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Sexual
temptations are difficult to withstand because they appeal to the normal and
natural desires that God has given us but God has given us the Holy Spirit to
guide us.
“Sex
for Job” happens everywhere and anywhere, in the Church, School, Home, Work,
Elections, etc. Women are the usual target and normally fall prey to men who
follow their evil desires.
This
generation sells everything with sex -from television, mobile phones, land,
cars, chewing gum, shoes, clothes, food everything has been given a sexual
appeal.
With
the influx of high unemployment rate in the country, CEOs, Human Resource
Managers, Directors, Marketing Managers, Presidents, Politicians and those in
authority sometimes demands sex before they employ a qualified or unqualified
person.
A
Christian lady once said she was disqualified for a job because she refused to
have sex with the manager. Another also said she resigned from her post because
of the constant sexual harassment.
As
a Christian, the Bible has spoken clearly on such temptations which can occur
to a career woman or man. We should not entertain anything evil in the sight of
God.
Why we should refuse sex for job
God
does not forbid sexual sin just because it is difficult. He knows its power to
destroy us physically and spiritually. No one should underestimate the power of
sexual immorality. It has devastated countless lives and destroyed families,
churches, communities and even nations.
God
wants to protect us from damaging ourselves and others and so he offers to fill
us –our loneliness, our desires with himself.
Christians
are free to be all they can be for God, but they are not free from God. God
created sex to be beautiful and essentially ingredient of marriage, but sexual
sin –sex outside the marriage relationship- always hurts someone.
It
hurts God because it shows that we prefer following our desires instead of the
leading of the Holy Spirit.
God
said he will provide all our needs including jobs when we pray to him.
Therefore, we should not corrupt our bodies by engaging in sexual immorality
that ignores the power of God.
What to do when offered “sex for job”
- Flee for all form of sexual temptations. That is, turn down the offer!
- Tell him or her about your faith in God. Make the Bible your reference point and declare your fear of God to him or her.
- Tell him or her the consequences of engaging in sexual immorality on his or her reputation, organization, Church, family or nation.
- Disassociate yourself from such person, organization, family or nation.
- Pray for him or her to come into the knowledge of the truth of the Word of God.
Bible Verse for “sex for job”
1
Corinthians 6:12-20
All things are lawful unto me, but all things
are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought
under the power of any.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats:
but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication,
but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will
also raise up us by his own power.
Know ye not that your bodies are the members
of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members
of an harlot? God forbid.
What? know ye not that he which is joined to
an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one
spirit.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man
doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against
his own body.
What?
know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For
ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
