People over 50 are not staid and settled but are in fact among the most promiscuous of the population, according to a survey.
The surprising statistics revealed a quarter of this age group cheat on their partner, while one in six said they never used contraception with a new lover.
The poll, from the Co-operative Pharmacy also found a third admitted they had 'slept around' and admitted to unprotected one night stands with strangers.
A surprising study found a third of over 50s admitted to 'sleeping around'
Natika Halil, director of information at the Family Planning Association (FPA), said: 'The message is the same for teenagers as well as people in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s - don't take a risk with your sexual health over the festive period. There is only one protection against most STIs - wearing a condom.' The poll also found young people are less promiscuous than their elders were at the same age.
One in five teenagers said they had waited until the legal age of consent at 16 before having sex for the first time. This compared to one in 20 of those aged 20 or older.
Pharmacist Lisa McCreesh, from the Co-operative, said: 'Our research challenges the belief that teenagers are more promiscuous than older generations.
'They unfairly get a bad name, while those in their 50s, who grew up in the 60s and 70s, are living up to the era's carefree image as they take greater risks with their sexual health.'
If only the above were true just of non-SDAs. Unfortunately, sadly, it is not!
"Fornication is in our ranks. I know it, for it has been shown me to be strengthening and extending its pollutions." - TSBAD, p. 237.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11 KJV:
"I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Yet not altogether with [i.e. not] the fornicators of this world... for then must ye needs go out of the world. But .... I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother [and SDA who is]... a fornicator... with such an one no not to eat."
And yet, in many, too many, of our SDA Churches there are open fornicators, sexually immoral and adulterous brethren held in fellowship, some holding offices in the Church and not many would dare seek to have these Achans removed from the camp or at least have them brought before the Church to give an account of themselves.
Many of these are known to the elders, pastors and other members, but no one dares lift his head above the parapet and rebuke and chasten these flagrant sinners in the Church. Ask yourself, do I know any such individuals? If so, have you warned them? Have you rebuked them? If you are afraid to do either of these, then have you even taken the easier option of officially reporting these fornicators and adulterers and adulteress, these fornicators and fornicatresses to the Church Board? No, not just your elder or pastor, but the Church Board, in writing I mean.
I ask myself, Who is on the Lord's side today? Because iniquity abounds, the first love of many SDAs have waxed cold. Sexual sin is so common place in our world that even professed SDAs are not shocked, vexed, and outraged by its presence in the Church. As long as they didn't witness the act they think they are excused from addressing the sin. Wrong!
One of the common reason so many SDAs cannot, will not, or feel uncomfortable about rebuking sexual sins is because they are practicing sins of some kind themselves (sexual or otherwise) or more commonly, because they have themselves been fornicators (either as adults or as teenagers) and so most times they have not even regained their spiritual eyesight [which is always put out/dimmed by sexual sin] and so they cannot see sin as "exceedingly sinful". Other times, it's because such SDAs feel unworthy and condemned by their own past, especially if that past is known to others.
But, because you may have committed sexual sins in the past yourself, God grants you no excuse for not rebuking and pointing out such sins in others. Rather, you must pray the prayer of David: "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.... uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee." Psalms 51:10,11.
Repent, seek forgiveness and walk in newness of life. And then, "exhort, rebuke, with all authority. Let man despise thee," says the Apostle Paul (Titus 2:15).
Says Paul, "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly , righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works" (verses 11-14).
Are you zealous of good works? If you were you would be "exhorting, rebuking" sin "with all authority." If you are not, then you are not zealous of good works, nor are your "peculiar". Rather, you are just another nominal SDA, warming the pews, 'playing church', maintaining the church program and "keeping the show on the road." These are hard words, and few can bear it, but I say it because I want you to be ready for when Jesus returns. Are you ready? Will you be ready? "Get ready, get ready." And help others to get ready by purifying the church and warning the unruly and ungodly among us. Be for real; be for real with your soul; God is real, therefore we must be real!
For "fornicators and adulterers God Will Judge." (Heb: 13:4).
God displeasure is upon many of you SDAs, because you do not "cry and sigh for all the abominations that be done in Israel [His Church]." - Ezekiel 9:4.
Ellen White wrote in the book Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery and Divorce:
"Fornication is in our ranks. I know it, for it has been shown me to be strengthening and extending its pollutions." - p. 237.
In Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers she warned:
"Cleanse the camp of this moral corruption, if it takes the highest men in the highest positions. God will not be trifled with. Fornication is in our ranks;* .." - p. 427.
On page 146 of Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers she gives an even starker warning:
"For Christ's sake cleanse the camp by beginning, through the grace of Christ, the personal work of purifying the soul from moral defilement. ..."
Today, more than ever before, there is fornication in our ranks! Sexual immorality of every kind is rampant among us! STDs are a common thing among our youth. Sexually provocative dressing is now common in the Sabbath service catwalk. Men, young and old, are overly familiar and downright inappropriate with the opposite sex. And women, oh our SDA women, "have become bold tempters" just as E.G. White prophesied they would.
Yes, like Achan who stole the Babylonish garment because it looked so good, many of our women and girls think it is a trifling matter as to what they wear.
What are you doing about it? Do you think the Lord holds you guiltless?
No. "Cleanse the camp, for there is an accursed thing in it [among you]. The words of God to Joshua are: "Neither will I be with you anymore, except ye destroy the accursed ..." - E.G White, Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, p. 428.
God's Spirit has already left many of our SDA congregations and unless you do your part in your church, He may never return. Why would you go to an SDA church from where God's pure Holy Spirit has departed, is being repeatedly grieved, or worse, to which He will never return? If you keep attending such SDA churches God's Spirit will soon depart from you also. Cleanse the camp or leave the camp!
God has given you His warning. What will you do? Cleanse the camp before it is too late for your soul or else the Lord's Spirit will depart from you and you will know it not.
Only those who cry and sigh over the abominations that are done in the SDA Church are given a mark--the seal of God for the fast approaching Time of Trouble.
Eze 9:4 And the LORD said unto him: 'Go through the midst of the city, through the
midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.'
Those who cry and sigh over the abominations that are done in Jerusalem [which E.G. White says is the SDA Church] are given a mark on their foreheads that keep them from His anger when judgment is measured out.
In Isaiah 6:8, God said; “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?
Will you answer like Isaiah: ” Here I am Lord, send me.”
A corporate responsibility rests on every member of any church organization. This is clearly taught in Scripture by the Achan principle. It is also taught by the "one body in Christ" principle.
Ellen White also confirmed the Biblical principle of corporate responsibility for sins in the Church:
"The plain straight testimony must live in the church, or the curse of God will rest upon His people as surely as it did upon ancient Israel because of their sins. God holds His people, AS A BODY, responsible for the sins existing in individuals among them" Testimonies, vol. 3, 269.Remember, Achan's whole family was lost because of Achan's secret sin and Rahab's whole family was saved because of her secret act and faithfulness.
"I was shown that the pointed testimony must live in the church. This alone will answer to the message to the Laodiceans. Wrongs must be reproved, sin must be called sin, and iniquity must be met promptly and decidedly, and put away from us AS A PEOPLE." Testimonies, vol. 3, 260.
"Should a case like Achan's be among us, there are many who would accuse those who might act the part of Joshua in searching out the wrong, of having a wicked, faultfinding spirit...God's displeasure is upon His people, and He will not manifest His power in the midst of them while sins exist among them and are FOSTERED BY THOSE IN RESPONSIBLE POSITIONS." Testimonies, vol. 3, 270.
"Unless these evils which bring the displeasure of God are corrected in its members, the whole church stands accountable for them" E.G. White, Review and Herald, vol. 2, 453, Dec. 23, 1890.
For the morally weak and overcomed, there is still hope in the Lord, BUT NOT IN YOUR SINS. You must learn that there is a science to overcoming sexual sin (indeed all sin).
The first principle is "resist the Devil and he will flee from you." (James 4:7) Another principle is "avoid corrupt company/individuals and corrupting communication/talk". "Be not deceived: evil communications [and bad company] corrupts [ruins] good manners/morals" (1 Cor. 15:33).
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A third principle is obeying all the light that God has given you, including the health message and dress reform. "Submit yourselves [will] to God."
Study the science of overcoming as your soul depends on it.
"Outside [of the kingdom] are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, [AND] the sexually immoral...." (Rev. 22:15, see verse 11 also).
Take heed to yourself.
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