"What is going on is definitely more than a hint of immorality. These young people are pretending to live in the vows of marriage without understanding the covenant of marriage and the commitment, sacrifice, and hard work it takes to make a marriage work. To do this basically spits in the face of God and tells Him that His design for marriage is outdated and needs to be improved. God also says in 1 Corinthians 6:18 to flee from sexual immorality.
These youth are being deceived. What they are doing in their minds is getting as close to sin as they can without crossing “the line.” In doing this, they are being deceived into thinking that they are strong enough to avoid going farther into sin. Scripture doesn’t tell us to get as close as we can to “the line” as long as we don’t sin…scripture tells us to flee from sexual immorality and to be holy because God is holy. Our goal should be to see how much like Jesus we can be…not to see how much we can get away with without crossing a morality standard that we create and feel comfortable with.
One thing I learned long ago is that sin will take you farther than you want to go, and will cost you more than you were ever willing to pay."
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