DAY
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WARNINGS AGAINST SEXUAL IMMORALITY
SATAN TEMPTS US with promises of sexual pleasure and fulfillment, but any sexual activity that is outside of God’s design is eternally dangerous. God warns that those who refuse to repent of sexual immorality in various forms—whether it’s homosexuality, adultery, etc.—will be barred from entering his Kingdom. Such warnings should compel us to flee sin and to pursue Christ, trusting fully in God’s good design.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-11
You have heard that it was said, “You shall not commit adultery.” But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
MATTHEW 5:27-30
This is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
1 THESSALONIANS 4:3-8
Responding in Prayer
- Thank God for his kindness in warning us against sexual sin and for giving us his Spirit to help us flee from it.
- Ask God to guard your thoughts, words, and actions from sexual immorality. Find another trusted Christian to meet with for accountability.
- Pray that God would give your family and your church a good testimony in your community as you seek to grow in Christlikeness.