Living together before Christ

After living for years in sin, you finally receive Jesus and you and your partner are saved! Congratulations 🎉 👏🏻 

Can you still have sex outside marriage? Nope.

Sex is not allowed. Need to get married ASAP.. it's not about the tradition or ceremony. The issue is to make a vow and covenant before the Lord. You don't need to make it huge. Just get it done legally and have the pastor to officiate it and a couple of witnesses. Remember -- you're not doing this for the people -- you're doing this for the Lord, to the Lord, presenting yourselves to God so your marriage may be blessed by God

What about the sins before this? That was before you were baptized. You're a different person now. The devil cannot accuse you for what you did before baptism. That person is dead and you are a new creation. A brand new human being. Reborn. Whoever it was before baptism was not you.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Yes, you are a brand new person

Ephesians 4

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.