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Wednesday, August 4 2010
Jesus Christ was "the LORD God" Who delivered the people of the Exodus (see Christ The Creator and 'Before Abraham Was, I AM'). The Messiah gave humanity The Ten Commandments. The Messiah put to death those Who disobeyed Him, back then, just as He will do in the future time of Judgment (see Could Christ Return Tonight?).
"10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea [see also Why Through The Sea?]; 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness [see A Journey Without A Destination]. 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents." (1 Corinthians 10:1-9 KJV)
"Natural brute beasts ... Having eyes full of adultery ... They which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God"
One of the most well-known incidents recorded in Bible History is that of a woman who was caught in the act of adultery - and who was about to be stoned to death. Jesus rescued the woman from death simply by letting her accusers know that He knew the Truth about them - and perhaps their own involvement with that very same woman.
"8:1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. 8:2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery [see Thou shalt not commit adultery to understand how the Commandment applies ultimately to spiritual adultery]; and when they had set her in the midst, 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone [see Stoning] at her. 8:8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
8:9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 8:10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
8:11 She said, No man, Lord.
And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." (John 8:1-11 KJV)
The Savior rescued the woman, not so that she could continue her life of sin, but so that she would have her opportunity to repent - and to truly live a life according to God's Word. She was given her awareness, and her warning. She was rescued from hypocritical human "judges" - but there will be no rescue from the Messiah's Judgment, if she thereafter refused to repent and obey God's Word.
The apostle Paul warned that unrepentant, arrogantly-immoral people will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
"5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 5:21 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.5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." (Galatians 5:19-25 KJV)
The apostle Peter explained how those who flagrantly commit adultery often flagrantly commit adultery with God's Word as well. They will, while deaf to all others who tell them the truth, search until they find some erroneous "teacher" who tells them what they want to hear, thereby both "sporting themselves with their own deceivings."
"2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever." (2 Peter 2:12-17 KJV)
Fact Finder: How is it that those who commit physical adultery also commit spiritual adultery?
See Is Adultery Forgivable?
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This Day In History, August 4
1060: Henry I of France died and was succeeded by Philip I.
1265: King Henry III put down a revolt of English barons lead by Simon de Montfort.
1521: Pope Urban VII was born as Giambattista Castagna. He was elected Pope in September 1590, but died of malaria before his coronation.
1578: A crusade against the Moors of Morocco was routed at the Battle of Alcazar-el-Kebir.
1586: A plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I was discovered. Anthony Babington, supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, planned to kill Elizabeth and her ministers and assume power with the aid of English Roman Catholics and Spanish soldiers. Babington and others were executed for high treason.
1704: During the War of the Spanish Succession, a joint Anglo-Dutch force attacked and captured Gibraltar.
1879: The encyclical Aeterni Patris was issued by Pope Leo XIII. It supported the philosophical system of the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas and soon made it the dominant philosophical viewpoint of the Roman Catholic church.
1914: Germany invaded Belgium, causing Britain to declare war on Germany. By midnight of that day, 5 empires had entered the First World War: the Austro-Hungarian empire against Serbia; the German empire against France, Britain and Russia; the Russian empire against Germany and Austria-Hungary; the British and French empires against Germany. Many believed that the war would be "over by Christmas" (listen also to our Sermon The European World Wars).
1916: Denmark agreed to cede the Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the United States for $25 million. The deal took effect the following March 31.
1922: All U.S. telephones were silenced for 1 minute on the day of Alexander Graham Bell's funeral.
1927: The Peace Bridge between the United States and Canada opened.
1944: After two years hiding in an Amsterdam back room, Anne Frank, her sister, her parents and four other Jews were discovered by the Gestapo. The diary she kept was found after the war, published in over 30 languages and turned into a play and film.
1944: Royal Air Force pilot T. D. Dean became the first pilot to destroy a German V-1 "buzz bomb" (similar to a modern-day cruise missile) when he tipped the pilotless craft's wing, sending it off course.
1954: Britain's first supersonic fighter plane, the English Electric Lightning P-1, made its maiden flight.
1964: The U.S. warship Maddox reportedly clashed with North Vietnamese gunboats in the Gulf Of Tonkin, in North Vietnamese waters off the coast of North Vietnam, resulting in President Johnson ordering the first bombing of North Vietnam in the Vietnam War. Later historians and investigators questioned whether the incident, and a similar reported incident later (called by some the "ghost" attack because there may have been no North Vietnamese coastal defense ships at all present the second time) actually happened, or whether it was merely a false or provoked excuse to begin bombing North Vietnam.
1997: The world's oldest person, Jeanne Calment, died aged 122 years and 164 days in Arles, France.
