Is it just me or does it seem like adultery was running rampant in ancient Israel? There are those constant warnings to watch out for those kinds of women and that young men should not fall into their trap. What a different mindset than this one the world has now. Adultery is looked at as being not that big of a deal today. Just another means to do whatever makes you happy.
Too bad God hates that kind of crap. In fact He hates 6 things and finds one more to completely disgusting. If I had to narrow down the things I hated into a list of 6 I can guarantee that it would look nothing like that. Just shows what God's priorities are and how He wishes that we would live our lives. Too bad we suck at living our lives completely how we should. Thank Jesus that He gave us a second chance and mercy for our stupidity and unwillingness to truly separate from the world.
Let's chat about Paul for a second. These Corinthians just don't seem to have ever gotten what Paul was teaching from the beginning. They seemed to being doing, well, the same things that we are doing today. What is it with people that have been dead for 2,000 years struggled and failed with the same temptations and sins that we deal with today. Maybe this time we can learn from them and finally listen to what we should do.
"And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. " - 1 Cor 6:11
Be thankful, be humble, be men of God today.
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Yeah. I was eating dinner last night and watching the real housewives of orange county. It was terrible.
ReplyDeleteI'm proud that we're focusing on changing our struggles. I really, really don't want to make all the same mistakes we see in these passages. Like that quote I posted, we have no idea how many people have been sacrificed for us, so that we don't have to repeat history.