SPIRITUAL ADULTERY FORBIDDEN! – Tuesday
October 25th 2016
Memorise: For thy Maker is thine husband;
the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God
of the whole earth shall he be called. Isaiah 54:5
Luke 16:13
Read: Hosea 2:2-5, (KJV)
2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her
husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her
adulteries from between her breasts;
3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and
make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with
thirst.
4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of
whoredoms.
5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath
done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread
and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Bible in
one year: Micah 5-7, Psalms 87
MESSAGE
The relationship between God and his human
creatures could be likened to the relationship between a husband and his wife.
God, who instituted marriage, patterned the relationship in marriage after His
relationship with His people. This is why spiritual adultery is severely
punished from time to time in the history of man and his interaction with his
Maker. Open Heavens 25 October 2016:- Spiritual Adultery Forbidden!
“And the children of Israel did evil in the
sight of the Lord, and served Baalim….And they forsook the Lord, and served
Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them
into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer
stand before enemies.”
Judges 2:11, 13-14
God is jealous, like a man could be jealous
over the relationship of his wife with another man, when his human creatures
follow other gods besides Him (Exodus 20:5). The spiritual adultery
which the children of Israel committed is vividly illustrated in the
relationship between Hosea and Gomer his professional harlot-turned wife. The
patience of Hosea with Gomer who was always going back to her whoredom like a
dog that goes back to its vomit also illustrates God’s patience with His people
who court with the people of the world. The bond becomes stronger when someone
at the altar of repentance, betroths himself or herself to Jesus Christ, the
original Bridegroom. The Bible says:
“Love not the world, neither the things
that are in the world. If an any man love the world, the love of the Father is
not in him.”
1st John 2:15
Our Lord Jesus Christ also said that our
love cannot be possibly shared between God and ephemeral things of this world.
He said:
“No servant can serve two masters: for
either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Luke 16:13
Serving God and mammon is spiritual
adultery, punishable by rejection and shame. 25 October 2016 Open Heavens. The
Bible says:
“Plead with your mother, plead: for she is
not my wife neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms
out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts. Lest I strip her
naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a
wilderness, an set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.”
Hosea 2:2-3
Beloved, beware of spiritual adultery.
Stick to Jesus Christ. The Lover of your soul and He will do you good.
Prayer Point:
Father, please forgive me of any spiritual adultery I might have
committed against You and our spiritual matrimony. For Christ’s sake, please do
not reject me
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