So I may have a different thought. Does God forgive the repentance of sexual sin - of course with true repentance. However the Bible also says sexual sin is against ones self. It gives you emotional and heart and mind baggage. That baggage is brought into a marriage and it creates Problems. I know today’s young people start sex in their teens and college is wild with experimentation of sex. But that all comes with a price and cost emotionally and to your marriage. Paul so to be wary of cheap Grace. I have heArd many a guy and girl in college say I will confess all my sexual sin and drunkenness after I graduate… it rarely works that way. Every additional partner increase the likelihood of Marriage problems and divorce. Purity is best. Obedience is better than sacrifice. Are the youth today any different than the youth of Soddam and Gemmorah?
Your mention of baggage reminded me of a testimony I've repeated before. This was a testimony I heard from both viewpoints of two members of a church I was a member of back in the early 90s.
One of the pastors spoke of their first night of their new street ministry in the "red light" district of the city. They had set up a podium on a corner under a streetlight, and he had preached for an hour...with nobody stopping to listen. At the end, they began packing the van to leave. Then a woman, a prostitute, came into the light and walked right up to him. She had a defiant look on her face. She put out her finger and poked him right in the chest, demanding: "You said everybody in Christ a new creation and all the old is gone.
Is that the truth?"
He assured her that it was true. She said, "Huh," and walked away. As the group drove away, they compared notes and realized that they'd actually seen the woman the entire time they were preaching. Although she'd never come over to be obviously listening...she'd never actually walked out of earshot.
They realized too that they'd made a critical error: They were not prepared for success. If she had given herself to Christ instead of walking away, what would they have done? Patted her on the head and invited her to church? She'd go back to her pimp, who'd demand the money she was supposed to have made. She'd have said, "I'm a Christian now...I don't do that stuff anymore." Then what? Talk about the gospel being choked out by the cares of the world!
So the pastor went back to the church elders. That was a congregation to which the pastor had said, "Every member has a resource, every member has a need." We members had made our resources and needs known, and the pastoral staff matched resources to needs. Some members had skills. Some empty nesters offered spare rooms in their homes for whatever need the congregation had. The pastor's wife had set up a program called "House of Ruth" using those offered rooms as confidential safe houses for abused wives. When the elders and pastors put out a call, they found plenty of support in the congregation to put a prostitute on a new path: A place for her to stay, medical help, job training, job opportunities. By that very next Friday, they were ready.
So that street preaching team went back to that corner. They were just setting up when they heard a woman's shout down the street. That very same woman was running toward them at full speed. She stumbled in her high heels and stopped to take them off and throw them into the street, running barefoot.
She fell to her knees and they brought her into Christ. Then they loaded her into the van and took her to a safehouse to begin a new life. As a side note, by the next weekend, her pimp had found out that she'd last been seen getting into a van with "those street preachers." Street preaching got very hair raising after that...fortunately the church also had a Security Ministry made up of police officers, soldiers, bouncers, and football players.
A couple of years after hearing that testimony from the pastor, I heard another testimony from a woman in the congregation telling how she came from prostitution into the Body of Christ based on a single sermon from that pastor. She said that she'd heard plenty of street preachers before. They'd point at her and tell her she was going to hell. She'd just say, "Whatever," because she felt like she was in hell already and had "too much baggage to carry" to change her life. But that had been the first time someone had said that in Christ, "all things become new." She would be able to drop the baggage.
But you're saying that you won't let a saved sinner drop his baggage, even though Christ does.