Fifteen Reasons Why You Should Not Commit Fornication

Fifteen Reasons Why You Should Not Commit Fornication

1. Fornication is disobedience.
The first reason why you should not commit fornication is that it is
disobedience to God....Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22
We are all subject to the temptation to fornicate. But the priority of everyChristian must be to obey the Lord. If you do not obey God you stand to lose.BObedience means more to God than any great sacrifice that you can make tobHim.
Some of you come to church, put your offering in the basket, pay your tithes, lift up your hands and worship His Majesty. You give sacrifices of praise to God. But God prefers your simple obedience to your many offerings and lifted hands.
I once met a lady who told me that the commandment not to commit fornication is an old fashioned law, meant for the olden days. She argued that it was no longer a realistic instruction. Even if it does not make sense to you, your duty is still to obey God.
Christianity has to do with your relationship with the Lord. As a Christian you are dependent on God, and it is only the Lord who can bless you. If you choose to disobey and disregard God, I do not know what kind of relationship you want to have with Him. When you disobey God, you incur God’s curses upon your life.
Some people complain that it is difficult to obey God. “It costs so much,” theysay. Dear friend, the truth is that it pays to obey God but it costs to disobeyHim.

2. Fornication will destroy your soul.
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: hethat doeth it DESTROYETH his own SOUL.
Proverbs 6:32When you commit fornication, the Bible says you will destroy your soul.This means that fornication will have an ef ect on you spiritually. Anybodywho is involved in fornication gets affected spiritually. You may not knowexactly how it affects you. But it does affect you, and will lead you tobackslide.On Sunday mornings there are people sitting in church knowing very well whatthey did the night before.
Some Christians even come to church straight from their boyfriends’ beds.Your pastor may not know what you have done. He may have shaken handswith you, but did not have any word of knowledge about you! So you continuein sin. Know that it is gradually destroying your soul your inner self isaffected!
With experience, I have come to see that when somebody commits fornication,his spiritual life takes a nose-dive. When a Christian falls into immorality hislifestyle changes. The destruction of the soul has begun.

3. Fornication will destroy your body.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but hethat committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18When you commit fornication you commit sin directly against your own body.When you commit fornication you commit a crime against your body. You aredestroying your body.
If you commit a crime against the State, you are said to be destroying the State.That is why the State will arrest and prosecute you. In the same way when you
commit fornication, you commit a crime against your body, and God will prosecute you for that.know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost...?
1 Corinthians 6:19

4. You make covenants with all sorts of people.
Sex is intended to be a binding experience between two people. Know thatwhen you commit fornication, you make a covenant with whoever you had sexwith.God’s plan is that when a woman has sex for the first time, her hymen is brokenand blood is shed. Whenever blood is shed some sort of agreement or covenant
is created.That means when you have sex with different people, you may actually beentering into union with them. Agreements are made because blood is shed.That is one of the reasons why Paul asked,…shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members ofan harlot? God forbid.
1 Corinthians 6:15Such covenants are for real. They can affect you for the rest of your life. I haveseen people who have been crippled all their Christian lives because offornication. Some Christians never rise out of the covenant of fornication.
The son of a fetish priest came to our church some years ago. He told us howhe got involved in witchcraft. He said he once slept in the cemetery with hisfather.
After seven days his father cut his hand, drew his blood and mixed it with hisown. Then they both drank the blood and made a permanent agreement. Acovenant of witchcraft!
This brother was under that covenant. A time came when he had to decidebetween his father, (that is following the fetish) and following Christ.This young man could not break away from this blood covenant. Friend, I amtalking here about blood covenants!
He left the church after some months and went back to his father’s shrine.Although he was born again, and knew the Lord, he could not easily breakaway from his covenant.
Blood and covenants are real things so do not sleep with just anybody. Youmay be sleeping with a witch and that witch will be in your home all the daysof your life.

5. Fornication brings evil spirits into your life.
...Babylon the great…is become the habitation of devils, and the hold ofevery foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.Revelation 18:2
A stronghold of evil spirits is a refuge, a sanctuary or a hiding place fordemons. Why did so many evil spirits come to live in Babylon? Why hasBabylon become a hold of demons?
According to Revelations 18:3,For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, andthe kings of the earth have committed fornication with her.The kings, the ministers of state, the rich and the famous have committedfornication with her. That is why evil spirits have come into her life.
Fornication attracts evil spirits into your life. This is so true of manyChristians’ lives. Evil spirits have aggregated and congregated in them becauseof their fornication.
When God says do not do something He knows why! Some of the evil spiritsthat come into you can prevent you from ever getting married. Some evil spiritscan cause you to backslide. Some of them will cause you to marry the wrongperson. Some of them can cause you to have a bad marriage. Some of theseevil spirits can also lead you into unfaithfulness in your marriage. The list is
endless. Do you want to become a hiding place for demons?

6. Fornication brings sickness.
There are a host of diseases that only come about through sexual intercourse.We call these STDs (sexually transmitted diseases). The germs that cause these
diseases will have access into you when you commit fornication.
Let me mention only ten of them. (Please notice how big the names of these
“animals” are!):
1. Neisseria gonococcus this causes Gonorrhoea.
2. Treponema pallidum this causes Syphilis.
3. Chlamydia trachomatis this causes Non-Specific Urethritis.
4. Hepatitis “B” virus this causes Liver diseases.
5. Herpes simplex type II virus this causes Herpes Genitalis.
6. Trichomonas vaginalis this causes Vaginitis.
7. Lymphogranuloma venereum
8. Haemophilus ducreyii this causes Soft Sore (Chancroid).
9. Urinary tract infection
10. Cancer of the cervix frequent sex at an early age predisposes you tocancer of the cervix. If you wait till you marry before having sex, you may saveyourself from all these diseases. But if you continue to commit fornication, thenremember that all these “animals’’ will enter your body and make you sick!

7. Fornication brings death.
Fornication will kill you if you acquire the Human Immuno Virus (HIV).
Unless God works a miracle, you may die of AIDS. HIV is now a deathlsentence. It is sad to say that in the charismatic churches there are manyChristians who are HIV positive. A laboratory technician once gave me somealarming statistics. A team of lab technicians organized a blood donation eventin a charismatic church and out of about a hundred people who donated blood,
a large percentage tested positive for HIV. In other words, our churches havesignificant numbers of people with the HIV virus. Fornicating with your fellow church member may mean your death! Those who are HIV positive candevelop AIDS. And when you have AIDS, it means you have a few more yearsto live.

8. Fornication brings unwanted pregnancies.
Do you want to attend school with your child? When I was in secondary
school, there was a man in the sixth form who was said to have a child in form
one. How could this be? Probably due to an unwanted pregnancy earlier on inhis life.

9. Brings unwanted abortions.
If you commit fornication and become pregnant, it is most likely that you willwant to hide it by committing abortion.
You are falling into the same trap that David fell into when he committed adultery. Murder is the commonest evil that follows the sin of fornication.Abortion is the sin of murder. Many fornicators are murderers. Multipleabortionists are multiple murderers. Dear friend, you may not know thatabortion is murder. Medically speaking, abortion is the termination of humanlife. The human life may be just a few cells, but it is human life! Are you amurderer?

10. Fornication brings infertility.
Let me explain how fornication brings infertility.
During an abortion, various instruments similar to knives and forks areintroduced into the womb. This often leads to infection. And this infectionoften leads to blocking of the fallopian tubes. Young lady, if your fallopiantubes are blocked you will not be able to become pregnant.Then you may find yourself in every deliverance centre looking for healing.Receive your deliverance now by obeying the Word.

11. Fornication brings unwanted children.
Unwanted children are usually products of fornication. Why should you bepregnant when you are a 16-year-old student? Your child is supposed to beyour daughter or son and not your younger sister or brother!

12. The unwanted children become social deviants.
Whenever a child is not wanted, he becomes a reject in society a “pikin nabollo” as we say in Ghana. Many deviants in society have a background ofhaving been unwanted.I remember a young boy who beat up his mother and left home. No one knowswhere he is. I asked why a young sixth-former should behave in thisunbecoming manner. The answer can be traced to his mother’s history.This young lad was a product of his mother’s fornication when she was only15 years old. The boy had been made to stay with different aunties and otherrelatives. You see, his mother had to continue schooling. When his mothereventually got married, she was ashamed of her unwanted child. So hecontinued staying with other sympathetic relatives.
Naturally, the young lad grew up doing very poorly in school. He wassuspended several times and became what we call a social deviant, a verybitter boy. Now whose fault is it? Do not blame any child who is born out of fornication if he becomes a social deviant!

13. Fornication brings disgrace.
A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wipedaway.Proverbs 6:33Although fornication is an international and cross-cultural sin committed bymany people it is still a disgraceful act. Save yourself from this disgrace!

14. Fornication brings hurts and wounds.
Read the story of Tamar and Amnon in the second book of Samuel, chapter 13.Fornication leads to many hurts. Tamar was hurt. Absalom her brother washurt. King David was hurt. The relationship between Tamar and Amnon was
broken forever.What you must realize is that fornication is essentially wrong and evil. It onlyleads to many terrible and devastating complications in life.

15. Fornication breaks marriages.
Fornication is often the last straw that breaks the camel’s back in unhappymarriages.Remember, it is only in the case of adultery that God allows divorce.God knows that this is the sin which has the ability to destroy marriages.