Post by CherieKropp on Sept 24, 2007 22:31:39 GMT -5
Here is a reprint of a one-page article, front and back, folded like a booklet. This is the only educational piece I have ever run across on this subject generated by the workers. I don't think it was distributed recently--it appears to be typed on a typewriter and not a computer, and the paper is slightly yellowed. It came to me in a box of notes someone donated to me.
Any Comments??
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OF GRAVE CONCERN
To whom it may concern:
We have been deeply disturbed about our young people's think¬ing regarding the sin of fornication, that they are ignorant of what the scriptures teach regarding it, and unaware of just how God feels about it. Some feel that the Bible clas¬ses premarital relations as a spiritual and normal marriage and as long as they eventually get legally married to the one involved it is not classed as wrong, as long as there is no one else involved. We find nothing in the scriptures to back up this kind of thinking.
Matt. 5:32 proves this is not so. Here a man had the right to put away his wife (or we would say today to annul the marriage) if he found her not to be a virgin on the day of marriage, This sin was punishable by death in the Old Testament if they didn't marry, and if they did marry, the boy was to pay a fine to the girl's father. (Deut. 22:28-29)
In Old Testament days, before anyone who had sinned could have fellowship with God, or with the people of God in the congregation, they had to make a sacrifice by taking an animal and confessing their sins, (which speaks of identifying oneself with their sacrifice). Then that animal was taken and burned outside the camp so that there would be no resemblance of sin inside the camp (church).
Let us look into the New Testament and see what it says about this sin.
Eph. 5:3 "Let it not be once named among you."
I Thess. 4:3 "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: ..." Thus we lose our sanctification...we are no longer set apart.
I Cor. 6:18-19 calls it a sin. We are sinning against our own body and our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.
The following scriptures give a long list of the sins of the flesh. Fornication is put on the same level as murder, hatred, drunkenness, etc.
Rom. 1:29-32 finishes up by saying, "Who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only are guilty of the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
Col. 3:5-6 "...For such thing's sake the wrath of' God cometh on the children of disobedience."
Gal. 5:19-21 "...They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
Eph. 5:3-6 "...shall not inherit the kingdom of God because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."
You might ask what scriptures are used to show that this act was dealt with.
I Cor. 5:9 "...not to keep company with fornicators." .
I Cor. 5:11 "...with such an one no not to eat," These verses state that the church cannot have fellowship with such a person.
Rom. 7:13 "But sin, that it might appear sin...that sin might become exceeding sinful." There was a law or stipulation layed down to show how exceeding sinful sin is.
I Tim. 5:20 "Them that sin rebuke before all that others may fear." We have to take a stand for the sake of others.
Rev. 2:21 "And I gave her space to repent of her fornica¬tion and she repented not." This is why we give such a person a space, or a time, to prove that they have really repented.
Prov. 28:13 "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." No one can shield wrong in himself or in someone else and prosper in the way of God. So the secret of getting right and free from this sin is confession and turning away from it.
The Lord has made provision through the emblems of the bread and wine. The wine speaks of His shed blood...the provi¬sion made for confessed sin only. If we partake of the emblems on Sunday morning before we have made things right we are eating and drinking damnation to ourselves. "For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep." (I Cor. 11:17-30)
The above has been sent to us and we feel it would be profitable if shared with all, as we are aware of a great need amongst us in this age of permissiveness.
The fallowing three Biblical terms, inordinate, lascivious¬ness and concupiscence, have reference to what the,world calls heavy petting, or in other words, young unmarried folk seeking to satisfy their sexual desires without actually committing fornication.
Inordinate - not ordered or kept within bounds; unrestrained --hence excessive; that which exceeds rules and limits.
Ezek. 23:11 She is more corrupt in her inordinate love, unrestrained love.
Col. 3:5 Mortify (put to death) fornication, unclean¬ness, inordinate affection, etc.
Lasciviousness - inciting (stir up or rouse) to lust, tending to produce lewd emotions. Lewd - wicked, vicious, unchaste,
Gal. 5:19 The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lascivious¬ness etc, they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
II Cor. 12:21 Lest when I come again my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many that have sinned already; and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Eph. 4:18, 19 Having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Jude 4 For there were certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lascivi¬ousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, inciting, stirring up uncontrolled lust and expecting the grace of God to cover it.
Concupiscence - strong desire or appetite, especially sexual desire and lust.
Rom. 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.
Col. 3:5 Mortify - fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence. In other words, put to death uncontrolled sexual desires and appetites.
I Thess. 4:3-5 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication; that every one of you should know how to possess (control or manage) his vessel in sanctification and honour; not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God.
Any Comments??
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OF GRAVE CONCERN
To whom it may concern:
We have been deeply disturbed about our young people's think¬ing regarding the sin of fornication, that they are ignorant of what the scriptures teach regarding it, and unaware of just how God feels about it. Some feel that the Bible clas¬ses premarital relations as a spiritual and normal marriage and as long as they eventually get legally married to the one involved it is not classed as wrong, as long as there is no one else involved. We find nothing in the scriptures to back up this kind of thinking.
Matt. 5:32 proves this is not so. Here a man had the right to put away his wife (or we would say today to annul the marriage) if he found her not to be a virgin on the day of marriage, This sin was punishable by death in the Old Testament if they didn't marry, and if they did marry, the boy was to pay a fine to the girl's father. (Deut. 22:28-29)
In Old Testament days, before anyone who had sinned could have fellowship with God, or with the people of God in the congregation, they had to make a sacrifice by taking an animal and confessing their sins, (which speaks of identifying oneself with their sacrifice). Then that animal was taken and burned outside the camp so that there would be no resemblance of sin inside the camp (church).
Let us look into the New Testament and see what it says about this sin.
Eph. 5:3 "Let it not be once named among you."
I Thess. 4:3 "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: ..." Thus we lose our sanctification...we are no longer set apart.
I Cor. 6:18-19 calls it a sin. We are sinning against our own body and our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.
The following scriptures give a long list of the sins of the flesh. Fornication is put on the same level as murder, hatred, drunkenness, etc.
Rom. 1:29-32 finishes up by saying, "Who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only are guilty of the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
Col. 3:5-6 "...For such thing's sake the wrath of' God cometh on the children of disobedience."
Gal. 5:19-21 "...They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
Eph. 5:3-6 "...shall not inherit the kingdom of God because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."
You might ask what scriptures are used to show that this act was dealt with.
I Cor. 5:9 "...not to keep company with fornicators." .
I Cor. 5:11 "...with such an one no not to eat," These verses state that the church cannot have fellowship with such a person.
Rom. 7:13 "But sin, that it might appear sin...that sin might become exceeding sinful." There was a law or stipulation layed down to show how exceeding sinful sin is.
I Tim. 5:20 "Them that sin rebuke before all that others may fear." We have to take a stand for the sake of others.
Rev. 2:21 "And I gave her space to repent of her fornica¬tion and she repented not." This is why we give such a person a space, or a time, to prove that they have really repented.
Prov. 28:13 "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." No one can shield wrong in himself or in someone else and prosper in the way of God. So the secret of getting right and free from this sin is confession and turning away from it.
The Lord has made provision through the emblems of the bread and wine. The wine speaks of His shed blood...the provi¬sion made for confessed sin only. If we partake of the emblems on Sunday morning before we have made things right we are eating and drinking damnation to ourselves. "For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep." (I Cor. 11:17-30)
The above has been sent to us and we feel it would be profitable if shared with all, as we are aware of a great need amongst us in this age of permissiveness.
The fallowing three Biblical terms, inordinate, lascivious¬ness and concupiscence, have reference to what the,world calls heavy petting, or in other words, young unmarried folk seeking to satisfy their sexual desires without actually committing fornication.
Inordinate - not ordered or kept within bounds; unrestrained --hence excessive; that which exceeds rules and limits.
Ezek. 23:11 She is more corrupt in her inordinate love, unrestrained love.
Col. 3:5 Mortify (put to death) fornication, unclean¬ness, inordinate affection, etc.
Lasciviousness - inciting (stir up or rouse) to lust, tending to produce lewd emotions. Lewd - wicked, vicious, unchaste,
Gal. 5:19 The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lascivious¬ness etc, they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
II Cor. 12:21 Lest when I come again my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many that have sinned already; and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Eph. 4:18, 19 Having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Jude 4 For there were certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lascivi¬ousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, inciting, stirring up uncontrolled lust and expecting the grace of God to cover it.
Concupiscence - strong desire or appetite, especially sexual desire and lust.
Rom. 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.
Col. 3:5 Mortify - fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence. In other words, put to death uncontrolled sexual desires and appetites.
I Thess. 4:3-5 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication; that every one of you should know how to possess (control or manage) his vessel in sanctification and honour; not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God.