Yesterday I was tempted to write a fiery commentary about an article I tripped over on MSN entitled, "How European Men Don’t Get Caught in Adultery." I started to read the article trying to understanding why someone might want to read such an article.
I don’t know how far I read but the more that I read the angrier I got in disbelief. Thinking back on it sounded like something right out of Satan’s twisted handbook…. It is all right to have adulterous relationships if it doesn’t make you feel guilty the next day and you tell the woman you are having this adulterous fling with that you are married first.
I think most Christians would see that the article sat heavily on the "I" or "Me" concept. Those who don’t know the "I" or "Me" concept, it’s all about satisfying one’s own flesh not about doing what is right in God’s sight.
Another concept was, adulterous relationships are everyday things and very uncomplicated in Europe. The other woman or women are told that this is just a sexual fling nothing more. The other woman agrees and they happily carry on like nothing has ever happens afterward.
The last one I read had to do with. "It is all right to lie and cheat if the one I am lying and cheating on doesn’t find out." - It won't hurt anyone unless they find out.
I don’t know if they had this one (because I didn’t read the entire article) but I am hearing about this one too lately. "It is all right to have sex with someone else if my spouse is having sex with someone else too and we both know each others additional sex partner(s)."
I know these ideas have been around A VERY LONG TIME but they have only been around A VERY LONG TIME because they seem to work when it comes to snaring us and persuading us into sinful acts.
God says, "Do not commit Adultery" (Exodus 20:14)
God says, "Do not testify falsely against your neighbor." (Exodus 20:16)
God says, "Do not covet your neighbor’s wife." (Exodus 20:17)
In the Old Testament people were stoned to death if caught in adultery. "If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death" (Leviticus 20:10)
Some would say that these laws were only for the Jews but in the New Testament Jesus, who is the Savior and the Son of God for all people (Jews and non- Jews) says:
"You have heard that the law of Moses says, "Do not commit adultery." But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust in his eye has already committed adultery with her in his heart. So if it is your eye- even if it is your good eye- causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body then for your whole body to be thrown into hell." (Matthew 5:27)
I will not judge a person who commits adultery for we have all been sinful but I will share this event that is told to us in John 8
"Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and Pharisees brought a woman they had caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.
"Teacher," they said to Jesus, "this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?"
They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, "All right, stone her. But let those who have never sinned throw the first stones!"
Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.
When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.
Then Jesus stood up again and said to her, "Where are you accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?"
"No, Lord," she said.
And Jesus said, "Neither do I, Go and sin no more."
Why does God want us to be faithful to our spouse? He knows what damage it does to the family and you. He knows trust is not easily repaired or fixed. He knows such acts cause the spread of sexual transmitted diseases such as HIV, AIDS, Herpes and cervical cancers. When you do such acts, it shows we only have the values of the world and are no different then the rest of the world when we do such acts. And if we can’t be faithful to our wife, how can be faithful to God? God is only looking what we are looking for.
Would you want a spouse who cheats on you? How can God’s love and the expression of that love be shown if we are no different then the rest of the world.
I couldn’t stay married to someone who was unfaithful.
When we do the twisted dark things the world tries to say is okay we are not acting as children of God but children of the dark prince of this world. The dark prince of this world doesn’t care for his children. When these people who have denied Christ, by their actions go before God, the devil who cheered them on will then turn on them and accuse them of al their sins. Satan will probably laugh at all those who have the nerve to try to accuse him for all their shame and evil. If he says anything at all to them he will probably say something like; "You are sending yourself to hell." It will come very apparent that they didn’t have to do the dark and lustful things that were conveniently suggested.
I will say this again for your benefit and for your benefit ALONE.
"I used to think the Satan/ the Devil was fiction but then I asked God if the devil was real and one night in my sleep the spiritual vial was opened for me to see the Satan- the dark prince of this world. He is not the beautiful angel he once was. The portrayal of him being red is not that far off. His being looks as if it has been scorched to redness. I remember his eyes were very perching and menacing and I would be lying to say he wasn’t frightening. He has a very strong presence. Darkness and flames seemed to reflect on his being. I tried to look away from him as much as I could like Frodo trying to look away from the great evil eye of Sauron in the Lord of the Rings movies. Then heard a blood-curdling scream. It was like it was right next to my bed and I immediately woke up. I think I sat straight up in bed. I listened. My wife was still sleeping soundly beside me. It was obvious it wasn’t the children. Trembling, I prayed for God to watch over my house and eventually I fell back to sleep.
Don’t be fooled! There are many things we can not see. The Lord God is the only way. There you find and draw your strength from Him.
If you are being adulterous, Jesus would say to you, "Go and sin no more."
Oh… and there is a reason why God says don’t concern yourself with things of this world. You get less uptight that way.
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