Say "NO" to Adultery!

It does not matter what is the nature of sin.."Sin is Sin". 

But we have a God who forgives and forgets!

If we can confess our sins, we can be forgiven of it! 

It doesn't matter what we've done, if we sincerely turn to God in repentance and confess our sins, He will forgive us of ALL unrighteousness... that includes anything we've done, that we are willing to bring before Him!

  1 John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness."

There is Hope in Jesus! Anyone in Christ is a new creation. 

Adultery is sin too! 

God's Word says...

 Exodus 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.'

 Proverbs 6:32 "But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself."

  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia says, "Adultery (anglicised from Latin adulterium) is a type of extramarital sex. "

But what does Jesus say?

 Matthew 5:27, 28“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

 Matthew 19:9 "And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

 What do the following writers say? (All scriptures are inspired by the breath of God.)

 Hebrews 13:4 "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous."

 1 Corinthians 6:18 "Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body."

Can one overcome this temptation? 

Well God does provide a way of escape! One needs to flee to escape!  

In Genesis 39, When Joseph faced temptation, he left his garment in Potiphar's wife's hand and fled and got out of the house. The grace of God enabled Joseph to overcome the temptation, by avoiding the tempter. 

 1 Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it."

Will God forgive a person who sincerely repents of this sin? Well God in His mercy does! But He says, "“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

 John 8:4-11 They said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.  At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.  Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

Finally....what if one chooses to live in sin?

Ephesians 5:5 "For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God."

 Revelation 21:8 "But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Turn wandering eyes to the Lord...He forgives, fixes, heals, restores and binds!

http://heavenlyfragrance.blogspot.in/2008/04/wandering-eyes_2.html

Be blessed...

Julia 

Secret Sins and Playing with Sin

Hi family and friends...

I just listened to sermon this morning on YOU-TUBE titled, "PLAYING WITH SIN" this morning that lead me to write this blog.

You can listen to it by clicking on this link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9tzKvTvaLY

Jesus died so that we may walk free from sin.

He broke the hold of sin on us but when we stat compromising with the patterns of this world we end up straying away from the 'narrow path' that leads to Heaven. We end up yielding to temptations.

This day if the Holy Spirit convicts us of any secret sin as we listen to that sermon, let's repent and turn from our wicked ways.

The Bible says we are to be Imitators of Christ.

EPHESIANS 5: 1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

After we know the Lord JESUS (YESHUA) as our personal Savior we cannot play around with secret sin.
HE IS A HOLY GOD.
Let us not take HIS HOLINESS for granted.
We can hide from the people around our lustful thoughts and sinful activities but God sees it all.
The Bible warns in ~~

HEBREWS 10:26 "If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,

 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."

Let's rise up and live a life to please our Savior. Let's draw near to God, encourage one another, meet together for fellowship and break bread together.

 

HEBREWS 10:19 "Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,

21and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.

25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching."

Also

1 Thessalonians 5:10

"He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.

11Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. If we have gone to sleep in our Spiritual lives, let's rise up!! We were once in darkness and Christ delivered us from there and brought us to the "light". Let's not go back to our old neighbourhood.

 

EPHESIANS 5: 8 For you were once darkness,

but now you are light in the Lord.

Live as children of light

9(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)

10and find out what pleases the Lord.

11Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

12For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

13But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,

14for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said:
   "Wake up, O sleeper,
      rise from the dead,
   and Christ will shine on you."

 15 Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,

16making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

 17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. 19 Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,

20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord's in the process of refining the "Body of Christ". Let's yield to the Master Potters hand. Let Him mould us and make us into a vessel of His choice.

1 Thessalonians 5: 23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.

Let Him take away things that are not from HIM from our lives. Let Him take away friendships that lead us away from the Lord.

It's time we took a HOLY, UNCOMPROMISING STAND FOR JESUS.

We can't serve 2 masters at the same time.

Matthew 6:24

"No one can serve two masters.

We cannot hide anything from God. Every secret thought and deed are recorded.

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Ecclesiastes 12:14

For God will bring every deed into judgment,
       including every hidden thing,
       whether it is good or evil.

Revelation 20:13b..

'and each person was judged according to what he had done.

Revelation 2:23

23I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds. 

Every word, even words carelessly spoken are recorded.

Matthew 12:36 But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. 37For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."

We need to keep a clear conscience before God and man.

Acts 24:16,

So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.

Is are conscience clear before God and man. How often we try to hide our secret activities from the eyes of our family and friend. But let's remember we can hide NOTHING FROM GOD!!

One day the "Light" will expose it all!!

Let our lives be transparent before God and people we love and care.

Let's check our lives in Lord's light and repent of anything that's not from God.

The Blood of Jesus will wash and cleanse us one more time...

It's time to let go of things that weigh us down and move on.

Be Blessed...

Love and prayers,

YSIC,

Julia