Chapter 3 Part 3

4) Guilt

“…I will lift your skirts over your face, I will show the nations
your nakedness, And the kingdoms your shame.
Nahum 3:5

I have always been amazed how a victim less sin like fornication can make us feel so guilty. We avoid family and friends’ pretending it is not effecting us. Even though the stigma of fornication and the fruit of it are non-existent today, because “everyone is doing it”, there is always guilt. This guilt leads to other sins, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, gluttony, and greed. It used to be that a woman would be embarrassed not to be a virgin when she got married, now it is just the opposite. Moreover, it is happening at an earlier stage in the lives of our children than ever before. Our community is a community of babies having babies with impunity. As if this were the natural way to live. Again, love the sinner but we have to hate the sin. Make no mistake if we continue in sin, God will confront us about it. Despite the teachings of many modern churches, God does not take sin lightly. In bringing our sin to our attention, we get shame and guilt. In addition, it is not only the participants, but also again the fruit of these illicit affairs. The problem is as this becomes more and more the norm, the stigma is disappearing. This creates a problem; we become comfortable in our sin. God cannot and will not allow that. What happens then is that our minds and consciences become perverted. We begin to think that God no longer cares about our sin. That God has changed His mind about sin. Make no mistake about it the Bible says the following:

“Jesus Christ, the same yesterday,
and today, and forever.”
Hebrews 13:8

Sin will always be important to God. Remember, He sent His only begotten Son to die for our sins. I would say that it is pretty important. The apostle Paul says, “Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid! If we are truly born again with the in dwelling of the Holy Spirit we should be displaying it in our lives. There should be an outcry that we are not hearing. We should be holding telethons and having pledge drives to alleviate this problem, but we have had none. Is it that those who claim to be born again Christians do not have the Spirit of God in them? Sex when at the right time and place produces joy, but at the wrong place and time, it produces guilt and pain.

5) Sexual diseases

“When any man has a discharge from his
body, his discharge is unclean.”
Leviticus 15:2

Due to our insistence on putting our own selfish sexual pleasure before God’s law, we have ushered in a new level of sexually transmitted diseases or STDs as they are commonly referred to. Not only are we still battling the age old syphilis, gonorrhea, and etc., we now have deadlier strains of newer diseases. Just as we as parents provide our children with rules designed to protect them, so does our heavenly Father do the same for us. Multiple sex partners breed germs and disease. Some would point to the AIDs epidemic as a curse from God or the like; I do not know, God has not given me that revelation. I do know that as the number of sexual partners increases so does the chances of contracting an infection. Any sexually active person can be infected with Chlamydia. The greater the number of sex partners, the greater the risk of infection. We continue to play Russian roulette with our lives. As the diseases get deadlier, so we must become more vigilant in our behavior. The days of just going to the clinic and taking a pill or getting a shot are over. Today, being with the wrong sexual partner could cost you your life. I have yet to find a sexual partner that was worth losing my life over. Is a momentary sexual pleasure worth your life? As the medical professionals develop a drug or treatment to combat one form of sexual disease, another more deadly strain appears. As the diseases, become immune to the previous form of treatment. We should be willing to set aside our selfish desires to obey the word of God. When we continue to ignore the health risks associated with reckless sexual behavior, we not only thumb our noses to God, but also to our own personal health. We should not continue to keep the false belief that science will continue to develop new strategies to overcome our foolish behavior. There must come a time when we begin to take responsibility for our actions. With every action there is a consequence, are you willing to accept it? We should not and cannot continue to ignore the high cost to our health of reckless sexual adventures. The stakes are much too high. Almost daily, we hear or read about some new deadlier strain of disease or infection. Nature will not allow us to carry on this way. If we do not begin to change this reckless behavior the results will be catastrophic.