Worship call 0612 The destructive Road of Sexual Sins

This is Thursday August 18th 2022nd year of our Lord

From George Whiten

Friends, have obedient faith! Hebrews 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. After spending forty years in the wilderness, the children of Israel crossed into the Promised Land arriving to immediately face what seemed an impregnable fortress and an impossible task. Imagine receiving the instruction to march around the fortified city seven times, then finally be commanded to shout with all your might and sound shofars! It seemed like such a ridiculous warfare strategy...and yet, this time, they followed the instructions, marching around the walled city of Jericho and on the 7th day, after 7 rounds, witnessed the miraculous collapse which opened the way to victory. Obeying the voice of the Lord in faith was met with His supernatural intervening power. The object lesson? Do what God says, follow His instructions, putting your faith into action! friends, faith that works is true faith, and it reveals the awesome God whom we serve! Respond to God's word obediently, no matter how ridiculous it may seem, and when He is ready your breakthrough will come! Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Baht Rivka, & Obadiah (Elianna is attending Christian College in Dallas) Dallas, Texas

Worship Call 0712

Thursday August 18, 2022

The Destructive Road of Sexual Sins

This whole section of the Sermon on the mount takes us back to the reference made by Jesus concerning the righteousness of the Pharisees.

Matthew 5:20 (NASB95) — 20 “For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

The super legalist. Those that set the bar on piety and living by the letter of the Law. Surely if one would be able to follow their standard one would be welcomed by the Lord into the Kingdom.

But Jesus said, “No way!”

While they may have appeared by act, outwardly teaching and walking piously. The religious leaders were in all accounts unrighteous and wicked to the core.

Point of Doctrine: Piety and niceness does not equate to the righteousness that is acceptable to God.

The Pharisees were Murderers. While they gave an impression of keeping the Law, they were breaking their own laws in entrapping and speeding Jesus through the system in order to put an innocent man to death. They held the greatest contempt for Jesus which makes them murders from the start.

WE come now to the subject of Adultery. Here again Jesus in his teaching while teaching the matters of the heart, exposes the hearts of the Pharisees who sought through the system in divorcing their wives to marry those whom they lusted for.

Matthew 5:27–32 (NASB95) — 27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 “If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 “If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell. 31 “It was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’; 32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Among probably every commandment The Pharisees had broken commandment 6

Exodus 20:13 (NASB95) — 13 “You shall not murder.

And they were practicing breaking the 7thcommandment as well

Exodus 20:14 (NASB95) — 14 “You shall not commit adultery.

Jesus is dealing with the heart.

Though you may not have gone through the act, Jesus says that you have already committed murder in your heart

And though you may not have gone through the act, Jesus says that you have already committed adultery in your heart, before even laying a hand on the other that you are lusting over.

Jeremiah 17:9 (NASB95) — 9 “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

Those that say that they are going to follow their hearts on any given matter are in fact rejecting God’s word. It is God’s word that we follow, not our wicked hearts.

Every evil intention begins in the heart and then transcends to the overt act. Leading man and his society down the road to destruction.

Matthew 5:27–28 (NASB95) — 27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

The next biggest destructive crime of the heart outside of murder are sexual sins. So devasting is sex outside of what God had designed it to be that it destroys everything in its wake. Spiritual lives, marriages, families, communities, nations and even the world as it is that sexual impurity leads to the wrath of God.

So devastating is that Jesus teaches that is better to cut out your eye or cut off your arm than to go down that road.

After the fall of man and being being exiled from the garden the first recorded sin was Murder but not soon after that, we find in Genesis Chapter 4 act of sexual impurity.

Where God had said earlier “for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined with his wife (singular),” we find a man by the name of Lamech, in the line of Cain, who not only himself became a murderer but also a polygamous taking for himself multiple wives.

Oh, your might say, “well Jacob, David and Solomon had multiples wives.”

True.

But go ahead and study the lives of these men, and tell me how did their lives end how did it impact their families?

The degrading line led to what we find in Genesis 6

Genesis 6:5 (NASB95) — 5 Then the Lordsaw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

In that day it was the Son’s of God, spiritual beings, who lusted after human women taking on the form of flesh and taking humans as wives.

This, in itself would not have taken place if it was that man protected the sanctity of marriage which forms as a barrier a between good and evil.

But when sexual perversion became rampant the barriers were torn down which prompted evil to come in.

As Becca said, “women of that day probably had no choice as to chose to mate with these creatures for their men were probably all homosexuals.”

After all, did the Lord not say “like in the days of Noah,” when talking about the Lord coming in Judgment?

The result was the flood where God wiped out mankind minus Noah and his family

And certainly, like the days of Lot where the men of the city sought to break in, even after their blindness to the house of Lot to gang rape the visitors.

Today we call such perversion, “Sodomy,” in order that we might be reminded of what happened in the days of Lot and why?

Oh, might I add just a few words that might be overlooked in Genesis 19

What was the outcome of Sodom?

Genesis 19:4 (NASB95) — 4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;

What are we doing right now in our culture?

We are cultivating sexual perverts in our society even in and through our public education system. But it’s ok because we are making laws to condone such.

What was the final verdict of Sodom?

The destruction of Sodom and the surrounding cities leaving the region so desolate it grows nothing. It is nothing but a mound of salt.

Folks if you are looking for hope for the nation and the world in the time in which we live, I’m afraid we are probably beyond the point of no return.

The ray of hope though is this,

Luke 21:28 (NASB95) — 28 “But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

In Both the flood and Sodom, the Lord redeemed the very few who were His, those who were Righteous.

Are you?

As it is that murder began in the heart as noted with Cain, Lust for the flesh begins in the heart and opens the door down the road to total destruction of the Spiritual life of the believer and damages and ruins everything within that environment.

What has the heart lead others to do?

“Well, my heart leads me to leave my wife and kids and marry this other woman that my heart has a love for.”

Let me ask you a question. Has your heart ever led you to walk out in front of a speeding truck? Funny isn’t it that our hearts generally lead us to what we desire that which gratifies the flesh.

In the model pray that Jesus is teaching His disciples Jesus instructs

Matthew 6:13 (NASB95) — 13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’

Do not let me fall into temptation. Help me in my weaknesses.

James 1:13–14 (NASB95) — 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

If I am praying the prayer than why am I flirting with temptation being where I need not be doing what I should not be doing looking at what I should not be looking at. And then weeping my eyes out when destruction comes and I am ruined as was Lot’s wife when she was turned into a pillar of salt.

Here is the warning, certain doors that your heart will take you through will be exit only with no way of return.

When Jesus says it is better to be without a arm or a leg than the whole body to be thrown into hell, Jesus is speaking of the severity of the consequences of sin that comes down the road.