SEX AND LUST According to the Bible

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT SEX AND LUST?
In this article, I will attempt to use Bible verses to answer frequently asked questions on different topics that have to do with issues of sex in the life of a Christian. These are the different questions I will cover:
(1) What does the Bible say about pre-marital sex (fornication)?
(2) What does the Bible say about masturbation?
(3) When does God give sexual relations His blessing?
(4) Why is it important that I follow God's commands regarding not participating in sex outside of marriage?
(5) What if I have already engaged in sex outside of marriage?

We are now living in times where the world is trying to change the standards and moral commandments that were set down by God thousands of years ago. But God is holy and just and does not change, and neither will His standards for us change or be shaped by the so-called progressiveness of this sinful world. So the question is who will you be obedient to? Whose standards will you follow -- God's or this world's?
The Bible warns us not to believe it when the world tells us that "sex outside of marriage is okay as long as you are practicing safe sex," or that "same-sex unions are normal and they should have the same status as male/female marriages." God's Word warns us not to fall for these man-made standards of living.

Proverbs 5:18-19 (NIV) says "Let your fountain be blessed: rejoice with the wife of your youth. Let her be as the loving fawn and the pleasant roe: let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love." God has created us to have sexual pleasure in a member of the opposite sex, but not with just any member: only with a wife or husband. Proverbs 15:20 (NIV) goes on to say "And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?" God hasn't made his children to wander in their desire from person to person. The Bible doesn't say to be satisfied by the body of someone walking down the street, or someone in a magazine or in a movie, and not even the body of a girlfriend or boyfriend or fiancé. Desiring the body of someone who doesn't belong to you in marriage produces frustration and, worst of all, deviance from the course that will lead you to a happy marriage.

In Ephesians 5:6, it says, "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them."
And that verse goes on to say: "For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them" (Ephesians 5:8-11).
If you truly have accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior, then you should not still be ruled by your flesh! Your motto should not be "if it feels good, do it." Instead, you should be doing all you can to avoid those people and things that will cause you to stumble and give in to sexual temptations.
So let's now take each question one at a time and try to expose the lies of this world's system with God's truth!

I will touch on the questions here one by one. Please follow the articles that I will post on my blog.
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Posted by Elizabeth Acosta Kuntz at 11:00 AM
Labels: What the Bible say about sex and lust
Topic to be continued....