How to guard my marriage from sexual sin?
In 1 Corinthians 7:5 Paul warns church couples about how to avoid sexual sins between their marriage.
“Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
(1 Corinthians 7:5 NIV)
Couples at Corinth church had the habit of refusing to have sexual relations because immorality in the Greek culture was their bread and butter, There, they even adored in Aphrodite’s temple where part of the adoration was to have sexual relations in front of a statue between prostitutes and their clients.
“These parties were celebrated in several Greek cities, but they were specially relevant in Corinth and in the isle of Cyprus, place of virth of the godess according to the mythology. These parties, according to our calendar would take place between the third week of june and the third week of July, month of Hekatombaion. In the Greek world there was sacred prostitution in the Aphrodite temple in Sicily, Cyprus, in the Pontus region, Cappadocia and Corinth.”
Some couples had gotten out of these practices when turning to Christianism and at some point they could have thought sex was something bad.
Abstinence was damaging homes and promoting a live of immorality instead of one of sanctity, where immorality was secretly getting inside of Corinth’s homes.
Nowadays when one of the 2 spouses refuses to have sexual relations with the other one is opening the door for some wrong sexual practice like adultery, pornography, masturbation to enter to their home.
A mistaken believe about the sexual area was driving Corinthians to damage their homes.
The wrong information or the scarcity of it in the sexual area can make a christian home suffer unwanted consequenses. A spouse that sees the sexual area as a prize for good behavior from the other one will have an excuse to deny the satisfaction to his spouse depending on his behaviour.
According to Genesis 2:25 sex is not just the union of two bodies phisically looking for mutual satisfaction, but a sign of harmony and peace between the family that is breathed between two people.
“Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.”
(Genesis 2:25 NIV)
It is unwise from the husband or wife to refuse to have sexual relations with his spouse. This attitude is a sign of deep emotional problems that need solving, and that they need to have a counselors session. One should not use the sexual area as a prize or a punishment.
Each couple must be the guardian of the sexual needs of the other one and must look for the way of satisfying them.
Adam and Eve were naked and they were not ashamed, there was transparency. How important is it for every couple to reclaim the inocence that was lost.
This is posible if the relationship with the holly spirit is restored through the bible that helps to renew the mind and brings us to the true fountain.
God’s word cleans us and shows us the true meaning of sexuality. God created man and woman with sexual impulses so the couple has a source of permanent recreation so that not everything is monotony and work.
Problems arrive when marriage laws are transgressed and one of the spouses jumps into an affair.
Solomon said that whoever does this will only find shame and hurt, and his shame will never be errased. But he also said:
“May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.A loving doe, a graceful deer may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.”
(Proverbs 5:18-19 NIV)
If you have had incorrect information about sexuality, you must give up this seed that has brought unhappiness to your life because you have been contaminated in this area of such beauty and blessing.
We must drink from the right and powerful fountain which is God’s word, which orients us properly about what a successful sexual life is.
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