There is a clinical disease that afflicts many in the world today and is often called the “silent killer.” This disease is called hypertension. The reason it is referred to as the silent killer, unlike other diseases it sometimes will have no noticeable symptoms. Thus, one not having an understanding that there is problem, will often silently lead to a more critical illness if uncontrolled and can lead to kidney failure, an eventual stroke or death. Sexual immorality is the true “silent killer.” Many do not understand the varying reasons for what continues to plague or enslave them comes from varying degrees of sexual immorality. Often leading to both sexually transmitted demons and diseases, these sins come at a high cost! Most are living in what they feel are “normal situations” according to current culture, but are in fact, offensive to YAHWEH.
This article does not seek to be a tool to condemn, however it in fact will be used to aid the ministry of reconciliation. We will teach the biblical standard and refuse to hide behind the doctrine of grace. It is important that we teach on this as it is so that we can repent and help those who haven’t made the same sin or mistakes. This is probably one of the most profound and important articles that one will ever encounter. The substance of this article is foreign in nature, but salvation to those who have an ear to hear.
Sexual immortality – is one of the most destructive forces in our time. Its affects reach generations, and most don’t have a firm understanding of what constitutes sin or lawlessness (disorder).
Yah says, “BE HOLY FOR I AM HOLY” –
Let’s get grounded.
1 John 3:4 – Whoever commits sin also breaks the law, for sin is the transgression of the law.
Let’s go to the law of what constitutes sexual immorality. Better yet, let’s define sexual immorality and we will discuss the judgment and impact.
First, why is it important to understand sexual immorality. How does YAH see it? What does this all mean and why it is important?
• The bible declares that the sexually immoral will be judged and that all forms of unlawful marital acts (or what we know as sex) are abominations to YAH. Leviticus 18, I Corinthians 6:9-20.
• Let’s start with the passage below:
• 1 Corinthians 6:9-20
• English Standard Version
• 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous[a] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, [b] 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of Hamasiach and by the Spirit.
Flee Sexual Immorality
• 12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined[c] to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin[d] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So, glorify God in your body.
We are commanded to flee sexual immorality.
Now let’s go to Leviticus 18.
Leviticus 18
Unlawful (Marital) or Sexual Relations
18 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules[a] and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.”
“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.”
“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her. You shall not give any of your children to offer them[b] to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.”
“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. bBut you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.”
Here is a very critical component to understanding this topic.
Exodus 16:1 – if a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely pay the bride price for her to be his wife. Another translation says that he shall surely endow her – meaning perform the duties or acts to make it official. Now note this: the first so called marital or sexual between a man and a woman in scripture is NOT SIN. There is no sexual immorality in this act, but we do see how YAH views this one flesh arrangement or agreement. He considers them to be married.
Another critical point to this topic:
• There were cultural laws and standards in ancient Israel and then there were YAH’s laws. Sometimes intertwined but the point is that even in modern day culture some erroneous believe it takes a marriage license which is a relatively new invention to be joined. The introduction of the marriage license itself came about in the 17th century but was not widely held until the 19th century. Marriage was a private institution between the persons and oftentimes families. It was the couple’s acts and or declarations that determined the marriage. If you don’t intend to be in covenant with someone then do not give them your body. YAH determines the inception of marriage, man does not.
• So here is a very important concept – any marital or sexual act carried act that cannot lawfully bind the souls between two individuals (a man and a woman) is sexual immorality.
• Let’s expand this definition:
o Two men that lie down together is an unlawful marital act and is invalid because it is impossible for those two souls to bind together in YAHs eyes.
o Any man or woman that sleeps or lies down with an animal is an unlawful marital act (or sexual act) that is invalid because it is impossible for those two souls be bound.
o Any man that sleeps or lies down with his neighbor’s wife (a woman who has already been taken according to Exodus 16 – and that man is still living, that is an unlawful marriage or sexual act – but is invalid because it is impossible for those souls to be bound together.
WHY DID IT REQUIRE THE VIRGIN TODAY UNDER THE SO-CALLED OLD COVENANT – BUT NOW YAH IS OKAY WITH SEXUAL IMMORALITY.
• There are many more examples, but the point is clear. All other unlawful marital acts were and are abominations before YAH.
• IF IT CANNOT LEAD TO MARRIAGE – ALL OTHER MARITAL OR SEXUAL ACTS ARE MARITAL ADMONINATIONS. THE WORD SEX CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM MARRIAGE. ALL THESE ACTS ARE ABOMINDATE ATTEMPTS AT MARRIAGE.
Great article. I’m a progress in work and I will get there soon.