Sex connects you at a spiritual level with another person. When performed within marriage, it connects you with your spouse and glorifies God. However, when done outside of marriage, it not only ties you to that person but also invites the influence of spirits that encourage immoral acts. Sexual sin is one of the fastest ways to connect oneself with the enemy. After all, sex is an act of worship, and sexual sin brings darkness into your most intimate union.
Sexual sin establishes a deep spiritual bond with the first person you sleep with. This is why breaking up with that first person can have such a devastating impact on you emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. You may feel as if you are being torn apart—as if you are losing a part of yourself. The truth is, you are losing a part of yourself.
There are laws established by God that are as inescapable as gravity. God declared that "the two shall become one flesh." The sexual act brings two people into a union; therefore, separation is always devastating and long-lasting.
After you break up with your first partner, it often becomes harder to truly connect with the next person, even as it becomes "easier" to sleep with others. Your moral perceptions weaken, and the power of the enemy in your life grows stronger. This is why "love" becomes harder to find and relationships become more difficult. People become frustrated and move from one relationship to the next, increasing their spiritual ties with others and "breaking apart" their own souls. This leads to depression, anxiety, and various illnesses as the power of these forces increases within their inner lives.
By the time a person who has practiced sexual sin is ready to get married, they are often already broken. The seeds of a fractured marriage have already been sown. In marriage, it becomes harder to connect with a spouse because you are already fragmented by connections with so many others, making you more vulnerable to adultery. Sexual sin ruins you. This is why marriage is so broken in our society today; it has reduced many to shells of human beings who have nothing left of themselves to give to their spouse.
While sexual sin will ruin you, God can restore you. Friends, the ways of the Lord are meant for your protection and welfare. Sex is designed exclusively for marriage, and only there can you enjoy its true blessings. Any intimacy outside of marriage will ruin you in one way or another by tying you spiritually to darkness.
But God can break you free.
Bring your past before the Lord: Ask Him to heal you.
Ask for freedom: Pray that the Lord breaks you free from any immoral lifestyle and gives you the power to overcome.
Seek self-control: Sexual sin reveals a lack of self-control; ask God to provide this fruit of the Spirit, as its absence will destroy a marriage.
In 1 Corinthians 6:18, it says, "Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body." This is because the body is intended to be a Temple of the Holy Spirit; sexual sin attempts to turn that temple into something else.
Many still carry ties from past sins. Let us confess these before the Lord and ask for victory. Our society is descending into madness as more people get entangled in immorality, and Satan is destroying them mentally, spiritually, and physically. Let us not be stubborn like the majority; let us "flee from sexual immorality" and pursue holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
As the world drowns in marital breakdown and misery, let us return to the Lord. Let us ask Him for the power to break every evil tie and cause us to cling to Him alone—and to cleave to our spouses as God intended.
Flee from immorality, break the ties with darkness, and cling to Jesus.
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