If You're Not Married To Somebody, Keep Your Filthy Hands Off Them!

1st Corinthians 7:1-2, “Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”

There's not enough preaching in churches today about chastity between the opposite sex. For about a year I had attended a local Independent Baptist Church in 2013-2014. At a church picnic with a bonfire one Sunday afternoon at the church (what they call a “Watchcare” meeting), I saw an unmarried female staff member walk over and start hanging on a married man. These are regular church members. The married man's wife was present, and she approves of this brother/sister kind of paling around between her husband and the single woman. My first thought was, “Why is this single Christian woman, and staff member, hanging on this married man?” I immediately thought, “This would not make a good wife, because she is touching married men already.”

To make matters worse, that same female staff member went to the married couple's home to spend Thanksgiving Day. They're dangerously close to committing adultery. Call me what you want friend, but I know impropriety when I see it! “Impropriety” is defined as: Lacking justification or authorization for close or warm friendship. An unmarried woman is not authorized nor justified to put her hands on a married man. IT IS WICKEDNESS!!! I'm talking about a staff member working for an Independent Baptist Church!!! The man and his wife have been in the church for many years. The Holy Bible teaches in 1st Corinthians 7:1-2 that unmarried couples ought not touch each other!!! Get mad at God, because He said it.

When I attended their church, I refrained from even shaking hands with the teenage girls, to show propriety toward the younger opposite sex. Only if an adult woman extended her hand in the presence of other adults at church, I very carefully and gently, and quickly, shook her hand (so as not to be rude). Sadly, few Christians respect chastity, propriety and virtue anymore. We need a revival of not touching the opposite sex in our churches!!! Letting somebody touch you once says, “You have my permission to touch me twice!” It is a dangerous thing to touch the opposite sex to whom you are not married. Although men are often to blame, many times it is a foolish woman who makes first contact with a married man by hugging him. If you hug or even brag, ladies, on a another married man, you have a permanent place in his heart. The Holy Bible says in 1st Corinthians 7:1-2 to FIND YOUR OWN HUSBAND!!! But you're not going to find a godly man if he sees you hugging on other married men!!! It is a very unwise, and a spiritually dangerous thing, for any Christian woman, married or unmarried, to hug a married man.

“All things truly wicked start from innocence.” ?Ernest Hemingway, Author