“Sexual immorality” is the translation from a Greek word porneia (where we get the word pornography from). This word is a catch-all for any kind of sexual activity outside of marriage. This covers not just sexual intercourse, but any activity of a sexual nature. It even includes, as Jesus tells us, sexual feelings that stir up in the heart and sexual thoughts that you kick around in your mind. God does not just want us to flee from one type of sexual immorality. God says through Paul, flee sexual immorality.

Christians are going to keep getting weirder in our culture.

With the legalization of same-sex marriage and sweeping popularity of transgenderism in America, orthodox Christians are going to stick out like sore thumbs because God calls us to be holy as he is holy.

Just like following Paul’s sexual ethic to the Corinthian church would make the Christians unpopular in Corinth, so too does a biblical sexual ethic make American churches unpopular in the ever-shifting tides of American culture. Don’t you have sex with prostitutes? Do you even Corinth, bro? 

To that insatiable, popular, crowd-pleasing desire, Paul says the hard words, “Flee from sexual immorality.” (1 Corinthians 6:18)

“Sexual immorality” is the translation from a Greek word porneia (where we get the word pornography from). This word is a catch-all for any kind of sexual activity outside of marriage.

This covers not just sexual intercourse, but any activity of a sexual nature. It even includes, as Jesus tells us, sexual feelings that stir up in the heart and sexual thoughts that you kick around in your mind. God does not just want us to flee from one type of sexual immorality.

God says through Paul, flee sexual immorality.

He wants us to be holy, and that means fleeing pre-marital sex. It means feeling from homosexual sex. It means fleeing from oral sex. It means fleeing from adultery, and pornography, and mental images of people who are not your spouse. All of it.

The only kind of sex that God is pleased with is married sexual activity between a husband and a wife. That’s it. If it doesn’t fit that bill, it’s sexual immorality and God will not march for it, vote for it, approve of it, or support it. God clearly calls it a sin, and he tells us to run for the hills whenever we encounter it.

Our sexuality is a wonderful gift from God. It was made to start and sustain a comprehensive union between one man and one woman—a union that is made to reflect the spiritual union God wants us to have with him. That’s why it’s to be enjoyed only within the lifelong bond of marriage. Anything else is a misuse of this great gift and is a distortion of the story sex is meant to tell.

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