Sexual Conduct and Disease
Scripture reading for September 28: Proverbs 5:7-14 “And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to hear my instructors. I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.””
Hebrews 13:4 “Let the marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”
When we discuss health and how to live a healthy lifestyle in light of God’s instructions to His children, we must not avoid the issue of sexual conduct and the consequences of those sins related to what God considers sinful sexual conduct. Solomon, in Proverbs, warns his sons about dangerous sexual conduct. He tells them to stay away from the door of the adulterous or promiscuous woman. If they go into her, they will reap trouble, a bad reputation and sickness and disease that will consume their flesh. There will be suffering and great regret. The forbidden fruit that looked so good ends in suffering, bitterness and ruin among the congregation of God’s people as it is exposed.
In God’s kingdom, He has blessed marriage between a man and a woman and called it sacred. Marriage should be held in honor and sexual conduct between a husband and wife is blessed and to be protected. God has ordained that He would use marriage to form eternal souls designed to live with Him eternally. When we violate the marriage covenant by sexual immorality, God takes note and promises to judge the adulterer or any person who is sexually immoral. Sexual activity outside of marriage is considered ‘immoral’, meaning that it not proper conduct for God’s children. The good news is that God forgives sin when we repent and turn away from it towards Jesus Christ.
Prayer: Father God, thank You for marriage as You ordained it. Turn our hearts to honor marriage and keep the marriage bed undefiled. Heal our rebellion and deliver us from evil. Amen.
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