I wish it were not necessary to call Christians to sexual purity, but unfortunately many have been swallowed up by the world’s view of sex and often Christian standards are no purer than others.

 

What has caused this deterioration in our standards? Here are a few reasons:

 

This sexual revolution, which began in the sixties, advocated free sex. Free from obligations or commitments, free from purity or even monogamy. They told us that the taboos on free sex had caused all kinds of psychological problems, and in order to truly be free, we had to have a totally open mind toward sexuality. And now it is accepted as normal.

 

The subtle message that sex outside of marriage is okay is everywhere. Can you name one major current sitcom on television that does not have an illegitimate relationship of some kind or another?

I wonder how many Christians regularly look at movies and TV programs that present immoral lifestyles without a second thought. Many Christians even take in the blatant sex that is produced by Hollywood and television. They have no standard of what they will or will not see. Every time Christians watch this kind of thing, they subconsciously lower the standards in their minds, whether they realize it or not.

 

Isaiah said: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter" (Isaiah 5:20). I'm afraid, dear friends, that some Christians have now fallen into this trap of calling good evil and evil good.

 

In his book Deliver Us From Evil, Ravi Zacharias writes: "To raise a child without shame is to raise one with no immune system against evil. . ." In our lifetimes we have seen the death of shame. In a recent conversation with a young woman who claimed to be a believer, and yet was living with her boyfriend for three years, she said, "I'm not ashamed of what I'm doing."  That was the saddest thing she said.

 

Shame is the red light that should go off in our heads, telling us something is terribly wrong. When we kill shame, calling good evil and evil good, so that even those who claim to know Christ have no shame for their sinful behavior, we've come a long-way baby, but let me assure you, it is the wrong way.