You will notice below that not only is drunkenness mentioned, so is sexual acting out.
On the last point, we Americans have always been very confused. We should consider that sexual acting out up until very recent times meant severe consequences: very serious diseases (thus the need for monogamy) and babies born to single women who usually had to rely on men to care for them and their children (no artificial birth control). Of course even today these results may still occur.
Thus sex was seen in Bible times as a very dangerous matter – which it was. So those who did not rein in their sex drives were liable to cause other people a considerable amount of harm. But, we all know that God put the sex drive in humans. And we also know that it is the natural way to propagate the human species. Further, raising children can be good for people, improving their spiritual maturity.
So the main point to draw from all that is the question: what is the impact of one's sexual activity on other people? Does self-gratification tend to the injury of another person? Much has to do with motive. Check your motive.
But even if the motive seems, subjectively, OK, that doesn't mean there is nothing to watch out for. Many people have tried to be kindly, if not conformist, in their sex lives, only to find that their sexual desires – especially when stimulated by drugs – get out of control and lead to some sad situations.
Also, because erotic pleasure is so potent, seemingly harmless behavior may develop into the bondage of obsessive compulsion. Jesus came to liberate us, not to send us back to slavery.
Again, if a person is born again, then God has accepted responsibility for that person – even though afflicted with a sexual disorder. If not born again, then it may be so that she has had no desire to turn her life around.
On the last point, we Americans have always been very confused. We should consider that sexual acting out up until very recent times meant severe consequences: very serious diseases (thus the need for monogamy) and babies born to single women who usually had to rely on men to care for them and their children (no artificial birth control). Of course even today these results may still occur.
Thus sex was seen in Bible times as a very dangerous matter – which it was. So those who did not rein in their sex drives were liable to cause other people a considerable amount of harm. But, we all know that God put the sex drive in humans. And we also know that it is the natural way to propagate the human species. Further, raising children can be good for people, improving their spiritual maturity.
So the main point to draw from all that is the question: what is the impact of one's sexual activity on other people? Does self-gratification tend to the injury of another person? Much has to do with motive. Check your motive.
But even if the motive seems, subjectively, OK, that doesn't mean there is nothing to watch out for. Many people have tried to be kindly, if not conformist, in their sex lives, only to find that their sexual desires – especially when stimulated by drugs – get out of control and lead to some sad situations.
Also, because erotic pleasure is so potent, seemingly harmless behavior may develop into the bondage of obsessive compulsion. Jesus came to liberate us, not to send us back to slavery.
Again, if a person is born again, then God has accepted responsibility for that person – even though afflicted with a sexual disorder. If not born again, then it may be so that she has had no desire to turn her life around.
Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,1 Corinthians 6:9-10
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,Revelation 21:7-8
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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