Sex Is For Marriage Only
This is a very interesting chapter. It talks about how some people have gotten so far out of God's will that they are perishing. They are perishing for their lack of knowledge of God. They don't know that's why they are perishing, but the reason is simple: They are in disobedience to God's commands and ignorant of God's plans. One of those areas of disobedience in out society an area that is rampantly out of control - is the area of sexual relationships. Genesis 4:1 says:
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
"Knew" in this context means to have sexual intercourse. Rightly understood, sex is knowing a person at the ...
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acquaintance. He was married to her.
Children are to be conceived ONLY within the sexual intimacy of marriage. When Adam and Eve had sex, they created a baby. Now certainly that doesn't mean that the first time they had sex they created Cain. It means that the outcome of their sexual relationship was a child.
Those two statements of principle about marriage may seem obvious, but most of the world doesn't live by these principles. You can hardly see a commercial or an advertisement today in which sex isn't being used to sell a product. You can hardly see a movie which doesn't have an impure sexual relationship, including a lot of the movies that supposedly are acceptable for children to see. Magazines, TV drama shows, TV situation comedies, talk shows, paperback novels, and music videos all tell the story - people in our culture are "knowing" too many people. in our society, sexual intercourse, is not limited to marriage. As a result millions of babies are being conceived each ...
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bad name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came to her I found she was not a virgin," then the father and mother of the young woman shad take and bring out the evidence of the young woman's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.
And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him; and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.
But if the thing is true, and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman, ...
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