The Lure of Adultery [podcast]

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Marriage is Sacred in the Eyes of a Holy God

Note: It doesn’t take a married person to commit what Jesus calls adultery in Matthew 5:28.

All adultery is fornication but all fornication is not adultery. There are many forms of fornication. All sexual sin comes under the name, the heading of fornication. Adultery is only one form of fornication.

Adultery is first a spiritual departing from faithfulness to God Himself. No person commits physical adultery before he first departs from Christ in his heart.

Next time someone gets real close in an attempt to seduce your soul, you may wish to quote God on the matter and flee! – “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” (Exodus 20:14)

The Son of God called this generation “AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION.”

“But he answered and said unto them, AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:” Matthew 12:39

Adultery begins in the heart. Spiritual adultery is when one goes a whoring from God. They cease seeking and putting God first. They no longer seek Jesus as their “first love.” (Revelation 2:4-5)

“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” 1 Corinthians 6:18

The term “a whoring” appears a whopping 43 times in God’s Word and depicts spiritual adultery which precedes physical adultery, all fornication. Here’s but a taste:

“For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.” Psalms 72:37

“Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.” Psalms 106:39

Revelation uses the word “fornication” 12 times.

“For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.” Revelation 19:2

Adultery is fornication and brings a very severe reaping, price. The wages of sin is still death saints! (Romans 6:23) God’s grace didn’t change His definition of sin nor alter His divine attributes. He always has been, is still, and will forever be “Holy, holy, holy.” (Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8)

“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.” James 1:13-16

The devil and fallen flesh, which must be daily crucified, entices us to sin will never warn of the dire consequences or that your eternal soul is at stake. Any soothing voice in this mix is straight from he who originally and continually whispers “ye shall NOT surely die.” (Genesis 2:17; 3:4)

“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” Hebrews 13:4

“they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; ADULTERY, FORNICATION, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.” Galatians 5:19-21

Any questions? Could this be any clearer?

Fornication of All Kinds Addressed in God’s Word