Sexual sins often relate to certain actions that are performed before marriage.
Not exact matches
We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious
sin because 1) it's a
sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more
often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)
As humans in a broken sinfilled world we
often struggle with «The Desires of The Flesh» found in Galatians 5:16 - 26, which are: «Now the works of the flesh are evident:
sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,...» Because we are human, but we CAN CHANGE, because Christ forgave us at the cross of EVERY
sins as Jeremy states over and over in his message.
While everyone can be susceptible to
sexual sin, an itinerant ministry in which accountability structures are weak, where the preacher or evangelist has a large ego and spends many days away from home living in hotel rooms, is
often particularly vulnerable.
The excuse of «personal freedom»
often results in decadence, selfishness, greed, gluttony, self - centeredness,
sexual - immorality, misuse of money, mistreatment of others, and a wide variety of other
sins of the flesh (see The Myth of a Christian Religion, p. 85).
Most
often — and most damaging — is the error of addressing only the
sin component of
sexual addiction.