2 Corinthians 11:2-3
2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.
3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
James 4:4
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
This is obviously the truth. It is in God’s Word for us to know. Everyone likes to cling to the fact that Jesus Christ died for the sins of all mankind – and rightly so. But what has been at best, minimized, and more often and worse yet, forgotten and neglected entirely, is that His death was to purchase mankind as a pure virgin for the Bride of Christ. Any departure from what God instructs is spiritual fornication.
It used to be much easier to tell a real Christian from a non-Christian (or a fake, or one who was deceived) – right was right and wrong was wrong. Now we are bombarded with “gray areas” that we must be “tolerant” of and “politically correct” so we don’t offend anyone…yes, even in churches. Now, people are “Jesus fans” which is really fans of Jesus (He’s such a nice guy!) without actually being His disciple, one who is separate from the world.
Now, before anyone decides it would be fun to jump in and start the usual arguments, let me remind you that JESUS HIMSELF called it the ‘depths of Satan’ (Revelation 2:24) Note that is in the book of Revelation, not some Old Testament book you can say with your watered down easy-to-live-with gospel no longer applies.
Go back to square one and think a minute – God sent His Son to DIE so that we could be reconciled to Him, a pure virgin for a bride – DIE is a serious word and if you have never experienced your own child dying, I’m happy for you…but God did this for us...I guarantee you He is not going to look at those who minimize (or worse) the importance of His Son’s life and say, 'spiritual fornication is okay because you meant well by being so kind to that person and not saying adultery – or fornication, or drunkenness, or drug use, or placing sports above Him in daily thoughts, or gluttony, or absorbing the subtle sinfulness of modern music into our thought processes and judgmental decisions of what is good and right…and you can come in and be His Bride.' This is something God imparted to me as I grieved over my son’s death when he was 30 years old – the same age Jesus was when He ministers on earth.
2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.
3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
James 4:4
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
This is obviously the truth. It is in God’s Word for us to know. Everyone likes to cling to the fact that Jesus Christ died for the sins of all mankind – and rightly so. But what has been at best, minimized, and more often and worse yet, forgotten and neglected entirely, is that His death was to purchase mankind as a pure virgin for the Bride of Christ. Any departure from what God instructs is spiritual fornication.
It used to be much easier to tell a real Christian from a non-Christian (or a fake, or one who was deceived) – right was right and wrong was wrong. Now we are bombarded with “gray areas” that we must be “tolerant” of and “politically correct” so we don’t offend anyone…yes, even in churches. Now, people are “Jesus fans” which is really fans of Jesus (He’s such a nice guy!) without actually being His disciple, one who is separate from the world.
Now, before anyone decides it would be fun to jump in and start the usual arguments, let me remind you that JESUS HIMSELF called it the ‘depths of Satan’ (Revelation 2:24) Note that is in the book of Revelation, not some Old Testament book you can say with your watered down easy-to-live-with gospel no longer applies.
Go back to square one and think a minute – God sent His Son to DIE so that we could be reconciled to Him, a pure virgin for a bride – DIE is a serious word and if you have never experienced your own child dying, I’m happy for you…but God did this for us...I guarantee you He is not going to look at those who minimize (or worse) the importance of His Son’s life and say, 'spiritual fornication is okay because you meant well by being so kind to that person and not saying adultery – or fornication, or drunkenness, or drug use, or placing sports above Him in daily thoughts, or gluttony, or absorbing the subtle sinfulness of modern music into our thought processes and judgmental decisions of what is good and right…and you can come in and be His Bride.' This is something God imparted to me as I grieved over my son’s death when he was 30 years old – the same age Jesus was when He ministers on earth.