GUARD SEX SACREDNESS

GUARD SEX SACREDNESS: IT ENHANCES THE COVENANT OF GRACE IN MARRIAGE!

“Drink WATER from your OWN CISTERN, And RUNNING WATER from your OWN WELL” Proverbs 5:15 NKJV.

“HONOUR MARRIAGE, and GUARD THE SACREDNESS of sexual intimacy between wife and husband. God draws a FIRM LINE against CASUAL and ILLICIT SEX” Hebrews 13:4 (Message Bible – MSG).

SEX they say – is it of God? YES – IT’S OF GOD! It’s a godly, pleasurable act in enhancing and enacting to strengthen the covenant of grace in marriage. It’s intent is more than just for pleasure and procreation purpose only. Knowingly or unknowingly – it has DIVINE purpose and implications affecting our very LIFE and GODLY LIVING in Christ Jesus stead. Hence don’t fall into the hands of God’s ANGER which could be a SCARE in all your act of doing LIFE and GODLY LIVING in Christ Jesus stead as it’s written:

“It is a FEARFUL and TERRIFYING thing to fall into the hands of the living God [incurring His judgment and wrath]” Hebrews 10:31 Amplified.

In accessing SEX outside the MARITAL CONTEXT for CASUAL and ILLICIT SEX, is not just only about it been a SIN, it thus hindered the ACT to ENACT the DIVINE plan, purpose and pursuit in one’s life; and it switched off communion of an effectual walk with God in all that pertains to one in God’s GRACE and BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead; and it makes you vulnerable, PREY and defenseless in everyway if you intend to have God as your shield and defence.

IT’S A CHOICE IN LIFE TO SAY YES OR SAY NO TO SEX GRATIFICATION OUTSIDE MARRIAGE:

** TO SAY YES IS TO GIVE IN FOR SELF GRATIFICATION AND FACE THE CONSEQUENCES – ARE YOU TRULY READY?

** TO SAY NO TO SELF GRATIFICATION IS TO HAVE DIVINE INTENT IN ALL YOUR DOING IN LIFE AND GODLY LIVING – DON’T YOU LOVE IT?

If you intend achieving the DIVINE INTENT of God therefore, then FLEE from all its appearances at any form or formats and PATIENTLY WAIT for your MARITAL SET TIME in grace; and if married, DIGNIFY your marital covenant of grace and ABSCOND from extramarital acts and abuses. COLOUR YOUR WORLDS IN CHRIST JESUS – IN PURITY OF HEARTS, THOUGHTS, PRAYERS AND IN ACTS.

HENCE I SAY: SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“HONOUR MARRIAGE, and GUARD THE SACREDNESS of sexual intimacy between wife and husband. God draws a FIRM LINE against CASUAL and ILLICIT SEX” Hebrews 13:4 (Message Bible – MSG).

“Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations? 2-6 Certainly—but only within a certain context. It’s good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. SEXUAL DRIVES ARE STRONG, but MARRIAGE is STRONG enough to CONTAIN them and provide for a BALANCED and FULFILLING sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality—the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to “stand up for your rights.” Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out. Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it’s for the purposes of prayer and fasting—but only for such times. Then come back together again. Satan has an ingenious way of tempting us when we least expect it. I’m not, understand, commanding these periods of abstinence—only providing my best counsel if you should choose them” 1 Corinthians 7:1—6 (Message Bible – MSG).

“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 22 ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL. 23 And the very God of peace SANCTIFY you WHOLLY; and I pray God your WHOLE spirit and soul and body be PRESERVED BLAMELESS unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 FAITHFUL is he that CALLETH you, who also will DO it” 1 Thessalonians 5:21-24.

“For the GRACE of God has APPEARED that offers salvation to all people. 12 It TEACHES us to say “NO” to UNGODLINESS and WORLDLY PASSIONS, and to LIVE SELF-CONTROLLED, UPRIGHT and GODLY LIVES in this PRESENT AGE, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. 15 These, then, are the things you should teach. ENCOURAGE and REBUKE with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you” Titus 2:11-15 (NIV).

“Drink WATER from your OWN CISTERN [of a pure marriage relationship] And FRESH running WATER from your OWN WELL. 16  Should your springs (children) be dispersed, As streams of water in the streets? 17 [Confine yourself to your own wife.] Let your children be yours alone, And not the children of strangers with you. 18  Let your FOUNTAIN (WIFE) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity], And rejoice in the wife of your youth” Proverbs 5:15-18 AMPLIFIED.

“Drink water from your OWN well— share your love only with YOUR wife” Proverbs 5:15 NLT.

“Therefore, if anyone CLEANSES himself from these things [which are dishonorable—disobedient, sinful], he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified [set apart for a special purpose and], useful to the Master, prepared for every good work. 22 RUN AWAY FROM YOUTHFUL LUSTS—PURSUE RIGHTEOUSNESS, FAITH, LOVE, AND PEACE with those [believers] who call on the Lord out of a PURE heart. 23 But have nothing to do with foolish and ignorant speculations [useless disputes over unedifying, stupid controversies], since you know that they produce strife and give birth to quarrels” 2 Timothy 2:21-23 Amplified.

“But the one who is UNITED and JOINED to the Lord is ONE spirit with Him. 18 RUN AWAY FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY [in any form, whether thought or behavior, whether visual or written]. Every other sin that a man commits is OUTSIDE the body, but the one who is sexually immoral sins AGAINST his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a TEMPLE of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have [received as a gift] from God, and that you are not your own [property]?” 1 Corinthians 6:17-19 Amplified.

Further Scriptural Reading: 1 Corinthians 6:16-20; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; 1 Thessalonians 5:22; Galatians 5:1, 13.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI