How does God view sex? 1 Thessalonians 4-5

Believers ought to approach sexual pleasures differently than the world does!   This statement can and should be made based upon Paul's admonishment in 1 Thessalonians 4:4&5. Read it below:

"... that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;"

The word "vessel" in verse four is the Greek word, skeúos.   In classical Greek it has a literal meaning of something used to carry something in, like a water pot, etc.  However, it is often used in a figurative sense for the reproductive organ of the body.  That is Paul's use here.  Note what he says.  He is telling the believers in this church to make sure their desire for sexual pleasures does not mimic the world but rather in sanctification (holiness toward God) and in honor (again, it would be implied, "toward God").   What Paul is telling us here is that their is not a sense in which we are believers in the church room and not in the bedroom.   We are not to worship in the spiritual area of our lives and indulge in the sexual areas of our lives.   He has already told the Corinthian believers that whatever they do they are to do to the glory of God.   Here, Paul takes time to tell them what "whatever" means.   We cannot separate our sex drive from our spiritual drive.  God created sexual pleasures and He created them for a purpose of pleasure for us but for the glory of Him.   It is doubtful that many think of sexual pleasures as an act to glorify God but that is exactly what God has Paul tell us here.   God uses many things to sanctify us.  He uses discipline, His Word, His People, His Spirit.  Here, in this text, He tells us He uses His creation of sexual pleasure.   If you enter the bedroom with the same Spirt you enter the worship house you will sill what God is saying here.   Sex is an act of worship to God when we do so the way He tells us.  We are not to treat it like the world ... like unbelieving Gentiles who do not know God.   We are to treat sex like we treat any other area of our lives that we are wishing to use for the Glory of God ... in sanctification and in honor.