23 October 2016
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We are to Control Our Bodies in Holiness & Honor (TMF:525)

Friday, October 28, 2016
Peace to Live By: We are to Control Our Bodies in Holiness & Honor (TMF:525) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, I understand that it takes two people to commit these acts, but I'm looking at things from the man's side. Obviously, men aren't always the ones that start the act of fornication or adultery. Sometimes the woman leads the man astray. But regardless, we undercut others when we do these disobedient acts. Let’s look at a passage in 1 Thessalonians about sexual immorality. It says, “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you” (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8, ESV). Now, here, the Apostle Paul tells us that God avenges the wronged Christian, going against the man who has stolen what he had no right to steal. Now, I don’t know exactly what this all means for the offending brother, and really, I don’t want to know. Let’s just not find ourselves here.

Why Sexual Immorality is Bad for Us, as Men (TMF:524)

Thursday, October 27, 2016
Peace to Live By: Why Sexual Immorality is Bad for Us, as Men (TMF:524) - Daniel Litton
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       So, we can note here several reasons why sexually immorality is bad for us, as men. Number one, our bodies aren't meant to commit sexual immorality. That's not what God designed them for, and it violates his commandments. Number two, we note that sex is a spiritual thing. When we are intimate with another person, we become one flesh with that person. This is a supernatural, spiritual thing that God does. And number three, when we commit sexual sin with another person we are sinning against ourselves. This not only because we become one-flesh with the other person, but also because we could get sexually transmitted diseases from our inappropriate conduct. We have to remember too that when one of us commits fornication or adultery, it is also undercutting other people. So, not only do you undercut yourself, but you definitely undercutting others. For men that commit fornication, they steal the virginity, or intimacy, of the woman they are having the relation with, even though she want to have the relationship. This is because sex is reserved for marriage, and emotional problems can occur with sex outside of marriage. When committing adultery, the man's wife is undercut, and the woman's husband (if she is married).

1 Corinthians 6- Sexual Immorality Understood (TMF:523)

Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Peace to Live By: 1 Corinthians 6- Sexual Immorality Understood (TMF:523) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, for single men the temptation isn't only adultery, but more frequently it is the danger of fornication. God expect us, as single men, to be pure. Turn with me, or tap, to 1 Corinthians chapter 6. I want to consider verses 13 through 20. Paul told the Corinthians (which is applicable to both single and married men): ““Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body” (ESV).

Committing Adultery Will Mess Up Your Marriage (TMF:522)

Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Peace to Live By: Committing Adultery Will Mess Up Your Marriage (TMF:522) - Daniel Litton
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       You could not serve God wholeheartedly if your were part of another religion, right? In the same way, you cannot love your wife affectionately, wholeheartedly, while you are having affections for another woman in your mind. But it is true that a lot of men, hopefully not Christian men, carry on an affair, or affairs, while married. These actions should never be part of the Christian man's life. If we do get caught up in them, it's because we didn't guard our minds of inappropriate thoughts about other women. That's why it is so important for us to guard our minds. We all know that adultery messes up and even destroys a lot of marriages. Even if the man is just committing the adultery one time only, and never sees the woman again, it still messes up your marriage. For one, if the man doesn't tell his wife, it will haunt him from time to time as he hopefully feels guilty about what he did. If he tells his wife, it will greatly hinder her trust in him—unless she already didn't trust him (which shouldn't be the case). But if she didn't, it will just give confirmation that her husband is untrustworthy. Either way, it messes up the marriage. Sin always has consequences.

Adulterous Thoughts Will Hinder Your Marriage (TMF:521)

Monday, October 24, 2016
Peace to Live By: Adulterous Thoughts Will Hinder Your Marriage (TMF:521) - Daniel Litton
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       Whether or not your thoughts have led you to physically commit the act, the thoughts in and of themselves will hinder your marriage. All the time you spend not thinking about your wife and thinking about other women is leading you further and further away from your wife. You affections should be toward her. But in order to have affections for your wife, you have to think the right things about her. Remember what Jesus told us about trying to serve two masters? This teaching from our Lord is very applicable here. He said, ““No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other” (Matthew 6:24ex, ESV). You could not serve God wholeheartedly if your were part of another religion, right? In the same way, you cannot love your wife affectionately, wholeheartedly, while you are having affections for another woman in your mind. But it is true that a lot of men, hopefully not Christian men, carry on an affair, or affairs, while married. These actions should never be part of the Christian man's life. If we do get caught up in them, it's because we didn't guard our minds of inappropriate thoughts about other women. That's why it is so important for us to guard our minds. We all know that adultery messes up and even destroys a lot of marriages.