# 182 Flee Sexual Immorality

The Book of Genesis

Day 182

Ge 20:17 So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants. Then they bore children;  18 for the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Let’s go back to verse 7 in order to catch the seriousness of this plague. God is speaking to Abimelech and says, “Now therefore, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours."

Whoa! This was some plague! Infertility, barrenness, and in the end death! In addition, whatever this sickness was, it kept Abimelech from committing the physical act of adultery with Sarah (v6)

The only way this plague would be lifted would be through the intercessory prayer of Abraham which would be forthcoming after Abimelech restored Sarah to her proper sexual relationship with her husband Abraham.

Now, the main thing here is how God sovereignly acted to assure the parenthood of the promised Seed of Abraham and Sarah was kept safe.

But, we should also remember that intercession did not occur until this “great sin” (v9)  of adultery was forsaken by Abimelech.  Then, and only then did the healing take place.

Adultery is in the class of sexual immorality, and have you noticed any deadly diseases or plagues that have broken out in the world due to illicit sexual activity? (Ebola and Aids come to mind) Have you noticed any diseases that are associated with infertility, and even death? (Herpes, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis perhaps?) Have you noticed any rise in male impotency and the push for medicines that provide relief for this stigma? (Viagara ads ad nauseum?)

Based on this account of Abimelech and Abraham and Sarah, dare we say that if we want protection and healing from these diseases, we need to turn from sexual immorality to the sexually pure ways of God, and then ask our intercessor (Jesus) to pray for our healing?

I’m not going to pretend that I can tell God how to judge sexual immorality, that’s His business. But I can repeat what He says in His Word about that sin. He says in 1Co 6:18, “ Flee sexual immorality.” That should be all that’s needed to be said on the matter.

Pray: Father, forgive us for our sins of sexual immorality. Heal us! Give us the strength of Joseph, who literally fled from Potiphar’s wife, so he would not commit this sin against You.