HOW SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE DESTROYS YOU AND YOUR GENERATION

Bible passage: Genesis 34

    Shecham the son of Hamor had sex with Dinah the daughter of Jacob and his soul was drawn to Dinah for he loved her.  The act done by Shecham and Dinah is very common in the world today. Most youths during courtship engage in premarital sex. Premarital sex is now seen as a normal thing that occurs between couples during courtship.

      

        Her brothers heard of what Shecham did to their sister, so they were very angry for he had defiled their sister. They kept quiet and pretended as if nothing had happen. This is exactly how God feels whenever you engage in premarital sex. Don’t you know that you simply defile His temple and His property whenever you engage in premarital sex?  You are God’s own and your body is His temple.1 Cor 3:16: 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Cor 6:18-20 (KJV): Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19 What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. God is angry whenever you defile your body, which is His temple and property and keeps watching you as if nothing had happened, for He is a God that keeps quiet while executing His judgment.

    

     Shechem decided to marry Dinah because of the love he had for her, so he did all he was told to do by Dinah’s family. And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house. This is a typical example of how the punishment for premarital sex hunts us down unexpectedly while we are moving on with our normal lives and had forgotten about the immoral act.  We can all see how premarital sex led to the destruction of shechem and his household. For it is written that whoever destroys the body shall be destroyed. Whenever you engage in premarital sex, you are destroying God’s temple, and the bible says that such people shall be destroyed.

There are different ways in which premarital sex can destroy a person:

1.  Death:  For the wages of sin is death Romans 6:23 (KJV). God did not condemn Simeon and Levi for killing Shechem, He allowed it to happen because of what shechem did. This is the more reason why we need to stay away from sin, for the moment you engage yourself in sin, God will distance Himself from you and the devil or your enemy would use that as any opportunity to attack or harm you.

2. Failure: Premarital sex reduces or destroys one’s glory and it also hinders one from getting to his/her promised land provided by God. Moses was the only man that ever saw the back view of God, this is to tell you how close he was to God, but he was unable to get to the promised land because of anger and disobedience. If anger could hinder Moses from prospering, can you imagine what premarital sex would cost you?

3.  Premarital sex delays ones blessings and destiny: Premarital sex can make you jobless for years after graduating from the higher institution with good grades, it can make you single for years finding it difficult to have a good man or woman to marry. It can also make you barren for many years after marriage and also make you experience poverty for a very long time, for if you are destined to become a millionaire at the age of 25, premarital sex can delay such blessing until you are 50years old. Remember the Israelites, their trip to the promised land should have taken them just 11 days; instead, it took them 40 years! What’s astounding is that out of the 1.5 million people who left Egypt, only two from the original group made it to the Promised Land. Today, it seems there are many believers who have escaped “Egypt,” which represents their former life of slavery to sin. They are always looking towards the Promised Land but seems to end up wandering around the same mountains of their lives, dealing with the same problems, having the same issues.

    

      4. Illness and Diseases  : Sin is one of the main causes of illness and diseases such as cancer, leukemia, diabetes etc .In the end of the book of Deuteronomy, God gave the people of Israel a list of blessings and curses, depending if they listened or not to His Commandment and He says this:

If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the LORD your God, then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you until you are destroyed. Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the LORD your God. (Deuteronomy 28:58-62)(NASB) 

But not all diseases are the result of our personal sin.

          Dear reader, have you ever engaged in premarital sex and are feeling bad right now? The good news is that, Christ came to world because of people like you. Matt 9:13 (KJV) For I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Christ is ready to forgive, restore and accept you the way you are as long as you are ready and willing to repent and never go back to your old ways.

      

      Written by Adebayo Tosin