Fornication
The Animalistic Sin of Fornication
“Be not deceived: neither fornicators…nor adulterers…shall inherit the Kingdom of God.” – 1 Cor. 6:9-10 [Gal. 5:19-21]
Have you ever had sex outside of marriage? Maybe not. Do you commit sexual acts of any kind outside of marriage? Sensual contact with the opposite sex is common these days. Whether it be a crush, or a more serious relationship with a boyfriend or a girlfriend, people don’t think it’s a bad sin. Nevertheless, the Bible is very clear! Any sensual or sexual contact with the opposite sex outside of marriage, where lusts are acted upon through physical contact of any degree, this kind of sinning falls into the category of fornication. Doing physical acts of sexual immorality of any kind, including masturbation and pornography, would make you a fornicator.
Looking down from heaven, God says to mortal men: “Flee fornication.” (1 Cor. 6:18)! Literally, run away from it (Gen. 39:12)! It pursues you, and it can suddenly be inflamed within you; therefore, you must flee from it as from hell itself (1 Cor. 7:2, 9)! Fornication is a beastly sin that turns men and women into lustful monsters of iniquity. They become like a senseless and stubborn wild donkey, which is known for being an untamable wilderness creature that will not obey the commandments of men even when yoked (Job. 11:12, 39:5-8).
“Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?” - Job 6:5
According to Scripture, the lustful urge to commit fornication is so strong that men and women behave like horses, donkeys, and oxen, all of which scream noisily in bitter discontentment if they lack one of two things in life: food and sex (Job 6:5, Jer. 13:27). At such a time the horses and donkeys neigh and bray, while the oxen moo or low. Have you ever heard it?
These animals let out an obnoxious and unrelenting sound that is both alarming and disturbing to hear. City folk would be shocked at the sound of a cow in heat crying and wailing for a mate! For the same reason the countryside rumbles with territorial males fighting for the females. This is the madness of immoral animals! Nevertheless, the same animalistic desire drives sinners crazy, even though it is manifested in a more complex and dynamic conflict between men and women. In one way or another, at any given time of the day, you can find sinners “neighing” like horses after women (Jer. 13:27). In speaking to women, or about them, or vice versa, the filthy talk and coarse jesting about fornication never ends (Eph. 5:4)! Sinners are tormented with the desire to fornicate! Meanwhile, the Creator of heaven and earth looks down with disdain upon the shocking debasement of mankind.
“They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?” – Jer. 5:8-9
Countryfolk know that if you feed a male horse in the morning, rather than it being preoccupied with searching for food, the horse will expend all of its energy pursuing a female to mate. In ancient times, these animalistic passions would cause men to assemble by troops into whorehouses (Jer. 5:7). Nowadays, men and women resort by troops to the internet: they peer into the animalistic pleasure of harlotry through pornography to satisfy their burning desires (Jer. 5:7). Well over 60,000 new people begin watching pornography every minute! Over 100 million people a day visit the most popular internet whorehouse on earth – a pornographic website that broadcasts filth for the world to see! The eyes, ears, and bodies of sinners are defiled in the experience, while the land itself underneath them is polluted (Lev. 18:24-30, Jer. 2:7, 3:1-2, 9, 16:18, Ezek. 36:17)! With such staggering statistics as these, one can only imagine what lengths that men and women take every day to satisfy their lusts.
“Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” – Rev. 9:21
Even in the face of apocalyptic judgment, sinners will refuse to repent of the damning sin of fornication (Rev. 9:21)! No wonder that sinners are described to be like wild female donkeys in heat, as animals that are so determined to mate that they would cross a wilderness until their desire is accomplished (Jer. 2:18-24)! Granted, people don’t know that much about the passions of country animals these days. So, to put things in perspective, consider your very own pet dog: have you ever seen a male dog in the presence of a female dog in heat?
The desire for fornication in sinners is animalistic like the whining, squealing, and crying of male dogs, as they become frantic and crazy with determination to mate when encountering the smell of a female dog in heat. Even so, sinners are madly addicted to fornication like shameless animals, and for this they deserve to die! “But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed…shall utterly perish in their own corruption.” (2 Pet. 2:12).
