Sexual Immorality…does this make me hopeless to God?

You are not hopeless! You just have to come to a realization how damaging it is to have casual sex that is not meaningful. Not only can it be damaging physically (sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, unwanted pregnancy, etc) but most importantly, it can scar someone emotionally for a long time or even for life.  I am not here to tell you what you should or shouldn’t do when it comes to having sex outside of marriage. I really believe that if you are a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit guiding you and giving you personal convictions about such topics. That is God’s job and not mine.

What I would like to do is share my opinions with regarding such matter. There are scriptures in the bible that specifically states that sexual immorality or fornication (sex outside of marriage). Doing this is not favored by God. Does this mean He doesn’t love you? No, it just means that it is sin just like stealing or even lying. God is a loving God and what we must do if we find ourselves in sin that is not pleasing to him is to confess, repent, and change our ways.

 It is my personal experience of many years of being promiscuous of what that did to me physically, emotionally and spiritually.  It’s taken me many years of soul-searching to get healed from all my past relationships. If you haven’t already read my book, I highly suggest you read it as it should give you insight of sexual purity and why that is so important. It will also assist and guide you in this process of becoming a Born-Again Virgin. I’m not saying sex is bad as God himself created sex. But he created sex between a man and a woman within the concept of marriage.

 Heb 13:4-5 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

 Again I have to reiterate that sex is good and acceptable in God’s eyes when it’s within marriage. I know for myself and for so many other people that waiting for the one that they will marry has been remarkable beyond words can even explain.  I really believe that if you diligently seek God and get to know him through the Bible, he will show you and guide you in the things he wants you to do personally.

 Here are scriptures that are clear in the Bible regarding sexual immorality:

 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20 These are what make a man ‘unclean’; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him ‘unclean.’” Matt 15:19-20

You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Acts 15:29

 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. 1 Cor 6:18-20 

 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Gal 5:19-21

 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them. Eph 5:3-7

 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. Col 3:5-7

Some people mistaken this as God doesn’t want them to have fun. But in reality these scriptures are in the bible because God wants to warn you and protect you from heartaches, disappointments and the other things that I have previously mentioned. True sexual contentment cannot be found until it is blessed by God and the only way for that is if it’s in a marriage setting. It’s worth the wait!!!