Headed to Hell From the Harlot's House

(Prov 7:27) Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Our country and our world are crumbling around us. Where did it start? It wasn’t so long ago that our society was very different than it is now. The almost daily mass murders and people committing all kinds of atrocious acts were a very rare thing just a couple of decades ago. We that are 45 or older grew up in a world where children were safe to be out anywhere without being guarded every minute. Now things are different and you are a fool if you let your children out of your sight in public or even at church. It is approaching the same state the world was in during Noah’s day when God said the earth was corrupt, filled with violence, and that all flesh had corrupted God’s way upon the earth.

There is a path from where we were to where we are now. No society changes so drastically overnight. There is a starting point. There is a key that unlocks a passageway into the dark dungeon of sin in which we find our world imprisoned today. There is one particular sin that is like the atomic bomb of sins. It is like the bowling ball that knocks all the pins down. When the door to this sin is breached there is nothing left that remains holy. Sexual sin is the beginning of all moral decay; it is that starting point. Yet most people do not connect that sin with all the others. They think sexual promiscuity and immorality aren’t related at all to violence and evil. They believe that you can remove all the morality from sexual activity and still retain morality in everything else, but it never works that way. The self-destruction of a person or of a society begins when the God-given restraints are removed from sexual activity.

Intimacy between a man and wife is not something that man invented. It was God’s idea and it is a most holy thing. It is a very important thing in our lives and it was a gift of God meant to bless and enrich our lives and our relationship with our spouse. There is nothing evil about it as long as it is within the bounds of marriage as prescribed by God. God made the limits very clear and He also prescribed the most severe punishment for the abuse and misuse of this great blessing – namely, the death penalty. It is a very serious crime in God’s sight – no matter how the present society looks at it. Any sexual activity outside of marriage is sin – period, and further than that, the Bible makes it clear that it is abomination to God.

Of all the sins that man can commit sexual sin brings the most pain, the most destruction, and the most confusion.

(1 Cor 6:18) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

You may be forgiven but you will forever bear the scars. Rahab was always “Rahab the harlot.” I would venture to say that more Christians today know about David’s adultery than about the fact that he wrote the 23rd Psalm. Others may forget, but you will never forget. You will never think of yourself in the same way again. You have lowered your own opinion of yourself no matter what others think of you. You have sold your birthright for a bowl of pottage – you traded the most valuable thing you possessed for a moment of pleasure. When that moment it is over you immediately realize you have done something very foolish, but it is too late.

When a person breaks through this barrier and commits fornication or adultery the path leads downward very steeply, and very quickly. Once you have committed the “scarlet sin” all other sins do not look as bad. “What difference is it going to make if I tell a lie now?” “What does it matter what I do now?” So generally, sexual immorality leads to a low life of sin of every sort. It is awful what this sin does to the soul of the one who commits it, but it is even more awful what it does to the others that are hurt by it. Adultery destroys the soul of the adulterer, but it also wrecks permanent havoc in the soul of his or her mate. More than that it damages the souls of the children and wrecks their lives as well. Sexual sin poisons forever the marriage bed. You bring someone else into your holy of holies and it isn’t so holy anymore. Even if they aren’t there now, you have memories and your spouse has an imagination. You will have company in the place where God meant for only the two of you.

It is a mystery to me why the people of our day, and especially those who call themselves Christians, cannot connect the dots between this sin and the moral bankruptcy that it causes. All this violence we are seeing is directly related to the sexual immorality of our society. It is not only those who are practicing the immorality who are to blame. The apathetic attitude of those who are supposed to be God’s people is to blame, also. The fact is that most who call themselves Christians have watched so many TV programs and movies and have so many bed-jumping members in their own families that they don’t really see anything so wrong with it anymore. But the Bible is clear on the fact that all sexual sins are an abomination to God! Even people who sit in church every Sunday talk freely about things that no one used to talk about and they do so with crude and vulgar language. They joke and laugh about things that should be thought of as sacred and holy. They reveal secret things to others that no one should ever know about except their spouse. They enjoy buying and watching movies where the actors commit adultery and fornication. They enjoy listening to worldly music whose main theme is adultery and fornication. They pay to have TV broadcasting piped into their homes and sit and watch hours of programs and commercials whose theme is almost always an enticement to sexual sin. So for all practical purposes they are more in agreement with this ungodly society we live in than with God and his Word and therefore share the blame and will give account to God for it.

(Rom 1:32) Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Do you wonder why churches are in the news so much these days because of sexual sin and sex crimes right in the churches? I just told you why. They are feeding from the same hog trough the world feeds from and our world is dishing out pure garbage. And when was the last time you heard a preacher preach against adultery or fornication or perverts? They are telling stories, or jokes, or talking about “soul-winning” and church building, or something else while the fornicators, the adulterers, and the perverts are scanning the pews looking for their next fix. God, give us some MEN in the pulpits who will have eyes to see and the backbone to expose these creeps and put them out of the church before they ruin any more lives and bring reproach on the church of Jesus Christ!

Purity may be out of style with the world, but the world is headed for the judgment of God and it is coming soon. Purity is never out of style with God and it shouldn’t be out of style with God’s people. It is high time the people of God wake up and go back to the place where this mess started. Right now the church is a mockery to the world because they know that the church is as promiscuous as they are. Several of these big mega-churches have been in the news recently because of some sermon series they are doing on sex. They use erotic pictures in their ads to promote their sermons on sex and give the appearance of a pornographic movie or an adult book store instead of a place where God’s Word is preached.

God and his “rules” about sex had to be removed before this so called “sexual revolution” could happen. That is one of the great failures of the church and of the men of God. More of them should have been crying aloud and sparing not, and more should be doing so now. Silence is consent! Instead of giving “how to” lessons and encouraging fornication and adultery preachers should be preaching the law of God about this matter. God’s way is the only way it will work and be a blessing. Throw off the commandments of God and it will be turned into a curse – for the individual, for a nation, or for the world.