The acts of humanity continues to unfold as a lot of persons continue to invent and perpetuate acts that are detrimental to their livelihood and spiritual well-being unawares. Worst still is the fact that a lot of persons, do not only engage in these acts themselves but continue to influence others into perpetrating such acts. Subtle as these acts may be, it is expedient for people to realize that whatever action we take has consequences.
Many however, continue to perpetuate these acts unawares due to ignorance. Their lack of knowledge has caused them to continue to suffer the repercussion for their actions with no deliverance near in sight. It is therefore, for this cause that advocates of right living must arise so that order can come once again into the polity and ignorant people would be enlightened.
Now, the subject of fornication and adultery has become a normal thing these days even amongst teens. It is sad that people have presented these subjects to the world as a thing of no value instead of a thing to be treated as what constitutes our very life. They hold the assertion that once you call yourself a man or woman; you have to be doing them. As a matter of fact, some people hold the belief that if a man or woman refuses to have sex before marriage, such persons are naive or worst still, novices in life.
However, at all times, it is advisable that people seek for the right information before they indulge in acts such as fornication and adultery. I will therefore, present in this article the three reasons why fornication and adultery are considered as evil in the sight of God. While others think it to be giving pleasure to the body, God sees it otherwise and it is needful that we know how God sees it and begin to see it that way as well.
According to the English Dictionary; Fornication is defined as the process of having sex with somebody that you are not married to. Adultery on the other hand is defined as the practise of having sex with a married person who is not your husband or wife. Now, sex is a household name and in this case, it simply means, a physical activity between two people in which they touch each others sexual organs, and which may include sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse according the English dictionary is defined as the physical activity of sex, usually describing the act of a man putting his penis inside a womans vagina.
Now, there are many reasons why people indulge in extra-marital affairs from lack of sexual satisfaction, to lack of attention, to irresponsibility etc., but whatever your reasons may be, it is shocking to admit that once you are married, you are married and you should rather fix your problems instead of misbehaving by having extra-marital affairs. Many persons misbehave so as to prove a point to their spouses that they cannot tolerate nonsense but quite often; this is the genesis of their problem. No one is perfect and couples must begin to learn to bear with one anothers failings so that extra-marital affairs would never arise in their families.
The next paragraph begins with the three reasons why God sees fornication and adultery as a necessary evil and must be avoided as seen in the bible. Please, be open and humble to see these truths because, your life and marriage may depend on it.
1. You become one body with your sex partner as seen in 1 Corinthians 6:16: Now, we must understand that whenever you commit fornication or adultery with anyone, you become one body with such. This means that you share in their failures, problems, curses, limitations etc.
If such a person is under a curse not to ever get married for example, he shares it with you. This is the reason why many persons that indulge in fornication and adultery are never financially stable in life. This is because; they are often sharing the other persons burdens and problems. If they have slept with five men or women, they share the problems of these men or women as the case may be.
2. You commit adultery when you look at a woman or man lustfully and not when you actually commit the act physically as seen Matthew 5:28: While, many persons are thinking that adultery or fornication is committed when you physically engage in sexual activity with a man or woman, we are seeing that by your looking lustfully at a woman or man, you have already committed fornication and adultery with them as the case may be.
God gave this command so that people can be properly guided that he doesnt want his children engaging in fornication and adultery. He advised also in Proverbs 6:25-26 that a man should not look at a woman lustfully lest they should be reduced to a piece of bread. If you see what people go through as a result of not being contented with their spouses, you would know that God knew why he adviced his children never to marry a divorcee except his partner was dead as seen in Mark 10:11-12 and Romans 7:2.
3. You are only allowed to divorce your wife for the cause of fornication as seen in Matthew 5:32 and Matthew 19:9: Now, I want you to know that if a married woman have sexual intercourse with a man that she is not married to, it is called adultery and not fornication but God says, divorce is allowed only on the basis of fornication. This means, God doesnt want divorce and in effect, fornication and adultery.
Seeing how grievous fornication and adultery is to God, how should we conduct ourselves in order to stay above these acts? It is simply achieved by making a covenant with your eyes so that you will not sin against God as Job did in Job 31:1.
We all want to make it early in life and if our hustling must be blessed as envisaged; we must reduce the possibilities of possible pitfalls such as committing fornication and adultery because, we can never know what curses, problems, challenges the people we are committing fornication and adultery with has in them. If this is not done then, we can only continue to solve problems and I dont think that this is the best for everyone. There should be a time of rest from all our toils and labour upon the earth.
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