Rom. 1:18-25, Gentleness/Faithfulness vs Sexual Sins (1)

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. … Then God said, Let us make man in our image.  So God created man in His own image, male and female He created them. … The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone.  I will make a helper suitable for him.’ … Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken from the man. … The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman.’ … For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and they will become one flesh.”

God created man with a need for companionship.  The “one flesh” relationship was part of that companionship.  But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ (2 Cor. 11:3).  In a world where Satan is the “god of this age” what God intended for man’s good has been replaced by an evil counterfeit.  Galatians calls these the “works of the flesh.”

·       Adultery: sex by a married person with someone not their spouse.

·       Fornication: any and all sexual relationships outside of marriage.

·       Uncleanness: a general term associated with sex sins.  Movies, books, web pages and other media that contain sexually explicit material fit in this category.

·       Lewdness: Debauchery, extreme indulgence, lack of any self-control.

Society seeks to cover over these sins with less inflammatory words.

·       Termination of pregnancy, instead of abortion.

·       Pornography instead of smut or filth.

·       Pedophiles instead of child molesters.

·       Hookers or ladies of the night instead of whores.

·       Homosexuals instead of Sodomites.

·       Bloody axe killings, sadistic rapes, erotic seductions, language that would make a lumberjack blush are now “mature subject matter” (parental discretion advised.)

In our world the “sex drive” has been made primary, thanks to a long line of individuals who have decided that unbridled freedom of the “libido” is essential for healthy society.  From …

·       Freud (reacting to unscriptural extreme sexual repression).

·       Havelock Ellis (first to publicly recommend pre-marital sex, and to legitimatize homosexuality).

·       Bertrand Russell (promoter of trial marriages).

·       Margaret Sanger (grandma of Planned Parenthood, promoted birth control as improving society by keeping society’s ‘unfit’ from bearing children.

·       Kinsey Reports (50’s) and Masters & Johnson (60s) who made sex a “thing,” taking it out of the realm of ethics and putting it into the realm of science.