Sometimes we misjudge a situation.
Have you ever been in a situation that you thought was casual when it ended up being serious?
Sex is often thought of as casual, as not a big deal.
If sex is casual, then why does it seem like a big deal?
TRUTH
Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.” But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body (1 Corinthians 6:15-20 NLT).
Until that time, remember that your bodies are created with the same dignity as the Master’s body. You wouldn’t take the Master’s body off to a whorehouse, would you? I should hope not.
There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, “The two become one.”
Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the kind of sex that can never “become one.”
There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for “becoming one” with another. Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body
(1 Corinthians 6:15-20 MSG).
There is more to sex than skin on skin.
Our bodies were made for God-given and God-modeled love.
God paid a high price for you.
The physical part of us can’t be separated from the emotional part of us, which can’t be separated from the spiritual part of us. We are all three.
Sex is serious.
We can’t compartmentalize sex and pretend that our emotions and our spirits are not involved.
The trap we fall into when it comes to sex, is believing that only the physical part matters.
Too much is on the line to treat sex casually.
God made it so that every part of us—physical, emotional, spiritual—is intricately impacted and affected by every other part.
If a relationship consists primarily of the physical side, then it skews where we think we are emotionally and spiritually.
God takes forgiveness seriously too.
Psalm 130:4 says: “But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared” (Psalm 130:4 NIV).
It doesn’t matter how causally you may approach sex, the effects it has, the impact it has on your own body—on every part of you—matters.
Sex is a big deal.
Paul thought so.
God thinks so.