Sex And Marriage

➡ This text is a sermon from a ministry called Your Daily Bread, where the speaker, Paul, discusses the topic of sex and marriage from a Christian perspective. He emphasizes that sexual immorality is not just a physical act, but a spiritual one that can harm one’s relationship with Christ. He criticizes the church for not addressing this issue properly and warns against the dangers of lust and covetousness. Paul also discourages inappropriate talk about sexual matters, arguing that it’s not in line with Christian values.
➡ We should avoid engaging in or listening to inappropriate or disrespectful conversations. Instead, our words should reflect the teachings of God. This includes avoiding both crude, senseless talk and cleverly disguised inappropriate humor. We should strive to keep our lives and our speech clean, focusing on love rather than self-gratification.

Hello, my name is Paul, and I am the voiceover for a ministry provided to you by Jim Pugh at God Is Government called Your Daily Bread, taken from Christ’s teaching of the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6.11. This is a daily devotion ministry focused not only on uplifting Scripture, but Scripture that will grow your spiritual connection with Christ. We hope that you receive these devotions to uplift you, encourage you, but most importantly, advance your knowledge base of the Holy Scriptures. Today’s focused discussion will be on sex and marriage. When you have sex, it’s not just a biological thing.

You’re taking Jesus Christ with whom you are one, and you’re joining Jesus Christ to a harlot. It’s not just biological. If you’re living in any kind of a perversion of love, you’re a blight on the church. And in 1 Corinthians, chapter 5, and the Apostle Paul writes, he says, it’s reported commonly there is fornication among you. And he says, instead of being stricken about it, instead of being mournful and broken about it, you’re puffed up, and you have not mourned. And he says, your glorying is not good. And he says to the church, you put that person out of the church, deliver him to Satan for the destruction of the flesh.

Don’t let that leaven destroy the lump. And he says, if you find a fornicator in the church, I write unto you not to company with a fornicator. If he calls himself a brother, and he’s a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, don’t even eat a meal with him. 1 Corinthians 5, put them out. You’re a blight on the church. You need to be removed from the church if you live that way, to say nothing of the fact that you’re definitely not walking as a child of God.

In 2 Peter 2, he calls people that do that scabs and filth spots on the assembly. Satan will always introduce a counterfeit. Now, look further, and we won’t go over these words in detail, because we have in the past. But he says, neither fornication nor uncleanness. Remember that word? Acathasya, uncleanness. It’s used 11 times in the New Testament. The first time it was used by Jesus to speak of, now watch this one, the first time it’s used of Jesus to speak of the vile, rotten stench that occurs when a body decays and is filled with maggots.

That’s the way Jesus used it. It’s a rotten, stinking, wretched word. Now listen, it’s used 11 times. The first time it was used by Jesus to speak of the rottenness of the filth and decay of a body in a tomb. The next 10 times it’s used, it is connected with sexual evil. It means the vile, rotten stench that goes with sexual sin. It refers to immoral acts, thoughts, passions, ideas, all the way onto orgies, every bit of it. That’s not love. You say, but it’s so wonderful we’re in love. And Jesus says, it’s the same word that speaks of the rotten filth and decay of a body full of maggots.

Pretty strong language. People say, but we’re in love. No, you’re not in love, because love doesn’t do that. We have sex madness, I’m afraid, even in the church. It really shocks me some of the books that are now being written by Christian people. You know, Sex for Christians. I’ve thrown some in the trash can. I’ve had some books sent to me written by Christians, published by Christian publishers, dealing with the issue of sex, read about three pages, and pitched it in the trash. You know what’s happened is the world is selling this so effectively that the church is coming in the back door and buying some of it, and sort of trying to sanctify it.

You can’t sanctify this. I heard one person say in his premarital counselling he had advised the couple to see each other naked before they were married, so that they would have some idea of what they were getting into. Ludicrous. This isn’t something clinical that can be dealt with in that fashion. There are some who even suggested premarital sex relationships for Christians before they’re married. Look at the next word. Shouldn’t be any of that. No uncleanness or covetousness. You say, what does covetousness have to do with this? Plionexia, covetousness, could be translated greediness.

And you know what it says? If you go back to Exodus 2017, when it’s talking there, you shall not covet. It says you shall not covet this, and this, and this, nor your neighbours, what wife. You want to know something? People in our society, and I dare say people sitting right here in this church, cover other people’s wives. They cover other women. They cover women they see on TV, or the movies, or ads, or magazines, or books, or whatever. This is sin. This is the counterfeit. It is part of the lie, the elusive bubble, the fantasy that never is, that never happens.

You know those beautiful magnificent movie stars? They’re supposed to be so wonderful, that fill up the fantasies of so many plain people, who are the same ones who can’t stay married to anybody. It’s a fantasy. It’s a lie. It’s a deceit. It’s elusive. It isn’t there. Greediness. People go after women, and women go after men, like notches on their belt. By the way, in Greek, the word plionexia means to defraud, to defraud. It’s a hoax. It’s a literal hoax. It’s to go after somebody to defraud them. Do you know what happens? Somebody comes after.

I’ve just heard about a situation where a husband is stalked by a woman, not his wife. She goes after, and it looks so good, and it looks so good, and it turns out to be a fraud. There’s nothing there. The fantasy is a lie, and the thing destroys and damns every good thing in life. Plionexia. The Latin’s called it amor celeratus habendi, which means the love of possessing. People will sacrifice everything to get it. They’ll destroy their children, they’ll destroy their spouse, they’ll destroy their relations to their friends, they’ll destroy their home, they’ll destroy their job.

They’ll destroy anything when they get the greediness that says, I’ve got to have that, because the fantasy will be fulfilled there. And it never will. It’s Satan’s lie right out of the pit. And so the Bible says there will be a counterfeit, and let it. Look at the end of verse 3. Not be once named among you. Not one time. People say, well, I couldn’t help it. I fell in love outside my marriage. That’s not a proof of love. That’s not a justification for divorce. That’s simply a proof of the rotten, sinful heart that you’ve got.

That’s all. People say, well, we couldn’t help it. We’re so in love, and I don’t love him anymore. Then you’re a sinner, because you’re commanded to love that one. You’re a sinner. And that isn’t going to justify a divorce. That condemns it. In addition to not loving your husband, or not loving your wife, or whatever starts this thing, you’re a coveter too. Because you’ve coveted something that was not yours, and was outside God’s laws, and outside God’s will, and outside God’s plan. So you not only sin in not loving as you should, but you sin in coveting what isn’t yours.

And you ought to read David and Bathsheba. You’ll sin again because you’ll steal what isn’t yours from whatever person it belongs to. And so your sin just keeps going. Let it not be once named. Not even one time. Look at the end of verse 3. As becometh, hagios, holy ones. How could holy ones be characterized by holy love, unholy lust, selfish, conditional, and unforgiving? We are set apart. We are holy. How can holy ones be engaged in unholiness? How can those who are the children of the holy God be doing unholy things? You say, well, boy, I’ve never done that.

I’m sticking with old mom here all through the years, and hanging in there. That’s good. But just so nobody gets off the hook, verse 4 says, you shouldn’t have any filthy talk, foolish talk, jesting, but only giving of thanks. You say, well, what’s this? Listen, not only are you not to do it, you’re not even to talk about it. Now, that ought to literally devastate our society. Filthiness, by the way, means general obscenity. The literal root is that which is disgraceful, and it has to do with words. It basically has to do with words.

Verse 12 of this same chapter, it is a shame to speak of things which are done of them in secret. You don’t even talk about that stuff. That’s why it bothers me that there’s so much license, even within quote-unquote Christianity, to talk about that area of sexual life in a way that I don’t feel the Bible allows. And whatever happened to the glory of discovery for two people set apart by God to marriage? Disgraceful talk is what filthiness means. It has to do with words that are disgraceful. You can’t read a book without that garbage in it from the world.

You can’t see a television program. You can’t see a film. You can hardly have a conversation with some people. And yet, it is never to be ours to be indulged in. Never once are we to be in a filthy conversation. Never once are we to listen to disgraceful talk. We are called to holy conversation. Read James 1. We are called to holy conversation. When you open your mouth, they ought to be the words that come from the mind of God, the heart of God, the lips of Jesus. Not the stuff that the world talks about.

I don’t know how people can go sit in a movie and watch all this stuff and listen to all of that. I don’t know how you can do that with your television. I don’t know how you can read books like that, or magazines like that, or laugh at jokes like that, when the Bible says it should never be once named among you. Not only filthiness, but look at foolish talking, morologia. From moros we get moron. It means stupid talk. It’s talk coming from somebody who has an intellectual deficiency. I call it low obscenity.

Let me show you what I mean. Low obscenity. This is the sin of the drunk, the sin of the fool, the sin of the guttermouth, the low class obscene stuff. Just filthy gutter talk, senseless, profitless words with a filthy connotation. Low obscenity, morologia, moronic. But the next word is very interesting. It’s the word jesting, and it is the word utrapelia. It doesn’t mean low obscenity, it means high obscenity. You say, what in the world is that? Well, the word literally means able to turn easily. Have you ever known anybody who can take something that is said and turn it easily into something dirty? That’s the clever wit of the talk show host, you know? The late night guy, who no matter what you say, he twists it to have a filthy innuendo.

So on the one hand, you’ve got the moronic stupidity of the drunken or the fool, who just talks filthy gutter talk. On the other hand, you’ve got the sophistication of the clever man, who’s not stupid, but who has a clever dirty wit, who can easily turn anything to have an innuendo. In both cases, it’s garbage can mind. In both cases, it is talking about something that is evil, and Paul says you don’t do it in verse three, and he says in verse four, you don’t talk about it. Clean up your life, clean up your talk.

So Paul says, love has been perverted into sexual lust, uncleanness, covetousness, and it’s all for self gratification. And it’s unforgiving, because when you don’t bring any, when you don’t deliver the goods, when you don’t fulfill, I am gone to somebody else. It’s all conditioned on the right response. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of sex and marriage. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way.

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