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0990. Fleshly Lusts–they Married and Gave in Marriage

0990. Fleshly Lusts–they Married and Gave in Marriage

Fleshly Lusts–they Married and Gave in Marriage

"They married wives, they were given in marriage.

Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed" (Luk_17:27, Luk_17:30).

Does not the Bible say: "Marriage is honorable in all"? Did not God say to Adam: "It is not good for man to be alone; I will make an help meet for him"? Is not a man commanded to leave his father and his mother and to cling to his wife? Did not Christ honor a marriage festival, in Cana of Galilee, with His presence? Did He not use the marriage bond as an emblem endeared, this exists between Himself and His Church? Why then the words of our text?

It is certainly right to be married in the Lord. We read that Enoch begat Methuselah: and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters.

We must dig in deeper–we are sure that in the days of Noah, the world must have polluted the marriage bond. This is easily established from the 6th of Genesis. Let us read the first five verses:

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair: and they took them wives of all which they chose.

"And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown.

"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

There is a difference of opinion as to the meaning of these mixed marriages; some hold that the evil union was that of the line of Seth mixing with the line of Cain; others hold that it was a base union between fallen angels and the daughters of men. In the light of 2Pe_2:4-6 and Jude verses 6 and 7, we rather hold to the latter; however, which ever it was, it was proverbial looseness in the marriage relationships.

The same conditions existed in the days of Lot. The people of his day had also debased the marriage bond.

"So shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed." Does not history begin to verify this very prophecy? With all of our boasted intelligence and culture, has marriage ever been so bandied about?

We do not have a word of condemnation about "divorce" Scripturally followed (however even Scriptural divorce was allowed by Moses, because of their hardness of heart), but we do deplore the ease and effrontery with which divorce is obtained. Back of it all lies the unbridled lusts of the flesh.

We are living in a day when modesty and morals are fast touching the bottom of the mire. Young people need to be talked to in plain and unvarnished words. Everything–dress, pastimes, reading and conversation–is conducive to looseness of morals. Virtue and modesty, the two great bulwarks of a Christly girlhood and womanhood, seem to be in the last throes of dying.

The age is rushing headlong into the vortex of unbridled sexual debauchery. The young manhood and young womanhood of our Churches are in danger of being caught in the downward rush of the course of this age–a rush away from God; a rush into everything that marks a God-cursed people.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR