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The Old
Testament viewed premarital sex as a capital offense against one’s future
spouse. This was unlike the Gentile nations that condoned premarital sex. The
Greek word for fornication is porneuo, which means to act like a harlot,
indulge in unlawful lust of either sex, or practice idolatry – fornication.
Fornication is idolatry, because that person you sleep with isn't your
spouse. You’re bowing down to get in the bed with your idol instead of
obeying the Word of God. It is idolatry when an individual places a
person they’re consistently fornicating with over the Word. First Samuel
15:23 states, “stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.”
That person
you’re sleeping with is an idol in your heart and it is evident that the Holy
Spirit doesn't reign supreme in your life. Every time that person calls you
jump up and run to him/her. The next thing you know, you’re in the
sack. The Holy Spirit calls out to you in order to lead and guide
you into all truth. That person means no good for your
spirituality. Instead of listening, you turn a deaf ear to the voice of
Godly wisdom.
First
Corinthians 6:18-20 says, “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is
without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own
body. What? know ye not your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a
price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God’s.” Our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. When you
fornicate you desecrate your temple. You sin against your own body. If
you continue in the sin of fornication you will die. Romans 6:23 tells us
that the wages of sin is death. You may eventually earn a sexually
transmitted disease that attacks your physical body.
Fornication Destroys the Soul
Sexual sins
destroys the soul (Proverbs 6:32). The Greek word for soul is called psuche, which
derives psychology study of the soul. Your soul is made up of the intellect,
will, memory, emotions, and imagination. First example your involve in
fornication, Your intellect or reasoning will tell you that you’re in love with
him or her so its OK to have sex before marriage. You essentially rely on
your own understanding instead of the Word of God. Secondly, after you
intellectualize being in a sexual relationship your will is given unto your
carnal desires. Thirdly, you will have memories of the good and bad things of
the illicit relationship. Why do you think someone can be in the act of
intercourse with one person and call out another person’s name? It is because
the soul connection of the memory is still there. The person is comparing
their present sexual experience with a former. The fourth example is the
emotions. You develop the emotion of bitterness. Because of your
memory, you remember all the bad relationships you had in the past. A
person develops bitterness and emotional detachment. So when man or woman of
God comes to you, your’re damage goods from all the bad relationships you had
in the past. You’re unable to make that godly connection. Lastly is the
imagination. The enemy uses the imagination to keep sexual perverse
thoughts in your head and to prevent you from being obedient to the will of
God.
Fornication is a End-Time Sign and will Escalate
Revelation 9:20-21
King James Version (KJV)
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
