What does the Bible have to say about Sex Within Marriage?

By Pastor Ken Burisek, The Ole Country Church, Medford, Wisconsin
Email: kburisek@wildblue.net

Today our lives and our thoughts are bombarded with the worlds ideas and thinking on sex. The first thing we need to understand is that God Himself created sex. God created it to be a beautiful and special form of love and intimacy between a husband (male) and a wife (female). A lot of Christians tend to avoid the subject of sex as somehow being something dirty. We have to remember sex within marriage is a beautiful thingwe human folks are the ones who twisted sex into the perverted views of today.

Hebrews 13:4 tells us Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. This verse tells us that the marriage bed is honorable and any other sexual relationship is sinful in Gods eyes. Today we see so many - and even Christians - who believe they can move in together with their boyfriend or girlfriend before marriage - or with their significant other as some call it - and still see themselves as being right with God! Today so many are blinded by the culture around them that is accepting sex outside of marriage as being normal!

This is what Gods word says about people who think along those linesI Corinthians 6:9-10 holds no punches Dont you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, ...