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April 10th 2021

David_Orr • April 10, 2021
23 'For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, 23 to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. 25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; 26 for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life. 27 Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? 28 Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished. 30 People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry, 31 but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house. 32 He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself. 33 He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away. 34 For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge. 35 He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.' Proverbs 6:23-35 https://my.bible.com/bible/59/PRO.6.23-35 Cheating on God Again we are back to last weeks picture of the costs of adultery. God gave Solomon this understanding because the King was responsible to judge such matters when they came before him. I am sure Solomon had many Magistrates to judge such legal things in court but only the King had Life or Death Authority. If a man came before him for killing the man that destroyed his family Solomon’s wisdom would have called it justified. We have so diminished the value of the husband-wife covenant that many people say “It’s Going to Happen”. When I was a child in the 60’s the man that shot an adulterer in his bed would have never gone to jail. Has the value of virtue gone down so much? In God’s eyes it hasn’t diminished. Just because infidelity has become normal doesn’t change the commandments of God. Godly Jealousy! When Adam and Eve committed Adultery against God by allowing Satan to seduce them God showed the exercise of Godly Wisdom and restraint. God would have been justified in destroying them all and us along with them. It indeed would have been the righteous thing to do. God chose to give Grace instead. Especially since death was promised beforehand if they disobeyed and spiritual death became a thing at that very moment. Choosing Life before that was the easy choice now we have to overcome our adulterous nature to choose it. Wisdom shows the parallel of Spiritual and marital adultery and helps us understand how God sees our sin. “The Wages of Sin is Death, But the Gift of God is Eternal Life Through Jesus Christ our LORD!” Romans 6:23 I value the relationship between husband and wife to the level that if I had married and then been cheated on I doubt my reaction would be Grace. I could never excuse such a reaction and would probably have been next because I know taking life is wrong. God has had to stop me twice already from killing the men when girlfriends cheated. I had rather never have that husband wife relationship as to devalue it. And I never want to be guilty of taking another life. God didn’t devalue you because we fell into sin and condemnation. When you actually see how our transgression effected God that makes the gift of His Grace so much more Precious! When those girls cheated on me the rage of jealousy was unbearable. God made us that way so we can understand the way He feels when we choose this world over Him. Then He loves us so much He died in our place to meet His requirement of our fidelity. God is Righteous and He could not excuse wrong. The very thought that there had to be death paid should elevate the value of our covenant of Faith in Him to beyond price.

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