Page 55 - The Marriage Covenant

Let me say here that not all sickness is the result of sin. Christ declared that sickness
was caused by many reasons. At times an individual has sinned leading to sickness. At other
times their parents have sinned. Sometimes a sickness is due to demonic oppression. At
other times a person is sick that the glory of God might be revealed in their healing. There
are many causes of sickness. Without question, one of the leading causes of all types of
illness and disease is sin.
This is one reason why it is so important that Christians abstain from sin, and if they
have sinned, that they repent of the sin and seek Yahweh’s forgiveness. Yahweh has caused
there to be consequences of sin in the lives of people.
We have only been looking at one aspect of these consequences thus far. There are
many other dire consequences of violating Yahweh’s commands to abstain for fornication
and adultery. There are negative mental consequences that occur in the lives of those who
are sexually promiscuous.
The blood stream serves as a source for transmitting sexual disease, and the previous
post in this series revealed that “the soul is in the blood.” Each STD stands as a parable of
something evil, impure, and unclean in the soul of another person that has been
transmitted during the act of sexual intercourse.
Do you think that only physical things are passed between two people who are sexually
intimate? Far from it. There are many soulish things that are passed as well. Everything that
is in one person’s blood is given access to the body of the other person through sexual
contact. Because “the soul is in the blood,” there is not only a union of two bodies, but a
union of two souls during sexual intercourse.
The body is designed to be a temple. The temple of all men and women are filled with
many things, some clean, and some unclean. One cannot enter a polluted temple and
worship there without coming away with the stain of the pollution. When men and women
enter into sexual union, joining two temples together, it is in an act of intimate worship.
There are things transferred both physically and via the souls of the two who are joined.
Yahweh never intended sexual intercourse to be an open and communal activity. From
the beginning, sexual union was to be only within the context of marriage. When sex is kept
inside of marriage the entryway for sexually transmitted diseases is shut. The temple
remains pure. Both the body and the soul of the man and woman are isolated from the
many unclean and injurious influences found in the bodies of those who are acting
promiscuously.

Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for
fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

People of God, the judgment of God begins in this lifetime, not in the next. Many are
even now suffering the effects of God’s judgment because they treated as unholy that which
Yahweh declared to be holy.
Beyond the physical damage to the body wrought by unbridled sexual lust, there are
other detrimental effects. Many men and women who have been sexually promiscuous prior
to marriage find that they have difficulty being intimate with their spouse. A husband may
find that he lacks a strong attachment to the soul of a wife who has given herself to other
men. Likewise, a man that has engaged in fornication will often find it difficult to enter into
a full union of soul with his wife, leaving her dissatisfied with the lack of intimacy between