Higher Everyday

Key Verse

“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body” (1 Corinthians 6:18).

Text —1 Corinthians 5:1-11

Message

Fornication is one of the most common sins among young people. It has been given all sorts of names like: “pre-marital relationship” or “dating” to downplay the evil that it is before God.  Our text shows how bad it became in the Corinthian Church, such that a man was involved in this shameful act with his own step-mother. This is a sacrilege before God and every known human culture. The biblical admonition to us is to FLEE at the slightest sign of it. Fleeing is not only about physically running away from evil, but also about creating boundaries to keep sin away.

When friends on social media platforms share pornographic videos, you need to delete them and block the posters immediately. You need to be careful about social gatherings that are meant to arouse inordinate feelings for immorality. We are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses, from Joseph to Esther to the three Hebrew youths and Ruth, who were examples of those who held to the pursuit of their destiny without allowing any destiny destroyer, including fornication, to penetrate them.

Quote

Flee at the slightest sign

Challenge

Cut off the tempter or temptress, immediately

Prayer for today

Oh God, empower me to flee fornication, in Jesus’ name.