Purity 211

211 is the police code used for robbery and there has been a 211 in progress against the purity of the human race since the early days of our existence. Abstinence has been viewed in our society as unpopular or unwise
it seems that everyone has a reason to justify fornication. People commit
fornication because they are curious; pleasure, peer pressure, maturity, or the
most common reason is “I was in love.” The in love theory is a very common
excuse of human beings to pursue fornication but it is also the number one
reason for divorce, infidelity, and fear of marriage. People don’t get married
because they have a false sense of what marriage, sex, and love is.

Marriage was instituted by God in the Garden of Eden between Adam and Eve. The Lord took the woman from the rib of Adam and then Adam confessed his vow of commitment before God and they became husband and wife.

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from
man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now
bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she
was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both
naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.-Genesis 2:21-25

The basis of marriage is more than being in love it is becoming one flesh an eternal union and bond that results in happiness and joy but the initial commitment was for companionship and oneness. The Love between
Adam and Eve grew over time and the most successful marriages are the ones that
grow everyday and the bond of love increases everyday. Marriage will have
problems because the intention of marriage is that two people learn to need and
depend on one another. The first
marriage on earth had problems if you recall the serpent came and started the
disagreement and God witnessed the couple blame each other for what went wrong
in the garden. Marriage has not changed but the way mankind defines love has
changed.

Love is an action word it is verb love is something that people do and perform. We love others so we do for them we love God so we obey God but love has somehow become an emotion. Love was never intended to be an
emotion or a feeling because emotions and feelings change from day to day but
love can be expressed unconditionally. God is love and the perfect example of
love. Jesus died on the cross for the sins of mankind regardless of how mankind
treated him and that is how marriage should operate as an unconditional union.
Now infidelity and abuse are grounds for which a person can separate in
marriage but the most common reason people divorce is that they aren’t in love
anymore. The devil has used books, songs, movies, and television to convince
people that their relationship should look a certain way and without that they
can’t be happy.

The purpose of sex is so that a husband and wife can experience the pleasure of creating a living soul. God created Adam and Eve and he created them in his image. God passed the torch to humans when he allowed
mankind to experience the pleasure of creation firsthand. Marriage is the only
acceptable form of sexual behavior and anything outside of marriage is
unacceptable. Sex has become purely for pleasure and has been manipulated. Sex
is pleasurable for married couples and is the purest form of affection but that
pleasure and affection is reserved for married couples. The odd thing is people
are afraid to marry a person because they don’t know if the love is strong
enough to last but they commit their purity to them sexually. Sex was created
to be a special union between a husband and wife and because of that any sexual
activity automatically joins people spiritually for life.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He
says, “shall become one flesh-1
Corinthians 6:16

It doesn’t feel good to get married and know that your partner has been intimate with others in the past. Past sexual relationships cause inadequacy in marriages and
comparisons in the mind of past lovers that shouldn’t be and it hurts the
union. Not to mention the obvious problems of fornication such as disease,
heartbreak, and single parenthood.

The hope is that today if you realize the need to be pure and the need to start fresh then you can make that decision now spiritually. Physically you can never get that
purity back but spiritually you can make the decision to seek repentance and
become abstinent until the day you marry and become one flesh with your
partner. A sure way to determine if the person you plan to marry is the right
person for you is to make a commitment to abstain from fornication and living
together until the day you are married. If a person doesn’t love you enough to wait
then they aren’t for you. Living without sex is not impossible before you lost
your virginity you were abstinent for years without any problems.-Amen

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17