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As a follower of Jesus, I\u2019ve committed myself to the resurrected Lord who is my Savior.<\/p>\nAs a follower of Jesus, I\u2019ve committed myself to the resurrected Lord who is my Savior.<\/p>\n
Not only do I trust Him with my eternal safety and bliss, but I\u2019ve committed to obey Him and follow Him in all things in my life.<\/p>\n
So let\u2019s talk about some of the things Jesus prohibited<\/strong>: lying, cheating, stealing, gossip, back-biting, betrayal.\u00a0 And now one of the big juicy ones – not having sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman.\u00a0 He said this is wrong.\u00a0 And because He said it is wrong, it\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n It\u2019s wrong is because it hurts, destroys, separates, divides and creates disease, death, and mayhem. <\/strong> We see it every day and yet we just seem ignorant to it.\u00a0 There never come voices that cry out that it\u2019s wrong.\u00a0 It\u2019s morally wrong because of the damage it does.<\/p>\n Sex is between a man and a woman inside of marriage: in any other context, between any other groupings of people, sex is corrosive and destructive.\u00a0 That\u2019s enough reason to leave it alone. But the very best reason why it\u2019s wrong is because Jesus said so.<\/strong> And because He said so, that should end the conversation for those of us who are Christians.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t need any other prohibition.\u00a0 We don\u2019t even have the right to expect an explanation, though we get more than we need, obviously.\u00a0 I\u2019ve found as I mature in my faith, the very best reason to do something is because God said \u201cdo it.\u201d <\/strong>I may not understand it, like it, or even agree with it.\u00a0 But since He\u2019s the boss and He says, \u201cdo it,\u201d\u00a0 I do it.\u00a0 If He says not to do something, even though it may feel good and right and be the very thing all the cool people are doing, I don\u2019t do it.\u00a0 It\u2019s wrong.\u00a0 Because the One that I worship, love and adore says it\u2019s wrong.\u00a0 And I trust His motive.<\/strong><\/p>\n You may not be able to understand God\u2019s methods, or even His morality from time to time.\u00a0 But as a follower of Jesus, you need never mistrust His motives.<\/strong> His love means that He has our best always, even when it\u2019s hard to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a follower of Jesus, I\u2019ve committed myself to the resurrected Lord who is my Savior. Not only do I trust Him with my eternal safety and bliss, but I\u2019ve committed to obey Him and follow Him in all things in my life. So let\u2019s talk about some of the things Jesus prohibited: lying, cheating, … Continue reading “Not Having Sex Outside of Or Before Marriage Because it\u2019s Wrong is Not the Best Reason”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}