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COMMANDMENT SEVEN

deaconfarley | July 30, 2008 09:24

Thou shalt not commit adultery. ~ Exodus 20:14 ~ The Seventh Commandment.

Warning… the following post contains the truth. The world needs to hear the truth! The world needs to know that sin is the same today as it was years ago. God has not changed! I have asked before and I will ask again today, can you handle the truth?

This commandment concerns chastity, both physical and mental and is not limited too just the mere definition of the word. It also involves whatever we do, speak, condone and look at if in pollutes the mind. It involves our relationships whether it is between man and woman, man - man or woman - woman.  It is sin and we must call it what it is. A man and a man or woman and a woman is a form of adultery even if some states now recognize marriage by same sex couples. Why? The answer is because it pollutes the mind and it is wrong it is sin – call it what it is.  I knew it was wrong and I called it sin, but I had not thought about it being adultery, or more precise “fornication”. Wow! What God reveals if we listen!

What else pollutes the mind? Men is it that beautiful woman you just saw walk by? Women is it that handsome man at the pool? Is it the images you just saw on another website? Is it that person (that is not your spouse) that you are having a little fling with? I saw an ad on a news site a few days ago advertising a dating site for married people. Now do not be confused here, it is not a dating service for you and your spouse.  What is the world coming too? Again call it what it is – it is sin.

Read what Jesus said in Matthew 5: 27 -28 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Also look at what Jesus said in Matthew 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. Mark 10:11 – 12 reads And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. Can this be any more plain? These are the words of Jesus. Are we going to discount anything that Jesus said? How many people do we see divorcing just because they do not want to work on the relationship? There is only one reason given by Jesus for a divorce and I can find no prevision for remarriage, still more than half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. These people will almost always remarry and this is adultery.  Again call it what it is.

I hope and pray you were able to read today’s post without offence, if not all I can say is take it up with God because I used his Holy Word as my instruction and guidance as I always do. I make no apologies for the truth. Can you handle the truth?

God Bless You!

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Re: COMMANDMENT SEVEN

Frank | 07/30/2008, 10:53

Good word brother. I'll get back to you on this one...not much time right now. sorry pollution=defilement

Re: COMMANDMENT SEVEN

Frank | 07/30/2008, 14:57

Hit me with the Truth anytime you feel like it, right between the eyes… and thank you. Imagine… God's people debating what the truth is or is not, or worse… rejecting it??? Adultery is whoring around, physically or spiritually. Israel did it to God. The statistics today on "extra" marital affairs are overwhelming. Almost every married person has committed it or thought of committing it, and we know what Jesus said about "looking on a woman to lust after her", Matt. 5:28. Jimmy Carter is the only man I know to have admitted it. It is indicative of the "heart" condition and not limited to the secular community. The scandals (that's putting it mildly… I mean fornication) within the "Catholic Church" are particularly disturbing (and revolting). To me, fornication is the bigger "umbrella" which includes adultery. But adultery, as it defiles the marriage relationship, is just as bad as any other sexual immorality. Marriage is something beyond what God established for man and woman because He and Jesus share in it, perhaps symbolically but nevertheless, very real. And I, of course, mean marriage between and only between a man and a woman. I will not even validate homosexuality by saying it can commit adultery. God has said what it is. Sexual allure and pride are the two biggest seductions of the devil, and he uses them successfully. We are bombarded by images that the mind cannot let loose of without a very holy and spiritual perspective. John Darby said, "The conflict is with a heart that loves the thing against which we strive; we do not separate ourselves from it in thought". Our minds are polluted, but the carnal heart loves it. And we forget too, "He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so" Matt. 19:8. It was never an allowance that God made. Have you ever looked up the word "cleave"? It means "to join together, glue, cement". The consummation "act" is called that because then literally a man and woman are "joined" as one. There is no such thing as "divorce". 1 Cor. 6:16 says, "What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh". But…BUT… verse 17 says, "But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit". I better quit. I can get carried away. Have you noticed the first "tablet" is about our relationship with God, and the second (5-10) is concerned with our relationship with our fellow man.

COMMANDMENT SEVEN

deaconfarley | 07/30/2008, 15:15

deaconfarley Great point(s). Marriage is between one man and one woman, regardless of what states may legislate, therefore I do not recognize them as such. I referred to it as a form of adultery above,but regardless what we or anyone else calls it, it is SIN. I also believe our relationships with God and man, must go hand in hand. I am only scratching the surface with this study. There is much more to learn from this.
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