Whatever God loves, Satan hates. And Satan hates sex.
Someone disagrees: “I thought Satan wants us to have as much sex as possible with as many people as possible. It seems he loves sex.”
But God created sex, and when He created it, He pronounced it “very good.” He told the first man and woman to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and He created the way they would do that—sex. Sex is a beautiful, godly, righteous activity, as God created and intended it. God loves sex.
To be precise, God loves sex between a husband and a wife, because that is what He created. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh” (Genesis 2.24).
Satan hates sex because he hates God’s design and God’s plans. God designed man to be fruitful and multiply, to get married and have babies, to produce more godly offspring. Satan wants to stop that.
Twisting Good Things
One of Satan’s main tactics is to tweak God’s laws just a little to make it look like it’s still a good thing. He did this as he tempted Eve with the forbidden fruit: “If you eat it, you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” There was truth in that, but it was a twisted truth, not the whole truth, embedded in a wicked lie.
So Satan does with sex. He twists God’s original intent. He says, “Did God really say you can only have sex with the one partner you are married to? No, sex is a good thing. God is trying to keep this thrill and joy from you. I want what is best for you. I want you to be happy. I want you to have as much sex as possible.”
What is the result of these lies? Guys have sex with women outside of marriage, conceive children, often leading to single-motherhood and abortions. Women get tired of men taking advantage of them, so they enter into sexual relationships with other women. Men get tired of chasing women who are now fearful of them, or they don’t want to go through the difficulty of winning and pleasing a woman, so they enter into sexual relationships with other men. Other men, hating homosexuality, go to the opposite extreme and sleep with as many women as possible, flaunting their masculinity like a male lion in his pride. Or the most impotent of all, men resort to staring at pictures and pleasuring themselves, totally removing another person from the equation.
Satan sits back and laughs at the chaos he has made. He hates godly sex, but he loves sexual deviancy because it’s all a bunch of lies. Satan is the father of lies.
What sexual perversions do is destroy the mandate God gave to all men and women: to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Homosexuality obviously does this, as it removes the functional ability to procreate. Rampant sex out of wedlock has led to our out-of-control abortion culture, as offspring are simply killed in the womb, never to see the light of their first day. Most children who actually are born arrive into disintegrated, fatherless families.
How to Fight Satan
We know what Satan is doing because we know what God loves, and the sexual carnage around us is not what God loves—it’s the work of the enemy.
Men, especially, need to fight here. Marry a good woman, and be faithful to her. Enjoy her and only her.
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? (Proverbs 5.15–20)
Don’t have sex before you marry. Men, you call the shots here. It’s your responsibility to protect your future bride and keep her pure. It’s your responsibility to keep yourself pure as a gift to your future spouse.
Fathers, it’s your duty to train your boys up to understand God’s design for sex. When you father kids out of wedlock and then remain absent from the home, you are the problem and you are perpetuating the problem. You must show your kids what it means to be faithful to your woman, show them the joys of living God’s way, and train them towards their own faithful marriages.
We need to obey God’s command to be fruitful and multiply. He wants His godly image to be multiplied! He seeks godly offspring (Malachi 2.13–16). After we faithfully obey this mandate, we then need to teach our children also to love God and obey this command. It is for our good, it is according to our design, and it leads to life. Satan’s paths all lead to death.
In doing so, we will experience the joys of sex done as the Creator designed.
Also, we will be fully engaging with the enemy—because Satan hates sex. Join the war, brothers!