The most important thing to understand about Marital MMA is that it's not a destination. It's a way of life. Even if you and your spouse stay pure before marriage, the temptations to indulge in forbidden sex won't disappear. In fact, the temptations will actually get worse because Satan will do everything in his power to destroy your relationship. On top of that, your inner terrorist (a.k.a. your flesh) will continue its unholy jihad against you until the day you die, eager to seize control of your body, heart, mind and soul the instant that you take your eyes off Christ. This does not mean that you will lose your salvation, for it is not possible for a true believer to lose eternal life once they have received it from Christ. It does, however, mean that you are still capable of making decisions that not only destroy the earthly lives of you and your loved ones, but permanently damage your ability to lead others to Christ as well.
So even though you have been given many practical tips on how to stay pure so that you can experience "The Sexual Force Unleashed" and "Romantic World Peace" in marriage, remember this one crucial thing:
Total submission to CHRIST is infinitely more important than any technique, plan, or method that can be used to stay pure!!!!!!
So if you haven't already, come before Jesus. Take responsibility for your sinful nature and acknowledge that He is the only One who can save you. Accept His death on the cross and His resurrection for the payment of ALL of your sins and surrender your life to Him. Faith in Christ is the ONLY way to achieve true sexual purity, as well as the ONLY way to have eternal life in heaven and, after that, the New Jerusalem. Without Christ, not only will you be burned and tortured in the Lake of Fire for the rest of eternity. You will also spend your life with your heart, mind and soul in the jail of your earthly body with the "Big Bubba/Bertha" of your wicked desires and their prison gang of accompanying consequences.
If you are already a believer, don't withhold your sexuality and romantic relationships as a final stronghold of rebellion and control. If you do, then your sexuality and romantic relationships WILL be used against you and your ability to win people to Christ will be severely damaged, if not destroyed. If you are really stubborn, God, like a coach dealing with a disobedient football player, will bench you. This can take the form of being removed from the ministry, thrown out of the church, or, in extreme cases, "taking you out of the game" entirely by killing you and bringing you to heaven before you do any more damage to yourself, your peers, and His name. So if you haven't already, turn your sexuality and romantic relationships over to Christ. Then continue to nurture your relationship with Him as He does greater things in you and through you than you can possibly imagine!
John 11: 25-26a "Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die..." (NIV)
