Sexual Purity

[Mattin91]

And that uh... explains exactly nothing.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

And that uh... explains exactly nothing.

It helps to read the rules of the site, so you can know what cannot be posted, as I said plainly.

 

[Mattin91]

It helps to read the rules of the site, so you can know what cannot be posted, as I said plainly.

How do you know who repents and who doesn't?

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

How do you know who repents and who doesn't?

Did you ever once, twice, or more, ask someone if they repented of their sin ?

Some people readily talk about persons they shot and killed, and give no indication of repenting at all.... and even say they would do it again, and defend why they did it before....

When someone is OPEN about their sinfulness, and about their not repenting, and even about not having any need to repent.... what do you say to them ?

 

[Mattin91]

I knew a man like that. One day, the husband came home earlier than expected and shot him. When I saw him in the hospital, he assured me that he would be alright. He would be back to eating what he liked. There was no sign of repentance.

On one occasion, I asked him if he believed in God. He basically said that the promise of a reward in heaven did not really interest him. He would rather enjoy his life on earth. So I prayed for him. Sometimes that's all you can do.

 

[Miles]

What, would you say would be the advantage of waiting for marriage? Let's say there are two couples who will get married anyway........ One got busy before the wedding, and the other after.

Which couple is better off and why?

Depends on the couple, and their circumstances.

However, keeping sex within marriage can be advantageous for one's physical and mental health. It lowers your chance of contracting and spreading STDs, lowers your chance of heartbreak, etc. Think about all the intimate things you'd like to do with your spouse. Would infections and emotional wounds be beneficial, or would they make things more difficult?

Many people will sleep around, and emerge unscathed. They should be thankful for their good fortune. They played Russian roulette with their sex life, and won. They were the lucky ones. Or maybe the ended up marrying the person they slept with before marriage. That doesn't always happen. Most will break up before then, as most dating relationships do, so they were also the lucky ones. I don't recommend relying on luck when it comes to important life decisions.

 

[Blade]

I like the old song that comes to mind "if you done it and you wonder what to do.. go to Jesus and he will make you brand new".. it was in line with this topic here

 

[carolina16]

Bold = scripture, regular = my thoughts


Write down some practical ways we might help young people choose God’s way in the area of sex. (Question taken from a bible study I'm doing)


Be around people that will keep you accountable. This is why church is important. To be constantly around others that:


1. Sharpen you


Iron sharpens iron,

and one man sharpens another.

• Proverbs 27:17

2. Correct you in love


Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.

- Galatians 6:1


3. Remind you of the purpose of sex & the context in which it is beneficial


Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

• Genesis 2:24

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:2

You may think there’s no harm in having sex before marriage; but you created neither yourself nor sex so you can’t give yourself or any activity objective purpose. If there is no God it’s all relative. Everyone has moral absolutes. Any time you use the word should you remove relative morality. The word should appeals to a standard outside of us & you act as if it’s real. Society cannot create this as society is constantly changing, therefore societies morals aren’t absolute.


The grass withers, the flower fades,

but the word of our God will stand forever.

• Isaiah 40:8

You may think it’s changed over time, which it has to an extent, but the core principles remain the same. The language has been modernised so that it’s easier to understand for different cultures, but the morals are never changing. The covenants are different throughout the bible. The old covenants lead people to the end of themselves, to recognise their need for a saviour. Jesus said in Matthew 5:17:


Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them.



2 Corinthians 5:16-21 explains the transition from the old law to the new after Jesus resurrection:


16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.



Furthermore exemplified in Romans 3:21-27:


21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

Love --> sexuality --> life. Everything that doesnt come from love is evil.