( Sexual Immorality ) appears in the Bible 14 times...
...so it is important to know what the Bible means by sexual immorality. Before researching I can come up with a few that I believe we can all agree would be covered;
- sex with animals (Le 18:23)
- incest (1 Corinthians 5:1-6)
- child molestation
- homosexuality (1 Corinthians 6:9)
- sex outside of marriage
But what about inside the boundaries of marriage? (1 Corinthians 7:1-5) Are their sexual acts that God would consider a sin inside of his sacred union?
What about masturbation? Jesus clearly says that the thought is the sin.(Matthew 5:28) So if during the act of masturbation you are fantasizing about somebody's daughter or wife then I would argue this is sinful. But if you are fantasizing about your own wife, you have done no sin.
Ah...what about pornography? Clearly sin right? You are fantasizing about something that is a sin, so its sinful. But what if the pornography was a tape of your wife and you?
See the point? In today's world of intercourse, oral, anal, hand stimulation, toys, domination, video taping, phone sex, cybersex, etc, etc...Where does a Christian draw the line between harmless fun, healthy love and sexual immorality? Clearly there is a line somewhere. Right?..
In conclusion I would simply say this: whatever a Christian husband and wife want to try for each others pleasure that is their freedom. As long as it is done in love and with the consent of both, then it is simply another way to love each other. However, a husband should not press his wife to do something she is uncomfortable with. And a wife should do all that she can to make her husband feel loved and satisfied. (and vice versa)
I encourage you to read the bible verses in the 1st three links below, they are very helpful in this area. The full chapter in the book of Bible Sex Facts on marriage is a great read as well.
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Sexual Immorality is being condoned by the church today, who else but me can tell you this,I pray that there are not other so called church leaders who allow this.I imagine that God is just watching all this happening and one of these days, HIS WRATH will fall on these church leaders and so called wolves living like sodom and gommorrah.After being in this church for a few years and doing ministry,I seen the drugs, alcohol and other things happening in the church. Leader allowing sex offender to use churh ID# to use goverment surplus food to sell and trade for sex with the homeless girls. Much going on, I prayed and felt impressed by the Lord to go talk to the so-called leader,(does not deserve to be called pastor) I did and was ignored,. My husband of 24 yrs. alcoholic,drug user in past, fell into the drug and gay scene in the church, I caught him and the other fellow doing drugs and it looked like an act was going to happen inside of the church.In my flesh I could have or should have done something drastic and the police had come and all this would have been in the newspaper, but the shock was tremendous,I am still at awe and I know I need counseling,I truly believe my husband was so drugged,drunk that to this day he does not know that I walked in on them.I am divorceing him, not because of the alcohol,drugs. but because he was doing what he was doing. And the pastor up to this day has never exhorted or told him anything, In fact I am the bad person, because I wrote to the District of the Church and try to have someone help me salvage my marriage, to no avail. I have been shunned by those who should know better, I have been a good example of a christian wife and servant of God.He inturn can and does blind people playing the victim that he is sick mentally etc.He has truly been used by the enemy to hurt people who might have turned to the Lord. We were both involved in the homeless outreach for the church and he goes out and does all sort of things contary to what he and I were suppose to be example of being God 's servants?? I was devestated and so I filed for divorce after he left me," He left me",did not give me a cent for 7 months, I lost my car, home, almost became homeless, My life has been so hard, spiritually, financially, emotionally, I feel so bad, that I just want to go to the local newspaper and tell them about this, But, to do so, I feel that those who do not know the Lord, will think that all christians are like this group of FAKE christians. I wish there is someone out there who can help me in dealing with this,. This is not an easy problem to deal with and if there is someone out there that can help me, please blog me.
Let us all be True believers and not conform to the things of the world, which only bring sorrow to those who are hurt, because of the disobidence of husbands who are suppose to be the head of the home and love their wife as God loves the church. And Woe to those Pastors who are the cause of the sheep leaving the fold. The enemy is working very hard and blinding even those who think they cannot be fooled by the enemy.The enemy and my soon to be ex are very cunning etc.etc. I don't know if I could ever trust anyone again, I am so lonely and even miserable at times. But, I come to my senses and I pray and ask for forgiveness and cry out to the Lord to help me get through all this horrible experience, that no Christian woman or man should have to go through. The hardes part is that the man whom I loved and respected and thought very highly of as a man of God turned out to be my worse enemy and to allow this to happen in God's House I have also been told that I should get me a "Eccessiastical" attorney and sue the pastor and the Organization, my flesh says yes, my spirit says not, I am wrestling a war-fare that is tougher than anything I have ever known.
May God forgive them.
The bible tells us to love our enemies, bless them that curse you and pray for them that despisefully use and persecute you. It also tell us if we hate our brother, we are in darkness. He that is born of God is born of love and cannot hate. If we hate we remain in sin, not the spirit. If we are truly saved, we will not walk in hate. We are to put away anger, wrath, and malice, oh and also bitterness. These are all of the flesh, according to the bible. If we do these things, we cannot be sure of our salvation. For a tree is know by it's fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit. That means no corrupt fruit at all. God has no respect of persons. If we sin, that includes anger wrath, bitterness, etc. oh and hate, we are not saved according to the bible. 1 John tells us he that is born of God cannot sin. Not at all. We who are saved have a new nature, the nature of God, the nature of love. For God is love. The bible says he that sins is of the devil. We must walk in love. However, we cannot do this without the spirit of God in our life. It is not in the nature of man to love as God does, even when undeserved. If we cannot do this, we cannot prove we are God's. For those who are God's people have the spirit indwelling them and therefore, have his nature. Without his nature of love, we cannot be sure of our salvation. No sin is ok. There is no little sin. Either we are God's or we mess with sin. We cannot do both. Those who are God's cannot sin. We are dead to sin by the body of Christ. Therefore, we cannot live any longer in something we are dead to. If we are not dead to sin, then we remain in our sin. We must show the love of God, and not follow the selfish desires of the flesh. God is no respecter of persons. All who sin will perish, period.
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