9 - Maintaining the Marriage Bed

It is true that there is grace for all our sexual guilt in the bleeding wounds of Jesus Christ. And O how we should praise God

for this gospel mercy! Even the most sexually defiled person in the world can stand spotlessly righteous before the throne of

grace through the substitutionary merits of Jesus Christ in their place, (II Pet. 2:7). But it is also true that God is the “avenger”

of the sexually immoral, and that “whoever disregards” God’s commandments concerning holy sexuality “disregards God” Himself.

Therefore, let the timeless words from I Thessalonians 4:1-8 be a sobering echo in our hearts that give us both holy fear and

healthy defense as we zealously pursue sexual purity in all of life, and especially within our own “marriage bed.”