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Not many men have the godly character of Joseph to flee by averting their eyes from what is
displayed before them. Averting the eyes is a means of fleeing from temptation as Holy Scripture
commands men to do and focus on the news rather than on the scantily-clad woman:
I Corinthians 6:18 “Flee sexual immorality (
Greek: Porniea; KJV fornication)
! Every sin
that a man does is outside his body, but he who commits sexual immorality (
Greek: Porniea;
KJV fornication
) sins against his own body.
An Adulterous Generation
Jesus Christ called His generation
‘adulterous’
(Matthew 12:39). This is both literally and
figuratively true many times over in this end-time as statistics make known.
Statistics from the Internet:
22 percent of married men have strayed at least once during their married lives.
14 percent of married women have had affairs at least once during their married lives.
Younger people are more likely candidates; in fact, younger women are as likely as younger men
to be unfaithful. 22 percent of men and 14 percent of women admitted to having sexual relations
outside their marriage sometime in their past.
90 percent of Americans believe adultery is morally wrong.
50 percent of Americans say President Clinton's adultery makes his moral standard "about the
same as the average married man,'' according to a Time-CNN poll.
61 percent of Americans thought adultery should not be a crime in the United States; 35 percent
thought it should; 4 percent had no opinion.
17 percent of divorces in the United States are caused by infidelity.
Fornication is a Sin against Oneself
Little do men and women realize that the act of fornication is a sin against oneself, just as is
masturbation though it is not mentioned by name in Holy Scripture; it is nevertheless a sexual
sin. It is also a sin against one’s future mate in marriage.
Men and women kid themselves into believing self-masturbation is not wrong since they are not
hurting anyone, or causing another person to sin. This is what one man once said to me after
acknowledging he did masturbate.
Scripture clearly makes known that the law of adultery and fornication covers all sexual sins of
impurities whatever they might be.
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