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Is it wrong to have sex before marriage?
Well, it seems like this question is just one that everybody’s sort of concluded that, yeah, there’s nothing wrong with sex before marriage, but not so fast. Let’s look at really what the purpose of sexuality is.
Now, if you’re coming from more of a cultural standpoint, you think about sex as being a way to express yourself or as a way to show love to somebody. And so sex outside of marriage is really no big deal. But if we’re looking from a Christian perspective, we’ve gotta say, okay, what’s the purpose of sex from God’s standpoint? And actually, it’s not to express romantic love, and it’s not self-expression. The purpose of sex is to celebrate and seal a very special kind of love called covenant. Sex, according to a biblical perspective, is something that two people do with their bodies to say, ‘we have made a covenant, a lifetime covenant that we call marriage’. And this is in some ways a ceremony that you do with your bodies to remember that covenant, to celebrate that covenant, which is why sex within marriage becomes something beautiful. It becomes something actually that you’re supposed to be working at, where from a biblical perspective, sex outside of marriage actually lacks integrity because you’re doing something with your body that you haven’t promised to do with your whole life. Now, if you’re thinking, man, that’s, that’s new information for me. I’ve blown it in the past. I really wanna honor God with my sexuality. You know, don’t think of this as a pass-fail test. Think about it instead as a way to pursue integrity and maturity. You know, God makes a way for us to say, Lord, I’ve messed up in the past and I wanna move forward with integrity. And so I encourage you to do that now, perhaps even in the relationship that you’re in now, to have a fresh start and really determine to honor God with your bodies.
