Why you must avoid sexual lusts and fornication

Why you must avoid sexual lusts and fornication

Posted on January 19, 2009 Updated on January 19, 2009

BROTHELS IN DIGNIFIED PLACES

Memorise: “But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul ” (Proverbs 6:32)

Read: Proverbs 6:32-35

Pastor E. Adeboye

Some 20 or 30 years ago, the dress sense of many was very different. In those days, it was easy to tell a prostitute from a decent lady through their dressing. When young girls strayed from decency, their parents, particularly their mothers immediately whipped them back on line.

Today, the story is so different. You can barely differentiate between decent and indecent ladies via their dressing. House wives are dressing no different from prostitutes. What is happening? There is a shift in values and prostitution is relocating to homes and family life. In the same vein, several brothels littered the towns and cities in the past. They were given all kinds of sordid names. #

If you were ever seen going into or coming out of one of them, you suddenly wore the toga of defilement and indecency. But today, with less brothels, prostitution is thriving faster. Why? The brothels are relocating to decent places!

Most offices have turned brothels. Fornication has become the basis for recruitment and promotion. It is also the reason for demotion, denied benefits and dismissal. Marketing or sales now revolves around nude women. No product can be thought sold except given a dose of fornication. The vestry of many churches have turned into brothels. Youth vigils have become sex bouts where the flesh, instead of the spirit is fed. In the educational sector, the story is not different. For many lecturers, fornication is the ticket to success.

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, where with shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men” (Matthew 5:13).

You are the hope of the world. God’s light in you makes you the light of the world. If everyone else falls, remain standing. You can make a difference. In the midst of those whose garments are defiled with fornication, God is looking for someone who can make a difference. God is seeking a man, a woman who would pay the ultimate price to stand for righteousness. You can be that person. If all ministers decide to fornicate, you must differ. Not only in thoughts, words, but also in action. If Joseph refused to be defiled, you too can maintain purity. God will only use clean vessels, not fornicators. If your garment is already stained, repent, restitute and break away from every sinful link.

Violence is needed to separate you from everyone who wants to keep you perpetually in sin. Resist them with all your strength!

Before Sodom and Gomorrah were razed down by fire, they provoked God through sexual sins. Are you provoking a similar judgement in any way?