Date: Saturday, 9th December, 2023
Text: 1 Corinthians 7:2-5
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
One of the purposes of marriage is to prevent sexual impurity. Today’s text says, “But because of [the temptation to participate in] sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. The husband must fulfill his [marital] duty to his wife [with good will and kindness], and likewise the wife to her husband.
The wife does not have [exclusive] authority over her own body, but the husband shares with her; and likewise the husband does not have [exclusive] authority over his body, but the wife shares with him. Do not deprive each other [of marital rights], except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourselves [unhindered] to prayer, but come together again so that Satan will not tempt you [to sin] because of your lack of self-control.” 1 Corinthians 7:2-5
Sexual intimacy is ordained by God for married couples only. Sex before marriage or outside marriage is a grave sin before God. The word of God says, ““Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge”. Hebrews 13:4.
Do you not know that as a child of God, 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]? You were bought with a price [you were actually purchased with the precious blood of Jesus and made His own]. So then, honor and glorify God with your body by fleeing sexual sins.
Sexual immorality is the only sin that unites two people in one flesh (1 Corinthians 6:16). It is a sin that corrupts and ensnares like no other, and it often leads to physical diseases. For these reasons, sexual immorality is a sin committed against one’s own body.
The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body- 1 Corinthians 6:13. Stick to your spouse alone in love!
Prayer Nugget: Father, I ask for the grace of self-discipline; by your Spirit, I keep my body under subjection in Jesus name.