Never! If We Set Boundaries...

Job 34; 1 Corinthians 4; 1 Corinthians 5; 1 Corinthians 6

Scripture

Sexual Immorality

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.



Observation

A television pastor/evangelist once again makes the headlines with involvement in sexual immorality. Evangelists and pastors need to realize that sexual immorality will destroy them and they have to set boundaries so they don’t fall into sin. It is said that Billy Graham will not even enter an elevator alone with a woman. We must make sure that we have people that will hold us accountable so that we are not ruined by sexual sin. I will not be with a woman alone. I will not be in a car alone with a woman unless it is my wife, or one of my daughters. I will not meet a woman for a business lunch or dinner meeting alone. All of us are tempted and if you say you don’t have a problem with temptation then you are either “dead” or a “liar”!

Application

I realize that Satan wants to destroy me and the ministry that God has called me to so I will be very careful with my relationships.


Prayer

Heavenly Father, help me set and maintain boundaries that will keep me from falling into sexual immorality. Keep my mind pure and my thoughts free of sexual ideas that would cause me to sin. Help me keep the men around me accountable and help them to keep me accountable so my life and their lives will be pleasing to you.




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