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| WHAT IS GOD’S VIEW OF SEX? BY JAD JAMAL KHALAF Sex is not a sin. Billy Graham says, “It is significant that the Bible is one of the world’s most outspoken books on the subject of sex. It does not try to gloss over sex in either its right or wrong aspects. The sly, secret, embarrassed, ‘let’s-pretend-it-doesn’t-exist’ attitude about sex is purely manmade.” God meant for sex to be shared between a husband and a wife. He intended sex to be the complete act of love in a marriage. Sex is a part of marriage. The commitment, love, respect, and joy are all attributes of a marriage. God designed sex to bring about new life. Upon completion of creation, God instructed Adam and Eve, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” (Genesis 1:28b). A Christian is to honor and glorify God with their bodies. Strive to live a sexually pure life until marriage. Satan will use the lust of the eye, heart, emotions, and thoughts to tempt a Christian (James 1:14-15). The temptation will appear natural and good. Lustful thoughts and actions are not justified. A Christian’s body is the temple of the Lord. Christ indwells the heart and life of His child. He paid the ultimate price for sin by dying on a cross. A Christian is bought with the blood of Christ. Resist and flee temptation. “(18) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. (19) What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (20) For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:18-20). The misuse of sex is a sin. Sin is a result of Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3). Society has distorted sex. Sinful individuals have degraded sex to nothing more than low, cheap, and filthy. This is not how God intended sex. BIBLIOGRAPHY Billy Graham, Peace With God: In A World of Strife And Pain You Can Have . . . (Nashville: W Publishing Group, 1984). Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving From Romance To Lasting Love (Nashville: W Publishing Group, 2004). |
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