Why can’t we just have sex?

 Why can’t we just have sex?

The Bible has always approved of sex as long as it is confined within the commitment of marriage between a man and a woman. The only prohibition God’s Word says about it is when it is used outside of marriage, like in adultery or fornication.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 - As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.  It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;  and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.

8 Biblical Reasons Why We Can’t Just Have Sex:
1.       Please GOD   - 1 Thessalonians 4:1
                Our lives’ initial purpose is to please GOD.  We are created to worship GOD. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
2.       God’s word is our final AUTHORITY - 1 Thessalonians 4:2
                You are not your own; you were bought at a price.
3.       God DEMANDS that we avoid sexual immorality - 1 Thessalonians 4:3
4.       LEARN SELF-CONTROL - 1 Thessalonians 4:4
5.       LUST is always wrong - 1 Thessalonians 4:5
                                Lust takes – LOVE gives. True love waits. LOVE- marriage –SEX, it is not the other way                                around.
                Multiple sexual encounters are wrong. Like a sticky note, if it was transferred from one place to another for a number of times, it will loose its stickiness. Same with relationship / sex, we will loose our ability to bond.
6.       Sexual immorality always wrong someone - 1 Thessalonians 4:6
                Sexual immorality will wrong our future partner.
                Sexual immorality will wrong our future children.
                Sexual immorality will offend our parents.
7.       We are called to live a Holy life - 1 Thessalonians 4:7
                Holy life is living our lives glorifying GOD.
8.       He who rejects this instruction does not reject man but GOD - 1 Thessalonians 4:8
                GOD is love. But always remember that GOD is JUST. HE will not let any sin unpunished.

Ladies, you are not a pick up truck, do not let anybody test-drive you.  You are worth waiting / pursuing for…  Honor God with your bodies…

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. -1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. - 1 Corinthians 6:16-20