Sin Agains the Flesh Is.greater Than Any Other Sin

April 04, 2022 Post a Comment

In a previous post we addressed the question of why Christians seem so hung up about sex. We saw that our bodies matter and what we practice with our bodies matter.

This is Paul'southward argument in 1 Corinthians half dozen. In verse eighteen he says: 'Abscond from sexual immorality. All other sins a homo commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins confronting his ain body.'

Sexual immorality in all its forms is against yourself. This seems a fleck odd. Is this proof of a Christian hang upwardly about sexual activity – that sexual activity is specially bad. What about drug abuse or suicide? Surely they also are sins against your body.

The point is the Bible is talking about more than merely the physical stuff we're made from. It's non just talking about bone and muscle. By 'body' it means our total selves. Who we are. Our identity.

The central idea is this: Sex is never only sex. It's more than pregnant that we commonly retrieve. It's not just a physical deed.

Poesy 16: 'Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For information technology is said, "The 2 will exist go ane flesh."' When it talks nearly becoming '1 in body' or 'one mankind' it doesn't mean our mankind is fused. It means your whole self is involved. You're whole cocky is given abroad. You're whole self, you personality, your identity is bonded to another person. Sex activity is not just a physical human activity than leaves the 'existent you lot' unaffected. It profoundly changes yous.

We see this in life all the time. If sex is only like eating block then why does infidelity experience so painful? Because sex involves your whole self and so people feel personally betrayed. Because sex is not just a physical human activity. Your whole self is involved.

God designed sex as a manner to give yourself to another. The dress come off then you lot're exposed. Y'all give you body to the comprehend of another. You enter or are entered. Your very self is fused with another person. The word 'unite' in verse xvi means 'to bind, to glue, to cement'. You're glued together. The two become one.

That'due south why sexual sin is a sin against your body, your self, your identity. If giving yourself in sexual activity is not done in the context of life-long commitment, the result is deep hurting. It messes with y'all in a profound way.

PVA gum is stronger than wood. If you glue two bits of wood together and so pull them autonomously it'southward not the glue that breaks, but the wood. Information technology splinters. And that's what happens whenever yous have sexual practice outside of marriage: you splinter your soul.

Just when that physical oneness goes together with a whole-person and whole-life oneness, the result is deep wholeness and fulfilment. Information technology's a cute and wonderful affair. It'due south an astonishing souvenir from God.

Information technology's a sign of God'due south ain giving of himself to us that nosotros might be one with him. The Bible says marriage and sexual practice are a moving picture of Christ's relationship with his people. At the cantankerous Christ gave himself in love to salvage people, to have the judgment we deserve, to cleanse us and brand us beautiful. And he commits himself to us totally. He's made a covenant (like a marriage covenant) to love united states of america and care for us.

God invented sex to evidence us his passion. All the pain you experience around sex is like the hurting he feels at our unfaithfulness. All the joy yous feel around sex is similar his joy at loving his people. All the sacrifices you make are the like the cede of Jesus for u.s.a..

So God says that sex belongs merely in marriage non to end us having fun, but to cease u.s. getting injure. Information technology'south not considering sexual practice is bad. It'south because sex is likewise precious and too powerful and also life-changing to exist unleashed without life-long commitment.

This is a loftier view of sexual practice. It'south not sexual activity as 'appetite' to be indulged whenever. Nor is it sex equally 'dingy' to be avoided any. It's sex as a profound, cute, pleasurable, relationship-bounden souvenir. Sex activity is more pregnant than you remember.

But does all this mean you've had it if you remain unmarried? We turn to that result in a future mail service.

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