SEXUAL DECEPTIONS & MIS-CONCEPTIONS #3

SEXUAL DECEPTION & MIS-CONCEPTION #3: Our MUTUAL LOVE for one another is what qualifies and justifies our sexual relations. Many people think that just because they are not jumping in and out of bed having casual sex, but really love each other, that their love for each other is what makes sexual relations right. In fact, most of what we see on TV, at the movies, in magazines and books, base their approval for sexual relations on mutual attraction, mutual consent and mutual love [often confused with mutual lust!]. This certainly sounds noble, but the truth is that only the covenant of marriage qualifies and justifies sexual relations. Even though you may genuinely love one another, God has restricted sexual relations for married couples only! The word of God admonishes us to be satisfied with the sexual love of our spouses only. Proverbs 5: 15-23, says:

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and  rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed:and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his
folly he shall go astray.

Sex is God’s idea and creation and it is good, but for married couples only. The Bible says the marriage bed is undefiled (Hebrews 13:4)! So, in the eyes of God, love alone is not enough to qualify and justify sexual relations. God restricts sex to marriage because he wants the virtues of commitment and covenant to be the foundation for the expression of sexual love. In expressing this thought, I once heard an Evangelist put it this way, “No ring-ee, no ding-ee!” Without the virtues of commitment and covenant [marriage] in the expression of sexual love; families, society, and nations crumble socially, morally, spiritually, and ultimately economically.