Why is it the cool thing to do to live with one another before one gets married?  It is so sad that the world has spit on God's perfect institution of marriage.  A holy thing in the site of the LORD has been dumped on not only by the average Jane and John Does out there, but also, surprisingly,  by Christians.  When I was Undercover, I never had anyone living with me, but I surely had plenty of sleep over girlfriends, which is just as much sin in the eyes of the LORD as the other.  But as a changed man who hates sin, especially of this paticular sin thatone that destroyed my life for so long, I must stand up against it and put the light of God's Word on this dark subject.

In the late 90's and the twenty-first century, it's become the cool thing to do in living with your girlfriend or boyfriend before you marry them.  Saves on the pocket book, gives you the chance to see them throughout life before you make any major commitments, plus it's just convenient.  Why drive across town to have relations and possibly be hit by a mac-truck, when you can have "In house".    

A Columbia University study showed on average, 23% of people who co-habitat actually married the person they lived with during their period together.  People lived together before marriage because they feel it is important to know one another physically before they get married, "test drive the car before you buy it," right? Wrong.  The problem is that people in the church, feel comfortable with this lie the world has perpetrated and unfortuantely have followed their lead.  Another study at National Council on Family Relations of 309 newlyweds found that those who cohabited first were less happy in marriage than those who never lived together before marriage.

The bible says in 1 Thessalonians 4:3 It is God's will that you should be holy: that you should avoid sexual immorality.  Although I have never cheated on my wife, I have committed fornication and adultery with other women when I was single. I repented 11 years ago of that foolishness and have not went back to wallow in the mud.  We need men and women who are living for Christ to step up and keep the weaker brethren accountable-get in their business, asking them the tough questions like, whom you hanging with behind closed doors of the opposite sex, what are your conversations about, have you been abstaining from physical contact, are you keeping your thoughts pure,etc? If i would have had a good and godly man keeping me accountable for the first 27 years of my life, I wouldn't have had even a quarter of the issues I have currently because of my past sinful ways. Nothing godly can when a Christian is not being accountable.  But most Christians are afraid to stand up and discern a situation of possible immorality. Look what Jesus said in John 7:24.  Many times people won't say something to a fellow brother or sister in the church in sexual sin, because they don't want to appear judgmental, but we must read the entirety of scriptures before we stick a fork in ourselves and say were done with calling sin out when we need to. Paul had no problem judging in 1 Corinthians 5.

Living together, especially for supposed Christians, is like putting the UG in Ugly before God's eyes.  For those of us who know of others who are doing this, we must take a stand for Christ, so that the world knows there is a difference between professing-undercover so-called Christians and genuine believers in Jesus Christ.  Do you know any Christians who are currently co-habitating and if so, what are you prepared to do, according to 1 Corinthians 5 and others scriptures like it? Your comments could not only help deliver someone from sin, but give revelation to the church in conjunction with what Paul said in I Corinthians 5.