Consequences of defiling the marriage bed

Dear Reader,

I welcome you to this glorious edition of this month’s teachings. This month, I shall be sharing on one of the loopholes found in marriages, today. It is why many homes are under the heavy load of self-inflicted burden and the reason for the lack of peace and love in many marriages.

Marital infidelity has been the major problem in most marriages in this present dispensation.

This week, I shall be teaching on: Understanding The Marriage Bed. This foundation will help you to better understand and know the importance of the marriage bed. When a man and a woman are joined together in marriage, they enter into a formal agreement, which is legally binding.

In the presence of their friends and relatives, they pronounced their vows and commitment to stay together for life (Matthew 19:5-6). This can be accomplished by a feast in the family of the bride. Jesus was a part of such a feast as recorded in John 2:1-2: On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Marital relationship is a covenant relationship. Marriage is the only covenant in the Bible that allows two people to be perfectly joined in all areas of life, from the physical to the spiritual. This legal contract has a seal. The seal lies in the consummation of the marriage – sexual intercourse. The ‘altar’ upon which this covenant is cut is termed ‘marriage bed’. It is not just the physical bed upon which you first slept on your wedding night or a piece of furniture in your bedroom that is important to God, but sacredness of the union that exists between you and your spouse.

Sex is sacred to God because God is a God of covenants. For every covenant God makes, He gives a sign. There is the rainbow as a seal of the covenant that God will not destroy the earth with water again (Genesis 9:12-13). For marriage, there is a blood covenant between the two individual that are involved.

On the wedding night, as the marriage is consummated, God expects to see the hymen break and blood flow, thus sealing the covenant of marriage between husband and wife. Virginity, therefore, must be taken seriously. No human custom or modern day ideology can change that. Here is one of the Old Testament commandments as it concerns virginity: But if…the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: then they shall bring out the damsel… stone her with stones that she die… (Deuteronomy 22:20, 21). This implies that you must keep yourself pure as a young man or woman that desires to have a fulfilled marriage.

Therefore, any sexual relationship engaged in, outside the covenant of marriage, defiles and is called sin. It must be repented of and forsaken.

Perhaps you have defiled your bed at a point in time, there is a place of mercy that allows for repentance. First, you need to acknowledge your sins and be ready to forsake them. Give your life to Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Do you want to be born again? If you are ready, please say this prayer in faith: Dear Lord Jesus, I come to You today, I am a sinner. Forgive me of my sins. I believe You died and rose on the third day for my sins. I accept You as my Lord and Saviour. Make me a child of God today.

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