We had our third tremendous response during our “Bringing Sexy Back…where it belongs” series as over forty people flooded the altar of Every Nation Tallahassee to commit their lives to Jesus. This Sunday, February 25th, my wife Cindy and I will be concluding our series by sharing our testimony of how God brought us together. You never forget your first kiss!
Thank you for your positive feedback and comments. I am honored that you read my blogs. My desire is God’s best for your life. I look forward to reading your comments this week, and I can’t wait to see you Sunday at church. As I promised, written below is part two of my blog on masturbation.
It is important to remember that the God ordained purpose for sex is relational, increasing love, intimacy and unity in the marriage relationship with pleasure being the wonderful by-product. Contrary to the Bible, the world has the perspective that the purpose of sexual activities of any type is for pleasure and that the relational issues are not that important or significant.
The Bible does not mention masturbation directly in either the Old Testament or New Testament. The Hebraic laws found in Leviticus cover almost every conceivable kind of sexual involvement, but do not mention masturbation. However since masturbation is defined as private sexual release and does not directly encourage intimacy in marriage, it is a sexual behavior that can undermine God’s purposes.
There are two keys mentioned in the Bible that are essential character traits for anyone desiring to live a Godly lifestyle. The first one is self-control. Self-control in mentioned in Galatians 5:22 as one of the fruits of God’s spirit. One of the ways masturbation can undermine God’s purpose for sex is by discouraging self-control.
Self-control is vital in marriage for four reasons. First, couples can not have sex together at certain times of the month due to the wife’s menstrual cycle. Second, lustful temptation does not stop when you say “I do.” Third, in order to give sexual pleasure to your spouse, self-control that leads to sexual endurance is a must. Fourth, masturbating does not relieve sexual frustration. It is true that masturbation can temporarily relieve sexual urges and frustrations, but also causes greater and more frequent biological urges for additional ejaculations. Practically, as the body emits semen it then quickly produces more so that supply can keep up with demand. So, a man who masturbates to ejaculation will find himself masturbating with increasing frequency as his body continues to demand more frequent relief, thus negating his original goal of masturbating to relieve sexual frustration.
Self- denial is the second essential character trait. Jesus told his disciples and others, self-denial was to be practiced, first and foremost by those who would want to follow God’s way (Matthew 16:24). Once again, this is converse to Satan’s ways or secular teaching. The motif of the satanic bible is “Do what you want” or “Do whatever brings you pleasure”. No one can be an effective Christian without learning how to deny self in order to look out for the interests of others (Philippians 2:3-4). Since masturbation brings pleasure to only one person, which is “you”, it is the antithesis of self-denial.
Apostle Paul taught the church at Rome that when we do not worship God, we begin to worship self. As a culture engages in self-worship, it then practices unnatural and improper sexual activity (Romans 1). History now teaches us that Rome was not destroyed by external enemies, but by the internal enemy of lust that led to sexual perversion among its citizens. They should have listened to the apostle.
I am of the opinion that masturbation is an idolatrous activity. Marriage and masturbation are sexual activities that express our devotion, intimacy and worship. Marriage is God’s idea for sex that leads to relational intimacy with pleasure being the by-product, while masturbation is man’s idea that leads only to self gratification. Maybe that is why the Bible does not mention it…it is not God’s idea or plan for mankind.
Just as sexual intercourse is the sign that consummates a marriage, masturbation is the sign of self-worship. Paul wrote to his son in the faith Timothy, and told him that the number one indicator of a destructive society is when they become “lovers of themselves” (2 Timothy 3:1-2).
Masturbation, having sex with oneself, is the epitome of sexual activity that resembles people who are “lovers of themselves”. Nothing could be more detrimental to humanity than embracing a mindset that encourages a “to each his own” lifestyle.
5 comments:
I have thought that Jesus' command "if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away" could be a reference to masturbation since he says it in context to "anyone who looks lustfully at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:27-30)
This is really interesting. So much of it is in error. For instance, the body produces semen at a steady rate, whether it is released via intercourse, masturbation, nocturnal emmissions or any other way. It does not produce more because it is released more. It is constantly producing semen. Also, women don't produce semen, so by that logic I assume it is not a sin for them to masturbate, and it doesn't make them want to masturbate more often because of the pressure of the increased production of semen. This whole theory about masturbation increases the desire for masturbation owing to semen production is complete nonsense. It is also interesting to note that the Catholic Church took masturbation off of its mortal sin list in 1965 at Vatican II. It hasn't been a sin for Catholics for over 40 years. Also, the guilt caused by masturbating is a direct result of controllers telling people it is a sin to masturbate. There is a terrific book that has just released and available on-line titled, "Sex, Lies, and the Bible: How human sexual behavior is controlled through the corruption of the Bible." It tackles this subject, and five other sexual subjects that are condemed in the Bible. It is receiving some very good reviews from university newspapers because the author spent 40 years researching the subject.
I'M ASIAN, WITH SOME SPANISH
AND GROWING UP
THESE SOCIETIES HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO SAY
THEY SEEM TO SATISFY THEMSELVES
AND I SATISFY MYSELF
THE INTERNET IS THEN EVIL?
SO BASICALLY IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE THAT IF U MASTURBATE ITS A SIN BECAUSE IT MAKES U WANT TO HAVE SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE AND WHEN U DO THAT U HAVE SINNED BUT AFTER MARRIAGE ITS OK TO MASTURBATE???....
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