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| − | ==The SEVEVTH Commandment==
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| − | "You shall not commit adultery." Exodus 20:14
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| − | God is a pure, holy being, and has an infinite antipathy against all impurity. In this commandment he has entered his caution against it, "You shall not commit adultery." The sum of this commandment is--the preservations of bodily purity. We must take heed of running on the rock of impurity, and so making shipwreck of our chastity. In this commandment there is something tacitly implied, and something expressly forbidden.
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| − | 1. The thing implied is that the ordinance of MARRIAGE should be observed. "Let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband." 1 Cor 7:2. "Marriage is honourable and the bed undefiled." Heb 13:4. God instituted marriage in paradise; he brought the woman to the man. Gen 2:22. He gave them to each other in marriage. Jesus Christ honoured marriage with his presence. John 2:2. The first miracle he wrought was at a marriage, when he turned the "water into wine." Marriage is a type and resemblance of the mystical union between Christ and his church. Eph 5:32.
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| − | In marriage there are general and special duties. The general duty of the husband is to rule. "The husband is the head of the wife." Eph 5:23. The head is the seat of rule and judgment; but he must rule with discretion. He is head, therefore must not rule without reason. The general duty on the wife's part is submission. "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord." Eph 5:22. It is observable that the Holy Spirit passed by Sarah's failings, not mentioning her unbelief; but he takes notice of that which was good in her, as her reverence and obedience to her husband. "Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord." 1 Pet 3:6.
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| − | The special duties belonging to marriage, are love and fidelity. Love is the marriage of the affections. Eph 5:25. There is, as it were—but one heart in two bodies. Love lines the yoke and makes it easy; it perfumes the marriage relation; and without it there is "not harmony but constant wrangling." Like two poisons in one stomach, one is ever sick of the other. In marriage there is mutual promise of living together faithfully according to God's holy ordinance. Among the Romans, on the day of marriage, the woman presented to her husband fire and water: signifying that as fire refines, and water cleanses, she would live with her husband in chastity and sincerity.
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| − | II. The thing forbidden in the commandment is infecting ourselves with bodily pollution and impurity. "You shall not commit adultery." The fountain of this sin is lust. Since the fall, holy love has degenerated to lust. Lust is the fever of the soul. There is a twofold adultery.
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| − | [1] Mental. "Whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart." Matt 5:28. As a man may die of an inward bleeding, so he may be damned for the inward boiling of lust, if it is not mortified.
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| − | [2] Physical; as when sin has conceived, and brought forth in the act. This is expressly forbidden, "You shall not commit adultery." This commandment is set up as a hedge to keep out impurity; and those who break this hedge a serpent shall bite them. Job calls adultery a "heinous crime." Job 31:2: Every failing is not a crime; and every crime is not a heinous crime; but adultery is "a heinous crime." The Lord calls it villainy. "They have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives." Jer 29:23.
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| − | Wherein appears the greatness of this sin?
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| − | (1) It is a breach of the marriage-oath. When people come together in matrimony, they bind themselves by covenant to each other, in the presence of God, to be true and faithful in the marital relation. Unchastity breaks this solemn oath; and herein adultery is worse than fornication, because it is a breach of the marital bond.
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| − | (2) The greatness of the sin lies in this: that it is a great dishonour done to God. God says, "You shall not commit adultery." The adulterer sets his will above God's law, tramples upon his command, affronts him to his face; as if a subject should tear his prince's proclamation. The adulterer is highly injurious to all the persons in the Trinity. To God the Father. Sinner, God has given you your life, and you do waste the lamp of life, the flower of your age in lewdness. He has bestowed on you many mercies, health, and estate, and you spend all on harlots. Did God give you wages--to serve the devil! It is injurious to God the Son, in two ways. As he has purchased you with his blood. "You are bought with a price." 1 Cor 6:20. Now he who is bought is not his own; it is a sin for him to go to another, without consent, from Christ, who has bought him with a price. As by virtue of baptism you are a Christian, and professes that Christ is your head, and you are a member of Christ; therefore, what an injury is it to Christ, to "take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot"? 1 Cor 6:15. It is injurious to God the Holy Spirit; for the body is his temple. "Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?" 1 Cor 6:19. And how great a sin is it to defile his temple!
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| − | There is nothing wrong with being in business and selling things. However, if you are a church or any kind of "ministry", you may want to check your motive for how you are conducting the work of the Lord.
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| − | '''Remember the money changers in the temple where JESUS turned over the tables and threw them out. They were selling things in the "CHURCH"'''. '''(God made it quite clear to us that we were not to charge for anything, that HE was our source.)'''
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| − | [[File:Logo public dcp.jpg|frame|Logo public dcp.jpg]]"As Pastor General of The Restored Church of God, David C. Pack oversees the world’s most extensive biblically based websites. He has established over 50 congregations, authored more than 20 books, and has written hundreds of booklets and articles. As Editor-in-Chief of The Real Truth magazine and voice of The World to Come program, he has reached millions around the globe with the most powerful truths of the Bible, unknown to almost all".
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| − | Does the Bible teach that God is a “Trinity”—three persons in one being? Most professing Christians answer “yes.” Although long the litmus test of traditional
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| − | *[http://www.worldtocome.org/player.html#!Item=560678 http://www.worldtocome.org/player.html#!Item=560678]
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| − | Many accept the Bible’s divine authority on faith, thinking it cannot be proven. Is what is often called the Book of books the Word of God? Or is it mere superstition—an uninspired work of men?
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| − | The human mind has brought awesome advancements in science, technology and exploration. But it also yields vanity, greed, lust, deceit—and appalling evil. Why this paradox? You can understand!
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| − | What role if any did the teachings of the Qur'an play in the 9/11 attacks? What does Islam really teach? What about Jihad? Should Christians try to befriend our Muslim neighbors and share the gospel? If so, how? The title is Understanding Islam: A Christian Perspective. I would like you to watch it for free. Please forward this to all your friends!
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| − | Free Video & Profile: Only six shopping days till Armageddon? The Mayan Calendar ends next Friday and the media is giving major coverage to a growing number of "doomsday preppers" getting ready for what they fear may be the "end of the world as we know it" next week on December 21, 2012.
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| − | I think they need to be getting ready for another end-times "false alarm." Apparently, the Mayan couldn't even predict the demise of their own civilization -- much less ours. Nevertheless, thousands around the world are holding their breath, waiting for next Friday. Even some on Christian Television, such as Jack Van Impe, cannot resist the temptation of date-setting. So what is a proper Christian approach to true Bible prophecies and end-times teachings in light of all the false prophets today?
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