Why Prohibit Sexual Immorality? Avoid making Society a Desolation.

Are the Biblical sanctions imposed on sexual behavior really given to protect people?  Or are they simply outdated rules to protect age old religious customs?   Many people who fail to see how sexual immorality harms society may certainly think so.  Alfred Kinsey, the famous homosexual sexologist from the 1950’s, was certainly one of them.  In a country that values religious freedom, shouldn’t people be free to explore their sexuality?  Why do things have to remain so taboo?  Many blame morality for putting a damper on their pleasures.  They blame morality for keeping all these practices in the closet.  They see God and morality as the abuser.  Why should making love be a crime?  Does not our own free-will matter?, They say.  There are good answers to all these questions. 
God did not restrict sexual immorality out of sheer custom.  He imposed them to keep people from ruining society and making it desolate.  Wouldn’t that be an important thing to avoid?  Let me explain how sexual immorality would do this.  God is not against sex.  He made it wonderful for people and sanctioned it for the marriage bed.   When you pervert sex into a God, it now trumps everything including moral loving behavior.  Any immoral means to obtain your fix is now on the table.  This is what sexual immorality means.   Employing immoral means to obtain a desired sexual end.  If the end justifies any means, then people become necessary casualties because they stand in the way of gratifying personal pleasure.  If they already want to kill the laws that impede them, what makes you think they won’t kill you when you stand in the way of their pleasure?   The rule of law has always been intended to protect the innocent.  Remove them and you will lose your protection.  Age of Consent laws stand in the way of predators fondling little children.  Where can children turn if they are removed? Today, only neighbors stand in the way of having a neighbor’s wife.   Society has left marriages to fend for itself regarding divorce and adultery; they are now paying the price for it.  It’s not illegal to leave a wife or even cheat someone out of their wife in this country today.  Contemporary society imposes no punishment for divorce or adultery.  At one time, these things were taboo.  Now they are commonplace.  Once immoral behavior is legalized, it quickly spreads across the land like a contagion.  As it spreads, it simply raises the carnage level to ever higher statistics.  The breakdown of most families in our country has given rise to many of today’s social problems.  A society is only as strong as the individuals that make it up.  The impact to the individual becomes the impact to society.  However, this process has yet to have finished unfolding.  It’s a slow death that we are observing.  As a society, we are not completely desolate yet.  With the breakdown of Morality and the family, has emerged the homosexual movement; a prohibited immoral behavior now gaining universal acceptance in society.  Gay people are beginning to come out of their closets and parade in the streets.  They’re aiming to have you join their cause.  As they gain critical mass, their message of tolerance for them will turn into intolerance for dissent.  How do I know this?  Because unadulterated lust will have nothing stand in it’s way.  If they struggle to fight laws that stand in their way, will they not attack you if you tell them no?  History has already played this record before.  Sodom and Gomorrah had succumb completely to the homosexual movement.   The Bible says every man of the city came to Lot’s house intending to sodomize the angels there.  No man was left to stand in the gap to help Lot protect his guests.  The rule of law had been lost.  Because Lot stood in their way, they threatened him with harm.   As the last righteous man, Lot, left the city, God rained down fireballs to consume the whole city.  God has grace on an entire city as long as his children reside there.  If the last of his people leave the city, then nothing but judgment remains.  So here is how this scenario plays out in summary.  Let Sexual immorality fester and it’s weeds will eventually kill out everything good in the garden.  Once nothing good remains, God torches all the weeds.  Here is how the land becomes desolate in a nutshell.   We are told that if we do not retain God’s laws in our hearts, we too will go the way of Sodom and Gomorrah.  People may gripe about moral restraints, but they are kept there to preserve all of us; they are not just customs.  Succeed in stamping out all moral restraint along with it’s supporters and all you do is seal your own doom.   However, it is not too late for our generation.  If people would once again uphold God’s way, He promises to forgive us our sins and to heal our land.

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