Living Together Before Marriage

Premarital cohabitation has become common in the church because Christian leaders have remained silent on this issue and many Christians have adopted today's secular values as their own. Our society cherishes "trying before buying", convenience at any cost, sex without rules, companionship without commitment, and relationship without responsibility. Everything premarital cohabitation provides. Instead of walking in righteousness and holiness, today's Christian opposes the values and commands of the Holy Bible.

1 Thessalonians 4:5
"For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;"

The Bible commands us to flee from sexual immorality (1 Cor. 6:18). There are two Biblical options for Christians. Either get married or move out! Or...continue to live in SIN. God cannot and will not honor sin. How can we expect the Lord to bless us when we violate His commands? God is not a prude. He made marriage, sex (between a man and a woman) and the very idea of living together. The right way may not be easy, but it honors God. Disobedience brings us harm. We are open to the enemy when we decide to live in habitual sin. In fact, God says we won't make it to heaven if we continually practice any sin (1st Cor. 6:9-11).

So many people are so desperate to be with someone, that they will compromise everything or small things for the sake of companionship. The statistics of divorces are extremely high when couples live together before marriage. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? Just because it's legal, does not mean it is Biblical. There was a time in the United Sates when living together was illegal. Our society has become corrupted. Our fear of God has gone. The Christian Church has become lukewarm and we are afraid to offend anyone but God. If you are so desperate for love, then the love you are looking for can only come from a sinless Savior named Jesus. Nothing else can satisfy the human heart. It is a empty hole that only God can fill. You can sit in a pew at church every week, but you will never make it to heaven until you repent and let Him change your life. We can't hide from God. 

It is high time for the Christians to humble themselves and repent before the judgement of God strikes our nation. Yes, it's coming. We live in a world where evil is good and good is evil as prophesied in the Bible. Jesus is coming!