The Bible makes it clear that God hates the sin of sexual immorality because it destroys God’s beautiful design for us. That’s why Jesus came to destroy the power and consequence of the sin of sexual immorality—so that we may walk in God’s beautiful design of marriage and sexuality.
1 Corinthians 6:13 tells us, “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.”
We live in an age where sexual immorality, adultery and infidelity is praised and beautified while marriage is ridiculed and belittled. Immorality is put under the spotlight and glorified, while purity is shunned and deemed impractical.
We have television shows and movies that celebrate immorality, and as a result immorality has become the norm today. As a result we have de-valued God’s design for sexual purity and marriage. What was meant to be beautiful, holy and majestic blessing from God is now made cheap and irrelevant.
Many people today think that sexual immorality and lust are harmless sins. Nothing could be more destructive than that thought. According to Covenant Eyes, statistics show that 56 percent of divorce cases were based on an obsessive interest over pornography. Broken marriages lead to broken homes and broken families. God hates sexual immorality for the very reason that it destroys the basic unit of His society, which is the family.
God meant for man to exist in purity so that we would be a blessing. Sexual immorality has ruined that. 1 Corinthians 6:18 tells us, “Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.” Sexual immorality is more harmful than we think. Way more harmful.
God’s desire for us is to walk in His ways so that blessings may come to us, and that lust may destroy those promises of blessings for us. Lust destroys sexuality, relationships, marriage, society and practically everything that relates to God’s ways of prosperity and blessing. Simply put, God hates lust and sexual immorality because it’s bad for us.
Sexual immorality is not a fluffy, romantic feeling that people can get away with and not yield its consequences. It’s harmful and destructive, and God wants us free of it. The good news is that in Jesus Christ, we have freedom from sin and its consequences. Galatians 5:1 says, “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”
God doesn’t want us to walk in sin which leads to destruction. He would rather guide and train us to walk in His purity and righteousness paid dearly by Christ so that we will walk in His blessing.
By Patrick Mabilog
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