06/13/18 SOCIETAL NORMS HAVE CHANGED
God condemns adultery, fornication, incest, homosexuality, bestiality, polygamy, lewdness, lusting, filthy talk. NOT DEBATABLE.
OUR SOCIETY HAS BEEN CHIPPING AWAY at the rock of sexual morality until there is very little left. Allowing sensuality, sexual laxness is a rejection of God. This has been seen in entertainment, private behavior, societal acceptance of divorce, spread of pornography, approval of openly unbridled sexual behavior, sexual relations outside of marriage, Humanistic overthrow of family values, gender bending and homosexual relationships. Sadly, the rock they have been destroying is the foundation of a moral society.
GOD IS THE ONE WHO DECIDES THE RULES, based on His wisdom and nature and the well being of man.
Romans 6:11-14
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5 Not in the lust of concupiscence (dlg note... uncleanness, lust, evil passion, evil desires, , even as the Gentiles which know not God:
6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
GOD HAS SPECIAL INTEREST AND CONCERN FOR humans practicing (once or a million times) sexual sins, because sins against the body are sins against the temple of God.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians 6:13-20
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
2 Corinthians 6:16-18
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
AS BAD AS IT HAS GOTTEN, it is going to get worse, much worse, in a much shorter period of time.
The unthinkable became thinkable.
The thinkable became permissible.
The permissible became acceptable.
The acceptable became the standard.
The standard became the law of the land.
NOW,
THE RULE OF GOD IS AGAINST THE LAW OF THE LAND.
THE RULE OF GOD IS NOT THE STANDARD.
THE RULE OF GOD IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
THE RULE OF GOD IS NOT PERMISSIBLE.
THE RULE OF GOD IS NOT THINKABLE.
IT IS TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO STAND FIRM IN OBEDIENCE TO GOD.
