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Fornication is having a sexual relationship with a person before marriage. Look it up in your dictionary if you
don’t believe me. And just so you know, any type of sexual intercourse is sex. I would get into detail, but I’ll just
say this; anything that you wouldn’t do in front of your parents or anything that requires the removing of
clothing, is wrong. Your relationship must be righteous and pure. And I also want to say this for those of you
who are younger; if you’re not planning on getting married to the person you’re dating, then you should not be
dating them. And maybe you do want to get married, but you must follow God’s law.

Ephesians 5:3 “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you,
as becometh saints.”

Let it not be once named among you! We are to abstain from all fornication. No foreplay, no oral sex, no sex
before marriage period! This is a pretty heavy topic I’m talking about, but it's also very serious. If I didn’t warn
you about it, than you might not even realize that it's a sin that will send you to hell if you don’t repent from it.

What about the risk you take? In America 1 out of every 4 teenagers has a STD and 8000 more teenagers
contract a STD everyday. 40% of girls will become pregnant before they’re 20 years old. Do you think this is
what God wants for you? Maybe you know it’s wrong and maybe you understand the risk, but you don’t want
people to think your strange. Do you care more about what people think of you than what God thinks of you?
Who are you trying to impress? Maybe you don’t want to lose your boyfriend or girlfriend. Do you love them
more than you love God? Would you rather lose your boyfriend or girlfriend, or lose your chance to go to
heaven? If they would leave you just because you won’t be sexually intimate with them, then they don’t even
love you. True love waits and I pray you don’t find that out the hard way.

People think their situation is different because they are in love or they’re planning on getting married. I don’t
care what your reason is, don’t make any excuses for stabbing God in the back. Why would you deliberately
commit sexual sin when you know it’s wrong? Is what your boyfriend or girlfriend wants more important than to
you than what God wants? God wants you to be pure and not defile yourself by having sex before marriage.
God made sex to be a wonderful thing between married couples and sadly many people have lost what God
has given them before they even realize what it was worth. Purity is important to God and it should be important
to you as well.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from
fornication.”

If you are living in any type of sexual relationship outside of marriage, you must repent from it and follow after a
life of righteousness and purity.
Sex before marriage