A FEW BIBLICAL FACTS ABOUT IMMORALITY

By Paul Sain

         I.            Immorality Is Raging – Out Of Control

A)      God sorry for wickedness – Genesis 6:5-6

B)       Sodom destroyed for sinfulness – Gen. 19:24

C)       Righteousness exalteth a nation, sin is a reproach to any people – Prov. 14:34

D)      Call good evil and evil good – Isa. 5:20

E)       Immoral: Then and Now – Rom. 1:29-32

        II.            God Has Spoken Concerning Right and Wrong

A)      God has spoken through his Son – Heb. 1:1-2

B)       The Word shall judge us – John 12:48

C)       Furnishes us everything needed – II Tim. 3:16-17

D)      Answers, instructs, guides – Psalms 119:105

E)       All pertaining to life and godliness – II Pet. 1:3

F)       Pure religion and unspotted – Jas. 1:27

      III.            ISSUES OF MORALITY FACING US TODAY:

A)      ABORTION

1. Life begins at conception – Lk. 2:21
2. A person before and after birth – Jer. 1:5
3. Murder (Abortion) is wrong – Rom. 13:9
4. John before birth leaped – Lk. 1:41
5. God alone has right to take life – Acts 17:25

B)       ALCOHOL

1. Your body is the temple of God and ye are not your own – I Cor. 6:19-20
2. Whatever ye eat, drink – do all to the glory of God – I Cor. 10:31
3. Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor – Hab. 2:15
4. Bites like a serpent and stings like an adder – Prov. 23:31-32
5. Not be under the power of any – I Cor. 6:12

C)       DANCING

1. Abstain from all appearance of evil – I Thess. 5:22
2. Drawn away of own lust – brings sin – Jas. 1:14-15
3. A work of flesh or fruit of the Spirit? Gal. 5:19-23
4. Lasciviousness – body movements – Gal. 5:19-21
5. Cause others to stumble or sin? – Matt. 18:6
6. Can this be done to God’s glory? – Col. 3:17
7. Be an example of believers – I Tim. 4:12

D)      DRUGS

1. Harmful to one’s body
2. Not under control of any – I Cor. 6:12
3. Drunkenness condemned, drugs are similar in destruction – Gal. 5:19-21
4. Your body is the temple of God and ye are not your own – I Cor. 6:19-20

E)       HOMOSEXUALITY

1. Made them male and female – Matt. 19:4-5
2. Men, one to another, unrighteousness and wickedness… worthy of death – Rom. 1: 26-32
3. Fornicators, effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind – I Cor. 6:9-11
4. Thou shalt not lie with a male as with a woman– Lev. 18:22

F)       PORNOGRAPHY

1. Abstain from all appearance of evil – I Thess. 5:22
2. Lasciviousness: lewd, lustful – Gal. 5:19-21
3. Vile affections – Rom. 1:26-32
4. Corrupt, impure, unholy thoughts – Phil. 4:7-8

G)      IMMODESTY

1. Women adorn themselves modestly – I Tim. 2:19-20
2. Look on woman to lust after her commits adultery – Matt.  5:27-28
3. Sober minded women – Tit. 2:4-5
4. Adorn with meek and quiet spirit, of great price to God – I Pet. 3:3-4

H)      TOBACCO

1. Present holy, sacrificial bodies – Rom. 12:1-2
2. Our lives to bring glory and honor – Matt. 5:16
3. If meat make my brother stumble – I Cor. 8:13
4. Habits which control us and hinder work or influence are sin – I Cor. 3:16-17
5. To magnify Christ in our bodies – Phil. 1:20