We live in a promiscuous world. Everywhere one turns we see sex, and sexual innuendo is rampant. Cars dealers use sex to sell cars, XXX rated pornography is there for all to see on the internet, and every minute on television we see sex, either portrayed or, as noted above, used to sell a product. Then we have the audacity to be amazed when children aged 11 and 12 are guilty of raping a six year old. We have the audacity to get up in arms when we see or read of some sexual predator that preys on our children.

Further, adultery and sexual sins are not condemned, but even glorified in our world. To speak against such is looked upon as old fashioned, and “not with it.” Our society has shrugged their shoulders to God and His word, and hardened its heart against what God says about sexual sin.

It would make perfect sense that the one who created us would know what is good for us, and that he, in love, would give us the boundaries which he knows is for our own good. This is why he made it clear in the Ten Commandments that one “should not commit adultery.” This is why Jesus emphasized that not only should one not commit adultery, but if a man looks on a woman with lust he has committed adultery with her in his heart. This is why Paul emphasizes in 1 Corinthians 6 that we sin against our bodies when we commit adultery, and why he told the young preached Timothy to flee fornication. Further, because we individually make up the body of Christ, when we commit sexual sin we harm the body of Christ. In one of the clearest passages that deal with this subject, Paul condemns the church in Corinth for allowing a man to be in communion with them who “had his father’s wife,” (1 Corinthians 5). Sexual sin is a sin against God and his holiness.

Further, sexual sin is a sin that breaks up the family and home. WHAT DOES COMMITTING ADULTERY SAY TO OUR SPOUSE?
1.“I don’t think you’re good enough for me. You mean very little to me, and besides, I’m only thinking of me.”
2.“I deserve to be happy and gratified at all costs. Your pain is deserved and so is my pleasure.”
3.“I don’t care what this does to our relationship. Your feelings are not important to me.”
4.“I don’t mind being a liar. I’ll do anything to cover up the truth. I don’t care if I’m not trustworthy.”
5.“I don’t need you for completeness or fulfillment. I’ll find it somewhere else.”
6.“I don’t care if you or the children are publicly humiliated. I don’t care if this scars the children and sets a bad example before them. I don’t care if this leads to our children turning away from God.”
7.I don’t care if your world crumbles beneath your feet.”
8.“I don’t care what kind of impact this has on our church family. If it brings reproach on the church, then I don’t care.”
9.“I’ve got the foresight of a dodo bird. I can’t see past the end of my finger. Thinking things through is beyond my mental ability.”
10.“I don’t care if I crucify the Son of God afresh and put Him to an open shame.”

Brethren, sexual sin is against God, against the home and against his church. We cannot be complacent about it, nor “shrug our shoulders at it.” May we all strive to keep ourselves pure and holy, as God demands that we do. (1 Peter 1:16-17).

Part of this article was copied from The Florence Blvd Church of Christ Bulletin, November 18, 2007, by Chris Kemp.