Consenting Adultery Series

SEXUALITY / IMMORALITY / PURITY

1. Sexuality

Listen carefully: When a man and a woman enter into a marriage contract, the seal of that covenant is their union physically. To give away your virginity before marriage is far more serious than you ever thought possible…as you give away the seal to your marriage contract.

Someday you will fall in love for real with someone and marry them, and you will wish with all your heart to give them the most wonderful gift you ever could, your purity, but I remind you today you can only give it away one time!

Married couples: Just as the physical union w/in marriage seals the covenant of marriage, so a union outside of your marriage w/ anyone else is what breaks the covenant. This is the crux of the 7th command.

Any blurring of the sexual distinction is wrong. Girls are wearing guys clothes and guys are decorating themselves up like women.

My wife and I drive around town and have to ask each other, is that a male or female? Is it a Mr., and Miss, or a mistake? The girl walks like Tarzan, the guy is walking like Jane, and they both smell like Cheetah!

Like the preacher who stood before the couple at their wedding and couldn’t tell bride from groom, he said, “will whatever you are take whatever that is to become whatever you’re gonna be!”

God made us different for a reason, and any blurring of that difference is wrong.

1st word: Sexuality…

2. Immorality

We looked earlier at Heb. 13:4…here’s the rest of the verse: “but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge!”

I Thess. 4:3 “for this is the will of God…that ye should abstain from fornication.” (pre-marital sex)

5 Dangers of pre-marital / extra-marital sex:

1. Counterfeit love

Relationships based on sex do not last!

You start w/ the physical and then find out you don’t even like each other. You never grew together intellectually, emotionally, or spiritually!

You stand there w/ nothing but a handful of whipped cream, and it gets old, and you throw that away too!

But…if you start the physical after marriage, the other 3 parts just keep on growing! Then you have more than a sexual partner, you have a best friend who really loves you.

Real love is patient, pure, and unselfish.

Danger of counterfeit love…

2. Emotional consequences

Young ladies:

Studies show a direct correlation between pre-marital sex and personal emotion problems…

Guilt / anxiety / loss of self-respect

Guilt is the most destructive emotion we can have.

It leaves you shattered, uncertain, and unproductive.

And you lose that “glow” that always accompanies sexual purity.

Hear this ladies, and I’ll tell you how men think…

…there’s something mysterious about the unknown. There’s something very attractive about the unknown.

And often, once you reveal yourself to the guy:, once the mystery is gone, so is he…he’ll drop you like a hot rock! And that won’t feel like just another break-up, it will feel like a divorce.

3. Physical consequences

Wages of sin is still death!

Drunkard—in danger of cirrhosis of liver

Smoker—cancer in the lungs

Glutton—cardiovascular disease