Walking In The Spirit Part (2)

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Fornication

Galatians 5:13–17 AMP
13 For you, brethren, were [indeed] called to freedom; only [do not let your] freedom be an incentive to your flesh and an opportunity or excuse [for selfishness], but through love you should serve one another. 14 For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is complied with in the one precept, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself. 15 But if you bite and devour one another [in partisan strife], be careful that you [and your whole fellowship] are not consumed by one another. 16 But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God). 17 For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy] Spirit, and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless human nature); for these are antagonistic to each other [continually withstanding and in conflict with each other], so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do.
Galatians 5:18–21 AMP
18 But if you are guided (led) by the [Holy] Spirit, you are not subject to the Law. 19 Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, 20 Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), 21 Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:18–21 NKJV
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Tonights Topic: Fornication
1 Corinthians 6:9–11 NKJV
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Can anyone define Fornication?

Fornication. Unchastity, sexual immorality. The word “fornication” is used in the Scriptures to mean several different things.

Its general meaning refers to every kind of illegal sexual intercourse, that is, any intercourse except that between a husband and wife.

For example, in 1 Corinthians 5:1 (KJV) the word is used twice to refer to a sin which was being tolerated by the church: a man apparently was living with his stepmother as though with a wife.

1 Corinthians 5:1 TPT
1 It’s been widely reported that there is gross sexual immorality among you—the kind of immorality that’s so revolting it’s not even tolerated by the social norms of unbelievers. Are you proud of the fact that one of your men is having sex with his stepmother? Shouldn’t this heartbreaking scandal bring you to your knees in tears? You must remove the offender from among you!

In a list of terrible sins in Romans 1:29, the apostle Paul included fornication, apparently intending the term to mean all acts of sexual immorality (KJV)

Romans 1:29 AV
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

In 1 Corinthians 7:2 (KJV) Paul used the plural Greek word for “fornications” to imply the various ways in which the sin may manifest itself. He thus gave a reason why people in Corinth, should marry and live together properly. One of the sins included in the word’s general sense is adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:2 AV
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

“Fornication” also has a more limited sense of immoral sexual activity between unmarried people. Such a meaning is implied in those biblical lists where both fornication and adultery come together. Jesus’ list of the defiling sins that proceed out of a person’s heart includes “fornication” and “adultery” (Mt 15:19; Mk 7:21).

Matthew 15:19 TPT
19 You will find living within an impure heart evil ideas, murderous thoughts, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, lies, and slander.
Mark 7:21 TPT
21 Evil originates from inside a person. Coming out of a human heart are evil schemes, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

Paul’s list of those sinners who will not inherit the kingdom of God also contains both fornicators and adulterers

1 Corinthians 6:9 NKJV
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

A figurative use of the word “fornication” appears in both the OT and NT. Originating in descriptions of Israel and the church as the Lord’s wife or the bride, apostasy from God and idolatry are called fornication

Jeremiah 2:1–3 NLT
1 The Lord gave me another message. He said, 2 “Go and shout this message to Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says: “I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren wilderness. 3 In those days Israel was holy to the Lord, the first of his children. All who harmed his people were declared guilty, and disaster fell on them. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 16 uses marriage and unfaithfulness to marriage vows as a symbol of God’s relation with sinful Jerusalem, which had become an “unfaithful wife” to him. The first three chapters of Hosea use the relationship of the prophet Hosea and his unfaithful wife Gomer as an illustration. The nation Israel was guilty of fornication against its “husband,” the Lord, by going after other gods. In the Book of Revelation the same figurative use of “fornication” and “impure passion” appear (Rv 14:8; 17:2, 4; 18:3; 19:2).

Fornication is a category of sin that the Christian must continuously shun and persistently avoid

1 Corinthians 6:18 AMP
18 Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 AMP
3 For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice,

The apostle Paul even counseled against carelessly talking about it and other sins

Ephesians 5:3–4 NLT
3 Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people. 4 Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes—these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.
One Word Kingdom Folk Need to Embrace and speak out against more is
Immorality
Galatians 5:19 TPT
19 The cravings of the self-life are obvious: Sexual immorality, lustful thoughts, pornography,
Lets Unpack .. Sexual Immorality
Fornication: The practice of engaging in immoral sexual activity, but especially that which is outside the bounds of a marriage covenant.
Incest: Sexual activity with a close blood relative, such as a father, mother, son, or daughter. The concept is somewhat dependent on culture, but relations with immediate family is almost always considered incestuous.

Actual cases in the Bible show incest to be a fruit of a flawed character. Lot’s daughters sleep with their drunken father and both become pregnant (Gn 19:30–38). And, in 2 Samuel 13:1–22, the deceitful Amnon shows no shame in forcing himself upon his sister Tamar. Paul’s strong rebuke in 1 Corinthians 5:1–5 demonstrates that neither the act nor its wickedness is limited to OT times.

3. Prostitution:The practice of offering sex for compensation.

PROSTITUTION Trading of sexual services for pay. It is the result of a double standard whereby men insist on the sexual purity of their wives and daughters, while desiring access to other women. This dynamic is seen clearly in Gen. 38. Judah, thinking that his daughter-in-law Tamar was a prostitute, had intercourse with her; but upon hearing that she was pregnant as the result of “playing the harlot,” he demanded that she be burned. Hosea criticized the attitude which called for the punishment of prostitutes (and women committing adultery) while tolerating the men with whom these acts were committed (Hos. 4:14). Because of this double standard, the prostitute or harlot, as she is also called, has had an ambiguous status in society. She was tolerated in ancient Israel—as long as she was not married—but her profession was not socially acceptable. The children of harlots suffered from social biases against them (Judg. 11:2).

Although the OT records no laws prohibiting men from visiting prostitutes and making use of their services, there are strong counsels against such behavior

Proverbs 23:27–28 NKJV
27 For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a narrow well. 28 She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men.
Proverbs 29:3 NKJV
3 Whoever loves wisdom makes his father rejoice, But a companion of harlots wastes his wealth.

Jesus told the religious leaders of His day that harlots would go into the kingdom before they would (Matt. 21:31) not because He condoned prostitution but because harlots did not have the self-righteousness which kept the religious leaders from repentance. Paul reminded Corinthian Christians that their bodies were the temple of the Holy Spirit; therefore, they should refrain from immorality, including sexual relations with prostitutes (1 Cor. 6:15–20).

The term “cult prostitution” is frequently used to refer to certain practices in Canaanite fertility cults, including the cult of Baal. This practice and the beliefs on which it was based were incompatible with monotheism and with the nature of Israel’s God. The terms qadash (masc.) and qedeshah (fem.), from the word meaning “holy,” are generally translated “cult prostitute” (or “sodomite”). The masculine term is probably also used in a generic sense to refer to both male and female cult prostitutes. Such prostitutes functioned in the temple in Jerusalem at various times in Israel’s history and were removed during periods of religious reform (1 Kings 14:24; 15:12; 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7). Cult prostitution is outlawed by the Deuteronomic law code (Deut. 23:17–18).

4. Rape: The practice of forcing another to have sexual intercourse

RAPE Crime of engaging in sexual intercourse with another without consent, by force and/or deception. Mosaic law required a man who had seduced a virgin to pay the bride price and offer to marry her (Exod. 22:16–17). The rape of an engaged woman was a capital offense (Deut. 22:25–27). In other cases of rape, the offender was required to marry his victim and was not permitted to divorce her (Deut. 22:28–29)

Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary (Rape)
Lot’s daughter made their father drunk and then raped him
Genesis 19:30–35 AMP
30 And Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 The elder said to the younger, Our father is aging, and there is not a man on earth to live with us in the customary way. 32 Come, let us make our father drunk with wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring (our race) through our father. 33 And they made their father drunk with wine that night, and the older went in and lay with her father; and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose. 34 Then the next day the firstborn said to the younger, See here, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drunk with wine tonight also, and then you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring (our race) through our father. 35 And they made their father drunk with wine again that night, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose.
Shechem raped Dinah by force Gen. 34:1–2
Genesis 34:1–2 AMP
1 NOW DINAH daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out [unattended] to see the girls of the place. 2 And when Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he seized her, lay with her, and humbled, defiled, and disgraced her.
The men of Gibeah gang raped a Levite’s concubine and so brutalized her that she died (Judg. 19:25).
Amnon’s rape of his half sister Tamar was a premeditated act involving both deception and force (2 Sam. 13:1–22). This account reveals the mind of the rapist whose uncontrolled desire quickly turned to fierce hatred for his victim
2 Samuel 13:15 AMP
15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, so that his hatred for her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, Get up and get out!
Rape was one horror associated with the fall of Jerusalem
Lamentations 5:11 AMP
11 They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Zechariah 14:2 AMP
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

The Mosaic code highlighted the victim’s rights, both to monetary compensation and to recovery of dignity. This quest for dignity was a driving force behind acts of retaliatory violence recorded in the narrative texts. These texts, however, suggest the ease with which the victim is forgotten in the spiral of vengeful violence

So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.

(depressingly empty or bare.)
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