South Carolina mega-church pastor Perry Noble had a hard-hitting message on the seriousness of sexual immorality in the church.
For those who take sexual sins lightly, he made it clear to them: “You’re not saved,” according to Audrey Barrick reporting for the news site Christian Post.
Noble tackled adultery, “friends with benefits,” pornography and homosexuality as the four common sins that Christians have come to tolerate. He blamed Facebook for much of the sexual impurity within the church.
“In America, it’s cool to be tolerant,” he told thousands at the megachurch outside of Greenville, S.C. But “Jesus literally tells the church there are certain things that you are to not tolerate in the church.”
The message was meant to cause discomfort among Christians. Some even got up and left in the middle of the message in earlier services on Sunday, Noble told attendees at the evening service, according to Christian Post:
But his goal wasn’t so much to condemn Christians as it was to encourage them and help them break free from sexual sins.
“What you and I pursue will ultimately determine what we do and who we become,” he stated.
For those pursuing sexual immorality, they have ultimately turned their back on Jesus, he said repeatedly.
He called it a “spiritual impossibility” to pursue adultery and Jesus at the same time.
“Just admit that you’re not following Christ,” Noble said. “Just admit that an orgasm is more important to you than Jesus.”
While men made of the majority of those committing adultery in the past, Noble has found that more married women are having affairs. And the Internet is a big factor.
Facebook has become a big culprit, he noted. He recently spoke to a counselor who said every affair he has dealt with in the past six months began on Facebook.
“I’m not anti-Facebook,” Noble said. “But some of you have started online flirting, connecting with old flames, having intimate conversations.”
Noble bluntly told them, “Go home tonight and delete your Facebook account.”
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