Biblical Sexual Prohibitions

Biblical Sexual Prohibitions Dr. Scott Johnson

Sermon Overview: In this teaching we will be looking at a subject that is rarely (if ever) preached on in modern day churches:
The sexual prohibitions outlined in Leviticus 18 &20.
This is a very important study and especially needed by Christians in the day and time we live in. Truly much of the Body of Christ is being destroyed for lack of knowledge due to NOT knowing the material covered in this teaching. Unfortunately there are many things that modern day Christians are doing (many times unknowingly) that are affecting them adversely in both a spiritual and physical way. Much of what we will get into was common knowledge up to 50 years ago but has been slowly repressed since then. We will look at the shocking WHOLE definitions of sodomy, fornication and intercourse and also the New Testament text some use to justify any sexual action regarding the marriage bed. We will also see how Biblically these types of sins defile a person in a way that other sins do not.
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Sexual Prohibitions: What Satan Doesn't Want YOU to Know!
"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me." (Psalm 66:18)
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." (1 Corinthians 3:16-17)
"What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." (Romans 7:7)
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. (Hebrews 13:4)
Does Hebrews 13:4 allow oral sex among married couples? NO!
How does someone know that sexual sins defile and ruin a Christian?
"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body" (1 Corinth 6:18)
Scott A. Johnson says there is a demonic exchange when you join flesh to flesh. For example, homosexuals were defiled with demons in an early stage in their life.
"For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent." (Proverbs 6:23-29)
"But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul." (Proverbs 6:32)
"With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;" (Proverbs 7:21-22)
"Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death." (Proverbs 7:25-27)
Seven Classifications Of Sexual Sins
1. Incest
"None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD." (Lev 18:6-18)
This is not just looking but also an act! "And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." (Lev 20:11) "And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless." (Lev 20:20-21)
2. Adultery
"Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her." (Lev 18:20)
"And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death." (Lev 20:10)
3. Self Gratification
"And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also." (Genesis 38:9-10)
This has to do with masturbation! Think about how the angels would witness these things. Satan accuses us of our sin. If you don't repent how can Jesus forget these things? "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." (Rev. 12:10)
"Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" (1 Peter 2:11)
"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." (1 John 2:16)
"But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." (Matthew 5:28)
"Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents" (1 Corinth 10:9)
"Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." (1 Corinth 10:12)
"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee." (Proverbs 23:7)
4. Homosexuality
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." (Lev. 20:13)
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." (Lev. 18:22)
5. Bestiality
"Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants." (Lev. 18:23-25)
"(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God." (Lev. 18:27-30)
6. Abortion
"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people." (Lev 20:1-5)
The seed is a sacrifice of children unto a statue called Molech!
7. Sex With A Woman On Her Period
"And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people." (Lev 20:18)
"Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness." (Lev 18:19)
Definitions
Sodomy included any form of non-procreative acts including self sexual gratification, oral and anal intercourse.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines "sodomy" as
1. Anal copulation of one male with another.
2. Anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
3. Copulation with an animal, “The same dictionary defines "sodomite" as one who engages in sodomy. To engage in sodomy is to use ones body in a manner that is contrary to its fundamental Biblical purpose (procreation). Sodomy, then, has no social purpose or function; it is simply an activity of personal sexual self-gratification.

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