Shun immorality

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord. We thank God for our bodies being the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Primary Text

“Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.” 1 Corinthians 6v18 (AMP)

“Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.” 1 Corinthians 6v18 (NLT)

Beloved, the Bible is very clear on the issue of immorality and sexual sin, and asks us to flee from it. Proverbs 6v27-29 (KJV) says “Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.” In our thoughts, words and deeds, we should flee sexual immorality. Ephesians 5v3-5 (NIV) tells us “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person – such a person is an idolater – has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” Hebrews 13v4 (NIV) reminds us that “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” For both the married and unmarried, marriage should be honored, and the sexual unity God ordained for marriage should also be respected, for God will judge the adulterer and all sexually immoral.

Supplementary Text

“For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice, That each one of you should know how to possess (control, manage) his own body in consecration (purity, separated from things profane) and honor, Not [to be used] in the passion of lust like the heathen, who are ignorant of the true God and have no knowledge of His will,” 1 Thessalonians 4v3-5 (AMP).

Prayer

Our heavenly Father, we thank You for Your goodness, and for Your will that we should be sanctified. We ask for mercy and for Your cleansing in anyway we have been impure in our words, thoughts and deeds. We dedicate our bodies to You and pray that in all we say, do and think we would glorify You. Help us Lord to live lives that are pure and pleasing to You in everyway. May there be no hint of sexual impurity among us in Jesus name, amen.