Gods Commands Protect You - Soul Choice Ministries

Some people think God is oppressive. My question is, “How is God inflicting hardship, restraint and control upon you when He created you with a free will?”

When the Lord God Almighty gives us commands and instruction, it is for our good, not our harm. It is to protect us. This includes protection for our thoughts, our emotions, our conscience and our physical body. God’s commands can serve as warnings for our lives.

For example, God commands us in Exodus 20:14, “You shall not commit adultery.” Jesus set the standard higher in Matthew 5:28 when He said, “But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” All sin starts as a thought and grows to an action when a person feeds on it. God commands us not to commit adultery or any sexual immorality because not only does it harm the individuals directly involved but it destroys the lives of spouses and children, and it actually harms the body of the individual committing the sin.

Proverbs 5:11, “In the end you will groan in anguish when disease consumes your body” (referring to the adulterer).

Proverbs 7:22-27, “Immediately he (the adulterer) went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter…Till an arrow struck his liver…her house is the way to hell.”

Proverbs 6:32 warns us, “Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; He who does so destroys his own soul.”

1 Corinthians 5:5 tells of a person who was committing fornication with his step mother. The Apostle Paul said, “in the name of the Lord, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved.”

That is a severe command by God.

Your soul is your mind, will and emotions – the adulterer destroys his own soul.

1 Corinthians 6:16,18 is written to believers, and it states: “Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For the two, he says, shall become one flesh. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”

What does that mean – sins against his own body? It can mean that you invite disease into your body. It also means you invite in any demonic spirits that are attached to the person you had sexual relations with. It means your soul gets entangled with their soul and it can be difficult to break off even the unhealthiest, ungodly relationships. You might attempt to end the relationship, but you are tormented with obsessive thoughts about them and are drawn back to that person. You become hurt, offended and may grow bitter and hard-hearted. Or, you may continue a destructive pattern of being attracted to the same kind of unhealthy, ungodly person over and over again.

People who see nothing wrong with sexual immorality might think they aren’t hurting anyone else or use the excuse that they love each other. The so-called “love” they have for one another is a self-seeking, selfish love that only exists to satisfy their needs. That kind of love will abandon the relationship as soon as it’s not satisfying or no longer fulfilling their desires. In their eyes, if someone better comes along, they’re ready to leave the current relationship. It is a love that takes not a selfless love that gives.

Throughout the Bible, the Lord instructs us to reserve an intimate sexual relationship for marriage between a man and woman. Again, this is for our mental, emotional and physical protection. Many people are trying to fill a void in their souls that only the Lord Jesus can fill. Unconditional, self-sacrificing love only comes from God, because God is love. It is deposited into the hearts of those who trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. It doesn’t exist apart from God. Feelings and temporary pleasure do not equal what is true.

In the New Testament, God instructs us how to live in order to avoid problems, help us overcome difficulties, and live a life of fulfillment. In addition, living with an eternal perspective will bring us rewards after we die. A wise person plans for their future.

Jesus said in Matthew 7:24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

The storms of life will come to all of us, but for those who obey His W ord, they will stand through the storms and come out a stronger, better person through Jesus Christ. Those who won’t listen and follow God’s instructions will experience great trouble. We all have a choice to make now, before the storms of life come.