Q2. Persistent Sexual Sin

[elizabeth kerr]

In Genesis 2:24, God said that when a man and a woman marry, they become one.  Some of the OT prophets described God's relationship with the Israelites as a marriage - God was the husband, the Israelites were the wife; then, the Israelites' turning away from God to worship idols was considered to be adultery (Jeremiah 2-3; Ezekiel 16, 23; Malachi 2:13-16);  Hosea is a parable about this relationship and the wife's adultery and God's love and forgiveness.  Additionally, Paul taught that the church is the wife an Jesus Christ is the husband (Ephesians 5:22-33; 2 Corinthians 11:2).  In Revelation 19:1-9, 21:1-10, John wrote about the bride of Christ, the church,  and her marriage celebration with The Lamb. So, marriage and sexual faithfulness are word pictures of the believer's relationship with God.

    So, sexual sin separates the Christian from his Bridegroom, Jesus.  The believer who is practicing sexual sin should examine himself  to see if he is a true believer.   He needs to study the Bible to see what it says about how we are supposed to be transformed into Christlikeness (Romans 8:28-30; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 1 John 3:2; and more), and seriously judge his own behavior.  All sin, even sexual sin, can be forgiven once the sinner genuinely repents with grief and remorse and confesses it to God, Who will then cleanse and purify him.  If the sinner is not willing to repent of that sin and turn to God for forgiveness, cleansing, and transformation, maybe he should examine the genuineness of his faith in Jesus.

 

I think Christians in all times and places, not just the here and now, have been complacent about sexual sin, actually about all kinds of sins; today it is just more public.  A study of recorded history and biographies of Christians in the societies where Christians supposedly influenced and/or governed show a consistent, persistent pattern of sexual sin being practiced, alongside all other types of sins, in all socioeconomic classes.  I think we just do not take God's opinion of sin too seriously, and we think that since all sin can be forgiven, we can sin - even knowing that what we plan to do is a sin-, "repent", and confess our sin, and we will automatically be forgiven; so, we think we do not need to discipline ourselves to resist temptation and we don't!

[IvoryEagle]

(Jude 4) In what way does sexual sin deny Christ? If Paul is right in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, that persistent sexual sin is incompatible with salvation, why have we Christians become so complacent about it in our culture?

 

  HE IS CLEAR; WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?!  Many people have become complacent because immediate gratification is more accessible than delayed gratification....I call it "eating your seed."  The Bible is the seed of truth that will only germinate on God's time; wait!!

"..Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed,you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of

our God."  1 Corinthians 6:9-11 New International Version (NIV)

 

 

[RD35]

Q2. (Jude 4) In what way does sexual sin deny Christ? If Paul is right in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, that persistent sexual sin is incompatible with salvation, why have we Christians become so complacent about it in our culture?​

 

 

God has repeatedly in his Word forbidden sexual sin, and so the one who commits it denies Christ.

 

 

Christians are become complacent because it is widely accepted in the society and many false preachers are also promoting it.  People fear to speak the truth because they fear society more than God.

[Commissioned]

On 7/18/2004 at 8:57 PM, Pastor Ralph said:

Q2. (Jude 4) In what way does sexual sin deny Christ? If Paul is right in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, that persistent sexual sin is incompatible with salvation, why have we Christians become so complacent about it in our culture?

Sexual sin deny Christ because it denies the very teaching of Christ.  Christians have become complacent about overlooking persistent sexual sin it in our culture for fear of appearing to be judging someone else's rights to live as they will.

[Godswriter]

Q2. (Jude 4) In what way does sexual sin deny Christ? If Paul is right in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, that persistent sexual sin is incompatible with salvation, why have we Christians become so complacent about it in our culture?

It denies Christ in the area of salvation because we were bought at a price and we are no longer our own anymore. We are His Bride. 

I believe it is because the movies and television have sex in them all the time. I also believe it's because *********** is so rampant on the internet and so easy to get a hold of now. We also believe we are immune to it when in truth we are not. We need to be on guard and constantly watching out for our souls' enemy. With easy access to sexual content all over the place we believe that there is nothing wrong with it. But we need to be careful what we think because we could be in a place where we fall into sin.