In this blog, I want to address premarital sex, and this is also for one of my classes. The reason that I want to address premarital sex is because it is something the church is scared to talk about. I cannot remember the last time that I heard a sermon on premarital sex. I think this is due to a weakening in the knowledge and doctrine of God's Word within the church. Our nation loves to talk about and promote sex in every area of our society, but many pastors today, for some reason only want to give "uplifting talks", but these men hardly ever, if at all talk about sin. I have heard one "pastor" call sin, that "icky stuff"; now when you belittle sin as this so called pastor did, you do not have a true church, so I am afraid that we in America have many false churches.
To begin, in this article https://patch.com/california/pleasanthill/facts-sexual-activity-middle-school, the author writes about how middle school kids are very sexually active, and are becoming more active. He begins talking about giving 6th graders condoms. He then talks about how middle schoolers are sexually active, by saying, "Research studies show 5% of 6th graders are already having sexual intercourse. This is not taking into account oral sex. " This is troubling because just after this quote, she says that they see oral sex as only "kissing". ONLY KISSING, did you catch that?! So, when you hear a middle schooler talking about kissing, it is safe to assume that they are talking about doing some kind of oral sex along with actually kissing. Later on in her article, Michael states that sex classes should be taught in 4th and 5th grade, and more than one 30 minute talk about how to use condoms, birth control, and other sexual activities. He states that parents should be talking about sexual activity from preschool. The author is a counselor, and he ask his students when they come to him about sex, if they are sure this is the one that they want to lose their virginity to. He then states lower in the article that many students do not want to talk to their parents about sex, for they think that their parents will be mad at them. That last line is encouraging to me, because even out in California where this was written, there remains somewhat of a Biblical mindset of sex.
Sex before marriage is what is called the sin of sexual immorality in Scripture, and the Greek word used is πορνεία- por-nay-a-, and this word means (fornication, sexual immorality, whoredom, and idolatry). The word is used here in this verse to show the things that makes a person under God's condemnation for their sins, Matthew 15:19"For out of the heart come evil thoughts ,murders ,adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders." Another word used for wrong sexual actions is, μοιχεία- moy- kay-a- meaning to commit adultery. This word is used in the verse just above, but I will show a more clear one. Matthew 5:27“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; 28but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Adultery is any sexual activity outside of the husband and wife marriage bed. It is clear that God does not allow any sexual activity outside of monogamous marriage, that being one man and one woman for life, who made vows and covenants before God and witnesses to remain together in purity.
Another thing I want to address about sexual purity, is that when education changed from homeschooling to public schooling, the amount of sinful sexual activity went rampant. Pastor Paul Tripp in his book Sex & Money, says that our culture is "insane" (pg. 20). It is with the going on now of 4 to 5 generations of being educated in public schools that our nation has become numb to sin because of all the anti-Biblical teachings taught in public schools. Christianity is illegal to talk about in many schools, and that is not taking into account the whole purpose of why public education was created. John Dewey, the creator of the American public education system was a staunch Communist, who wanted to destroy Christianity, the family, the headship of the father within the house hold, and let kids become "good" servants of the state. God gives the duty of educating children to the parents, especially the father as seen here below, but also check out this link.
Deuteronomy 11:19 You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. 20You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.
Works Cited
Michael Rubino, Ph.D. “The Facts About Sexual Activity in Middle School.” Pleasant Hill, CA Patch, Patch, 18 Oct. 2017, patch.com/california/pleasanthill/facts-sexual-activity-middle-school.
The Holy Bible: Updated New American Standard Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New Testament. Zondervan Pub. House, 1999.
Tripp, Paul David. Sex & Money: Pleasures That Leave You Empty and Grace That Satisfies. Crossway, 2013.
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