An act only acceptable within marriage not outside marriage.

The act of having  sex outside marriage is called Premarital sex.
      In our sex-saturated culture,many unmarried people especially teenagers feel pressured to be sexually active.The temptations now may be greater than ever because people are delaying marriage until in their 20s and 30s because the feel the can satisfy themselves at any time without minding if it is biblically acceptable  or not.
 
In biblical teachings, the privilege of having sex requires the commitment of marriage.The Apostle Paul throws more light on this in the book of 1st Corinthians 7:2. The bible undeniably condemns adultery and sexual immorality, but people always tend to ask themselves, is sex before marriage immoral?
1st Corinthians 7:2 answers "yes.But since there is so much immorality,each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband". In this verse, Paul states that marriage is the " cure" for sexual immorality because it is an act designed by God only for those joined in Holy matrimony as husband and wife. He also goes on to explain that if one cannot control the urge of indulging in immoral sin, you should make it moral by getting married.
 Brethren, sex within marriage is pleasurable and God designed it that way, no doubt about it. God wants men and women to enjoy sexual activity within the confines of marriage, not outside marriage.
 However, the couple must understand that God's intent for sex includes producing children.Thus, for a couple to engage in sex before marriage is doubly wrong -They are enjoying pleasures not intended for them, and they are taking a chance of creating a human life outside the family structure God intended for every child.
 Have you ever wondered if the bible's message on sex before marriage were obeyed,won't there be far fewer sexually transmitted diseases, far fewer abortions, far fewer unwed mothers and unwanted pregnancies and far fewer children growing up without both parents in their lives?. It may seem unavoidable but it can be.
Abstinence is God's only policy when it comes to sex before marriage. Abstinence saves lives, protects babies, gives sexual relations the proper value and most importantly, honours God.

  Say NO! to fornication and every form of immoral sin.