The Medical Consequences of Sexual Immorality - Proverbs 5:11

And you groan at your final end, When your flesh and your body are consumed; Proverbs 5:11

Here we find our old friend, the word "acharith," used in connection with the latter stages of sexual sin - and the diseases that area associated with it.  It is truly amazing that the Bible speaks of the latter end of sexual sin in these terms.  Long before the medical community could even test for these things - and all knowing and loving God warned us against lifestyles that would consume our flesh and our body.  What is truly sad is that men and women simply ignore such warnings generation after generation.  The result is that sexually transmitted diseases continue to run rampant in society with the same disastrous consequences to men.

We are warned that if we engage in sexual immorality we will 'growl' at our latter end.  The word used here speaks of a deep gutteral groan -a despairing sound that comes because someone has discovered too late that their sexual choices have come to destroy them.  This groaning happens also because their glesh and body are consumed.  The world mocks the church and the Word of God when we walk about such things.  I remember when a Christian teacher said that AIDS was a judgment of God upon homosexuality.  He was torn to shreds by the media - and honestly - by too many Christians as well.  In a way, I too, think he should not have said this.  What he should have said was that AIDS, syphillis, gonnorhea, clamydia, and some 30+ other sexually transmitted diseases are the consequences of sexual immorality, whether heterosexual or homosexual.  These are God's judgments on godless sexual choices.  He promises them not just in Romans chapter 1, but also here in Proverbs 5 and elsewhere in Scripture.  These consequences are inescapable if we choose to walk in rebellion to God in the area of our sexuality. 

I took some time before I wrote this post to go to various websites that gave information on the latter stages of STD's.  This is what STD's will do to us over time - they destroy our bodies.  Let me take a couple of moments to give you some examples of what happen when STD's reach their latter stages.  AIDS does its damage by attacking our immune system - making us weak and unable to fight disease.  It's final stages make us prone to having numerous different cancers, pneumonia, skin diseases, as well as other diseases that attack various organs in our body.  Syphillis in its final stages causes paralysis, numbness in our bodies, blindness, as well as involuntary muscle movements that we cannot control.  Worst of all is insanity which comes as our brains are systematically attacked by the disease.  Just looking at these two consequential diseases that attend sexual immorality should help us to see that God was very serious when He warned that this type of rebellion will cost us our health.  Oh that we would learn from these things, from these warnings concerning the medical consequences of walking contrary to God's ways when it comes to our sexuality.