*** GOD’S STANDARD OF MAINTAINING PURITY IN THE MARRIAGE VERSUS CULTURALLY ACCEPTED TRADITIONS AND NORMS ***

One needs not a prophet in order to have the feelings of the oppressive rise in immorality and sensuality of our days especially in the matrimonial homes. And the church has not escaped. One in four Christian men are unfaithful, and nearly one half behaved remorseless, seeming to continue or become worse in a way that cannot be stopped. Most of them tend to be Pastors, Leaders, Elders, Sunday school superintendents, General Overseers, Church teachers etc.
If this is so for the church’s leadership, how much higher would these be among the average members of the congregation? “ONLY GOD KNOWS”. This interest in sexual pleasures and immorality is easily the biggest obstacle to godliness among men; it has destroyed powerful anointed men of God thereby reducing the high calling of God in their lives and is wreaking havoc in the church of God.

The most instructive example in all God’s word is the experience of King David, as it is told in 2 SAMUEL 11. From childhood, David had been a passionate lover of God and has possed an immense integrity of soul. God liked David’s heart. David was a brave heart as was evidenced in the battle between him and Goliath, nailing Goliath right between the headlights.
David hardly seemed a candidate for moral disaster. His tragedy began when he took more concubines and wives. As a king, he was vulnerable to forces aimed at braining washing him to take as many wives as he wish, not knowing that it was a ploy for him to sin against God and to reduce his inner descent from Holiness and fear of God. We must note well that David taking additional wives was a sin.
In short, David’s embrace of these permitted social norms and culturally accepted traditions instead of heading to what God permits right from the Garden of Eden(when God created Only one man and woman) cause him fall less of God’s glory and High calling; and made him easy prey for the fatal sin of his life. David lustful fixation on a woman that later lead to committing the original sin of adultery, then lies and murder of an innocent soul( in arranging Uriah’s death to cover his sin with Bathsheba) set him up for one of the greatest falls in history and his generation.

Although King David repented the shameful accusation of Prophet Nathan, but the miserable consequences brought a big and unpleasant tragedy in his generation. THAT WILL NOT BE OUR PORTION IN JESUS NAME…AMEN!!!

God commanded us in Leviticus 19:2, “BE HOLY BECAUSE THE LORD YOUR GOD, AM HOLY”. A command which is give in context of warnings against sexual deviations. To reject this command is to sin against the Holy Spirit, the Living Presence of God. If we are Christians and Born Again indeed, it is very important that we live pure, godly lives based on God’s standard in the midst of our vast cultures, norms and traditions or the church will become increasingly irrelevant and powerless, and our children (generation) will suffer the consequences.
THIS CHURCH (WHICH WE ARE) CAN HAVE NO POWER APART FROM PURITY. IT IS THE CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE INDULGENCES, WHICH WILL TAKE US DOWN…SHALOM!!!

# A MAN WHO SUCCUMBS TO SOCIALLY PERMITTED SEXUAL PLEASURE, CULTURES, TRADITIONS AND NORMS IS PREPARING FOR A FALL. LET THE WORD OF GOD AND HIS STATUS BE YOUR GUIDE ALWAYS #