‘Dangers of Pre-Marital Sex’
Being a Seminar
Presented by Mrs Ada Eze to the St. Pauls Catholic Parish Umuodagu Ntu Youths
during Their Youth Week 18th-23rd August 2014
Pre-marital
sex is referred to as sexual relation between two or more people prior to
marriage. The meaning has shifted to all sexual relations a person had before a
legal marriage.
Alternative
terms for pre-marital sex include:
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Non-Marital sex.
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Young/Adolescent sex.
-
Young-Adult sex.
Pre-marital
sex can take the form of; - lesbianism, homosexuality, incest, masturbation,
bestiality among others.
Today
illicit sex is associated with millions of youths who are unaware of the
dangers of pre-marital sex. Instead of youths to worship God with their
precious time, they waste their time committing sin and destroying their
future.
Ecclesiastes
12: 4 – “Remember now thy creator in days of thy youth while the evil days come
not, nor the days draw nigh when thou shall say I have no pleasure in them”.
How/Why People Get
Involved in Pre-Marital Sex
People find
themselves in areas where lifestyle of boarder on committing sin. Places like
the ghetto/slums or areas where there are no strict moral values, most of the
time form part of the environment where youths learn evil ways fast. Therefore,
things like smoking, rape, stealing pickpocketing, pre-marital sex, having
girlfriends are some of the ridiculous practices seen in this kind of places.
Pre-marital
sex also thrives in mixed schools. Having a lot of girls clustering around,
send evil messages with peer groups encouraging one to have sex with as many
girls as possible with the assurance that there will be no harm.
1Corinthians
16:9 “For
a great door and effectual is opened unto me and there are many adversaries”
–KJV.
Another
reason young people indulge in pre-marital sex is their great curiosity to
explore what sexual activity is all about. They do this without considering the
damaging consequences. Here it may take the form of casual sex with one of the
partners seeking to experience sex.
Cohabitation
breeds sexual immorality. This has to do with couples living together in a long
term relationship without marriage. Examples of people that fall into this
category are betrothed couples who engage in sexual activity before the
anticipated marriage.
Studies
reveal that people who cohabit find it difficult to marry for obvious reasons.
If that is the case, the question is why young people still cohabit?
It must be
stated here also that the consequences of cohabitation is life-threatening and
therefore should be avoided.
Consequences of
Premarital Sex
Satan has
caused much damage to the youths making them to commit fornication. Fornication
is pre-marital sex. Damage which could not be repaired has been inflicted on
young promising persons and the have to live with it for the rest of their
lives.
God knows
that there are dangers in pre-marital sex that is why He wants us to flee from
youthful lust 2Timoty 2:22 “Flee youthful lusts but follow
righteousness, faith, charity, and peace with them that call on the Lord out of
a pure heart”.
Sex is a
powerful force that can destroy if not used properly. Like atomic power, sex is
the most powerful creative force given to man. When atomic power is used
correctly, it can create boundless energy, when it is used in the wrong way it
destroys life. Sex is the same kind of powerful force. Sex is the gift from God
to give us the greatest pleasure to help in creating deep companionship with
one’s spouse and for procreation of the next generation. But if you play with
this powerful force outside the bounds of marriage, it destroys you and those
close to you.
- Sexual
activity for young people arrests their psychological, social and academic
development. Studies show that when young people engage in pre-marital sex,
their academic performance declines and their social relationships with family
and friends deteriorate. This is because adolescents are too immature to deal
with the
explosive sex drive and it tends to dominate their lives.
- Majority
of women cannot enjoy sex outside the bonds of Marriage. Pre-marital sex
usually takes place sneaking around in hidden places, dealing with the fear of
being caught, the fear of pregnancy and feelings of guilt. All these worrisome
factors undermine pleasure in premarital sex most especially in women.
- Virginity
is to be given to the most important person in your life – the person you
committed to stay forever in marriage. Your virginity is the most precious
thing you have to your spouse. Once you lose it nothing in the world can bring
it back.
Spiritual Effects of
Pre-marital Sex
- It is a
sin - 1Thessalonica 4:3 (for this is the
will of God even your sanctification that you should abstain from fornication)
- 1Cor. 6:9 – No fornicator will
enter into the kingdom of God.
- Colossians 3:5-6 – Fornicators
attract the anger of God against themselves. It is a dangerous thing to fall
into the hands of God.
Deuteronomy 22:13-21 – Penalty of
fornication is death.
Matthew 5:32 – The sin of fornication
is the only ground on which a man should divorce his married wife. Fornication
is a very terrible sin as it affects all the body.
- Fornication brings more sin.
Most
pre-marital sex ends up in pregnancy, sickness abandonment or sale of babies.
The rate of abortion has increased because of increase in pre-marital sex.
Involving in pre-marital sex is a sin of its own but committing abortion is
murder. Almost all today’s youth must have committed murder before reaching age
25. Some of them abandon their babies in dustbins, gutters and other public
places which is an increase to their original sin of fornication. Some secretly
sale their babies to ready buyers who use such babies for rituals, or resale
them to wealthy couples who could not bear their own children.
- It creates an ungodly soul tie
A soul tie
is an agreement one enters with another that creates a special bond between two
people. Soul ties are common and exist everywhere – husband and wife, parent
and children, teacher and student, pastors and church members, employer and
employees. Sex is not just a causal fun as most people think and take it to be.
It is much more than that, it involves blood. The Bible says “Life
is in the blood” Lev.17:14.
When you
have sex with a person you have given a part of your life to that person and in
return the person has given you a part of his own life in the spirit realm. In
the spirit realm, two of you have become one. You start to share things in
common. That is why disease, sickness, demons and many things and many things
pass through during sexual intercourse. In addition, you have just created “a
soul tie” between you and the person involved. Since God does not
permit pre-marital sex, it becomes an “ungodly tie” in the sight of God.
That is why some girls find a special liking or memory on the day of
dis-virginity, the blood that flows out that day becomes the blood of the covenant or
agreement. Genesis 34 Shechem the prince of the land of Hivite
committed fornication with Dinah the daughter of Jacob. The soul of Shechem
cleaves unto Dinah. First it was lust, and then came love, yet it was ungodly
- It fragmentize
your soul
Since sexual
intercourse creates soul ties, each person you have sex with you have given
part of your heart or soul in the spiritual realm. That is why people who were
promiscuous before settling down for marriage find it difficult settling down
at all because their soul has been divided; always thinking of their
relationships with their previous partners thus making it impossible for them
to settle down for marriage. If a person has slept with a thousand persons in
his life, his love, heart and several other things has been shared with these
thousand persons. A close look at the society shows that wayward people find it
difficult to have a fulfilled marriage life because they have shared their life
with several people.
Most
promiscuous people are involved in extramarital sex. They are never satisfied
with one person just for no reason, always looking for their lost soul. It is
dangerous engaging in pre-marital sex because it can affect your marriage in
future.
- It passes demons to you
This is
perhaps the most worrisome part of pre-marital sex. Demons and other problems
gain entrance into your body through pre-marital sex.
1
Corinthians 6:16 “know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? For
two saith He shall be one flesh. Have not heard how a serpent that was
in another person was transferred to another in the course of sex. It passes
demons to your generation. Any sin that becomes a habit is iniquity.
- It is a sin against your own body
Other sins
are outside the body except the sin of fornication, 1Corinthians 6:18.
Fornication
has the capacity of doing the flowing to you:
* You lose
confidence.
* Diseases,
sicknesses take over you.
* Your
relationship with your family becomes unstable and lying sets in.
Pre-marital Sex Is Lust
Love is from
God. It gives unconditionally and it can wait. Lust is from Satan. It is
selfish and wants immediate gratification. Any man that loves you will never
demand sex from you as a proof of your love for him. Love is patient, is long
suffering and endures.
1John 4:7 Beloved
let us love one another for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born
of God, and knowth God.
Many young
people today have the spirit of Ammon 2nd Samuel 13:12-14. Beware!
Other Dangers of
Pre-marital Sex
* Premature parenthood
* It makes
you marry the wrong person who may not be supportive, friendly or compatible.
* Rejection,
abandonment
*
Infertility
* It kills
your vision
Everybody
that was involved in pre-marital sex in the Bible suffered punishment. Genesis
34: 26-27 and they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and
took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and went out. The sons of Jacob came upon the
slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
2nd
Samuel 12:29 the servants of Absalom slew Ammon on the order of Absalom for raping
his sister Tamah.
Avoidance/Prevention/Advice
The only way
to avoid the dangers of pre-marital sex is to abstain from it. Sex education
has suggested the use of condom but statistics has shown that condom has failed
in stopping dangers of illicit sex. Condom cannot stop the passage of demons
during sexual intercourse. Our youths have taken pre-marital sex as a normal
thing and a way of life. I want to sound this note of warning that it is devils
device to destroy you people. Hear what the Bible say in Proverbs 14:12
there
is a way that seemeth unto a man is right but the end is death
*
Disassociate yourself from immoral/ungodly peer group.
* Try not to
be idle.
* Beware of
the type of film you watch.
* Make the
Bible your closest companion and pray always.
* Take a
personal decision to start living a life of purity and God will back you up.
* Mind what
you drink – refrain from alcohol.
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