The Sunday News
Pastor Kilton Moyo
I HAVE said in the past that one challenge we face in our context is our reluctance to talk about sex openly so we can share with each other accurate and true information. Most of the information we have on sex is driven by myths and a lot of worldview leaving out what God thinks and says about it.
We all need to remember that no human being or culture created sex. The devil did not create it too. Science did not create sex and of course democracy and human rights did not create it. I think it is prudent to, therefore, arm ourselves with the Creator’s information on sex and this is what I will call empowerment, true empowerment.
I have been trying to put across this line of thinking in the past weeks and I hope today I can close this phase with even more naked truths so as to help all of us who read this column. By the way, we are available to talk to any group of people anywhere on the subject of sexuality that pleases God. We are not saying we are the perfect ones but we have received enough grace to turn around and see the truth.
Even in our article today, we do not seek to condemn anyone but just to put it as it ought to be and then people can make decisions based on good and accurate information.
In Deuteronomy 6:5 the Bible says that, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” Loving God according to this scripture requires our ‘‘all’’ and not partly. I have seen some of us who love God with our words while we use our bodies for other things. Others love God with their dances and talents only but refuse with their other being. I mean you can testify to what I am saying here that most of us are far away from fulfilling the command in this scripture.
Let me talk to believers like me here. We find it difficult to give it all to God. We love Him but we also love the world and love pleasure and it will seem the pleasure takes priority over our money and our bodies and time. Beloved, if we are going to be pleasing to God we need to give Him ‘‘all’’ of us.
Well, today I want to put this in a different way. We need to honour God with our bodies because He is the one who made our bodies for His own pleasure. We need to honour God with our sexuality because He created it and gave it to us.
I know that most of us want to go to church, sing in the choir, preach, be pastors, be deacons, elders, and everything we want to be but we do not want to surrender our sexuality to God totally. This is where most of us still struggle. We tell ourselves that God might as well have my voice and my talent but my sexuality is mine and is my right. This is the mindset of deception.
When you express your sexuality in whatever manner, please remember that it is through your body and that your body is the temple of the Lord. What do you think God will do to anyone who destroys His temple? Beloved, the way we express our sexuality must honour God.
Let me show you things you know that dishonour God as far as our sexuality is concerned. It does not matter what we think or say or have learnt about these. They are sexual actions or behaviours that dishonour God and are therefore unacceptable.
Adultery is a dishonour to God and to you. God is clear and very clear that we should not commit adultery. But most of us even in the church are caught up in this deception and we fail to please our God. Some of us are proud of this sinful action and want to associate it with our culture and traditions.
Fornication is a dishonour to God, to you and to your future spouse. Fornication is having intercourse before marriage. The world loves this and unfortunately church people are also caught up in it and give a lot of excuses and justifications. Beloved, do you think God will be interested in our excuses? All of us can abstain as long as we choose to. The world does not help us to abstain but helps us to fornicate ‘‘safely’’ and continue dishonouring God excitedly. This is deception of the worst order.
Prostitution is an abomination too. Selling or buying sex is a sinful tendency. It does not matter whether it has been politically legalised or not. What matters is what God says about it. I know that most of us will come up with all sorts of excuses, economic, social, and cultural and the like to justify our slavery in sin. These are not enough and they do not take the immorality of our actions.
Homosexuality, lesbianism and same sex marriages are also a sexual abomination and a dishonour to God and our bodies.
They rubbish all the natural and biological functions of the human body, sexually. These could be called and classified as human rights in the world but the truth remains and it is that it is not so with God. “For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” Ephesians 5: 5.
Rape and incest and bestiality are a dishonour to God. They are also a mockery. The Bible tells us that God cannot be mocked.
That which a man sows, he shall reap.
I am just showing us our sexual expressions that dishonour God. All these actions, beloved we do but they are a shame to us all and to God. No amount of justification can take away the sinfulness of our sexual actions.
These are nothing but sin. Sin separates us from God. The only way to go is to repent and be forgiven our sins so we can serve God fully with all our hearts, souls and strengths.”
This is what God wants. Sexual sin defiles us and defiles our work with God and makes us mock God. You do not have to be afraid, just repent and give yourself fully to Christ and He will wash you pure with His blood.
I know that talking about these things this way offends many people but well somewhere, somehow, we all have to face up, with the truth of God, before we leave the land of the living. We can give excuses, justify, insult, claim we are judging, and claim you were born that, but beloved, at the end of the matter, we will come face to face with the Word of God which we reject now.
My invitation is to all of us to Honour God with our sexuality, particularly the believers. Africa shall be served, not by might or by power but by my Spirit, says the Lord.
Kilton Moyo is creator of Fruitful Marriages, a renewal and enrichment programme and is a pastor, counsellor and author of The Sex Trap. Call or WhatsApp on +263775337207, +263772610103 or +263712384841.citizenafricafoundationgmail.com
