Sermon On The Mount

You have heard how it was said in the past, "keep your virginity because that is your pride; it is the one gift you
can ever give to your husband."
But I say this to you,
"Do not keep your virginity for your husband or for any man. Virginity is not meant to be a gift to any human;
both you and your man are supposed to be virgins ordinarily. Do not mix it up. Being a virgin ordinarily means
you are not involving yourself into any sexual sin. In this way, you are pure, both in heart and in body. The
reward for purity in the beatitudes is that you shall see the Lord. If there is any reason why you should keep
your virginity, let this reason be your number one: That blessed are the pure in heart, whose body are the
temples of the Holy Spirit, for they shall see God."

You have heard how it was said in the past, "Teach your daughters not to allow any man to touch them."
But I say this to you,
"You spend all your energy teaching only your daughters how to be virgins and to be God fearing without
considering your sons; your neighbours down there spend all their energy too teaching only their daughters same
thing.
At the end of the day,
"The sons of your neighbour who were not taught to keep their virginity find your daughters sexually attractive
and decided to talk them out of all the virginity lessons you gave them. They fell for it. Then, your own sons
too, who were not also taught to keep their virginity, find your neighbours' daughters sexually attractive and
decided to also talk them out of the virginity lessons your neighbour gave them. They too fell for it. At the end,
you and your neighbours just succeeded in fooling yourselves."

You have heard how it was said in the past, "mothers, teach your daughters how to cook, that is the one way to
get into a man's heart."
But I say this to you,
"Teach your sons and daughters how to cook. Something as important as food that is meant to sustain, nourish,
and preserve life should not be left for just one group of people. Besides, it is unfair if your daughters could get
into a man's heart through food, and your sons cannot get into a woman's heart too through food. Don't girls
eat too?"

You may have heard how it was said in the past, "Teach your daughters to be careful of boys because they can
deceive them."
But I say this to you,
"Teach your sons rather to be more careful of girls. The wives of some of the heavy weight wrestlers are like
dwarf when compared to the physical stature of their man, yet these same women have a way of putting their
man into perspective even without them having a single muscle. More than 90% of great men that have ever
fallen from grace to grass fell because they were not careful of women; they underrated the power of women
just as you are teaching your sons now."

Written by Rev Fr Kelvin Ugwu MSP