sin for that matter, and profess Christ, are partaking of the body of the Lord unworthily; and in so doing, they are receiving a curse rather than a blessing.

    "For he who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this reason many are weak and unhealthy among you, and many die. If we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged" (1 Cor. 11:29-31).

    I realize that sexual temptations are great and no one is exempt from them, and none should boast of their self-righteousness. I'm also aware that in seeking to turn someone from the error of their ways, we must do so in gentleness and humility (Gal. 6:1; 2 Tim. 2:25). But if there is to be victory in this area, it must begin with a reverent understanding and a scriptural estimation of the defiling and degrading nature of sexual sin and its terrible dangers. Before people obey God, they must be thoroughly awakened. Only then will they overcome counteracting forces.

    Carefully read these words of one of America's greatest evangelists, Charles G. Finney:

    "Worldly desires, appetites and feelings prevent true Christianity—the human will is, in a sense, enslaved by fleshly and worldly desires. It is therefore necessary for God to awaken people to a counter-feeling that breaks the power of worldly desire and leaves the will free to obey God."

    That ideology, my friends, is clearly absent from the mainstream of contemporary Christianity, and it's sorely needed.

    As in modern-day America, sexual sin and nakedness were celebrated in the city of Corinth and infiltrated the church there. Thus Paul had to remind the Corinthian saints that their bodies were now the temples of God and not their own. Their bodies, as ours, are now members of Christ, so a sin against our bodies is a sin against Christ.

    "Do you not know that your bodies are the parts of Christ? Shall I then take the parts of Christ and make them the parts of a harlot? God forbid! ... What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own? You were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's" (1 Cor. 6:15, 19-20).

    Purity precedes power. It's time to cleanse the temple of God from every form of sin and sexual immorality, beginning with our pulpits. Then, perhaps, we can recover our public testimony and stand with a new authority, sounding the alarm in this dark and desperate hour.

    http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/...body-of-christ

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    I'm shocked at how many"Christians" live together before they get married, or go from one partner to the next without (what appears to be) a second thought. I grew up in an unchurched home, the sexual revolution was in its infancy in the 70s and I didn't start serving the Lord till I was 28. I didn't know any better. And to be clear, my husband was my only boyfriend, we got engaged when I was 17 and married when we were 19. But we were having sex long before that and lived together before we got married.

    So while a young adult or teen may see me as a "religious old person," I remember what it was like to be young and not committed to God.

    What I see in the church (and even out of the church) these days is both alarming and grieving.

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    This was on the news last week and went viral...click the link, there's a great video there:


    WASHINGTON - To some people, the idea of waiting for marriage might seem old fashioned, but not for Timothy and Brelyn Bowman. The 20-somethings tied the knot earlier this month in Prince George's County, and they were virgins when they wed.To prove it, Brelyn presented her father, Pastor Mike Freeman, with a 'certificate of purity' on her wedding day. Soon after the wedding, the couple's social media posts went viral, and they have received both praise and criticism.

    Appearing on Good Day DC, Brelyn said she signed a pledge when she was 13 to remain a virgin until marriage. FOX 5's Steve Chenevey asked Brelyn how her father reacted to the certificate that she presented to him.

    He was so excited because it's not nothing he required. He didn't ask, 'I need you to go and present this.' It was something because I kept my word," said Brelyn Bowman. "My sister, who was a virgin when she got married, did the same thing. And she was an example for me, so now I can be an example for others.

    Timothy said the couple made sure their mindsets lined up before they started dating three years ago. He said it was important to have a good support system and a strong sense of self-worth...

    http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/36858555-story

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    I participate in a prayer group once a week. We had someone attending and then she stopped..suddenly she came back and said she had decided to have a baby because of her age and the fact she had not found a marriage partner. For a couple of weeks I prayed 'my way'. But today she was out of the group so I shared that I found her plan to be out of God's design for family and that I had been praying for God to close that door and give her an encounter with Him that would fill that hole she obviously has in her heart...I guess I exposed the elephant in the room because I saw relief on two prayers that I though 'supported her idea'. Some things that Christians don't blink an eye at these days is disturbing... the immoral is being encouraged in some circles..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    I participate in a prayer group once a week. We had someone attending and then she stopped..suddenly she came back and said she had decided to have a baby because of her age and the fact she had not found a marriage partner. For a couple of weeks I prayed 'my way'. But today she was out of the group so I shared that I found her plan to be out of God's design for family and that I had been praying for God to close that door and give her an encounter with Him that would fill that hole she obviously has in her heart...I guess I exposed the elephant in the room because I saw relief on two prayers that I though 'supported her idea'. Some things that Christians don't blink an eye at these days is disturbing... the immoral is being encouraged in some circles..
    You mean by artificial insemination ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    You mean by artificial insemination ?
    That's where she started but now she is getting an offer from an old boyfriend which is far cheaper..

    Either way it's bypassing God's natural order for family...I believe single women opting to have children are missing God's plan..

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    Yep, it's Good to not touch a woman!

    In the end, we will not be given in marriage but will be single like the angels are (no, we will be become angels)

    That's cause, we will be married to the Lord!

    There is NO better deal than that!

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    Believers take on the worlds (satans) mindset

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    Believers take on the worlds (satans) mindset
    And TV preachers tell them they are lovely and going to Heaven regardless of what they do!

    Of course they do because if they taught the whole counsel of God their offerings and product sales would go down and then they would have to down size their conferences and after that they might have to go off of TV.... then, they would be even more irrelevant than they are now!

    Can't have that, besides... people demand to hear what their flesh wants to hear, not what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the churches.

    Moses went thru the same thing where the people did not want God to live among them and wanted Moses to go talk to God for them...

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