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This next area may be the most important, needed, and most resisted area despite all of God's warnings on this subject. The majority of believers today completely ignore God's word in this area however, if we as a culture would establish some guardrails in this area of our lives, it would impact poverty, reduce the numbers in prison, transform inner cities, more children with both parents, and dramatically affect the healthcare system. But the only way it can happen is if we establish some standards of behaviors that bother our conscious before we step over them.

In every area of our lives where there is a desire, we need guardrails. But especially for physical and sexual intimacy, we need our guardrails to be made of reinforced steel. The reason is because you can fully recover from any other kind of disaster, but sexual disasters is almost impossible to fully recover from.

Given enough time and discipline, you can fully recover from a financial disaster.

Given enough energy and focus, you can fully recover from an educational/professional disaster.

Given enough himility and forgiveness you can fully recover from a relationship/marraige disaster.

But when it comes to the area of our sexuality, it is not just physical... it is spiritual.

When we cross over certain lines of our desire for physical intamcy, there are things we carry with us for the rest of our lives. Our culture teaches us taht sex is only physical. But WE know better. If there is any area in our lives where we NEED guardrails, this area is it. Because the damge that is done in this area follows us all throughout our lives.

1 Corinthians 6 : 18

“RUN (flee) 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.”

1 Corinthians 6 : 16 – 20 (MSG)

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 the others. In sexual sin, we violate the sacredness of our own bodies. These bodies that were made for God given, God modeled love, for becoming one with another.

FLEE from sexual sin.

Our culture baits us to the edge of disaster and then mocks us when we step over it.

In our culture, everyone agrees that teenage pregnancy is a problem, but through marketing strategies we bait teenage girls with inappropriate clothing...then when one of them gets pregnant, we shame them. Men on have a real battle that we face every day of our lives and they need to set up some serious guardrails to protect themselves from sexual sins. Women need to have serious guardrails to protect your marriage from boredom.

We tend to flirt with promiscuous ideas or fantasies. Fertilizing these desires to become actions. You need to decide where your guardrail is and stick to it. Regardless of what people say or do to me, I am going to make a big deal out of being 5 yards away from disaster. Come up with a plan to implement anything the holy spirit highlighted or pointed out to you.

Run - Flee- from sexual sin. No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does.