“至于淫乱 …，在你们中间连提都不可 …。” – 弗 5:3
多年之前我参加一个研讨会，一位著名的基督徒讲员声称，西方基督教面对的最严重的问题就是使用色情产品。在基督徒群体中，使用色情产品的统计数字令人震惊。这些行为对个人、家庭、会众、和广大的教会群体造成的伤害，实在无法估量。它破坏夫妻关系，它带给年青人不实际的期望，很多使用它的人因感到愧疚而躲避神，却不肯到神那里寻求赦免。
在整本圣经中，神都在教导我们信实的重要性，衪又警告我们，淫乱能伤害和毁灭我们。它破坏关系和摧毁信用；它把人看为物化，然而具有神形像的人是应当受到尊重的。神使用婚姻的比喻，来表达衪想与自己的子民建立彼此忠诚的深入而亲密的关系。神形容自己为以色列民的丈夫，又以奸淫来比拟属灵的不忠贞。
跟随基督的人，不应隐藏我们使用色情产品和参与其他形式的淫行的事实，最好把它们显露出来，并且指出这些事毁灭性的影响力、鼓励人寻求医治和赦免。因耶稣的缘故，惟愿我们都寻求过信实的生活。
祷告
圣洁的神啊，我们承认我们的罪，特别是在淫行的罪，求你赦免和释放我们，又引导我们对你有忠心。奉耶稣名祈求，阿们。
马太福音 5:27-30
27“你们听见有话说：‘不可奸淫。’
28只是我告诉你们，凡看见妇女就动淫念的，这人心里已经与她犯奸淫了。
29若是你的右眼叫你跌倒，就剜出来丢掉！宁可失去百体中的一体，不叫全身丢在地狱里。
30若是右手叫你跌倒，就砍下来丢掉！宁可失去百体中的一体，不叫全身下入地狱。
Sexual Immorality
“Among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality. . . .” – Ephesians 5:3
Years ago I attended a conference where a well-known Christian speaker asserted that the largest problem faced by Western Christianity was the use of pornography. The statistics on pornography use within the Christian community are shocking. The harm done to individuals, families, congregations, and the wider church community is incalculable. It drives a wedge between married couples, it gives unrealistic expectations to youth, and, riddled by guilt, many users hide from God rather than approaching him for forgiveness.
Throughout the Bible God teaches the importance of faithfulness and warns that sexual immorality is harmful and destructive. It ruins relationships and destroys trust. It treats people like objects when they should be valued as imagebearers of God. God uses the imagery of marriage to display the rich relationship of faithfulness that he wants with his people. God describes himself as a husband to Israel and compares idolatry to spiritual adultery.
Rather than hiding and ignoring pornography and other forms of sexual immorality among us, followers of Christ will do well to name these destructive influences, bring them into the light, and encourage healing to take place. May we seek to live in faithfulness, for Jesus’ sake.
Prayer
Holy God, we acknowledge our sin, especially in areas of sexual immorality. We ask for forgiveness and deliverance. Guide us to be faithful. In Jesus, Amen.
