Fighting for Sexual Purity
... release that tension later on in your spare time; then move on to the next. We’ve just committed adultery. Jesus specifically says in Matthew 5:28, “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” He’s brutally honest, isn’t He? Then why do we continue looking for that jogger as we drive around town? In 1 Corinthians 6:18 it states, “Flee from sexual immorality.” As Jesus said, sexual immorality is not just physically acting it out, but mentally as well. Sadly enough, we set ourselves up for destruction. It’s like a chain reaction. Our eyes feed our minds, then our minds feed our hormones and eventually we masturbate or even take it further. Some take their lustful thoughts into the bedroom with their wives or to other means. What many don’t realize is that if we continue with these acts, it eventually escalates. I speak from experience. What starts off as thoughts as a teen, later escalates to pornography and premarital sex. The New Testament has something on sexual immorality in almost all of its books. But none says it better and with more clarity than 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5,7: “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified; that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God ... For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.” What I am writing is not coming from my mouth; it is God’s demand. Many Christians think that because they say a little prayer they are saved and have no worries. Now I am not talking about our security of salvation, but we can’t worship God just with our mouths. We are to strive to be more like Him. I know it’s difficult to envision the idea of being like Him. After all Christ was perfect, however, Job was a human being just as we are. How did Job attain sexual purity? In Job 31:1, 9-12 he says, “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl. … If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door, then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her. For that would have been shameful, a sin to be judge...