Fornication and Fleshly Lusts<\/p>\n
"Neither let as commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand" (1Co_10:8).<\/p>\n
Keep in mind that we have been studying, one by one, the carnalities that God warns us against. Each time the record begins, "Neither let us * * as did they."<\/p>\n
Fornication is the great sin of the church. "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?" (Jam_4:4). Fornication is spiritual adultery.<\/p>\n
When Balaam could not curse Israel he advised Balak to mix and mingle with the Israelites in the marriage bond. Therein Israel sinned and reaped a harvest of sorrow.<\/p>\n
God pity the Christian, who, in his carnality, has failed to hear the call of God to come out and be separate from sinners.<\/p>\n
Alas, that sometimes it seems difficult to distinguish between the church and the world–whether it is a worldly church or a churchly world.<\/p>\n
This form of carnality is marked by mixing and mingling with sinners. It is expressed in Peter's warming at the enemies' fire.<\/p>\n
Worldly society feeds the carnal appetite. The card party, the theater, the dance, the worldly resort allure the carnal church-member. The pleasures, the plans and the power of the world hold him captive. When a church has sold itself to and is dominated by the worldly crowd it is guilty of spiritual fornication. It begins to preach upon the greatness of man; it glories in human achievement; it dotes on fine music, aesthetic culture, and social coteries; in worship it settles down to cold formalism and stiff prayers; in service it leans upon men, money and machinery. God save us from this mark of carnality.<\/p>\n
Let us hear the Word of God that calls us to separation from the world:<\/p>\n
"Go not in the way of evil men."<\/p>\n
"The man who walketh not in counsel of the ungodly."<\/p>\n
The man who "standeth not in the way of sinners."<\/p>\n
The man who sitteth not "in the seat of the scornful."<\/p>\n
"Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness."<\/p>\n
"Not to keep company with such an one, not to eat."<\/p>\n
Into this realm of carnality a Christian may stumble, but he whose whole life is worldly; he who loves the world and the things of the world has never been saved; "the love of the Father is not in him."<\/p>\n
The Christian should daily die to the world; he should crucify the flesh with the affections and the lusts thereof.<\/p>\n
Let our young people take this to heart and with one big determined "no" to fleshly lusts and world-mixing, let them dedicate themselves to God, and go outside the camp, bearing His reproach.<\/p>\n
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fornication and Fleshly Lusts "Neither let as commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand" (1Co_10:8). Keep in mind that we have been studying, one by one, the carnalities that God warns us against. Each time the record begins, "Neither let us * * as did they." … Continue reading “1155. Fornication and Fleshly Lusts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}