Sexual Purity – Lesson 1
What does God Say about Sexual Purity in His Word?

What is Sexual Purity? It is the conforming of your body and your sexual self to God's vision of human sexuality as presented in Scripture.

God created sex and made it physically desirable to us, His creation, by giving us a sex drive. Without engaging in sexual union, people would not have continued to exist on this planet Earth, the world God created for us to inhabit. God blessed Adam and Eve after He created them, saying, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth” (Genesis 1:28a), before sin corrupted God’s perfect world (Genesis 3).

Sexual union is a beautiful gift from God and is never sinful, IF a man and a woman wait to come together physically until after they are married. “‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate” (Matthew 19:5-6).

God's Word speaks openly about the pleasure of sex within marriage, one of the good things God created to be enjoyed within marital bonds: “Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth” (Proverbs 5:18-19). “Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies” (Song of Solomon 4:5). “How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand” (Song of Solomon 7:1).

God intended sex to be a sacred union within marriage, and reserves it for that union. It's a source of intimacy and a means of procreation. But like all good gifts God gives, sex can be both misused and perverted, and that is where our study of sexual purity comes in.

Apply God’s Word to your life:

What do you hope to gain from this series of lessons on Sexual Purity?

What was new to you in Lesson One?