The Truth About Sexual Sin

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The Truth About Sexual Sin

Sexual sin deprives us of the sexual relationship that God designed for us. Porn, lust, masturbation, adultery, sex before marriage  all these sins steal away from God’s best design for sex. God made us and He made sex. So He knows what is best for us when it comes to sex.

I read recently that most people prefer having sex with their spouse as opposed to looking at porn or masturbating, even though having sex with their spouse is more work. But if that’s true, and I believe it is, then why don’t we always “prefer” our spouse? Why aren’t we saving all of our sexual energy for sex with our spouse? Why are we choosing sin and second rate options to the sexual experience? 

God’s best for your sexual experience is you and your spouse, and NO ONE ELSE, enjoying each other’s bodies together. It’s loving and serving each other and pleasing one another. It’s connecting and bonding and real intimacy. When you start looking at porn or lusting after someone who isn’t your spouse, it will draw you away from God. You will begin to believe lies and rationalize your behavior. Your view of who God really is will become distorted. I have seen it happen time and time again. 

It is an ongoing battle. Sexual temptation is all around us and the enemy is lying to us about sex too. Our culture is flawed and often, it’s hard not to believe the lies it tells us. It’s so important that we flee from sexual sin so that our marriage bed can be filled with sexual joy.

So if you are struggling with sexual sin - make a plan to do something about it today. FLEE from sexual sin. Don’t hang out with it. Don’t sit in tempting situations. Get accountability, remove situations that make it hard for you to resist your personal sexual sin struggle. Save all of your sexual experience for your marriage bed. You won’t regret it. 


Next Steps:

  • What ways has sexual sin slipped into your life?

  • How has that affected your marriage and your relationship with God?

  • What lies have you chosen to believe?

  • If you are serious about dealing with your sexual sin, take that first step of confession today.

2 Minute Clip

This month on the podcast it’s all about sex in marriage. In this clip Lindsay & I talk about male/female differences in sex.

Quick Hits

This Week’s Quote: Alfred Nobel

Born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Nobel was a chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is known for creating dynamite and for leaving his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize. 

  • I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

  • Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

  • A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

This Week’s Trivia Question:

  • Students at Purdue University engineered a “licking machine” to find out once and for all how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. How many licks did they conclude it takes?

Did You Know?  

  • Queen Elizabeth II had a stand-in to make sure the sun wouldn’t get in her eyes. Ella Slack had a similar height and stature to the queen, so before big events, she would do a rehearsal to avoid any royal pains like the sun getting in Her Majesty’s eyes. Slack had this role for three decades but was never allowed to sit on the throne - she had to squat above it.

Something To Talk About Together:

  • What is one memory you wish you could live in forever?

Awesome Marriage This week

This Week’s Trivia Answer:

  • The study showed that it took 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop!

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