Numbers 25:1-5
1 While Israel was staying in Acacia Grove, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab. 2 The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods. 3 So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel. 4 The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD so that His burning anger may turn away from Israel.”
5 So Moses told Israel’s judges, “Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
18 Flee from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body,” but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
Related Text:
Deuteronomy 4:1-4
Joshua 22:16-20
Psalm 106:28-31
Hosea 9:10
1 Corinthians 10:1-8
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We Decide
Do I love God enough to be obedient to His commands for my life? That’s what each of us must ask ourselves, probably daily.
1 John 5:3-4 – “3 For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden, 4 because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.”
John 14:15
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
We are faced with temptations all the time, and we have the choice to obey God and follow His commands or to fall to the temptations. No matter how we want to spin it to make ourselves feel a little better about sinning, we always have a way out of the temptation before we sin. God promises us that He provides a way out of the temptation.
1 Corinthians 10:13 – “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape, so that you are able to bear it.”
When we are faced with the temptation of sexual acts outside of marriage and our sinful nature screams to sin, remember 1 Corinthians 6:20. “for you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body.”
Memorize it, ask God to help you understand that you were bought and the price paid for you was the greatest price in history; Jesus.
