There is only one way to cleanse the flesh, it must die, or else flesh and blood could enter the Kingdom of Heaven. It cannot and the flesh must die and be planted in the ground and come forth a new and living flesh and bone body like that of Jesus Christ. Then we can enter the kingdom of Heaven bodily. We have already entered it in spirit, for we now have the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ in us and seated in the heavenlies with Christ.No matter how much we wash the flesh it must die. We overcome this in our lives daily by walking in the Spirit of which I wish I could do 24-7, I am better than I was, but not better than I want to be. Like Paul; Romans 7:21-25 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.In Christ: Phillip
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I would guess the reason most marriages fail is because of lust which began while still single that have never been brought under the Blood of Jesus.
I rarely see God intervening on man's behalf in satisfying a lustful relationship with porn by giving him a wife.
Paul was referring to men who were not married, who were finding themselves in houses of ill fame and he was telling them, "look, get married, it's better for you be with one woman than to cruise broadway trying to fulfill that burning urge."
'I really don't think that he would have mixed words when referring to burning with passion vs committing fornication.'Yes, because this is in a letter to Christians. There is an assumption that they know the difference between the idolatry of fornication (unclean), and that change of heart which now thirsts for righteousness and has the desire to worship God, wherein there is a 'right' way to fulfil natural God-ordained sexual maturity.