FORNICATION
In the
right setting – that is marriage – sex is a wonderful gift from God. Sex is
given for our good. But God gave sex to be the servant of love and never the
slave of lust. God intends for love to express itself in the commitment of
marriage, and only then for intimacy to unite us in the joys of sexual love.
Richard D. Phillips
and Sharon L. Phillips
Holding
Hands and Holding Hearts, P&R, 2006, p. 143. Used by Permission.
In today’s
society, intimacy means practically nothing more than having sex. Couples meet
and immediately begin enjoying sexual intercourse, committing either to immoral
hedonism or to the idea that sex will serve as the foundation for love. This
goes a long way toward explaining why so many marriages, built on no stronger
foundation than sexual thrills, end in divorce soon after the flames of passion
have died down.
Richard D. Phillips
and Sharon L. Phillips
Holding
Hands and Holding Hearts, P&R, 2006, p. 143. Used by Permission.
Sex is from
God. He gave it to us as a gift. It’s a wedding gift.
Bill Shannon
A Passion for Purity, Shepherd’s
Conference, 2005, Session #33.
Premarital
sex defrauds the future marriage partner of the person with whom you are
involved. You are robbing that person of the virginity and single-minded
intimacy that ought to be brought into a marriage. Thus, sexual impurity is as
much a social injustice against others as it is a personal sin against God.
Sam Storms
Copied
from: Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Knowing God by Sam Storms,
© 2000, p. 231-232. Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.org. All rights
reserved.
Don’t believe the propaganda the world is peddling. This
is not God's way of robbing you of fun and pleasure. It is His
passionate desire to intensify it. This prohibition exists in order to protect
and preserve the beauty and joy of marital sex. Our laws against theft and
murder exist because of the high value we place on personal property and human
life. So, too, with this prohibition against illicit sex.
The purpose is to guard, preserve, and enhance
something far more exciting and fun and full of pleasure, namely, marital love.
Sam Storms
Sexual Morality, November 6, 2006, www.enjoyinggodministries.com.
Used by Permission.