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God holds the sexual relationship between a man and a woman within marriage as a holy
intimate relationship – not in the passion of lust only thinking of self, but with the passionate
tender thoughtful and caring love for one another.
It is with this in mind that the Apostle Paul wrote the following exhortation about it:
Hebrews 13:4 “Let the marriage be treated as honorable among all, and the bed
(Greek:
literally cohabitation or coitus, Genesis 2:25; I Corinthians 7:3
)
undefiled, BUT fornicators
and adulterers God will judge.”
The Lust and Worship of Sex of Devious Kinds
Society has dramatically changed in just the past few years from the hiding of any kind of a
sexual relationship to outright openness and acceptance by virtually everyone. Homosexuals and
Lesbians have come out of hiding into the open in recent years – voted into the highest offices of
the land – even walk openly with thousands of others of the same mind in parades in many cities
without shame or embarrassment:
Isaiah 3:9 “The look on their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their
sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon
themselves.”
This is an act of flagrant disobedience and contempt to the Almighty God and Jesus Christ, their
Creator as shown in the following Scripture:
Ezekiel 8:17 “. . . indeed they put the branch to their nose (
Asherah – cut into the shape of a
male phallus – a shocking and obscene act; I Kings 15:13)
. Therefore I also will act in FURY.
My eye will NOT spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears with a loud
voice, I will not hear them.
Cohabitation/Fornication/ is Prevalent in Society
Society has also dramatically changed from the hiding of sexual relationships between man and
woman to outright openness and acceptance by virtually everyone by living with one another
without the benefit of marriage. There is no longer any shame or embarrassment of any kind by
them.
From the Internet:
“Today, cohabitation [
men and women living together without entering into
marriage
] is a common pattern among people in the Western world. More than two-thirds of
married couples in the US say that they lived together before getting married
"In 1994, there
were 3.7 million cohabiting couples in the United States.
This is a far cry from a few decades
ago. Before 1970, cohabitation was illegal in the United States
According to Dr. Galena
Rhoades, "Before 1970, living together outside of marriage was uncommon, but by the late
1990s at least 50% to 60% of couples lived together premaritally
According to the U.S.
Census, "the number of unmarried couples living together increased tenfold from 1960 to
2000."
Nowadays, it is seen as a normal step in the dating process
In fact, "cohabitation is
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