READ: Ephesians 5:1-13
“But fornication and all uncleanness or cov- etousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;” – Ephesians 5:3
When you commit fornication, the Bible says you will destroy your soul. This means that fornication will have an effect on you spiritually. Fornication is sexual intercourse before marriage. The equivalent of fornication in marriage is adultery, that is, when you have sex with anyone who is not your marriage partner.
Anybody who is involved in for- nication gets affected spiritually. It will lead you to backslide. On Sunday mornings, there are people sitting in church knowing very well what they did the night before. Some Christians even come to church straight from their boyfriends’ beds.
Your pastor may not know what you have done. He may have shaken hands with you, but didn’t have any word of knowledge about you! So you continue in sin. Know that it is gradually destroying your soul—your inner self is affected! “But whoso commiteth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul…” (Proverbs 6:32).
With experience I have come to see that when somebody commits fornication, his spiritual life takes a nose-dive. When a Christian falls into immorality his lifestyle changes. The destruction of the soul has began. We are all subject to the temptation to fornicate. But the priority of every Christian must be to obey the Lord (1 Samuel 15:22). If you do not obey God you stand to lose.