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Appeal Recognition vs. Attraction Violations
Table of Contents
Romantic Love is Good in its Right
Context, Even Before Marriage
Pre-marital Romantic Stories in
the Bible:
Romance is to be Fulfilled Within
Marriage
A. Significant Cultural and
Contextual Meanings
B. Application of the Admonition
Don’t “Go Beyond” As The Nations
Which Don’t Know God!
C. Right in The Eyes of Others
D. Ruth’s Example – Appropriate
Cross Gender Boundaries
More Examples of Eyes and Lust
From Proverbs
“I’m Not Convicted About That”
Part Three – How to Actually Get
FREE from Lust!!
The Basics of Defeating Forced
Lust
About Being Clothed – It
Completely Changes The Way You See “You” And Others About You
Renouncing the Heritage of Forced
Lust
Part Four – What to Do, When It's Time to
Pursue
Godly Devotion is not made up of:
Remember what was said to Ruth:
Trust God Enough to Forgo
Pursuing, Until He Exalts
Quote - References for God likes romance
Messed up, and Given to Vanity
Lust Dreams, Wet Dreams,
Nocturnal Emissions
Common Assumptions and
Misconceptions about Romance
Flirtation with many people or
with one person, it is the same sin
Locked Up: The
Excitement Of A Locked Up And Sealed Garden
Parabolic Repentance &
Redemption
Question: Healed Hymen or
Accepted by Faith?
The Short Answer: Redemptive
Faith From Him is Good, and a Special Miracle in Her is Exciting
Prerequisites Before Going into
Answers
We Are Laying a Foundation First
The Main Battle is
for the Exclusivity of the Soul, But The Body Might Be Included Too
Confession & Healing – Two
Notable Points to Consider Your Parable
Defilement is Permanent by Nature
Fornication Calls for Death, Not
Marriage
Implications of Permanent
Defilement
Great “Non-Virgins” Who Were
Married
Absolute Cleansing from
Fornication
Fornication-Murder Has Painful
Consequences, But There Are Exceptions
Initial Default Threats & Challenges
Until Help Comes
A New and Specialized Ordinance
and Custom
Not as Something
Owed, But As A Privileged Opportunity to Testify
How Long Should the
Confession Be
What Details Should
Be Included?
Let the Memory of
Them Perish – Forgetting What Your Confessing!
The Great Risk of a
Righteous Man Redeeming a Non-Virgin into a Proper Wife
* The Law Says to
Marry Someone After Defilement
** New Covenant
Says, Marry ONLY in Lord – NO
Interfaith Marriages!
Marital Redemption
After Defilement – From Old Covenant to New Covenant
Conclusions to Get
Zealous for Restoration
Pre-Marital Salvation by
Spiritual Miracles
Special Case of Supernatural
Healing
How Does This
Supernatural Healing Pertain to Me?
Cleaned Prostitutes Better than
Dirty Pharisees
Harlots and Tax Collectors Are
Entering Before You
You Are Full Of All Uncleanness
You Shall Not Covet Your
Neighbor’s Wife
Your Bubble Can
Show Your Level of Virginity
Purpose
Goal: Solidifying Celibacy While Not Seeking Marriage
Desperate Cave
Daughters Syndrome
Lot’s Story – From
Sodom to the Mountains
No Change of Appetite When
Walking Through the Desert
Pro_27:7 – To a Hungry Soul,
Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet
Shun Desperation in
Limited Contexts
Long-Term
Community Purity Protection? -- How to Maintain it
Knowing What You
Really Want is A Big Answer
Why
You Should Be Motivated By Exclusivity!
You Did Well to Believe in
Restoration
Hosea 2 Restoration -- Cleaning
Mouth And Memory
Marriage Exaltation is An Escape
From Temptation
Exclusivity is
Ultimately About Marriage
Exclusivity is
Always Worth it, Even if You Do Not Get Married in this Life
The Clean Passions
of Heavenly Marriage Do Not Endanger Exclusivity
Sacrificing Marriage for Calling Means
Great Marriage
Give Over a Sacrifice Before
Receiving Romantic Input
Great Marriage is
The Reward of Exclusivity
The Reward Does Not
Interrupt The Sacrifice – It Properly Fulfills It
Divine Intimacy that Last Forever
The Blessedness of
Marriage to God!
How Can a Woman Be
'Divine' in Marriage if She Represents The Assembly?
The Divine Intimacy
of Rationality, Perception, and Awareness
Eyes Pertain to
Human Intimacy Because there is Something Rational In There
No False Starts! No Partial
Initiations! – Premarital Polygamy is Intolerable
Exclusivity--03--No-False-Starts--4.26.15.mp3
The Unbearable Horror of
Premarital Polygamy
Consider the Pre-Exclusivity of the
Patriarchs, and Beyond
Tamar Waiting For A Suitor To Marry
Even if you Are Interrupted By
Courageous Death, False Starts are Tragic Evils
Truth and Faithfulness Happens
When You Only Proactively Love The One You Are Going To Marry
Arranged Marriage and/or Getting a
Prophecy – Is There a Difference?
“Arranged Marriage”
Has it’s Spiritual Implications.
Do You Need The
Gift of Prophecy To Get Married?
Be Faithful With
What You’ve Got
Arranged Marriages
are A Good Way to Hear What God is Saying
Women Are Naturally
Made Flexible
Spiritual
Exceptions to “Flexible” Women.
Not Having Special Knowledge Yourself
Means Needing Help Knowing What God Wants
Greater Marriage Means
More Particulars, But Not Necessarily Less Arrangement
Normal-Looking Marriage, While
Maintaining as Much Greatness as Possible
Parable Matchup vs. Generic
Qualities Lust
Intro 1: Reminders:
We Are After Celibacy, Perception, & Greatness
Intro 2: Generic
Marital Ambitions Do Not Matchup Parables
Polygamy to Exclusivity – Higher Stakes
Cries Out for More Supernatural Help
The Hazards of
Qualities, and the Salvation of Calling
Natural Parables
and Spiritual Matchup
A Disciple is Worth
More than a Cow
Don’t Reapply
Advertisement-Mentality from The World
Qualities Reoccur,
But Calling Happens Only Once
The
Point: Calling is the Only Thing Worth Desiring
Understanding
Marriage Parables
Salvation
Marriage / Saving Marriage
Getting
Greater After Marriage
Salvation
Marriage Throughout the Bible
What
Does Salvation
Marriage Include?
New
Covenant Women Can Spiritually Save Men
Tobias
Defines a Salvation Marriage – as Told in Tobit
Al:
"All Things Are yours" vs. ‘Getting Saved by Great Associations
within Marriage to Great People.
Will Your Salvation Marriage Mean
Comfort and/or Discipline?
What Happens when a Salvation Marriage Means Discipline & Correction?
Side Spiritual Notes – How We Ended Up
in This Bible Study
Identifying
The Privilege of Exaltation
Prerequisite
Disclaimers and Explanations
What is “Identifying The
Privilege”?
We Must Understand the Nature of
What is Going On
Who’s
Got the Privilege in Each Marriage?
Ruth
3 – Ruth to Boaz and Boaz to Ruth
1st
Samuel 18 – David’s Feelings of Unworthiness Toward Marry Saul’s Daughters
Michael’s
Failure to Recognize the Privilege of David!
2Sa_9:1 – Mephibosheth’s Good Confessions to David
1st
Samuel 25 – Abigail’s Humility Toward the Surpassing Privilege of David!
Romans 3 – Even Your
Pre-Salvation Past Can Affect Your Concept of Worthiness
1st Corinthians 15 –
Not Worthy To Be Called An Apostle
Luke 5 – Peter Feels Unworthy – I
Am A Sinful Man
Acts 10 – I Myself Am Also A Man
Reviews,
Summaries, and Partial Applications
Faithful Feelings of Unworthiness
Beget Impassioned Tenacity, Not Cowardice – Concluding
Climaxes!
Appeal Recognition
vs. Attraction Violations
Different Ways of Responding to
Someone’s Gender Appeal
Deeper Definitions of Disaster
and Duty
Get Inspiration
from God, or Else Wage War Against False Definitions of Yourself
Irk &
Attraction Both Come From Pride.
The Goal and
Statement of Faith of Appeal Recognition
Recognition is
Better at Avoiding Lust Than Fear Tactics
Don’t Feel
Attracted to Non-Spouses!
Sin &
Temptation vs. Appeal Recognition
Don’t Take Your
Lust Temptations Seriously
Appeal Recognition
Without Lust
Appealing Examples
You Might Have Seen or Heard About
Fighting For Cleanness In The
Midst of Potent Recognition
Thorns! – Helpful
Boundaries That Even Apply To The Righteous
Selfish Imagination Lust After
Your Fantasy of Their Person
Michal’s Bitter Story of
Short-Lived Lust-Love of David.
A Fan Proposes to a Famous Singer
The Distraction And Deception of
Qualities-Lust
Dreaming for
Yourself About Someone You Do Not Actually Know
Shinning Light and
Redefining Love by Loving Who They Really Are
The Guilt of Loving Fairytales
Over Integrity
Betraying Prince Charming by Your
Own Self-Deception
The Betrayal of David in His
Trial
Name some generic things girls
are sometimes attracted to
A Summary of What it Means to Minimize
Attractions
Foolish Harlot: “I
Feel so Much Love for Him!”/ Let Us Solace Ourselves With Love…
You Shall Not Be
Shallow in Your Sorrowful Temptations
Where
is the Real Source of Your Attraction?
Winnow Out the
Chaff So You Only Have Truth Left
Consecrated
Parables Are The Only Valuable Lust
Minimize Everything
That Does Not Save
Wisdom is Very Unexcited About
Lust
Personal Stories / Examples of
Treachery, Foolishness and Shallowness
The
Point: Truth Says Knowing People is the Value that Makes You Exclusive
Obsession is Required For
Exclusive Marriage
What is This “Obsession” Then?
Flesh vs. Faith --
The Temporary and Permanent Obsessions of those who loose and Those who win
The Bible is the
Real Source of Obsessing Romance
Unfaithful
Breaches Before Marriage Sets You Up for Intolerable Adulteries After Marriage
Josiahs’
Particular Parable of Exclusivity
Women Absolutely
Must Have Monogamy, Even More Than Men
The Point: the Reward of
Exclusivity is Greatness and Exaltation and Blessed Peace
It is assumed that Monotheists
Would Not Fornicate, But marry.
Revelation 3 – You are Wretched!
Punished by Things You Don’t
Recognize
Ezekiel on Separation from Blood
Flow
Can Sister’s Raise Their Brothers
/ Change their Diapers?
Question: Could JC Have Been
Married?
Demonic Fake Knowledge Says JC
was Married…
Celibacy Taught by Jesus &
Paul
Women at a Distance at the
Crucifixion
Jesus Gave Away a Mom, NOT a Wife
Resurrection Restrictions --
Purity Requirements Enforced for Women
Early Church Confirms Celibacy
Concluding Jesus was Unmarried
Intro
If we don’t meet God’s standards for purity then we are promised condemnation and wrath from God Himself (1Th_4:6). In all of this God has shown Himself extremely more practical than we have ever given Him credit for, since He cares about us enough to show us what is right, and what standard He commands all men to keep to not be sexually polluted and defiled before Him. Did you know that the Bible actually says how God feels about kissing, holding hands, and all such romantic affection outside of marriage? Did you know that God specifically and clearly demands a purity far beyond and completely contrary to our blind and lustful culture? Beware lest you trespass against Him without knowing it and endanger your own soul (Gen_20:3)! But on the contrary, if you take hold of True Biblical purity you of all people are most blessed, and will inherit the amazing promises of God due to the sanctification of your sexuality before Him!
How will a young man make
his way clean?…
(Ps. 119:9 KJV-Based) – Good Question!
Good Romance Praised
Romantic Love is Good in its Right Context, Even Before Marriage
It would not be fair for
anyone to read what I have written in this paper on dating and premarital
romances, without deeply considering its entirety in the light of the following
preliminary clarifications…
To ‘be in love,’ and to be so when engaged is Biblical. God likes clean romantic love. He even has romantic stories that lead to marriage written in Scripture multiple times.
Jacob & Rachel
“And Jacob served seven years
for Rachel, and they seemed to him a few days, for the love he had for her, (Gen_29:20 MKJV).”
[That is, “seven years” as payment for the bride price, to marry Rachel.]
Isaac and Rebekah
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming. 64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. 65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself… 65 …and she became his wife; and he loved her, (Gen_24:63-67 KJV).
Please Note:
i. One of our sayings in modern culture is “If you got it, show it,” but God’s type of romance involves “covering one’s self,” not “showing off.” This should be obvious, but some still think that “advertising” themselves is OK. For more on this see: Ex 28:42 where God indicates how He feels about a minimum dress code (speaking of underwear).
And 1Ti_2:9, “In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing… (WEB).”
ii. Isaac did not need to “get to know her” before they married. Conforming to God’s ordained plan, they were given 1 verse to “get to know each other” before they were married. Though it is not always so short in every case, we can learn not to cling to the deceptions given to us that say “You need to get to know each other first before marriage to know if they are the right one and to have a successful marriage.” Let us believe that God actually knows better than we do, and He does not see this as a universal need.
Pre-marital Romantic Stories in the Bible:
Isaac and Rebecca Gen 24; Ruth and Boaz Rth 2 - 3; David and Abigail 1Sa_25:3, 39-44;
God Likes Attraction
See: Beautiful People
Romance is to be Fulfilled Within Marriage
Scripture speaks
of one who “Finds a Wife” -to
Marry… Not just a “girl friend” to date:
Pro_18:22 He who finds4672 a wife
finds a good thing,
and obtains favor of the
LORD, (KJV-Based).
ð Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
finds4672- “…that is, appear…”
ð John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible:
“…Favour – Obtains her not by his own diligence, but by God's good providence.”
John Wesley here is noting the key that the Bible is trying to give us in Pro_18:22. When the Bible speaks of “favor” it is negating the ability of man and all his efforts to do it himself. This is just as another Scripture says, “…a prudent wife is from the LORD, (Pro_19:14 KJV).” teaching us also that it should be a dreaded thing to obtain a wife ourselves instead of by the Lord’s good favor, because without it we are libel to get someone not prudent (or “foolish”).
Mat_19:5-6 “…He which made them
at the beginning made them male and
female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and
shall cleave to his wife: and
they two shall be one flesh…” (KJV-Based)
ð Sex is for marriage and until then we should not go hunting for either. Dating is practically our way of not letting God find a spouse for us, by taking it into our own hands. Our dating practices usually lead to premarital sex, though we may or may not go all the way to “Home plate.” You will not find a spouse and obtain God’s favor unless you do it in the manner described in the Bible. For the cause of marriage shall a man leave parents and cleave to a wife, not for the cause of a girl friend, or to date, or for indulging in pre-marital romance.
The Bible says,
Ecc_9:9 WEB Live joyfully with the wife whom you love…
Pro_5:18-19 WEB …Rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe and a graceful deer -- Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
But says nothing of enjoying a girlfriend.
Heb_13:4 MKJV Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
God was so pleased with this kind of (marital) romance that He had a whole book written on it called Song of Solomon or Song of Songs, which means, “The most beautiful of all songs.”
But let us step back for a bit from marriage and consider romance even by itself;
In any case (right or wrong) we must be honest enough to admit…
Romance is An Intoxicant
Even though they do evil, the world knows that they should elect a responsible driver before they drink and drive because they realize, that alcohol is intoxicating. Sadly most church people are more foolish in this than drunkards. The Bible and just plain wisdom both clearly declare that romance of any kind is an intoxicant. How foolish of us to rely upon our own morals in such a shaky time of blurred judgment, when we are considering a relationship with someone?
Son_1:2, 4, 5 MKJV Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth; for Your love is better than wine… 4 …we will remember Your love more than wine… 5 …for I am sick with love
Son_8:6, 7 MKJV …for love is strong as death… its flames are flames of fire… 7 Many waters cannot quench love…
(Also see_4:10; 5:1;
7:2, 9; 8:2; Rev_17:2
intimacy is compared to wine; 1Co_7:9 describes it as burning)
Pro_5:19 WEB …Be captivated always with her love.
(Also See Pro_5:20; 6:25; 7:13, 22 ð it can make you act foolish; Gen_34:8 ð it is addictive; Due_23:10 ð you can suffer “withdrawal” when at war)
Pro_30:18-20 KJV There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. 20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
Notice that it says that the way of a man and a woman are just as overwhelming as a man with an adulteress.
If this writer of SCRIPTURE says these things are “too wonderful” for him to even know, why do we so arrogantly insist that we can make the right decisions and handle a relationship just by ourselves and that when romance has taken primary influence over our minds? When are we going to at least get as wise as some drunkards and elect a sober person to drive for us?
Bad Romance Condmened
The Sin of pre-marital
and extra-marital Indulgence
By specifying “Extra-Marital Indulgence” I mean flirting with anyone that you are not presently married to (whether before or after marriage). By mentioning “Premarital Flirting” we are talking about indulging in romantic desires and stirring them up before marriage.
Don’t Awaken Love
Son_2:7 WEB-based I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, and by the hinds of the field, That you don’t stir up, nor awaken love, *Until it so desire,
(*that is “until it is ready.” Repeated in Son_3:5 & Son_8:4).
A. Significant Cultural and Contextual Meanings
This verse is preceded by rich descriptions of romantic love such as “love,” “lovesick,” and Solomon’s “embrace” to his wife. Also present are cultural words for intimate passion such as “raisins” and “apples.” All this is given in the context of verse four’s description of a wedding with words like “banquet house” and “banner” (both of which are present in Jewish weddings). And for this reason,
“…don’t stir up, nor awaken love, until it is ready” - for marriage.
B. Application of the Admonition
The queen had an exemplary, passionate, ideal love life
(married to Solomon), and charged the daughters (the unmarried women) of
Jerusalem not to stir up love until marriage if they wanted to have what she
had. The whole book describes how
overwhelming the right kind of love life is for her and the king, and is
interspersed with admonitions: ‘If you
want this kind of rewarding romantic love story when you’re married, then do it
right beforehand! Don’t open this love
thing until you are ready to go all the way.’
Flirting, dating, and “going out” (as our
culture practices them) prematurely (i.e. “premaritally”) stirs up sexual
desire that can’t lawfully be fulfilled by “going all the way,” until
marriage. Let us set our face to heed
her admonition, in the hope that is offered: If we do it right, then we set
ourselves up for an exciting “Song of Solomon” romantic marriage.
In
the mean time when dealing with attractive girls or guys, it commands us,
Pro_4:23 Jos.Trans Diligently guard your heart because out of it goes the issues of life…
Note: this representation needs much revision!
If you don’t guard your
heart, then by our sinful default, love will stir up pre maritally in us and lead us away by its strong intoxicating sway.
Don’t “Go Beyond” As The Nations Which Don’t Know God!
1Th_4:1-9 CAB
Finally then [Τὸ
λοιπὸν οὖν – so, for the
rest], brothers, we request [ἐρωτῶμεν]
of you and exhort you [παρακαλοῦμεν
– lit. call next to (i.e. speaking closely and earnestly to you for
your benefit)] in the Lord Jesus [ἐν
Κυρίῳ ᾿Ιησοῦ],
just as
you received from us how you ought [δεῖ]
to walk [around (περιπατεῖν)]
and to please God, that you should abound
more. 2 For you know [οἴδατε]
what commandments [παραγγελίας
– lit. messages/ proclamations/ announcements...]
we gave […next to] you
through the Lord
Jesus. 3 For this is the
will [θέλημα] of God, your
sanctificationG38 [ἁγιασμὸς
– holiness (i.e. sexual purity in this case)]: that you [all]
should *abstain from fornication
[ἀπέχεσθαι
ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ
τῆς πορνείας
– lit. in holding away, be away from
prostitution, (by application, sex
before marriage)], 4 that each of
you should know [εἰδέναι]
how to possess [κτᾶσθαι]
his own vessel [σκεῦος]
in sanctification [ἁγιασμῷ
– holiness] and honor [or value (τιμῇ)], 5 not
in lustful passion [πάθει ἐπιθυμίας
– lit. hurtful/ painful (fig. deeply
emotional) heatings upon], like [also
(καὶ is omitted in English here)] the
Gentiles [lit. nations (i.e. non-Jews)] who do not know
[εἰδότα]
God, 6 that no one should transgressG5233
[ὑπερβαίνειν
– go above/ “beyond” (i.e. the limits);
fig. overreach] against
and to defraudG4122 [πλεονεκτεῖν
– steal from/ defraud] his brother in this matter [πράγματι],
because [διότι – lit. through that (i.e. that
through/ because of/ on account of this)] the Lord is the [an]
avenger
[ἔκδικος – lit. one who brings out righteous justice (on
criminals/ sinners); (a disher) out
(of) justice] concerning [περὶ]
all [these things (πάντων
τούτων – omitted in English)],
just as [καθὼς] we [also
(καὶ)] told you before
and *solemnly [thoroughly] testified [διεμαρτυράμεθα
– lit. (intensely) witnessed/ testified
through (and through)].
7
For God did not call [ἐκάλεσεν]
us to [ἐπὶ – lit. upon] uncleanness [ἀκαθαρσίᾳ],
but in sanctificationG38 [ἐν ἁγιασμῷ
– in holiness]. 8 Therefore [τοιγαροῦν]
he who rejects this [ἀθετῶν
– lit. disarranges (this appointment); fig. breaks/ disobeys/ ignores/ contradicts/ makes void this law] does not reject [ἀθετεῖ
– disarrange] man, but [ἀλλὰ]
God, who has given [δόντα]
*His Holy Spirit [τὸ
Πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ
τὸ ῞Αγιον – the spirit of his,
the one (that is) holy] to [εἰς –
into] you. 9 Now
concerning [περὶ – arround] brotherly love
[φιλαδελφίας]…
A. Greek Definitions:
i.
“Go beyond” or “take advantage” kai pleonektein ton
adelphon autou
G5233 ὑπερβαίνω huperbainō hoop-er-bah'ee-no
From G5228 and the base of G939; to
transcend; that is, (figuratively) to
overreach: - go beyond. (Strong’s Hebrew and Greek
Dictionaries)
ii.
1) to
step over, beyond 2) metaphorically
2a) to transgress 2b) to overstep the proper limits 2c) trespass, do
wrong, sin 2c1) of one who defrauds another in business 2d) overreaches, (Thayer’s Greek Definitions).
iii.
Contextually: To “Go Beyond” has ideas of, “come upon” or ‘lying with’ and so
defrauding. Sometimes used in Greek writings for adultery.
iv.
G4122 “Defraud” πλεονεκτέω pleonekteō
pleh-on-ek-teh'-o From G4123;
to be covetous, that is, (by implication) to over reach: - get an advantage, defraud,
make a gain. (Strong’s
Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries)
v. The World’s Definition: To “Score!” with a girl or guy.
B. Other Thoughts
i.
Cheapening Vs. Honor ß
ii. “Go Beyond/ Defraud” - Treating fine china like a paper plate.
iii. To “Go Beyond” is the predecessor of “Unbridled Lust”
2Pe_2:18-22 MKJV For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust 766, the ones who were [just] escaping from those who live in error; 19 …they themselves are the slaves of corruption… 22 (WEB) But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire."
iv. You must bridle passions, so that they don’t take you “beyond proper limits”.
v. Don’t think that you are practically connected with Jesus if you are flirting, because you are committing the first parts of fornication! And God says that He, “…is an avenger in all these things…” (V.6) not just what we see as the technical sin but “all” things that lead up to it, as also the Bible has continually “forewarned you and testified,” (V.6).
Not Even Named Once
“Fornication” is premarital sex. But we can commit it before actually going all the way by means of lust, (Mat_5:27-30). In the same way, anything that even leads toward the direction of the literal act of fornication is sin. Many people ask, “How far is to far?” – Any amount of the direction of fornication at all is sin.
A. Fornication Not even Named
Eph_5:3 MKJV …let fornication4202 and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints…
Jud_1:23 WEB and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
B. No Appearance of Evil
1Th_5:22 KJVA Abstain from all appearance of evil.
2Co_6:3 MKJV We are in nothing giving cause of stumbling, in no way, so that the ministry may not be blamed,
C. Right in The Eyes of Others
Rom_12:17 NIV Do not
repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do [or “provide”]
what is right in the eyes of everybody.
2Co_8:21 NIV For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of men
D. Ruth’s
Example – Appropriate Cross Gender Boundaries
How this Moabite
gentile learned the purity boundaries of monotheism!
“Stay close by the young women” – Rth_2:8, 22; 3:2, 10-11
Exo_19:12-13 KJV And you shall set boundaries [i.e. like the “limits” of a fence] unto the people round about, saying, “Be careful to yourselves. Do not go up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whoever touches the mount shall be surely put to death: 13 There shall not a hand touch it, that won’t surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live”
This applies to the holiness of sexuality in many ways as the holiness of God.
Beauty Holified
See: BDC > Beauty Holified
Biblical-Dress-Code.htm#BeautyHolified
(Remember: BDC is about visual
purity form the heart)
Holiness Proclamation
9/9/21-9/10/21; 9/12/21;
~9/17/21-9/22/21; 11/8/22-11/9/22; 10/24/23; [10/29/23; 11/1/23; {11/8/23;}
1/13/24]; [1/2/24; 1/14/24]; 1/8/24;
9/5/24; 12/19/24-12/20/24 [2/17/25…3/31/25] …6/7/25; 6/12/25
Circumcision = Holiness
See: Purity-Proclamation.htm#Holiness
Reminders
· Clean Heart see God
· No Holiness, No Heaven! (Heb_12:14)
Consider these most important convicting
passionate exciting motivating deep critical fiery versus in the Bible about
holiness and how it convicts of sin, and how much we need it in order to get
heaven, and how the only way we can seriously consider ourselves real
Christians or worthy of heaven is if we've got Holiness as an essential
requirement and prerequisite for eternal life…
Holiness Defined
Holy ≈ Separation
“ָקדוֹשׁ”
H6918
AHLB claims it eventually
comes from:
“חד”
See: H2297-H2301
H2297 H2298 H2299 H2300
H2301
Greek: Holy-Purity ≈ Holiness
Holiness Lost
the decline of Holiness and
the rise of Apostasy
interestingly the usage
frequency of the word “holiness” drastically dropped from the 1800s to 1900.
We can see a very
interesting and provocative and disturbing correlation with the sloppiness of
the 1900s with the abandonment of caring about holiness.
A. W. Tozer:
"God is holy with an
absolute holiness that knows no degrees, and this He cannot impart to His
creatures." [1]
A. W. Tozer. The Knowledge
of the Holy. HarperOne. 1978. pp. 105-106.
This claims that God has
declared Christians to be holy and righteous, even though they are not in their
daily walk.
...
Christ did everything that
is necessary for our salvation. He did all the work! But our practice is still
sinful. In theology this is called our position versus our practice.
https://www.neverthirsty.org/bible-qa/qa-archives/question/what-is-difference-between-holy-and-righteous-in-bible/
9/9/21
Righteousness, Then Holiness
Rom_6:22 – being a slave of righteousness produces Holiness, and
Holiness results in eternal life
doing what is right is
righteousness / real Justice
doing what is right makes
you righteous
righteousness can begin
immediately but Holiness is a product of righteousness
Holiness from Hebrew is the
oneness and unity of purpose unto which you are separated.
being separated unto one
special unique purpose is the immediate meaning of being holy.
the devoted singularity of
purpose makes you holy.
but when the separation of
holiness is achieved in the Bible we are talking about a longer-term deeper
character accomplishment where not only are immediate actions are right but the
deeper integrity of our soul has dormant inactive strongholds removed so that
we can serve not only doing what is immediately right but also having the
resulting separation of cleanliness from inactive unresolved potential sins.
so righteousness is an
immediate action to do what is right and holiness is a deeper separation that
results by patient perseverance and endurance that systematically removes all
common impulses of the flesh and the deeper strongholds that disagree with the
truth of God to the point that we can serve God in increasingly special unique
clean capacities...
Glory of Holiness
and this special unique
clean holiness allows us to participate in the Divine glory of God upon the
earth.
because we can also see a
profound reality that increasing in this clean holiness downloads a Divine
Glory upon the one who is holy.
participating in Holiness
directly correlates with a Divine substance of Glory...
we can profoundly see this
glorious and deep mystery in Isaiah 6...
Isa_6:3 – holy holy, holy... the whole earth is full of his glory
we see that Holiness has a
Divine Glory emanating out of it.
Exo_15:11
Rev_4:8-9
Rev_15:3-4
this is where the idea
eventually came from, that holy ones can have a Halo of Glory around their
heads in pictures.
the pictures themselves can
be quite fictional, but the original concept is absolutely real.
Only God is Holy?
and yet, of course we have
to deal with the hecklers and Christian atheists who deny the very cherished
and special hope of participating in such great and sizzling promises...
without thinking at all,
and without any scientific integrity or any real text of Scripture, Protestants
will automatically reflex to say that only God is holy and only God has
Glory...
and that's one of the solas
of the Protestant Reformation: to the glory of g-d alone
and sure, God will not
share his glory with another, but what happens if those who were once humans
are upgraded and made one spirit with God?
as the perfect Scriptures
say which cannot be broken:
the two will be one flash
and this is directly
applied to the assembly and to anointed one in Ephesians 5, and Paul goes on to
say:
and a husband who is loving
his wife is loving himself
but what he is really
speaking about is Anointed one and the assembly...
therefore we are under ‘a
better covenant that is based on better promises’, so that...
and much orthodoxy the Old
Testament truly said:
I will not share my glory
with another
and yet the New Testament
promises of being joined to the godhead says:
if you are persecuted on
account of anointed one the glory of God and of Anointed One rests on you...
and we shouldn't be so
worried about the orthodoxy of these things in one sense because this Glory
which rests on a man no matter how profound it is, it is a borrowed
righteousness and a borrowed Holiness and a borrowed Glory which still belongs
to God.
but watch out on wicked
Bible hating protestant! because when the bride is joined physically with God
as well as spiritually, you will have no more excuses when she speaks from
Heaven as one spirit and one body with God!
and consider the
profoundness of having God's holy Glory resting upon us...
... dup?
therefore we are under a
better covenant that is based on better promises, so that...
....
we are commanded to be holy
because he is holy, and therefore it is not our own righteousness nor our own
Holiness we are pursuing or seeking to establish, but in fact, we are actually
pursuing the same substance of Holiness that is God.
if we are to be holy
because God is holy, the only Holiness or righteousness we can have is that
which is borrowed directly from God, and there is nothing that emanates out of
God that is not Divine.
because of this we are
commanded to participate in God's holiness which emanates directly out of God
and is God, in the exact same orthodoxy that Jesus is God.
Inspired Holiness
Be Holy as God is Holy -- Holy, Like God’s Holiness
Lev_11:44 – Be holy as God is Holy
Lev_11:44 NKJV For I am the
LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be
holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping
thing that creeps on the earth.
Lev_19:2 NKJV Speak to all
the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘You shall be
holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
Lev_20:26 NKJV And you
shall be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from the
peoples, that you should be Mine.
1Pe_1:15 NKJV but as He who
called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
1Pe_1:16 NKJV because it is
written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
Holiness includes practical
obedience and separation from defilement:
2Co_7:1 NKJV Therefore,
having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of
the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Heb_12:14 NKJV Pursue peace
with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
Eph_5:27 NKJV that He might
present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any
such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
Rom_6:22 NKJV But now
having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit
to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
1Th_4:7 NKJV For God did
not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
Get Enlightened!
6/15/25
>>Scrip:
Eph_4: everything
that enlightened IS light
2Co_2:
When you seriously look at
righteous Holy light, you become transformed into that light!
You cannot stand unholiness
and sin any longer!
Connecting to the HOLY God In Prayer
Connecting to the Right God In Prayer
Come into The Fire!
Exodus 32-33
notice that God really
wishes He had people that loved Him enough to come up on the mountain
this is fulfilled in Romans
12 and other passages
What does that look like?
Isaiah 6
notice that God likes to
involve you in His flaming fire when He sticks His fiery purifying Truth all up
in your mouth
↓
Jesus in the Throne Room
Rev_4 – 5
Lamp Shinning Over Head
-- in Prayer
Job_29:3
WEB when his lamp shone on my head,
and by his light I walked through darkness,
Job_29:3
LB As when His lamp
shone over my head; when by His light I walked through darkness.
Job_29:3 ὡς
ὅτε ηὔγει ὁ λύχνος
αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ
κεφαλῆς μου, ὅτε
τῷ φωτὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπορευόμην
ἐν σκότει·
2 Corinthians 3
God had been burning and
flaming and consuming the fiery mountain with his blazing Glory, and He wished
people would be able to Love Him enough to come be with Him, but instead He
took that blazing fiery glory and stuck His burning finger into stone - so hot
it could burn Rock and write the ten commandments, and now He wants to stick
His flaming burning finger all up in your heart to write His law, his blazingly
holy burning fiery Truth in your very nature and essence so that you come out
of a prayer closet with the divinely inspired scriptures burning from your insides
and your conscience and your mind consumed with the burning preoccupation of the glory of His holiness.
and when you come on up out
of your prayer closet and you don't live a life of Holiness it's because you
didn't meet him when you turned aside to pray on your own.
When your life looks
nothing like Him it's because you've never met Him like Isaiah did and the New
Covenant does to disciples who meet the fiery God who burns his inspired
scriptures on your poor being with His flaming finger
2Co_13:5 – examine yourself if you're in the faith
Have You Seen Him? - Critical Question!
Isa 6 saw Him indeed!
fiery burning holiness is
what it means to see Him!
1Jn 3
no purity = no hope
1Jn5?
...& never seen him or
known him!
are you really motivated by
holiness?
that's what happens when/if
you've really seen Him!
examples
· TV, movies, music
· Conversations
· See wow
· Where's some serious obedience!?
what Spirit are you being
motivated by?
don't talk vanity to me
about your soulish 'spiritual' gymnastics...
you're tongue-talking, but
you are cold toward the fiery essence of Holiness of who He Is...!
...goofing around at the
front of the church floor at the altar, but you have no perception or idea of
what Holiness has anything to do with, and you're free indulging in all the
nasty garbage of this polluted soulish subdivine evil dirty life!
the HOLY Spirit keeps you
burning for, and motivated by, holiness!
that's who the real God and
real Holy Spirit is!
Hating Sin Proves Saving Holiness
praying to the right God
makes you immediately aware of sin
the zeal that burns in you
from interacting with the right God makes you throw out the garbage...
reality of Truth, holiness,
and the realization of the evil of this life makes you do that...
example: when someone dies
you should be moved to kill the sin that killed your beloved one...
you realize how unclean
your lips can be and you burn with anger against the ongoing hypocrisy of those
polluting the house of God's name...
...
I hate the works of those
who turn aside
I will put no evil thing
before me
Works of the Nicolations
Which works I also hate
Only Clean People See God!
9/5/24
Isaiah 6
Rev_4:8
Transfiguration
John: we saw his glory
1jn: God is light
2co2 - ministry of
righteousness and transforming Glory
the clean and heart are
blessed because they will see God
without Holiness and no one
will see the Lord
who will ascend the hill of
the Lord
God's holiness will either
make you holy or it will kill you
If you were approaching the
right God and you were offering strange fire you would be falling down dead
Lev 10
Do You Seriously Love Jesus?
-- Under Construction --
Flesh vs. Holiness
More
Holy than Flesh!
Your Unholiness is worse
than you think -- Repent of trivializing your extreme desolation!
-- Under Construction --
Salvation of Holiness
Holiness Required for Salvation
Heb_12:14
NKJV Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see
the Lord:
1Pe_1:15-16
NKJV but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."
Mat_5:3,
Mat_5:8
– Poor & Pure in heart see God
PPX: Holiness Required: Heb_12:14, Mat_7:21-23,
1Jn_3:6-10, Gal_5:19-21,
Eph_5:5-6
GPT: Heb_12:14;
1 Pe_1:15; Rom_6:22; 2 Co_7:1; Eph_4:24; 1 Pe_2:9; 1 Jo_3:6; Mat_7:21; Rev_20:12
Heb_12:14 NKJV Pursue peace with all people, and
holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
This is an absolute rule of required holiness
for salvation that gets heaven.
“don’t be deceived” by any other nonsensical
substitutions and excuses to believe something different than what it actually
says about the salvation of holiness!
Rom_6:22 NKJV But now having been set free from sin,
and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness,
and the end, everlasting life.
Holiness → Heaven
This is absolutely clear and it absolutely
rebukes and overrules all of the Protestant heresies of Faith Alone.
Holiness = Knowing God!
Holiness
Relates to the REAL God
Hos_11:9 NKJV For I am God, and not man, The Holy One
in your midst; And I will not come with terror.
2Co_7:1 NKJV Therefore, having these promises,
beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Fearing God is at the core of relating to Him,
and we see that holiness is the essential foundation to coming before God with
fear and reverence to truly connect to Him in a saving way that He recognizes
and blesses.
Lev_19:2 NKJV “Speak to all the congregation of the
children of Israel, and say to them: ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your
God am holy.’”
1Pe_1:15 NKJV But as He who called you is holy, you
also be holy in all your conduct.
1Pe_1:16 NKJV Because it is written, “Be holy, for I am
holy.”
Eph_4:24 NKJV And that you put on the new man which was
created according to God, in true
righteousness and holiness.
Comp. Pro_30:12-14 – generation pure in their own eyes
1Pe_2:9 NKJV But you are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people…
No hypocrisy allowed!
Moses’ Good Confessions
Exo_15:11 NKJV Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods?
Who is like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Moses recognized who God was on Earth; other
Bible passages reaffirm that this is who God really is in heaven!
I exceedingly fear and tremble
Exo_3: –
Moses hasten to bow to the ground
Psa_22:3 NKJV But You are holy, Enthroned in the
praises of Israel.
Psa_99:3 NKJV Let them praise Your great and awesome
name—He is holy.
…
Psa_99:5 NKJV Exalt the Lord our God, And worship at
His footstool—He is holy.
..
Psa_99:9 NKJV Exalt the Lord our God, And worship at
His holy hill; For the Lord our God is holy.
[His name
and presence are terrifying in holiness]
1Sa_2:2 NKJV No one is holy like the Lord, For there
is none besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God.
Rev_15:4 NKJV Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and
glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and
worship before You…
[He alone
is pure, exalted, unapproachable, and fearfully majestic (Rev_15:4; Hos_11:9).]
Heavenly Visions
Isa_6:3 NKJV And one cried to another and said: “Holy,
holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!”
Rev_4:8 NKJV And they do not rest day or night,
saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!”
Holy Purity Is Required
1ti2 - saved minded holy
purity
1ti_5:1-2 -
younger women as sisters with all holy purity
2ti 2 - purifying yourself
and fleeing youthful lusts so that you will be a useful container in His hands
Exodus_34:10 - Bigger Than Moses’ Other Miracles
It is time for you to get
holy so you can get all up in the end times greatness of mega miracles that are
about to explode publicly upon the earth when he saves a people yet still for
himself and find the reveals who the real God is
monotheistic Holiness is
about separation and its glorious resulting cleanness:
Isaiah_48:20
Jeremiah_50:8
Jeremiah_51:6
Jeremiah_51:45
Zachariah_2:6
2 Corinthians_6:17
Revelation_18:4
….
The Joking JC in Our Own Image
>> PUR | SPI | JBS
"All this seems to me
that Jesus would have been laughing and smiling over pretty much the same
things we all do. And for inappropriate comments, I’ve little doubt He would
have artfully distracted them with some other humorous statement."
https://www.quora.com/Was-Jesus-laughing-when-he-said-You-strain-out-a-gnat-but-swallow-a-camel-Matthew-23-24-And-what-exactly-was-he-saying-to-the-Pharisees
this is not just an
embarrassment to churchianity and all of christianism, but this is actually
also an embarrassment to the human race, that humans can be so foolish and mindless
absurd and ridiculous, and are no better than the animals as the scripture says
↑
Executed for Unholiness
God is giving church people the death penalty
for boldly going about and confidently celebrating their privileges and the
sin-defiled pleasures of this life without holiness!
Lev_10:1 NKJV Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron,
each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane
fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.
Lev_10:2 NKJV So fire went out from the Lord and
devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
Lev_10:3 NKJV And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what
the Lord spoke, saying: ‘By those who come near Me I must be regarded as
holy; And before all the people I must be glorified.’” So
Aaron held his peace.
Think: the Lord’s prayer
10 Commandments: Name not taken in vain!
Ark
Jos_3:4 WEB Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before."
Jos_3:4 LB But let there be a distance between you and it; you shall stand as much as two thousand cubits from it. Do not draw near to it, that you may know the way which you are to go; for you have not gone the way before.”
Jos_3:4 ἀλλὰ
μακρὰν ἔστω ἀνὰ
μέσον ὑμῶν καὶ ἐκείνης
ὅσον δισχιλίους
πήχεις· στήσεσθε,
μὴ προσεγγίσητε
αὐτῇ, ἵν᾿ ἐπίστησθε
τὴν ὁδόν, ἣν
πορεύεσθε αὐτήν·
οὐ γὰρ πεπόρευσθε
τὴν ὁδὸν ἀπ᾿ ἐχθὲς
καὶ τρίτης ἡμέρας.
2Sa_6:6 NKJV And when they came to Nachon’s threshing
floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the
oxen stumbled.
2Sa_6:7 NKJV Then the anger of the Lord was aroused
against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by the
ark of God.
↓
1Ch_15:13 NKJV For because you did not do it the first
time, the Lord our God broke out against us, because we did not consult Him
about the proper order.
Rebellious Lie: All the congregations is holy,
every one!
Result:
Num_16:31 NKJV Then it came to pass, as he finished
speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them… and they went
down alive into the grave with all those associated with them.
[God preserves His holiness by
judging rebellion among His leadership.]
Hard-hearted unbelief leaves you unresolvably
despairing against God’s holiness!
Num_17:12-13 KJV
…Behold, we die *, we
perish, we all perish… shall we be consumed with dying *?
[*
expire/suffocate]
Not Knowing God = Hell
Joh_17:3 NKJV And this is eternal life, that they may
know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
[Eternal life is knowing God personally—not just about Him.]
1Jo_3:6 NKJV Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
This is not just some sort of a subjective
personal confirmation of one’s own philosophical assurance, but rather, this is
hard reality of concrete proof that every human with a working logical brain is
responsible for acknowledging and submitting to, and it morally demands for us
to be brokenhearted with bowed heads, under the convicting-convincing light of
truth proclaimed by the holiness of the no-sinning requirements demanded from
us.
2Th_1:8 NKJV in flaming fire taking vengeance on
those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Mat_7:21 NKJV Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord,
Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father
in heaven.
Mat_7:22 NKJV Many will say to Me in that day, “Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name…?”
Mat_7:23 NKJV And then I will declare to them, “I never
knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”
Mat_25:11 NKJV Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’
Mat_25:12 NKJV But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
It doesn't matter if you claim to know God; it matters if He says he knows you!
You’re unholy professions of faith are worth absolutely nothing! -- except fiery judgement that will devour the adversaries
and we've already seen what the Bible says about God's demands for Holiness before he will ever tolerate it being insinuated that you know anything about who he really is!
Not the one who commend himself
fiery judgement that will devour the adversaries
claiming to be free but bondservants of corruption
Tit_1:16 NKJV They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.
[True knowledge of God must result in
obedience and godliness.]
2Pe_2:1 NKJV But there were also false prophets… who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
[People who claim religion but deny Christ's Lordship are under
condemnation.]
More Holiness Required
Chastised confidence that
required reverence to return back to jealous favor
Examples of people who were
chastised despite their divine favor
· Joshua
· Samson
· David
Song of Solomon -- Overview
Song_2:4 - wife as beautiful as an army?
How is a woman beautiful like an army?
How is an army beautiful?
WEB is saying an army with banners, which could refer to her clothes as making her “all dressed up” like the uniforms of armies, and Greek is saying as arranged which could refer to her preparing herself to be seen in public with ornate and Royal clothing
Song_2:5 - eyes overcoming is good in marriage but illegal and prohibited outside of marriage
Song 4 & song_2:5:
Hair appears up again from Gilead?
If hair appears from Gilead that would imply that it was previously hidden by Gilead, which very easily fits the cultural context of the head covering that afterward reveals the hair and the event of a close encounter of the romantic kind
This does not mean she does not have a head covering
all it takes today for an apostate to congratulate themselves is one perceived opportunity of vulnerability where the scriptures can be fragmented and molested from their heretical attacks, yet obviously that wouldn't make sense in light of the rest of the Bible or of the rest of History throughout the whole world regarding women...
a Bible disobeyer is typically going to say that 'he's seeing her hair therefore she doesn't have a head covering, so we don't need a head covering either', whereas a Bible obeyer is going to say her hair is appearing therefore it was previously hidden, so we need to "go and do likewise"
Song_6:6 - teeth are seen
Song_6:7- temples behind your veil
How does he see her teeth?
It must be some kind of close encounter of the romantic kind.
If he is considered pertaining to her flesh and owning her body, she could be temporarily letting down her veil in this close encounter of the romantic kind
furthermore, it is saying that her teeth are like animals which come up from the washing which means they are in a certain movement that is coming into view after having been washed which is similar to the hair which came into being seen from Gilead, therefore what we're seeing here is an appearance of hair that was previously not apparent and similarly the teeth are described as herds that are coming up from the washing which would imply they also were not previously being seen (edited)
10:13 AM
by the time we get to song_6:7 we have seen that hair became apparent from behind her Gilead head covering, her teeth became apparent after coming up from the washing, and then also her temples are like a piece of pomegranate coming up from behind her face veil. if we construe this inconsistently then we have a case for Bible disobedience by ignoring logic, however if we understand this consistently then the whole Bible makes sense and we can obey it and be righteous so we need to seriously decide which direction we want to go.
Choose this day whom you will serve
Song of Solomon -- Summaries
SoS Sections
Son_1:2-17 – Son_2:1-7 – The Banquet
Son_2:8-17 – The Beloved's Request
Son_3:1-5 – A Troubled Night
Son_3:6-11 – Son_4:1-16 – Son_5:1-16 – Son_6:1-3 – The Coming of Solomon
Son_6:4-13 – Praise of the Shumlamite's Beauty
Son_7:1-13 – Son_8:1-14 – Expressions of Praise
SoS Summary
Incl. ‘Who’s Talking?’ -- as Originally Compiled from NKJV, NIV, &
More, then enhanced for Excellence
DoJ = Daughters of Jerusalem
Son_1:1 -
Title
Son_1:2-17 – Son_2:1-7 –
The Banquet
Son_1:2-4 –
The Shulamite
Son_1:2 – your
MS
MT uses this “love” as sexual love: Eze_16:8 (MT); Pro_7:18; Eze_23:17
Used
again in: Son_1:2; Son_1:4; Son_1:13; Son_1:14; Son_1:16; Son_2:3; Son_2:8; Son_2:9; Son_2:10; Son_2:16; Son_2:17; Son_4:10; Son_4:16; Son_5:1
(NKJV: says comp this verse); Son_5:2; Son_5:4; Son_5:5; Son_5:6; Son_5:8; Son_5:9; Son_5:10; Son_5:16; Son_6:1; Son_6:2; Son_6:3; Son_7:9; Son_7:10; Son_7:11; Son_7:12;
Son_7:13; Son_8:5; Son_8:14;
Son_1:3 – love =
same as: Son_1:4: rightly
do they love you…; Gen_24:67 / Deu_6:5 (NKJV: partly like agape in Gr?)
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Son_1:4 – Shulamith
and the Daughters of Jerusalem (in responsive song)
Son_1:4 (a)
– MT: The Shulamite: Draw me... / LXX: they have drawn you...
Son_1:4 WEB Take
me away with you. / Son_1:4 CAB They
have drawn you:
Son_1:4 (b)
– DoJ: MT: Let us hurry / LXX: We will run after you...
Let us hurry. / we will
run after you MS, for the smell of your ointments:
Son_1:4 (c)
– The Shulamite:
The king has brought me
into his chambers. / the king has brought me into his closet:
Son_1:4 (d)
– DoJ:
Friends We will be glad
and rejoice in you FS. We will praise your MS love more than wine! Beloved
They are right to love you MS. [same love as: Son_1:3]
let us rejoice and be glad
in you; we will love your breasts more than wine: righteousness loves you.
>>
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>>
Son_1:4 (e)
– The Shulamite:
Son_1:4-7 –
The Shulamite
Son_1:7 – (To her
beloved)
NKJV: LXX, Syriac & Vul: wanderers
LXX, really??
Son_1:8-10 – The
Beloved
>>??
Son_1:10 – dear
friend?
Son_1:11 –
DoJ: We will make you FS
MT: ...Time [season] of
singing…; LXX: καιρος; Br: Pruning
Son_1:12-14 –
The Shulamite
Son_1:13-14 – sexual
love
Son_1:13 – All
night: <<Gr>> (no strong num.) from <<Gr>> G835, to
lodge for the night, that is, stay somewhere all night, Mat_21:17 (See:
Gr); Luk_21:37
Son_1:15 –
The Beloved
Gr: Neighbor
Son_1:16-17 – Son_2:1 – The Shulamite
Son_2:2 –
The Beloved
Son_2:3 –
The Shulamite
NKJV: “The apple tree and the raisin cakes (v. 5) are
symbols for sexual passion in ancient love songs” (p. 1101)
Son_7:6-8
Wine & Banner
Son_2:4-7 –
The Shulamite to DoJ
Son_2:4 – See: Psa_104:15 – the
joy of wine
Banner H1714 – Num_1:52
Love = ἀγάπην.
Son_2:8-17 – The Beloved's Request
Son_2:8-14 –
The Shulamite
Son_2:14 –
See: 2Sa_12:1
Son_2:15 –
Her Brothers
Son_2:15-17 – Fix
the things that hurt, tender emotions, lest simple and pure trust be defiled with
contempt from that hurt. Spoiling is not an option. Perfect favor must be
maintained: Son_2:16 & Son_2:17
Son_2:16-17 – The Shulamite
Son_2:17 – (To her
beloved)
NKJV: upon the mountains of bether [lit: separation]
Son_3:1-11 –
The Shulamite: all of chapter 3...
>> how to organize
this...
Son_3:11 – JS:
crown: not as 1Ki_1:1; 1Ch_23:11
Son_3:1-5 – A Troubled Night
Son_3:1-5 –
The Shulamite
Son_3:6-11 – Son_4:1-16 – Son_5:1 – The
Coming of Solomon
Son_3:6-11 –
The Shulamite
Son_3:9 – NKJV:
made himself a palanquin [a portable
enclosed chair]
Son_4:1-15 –
The Beloved
Son_4:8 –
sightseeing by yourself is usually a wretched and vain evil, and it is
eternally redeemed when done with a companion given by God.
Son_4:10 – NKJV: erotic love
Psa_104:15
Num_1:52
Sexual love: Eze_16:8; Pro_7:18; Eze_23:17
Son_4:16 –
The Shulamite
Son_5:1 –
The Beloved
Son_5:1 b –
(to his friends)
Son_5:2-16 – Son_6:1-3 – The
Shulamite's Troubled Evening
Son_5:2-8 –
The Shulamite
Son_5:2, etc.
Spiritually: Luk_12:35-40 vs. Mat_25:5-7
Son_5:3 – Does
Jesus defile you? Mat_11:6 blessed is he who is not offended on account of me…
Son_5:6 – my
heart leaped
my heart leaped – but obedience was partly asleep! (Son_5:2)
your desire will be for your husband
Son_5:9 –
DoJ
Son_5:10-16 –
The Shulamite
Notice her tenacity
which refuses to have a faith crash from romance, even when he has withdrawn!
Son_5:10 – yes,
indeed, he is white… Especially where he is usually wearing clothing!
Son_5:14-15 – only a
wife should know these details first hand…
Son_6:1 –
DoJ
Son_6:1 –
Where has he gone?
He has withdrawn to promote the love that was delayed
(by delayed obedience).
Where is it? What is he doing?
He is storing up personal romance or her, daydreaming
about her even when away!
Son_6:2-3 –
The Shulamite
Son_6:12 – NKJV:
as the chariots of my noble people [heb:
ammi nadib – ?]
Son_6:4-13 – Praise of the Shumlamite's Beauty
Son_6:4-10 –
The Beloved
Son_6:11-12 –
The Shulamite
Son_6:12 – before
I knew…
Don’t be a fool and say, I can handle it…
In the bad sense, this is like the trickiness of
pride…
Pro_30:18-20
In the good sense...
Son_6:12 – You got to
be pretty wise for your heart to trick you into good!
Son_6:13 a –
The Beloved and His Friends
Son_6:13 b –
The Shulamite
Son_7:1-13 – Son_8:1-4 –
Expressions of Praise
Son_7:1-9 a –
The Beloved
Son_7:5 – being
tide up is Biblical
Son_7:9-13 – Son_8:1-4 ?? – The Shulamite
(9 b)
Son_7:9 (a) –
NKJV/MT: The Beloved: Your mouth like the best wine
Son_7:9 (b) –
The Shulamite: that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the
lips of those who are asleep
Son_7:9 – NKJV:
moving the lips of sleepers [LXX,
Syr, Vol: Lips and teeth]
>> LXX???
Son_7:10 – Gen_3:16
Son_7:12 – SoS
Teaches: sex in the morning, sex in the evening, sex all the time…
Son_8:1-3 –
kiss…fruit…embrace √
Son_8:3-4 – to
DoJ -- The Shulamite?
Son_8:5-14 – Love Renewed in Lebanon
Son_8:5 – A
Relative
Son_8:6-7 –
The Shulamite to her Beloved
Son_8:6 – a
flame of Yah [NKJV: a poetic form of YHWH]
Deu_32:21-22
Son_8:8-9 –
The Shulamite's Brothers
Son_8:10-12 (not
to 11?) – The Shulamite
Son_8:12 – (to
Solomon)
Son_8:13 –
The Beloved
Son_8:14 –
The Shulamite
Categorical Breakdown of Song of Songs
Here is a break-down of all the references in Song of
Songs that give insight into the Biblical Dress Code.
The Head -- Song of Songs
1:10-11 Ornaments,
cheeks, neck
1:15 Doves eyes
2:14 Face: desire, “attractive”
4:1-4 Eyes, veil, teeth, lips, scarlet, attractive mouth,
temples, locks of hair, neck
4:9 Ravished by just
one eye in marriage (Compare the “shamefacedness”
of 1Ti_2:9 toward non-spouses)
5:7 Veil (worn
in public)
5:11-13 His wavy black
locks, eyes, cheeks, lips
6:5 Overcoming eyes…
hair
6:6 Teeth as sheep
6:7 Temples behind a veil
7:4 Neck, eyes, nose
7:5 Head, hair
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“Lips” and “Kissing” -- in Song of Songs
1:2 Kissing better than wine
4:2-3 Teeth, lips,
scarlet, temples, attractive mouth (see above)
4:11 Honey, milk, tongue
5:13 His cheeks, lips
5:16 His sweet mouth, lovely
7:9 Kissing, roof of the mouth, lips > These things
are for “Sleepers”
8:1-4, 6-7 Only kiss spouse or relatives:
By verse…
(1) Between men and women, ONLY kissing a relative is acceptable in public because
otherwise, (2) It stirs up humans for sex*; (3) This means physical romantic
affection; (4) So don’t wake it up before marriage, because “Love is as strong
as death” (v. 6-7)
* 8:2 It stirs up humans for sex
“I would lead you… into the house… I would cause you
to drink of spiced wine…the juice of my
pomegranate”; compare Son_4:11c-14 below
- Notice it says “spiced wine,” or “sexual arousal”
happens in kissing.
- Do you see where she is taking him, and why?
- “the juice of my pomegranate” does not mean they are
getting together to drink fruit juice!
Song of Songs on The Chest area:
“Myrrh-bag,” Mountain(s), Pomegranate(s), Milk, Various Fruits, Clusters, (Spices
implicitly)
1:13 All night embrace (i.e. compared to the small Myrrh-bag “necklace” of perfume worn by women
all night)
4:5-6 Two breasts
like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, mountain
of myrrh*, hill of frankincense (* i.e. a reference to the
Myrrh-bag)
4:11c-14 Using cloths* to be “Enclosed…shut up…sealed…plants, orchard of pomegranates, pleasant fruits, fragrant henna,
spikenard, saffron, calamus, cinnamon, frankincense, myrrh, aloes, with all the best spices…”
(i.e. the “necklace” Myrrh-bag of spice)
\/ [*Cloths: v. 11: “garments…like the fragrance of Lebanon” v.
12: “A garden enclosed…”]
5:1 This sexual experience involved “myrrh,” spice, honey, and wine with “milk”
(see_4:13)
7:2 Naval & waist
7:3 Two breasts like two fawns, twins of gazelle
7:7-8 Two breasts like
clusters of palm tree
8:8-10 Sexually mature
breasts needed for marriage,
8:9 Build protection
upon/ make “…enclosed”! (also compare Son_4:12 below)
8:10 She accepts
protection of brothers > Gen_24:50, 55; 34:6-8
8:14 “Mountains of spices”
Note: If something is “all hanging out,” or even showing,
it is NOT “enclosed!”
Thigh -- in Song of Songs
5:14 His body (only she should know what it looks
like)
5:15 His (whole) leg
7:1 The Curves of Thighs are sexual (from the
feet up [v. 1-9], notably skipping the calf to the more sexual part of the leg)
General Dress -- in Song of Songs
4:7 General attraction, no spot in you
4:9 Jewelry for arousal
4:12 “Enclosed…shut
up…sealed” modesty and chastity, a complete virgin in every way
5:3 She wears a robe, Feet washed
5:5 Hands dripped with myrrh
5:14 His hands… and then body (only she should know what it looks like)
6:12 Before I was even aware (this is the way attraction
works, so you can’t trust yourself to know what is right)
7:1 Beautiful Feet
7:4 Nose like a tower? (That’s not our cultural way of
complementing a woman)
7:13 Laid up for you
8:6-7 Love as strong
as death
Perfumes for Arousal -- in Song of Songs
1:3-4, 12 Fond
“attractive” reputation, drawing, makes a “chick-magnet,” (only Biblical for
the OT, & NOT the NT)
3:6 General admiration, perfum, myrrh, frankincense,
merchant powder
4:6 …mountain of myrrh, hill of frankincense
4:10-11 perfumes… all
spices, fragrance of garments
4:13-14, 16 Chest as
"fragrant henna," spikenard, saffron, calamus, cinnamon,
frankincense, myrrh, aloes, with all the best spices
5:1 Myrrh, spices
5:13 His cheeks like spices
6:2-3 Her body
["(2)his garden...(3) I am my beloved's"] "to the beds of
spices"
7:13 Mandrakes… fragrance
8:14 Mountains of spices
Romance is Like Wine -- Song of Songs says
1:2, 4c His love better than wine…His love more
than wine
2:4-5 “Banqueting
House” [that is, where you drink wine… and the result?] “Love
Sick” (compare Son_5:8 below)
4:9-10 ravished
heart…Her love better than wine
5:1, 8 He drank it as wine with milk… Love
Sick
7:5, 9, 12 Held captive by it, roof of mouth
like wine (v.12 associated with grapes)
8:2, 6-7 Her love like spiced wine, Love as
potent as death
Soul Tie Comparisons
Gen_34:8
Shechem’s soul-tie with Dinah from fornication
Jdg_16:4-21 The fall
of Samson
General Themes in Song of Songs
Marriage Son_1:12; 3:7-11 (from couch to crowning)
Foxes Son_2:15
All night Son_1:15; 2:16-17; 4:6
Body Break-Down: Hers Son_4:1-7; His Son_5:10-16; Hers Son_7:1-10
Ravished with just one eye: 4:9 (‘turn away… overcome’
6:5)
“Perfect”: 4:7; 6:9
6:12 Before I was even aware
Shamefacedness
1Ti_2:9 KJV-Based In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacednessG127 and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array…
A. Greek
G127 αἰδώς aidōs
ahee-doce'● Perhaps from
G1 (as a negative particle) and G1492 (through the idea of downcast eyes); bashfulness,
that is, (towards
men), modesty or
(towards God) awe: - reverence,
shamefacedness. (Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries)
…modesty, bashfulness, reverence, regard for others, respect (Thayer’s Greek Definitions)
B. Cultural Significance
“Shamefacedness” is God’s version of what newer translations often merely translate as “propriety.” But this verse strongly includes being modest with one’s eyes!
A woman having “downcast eyes” was and is in many places recognized an issue of modesty; It means that they are not being flirtatious. It is interesting that the Bible approves of, and commands this cultural attitude to be practiced.
Shamefacedness really helps explain the following passage…
Joh_20:14-16 CAB And having said these things, she turned back and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, "Sir, if You carried Him away, tell me where You put Him, and I will take Him away." 16 Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to Him, "Rabboni!" (which means, Teacher).
Psa_131:1 WEB Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
Psa_131:1 LB A Song of Degrees. O Lord, my heart is not exalted, neither have my eyes been haughtily raised: neither have I exercised myself in great matters, nor in things too wonderful for me.
Psa_131:1 (130:1) Ὠιδὴ τῶν
ἀναβαθμῶν· τῷ
Δαυιδ. Κύριε, οὐχ
ὑψώθη μου ἡ
καρδία, οὐδὲ ἐμετεωρίσθησαν
οἱ ὀφθαλμοί
μου, οὐδὲ ἐπορεύθην
ἐν μεγάλοις οὐδὲ
ἐν θαυμασίοις ὑπὲρ
ἐμέ.
Lifted Eyes are good when there is adoration going on.
See: PrayerL
But things that are beyond your virtue,
Critical
Considerations
If you do not even look, how can you get visually romantic or temp people with your eyes?
Flirting Eyes & Bald Scalps:
Isa_3:16-24 Moreover the Lord said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with outstretched
necks and flirting eyes, Walking to trip as they go, Jingling ornaments on
their feet; 17 Therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the
women of Zion, And the Lord will make
their scalps bald." 18 In that day the Lord will take away the
beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, 19 the
earrings, the bracelets, the veils, 20 the
headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms, 21 the signet
rings, the nose rings, 22 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the
purses, 23
the hand-mirrors, the fine linen garments, the hoods, and the shawls. 24 It shall
happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; Instead of a
belt, a rope; Instead of well set hair, baldness; Instead of a robe, a girding
of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty. (WEB-Based)
“Flirting Eyes” Definitions:
i.
Strong’s
Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries H8265 שׂקר śâqar saw-kar'
A primitive root; to ogle, that is, blink coquettishly: - wanton.
ii. Brown-Driver-Briggs’ Hebrew Definitions H8265 שׂקר śâqar 1) (Piel)
to ogle, be wanton 1a) ogling (participle)
iii. Other Research “…עינים וּמשׁקרות ûmeshaqerôth ‛ēynāyı̂m. The word שׁקר shâqar usually means “to lie, to deceive,” and may here refer to the art of alluring by a wanton or fascinating glance of the eye.”
The Hebrew word seems to have a hint of painted eyes, or winking eyes.
“Why does He punish them if there is no official sin, (such as “fornication,” or “adultery” etc.)” But…
Walking in Wantonness
Rom_13:13-14 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in
chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14 But [you all] put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill
its lusts. (KJV-Based,
Also: 1Pet4:1-5)
ð How different this is from the way that we date! How many times (in dating) do we “make provision” so that the devil can tempt us and draw us in by the flesh? So many unwittingly prepare themselves for a “noose” and a “dart” by getting alone with a guy or girl that they like. Practically they are saying, “Hay devil, I’ve ‘prepared a place for you’ to come and get me to do something wrong.”
More Examples of Eyes and Lust From Proverbs
These verses describe
the end of this direction of sin
Pro_5:3 WEB For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, 4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, And as sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol [“Hell”]… 8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house, 9 Lest… You… groan at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed…
(Also read all of verses 3-23!)
Pro_6:25 WEB Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. 26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. 27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, And his clothes not be burned?
(Also read verses 23-35).
Pro_7:13 WEB So she caught him, and kissed him… 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. 22 He followed her immediately, As an ox goes to the slaughter, As a fool stepping into a noose. 23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, As a bird hurries to the snare, And doesn't know that it will cost his life… 25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths…
(Also read verses 13-27)
ð If you give in to the lust described here, you are not just guilty upon committing fornication or adultery, but you start being guilty as soon as you start going in that direction! The guilt starts when you don’t, “Remove your way far from her…” and you “come near the door of her house,” (5:8). No one steps “into a noose” (v. 22b) or has ‘an arrow strike through his liver’ (v. 23) without first going “astray in her paths,” (v. 25).
ð When Jesus was preaching “The Sermon On The Mount” He does not say, “Lust = Physically Committing Adultery,” but that lust is in fact the real starting pointof adultery and not just the physical act.
In the same way, we are guilty of sin before we actually commit and fulfill it in the flesh. As it has been said, ‘it is almost impossible to sin in the flesh without first sinning in the heart’
As Sisters
1Ti_5:1-2 Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him
as a father; the younger men as brothers; 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. (KJV-Based)
A. So may say that they believe this scripture, but so so few will Truly practice it!!
B. If you kiss your sister on the lips, then (in most of all cases) you’re sick. If you would never do so to your sister, then neither should you do so to any other girl/guy with whom you are not married.
C. Do you do these things
with your sister (or brother):
-Hold hands, -Kiss, -Look her/him romantically in the eyes, -Spend time with her/him in such a way as to stir up and entertain romantic feelings for each other, –etc.?
Joseph and Mary
Do you think the way we do dating is OK before God? Joseph and Mary didn’t even hang out enough for her to tell him that she was pregnant! We can know that this is true…
Culturally
Because the Jewish
betrothal mindset disallowed dating and the like. This “No flirting/dating” attitude is still
in affect in parts of the world today.
With Jews, the man would “go away and prepare a place” (Jn 14:2-3) for her.
Jesus used this language directly alluding to
their typical practice of marriage in their culture. This is all hugely complicated and has tones
of Biblical references not cited here.
Contextually
Because Biblically, believing a True testimony (especially about God and His supernatural interactions) is an issue of righteousness, (Jn 8:42-47, -especially the last 2 verses, *Jn 16:9). Because of this Joseph could not have righteously disbelieved Mary’s True testimony that God gave her. –This shows that they did not have regular communication, in that Joseph heard from “the grape vine” long before he had a chance to hear from her, and had already set himself to divorce her.
Mat_1:18 …Mary, was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. 19 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to divorce her secretly, (WEB-Based).
ð It would not be righteous for him to divorce her if he had known her testimony.
ð Our practice of dating is blatantly set against this cultural backdrop of which Christ
both set up and consistently used to illustrate His relationship with us.
Answer: “Flee!”
2Ti_2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but peruse righteousness, faith, Love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart, (KJV-Based).
Pro_5:12 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house, (WEB).
1Co_6:18-20 CAB Flee fornication.
Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication
sins against his own body. 19 Or do you
not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you
have from God, and you are not your own?
20
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your
spirit, which are God's.
Not committing fornication absolutely includes fleeing from it in the first place.
A.
Why flee if there were no
danger of giving in to it??? “I can handle it!” you say. “The holy
spirit will help me resist this temptation.” -But the Bible
says to flee it. ß
B. 1Co_10:12-14 CAB So then, let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he should fall! 13 …but with the temptation, He will also make the way out… 14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee…
C. You cannot rely on God to help you to stand in the place that He told you to flee from. (He only gives His Spirit to those who obey Him! Act_5:32, & See Eph_2:2).
D. So: Resist Sin (Heb_12:4, Jas_4:7) and flee temptation (see above).
E. How do you “glorify Him?”
F.
1Sa_15:22-23
…Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice! To listen is better than the fat of
rams! 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as iniquity and idol-worship. Because you have rejected the
Word of Jehovah, He has also rejected you… (MKJV)
G.
1 Jn 5:3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. And
his commands are not burdensome, (NIV).
H. David fell to sexual sin, (2Sam 11). -Are you any better?
I. Joseph fled from sexual temptation, (Gen_39:10-13). “Parking” with “A Significant Other,” is the exact opposite!
J. Avoid the direction of sin! Otherwise: “Oops! We didn’t mean to…” -I’ve seen it happen over and over again!! So beware you who are called a “christian”.
K.
Psa_119:9 KJV-Based How will a young man make his way clean? [Good Question!] by taking heed according to Your word,
(Pray ‘Lord, You said to flee, so I’ll
flee’).
L.
Remember: “…make no provision for the flesh, to
fulfill
its lusts,” (Rom_13:14).
M.
Note: If you
do not actively, intentionally,
zealously, and ‘obsessively,’ flee fornication, then you will fall into it,
whether partially (by flirtation) or wholly (by premarital sex).
“I’m Not Convicted About That”
1Co_4:4 WEB For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this…
Pro_14:12/16:25 MKJV There
is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.
Pro_30:12 WEB There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, Yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Pro_16:2 WEB All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes…
Pro_21:2 WEB Every way of a man is right in his own eyes…
But someone will protest, “God knows my heart” to say that they are not lusting when they kiss and hold hands with their girlfriend
ð Yes He does know your heart:
Gen_8:21 KJV …the LORD said …the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth…
Jer_17:9 KJV The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Pro_28:26 MKJV He who trusts in his own heart is a fool; but
whoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered.
Questions/Thoughts:
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Why does not flirting, kissing holding hands and the like and waiting on
God to
provide a spouse Vs. “Dating”
seem weird? -Because you have to die to you’re idea of romance. Attraction is
not just about “the dating game”; it’s for marriage and should wait for marriage.
ð If you look for romance you will find judgment from God.
When you look for God instead, you will find Him and, (if you’re to marry),
He will give you romance that is more than you could have imagined!
More
Temptation
Jam_1:14-15 KJV-Based
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
Remember: Look at woman lustfully = first stage of Adultery (Mt.5:27-30)
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Lustful Desires
Remember: “Lead us not into temptation” (Mt. 6:13)
Col. 3:5-6 ALT-Based Therefore, put to death your* members, the ones on the earth: fornication, impurity [or, immorality], lustful passion, evil desire, and the covetous desire [or, greed], which is idolatry, 6 because of which [things] the wrath of God is coming upon the sons [and daughters] of disobedience…
If
you want to read some useful passages on fleeing fornication, read Proverbs 5-7
Good Question:
What do I Josiahs, (the writer) a young unmarried man have to gain out of saying all of these things except for the sake of righteousness? Am I not the one who will have to obey it most? Am I scoring points with all the girls by writing these things? Do I really have anything else to gain by spending so much time on this, besides saving others? I challenge you to fearlessly embrace the Truth as well in this matter.
Please consider and open your eyes to see: That all the intimacy levels that we progress through in dating are flirtatious. 1. Gazing into each others eyes 2. Holding hands 3. Kisses which all lead to # 4. “Home run”. Some people seem to have the attitude after reading some of these scriptures, that as long as they are committed to each other it is ok. -Wake up! -If you are not married, you are not married, and flirtation is wrong and worthy of judgment just as when you do it to some one walking down the street. Granted under the Mosaic Law they would not have stoned fornication between engaged couples, but there was still sever punishment.
Whether engaged or not we are still not to flirt with any one we are not fully married to.
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● 1Cor was talking to engaged young men and women when he said:
The unmarried are concerned about the lord’s affairs
It was said to Ruth
Rth_3:10-11 …you did not follow young men, whether poor or rich. 11 …For all the city of my people knows that you are a woman of virtue.
-Why do we think that we can get away with flirtation? It is not virtuous! Not flirting with, *following around* attractive, (especially young) people that you are not married to proves that you are virtuous. And the opposite is also true. Flirts weather to one person or many are not virtuous. Especially in their day, the qualities of being “young” and “rich” where attractive qualities to have. May God forbid that we sin by following/ hanging out with attractive people so as to stir up premarital romance.
Part Three – How to Actually Get FREE from Lust!!
See: Auto-Lust of Men
The
Automatic Lust of the Male Brain
The Basics of Defeating Forced Lust
Essential basics to
getting free and defeating the mystery forced lust
Explanation
Some people do not particularly struggle with bondage to this sin, and because of this they can get away with not doing all of the following things and still appear to be doing good in this area. But for many people, especilly men, they cannot even pretend to be free of this profound and imossible tempation and sin that so potantly, easily and frequently brings them into bondage. If you know you are trapped in lust and cannot get free and are desporate to get free and willing to do whatever God says to be pure and free from this sin, then the following guide is written just for you.
If you do these things in truth then you can lay hold of promises from God to defeat the greatest and most imossible monsters of lust
This is not a quick fix, but a godly resolve to value truth and forsake all to fervantly endure in what God is saying.
The Basics
This is a list of gold
to me that took me the majority of 14 painful and torturing years of desperate
prayer to find. I pray that it would over joy and set you free as it has been
given to me
1 Be Biblically clothed
2 Quote and memorize primary Scriptures on a regular bases -including a commitment to the no dating Scriptures-
3 Reject and remove specific soul ties by name
(go down the list of name for everyone you have been tempted by)
4 Die to your right to hurt sexually and need sexual consolation -this part can be extremely humbling-
5 Get fear of lust out of your heart!
About Being Clothed – It Completely Changes The Way You See “You” And Others About You
We need to get
‘clothed and in our right minds’
You do not know what is proper or acceptable for yourself. You need the Bible to come along and school you how to dress morally so you can repent of your culture and be free of shameful immodesty
We need to repent and stop doing lust and immorality before we can fight it from over running our own heart, but this first sacrifice of selfish pride and boastful lustfulness of the sexuality of one’s own body and hatred toward the convenience and comfort of one’s own immoral culture is an extreme step that most are not willing to take.
If you do not make this sacrifice of repenting of your ignorant, immoral, lustful, and wicked culture so that you deny the pagan corporate indulgence of your personal sexuality, then you cannot cling to any promise from God to be free of the immoral seduction of others when you yourself are still visually participating in their filthy prostitution.
Repenting of the way our culture has taught us to dress is one of the primary and fist steps to getting free of the bondage to lust. It requires not only a drastic and extreme change in the way we view our own personal sexuality, but also the way we view everyone else’s sexuality. We can no longer simply walk around in the store having fun shopping as though it is a nice and sunny day, but we MUST walk about grieved by the naked bodies and ignorant pornography all about us. A perfect Modesty will definitely mark us as pilgrims and bizarre strangers in this world. We cannot walk about seeing the bear heads of women and the corporately naked bodies of everyone together as though it is normal or humane social interaction. We should blush and be ashamed on their account, because we have no right to go about casually seeing their shame and nakedness.
We should morn for their public exposure of nakedness and immoral display, constantly looking down at the floor the same way we (hopefully) would if everyone was dressed in their underwear. The difference now is that we have a much higher standard of normal human modesty that most people are completely unaware of. And we now seem like zombies walking about to them because we walk ashamed over them with our heads always down, have recoiled from their pagan culture of immoral indulgence, refusing to visually engage with their public display of shame and immorality.
Make Sure to Remove Hurt
- Fear of sexual immorality (Fear of falling into sexual immorality)
- Hurt because of being exposed to male/ female sexuality
- My right to hurt and need consolation (see below)
Breaking Lust Ties
When it seems impossibly to shake, along with the things below, also make sure to specifically renounce each person by name that comes to mind in your heart as at all tempting. If you are not sure you are free concerning someone specifically, then you probably need to renounce some adultery/ lust ties from you to them, and or them to you.
Make Sure to Take Hold of
The love of God - seek until you are consoled and not vulnerable to the exposure of compulsive, binding hurt-lust slavery
Die to Sexuality
I die to the pain -passion- of sexuality. i die to my right as a man to hurt sexually, and need sexual consolation, comfort and intimacy.
Renouncing the Heritage of Forced Lust
A Declaration for
those who have forsaken the immorality of this age to Be Truly Pure according
to the demands of the Bible
From now on the
crimes of sexuality are…
- not what I want
- not what I've done
- not who I am (I am not a fornicator)
Extremist Boundaries
Sir_7:24-26 Brenton Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thyself cheerful toward them. 25 Marry thy daughter, and so shalt thou have performed a weighty matter: but give her to a man of understanding. 26 Hast thou a wife *after thy mind [* might not be original]? forsake her not: but give not thyself over to a light woman.
Sir_8:17-19 Brenton Consult not with a fool; for he cannot keep counsel. 18 Do no secret thing before a stranger; for thou knowest not what he will bring forth. 19 Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with a shrewd turn.
Sir_9:1-9 Brenton Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself. 2 Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance. 3 Meet not with an harlot, lest thou fall into her snares. 4 Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest thou be taken with her attempts. 5 Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that are precious in her. 6 Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine inheritance. 7 Look not round about thee in the streets of the city, neither wander thou in the solitary place thereof. 8 Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another's beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire. 9 Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor sit down with her in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine; lest thine heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire thou fall into destruction.
Sir_9:1-9 Greek Μὴ ζήλου γυναῖκα τοῦ κόλπου σου μηδὲ διδάξῃς ἐπὶ σεαυτὸν παιδείαν πονηράν. 2 μὴ δῷς γυναικὶ τὴν ψυχήν σου ἐπιβῆναι αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τὴν ἰσχύν σου. 3 μὴ ὑπάντα γυναικὶ ἑταιριζομένῃ, μήποτε ἐμπέσῃς εἰς τὰς παγίδας αὐτῆς. 4 μετὰ ψαλλούσης μὴ ἐνδελέχιζε, μήποτε ἁλῷς ἐν τοῖς ἐπιχειρήμασιν αὐτῆς. 5 παρθένον μὴ καταμάνθανε, μήποτε σκανδαλισθῇς ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτιμίοις αὐτῆς. 6 μὴ δῷς πόρναις τὴν ψυχήν σου, ἵνα μὴ ἀπολέσῃς τὴν κληρονομίαν σου. 7 μὴ περιβλέπου ἐν ῥύμαις πόλεως καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἐρήμοις αὐτῆς μὴ πλανῶ. 8 ἀπόστρεψον ὀφθαλμὸν ἀπὸ γυναικὸς εὐμόρφου καὶ μὴ καταμάνθανε κάλλος ἀλλότριον· ἐν κάλλει γυναικὸς πολλοὶ ἐπλανήθησαν, καὶ ἐκ τούτου φιλία ὡς πῦρ ἀνακαίεται. 9 μετὰ ὑπάνδρου γυναικὸς μὴ κάθου τὸ σύνολον καὶ μὴ συμβολοκοπήσῃς μετ᾿ αὐτῆς ἐν οἴνῳ, μήποτε ἐκκλίνῃ ἡ ψυχή σου ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν καὶ τῷ πνεύματί σου ὀλίσθῃς εἰς ἀπώλειαν.
Part Four – What to Do, When It's Time to Pursue
A practical application and admonition
First added 5/15/07
Find as many people you can submit to, and submit.
Don't trust your own judgment
Don't make decisions on your own, ask others first.
> Don't get alone <
Don't forget: > Don't get alone <
Get stricter than you've ever been in your whole life
Reject all of the 10,000,000 excuses you can think of to not be so strict on yourself
Determine to not let yourself think that others are being over-precocious [THEY ARE NOT]
Don't “accountability-Hop”
Don't indulge in romance, indulge in Jesus. Be completely chaste until marriage!
Don't “Practice” being married, practice being Single, and in it prepare to get married.
Put on the “Parachute of Preparation” to be pure
Tie your shoes so that you do not trip
Remember: If you ever gone to far, you were going in the wrong direction to get there
Where is your
significant other?
I know, “she’s tired from running through your mind all day long” -- but really, where is she?
She is in your heart, because that is where you love her.
Now here is the point: You can't trust your heart! It will lie to you.
Your wanting to become more devoted to someone than you've ever been in your whole life, and you will naturally want to add DEVOTION, on top of DEVOTION to express your commitment.
The only catch is: you’re not married yet. Challenge your perception of devotion to your significant other, because it is not accomplished how you would naturally assume.
Godly Premarital Devotion is made of different ingredients than the carnal mind comes up with.
Integrity and Accountability
You can’t trust yourself
If you reject submission, like nearly everyone does, then this verse falls on you:
Pro_18:1 KJ2000 A man, having separated himself, seeks his own desire, and rages against all sound wisdom.
Pro_18:1 CAB A man who wishes to separate from friends seeks excuses, but at all times he will be liable to reproach.
That is, “separated himself” from the people he ought to be in community and accountability with. How might this play out with a woman who is supposed to be dependent and seeks to be independent?
Godly Devotion is not made up of:
Long hours together
Sharing your most intimate feelings
Going to social events just to go off and sit in a corner together
Acting like you already own their body:
Holding hands, kissing, putting your arm around them etc.
What you would not want another to do to them before you met, do not do to them now.
Godly Devotion is made of:
Saving all the fun of romance till marriage
Patience: waiting till marriage to share intimate feelings
Sobriety
Refusing to cross lines
letting others gage when you're going too far.
A Curfew is a good idea
Remember what was said to Ruth:
Rth_3:10-11 …you did not follow
young men, whether poor
or rich. 11
…For all the city of my people knows that you are a woman of virtue.
Don't forget that the purity principal of sisters still applies to you
-- Resist the lie that says you have special privileges now that you are in a relationship
Journal:
Relationships are not for a trial run, but they are for marriage.
If you don't see it this way, then the principal that you operate on is no different than dating.
Don't prepare in case you are tempted, prepare because you know you will be tempted.
This includes setting up clear boundaries and standards that set you up to not compromise.
Between all of the faithful friends that you have, who love you and have your best interests in mind, there is no reason at all that you should be doing things and making decisions on your own without submission.
Don't lie to yourself and say, “My friend is being too strict! I wish he would loosen up and not worry so much.”
Since you know for sure that these thoughts will cross your mind, and they will convince you if you don't determine ahead of time that you will reject them when they come. Otherwise, I ask you to write it down and make plans on lying to yourself.
Make the good and humble confession:
I am capable of lying to my self
I am more than capable of deceiving myself when it becomes convenient
I am not more capable of handling my relationship than my countless predecessors who have gone before me and have fallen
I am not above the temptation of David, who when he was left to his own was able to convince himself and justify his sin for a season. When his accountability was unexpectedly reestablished by a rebuke he quickly regained his senses
Let your confession be: My heart is not more trustworthy than David's heart that deceived him, though he had walked as a man after God's own heart.
Though your heart is as wise as an angel (as it was said of David) it will be deceived by the enticing of romance without accountability.
Don't say to yourself, “We can hear God for ourselves” and ignore that He has put others in your life for this very purpose of speaking to you.
“We can't please others, we've got to come up with what we think God is saying about how we should handle our relationship”
Sin has cast down many wounded before you came on the scene, and it will not spare you either.
No one lives to himself nor does he die to himself. Your relationship is other people's concern. When you, as a hand, put yourself in an ant-pile you cannot say, “it's my business” when you cause the ants to bite the other members of Christ's body.
Through the enticing of sin and the insubordination from protection, a strong mans heart is overcome and Samson's hair is cut off and his eyes plucked out. He comes here by isolating himself to his own decisions and leaving the submission of his parents.
Don't say, “Our relationship is holy and ordained by God so that we will not fall to the same things that others give into” because the Bible has said that way of a man with a made is as the way with a man and a seductress. Don't dismiss the Bible as a lie. Because it says that though your relationship be as pure as can be and set in place by God, you are as capable of falling as a man with a seductress.
You can justify anything when romance is thinking for you.
So “submit to one another out of the fear of God”
You are fighting against “The Seductress” no matter how Godly your significant other may be, because Satan is the one tempting you.
“Safe Proposals”
How
do you propose or seek marriage while keeping with the Biblical purity
boundaries of not “Stirring up love” before marriage, and treating “younger
woman as sisters”?
At
first consideration, the Biblical boundary stops flagrant immorality and
lustfulness because, “You wouldn’t do that with your sister.” Afterwards, we
see it involves more than simply a mirror of how one would treat their
siblings, because the Bible shows us that siblings have more intimacy than
non-relatives (Song 8), even in the Church.
What are the methods?
Chaperones
are Biblical
-
Chaperones, authorities, representatives and delegations serve as go-betweens
on different levels, and are the primary means to avoid stirring things up
before marriage. This often filters out a lot of guesswork and helps manage and properly convey difficult emotions and
desires that can be inappropriate if expressed in the wrong way.
- Chaperones are not always Authorities, but they could also be
faithful friends, or “delegates,” or “representatives.”
- This especially holds true when an advising authority is not
available.
Still
-
there are some cases where go-betweens are not necessarily the most appropriate
avenue.
(such
as Ruth)
But
even with this…
-
There ought to always be authority or delegation somehow as much as possible
for all integrity.
(such
as Naomi)
-
The status of your submission is nearly always the teller if you are doing
things right or not.
- Sometimes there are Adam and Eve scenarios
- But this is a situation of forced circumstance that a couple
should not seek out.
Societal Obligations
- God wants us to include societal accountability as much as
possible.
- We are not an island, and do not have a right to pretend that
marriage is our “private business” and “personal decision.”
- Disciples are to show that God made people with an obligation to
the Church and society, to cooperate with accountability and live above
reproach.
- Your marriage is not “your personal business.” People have a right
to monitor what you are doing and how you are living
- Marriage is rightly called “The smallest unit of society.”
Therefore, we have no right to rob others of the life God gave us to serve
others with.
- We are taking up a life allotment, and possibly a marriage, that
is mint to benefit others, not to please ourselves. We have no right to do with
it whatever we please without asking and considering others.
So…
- When societal delegates are available we should use them.
But
while you seek submission
-
There’s no reason to submit to “Carnal Sue”: Pro_15:22; Pro_11:14, Pro_20:18
(get
councilors who are more committed to righteousness than yourself, when
possible)
Ruth Proposal
-
They can send me or someone there first to the man to explain to him what
“feet” mean, so she can later make a “Ruth Proposal.”
Prep: Integrity
“Stay close by the young women” (Rth_2:8, 22; 3:2, 10-11)
He deferred to not pleasing himself (Rth_3:10, 13)
Dressing up to show honor is good: Rth_3:3
(does not say “expensive” but “best” clothing, whatever that may be)
Protecting, Not Flirting
- If you’re already indulging,
you could still propose, but forget the “Safe Proposal” and that “favor” God
wants to give. [Somehow, maybe we can see how to “express eagerness and
openness” to marriage without flirting if we keep reading…]
- Boaz was in the business
of protecting her, not flirting with her. He maintained no flirting through the
time they finally had to say something
(“Is he the right guy/girl?
Am I ready?” – First see if these previous points are in place)
Patience
- There was good favor
leading up to it. So there should be in our relationships.
What Did She do?
- Gave a few direct honest
submissive words about marriage, and even demonstrated her virtuous ideal in
her posture
- Not a persuasion speech,
but very persuasive!
- Not “caught,” and “forced”
(as seductress in Prov)
- She clearly and powerfully
displayed the proposal, while being humble, submissive and quiet at the same
time.
Why Didn’t He Propose?
- Possibly could have been
that he was older
- There was another guy
ahead of him (3:12)
- Whatever other reasons he
may have had, a significant part of it was probably that He did not want to
impose when his job was to protect.
- It was not because he
didn’t want to marry her
- It seems clear that he was
not blind to her appealing qualities (2:5), but he was more concerned for her
best than he was in taking advantage of the situation.
- He considered her proposal
“Kind” (3:10) as though he didn’t previously expect that she would want
to marry
- But had the thought
crossed his mind? (3:12)
- But in this way of not
imposing on her, there were no mixed motives in the end on his behalf.
- She had come to his field
looking for, and found, favor and protection (Ruth_2:2, 8-9, 15)
- She was in a pretty
vulnerable spot
- What position would that put
her in if he had proposed?
- All “brothers” are to
protect, but if there are situations were a female is particularly seeking
help, it can be inappropriate for a spiritual brother to take advantage of the
vulnerability of the situation instead of seeking her best interest.
- Almost similar with Kevin
Scott situation, (Sort of…)
- This probably has much to
do with why it was necessary for her to propose to him.
- This type of scenario is
what might call for her to take the 1st step, for the sake of maintaining
his sincerity in all matters.
- No “gain saying” for him.
- Sometimes she may need to
“permit” him, so that he does not impose on her.
How to Propose?
- Things should be carried
out for the purpose of shinning the greatest righteousness, not for the best
way of meeting lustful desire
- Is there a guy who is not
proposing for good integrity reasons? – Then righteousness might be best
exalted best when she says something first.
- In most cases (other than
this one) she should probably let him take the first step.
- But if she thinks she
should say something and he hasn’t yet, she should first ask herself if
integrity restricts him, and the need bids her.
- If not, in most cases she
should wait for him to initiate, until and unless God makes things to be
clearly otherwise.
A Summary of this
There is something so good
about the story of Ruth and Boaz:
What’s beautiful is that they each displayed submission to God’s
integrity to withhold themselves from lust and presumption in their respective
particular scenarios and roles of life which God had placed them in as man and
woman:
Boaz was not a presumptuous
forceful male who sought to please himself when he had the opportunity to do
so, and Ruth was virtuous, submissive, gentle, and highly effective in presenting
a quiet and pure proposal and “invitation,” without flirting, indulging, or
seducing.
What about Dialoging (and dropping hints) in that direction?
Proposals by nature are
active toward a relationship of intimacy.
Suggesting an interest in
taking things in that direction is also very active, and is a strong force to
be managed by virtue.
- Rebecca and Ruth increased
their modesty in the face of seeking marriage
- Rebecca worked hard for
the one who was deciding her marital “readiness.”
- Ruth worked hard in front
of her future husband (Ruth_2:7, 11-12, 15)
- The more virtue you live,
the more you’re ready, and the more a godly prospect is interested –
Seek to speak spiritual
truths about the possibility of marriage, but if they are not listening to God,
then you’re out of gas here with being subtle.
But what do I mean?
- Hear clearly what God is saying, and speak about it. (This should always apply anyway, but it is especially necessary here)
- This should be with all relationships anyway, but…
- If you’re called in the same direction God will confirm it to the other person when they hear where God is pointing you.
- If both are seeking God, then they know what “Spouse Requirements” (or “lists”) they have, and can compare notes with what an authority says in light of the one they are considering.
- By speaking God’s calling, you can let God “drop hints” if those elements are there in the other person’s life.
With Lifestyle
If a prospect is in your life, virtues should surface:
- women humble, hard work and pure
- men protecting, displaying integrity and kindness.
- Moses and Boaz were in the business of protecting, not flirting. God exalted them to marriage as a result
- Compare: “If she has washed the saint’s feet”
- Guy should be exhibiting “The Law of His Mother” Pro_31:4-9
- Demonstrating virtues shows readiness, and a common calling might “drop hints”
- Speaking to Authorities and representatives is one of the safest ways to communicate considerations, (if it does not happen some other way such as a “Ruth Proposal” or prayer confirmations).
Her Invitations
- If the she does drop hints, they should be discrete and passive. Gentleness and quietness are very persuasive to the godly.
Whether direct or subtle:
- Any hints she gives should be saying things like, “Isn’t God saying this?” and “I’m interested and I’m waiting on you,” rather than trying to direct and make things happen.
His Suggestions
- If he’s shy, it’s his responsibility to “get over it” through much prayer and fighting (though it’s easier said than done).
-
Obviously there needs to be a definite display of good favor as with Boaz (Rth_2:8, 10, 13-14, 16).
-
Gifts are ok (Isaac servant; Rth_2:16; 3:15, 17)
- There is no reason a guy should ever enter into a situation where he is not assured that he is welcome.
For Them Both
- Expressing these things without indulging and awakening things that ought not to be there is accomplished by brokenness, desperation, fasting, eagerness, and a display of God’s good favor and faithful joy towards the person.
Ask Family First
If she has parents or bothers who are involved in her life, these should always be consulted for permission when possible. Though siblings are ideally to function as spokes people because they are to have an inherent part in their sister’s life for her well-being, the father has the final say and authority.
Especially if a guy initiates proposal, when possible, her parents should be asked first.
He has no right to ask what she is not independent to grant. If parents are truly gone out of the picture, then she stands on her own decision, as it was with Ruth (see Num_30:9). But there are surrogate parents and brothers (such as Naomi).
If something does happen before this, consider Mosaic vow principal with daughters (Num_30:2-16).
If she has unsaved family, females should seek to act as “shrewd as a serpent” (Mat_10:16) in “gaining their freedom” (1Co_7:21) from their authorities to “marry whom they will” (1Co_7:39). (All reapplied Bible verses)
Trust God Enough to Forgo Pursuing, Until He Exalts
Activate
your faith in action to believe these things:
God
will not allow favor to be diverted from the faithful!
-
You can trust good authority. God will guide their heart.
- If you can pass it up in faith, God will bring it around in reward
These verses are mostly about money, but could possibly be reapplied here:
Ecc_11:1 WEB Cast your bread on the waters; For you shall find it after many days.
Pro_11:24 WEB There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Psa_126:5 WEB Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
Heb_6:10 WEB For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love…
Humble Exalted
Sacrifice In Order to Seek
Pray and fast beforehand to take hold of character
Guard Heart
You don’t need to volunteer info
In these cases, a passive attitude is necessary to avoid sin, even if you are as active as Ruth.
(Her activeness was in submission to the will of her authority)
Single Indeed
An
unfinished meditation
'Save
church $ for those who are widows indeed'
>
There is a such thing as those who are "unmarried indeed"
Those
who are truly living single for Jesus until He would give them a wife God has
resurved a special treasure. The Church
is not to waist its money on thos widows who are widows by technicallity but
don't live as such in their lives.
Similarrly
a virtuous woman is a pricless comodaty. What does it say?
"Her
caust is more than rubies..."
They are
truly rare
"....who
can find"
even to
the point that it is only by the favor of God that one obtains such a wife.
"Finds
a wife... [is acctually] obtaining favor from the Lord"
And what
does that single person look like who is 'single indeed'?
"The
unmarried man is concerned about the lord's affares"
If we
will know that there are truly thos woman who are virtuous and especially
priceless in his eyes then to whom has He promised them? If the Church is to be like Christ and we are
clearly told not to waist mony on the socalled 'widows' which are not so in
heart, will Christ then contradict this pattern and give those precious
virtuous women to thos who are not single indeed? Certinly not! Indeed, if we
live single but are not so indeed, then we are on our own when it comes to
finding a spouse. For god does not exalt thos who exalt themselves, but those
who humble themselves. Those who seak out their wife will not be obtaining
favor of God, but they will be exalting themselves and forfiting God's
exaltation for them.
Think: Dating (as we know it) offers a deceptive sense of comfort from emotional pain; it offers a false sense of love and well being. But it leads to death, because it is in the direction of adultery:
Pro_7:18 LITV Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with caresses.
(But it
says she leads to hell)
Old:
What if you say “I’m not convicted about my relationship with my girlfriend” -My answer?
Who cares whether or not you’re convicted?
Who cares about your convictions if they don’t line up with the Bible? Your opinions apart from the Truth of God are worthless disgusting cancer in God’s sight so why should any one treat them different than the refuse that they flush down the toilet? Yes I’m being offensive, and I hope that anyone who reads this and continues in their own convictions is thoroughly offended. -If they aren’t then I’m not doing a very good job.
ð This does not justify any one
Purity Devo
Don’t go beyond
1Th_4:2-9
- Will of God abides forever (1Jn_2:15)
- Beyond a troop (2Sa_22:30)
Song of Songs
Son_8:8-9 WEB We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister In the day when she is to be spoken for? 9 If she is a wall, We will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, We will enclose her with boards of cedar. Beloved
- Who here believes that the Bible is True?
- Say (to bros) after me: “It’s your job to keep us pure!”
Betrothal
1Co_7:1-4
Ø Do not touch (v. 1)
Ø v. 6 shows it’s a command
Ø Later part shows it includes engaged couples (1Co_7:34-38)
Ø Understand and believe sharp contrast with verse 3!
Ø -Feet (non-romantic)
To “Touch” 680 comes from Greek “ἅπτω” 681 (haptō) meaning to “set on fire”
Used
in: Luk_8:16; 11:33; 15:8; 22:55;
2Co_6:17-18 KJVCNT Therefore come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. 18 And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
As Sisters
1Time 5: “As sisters”
Ø Bro / Sis signs
Equation
No touch + As sisters/ feet = Purity
Physical Romantic Affection
Romance with Gas
Remember touch compared with setting on fire
- Intoxicant thoughts-
Can a man soup fire lap not burned? (Pro_6:27)
Strong as death (Son_8:6)
So is the way with a man and an adulteress (Pro_30:18-20)
Make
a 1st Cor 7 for Singles
-
She somehow seemed to know the other guy relative (who would have been next in
line) was not the best choice, but he apparently did not know she had concluded
this till she said so
Define
"dating"
(see
2007 email)
monogamas
flirtation is the same sin as being loose with many people. Somehow we conclude
that we have more rights to romance and affection when we are planning to marry
someone than with other relationships. What? Does this sound familiar?
"It's ok, we love each other and We are going to get married
anyway..." Is'nt it strange how we mimic th excuses of the world for
fornication to justify flirtation!
I
wish this was as obvious as it sounds: Human beings were never desiged nor
intended nor permitted by God to have "Partial" sexual relationships.
Do you think He designed such a strong drive so that we could go part way? When
a person goes part-way is'nt it obious that this steep slope of intoxicating
drive was mint to make us go all the way? God did not build us or permit us to
hold hands and drink tea together, He mint for married couples to have sex. If
God did not design nor allow us to open the "love box" before
marriage, why do we engage in physical romance before it is lawful to have
sex? I need to continue to be blunt:
Do
you hold hands with someone you want to play cards with, or with someone you
desire to have sex with? Do you crave romantic afection from a person for the
purpose of estalishing a buisness partnership, or because you want a mate?
It
is clear that physical romantic affection is sexual. All sexual relationships
are restricted within the bounds of marriage and everything outside of this is
against God's design and His law.
If
you are not married you do not own another person's body.
Quote
- References for God likes romance
Here
is familiar Scripture (Psa. 19): "The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the firmament showeth his handiwork. .... In them hath he set a tabernacle
for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth
as a strong man to run his course." That does not betray any lack of
sympathy with the exuberant spirit of a lover. So Isa_62:4-5 : "For Yahweh delighteth
in thee, and thy land shall be married. For as a young man marrieth a virgin,
so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride,
so shall thy God rejoice over thee."
-
"Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh" (Gen_2:24).
Sin Messed up God’s Design
Sex was made good
- hyper -
sensitive soul established for youth to celebrate the initiation of marriage
- Guys melt simply based on how a woman
looks
- God made beauty repute value upon her
and favor in her man’s eyes
- touch designed to catapult into sex
- Designed to completely crave and need it
But is it now Bad?
- So you say: "But God made me to
feel this way... about girls. Why is it wrong to act on it?"
- But God did not design you to lust after
people before marriage: lacks understanding... destroys sol... body was not
made for fornication...
- You see the evident perversion in that
we live in a way to be with people and afect them sexually outside of marriage
Sin is the Culprit
Sin > Most immediately thing affected:
sexuality (shame)
- My mom's story of my fit over the
sandwitch
- you care more about mom's injustice than
the bus driver's
What was of the highest good for
relationships was turned into the highest level of evil.
Messed up, and Given to Vanity
beauty is vain
don't lust after it in your heart
flee lust
Only Answer: Redemption
God's promises mean getting unimaginable
marriage if we are pure
Touch
1Co_7:1-2
Gen_20:2-6
Pro_6:29
Soul Ties
-- Under Construction --
‘
So is the way of an adulteress… (seduction is mysterious,
not obvious or easily seen)
get Facebook quote —now it is hard
--
Incomplete thoughts
There are different words that come into use between
the application of 1Cor_7:1, and
other Greek words and charges throughout the Bible concerning cross-gender
touching and purity. The word in question here, addressing a man's interaction
with a woman, is ἅπτομαι (G680) which "Refers
to such handling of an object as to exert a modifying influence upon it or upon
oneself." (The
Complete Word Study Dictionary) To
“Touch” in this case comes from the Greek word “ἅπτω” 681
(haptō) meaning to “set on fire” as used in: Luk_8:16; Luk_11:33; Luk_15:8; Luk_22:55;
As a female God designed your body
to be sexually modified when a guy touches you romantically
But in the Bible there is also that which could
be called "non-relational" touching, (such as helping a woman get up Mar_5:40-42; Mar_1:31; Act_9:40-41) and in Greek, the Bible might use a variety
of other words to describe these actions, such as the word, psēlapháō (ψηλαφάω
- G5584), which is typically used of touching slightly
to gather information (whether physical or spiritual): “(Luk_24:39; Act_17:27; Heb_12:18; 1Jo_1:1; Sept.: Gen_27:12, Gen_27:21-22).” (Word Study)
This
word, as well as others, have varying degrees of meaning which do not
necessarily include “exert[ing]
a modifying influence” as ἅπτομαι (G680)
and ἅπτω
(G681) do:
"Syn.: prospsaúō
(G4379), to touch upon, touch slightly (Luk_11:46); eggízō (G1448), to come near; piázō
(G4084), to lay hand on; kolláō (G2853), to glue; proseggízō
(G4331), to approach."
And from psēlapháō (ψηλαφάω
- G5584)...
" Deriv. of psáō (n.f.),
to touch lightly: psállō (G5567), to play a stringed
instrument..."
If these
words in action are applied in a cross-gender way in the Bible, it is nearly
always restricted to the head of a woman and the feet of a man (except as shown
previously with helping a woman up). And from 1Co_7:1 we can see that touching is not moral where
the action changes the inside of the person touched by exerting an influence upon them, or
alters or establishes anything relationally in the act. In other words,
romantic touching is the touching that 1 Corinthians is referring to and
effectively forbidding for singles. Such touching is described as only
happening in marriage for a Christian and is deemed as a sufficient descriptive
term for fornication for those who sin by “touching” before marriage.
Secular
psychologists tell us that if a woman hugs a guy for more than about 20
seconds her system will naturally release chemicals that establish trust in her
heart for a man. Similar things could very easily be said of many other
affections including holding hands, which in Westernized culture, is reserved
for men and women who wish to share a romantic influence over each other. Such
touching engages sex-based interaction, and exerts a sexually modifying effect
upon each party.
I would
hope that it is revealing to note that this is the very act that the Bible uses
as a euphemism or social expression for both lawful sex within marriage as well
as the unlawfulness of fornication (before marriage).
--
Your
putting restrictions and limits on your display of affection to observe what is
moral and right.
It is
more important to God that you respect the sexual distinction that He has
established in the earth, than for you to express your love and care for
someone in affection.
--
In the
case of Jesus and Peter, not touching in a modifying way is so important to
them that they will change the way they raise a person from the dead before
they will change the way a person feels romantically by their touch! Wow! And
what do our minute excuses amount to which we use to touch people in
inappropriate ways!
But some
will argue that the term is ONLY a euphemism for sex and does not actually
include the literal act of romantic touching. But if the Bible did not first
consider such touching as inherently sensuous and erotic, then how would it
ever come to indicate sex? No, we need not be so shallow: Because the Bible
acknowledges the sexual indulgence of influential touching between opposite
sexes, it naturally flags this touching as a corner stone for the area of
fornication which it initiates.
--
Resurrections:
When
raising men from the dead, this often involved considerable physical contact
1Ki_17:18-22; 2Ki_4:31-36; Act_20:9-10;
[Exceptions: Luk_7:15, boy in casket; Joh_11:43-44, Lazarus; (but I don’t think Paul was dead: Act_14:19-20)]
But with
women it was never this way:
Mar_5:40-42; Mar_1:31; Act_9:40-41
--
Anti-lust scriptures
I need
to compile a brief list like this
--
---
--
How to Flee Lust
Seven Daily Scriptures
Quote them basically
every day of your life, until you are delivered completely from lust
Pro_6:25
Pro_27:20
Mat_5:27
1Ti_5:1-2
2Ti_2:22
Gal_5:24
Gal_2:20
Lust
Dreams, Wet Dreams, Nocturnal Emissions
(i.e. Deu_23: &
Lev_15: Summary)
Lev_15:1-18 -- men seed
Lev_15:19-30 -- women blood
Lev_15:31-33 -- Summary for men and women
Men’s seed is paralleled with woman’s blood --
this entire chapter, including its parallels, are all circumstantial, and
almost everything in this section of Leviticus is about the particular parable
of the Jews and does not address absolute moralities for all peoples.
Can a man, even a non-Jewish man, sin by being with
a woman during her blood? Absolutely.
But this potential sin is not covered in this
section because it only addresses Jew-only parables here.
Only later, in Lev_18 and the surrounding chapters does Leviticus describe abslute moral
boundaries that applies to all the children of Adam.
Lev_15:2-18
- Man unclean
esp.
Lev_15:2-3
- ῥύσις*
ἐκ τοῦ σώματος
αὐτοῦ, ἡ ῥύσις
αὐτοῦ ἀκάθαρτός
ἐστιν
Lev_15:16
- ἐξέλθῃ
ἐξ αὐτοῦ κοίτη
σπέρματος
Lev_15:19-30 - woman
Lev_15:31-33
- recap
(...εὐλαβεῖςG2126 ποιήσετε
τοὺς υἱοὺς
Ισραηλ...; ἐάν
τινι ἐξέλθῃ ἐξ
αὐτοῦ κοίτη σπέρματος...
ἐν τῇ ῥύσει* αὐτοῦ...)
(*"ῥύσις," ALS, p. 484 - issue/ flow/ discharge/
course; but see: ῥύσειG4511 -as
used in NT below-; ῥέωG4482; ῥυπόωG4510)
1Sa_20:26 - David thought to be?
(simply: "συμπτωμα*
φαινεταιG5316...μὴ
καθαρὸς εἶναι, ὅτι
οὐ κεκαθάρισταιG2511")
[*"συμπτωμα" ALS, p. 513 - "chance event,
mishap; sign, indication, symtom"]
Lev_22:4-7 - Seed of Aaron
(τοῦ σπέρματος
Ααρων...ᾧ
ἂν ἐξέλθῃ ἐξ αὐτοῦ
κοίτη σπέρματος)
Num_5:2-3 - Put them out of camp (πάντα
γονορρυῆ*)
[*"γονορρυῆ" ALS, p. 114 - "discharge of seed or
blood, suffering from gonorrhea"]
TSK - with Greek inserted by Josiahs
2Sa_3:29 [γονορρυης*]; Mat_9:20 [αιμορροουσαG131]; Mar_5:25 [ἐν ῥύσειG4511 αἵματος], Mar_7:20-23; Luk_8:43 [ἐν ῥύσειG4511 αἵματος]" (Zec_13:1)
Both woman's and man's life generation was cursed by sin at the fall.
the very core essence of their being was cursed and affected.
They did not just feel the curse outside with their skin.
They felt it from their deepest insides and generative capacities, and from the inside out they felt shame.
The very first thing sin touched and corrupted and marred was the human gender identity.
As soon as they sinned, the next thing we are told is that they felt shame on the gender.
generation contains a reminder of what was cursed by sin.
Jews were required to contradict this reminder with the strictest diligence.
God saw the microsoptic parable, and they were required to live with that awareness which their eyes could not see, and their heart could not otherwise appreciate without some position acknowledging the truth of faith.
Part Five – Miscellaneous
2/9/18
if you always remember your wife you
will never sin
> The Shepherd of Hermes
---------------
come together quickly that Satan not
tempt you
Deuteronomy 22 and woman is killed
for doing sexual gratification before marriage
Matthew 19 being a eunuch is the only
alternative to marriage
>>Scrip:
God's word does not return to him
empty
the word of God is like seeds (sperm)
he can't send because his seed
remains in him (he is a legitimate son who was produced by valuable seed, and
that seed was not wasted, but it produced the fruit that it intended)
the real terminology when people
sleep together is called a bed of sperm / seed
Pouring it outside of a woman defiles
a jewish man -- and we also can feel that defilement if we are not completely
desensitized.
Gen38
there are two sins here
in one sense they are different and
distinct, and in another sense one cannot exist without the other.
if someone insists and presses the
issue and says that the only sin here was that he would not give seed to his
brother and that is the only reason God killed him, this can be essentially
shown to be false, because when a man declined to give seed to his brother in a
social, formal way, he was not killed by the death penalty, but he was simply
reprimanded and disapproved.
Onan participated in sexual behavior
and wasted the seed by pouring it out and not putting it in a woman, and
therefore he not only deserved a rebuke but also death. he indulged in
sexuality in a non valuing way and was therefore killed.
so in one sense, you can say that his
primary sin was not loving Tamar or her potential children, but one sin leads
to the other, and if he did not want to give her seed, he could have at least
bowed out in a socially honest way, but he deceptively defiled seed (the most
valuable climax of sexuality) in the process and therefore committed an
outrageous Abomination before God
to avoid fornication, do marriage
come together so that Satan does not
tempt you
psa --
8/17/17
look at the high standards of both
absolute monogamy and virginity that women are held to throughout the Bible. if
she remarries then she is defiled, although this is never said of men who can
even practice polygamous marriage without sin.
but if she is not anatomically virgin
she can be killed....... and if she is found to have been unfaithful within
marriage then she can be killed...
for the longest time throughout
history, the Bible did not emphasize the absolute sexual Chastity and purity of
men.
there was less anatomical social
accountability, and a man was never stoned for being found to not be a virgin.
men assumed that because it was not
specifically forbidden, therefore it was not condemned and it would not make
them guilty of sin or make them go to hell.
this would be the type of social
problem that made Samson vulnerable to fall into being with prostitutes.
who knows for how many years men did
not feel guilty for being immoral, and people Justified themselves and
complained that the Bible did not specifically command men not to be with
prostitutes,
but just when no one felt guilty and
no one expected that they were responsible and liable for committing crimes,
the prophet says that he will no longer punish their women for being
prostitutes because the men themselves are separated unto prostitutes.
and then thousands of years later,
the end result was that Revelation praises the male virgins -- the same
standard that was applied to women is unexpectedly applied to men!
just as women could not be with men
before marriage, nor could they tamper with their anatomical virginity, so also
now men are demanded to be absolutely pure until marriage.
that's what it means to be a virgin
indeed!
a widow who was separated from her
husband by death yet lived in pleasure and indulged despite her sad state of
life was not worthy to be helped by the church.
she was dead already if she lived in
pleasures.
now here you are, waiting for
marriage, presumably, and if you indulge in Pleasures you are not a virgin
indeed any more than a fake widow who lives in pleasures.
it is high time someone finally
remembered what the word Chastity means, and took to heart the high standard
that the Bible sets for this type of virtue.
...
remember that the Bible progressively
Titans and makes more strict the standard of sexual purity as time goes on...
as seen with incest, polygamy, and
even virginity.
38:9)
5:19), and never identifies self sexual gratification as an
evil passion or lust.
6:25).
14:14). Moreover, God has made a way for even those who are
not married (male or female), or those who are away from their spouse (like a
soldier at war), to at least somewhat satisfy the sexual drive via
masturbation. It is oppressive to teach that such an act is against the will of
God
13:4 only gives 3 categories of sexual activity:
Flee Passages
8/18/05; 2/21/17 (recompiled)
Tim_2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but peruse righteousness, faith, Love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart, (KJV-Based).
1Co_6:18-20 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
1Tim_5:1-2 Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. (KJV-Based)
Job_31:1 WEB "I made a covenant with my eyes, How
then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
Mat_5:27-30 WEB "You have heard that it was said, 'You
shall not commit adultery;' 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery
with her already in his heart. 29 If
your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you.
For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for
your whole body to be cast into Gehenna [Hell]. 30 If
your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you:
for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not
your whole body be thrown into Gehenna [Hell].
Pro_6:25 Don't lust after her
beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. 27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, And his clothes not be burned? (WEB, Also read verses 23-35).
Pro_5:12 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house, (WEB).
Gal_5:24 WEB Those who belong to Christ have crucified the
flesh with its passions and lusts
[or desires].
Extra
Anti-Flirtation Scripture:
Isa_3:16-24 Moreover the Lord said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, Walking to trip as they go, Jingling ornaments on their feet; 17 Therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, And the Lord will make their scalps bald." 18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, 19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils, 20 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms, 21 the signet rings, the nose rings, 22 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, 23 the hand-mirrors, the fine linen garments, the hoods, and the shawls. 24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; Instead of a belt, a rope; Instead of well set hair, baldness; Instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty. (WEB-Based)
Common Assumptions and Misconceptions about Romance
Ask yourself if you have said or thought anything like these common excuses before. See if you can relate to any of these statements. – Hopefully you will not relate to all of these statements.
List
- I'm over 18 now, so I can make my own decisions.
- It's my body and my life. I can do what I want with it. [But, God is even offended at Sodom who didn't redemptively “belong” to Him. God, Parents, and brothers do own you. Parents and brothers are socially responsible for your purity]
- If we love each other it is OK [But Dut 22 treats it as a crime]
- We are married in God's eyes, so it's OK [But such were criminals in the Bible. I've had a family member commit fornication with this excuse]
- If we are not hurting anyone else, so it is OK
- Our relationship is pure because we are committed to each other [Pat's story]
- If our parents did it when they were dating, it must be OK for us too.
- It can't be sin if everyone else in church is
doing it. Are you saying that they are all in sin?
- Even if everyone else is doing it wrong, our
relationship is pure because we are the exception. We don't go too far when we get alone in
the car. [The typical “I'm Special” syndrome.]
- We're being responsible. We are mature enough to be alone and still do what's right.
- We are keeping each other accountable to be pure about our relationship
- I can handle the temptation. I will not let myself fall if I go this far in my relationship.
- It would be wrong to flirt around with any and everybody, but if we are dating, it's OK to “flirt” with your significant other.
- The Bible does not say you will go to Hell for kissing/etc.... [or fill in the blank... but compare Thessalonians below]
- Pursuing romance before marriage is OK, as long as you don't go too far.
- We’re not doing anything wrong... we're not having sex or nothing. [but would you do that with your sister/brother?]
- We need to spend a lot of time together to see if we are compatible. You've got to test drive a car to see if you want to buy it. [But consider being: “Single indeed”]
- It's OK to date someone as long as they are a christian.
- You'll never get married if you don't date around to find the right person.
- You have to get to know someone before you get married, or else you will never get married at all! -- [But this turns into, “You've got to get to know someone romantically before you marry them”]
- How are you going to find a spouse unless you are looking? Doesn't it say, “He who finds a wife finds a good thing” [but “finds” in Hebrew is in the sense of finding by accident]
- Dating is a normal healthy part of being socially well adjusted.
- If I don't date, my emotional needs won't be met. I won't be fulfilled if I don't date.
- God wants me to be happy! [...As though He would never have you to suffer?]
Home Work
|
Home Work |
|
Isa_3:16-24, (compare with 1Ti_2:9); 1Ti_5:1-2; 1Th_4:2-9 |
Extra
1Co_7:1 “...It is good for a man not to touch a woman”
1Co_7:32, 34-35 “...that you may wait on the Lord without distraction,” (1Cor_7:35c).
1Co_7:36-38 These were engaged unwedded men and women
Mat_1:18-19 Joseph and Marry didn't even talk when they were engaged
Gen_24:63-67 Isaac & Rebeca had 1 verse to “get to know each other” before they married
Culture
Jesus and His appointed followers authenticated (that is, they approved of and made valid) the extreme purity standards of their day, as well as making the standard higher.
We would be foolish to simply except the perverted Westernized loose standards in our culture today, whether in or outside the church. We would be foolish not to question and continually reevaluate and renovate our default assumptions about romance by searching the Scriptures.
Realize the implications of Mat_5:27-31!
Also consider the impact and meaning of Isa_3:16-24.
What does this say about what we expect as normal dating practices?
Pro_6:25 WEB Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
(Also read verses 23-35)
Jesus said that looking to lust was adultery, but here we can see that lust can even include looking at the beauty of a woman!
Flirtation with many people or with one person, it is the same sin
We who follow the Bible are not just against emotional (heart) fornication with the multiple attractive people that we interact with in life, but we are also against monogamous heart-prostitution with only one significant other. Our premarital “commitment” to another person does not excuse us the purity-boundary (and standard) of brothers and sisters, nor does it release us from the responsibility and obligation to be “without distraction” and “single indeed.”
Fornication Realization
Realize: If sleeping around with various people is wrong, so is wishing to do so in your heart by flirting with them. And if sleeping with one person apart from marriage is wrong, so is doing so in your heart by flirtation and stirring up romance which cannot lawfully be fulfilled.
Rth_3:10-11 …you did not follow young men, whether poor or rich. 11 …For all the city of my people knows that you are a woman of virtue.
Redeeming Immorality
The Hope of Redemption
· Children of fornication can be redeemed into greatness.
· God can redeem fornication, even despite horribly bad motives of lust for sexual murder.
· In some kind of surprising way, God is involved in redeeming all prostitution and immorality for His glory, despite all of the evil motives of the men and women who commit such horrible crimes.
· After escaping all such sin, you can make it into God’s greatness by faith.
Preview
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Jdg_11/Heb_11 (Jephthah); 2Sa_12
(David); Gen_38
(Tamar & Judah)
·
Rahab & Genealogies (Mat_1)
Jephthah: Born by Prostitution; Redeemed into Greatness!
(1) Jephthah Driven Away & Brought Back
Jdg_11:1 WEB Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
Jdg_11:1 LB Jephthah And Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man; and he was the son of a harlot [αὐτὸς υἱὸς γυναικὸς πόρνης], who bore Jephthah to Gilead. [ἣ ἐγέννησεν τῷ Γαλααδ τὸν Ιεφθαε]
Jdg_11:1 Καὶ
Ιεφθαε ὁ
Γαλααδίτης ἐπηρμένος
δυνάμει· καὶ αὐτὸς
υἱὸς γυναικὸς πόρνης,
ἣ ἐγέννησεν τῷ
Γαλααδ τὸν
Ιεφθαε.
Jdg_11:2 WEB Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman. [think: Abraham sending other children away…]
Jdg_11:2 And the wife of Gilead bore him sons; and the sons of his wife grew up, and they cast out Jephthah, and said to him, “You shall not inherit in the house of our father, for you are the son of a concubine [????].” [υἱὸς γυναικὸς ἑταίρας σύ]
Jdg_11:2 καὶ ἔτεκεν
ἡ γυνὴ Γαλααδ αὐτῷ
υἱούς· καὶ ἡδρύνθησαν
οἱ υἱοὶ τῆς
γυναικὸς καὶ ἐξέβαλον
τὸν Ιεφθαε καὶ
εἶπαν αὐτῷ Οὐ
κληρονομήσεις
ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ
πατρὸς ἡμῶν, ὅτι
υἱὸς γυναικὸς ἑταίρας
σύ.
Jdg_11:3 WEB Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.
Jdg_11:3 And Jephthah fled from the face of his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and worthless men gathered to Jephthah, and went out with him.
Jdg_11:3 καὶ ἔφυγεν
Ιεφθαε ἀπὸ
προσώπου ἀδελφῶν
αὐτοῦ καὶ ᾤκησεν
ἐν γῇ Τωβ, καὶ
συνεστράφησαν
πρὸς Ιεφθαε ἄνδρες
κενοὶ καὶ ἐξῆλθον
μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ.
Jdg_11:4 WEB It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
Jdg_11:4 And it came to pass when the children of Ammon prepared to fight with Israel,
[Jdg_11:4 ABP-G+
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Jdg_11:5 WEB It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;
Jdg_11:5 that the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah from the land of Tob.
Jdg_11:5 Καὶ ἐγένετο
ἡνίκα παρετάξαντο
οἱ υἱοὶ Αμμων
μετὰ Ισραηλ, καὶ
ἐπορεύθησαν οἱ
πρεσβύτεροι
Γαλααδ λαβεῖν
τὸν Ιεφθαε ἀπὸ
τῆς γῆς Τωβ
Jdg_11:6 WEB and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Jdg_11:6 And they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader, and we will fight with the sons of Ammon.”
Jdg_11:6 καὶ εἶπαν
τῷ Ιεφθαε Δεῦρο
καὶ ἔσῃ ἡμῖν εἰς
ἀρχηγόν, καὶ
παραταξώμεθα
πρὸς υἱοὺς
Αμμων.
Jdg_11:7 WEB Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Didn't you hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? and why have you come to me now when you are in distress?
Jdg_11:7 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me, and cast me out of my father’s house, and banish me from you? And why have you come to me now, when you need me?”
Jdg_11:7 καὶ εἶπεν
Ιεφθαε τοῖς
πρεσβυτέροις
Γαλααδ Οὐχὶ ὑμεῖς
ἐμισήσατέ με
καὶ ἐξεβάλετέ
με ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου
τοῦ πατρός μου
καὶ ἐξαπεστείλατέ
με ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν; καὶ
διὰ τί ἤλθατε
πρός με νῦν, ἡνίκα
χρῄζετε;
Jdg_11:8 WEB The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore are we turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Jdg_11:8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore have we now turned to you, that you should go with us, and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be our leader over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
Jdg_11:8 καὶ εἶπαν
οἱ πρεσβύτεροι
Γαλααδ πρὸς
Ιεφθαε Διὰ τοῦτο
νῦν ἐπεστρέψαμεν
πρὸς σέ, καὶ
πορεύσῃ μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν
καὶ παρατάξῃ
πρὸς υἱοὺς
Αμμων· καὶ ἔσῃ ἡμῖν
εἰς ἄρχοντα, πᾶσιν
τοῖς οἰκοῦσιν
Γαλααδ.
Jdg_11:9 WEB Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
Jdg_11:9 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you turn me back to fight with the children of Ammon, and the Lord should deliver them before me, then will I be your leader.”
Jdg_11:9 καὶ εἶπεν
Ιεφθαε πρὸς τοὺς
πρεσβυτέρους
Γαλααδ Εἰ ἐπιστρέφετέ
με ὑμεῖς παρατάξασθαι
ἐν υἱοῖς Αμμων
καὶ παραδῷ κύριος
αὐτοὺς ἐνώπιον
ἐμοῦ, καὶ ἐγὼ ἔσομαι
ὑμῖν εἰς ἄρχοντα.
Jdg_11:10 WEB The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely [Heb. if-not = oath] according to your word so will we do.
Jdg_11:10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The Lord be witness between us [Κύριος ἔστω ἀκούων ἀνὰ μέσον ἡμῶν], if we shall not [εἰ μὴ – if-not = oath] do according to your word.”
Jdg_11:10 καὶ εἶπαν
οἱ πρεσβύτεροι
Γαλααδ πρὸς
Ιεφθαε Κύριος ἔστω
ἀκούων ἀνὰ μέσον
ἡμῶν, εἰ μὴ κατὰ
τὸ ῥῆμά σου οὕτως
ποιήσομεν.
Jdg_11:11 WEB Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
Jdg_11:11 And Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and ruler over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord in Mizpah.
Jdg_11:11 καὶ ἐπορεύθη
Ιεφθαε μετὰ τῶν
πρεσβυτέρων
Γαλααδ, καὶ ἔθηκαν
αὐτὸν ὁ λαὸς ἐπ᾿
αὐτοὺς εἰς
κεφαλὴν καὶ εἰς
ἀρχηγόν. καὶ ἐλάλησεν
Ιεφθαε τοὺς λόγους
αὐτοῦ πάντας ἐνώπιον
κυρίου ἐν
Μασσηφα.
(2) Jephthah = Savior
Jdg_11:12-40 – Jephthah goes on to Save Israel
· Jdg_11:12-28 – Jephthah recites history -- NO liberal historical revisionism!
· Jephthah References Monotheistic God: (A) in Israel: Jdg_11:11-12, (B) To Pagans: Jdg_11:21-27 (C) In “Prayer”/Oath: Jdg_11:29-36
· Jdg_11:29 – Jephthah Inspired!
· Jdg_11:30-40 – Jephthah's Tragic Commitment
(3) Jephthah in “the Hall of Faith”
Heb_11:32 CAB And what more should I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, both Barak and Samson and Jephthah, both David and Samuel and the prophets:
Heb_11:32 Καὶ τί ἔτι
λέγω; ἐπιλείψει
γὰρ με
διηγούμενον ὁ
χρόνος περὶ
Γεδεών,
Βαράκ τε καὶ
Σαμψών καὶ ᾿Ιεφθάε,
Δαυΐδ τε καὶ
Σαμουὴλ καὶ
τῶν προφητῶν,
Heb_11:32 και τι ετι λεγω επιλειψει TSBγαρ με Aγαρ διηγουμενον ο χρονος περι γεδεων βαρακ TSBτε TSBκαι σαμψων TSBκαι ιεφθαε BAδαυιδ TSδαβιδ τε και σαμουηλ και των προφητων
…
Heb_11:38 of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
Heb_11:38 ὧν οὐκ ἦν
ἄξιος ὁ
κόσμος, ἐν ἐρημίαις
πλανώμενοι
καὶ ὄρεσι
καὶ
σπηλαίοις
καὶ ταῖς ὀπαῖς
τῆς γῆς.
Heb_11:38 ων ουκ ην αξιος ο κοσμος Aεπι TSBεν ερημιαις πλανωμενοι και ορεσιν και σπηλαιοις και ταις οπαις της γης
The Point: Jephthah could have initially seemed shameful, rough (Jdg_11:3), and even doomed from being born of prostitution (Jdg_11:1-2), yet God’s name inspired him with saving zeal to deliver Israel and make it in the Hall of faith!
David’s Child by Adultery
Comp. SRP > David Rebuked & Thankful & PUR > Redeeming Immorality
Sin-Repentance-Perfection.htm#DavidRebukedAndThankful
Purity-Proclamation.htm#RedeemingImmorality
David Cared: David cared very deeply for his child by
adultery, even though the child was initially illegitimate, and died in
judgement
2Sa_12:14-23 – child by adultery died, David Cared deeply
Learning form David’s Example: David showed that it was right to care deeply for your son, even if he was generated by sin.
[David Confronted]
2Sa_12:13 WEB David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
2Sa_12:13 LB And David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die.
2Sa_12:13 καὶ εἶπεν
Δαυιδ τῷ Ναθαν Ἡμάρτηκα
τῷ κυρίῳ. καὶ εἶπεν
Ναθαν πρὸς
Δαυιδ Καὶ κύριος
παρεβίβασεν τὸ
ἁμάρτημά σου, οὐ
μὴ ἀποθάνῃς·
2Sa_12:14 WEB However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."
2Sa_12:14 Only because you have given great occasion of provocation to the enemies of the Lord by this thing, your son also that is born to you [ὁ υἱός σου ὁ τεχθείς σοι] shall surely die.” [θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖται]
2Sa_12:14 πλὴν ὅτι
παροξύνων παρώξυνας
τοὺς ἐχθροὺς
κυρίου ἐν τῷ ῥήματι
τούτῳ, καί γε ὁ
υἱός σου ὁ
τεχθείς σοι
θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖται.
[David’s Son Dies]
2Sa_12:15 WEB Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
2Sa_12:15 And Nathan departed to his house. And the Lord struck the child, which the wife of Uriah the Hittite bore to David, and it was ill.
2Sa_12:15 καὶ ἀπῆλθεν
Ναθαν εἰς τὸν οἶκον
αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ἔθραυσεν
κύριος τὸ παιδίον,
ὃ ἔτεκεν ἡ γυνὴ
Ουριου τῷ
Δαυιδ, καὶ ἠρρώστησεν.
2Sa_12:16 WEB David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
2Sa_12:16 And David inquired [ἐζήτησεν] of God concerning the child, and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground. [ηὐλίσθη ἐν σάκκῳ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς]
2Sa_12:16 καὶ ἐζήτησεν
Δαυιδ τὸν θεὸν
περὶ τοῦ
παιδαρίου, καὶ ἐνήστευσεν
Δαυιδ νηστείαν
καὶ εἰσῆλθεν
καὶ ηὐλίσθη ἐν
σάκκῳ ἐπὶ τῆς
γῆς.
2Sa_12:17 WEB The elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
2Sa_12:17 And the elders of his house arose and went to him to raise him up from the ground, but he would not rise, nor did he eat bread with them.
2Sa_12:17 καὶ ἀνέστησαν
ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν οἱ
πρεσβύτεροι
τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ
τοῦ ἐγεῖραι αὐτὸν
ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, καὶ
οὐκ ἠθέλησεν
καὶ οὐ συνέφαγεν
αὐτοῖς ἄρτον.
2Sa_12:18 WEB It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice: how will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead!
2Sa_12:18 And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive we spoke to him, and he would not listen to our voice; and should we tell him now that the child is dead?—for he would do himself harm.”
2Sa_12:18 καὶ ἐγένετο
ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ
καὶ ἀπέθανε τὸ
παιδάριον· καὶ
ἐφοβήθησαν οἱ
δοῦλοι Δαυιδ ἀναγγεῖλαι
αὐτῷ ὅτι τέθνηκεν
τὸ παιδάριον, ὅτι
εἶπαν Ἰδοὺ ἐν τῷ
ἔτι τὸ παιδάριον
ζῆν ἐλαλήσαμεν
πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ
οὐκ εἰσήκουσεν
τῆς φωνῆς ἡμῶν·
καὶ πῶς εἴπωμεν
πρὸς αὐτὸν ὅτι
τέθνηκεν τὸ
παιδάριον; καὶ
ποιήσει κακά.
2Sa_12:19 WEB But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? They said, He is dead.
2Sa_12:19 And David knew that his servants were whispering, and David perceived that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” And they said, “He is dead.”
2Sa_12:19 καὶ συνῆκεν
Δαυιδ ὅτι οἱ παῖδες
αὐτοῦ ψιθυρίζουσιν,
καὶ ἐνόησεν
Δαυιδ ὅτι τέθνηκεν
τὸ παιδάριον·
καὶ εἶπεν
Δαυιδ πρὸς τοὺς
παῖδας αὐτοῦ Εἰ
τέθνηκεν τὸ
παιδάριον; καὶ
εἶπαν Τέθνηκεν.
2Sa_12:20 WEB Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate.
2Sa_12:20 Then David rose up from the ground, and he washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothes, and went into the house of God, and worshipped Him. And he went into his own house, and called for bread to eat, and they set bread before him and he ate.
2Sa_12:20 καὶ ἀνέστη
Δαυιδ ἐκ τῆς γῆς
καὶ ἐλούσατο
καὶ ἠλείψατο
καὶ ἤλλαξεν τὰ ἱμάτια
αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰσῆλθεν
εἰς τὸν οἶκον
τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ
προσεκύνησεν
αὐτῷ· καὶ εἰσῆλθεν
εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ
καὶ ᾔτησεν ἄρτον
φαγεῖν, καὶ παρέθηκαν
αὐτῷ ἄρτον, καὶ
ἔφαγεν.
2Sa_12:21 WEB Then said his servants to him, What thing is this that you have done? you fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.
2Sa_12:21 And his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done concerning the child? While the child was yet living you fasted and wept, and kept watch; but when the child was dead you rose up and ate bread, and drank.”
2Sa_12:21 καὶ εἶπαν
οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ
πρὸς αὐτόν Τί τὸ
ῥῆμα τοῦτο, ὃ ἐποίησας;
ἕνεκα τοῦ
παιδαρίου ἔτι
ζῶντος ἐνήστευες
καὶ ἔκλαιες καὶ
ἠγρύπνεις, καὶ ἡνίκα
ἀπέθανεν τὸ
παιδάριον, ἀνέστης
καὶ ἔφαγες ἄρτον
καὶ πέπωκας.
2Sa_12:22 WEB He said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?
2Sa_12:22 And David said, “While the child yet lived, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows if the Lord will pity me, and the child should live?’
2Sa_12:22 καὶ εἶπεν
Δαυιδ Ἐν τῷ τὸ
παιδάριον ἔτι
ζῆν ἐνήστευσα
καὶ ἔκλαυσα, ὅτι
εἶπα Τίς οἶδεν
εἰ ἐλεήσει με κύριος
καὶ ζήσεται τὸ
παιδάριον;
2Sa_12:23 WEB But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
2Sa_12:23 But now the child is dead, why should I fast thus? Shall I be able to bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”
2Sa_12:23 καὶ νῦν
τέθνηκεν· ἵνα
τί τοῦτο ἐγὼ
νηστεύω; μὴ δυνήσομαι
ἐπιστρέψαι αὐτὸ
ἔτι; ἐγὼ πορεύσομαι
πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ
αὐτὸς οὐκ ἀναστρέψει
πρός με.
[Solomon's Birth]
2Sa_12:24 WEB David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
2Sa_12:24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and he went in to her, and lay with her; and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his named Solomon, and the Lord loved him.
2Sa_12:24 καὶ
παρεκάλεσεν
Δαυιδ Βηρσαβεε
τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ
καὶ εἰσῆλθεν
πρὸς αὐτὴν καὶ ἐκοιμήθη
μετ᾿ αὐτῆς, καὶ
συνέλαβεν καὶ ἔτεκεν
υἱόν, καὶ ἐκάλεσεν
τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ
Σαλωμων, καὶ κύριος
ἠγάπησεν αὐτόν.
The Point: We should care deeply for all children,
even of immorality like David did.
Tamar & Judah: Bad Motives; God’s Purpose
Pretending Prostitution to Obey God
· Judah’s Children owed Tamar a Child by “Kinsmen Redeemer”
· Tamar Tricked Judah into giving her the owed child (seed) by pretending prostitution.
· Judah’s Motives: Prostitution
· Tamar’s Motives: Child by Kinsmen Redeemer (obeying God’s morality/law)
Tamar: Pregnant & Justified!
Gen_38:24 WEB It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
Gen_38:24 LB And it came to pass after three months, that it was told Judah, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has grievously played the harlot, and behold she is with child by harlotry.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
Gen_38:24 Ἐγένετο
δὲ μετὰ τρίμηνον
ἀπηγγέλη τῷ
Ιουδα λέγοντες
Ἐκπεπόρνευκεν
Θαμαρ ἡ νύμφη
σου καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐν
γαστρὶ ἔχει ἐκ
πορνείας. εἶπεν
δὲ Ιουδας Ἐξαγάγετε
αὐτήν, καὶ
κατακαυθήτω.
Gen_38:25 WEB When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the cords, and the staff."
Gen_38:25 And as they were bringing her, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man whose these things are.” And she said, “See whose ring this is, and bracelet and staff.”
Gen_38:25 αὐτὴ δὲ ἀγομένη
ἀπέστειλεν πρὸς
τὸν πενθερὸν αὐτῆς
λέγουσα Ἐκ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου,
τίνος ταῦτά ἐστιν,
ἐγὼ ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχω.
καὶ εἶπεν Ἐπίγνωθι,
τίνος ὁ δακτύλιος
καὶ ὁ ὁρμίσκος
καὶ ἡ ῥάβδος αὕτη.
Gen_38:26 WEB Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.
Gen_38:26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, “Tamar is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son”; and he never knew her again.
Gen_38:26 ἐπέγνω δὲ
Ιουδας καὶ εἶπεν
Δεδικαίωται
Θαμαρ ἢ ἐγώ, οὗ
εἵνεκεν οὐκ ἔδωκα
αὐτὴν Σηλωμ τῷ
υἱῷ μου. καὶ οὐ
προσέθετο ἔτι
τοῦ γνῶναι αὐτήν.
Ruth Blessed by Tamar’s Legacy
Rth_4:11 And all the people who were in the gate said, “We are witnesses”; and the elders said, “The Lord make your wife who goes into your house, as Rachel and as Leah, who both together built the house of Israel, and wrought mightily in Ephratha, and there shall be a name to you in Bethlehem.
Rth_4:11 καὶ εἴποσαν
πᾶς ὁ λαὸς οἱ ἐν
τῇ πύλῃ Μάρτυρες.
καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι
εἴποσαν Δῴη κύριος
τὴν γυναῖκά
σου τὴν εἰσπορευομένην
εἰς τὸν οἶκόν
σου ὡς Ραχηλ καὶ
ὡς Λειαν, αἳ ᾠκοδόμησαν
ἀμφότεραι τὸν
οἶκον Ισραηλ
καὶ ἐποίησαν δύναμιν
ἐν Εφραθα, καὶ ἔσται
ὄνομα ἐν
Βαιθλεεμ·
Rth_4:12 WEB and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman.
Rth_4:12 And let your house be as the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the descendants which the Lord shall give you of this maidservant.”
Rth_4:12 καὶ γένοιτο
ὁ οἶκός σου ὡς ὁ
οἶκος Φαρες, ὃν ἔτεκεν
Θαμαρ τῷ Ιουδα, ἐκ
τοῦ σπέρματος,
οὗ δώσει κύριός
σοι ἐκ τῆς παιδίσκης
ταύτης.
Tamar Justifies Marry with Jesus
· Marry could not be stoned because of Tamar’s example, and the law which reinforced required proof.
· Tamar contributed to justifying Mary’s most blessed virgin birth
God Controls Sin
Judah’s example proves that God is in complete control of men who are motivated by prostitution -- their actions and the outcomes are providentially controlled by God for His purpose & glory, despite the bad motives of those who sin.
The Point: God has completely planed out and ordained what children are born for His purpose, despite the sexual murderers who might generate and conceive them.
Rahab
· Rahab was a prostitute!
· Saved by Faith.
· Got into Jesus Genealogy!
The Point: Even though Rahab had lived an evil pagan immoral life, God used her right where she was, despite her previous occupation, to escape sin, apprehend faith, and even get into Jesus’ very flesh!
Genealogies Redeem Immorality!
(1) Tamar
Mat_1:3 Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram.
Mat_1:3 ᾿Ιούδας
δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν Φαρές
καὶ τὸν
Ζαρὰ ἐκ τῆς
Θάμαρ, Φαρὲς
δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν ᾿Εσρώμ, ᾿Εσρὼμ
δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν ᾿Αράμ,
(2) Rahab, Bathsheba
Mat_1:5 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse,
Mat_1:5 Σαλμὼν
δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν Βοὸζ ἐκ
τῆς ῾Ραχάβ,
Βοὸζ δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν ᾿Ωβὴδ ἐκ
τῆς ῾Ρούθ, ᾿Ωβὴδ
δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν ᾿Ιεσσαί,
Mat_1:5 σαλμων δε εγεννησεν τον Aβοες TSBβοοζ εκ της ραχαβ Aβοες TSBβοοζ δε εγεννησεν τον Aιωβηδ TSBωβηδ εκ της ρουθ Aιωβηδ TSBωβηδ δε εγεννησεν τον ιεσσαι
Mat_1:6 and Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.
Mat_1:6 ᾿Ιεσσαὶ
δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν Δαυΐδ
τὸν βασιλέα.
Δαυΐδ δὲ ὁ
βασιλεὺς ἐγέννησε
τὸν Σολομῶνα
ἐκ τῆς τοῦ
Οὐρίου,
Mat_1:6 ιεσσαι δε εγεννησεν τον BAδαυιδ TSδαβιδ τον βασιλεα BAδαυιδ TSδαβιδ δε TSBο TSBβασιλευς εγεννησεν τον BAσολομωνα TSσολομωντα εκ της του ουριου
Talk about troubled genealogies!
“Tamar…Rahab…her who had been the wife of Uriah”
(3) Jesus!
Mat_1:16 And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.
Mat_1:16 ᾿Ιακὼβ
δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν ᾿Ιωσὴφ
τὸν ἄνδρα
Μαρίας, ἐξ ἧς
ἐγεννήθη ᾿Ιησοῦς
ὁ λεγόμενος
Χριστός.
Temple Renewal
More than Recovery
from Damage, but a restoration to more glory than the original state!
Many other pre-compiled dates (from ~2008-2015);
5/12/15-5/13/15; 5/16/15-5/17/15; 5/24/15-6/18/15; 9/12/15-9/13/15; 4/23/25
A statement of faith
Locked Up: The
Excitement Of A Locked Up And Sealed Garden
Son_4:12 WEB A locked
upH5274 [נָע֖וּל (na·'Ul) – eng: nail] gardenH1588 [גַּ֥ן – gan] is my sister [אחתי H269], my bride [כלה H3618]; a locked upH5274 [נעולH5274 – eng: nail] springH1530 [גלH1530 – gal], a sealedH2856 [חתום׃H2856] fountainH4599 [מעיןH4599].
Son_4:12 CAB My sister,
my spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.
Son_4:12 Greek Κῆπος
κεκλεισμένος ἀδελφή
μου νύμφη, κῆπος
κεκλεισμένος,
πηγὴ ἐσφραγισμένη·
(also: Son_8:6 –
quoted else ware)
[called a "sister": (A) she is as a relative now, (B) partly
because of Being joined next to: Exo_26:3, Exo_26:5-6, Exo_26:17; Eze_1:9; Eze_3:13)
Laid up many good things
Son_7:13 CAB The
mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors are all kinds of choice fruits,
new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept them for you.
You can be spiritually sealed: 2Co_1:22, Eph_1:13, Eph_4:30, Rev_7:3
This is what we said at the beginning: if you have blown it, seal up
and start storing up Godly passion now!
Parabolic Repentance & Redemption
Other dates; 5/29/15-5/31/15; many other dates -
6/18/15; 6/19/15 (Initially Presented); 9/12/15
http://www.trueconnection.org/BibleStudies/purity-proclamation.htm#ParabolicRepentance
Slay the foxes!
Do some Justice;
Raise up the banner of exclusivity!
Preach repentance;
Seal up hope and faithfulness;
Apprehend the unhindered promises of fully glorifying exaltation!
·
This does indirectly give some partial understanding on
what's going on, and even some partial hints on who some of us are... (so could
be used for some important things)
Question: Healed Hymen or Accepted by Faith?
Critical Questions
from A Pure Disciple
“In the area of restoration I have also wondered and prayed for years about being fully restored/created all together physically as well as spiritually and emotionally. In the area of physically being restored, can a female pray specifically for the replacement of her hymen (especially if she gets physically married upon the earth) and other things? I have not yet seen this done in the Bible and I wanted to know if this was important for a female to desire? Is it so that the man in whom she should marry should just “accept her” by faith without a hymen. To me this seems like a “settling for less” situation. Shouldn’t true and thorough restoration restore everything that was lost/taken? But then again I don’t know if Mary’s hymen was replaced before Joseph entered her. Was Rahab made a physical virgin again before she got married to the Israelite? (These men accepted their wives by faith and they were righteous!) I desire to know these things because I want restoration to be thorough as you have said and without the physical also being restored, it does not seem complete to me. As a personal testimony, I want no trace of a “former man” to be left in me / evident in me. In fact this is repulsive to me, to enter in a marriage where I am offering anything less than the most utter bestest part of me ever (even if that means I have to wrestle an angel to take a hold of that which was lost).”
May 2015
A righteous sewer
The Short Answer: Redemptive Faith From Him is Good, and a Special Miracle in Her is Exciting
There is an initial sense in which we are, “dirty fornicating” gentiles, and the mercy of a man to display forgiveness and courage to work out redemption for her might by default naturally correlate with the physical “marks” left from her past sins. If any woman was especially healed however, that might pertain as a special particular calling to testify to forgiveness, redeemed purity, and possibly even the long-awaited special proclamation of repentance to physical Israel. So, praying for and apprehending the replacement of a hymen would be a special extra supernatural case with lots of spiritual implications.
On one hand, mercy and redemption are always good. On the other hand, who would not want a special miracle? -- what shall we say? These questions always come down to the same thing: what is your parable?
Prerequisites Before Going into Answers
Reminder: We are answering the second part of a complex question: Healed Hymen or
Accepted by Faith?
We actually have to go into several sub-points and sidetrack Prerequisites before we can sufficiently answer this very complicated and critical question…
We Are Laying a Foundation First
· I do not know that we are going to actually answer the fullness of this question today.
· This is another shoe fitting Bible study. Don’t just assume things apply to you unless sufficiently verified in goodness.
· Even if we talk about some potentially painful things, as the very nature of this question stirs up, yet I am still more persuaded about spiritual answers than any and all dread of “damage” and “hurts”.
· If you listen to this Bible study, I need you to be stoked with faith and resolutely prepared and committed to not hurt (i.e. feel discouraged, cheapened, contradicted, upset, disturbed) by the things addressed in this Bible study
· Don't be confused, confounded, disoriented, shamed, cheapened, degraded, demoted, discouraged, upset, hurt…
· On one hand, I have carefully sought to bring many resolving answers to the inherent hurts raised by the questions that started this Bible study, but on the other hand, if you are going to be tripped up and hurt by hearing some of the evils initially described in addressing all things, then I would much rather you not even listen to this Bible study until you can do so in faith with answers.
· If you listen, I need you to agree to believe truth and goodness and that the answer is a real answer for you if you have any of these troubles
The Main Battle is for
the Exclusivity of the Soul, But The Body Might Be Included Too
Basic
Reminders: when dealing with the renewal of your being unto purity...
·
We can fully hope that our spirit has been born again
with new life when God displays His full mercy and favor in our hearts and
mouths.
·
Our spirit is born again, our soul is still in the works,
and our body is subjected in hope
·
Our soul is the primary concern for exclusivity -- and
generically speaking, it really is a pending battle to win, since we may have
to fight to fully conquer all memories, strongholds, desires, preferences, and
tendencies, and we may need to do this and win this adventure before each of us
is exclusive & ready for marriage
·
‘He able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all we
ask or imagine according to the power at work in us’ Eph_3:20
·
“If the spirit… in-houses/lives in you...” (Rom_8:11) Then it can also surpass all boundaries and bring life
to your die-able body and heal and do all kinds of special works and parables
and mysteries with changing you physically to match whatever great
proclamations you particularly pertain to
Rom_8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit indwelling in you.
Rom_8:11 εἰ δὲ
τὸ Πνεῦμα
τοῦ ἐγείραντος
᾿Ιησοῦν ἐκ
νεκρῶν οἰκεῖ
ἐν ὑμῖν, ὁ ἐγείρας
τὸν Χριστὸν
ἐκ νεκρῶν ζῳοποιήσει
καὶ τὰ
θνητὰ σώματα
ὑμῶν διὰ
τοῦ ἐνοικοῦντος
αὐτοῦ
Πνεύματος ἐν
ὑμῖν.
Confession & Healing – Two Notable Points to Consider Your Parable
·
This first point on Parabolic
Repentance is initially about how to max out on the default situation laid
upon women when coming from a defiled background, and the second point on Healed Hymen is about a special and particular, supernatural glory of
physical healing
·
Parabolic Repentance, may still be necessary even if you apprehend a Healed Hymen favor, but a Healed Hymen calling would definitely
have its own distinct implications and particular glories
·
Parabolic Repentance is the right place to start no matter which calling you
end up apprehending (whether it be default faith or particular healing)
·
As I describe the two ways of answering our main
question, carefully and prayerfully listen so as to hear what you are called
to, which is the ultimate personalized answer for you in these cases, and yearn
to know what you are supposed to apprehend by faith
For now, let’s go ahead and start by jumping into this huge question and need…
Defilement is Permanent by Nature
Deuteronomy 22 & 23
– Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Says Not to Even Marry a Woman Who was Raped
Deu_22:25-27 – “…if a man find a damsel in the wilderness, and do violence to her and lie with her, the man only shall die who lay with her, for the damsel is not guilty of death; but her husband may put her away from him by a bill of divorcement”
(Commentary on Deu_22:25-27 – Targum Pseudo-Jonathan [or, as some call it, Targum Yerushalmi/ “Jerusalem Targum”] – English Translation by JW Etheridge)
After trying to clarify Deuteronomy 22, a little bit later this same paraphrase (or commentary) then goes even further by saying,
“A man should not take a wife who is bowed down (or violated)…”
(Commentary on Deu_23:1 – Targum Pseudo-Jonathan [or, as some call it, Targum Yerushalmi/ “Jerusalem Targum”] – English Translation by JW Etheridge)
2nd Samuel 13 –
Rape is Permanently Defiling
2Sa_13:12-13 WEB She answered
him, No, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in
Israel. Don't you do this folly. 13 I, where shall I carry my shame?
and as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore,
please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.
2Sa_13:12-13 CAB And she
said to him, No, my brother, do not humble me, for it ought not to be so done
in Israel; do not do this disgraceful thing!
13
And I, where shall I remove my
[name] reproach [ὄνειδός]? And you shall be as one of the fools in Israel. And now, speak to the
king, for surely he will not keep me from you.
2Sa_13:12-13 Greek καὶ
εἶπεν αὐτῷ Μή, ἄδελφέ
μου, μὴ ταπεινώσῃς
με, διότι οὐ
ποιηθήσεται οὕτως
ἐν Ισραηλ· μὴ
ποιήσῃς τὴν ἀφροσύνην
ταύτην·
13 καὶ ἐγὼ
ποῦ ἀποίσω
τὸ ὄνειδός μου;
καὶ σὺ ἔσῃ ὡς εἷς
τῶν ἀφρόνων ἐν
Ισραηλ· καὶ νῦν
λάλησον δὴ πρὸς
τὸν βασιλέα, ὅτι
οὐ μὴ κωλύσῃ με
ἀπὸ σοῦ.
Even if a woman was raped, she has permanent and unbearable
defilement that cannot be undone -- and if this is the case with the
involuntary defilement of rape, much more destructive and defiling and
permanent is the willing murder done in fornication.
Proverbs 6 – Adultery is
Permanently Defiling
Pro_6:32-33 WEB He who
commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys
his own soul. 33 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.
Pro_6:32-33 CAB But the
adulterer through lack of understanding procures destruction to his soul. 33 He endures both pain and disgrace, and his [name] reproach [ὄνειδος] shall never be wiped
off.
Pro_6:32-33 Greek ὁ δὲ
μοιχὸς δι᾿ ἔνδειαν
φρενῶν ἀπώλειαν
τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτοῦ
περιποιεῖται, 33 ὀδύνας
τε καὶ ἀτιμίας ὑποφέρει,
τὸ δὲ ὄνειδος αὐτοῦ
οὐκ ἐξαλειφθήσεται
εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
Deu_24:1-4
– Even Death Does Not Clean The Defilement Of Remarriage
As seen in Divorce and
Remarriage Repentance Revolution
Deu_24:1-4 CAB And if anyone should take a wife, and should *dwell with [* LXX: συνοικήσῃ
– lit. cohabit; MT:
ובעלה – lit. (become)
master (over); LXX & MT: fig. marry]
her, then [καὶ – and] it shall come to pass if she should not have found favor
before him, because he has found *some unbecoming thing [*
LXX: ἄσχημον
πρᾶγμα
– lit. a matter of not having fashion/
shape ; fig. an issue (πρᾶγμα) over
an embarrassing (ἄσχημον) thing
he has now noticed – this “shapeless” word is the exact same Greek term
used for “private parts” of the body in 1Co_12:23;
MT: דבר
ערות
בה – a word (dâbâr)
of nakedness; – “nakedness” (from Hebrew) = similar to LXX’s “shapeless
matter” (from Greek) – i.e. something he
discovered by seeing her uncovered] in her, that he
shall write [Actual Greek: “καὶ”
(kai) – and, “γράψει” (grapsei) Indicative Mood –
he writes; forgeries commonly added in
English: “that…shall” (a falsification to make it appear as a command
(in the Imperative Mood) when the
Greek simply states it as occurring (in the Indicative
Mood)] for
her a certificate of divorce [LXX: βιβλίον
ἀποστασίου – lit. a book/ writing of standing away; MT: כריתת ספר לה
– a book/ writing of cutting], and give[s] it into her hands, and he shall
[not in Greek] send[s]Indicative
Mood her away
[ἐξαποστελεῖ] out [ἐκ
(same as ἐξ within the previous word)] of his house. 2 And *if she should
go away [* LXX: ἀπελθοῦσα;
one DSS
document (4QDeuta) agrees with the LXX here, while MT,
the Samaritan Pentateuch, and another DSS
document (4QDeutk2) add the specification, “When she is departed out
of his house…” (WEB)] and *be married to
another man [* γένηται
ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ – lit. become
another man’s (same Greek as Rom 7!)];
3
and the last husband [4QDeutk2
adds, (who took her) “to be his wife” (DSS Bible);
(Not included in 4QDeuta, SP, MT,
LXX)] should hate her, and write for her a certificate of divorce [same as v. 1], and should give it into her hands,
and send her away [same as v. 1]
out of his house [οἰκίας – compare v. 1 (i.e. “dwell with her”)], and [ἢ – or] the last husband should die [ἀποθάνῃ – lit. die away], who took her to himself for a
wife; 4 the former [πρότερος
– first] husband who sent her away
[same as v. 1] shall not be able to return
[ἐπαναστρέψας
– lit. turn again upon/ return upon] and take her to himself for a
wife, after she has been defiled [μετὰ
τὸ μιανθῆναι
αὐτήν – lit. after the defilement of her (i.e. after her remarriage)]; because it [ὅτι
– lit. that] is an abomination before the Lord your
God, and you shall not defile [μιανεῖτε] the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.
Lev 21 – A Priest’s
Marriage Restrictions
Speaking of the
Priest...
Lev_21:4 WEB He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
Lev_21:6-9 WEB They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy. 7 " 'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God. 8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy. 9 " 'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire.
Lev_21:4 CAB ...he shall not defile [μιανθήσεται] himself suddenly among his people to profane [βεβήλωσιν] himself...
Lev_21:4 Greek οὐ μιανθήσεται
ἐξάπινα ἐν τῷ
λαῷ αὐτοῦ εἰς
βεβήλωσιν αὐτοῦ
.
Lev_21:6-9 CAB They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane [βεβηλώσουσιν] the name of their God; for they offer the sacrifices of the Lord as the gifts of their God, and they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a woman who is a harlot [πόρνην] and profaned [καὶ βεβηλωμένην], or a woman put away from [ἐκβεβλημένηνG1544 ἀπὸ – lit. thrown out from] her husband; for he is holy to the Lord his God. 8 And you shall hallow him; he offers the gifts of the Lord your God: he shall be holy, for I the Lord that sanctify them am holy. 9 And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned [βεβηλωθῇ] *to go a whoring [* τοῦ ἐκπορνεῦσαι], she profanes [βεβηλοῖ] the name of her father [Deu_22:20-21]: she shall be burned with fire [ἐπὶ πυρὸς κατακαυθήσεται – Gen_38:24; Jos_7:15, Jos_7:25].
Lev_21:6-9 Greek ἅγιοι ἔσονται
τῷ θεῷ αὐτῶν καὶ
οὐ βεβηλώσουσιν
τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ
θεοῦ αὐτῶν· τὰς
γὰρ θυσίας κυρίου
δῶρα τοῦ θεοῦ αὐτῶν
αὐτοὶ προσφέρουσιν
καὶ ἔσονται ἅγιοι. 7
γυναῖκα πόρνην καὶ βεβηλωμένην
οὐ λήμψονται
καὶ γυναῖκα ἐκβεβλημένην
ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς·
ἅγιός ἐστιν τῷ
κυρίῳ θεῷ αὐτοῦ. 8
καὶ ἁγιάσει αὐτόν,
τὰ δῶρα κυρίου
τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν οὗτος
προσφέρει· ἅγιος
ἔσται, ὅτι ἅγιος
ἐγὼ κύριος ὁ ἁγιάζων
αὐτούς.
9 καὶ
θυγάτηρ ἀνθρώπου
ἱερέως ἐὰν
βεβηλωθῇ τοῦ ἐκπορνεῦσαι,
τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ
πατρὸς αὐτῆς αὐτὴ
βεβηλοῖ· ἐπὶ
πυρὸς
κατακαυθήσεται.
Lev_21:13-15 WEB " 'He shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife. 15 He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.' "
Lev_21:13-15 CAB He shall take for a wife a virgin [παρθένον]
of his own tribe. 14 But a
widow [Eze_44:22 – later specified to not
include a priest’s widow], or one that is put away,
[ἐκβεβλημένην
– lit. thrown out] or profaned
[βεβηλωμένην],
or a harlot [καὶ πόρνην],
these he shall not take; but [ἀλλ᾿ – stronger
contrast] he shall take for a wife [the] a virgin
[ἢ παρθένον]
of [ἐκ] his own people [τοῦ
γένους αὐτοῦ]. 15 And he shall not profane his seed [σπέρμα
(sperma)] among [ἐν
(en)] his people: I am
the Lord that sanctifies him.
Eze_44:22-23 WEB Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. 23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Eze_44:22-23 CAB Neither shall they take to themselves a widow
*for a wife [* εἰς
γυναῖκα – lit. into a woman/ wife (for himself)], or one that is
put away [ἐκβεβλημένην],
but [the] a virgin [ἢ
παρθένον] of [ἐκ]
the seed of Israel. But if there should happen to be a priest’s widow,
they shall take her [καὶ χήρα
ἐὰν γένηται ἐξ ἱερέως,
λήμψονται]. 23 And they shall teach My people to
distinguish between holy and profane, and they shall make
known to them the difference between unclean and clean.
Fornication Calls for Death, Not Marriage
Fornication and adultery are so violent, so defiling, and
so evil, that instead of marriage, truly they deserve the death penalty to end
their defiled bodies after they have sinned in this way…
Num_31:17-18 – Kill every woman that has known a man
Num_31:14 CAB And Moses was angry with
the captains of the army, the heads of thousands and the heads of hundreds who
came from the battle array.
Num_31:14 καὶ ὠργίσθη
Μωυσῆς ἐπὶ τοῖς
ἐπισκόποις τῆς
δυνάμεως, χιλιάρχοις
καὶ ἑκατοντάρχοις
τοῖς ἐρχομένοις
ἐκ τῆς παρατάξεως
τοῦ πολέμου,
Num_31:15
WEB Moses said to them, Have you saved
all the women alive?
Num_31:15 And
Moses said to them, “Why have you saved every female alive?
Num_31:15 καὶ
εἶπεν αὐτοῖς
Μωυσῆς Ἵνα τί ἐζωγρήσατε
πᾶν θῆλυ;
Num_31:16
WEB Behold, these caused the children of
Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the
matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
Num_31:16 For
they were the occasion to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their
revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Peor, and there was a
plague in the congregation of the Lord.
Num_31:16 αὗται
γὰρ ἦσαν τοῖς υἱοῖς
Ισραηλ κατὰ τὸ ῥῆμα
Βαλααμ τοῦ ἀποστῆσαι
καὶ ὑπεριδεῖν
τὸ ῥῆμα κυρίου ἕνεκεν
Φογωρ, καὶ ἐγένετο
ἡ πληγὴ ἐν τῇ
συναγωγῇ κυρίου.
Num_31:17
WEB Now therefore kill every male among
the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
Num_31:17 Now
then, kill every male in all the spoil, kill every woman who has known a man
intimately.
Num_31:17 καὶ
νῦν ἀποκτείνατε
πᾶν ἀρσενικὸν ἐν
πάσῃ τῇ ἀπαρτίᾳ,
καὶ πᾶσαν γυναῖκα,
ἥτις ἔγνωκεν
κοίτην ἄρσενος,
ἀποκτείνατε·
Num_31:18
WEB But all the girls, who have not
known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Num_31:18 And
as for all the captivity of women who have not known a man intimately, keep
them alive.
Num_31:18 πᾶσαν
τὴν ἀπαρτίαν τῶν
γυναικῶν, ἥτις
οὐκ οἶδεν κοίτην
ἄρσενος, ζωγρήσατε
αὐτάς.
Gen_38:24 WEB It
happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar,
your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold,
she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth,
and let her be burnt."
Gen_38:24 CAB And it
came to pass after three months, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar your
daughter-in-law has grievously played the harlot, and behold she is with
child by harlotry; and Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.
Gen_38:24 Greek Ἐγένετο
δὲ μετὰ τρίμηνον
ἀπηγγέλη τῷ
Ιουδα λέγοντες
Ἐκπεπόρνευκεν
Θαμαρ ἡ νύμφη
σου καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐν
γαστρὶ ἔχει ἐκ
πορνείας. εἶπεν
δὲ Ιουδας Ἐξαγάγετε
αὐτήν, καὶ
κατακαυθήτω.
This is as we already saw with the priest’s
daughter when she is burned for prostitution in Lev_21:9, except there were no witnesses in Tamar’s case,
and Tamar (who’s story is recorded in the Law) became an illustration of why
the actual Mosaic Law (proper) later required two witnesses before ever
applying the death penalty.
TSK: let her: Gen_20:3, Gen_20:7, Gen_20:9, Lev_20:10, Lev_21:9, Deu_22:21-27, Deu_24:16, 2Sa_12:5, 2Sa_12:7, Jer_29:22, Jer_29:23... Rom_2:2...
Deu_22:21 WEB then they
shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men
of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done
folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you
shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
Deu_22:21 CAB then shall
they bring out the young woman to the doors of her father's house, and shall stone
her with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly among the
children of Israel, to defile the house of her father by harlotry: so
you shall remove the evil one from among you.
Deu_22:21 Greek καὶ
ἐξάξουσιν τὴν
νεᾶνιν ἐπὶ τὰς
θύρας οἴκου
πατρὸς αὐτῆς,
καὶ λιθοβολήσουσιν
αὐτὴν οἱ ἄνδρες
τῆς πόλεως αὐτῆς
ἐν λίθοις, καὶ ἀποθανεῖται,
ὅτι ἐποίησεν ἀφροσύνην
ἐν υἱοῖς
Ισραηλ ἐκπορνεῦσαι
τὸν οἶκον τοῦ
πατρὸς αὐτῆς·
καὶ ἐξαρεῖς τὸν
πονηρὸν ἐξ ὑμῶν
αὐτῶν.
Rom_1:29 CAB having
been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness;
they are whisperers,
Rom_1:32 Greek οἵτινες
τὸ δικαίωμα
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπιγνόντες,
ὅτι οἱ τὰ
τοιαῦτα
πράσσοντες ἄξιοι
θανάτου εἰσίν,
οὐ μόνον αὐτὰ
ποιοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ
καὶ
συνευδοκοῦσι
τοῖς
πράσσουσι.
Rom_1:32 CAB who,
having known the righteous judgment of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not
only do them, but also approve of those who practice them.
Rom_1:32 Greek οἵτινες
τὸ δικαίωμα
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπιγνόντες,
ὅτι οἱ τὰ
τοιαῦτα
πράσσοντες ἄξιοι
θανάτου εἰσίν,
οὐ μόνον αὐτὰ
ποιοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ
καὶ
συνευδοκοῦσι
τοῖς
πράσσουσι.
Rom_2:2 CAB But we know
that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those practicing such
things.
Rom_2:2 Greek οἴδαμεν
δὲ ὅτι τὸ
κρίμα τοῦ
Θεοῦ ἐστι
κατὰ ἀλήθειαν
ἐπὶ τοὺς
τὰ τοιαῦτα
πράσσοντας.
Implications of Permanent Defilement
· By default, society requires physical virginity to preach and communicate holiness.
· By default a holy man would bring reverse defilement on himself by receiving the defilement of another, and he would profane the holiness of his God by marrying a non-virgin (only exception: if it was a priests’ widow -- i.e. no sin involved at all, and everything else is holy about her context.)
· It is one thing if a commoner marries a defiled woman, but if you think a holy person could ever righteously marry a non-virgin in holiness, then you have got a lot to contend with after reading these verses, but let us continue…
Holiness Takes on Defilement
Jeremiah 3 –
Confirmation of the Permanent Defilement of Fornication, & The Mystery of
God’s Call to Return
As seen in Divorce and
Remarriage Repentance Revolution
Jer_3:1-2, 7, 12, 14, 20, 22
CAB
v. 1-2 If a man *put away [* ἐξαποστείλῃ – sends out and away ] his wife, and she depart [ἀπέλθῃ] from [ἀπ᾿] him, and become another man’s, shall she return to him anymore? Shall not that woman be utterly defiled? [referring to Deu_24:2-4] But you have *played the harlot [* ἐξεπόρνευσας – lit. (intensely) done out prostitution; same root (porneia) as Mat_5:32 and 19:9] with many shepherds, and have returned to Me, says the Lord. 2 Lift up your eyes and look straight ahead, and see where you have not been utterly defiled. You have sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and have defiled the land with your fornications [lit. prostitutions] and your wickedness… [as in Deu_24:4; Lev_19:29; Deu_23:17-18]
v. 6-9 And the Lord said to me …Have you seen what things the house of Israel has done to Me? They have *gone on [* ἐπορεύθησαν] every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication [ἐπόρνευσαν] there. 7 And I said after she had committed all these acts of fornication [πορνεῦσαι – lit. prostitution; unlike Rahlfs (incl. Brenton and CAB), NETS says, “these things” (apparently due to a source text variation which is more like the MT)] , Turn again to Me. Yet she returned not... 8 And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a certificate of divorce) yet faithless Judah feared not, but went and also committed fornication herself. 9 And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.
v. 12 Go and read these words toward the north, and
you shall say, Return to Me, O house of Israel, says the Lord; and
I will not set My face against you: for I am merciful,
says the Lord, and I will not be angry with you forever…
v. 14 Turn, you children that have revolted,
says the Lord; for I will rule over you [κατακυριεύσω]. And I will take you, one of a
city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Zion [that
is, Jerusalem]…
v. 20 But as a wife acts treacherously
against her husband, so has the house of Israel dealt treacherously
against Me, says the Lord…
v. 22 Turn, you children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises...
Jer_3:22 WEB Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding…
Jer_13:27 WEB I have
seen your abominations, even
your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in
the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will not be made clean; how long shall it yet
be?
Jer_13:27 CAB your adultery also, and your neighing, and the looseness of your fornication. On the hills and in
the fields I have seen your abominations.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem, for you have
not been purified so as to follow Me; how
long yet shall it be?
Jer_13:27 Greek καὶ
ἡ μοιχεία σου
καὶ ὁ
χρεμετισμός
σου καὶ ἡ ἀπαλλοτρίωσις
τῆς πορνείας
σου, ἐπὶ τῶν
βουνῶν καὶ ἐν
τοῖς ἀγροῖς ἑώρακα
τὰ βδελύγματά
σου· οὐαί σοι,
Ιερουσαλημ, ὅτι
οὐκ ἐκαθαρίσθης
ὀπίσω μου, ἕως τίνος
ἔτι;
The very idea of being made clean from
fornication is being provocatively and profoundly suggested…
Notice that God is enforcing His mightier power over the pollutions of the filthiness of Israel’s fornication. Can you think of a New Testament teaching like this?
(1Co_7:14 CAB For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.)
1Co_7:14 Greek ἡγίασται
γὰρ ὁ ἀνὴρ
ὁ ἄπιστος ἐν
τῇ γυναικί,
καὶ ἡγίασται
ἡ γυνὴ ἡ ἄπιστος
ἐν τῷ ἀνδρί·
ἐπεὶ ἄρα τὰ
τέκνα ὑμῶν
ἀκάθαρτά ἐστι,
νῦν δὲ ἅγιά
ἐστιν.
So when and how can God enforce such cleaning?
As we have said, David also did this forced redemption parable to evil and defiled Michal when he forcefully brought her back into his house. And not only did David do this, but Hosea also pulled this same forced cleanness, but did it even more potently!
Hos_1:2 WEB When
Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself
a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits
great adultery, forsaking Yahweh."
Hos_1:2 CAB The
beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go,
take to yourself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the
land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.
Hos_1:2 Greek Ἀρχὴ
λόγου κυρίου
πρὸς Ωσηε· καὶ
εἶπεν κύριος
πρὸς Ωσηε Βάδιζε
λαβὲ σεαυτῷ
γυναῖκα πορνείας
καὶ τέκνα
πορνείας, διότι
ἐκπορνεύουσα ἐκπορνεύσει
ἡ γῆ ἀπὸ ὄπισθεν
τοῦ κυρίου.
Hos_3:1-3 WEB Yahweh
said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress,
even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods,
and love cakes of raisins." 2 So I bought
her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of
barley. 3 I said to her, "You shall stay with me
many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any
other man. I will also be so toward you."
Hos_3:1-3 CAB And the
Lord said to me, Go yet, and love a woman that loves evil things, an
adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, and they have
respect to strange gods, and love cakes of dried grapes. 2 So I hired her to myself for fifteen pieces
of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of
wine. 3 And I said unto her, You shall wait for me
many days; and you shall not commit fornication, neither shall you be for another
man; and I will be for you.
Hos_3:1-3 Greek Καὶ
εἶπεν κύριος
πρός με Ἔτι
πορεύθητι καὶ ἀγάπησον
γυναῖκα ἀγαπῶσαν
πονηρὰ καὶ
μοιχαλίν, καθὼς
ἀγαπᾷ ὁ θεὸς τοὺς
υἱοὺς Ισραηλ
καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀποβλέπουσιν
ἐπὶ θεοὺς ἀλλοτρίους
καὶ φιλοῦσιν πέμματα
μετὰ σταφίδων 2
καὶ ἐμισθωσάμην
ἐμαυτῷ
πεντεκαίδεκα ἀργυρίου
καὶ γομορ κριθῶν
καὶ νεβελ οἴνου 3
καὶ εἶπα πρὸς
αὐτήν Ἡμέρας
πολλὰς καθήσῃ ἐπ᾿
ἐμοὶ καὶ οὐ μὴ
πορνεύσῃς οὐδὲ
μὴ γένῃ ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ,
καὶ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σοί.
David took back Michal, and even Hosea was
commanded to take a woman of prostitutions, who was already immoral before
he married her, just as God took Israel, and took her back again and again
after her sins! How can holiness exist like this, when there is so much
astounding mercy and Love from God that He would repeatedly redeem such evil
people back to Himself?
Now we must say, “at first you had a lot to contend with from reading the first verses about the permanent defilement of fornication if you expect marriage to follow that”, but now when compared with these latest verses, what shall we make of these great and mysterious and amazing paradoxes?
When even God takes an immoral woman and does so in parables through His prophets, then it is surely in contrast to the normal boundaries of holiness that God displays the mighty amazingness and supernatural Justice-working of what He is actually doing now through mercy, forgiveness, redemption, and truth.
Obedient and reverent faith in the real righteousness of God and loving His most personable scandals provokes all of the mercies of heaven out of Him and makes them at work within your life. And as a big mystery and parable of this, the same works true for all of His representative prophets and righteous workers. (And that’s a big hint about how to get great with God and with those who represent Him all at the same time.)
Rahab
Rahab married Salmon (of the tribe of Judah) and she bore Boaz.
Rahab Saves the
Monotheistic Spys
Jos_2:1
Rahab Spared/Saved After Jericho is Destroyed
Jos_6:17
Jos_6:23, Jos_6:25
Our Old Testament does not specify if Rahab was married, but Jews seem to affirm that she was married, and some eventually thought she was even married to Joshua! But let’s hear it from a faithful Jewish witness:
Matthew 1 Says Rahab Married Salmon
Mat_1:5 Salmon begot Boaz by [ἐκ] ·[the] Rahab [τῆς ῾Ραχάβ – i.e. the only one famous enough to be called “the”], Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse,
Mat_1:5 Σαλμὼν
δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν Βοὸζ ἐκ
τῆς ῾Ραχάβ,
Βοὸζ δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν ᾿Ωβὴδ ἐκ
τῆς ῾Ρούθ, ᾿Ωβὴδ
δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν ᾿Ιεσσαί,
Mat_1:6 and Jesse begot David the king…
Mat_1:6 ᾿Ιεσσαὶ
δὲ ἐγέννησε
τὸν Δαυΐδ
τὸν βασιλέα.
Δαυΐδ δὲ ὁ
βασιλεὺς ἐγέννησε
τὸν Σολομῶνα
ἐκ τῆς τοῦ
Οὐρίου,
So…
Salmon + Rahab (former fornicator, non-Israelite, non-virgin) = Boaz
Boaz + Ruth (a non-priestly, non-Israelite, non-virgin) = Obed
Obed + someone = Jesse
Jesse + someone = David
Great “Non-Virgins” Who Were Married
· Tamar
· Rahab
· Ruth
· Others -- who can you think of?
Absolute Cleansing from Fornication
1Co_6:9-11 CAB Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor abusive people, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you [καὶ ταῦτά τινες ἦτε]! But [ἀλλὰ] you were washed [ἀπελούσασθε], but [ἀλλὰ] you were sanctified [ἡγιάσθητε – holy-ified], but you were justified [ἐδικαιώθητε] in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
1Co_6:9-11 Greek ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε
ὅτι ἄδικοι
βασιλείαν
Θεοῦ οὐ
κληρονομήσουσι;
μὴ πλανᾶσθε·
οὔτε πόρνοι οὔτε
εἰδωλολάτραι
οὔτε μοιχοὶ οὔτε
μαλακοὶ οὔτε
ἀρσενοκοῖται 10
οὔτε
κλέπται οὔτε
πλεονέκται οὔτε
μέθυσοι οὐ
λοίδοροι οὐχ
ἅρπαγες
βασιλείαν
Θεοῦ οὐ
κληρονομήσουσι. 11 καὶ
ταῦτά τινες ἦτε·
ἀλλὰ ἀπελούσασθε,
ἀλλὰ ἡγιάσθητε,
ἀλλὰ ἐδικαιώθητε
ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι
τοῦ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ καὶ
ἐν τῷ
Πνεύματι τοῦ
Θεοῦ ἡμῶν.
And after having committed fornication, Paul says to them,
1Co_6:18 CAB Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
1Co_6:18 Greek
φεύγετε
τὴν πορνείαν.
πᾶν ἁμάρτημα
ὃ ἐὰν
ποιήσῃ ἄνθρωπος
ἐκτὸς τοῦ
σώματός ἐστιν·
ὁ δὲ
πορνεύων εἰς
τὸ ἴδιον σῶμα
ἁμαρτάνει.
And even beyond fleeing Paul says,
1Co_7:2 CAB Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
1Co_7:2 Greek διὰ δὲ
τὰς πορνείας
ἕκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ
γυναῖκα ἐχέτω,
καὶ ἑκάστη
τὸν ἴδιον ἄνδρα
ἐχέτω.
Paul says, “Such were some of you”, but now each of these is allowed to marry.
Not only is a believer allowed to marry another believer in holiness in such cases, but even if a believer is already married to an unbeliever they can holy-ify their flesh (1Co_7:14).
If a fornicator is cleansed by faith so much so that all such disciples are allowed to marry, then truly, they are profoundly cleansed by God indeed.
Hagar was married by Hosea the prophet!
Rahab was married to Salmon!
New Testament disciples, with murderous pasts, are allowed to marry.
God was betrothed to Israel, and will even be married to her one day!
Isaiah 55 – He
Will Abundantly Pardon
Isa_55:7 WEB let the
wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him
return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isa_55:7 CAB let the
ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return
to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.
Isa_55:7 Greek ἀπολιπέτω
ὁ ἀσεβὴς τὰς ὁδοὺς
αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνὴρ
ἄνομος τὰς
βουλὰς αὐτοῦ
καὶ ἐπιστραφήτω
ἐπὶ κύριον, καὶ
ἐλεηθήσεται, ὅτι
ἐπὶ πολὺ ἀφήσει
τὰς ἁμαρτίας ὑμῶν.
God’s Virgin People?
After untold amounts of idolatrous fornication, “God’s people are called a “virgin” and or called unto virginity over and over again all throughout Jeremiah and the prophets:
Isa_23:4, 12 (MT); 37:22 (also 2Ki_19:21); Isa_47:1; 62:5; Jer_2:32; 3:4 (LXX); 14:17 (esp. MT); 18:13; 31:4, 21; 46:11*; Lam_1:15; 2:13; 23:3; 8; Amo_5:2; (and for the NT compare Mat_25:1, 7, 11; 2Co_11:2; [and compare Rev_14:4])”
(as seen in Divorce and Remarriage Repentance Revolution)
Redemption vs. Consequences?
Now what shall we do if we have obtained faith and we are seeking the blessedness of redemption but are troubled with the consequences of the sins of our former life, and the marks they have left in our bodies, and the troubles they have left in our souls? How will we resolve our faith with these troubles and hurts and sorrows, especially if we might find the surprising bliss of marriage upon us at some season of exaltations?
Fornication-Murder Has Painful Consequences, But There Are Exceptions
Fornication is a cruel and violent murder of sexuality. After Steven was stoned, Paul was not allowed to raise him back from the dead no matter how much Paul could have wished to reverse his sin. There is something default in the nature of murder that is permanent and cannot be undone (just as it is in fornication-murder), and for most people, all they can do is repent and beg for forgiveness and then courageously get up and walk by faith (because it could potential contradict what they see with their eyes) in that forgiveness despite the continued consequences of their past life. -- This is the default for all men and women, but on the other hand, when Paul was stoned and dragged out for dead, the disciples gathered around him and something special helped him to somehow get back up again.
Sometimes it is the very painful faith of dealing with consequences that is the glorious redemption and hope and faith you are called to preach. For example: remember how Paul talks about his past sinful life, including being murderous, and speaks much about the redemption of God’s favor? Even David’s faith after repenting is Scripture for all of us to live off of -- such as Psa_51, or even when David was merciful to Shimei, Saul’s persecuting descendant, when David was fleeing from Absalom.
Many people have born the grief of the consequences of sin. On one hand you have cases where people are assigned to the requirement of walking in the faith of forgiveness and displaying that to the world, and on the other hand you have the hope of special and glorious exceptions being assigned to other people where even the consequences can be snatched away!
You
should initially set your heart on the righteousness and subjection of walking
in forgiveness for yourself and others, and set your heart on finding more and
more resolve and help by enduring in faith, and at the same time you should not
limit anything, but watch and wait and see if by any means there be any case
where any might have been given the special faith for a particular reason,
calling, and parable, “for such a time as this” to see consequences snatched
away -- not for your own consolation and conscience, but much rather for the sake of proclaiming
the favor of the real Good Announcement
to others! (To your spouse, and to the
world.)
If you do not have anything particular, simply watch and wait with diligence, and resolve on what you have so far according to perception and knowledge, but if any of us see some surpassing calling upon anyone, then we should pray and run fervently and quickly toward the light of that calling for them.
Initial Default Threats & Challenges Until Help Comes
By default, it is a painful thing for a man to marry a non-virgin. This is the case even if he was not a virgin, but it could be even more painful if he was a virgin and she was not.
As we say later, the challenge is not just biological (although that has its aspects), but much more so, the threat is actually much more psychological, with the threat of non-exclusivity and “comparisons” being made, when she should be an unexposed blank slate totally surprised, shocked, overwhelmed, and defined afresh, bringing no knowledge or experience at all to the marriage bed. He should be defining her and teaching her about her own sexuality, and particularly his, and she should learn what she never had a clue about before. She should know virtually nothing about men before she comes to “know a man”.
Gen_24:16 – No man had known Rebecca
Num_31:17-18 – Kill every woman that has known a man
Mary said, “I do not know a man” (Luk_1:34)
When Mike used to speak against dating he would say, “Whenever
you might get to your wedding day, you don't want to come together and start
kissing and say, ‘Oh yah, I've done this before...’”
Who in this day is truly renewed among men or women after fornication? These inherent challenges and threats and possible “pains” and consequences of past sins are very daunting by default, especially for the flesh that is trying to care about purity. Socially speaking, when managing the flesh, it makes a lot of sense that the idea of a woman marrying after fornication is more of an “if” than a “when”.
But indeed, even if marriage is a big “if” for the flesh that has fornicated, with many threats stacked on top of that if she even thinks about marriage, yet “if” she is somehow actually in a spiritual community, then it is converted from an “if” into more of a “let”, as when Paul says, “let each man…and woman” marry, despite the fact that “such were some of you”.
All past threats are things that a very merciful man and a renewed and extremely exclusive woman can resolve to the same degree that they truly walk in surpassing faith. Such men (I would hope) have already thought much about apprehending the picture of God’s unending mercy that redeemed Israel over and over, and constantly called her back to Himself, and if a woman is truly already repented, then this can be relevant to a spiritual man who is called to be merciful, and make a sacrifice, and courageously take it upon himself to walk in this faith for her sake, and actually work out a parabolic redemption for her.
What is Parabolic Repentance?
Parabolic repentance is a good confession of parabolic,
apology-like confession concerning pre-marital unfaithfulness to the flesh of
an ordained spouse. After having come into faith and after having found that
lawful marriage is upon you, parabolic
repentance is eager zeal and indignation to fully set the record
straight and seal up all the magnified glory of superior things in front of you
that are now being hoped for.
A primary
example of parabolic repentance can
be a spiritual plea and request from a woman to a man to work out a parabolic redemption for her life and
redefine her flesh and body into full womanhood.
Parabolic
repentance is a convincing proof
of vital faith and deep set rejection of all other marital options and appeals.
visual & physical appeals as well as emotional intimacy
pleasure.
Just as Jesus says, “your faith has saved/healed you”*, the idea of a woman “repenting” and making a confession and plea for redemption in some sort of spiritual, New Covenant exciting way to her ordained husband somehow has a potential place to absolutely provoke salvation, healing, and the favor-working power of deep redemption out of him to pour down and redefine her life, in an out of this world parable of Justice, truth, peace, redemption, proclamation, and exaltation.
* Your Faith Has Saved You: Mat_9:22; Mar_5:34; Mar_10:52; Luk_17:19; Luk_7:50; Luk_18:42; --
in every case we see this phrase, it always uses the word for “salvation”.
(comp. Mat_9:29, Act_14:9, Heb_4:2)
It includes the most fervent, potent, fiery, zealous,
expressive, emotional abominating of past encounters and relationships and the
sure and complete rejection of their worthlessness and detestableness. While
cringing to draw up any loathsome names or memories or too many specifics, with
big sweeping dashes of faith and good words of righteous confessions, it
properly thorn-ifies every past encounter as sleeping with demons, and more so
anathematizes every other future possibility of ever again being appealed to by
the romance of Satan.
What is, oh daughter, the dirt of death and grit of fowl
pollution between your teeth when compared to the luscious feast of heaven?
Completely anathematize all past, present, and future
alternatives with the most potent disgust, zeal, anger, & rejection, and
emphatically, enthusiastically declare unhindered ambitions of fully persuaded
and overflowing exclusivity in the most extreme terms available in a coed
environment.
It replaces jealousy, anger, dread, fear, with
exclusivity, fidelity, and ultimately, truly available romance.
Establish exclusivity. Brand permanent impressions. Be
compelled and thrown toward whole-hearted, fully persuaded, zealously
apprehending lawful arrangements from Heaven with no doubts, questions, fears,
looking back, dread, suspicions, leaving no room at all for trouble.
Are You There Yet?
Leave absolutely no room for doubt, lest there might be even
part of you left that could even slightly be appealed to or attracted to, or
enticed by any other person for the rest of your lives, and let that heat
explode into the good confessions that permanently solidify truth in yourself
and others.
If current
lawful considerations are perceivably less potential pleasure by any means in
any sense, visually, physically, emotionally, then some kind of deeper work is
still needed...
If you have not already established a full and true persuasion of faith and integrity unto the deepest exclusivity even in your subconscious, then why would you move forward? Don’t wait to settle things after commitment, do so before, as much as you are permitted.
When you are fully stoked and burning with overflowing zeal for truth, take that faithful good confession and obsessive addiction to Justice with you in your heart and flip over some tables and blaze a permanent declaration of faith, exclusivity, passionate persuasion, truth, and vital determination to take hold of the massive hope in front of you, by life or by death.
Son_8:6 WEB Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
Son_8:6 CAB Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave, her shafts are shafts of fire, even the flames thereof.
Son_8:6 Θές με ὡς
σφραγῖδα ἐπὶ τὴν
καρδίαν σου, ὡς
σφραγῖδα ἐπὶ τὸν
βραχίονά σου· ὅτι
κραταιὰ ὡς θάνατος
ἀγάπη, σκληρὸς ὡς
ᾅδης
ζῆλος· περίπτερα
αὐτῆς περίπτερα
πυρός, φλόγες αὐτῆς·
Son_8:7 Many waters can't quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends
Son_8:7 Much water will not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not drown it; if a man would give all his substance for love, men would utterly despise it.
Son_8:7 ὕδωρ πολὺ
οὐ δυνήσεται
σβέσαι τὴν ἀγάπην,
καὶ ποταμοὶ οὐ
συγκλύσουσιν
αὐτήν· ἐὰν δῷ ἀνὴρ
τὸν πάντα βίον
αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ,
ἐξουδενώσει ἐξουδενώσουσιν
αὐτόν.
A New and Specialized Ordinance and Custom
As the Apostles gave spiritual customs and traditions to the churches, so also I am giving you a spiritual and moral custom of superior excellence that will work potently when needed.
I have never before seen or slightly even heard of a “parabolic repentance” but I am giving it to you as a healthy instruction on how to make much of your life into truth
Not as Something Owed, But As A Privileged Opportunity to Testify
A Parabolic Repentance
is not about you “getting right with God”, it’s about you preaching the truth
of your repentance after “getting right with God”, and it is about dishing out
some Justice for the sake of the Words of God that are now upon you.
Parabolic Repentance is called “Parabolic” because it almost always assumes that you have already been forgiven of all your sins and made completely clean by faith in the Blood of God. The only thing left after being forgiven is to seize your new life and make much of your repentance and faith to reinforce the good announcement, contradict everything of your past motives and sins with the new call of repentance and life.
Zacchaeus did the Justice of believing in the real Jesus and
worshiping His favor, and was righteous-ified by faith, and he sealed up and
completed his faith by doing restitution.
Parabolic
repentance is somewhat along the
lines of post-forgiveness restitution -- for all those who have been forgiven
and cleaned, it is a privilege to do a tribute and testimony unto Justice and
declare the matter in truth.
Acts 19 –
Repented Publicly & Burned Their Magic Books
Act_19:18 CAB And many of those who had believed were coming, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
Act_19:18 πολλοί
τε τῶν πεπιστευκότων
ἤρχοντο ἐξομολογούμενοι
καὶ ἀναγγέλλοντες
τὰς πράξεις
αὐτῶν.
Act_19:19 And many of those who were practicing magic brought together their books and burned them up before everyone. And they counted up the prices of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Act_19:19 ἱκανοὶ
δὲ τῶν τὰ
περίεργα
πραξάντων
συνενέγκαντες
τὰς βίβλους
κατέκαιον ἐνώπιον
πάντων· καὶ
συνεψήφισαν
τὰς τιμὰς αὐτῶν
καὶ εὗρον ἀργυρίου
μυριάδας
πέντε.
CAB Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord,
I give half of my possessions to the poor; and if I have extorted anything from
anyone, I restore fourfold."
And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham;
How Long Should the
Confession Be
Parabolic
Repentance can be as short as a
few sentences, or it can be longer depending on the need to be cleared, and its
length can also vary depending on the power of God that is present to help you
magnify truth. Whatever the case, you want to appropriately fill up in Justice
and make the matter good.
What Details Should Be
Included?
I would not include much details in most cases. For
example, I would not default to naming names in this repentance unless the
particular need calls for this. As Zacchaeus is recorded generically, so also
the confessor may now speak generically, especially with the idea that it can
be too detestable to even name past names, or other details.
Let the Memory of Them Perish – Forgetting What Your Confessing!
Cringe at the
grief of mentioning or remembering the past
You shall not
even mention their names
Review: Hosea 2 Restoration --
Cleaning Mouth And Memory
Things to
Forget
·
Fornication
·
Dating
·
Any slight attractions / violations / compromises at all
whatsoever
An Attached
Phrase for the Sake of Reverence
Many conservative Jews (and Muslims) may say, ‘blessed be
he’ after mentioning “God” (or a prophet) so that they will not refer to the Divine
in vain. (They don’t want to say “God” without praising His name or something
to add value and protect the mentioning of Him against being a vain reference).
For us gentiles, maybe we can have an institution among us with similar
reverence, yet for opposite needs, whenever saying anything about our immoral
past.
If Any Of Us
Mentions The Past
Though Justice and reverence cringes at the loathsomeness
of it, stating the theoretical facts of information from the past that is
supposedly correct (although you might have forgotten it by now) may be
required at times, yet, especially if it involves our sin and defilements,
maybe we could seek to regularly and appropriately accompany this with
something like, "may the shameful memory of it perish" / "be
forgotten and erased".
And yes, let the memories themselves indeed perish, so
that the passions of your memory might fill up in even more Justice...
And so that you can give over an answer that is
reasonable for the romantic fire of their jealousy…
Note: Also disown and let perish every worthless tendency and
personality trait of who you were at that time when you were sinning. Whatever you learn while you’re sinning, you
should be careful to test it and not take anything for granted. Find ways to
sacred-ify a new start as a new creation. For the most part, we should only
seek to “redeem” the original intentions of God within your humanity.
The Great Risk of a Righteous Man Redeeming a Non-Virgin into a Proper
Wife
·
Even if a man had special faith, by default, an
extremely courageous man would have to receive a Rahab by faith, and wait and
see if his faith and hope and amazement with her new character was right!
·
And if he were wrong, wow, he would be risking
everything!
·
If a merciful and loving man were to seek to physically
redeem a woman, he is still taking a great risk in doing so of being completely
shamed, hurt, and wounded, lest at any time she have any non-exclusivity in her
at all by the slightest hint of predefined sexuality due to retaining anything at
all of exposure to other men…
·
Of course, it's not just that there would be a biological
difference, but that there might correlate with that the natural consequence of
an evil and defiled woman
·
Although a widow (for example) has previous marital
experience and has the biological signs to prove that, yet she can still be
safer for a righteous man in terms of exclusivity since she has not ever (one
would hope) breached monogamy with her character
·
Wanting a virgin is not important just because selfish
and lustful men can want this
·
Righteous Joseph was about to cancel plans, and prophetic
Hosea put things on hold in desperate times to demand exclusivity
·
Hosea was obviously not being selfish in demanding
exclusivity, especially because he clearly wanted full and true repentance and
loving redemption
·
Seeking to apprehend greatness by marrying Rahab risks
all happiness of the home, and the social heritage and honorable reputation of
his whole family forever, not to mention the very name and message of his God!
·
He could be great and make it in the Bible, or he could
simply be laughed to scorn as a gullible and cheaply lusting fool
If he won in receiving her as his proper wife, this
spiritual forgiveness might play out socially to look like receiving a
widow in a Jewish community.
Evidently righteous men have sometimes been called to
this throughout history for special displays of mercy, faith, and redemption.
* The Law Says to
Marry Someone After Defilement
In most
cases, whenever possible, the Law says that the man who ended virginity should
marry the one he raped or fornicated with
(1)
Shechem to Marry Dinah After Rape
Gen_34:1-12, etc.
(2)
Man Charged to Marry Tricked Virgin
Exo_22:16-17 WEB
"If a man enticesH6601 a virgin who isn't pledged to be married,
and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. 17 If her father
utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the
dowry of virgins.
Exo_22:16-17 CAB And if
anyone deceive a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall
surely endow her for a wife to himself. 17 And if her father positively refuses, and
will not consent to give her to him for a wife, he shall pay compensation to
her father according to the amount of the dowry of virgins.
Exo_22:16-17 Greek (22:15) Ἐὰν
δὲ ἀπατήσῃ τις
παρθένον ἀμνήστευτον
καὶ κοιμηθῇ
μετ᾿ αὐτῆς,
φερνῇ φερνιεῖ
αὐτὴν αὐτῷ
γυναῖκα.
17 (22:16) ἐὰν
δὲ ἀνανεύων ἀνανεύσῃ
καὶ μὴ βούληται
ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῆς
δοῦναι αὐτὴν αὐτῷ
γυναῖκα, ἀργύριον
ἀποτείσει τῷ
πατρὶ καθ᾿ ὅσον
ἐστὶν ἡ φερνὴ τῶν
παρθένων. --
(3)
Man Charged to Marry Raped Virgin
Deu_22:28-29 WEB If a man
find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on
her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29
then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife,
because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
Deu_22:28-29 CAB And if anyone
should find a young virgin who has not been betrothed, and ·should force [βιασάμενος] her and lie with her [βιασάμενος
κοιμηθῇ μετ᾿ αὐτῆς], and be found, 29 the man who
lay with her shall give to the father of the damsel fifty silver shekels, and she
shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he shall never be able to put
her away.
Deu_22:28-29 Greek Ἐὰν
δέ τις εὕρῃ τὴν
παῖδα τὴν παρθένον,
ἥτις οὐ μεμνήστευται,
καὶ βιασάμενος
κοιμηθῇ μετ᾿ αὐτῆς
καὶ εὑρεθῇ, 29
δώσει ὁ ἄνθρωπος
ὁ κοιμηθεὶς
μετ᾿ αὐτῆς τῷ
πατρὶ τῆς νεάνιδος
πεντήκοντα δίδραχμα
ἀργυρίου, καὶ αὐτοῦ
ἔσται γυνή, ἀνθ᾿
ὧν ἐταπείνωσεν
αὐτήν· οὐ δυνήσεται
ἐξαποστεῖλαι
αὐτὴν τὸν ἅπαντα
χρόνον.
Note: the
non-binding nature of fornication should not be confused with the lawful and
binding nature of the covenant of the Law of Moses. While the lawful Law of
Moses requires death to change (Rom_7:2-3) and this
is just like the Binding of marriage requires death to end it, in contrast to
this, purification after defilement requires forgiveness and supernatural faith
and mercy, which the Law could not even accomplish at all, even with death (as
seen in Deu_24:1-4)!)
** New Covenant Says, Marry ONLY in Lord – NO Interfaith
Marriages!
1Co_7:39; 1Co_9:5; [2Co_6:14-16 (if re-applied)]; based on: Gen_6:2; Gen_24:3; Deu_7:3; Deu_7:4; Mal_2:11;
This changes everything for those who follow the New Covenant.
lest she become even more defiled by being with yet another
man
• Holy-ification
means being “set apart unto special use”
Marital Redemption After Defilement – From
Old Covenant to New Covenant
·
If a man fornicates with a woman,
he has made her unsuitable for other men
·
Have you been with a man? In that
initial essence, it is not fit that you should be with other men
·
This is why fornicating men were
charged to take the deceived/raped virgin as their wife, if at all possible*
·
If he has defiled her, then he
should bear that evil, and reverse at least some of it by giving his strength
to marry and maintain her life
·
Murderous fornications are not
morally binding marriages*, but morally binding marriages
can lessen the damage of the tragedy that has occurred
·
This is not what God has yoked
together yet (i.e. flee fornication –
1Co_6:18 -- the opposite of God yoking
obligations), but nevertheless, if marriage happens to the first fornication
criminal, then that helps the woman and society lessen the damage
·
Defilements unto a dirty man is
an unbearable pain and trauma that, by default, can be partly
lessened/alleviated/diminished/mitigated by marrying them and converting the
parable from devil worship to a technically monotheistic picture within
marriage
·
The Old Covenant did not provide
for purifying a woman from defilements
·
Because of this, it was
prescribed that she marry the one who damaged her*, and,
·
Because of this permanent damage,
a defiled female was forever barred from marriage to a priest, and because of
this, a divorced woman could not return to her first husband at all after the
defilement of remarriage, even if the second husband died!
·
The New Covenant says, “You were
washed, you were cleansed” -- and that’s really new!
·
Baptism cleans and seals your
condemned and die-able body in hope for the day of redemption and resurrection
(Heb_10:22) and Act_22:16 says ‘rise up and wash your sins
away’
·
Therefore, under the new
purification given to us under this covenant, a woman cannot simply marry the
one who defiled her in most cases, because after she is truly made clean,
marriage has to happen “Only in the Lord”** who cleans them.
·
The new Covenant is able to levy
such enormous claims over you because it has such supernatural powers to clean
and redefine you -- after you have been so dramatically affected by the New
Covenant, it has every right to demand whatever it want to decree over your
life
·
Most people who marry fornicators
today do so because they hate God and are living lives that are complacent and
well-adjusted to harlotries and adulteries, but contrary to this,
·
If a holy man marries a cleansed
woman, he is co-laboring with God in agreement for the redemption of her body
through a profound parable and definitively forcing her body to be now
considered a proper woman/wife by a new and fresh and potent
sanctification/holiness through divine faith and forgiveness that an unbeliever
has no power at all to produce
·
If an unbeliever marries a
fornicator, the best he can do is “settle for less” with her, but since a
Bible-obedient man’s faith can secretly clean and holy-ify an unbeliever’s
flesh within marriage, how much more surpassingly can a holy man glorify the
life of a reverent woman who believes in the profound potency and effectiveness
of his service upon her at the official holy-ification of her body at
Betrothal?
·
God cleans her from past sin so
that she can flee fornication, which she cannot
marry as the Law says*
now that the power of the New Covenant is upon her**and requires her to ‘only marry in the Lord’
·
God cleans her, she flees, and a
holy man works out a defining parable of her redemption by cleanly and morally
sanctifying her body, redefining her, forcing her body to be called a “woman”
instead of ever being associated as a prostitute, changing her origin to his
own rib, all into a parable of Monotheistic marriage
·
Not only are you no longer a
prostitute, by the Words, “such were
some of you” (1Co_6:11), and not only are you ‘fleeing
fornication’ (1Co_6:18), and not only are each of you
“allowed” to have a spouse (1Co_7:2), but to all great contradiction
of sin and the flesh, now you are so cleaned that you are the proper clean and
holy wife of a priest in the New
Covenant, with glory that far surpasses the law of Moses
In this world you might have been permanently defiled
beyond ever having a completely holy marriage, yet in this case, a holy man
reinforces your cleansing faith by receiving you as an actual woman and forces
your body to be considered redeemed by faith, and clean, and re-sanctified unto
clean and moral use...
A believing man that marries such a woman really is
redeeming her life into something serious.
There is a very real and potent and parabolic sense in which, no matter what she used to be called socially, a man redeems a woman from her past when he betrothes / holy-ifies her, and marries her. He works out a work to where no one can call her an unmarried prostitute, but an accepted and married proper wife, and that to a holy man!
In many unspeakable ways, this is a moral work, a spiritual deed, a socially profound parable, a loving re-defining, and acceptance of them in faith, an act of loving kindness and goodwill, and a courageous potent and profound redemption.
Horizontal Parabolic
Forgiveness – The Only
Way to Get Horizontal Forgiveness When You Have Been Ordained From The
Beginning
·
Marriage on earth is a parable of marriage to God
·
Both Fornication and adultery are also parables
sovereignly ordained by God to represent sleeping with the devil. (Remember
that God is in control of everything, including how people might sin, just as
it was God who made the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil in the garden of
Eden.)
·
Idolatry and fornication are both so evil and defiling
and detestable before God that they deserve death
·
The physical and the spiritual repeatedly go hand-in-hand
throughout history
·
When you stop sleeping with the devil and come to God,
you must be cleaned up and washed and purified from your filth, and set apart
unto holiness, that is, “betrothal”, in order to come be with your lawful and
ordained man, Jesus
·
If you have committed spiritual fornication, then your
ordained man, Jesus, must forgive you, and ONLY HE can contradict the normal
course of nature and redeem you again into a spiritual virgin so that you are
even capable and suitable to be with Him, even though He is “another man”*.
·
If you have committed physical fornication, with its
parable link to being in bed with satan, and yet somehow you have the extra and
shocking privilege of being truly ordained unto a physical man from the
beginning, in this lawful parable, only He can "forgive" you
physically, as it says, “to [fig. against] you
alone have I sinned” (Psa_51:4 – σοὶ μόνῳ
ἥμαρτον), and only He can contradict the normal course of nature,
and supernaturally wash you, and place his own potency and holiness on the line
to sacrificially redeem you, just as Jesus washed His own bride in His own
blood, and only he can redeem your body unto all womanhood.
·
Remember that we said the
non-exclusivity was premarital adultery -- this is as Tobit says, “for she is appointed unto thee from the beginning [ὅτι
σοὶ αὐτὴ ἡτοιμασμένη
ἦν ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος]”
-- God is very aware of who He matched people up to, and the value of calling
is something that starts before you were born… and it calls for absolute
faithfulness your whole life!
·
Remember: Even if most
humans can’t bear to take things this far, not so with us, since we want to max
out beyond all others on fully blasting this parable out of this world with
spirituality that overflows every single correlating detail that is so
spiritual it provokes the marriage from heaven to come after people finally did
it right in the accurate way that God has been waiting for a long time…
·
Therefore if a woman
fornicates she does pre-marital adultery against the one whom she was ordained
unto from the beginning, and even though she may have repented unto God many
years ago, now that she finally meets the one whom she long ago sinned against,
she is eager to make much of her repentance and exclusivity unto him with all
her faith and ability and understanding and eagerness
·
It is a shocking privilege for a woman to be married by a
holy person after fornication, and it is the perfectly correlating parable to
the fact that it is shocking that God, being THE Holy One, would forgive people
and redeem them unto Himself. God made these things as parables for a reason,
and they truly display the amazingness of forgiveness.
·
If he truly is your ordained and lawful man from the
beginning, then only he can say you are horizontally “forgiven” for physically
sinning against Him, in the same way as you are spiritually dependent on God for
vertical forgiveness after sinning against Him
·
And while it is obvious that God is the One who forgives
all your sins and makes you clean in every way, yet without any contradiction,
it is equally obvious that God often uses people in various ways to vertically
forgive you when He works through them, and it is also the case that parables
are used as one of the vehicles to preach this mystery horizontally
·
While your past sins are truly forgiven, and you are
absolutely forbidden to feel guilty after receiving the blood of Jesus and
having been washed with the water of baptism, yet there is a parable to play,
and there is truth at hand, and there is another baptism on its way, since, if
you have a man who is sufficiently parable-minded, he also is going to baptize
you in like manner for the mysterious and parabolic scene of forgiveness and
redemption of your body, and in holy-ifying you unto himself, he will immerse
you into His own name...
·
As God forgave Israel and insisted on her returning to
Himself in passages like Jeremiah 3, so also a spiritual man can work out a
parable of sanctification upon your flesh based on his authority over your
body, when he forgives and redefines you into cleanness by faith
·
Parabolic repentance, forgiveness, and redemption has its
exciting place among the righteous as a powerful parable of truth to preach to
the nations
Tob_6:17 b
Br but when thou shalt come to her, rise up both of
you, and pray [βοήσατε] to God which is merciful [τὸν ἐλεήμονα
θεόν], who will
have pity on you [ἐλεήσει], and save you [σώσει
ὑμᾶς]: fear not
[μὴ φοβοῦ], ·for she is appointed unto thee from the beginning [ὅτι
σοὶ αὐτὴ ἡτοιμασμένη
ἦν ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος]; and thou shalt preserve [σώσεις
– save] her, and she shall go with thee
[καὶ πορεύσεται
μετὰ σοῦ]. Moreover I suppose that she shall bear thee children
[καὶ ὑπολαμβάνω
ὅτι σοὶ ἔσται ἐξ
αὐτῆς παιδία]. Now when Tobias had heard [ἤκουσεν] these things, he loved [ἐφίλησεν] her, and his heart [ψυχὴ] was effectually [fig. exceedingly] joined [glued] to her. [καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ
αὐτοῦ ἐκολλήθη
αὐτῇ σφόδρα]
Psa_51:4 WEB Against
you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight;
that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
Psa_51:4 CAB Against
You alone have I sinned, and done evil before You; that You might be justified
in Your words, and might overcome when You are judged.
Psa_51:4 Greek (50:6)
σοὶ μόνῳ ἥμαρτον
καὶ τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιόν
σου ἐποίησα, ὅπως
ἂν δικαιωθῇς ἐν
τοῖς λόγοις
σου καὶ νικήσῃς
ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαί
σε.
Conclusions to Get
Zealous for Restoration
After you have repented and been cleaned, you should
zealously burn and seek with exceeding faith and ambition to be renewed as
virgin as at all possible. Meticulously and zealously re-sensitize every
deepest concept your body and soul as though you never had a sexual movement in
your life.
I wonder if one day we will see more and more glories of
restoration beyond human capacity.
---------------
A deed like that might just be worthy of its own ceremony.
(composing words for that might call for a blessed
coauthoring work of the blessed who have been redeemed.)
Healed Hymen
[As seen in the revision dates
below, all of this was written before
these startling signs were supernaturally fulfilled among us… any insertions
are bracketed & marked in red.]
Supernatural Physical
Restoration
Parabolic
Repentance | Healed
Hymen
Other dates (See: Parabolic Repentance);
(9/12/15-9/13/15)
11.15.15.mp3
Security Tab
It might be said that a woman’s body is like a jug of milk or
juice which has a tab sealing it…
There is something fundamentally parabolic about this “security
tab” that so profoundly and deeply speaks to the unmodified purity of a woman.
This is a physical parable with enormous implications…
This is a physical sign that proves that a woman has stored
something up for her man.
Monotheists care very much about virginity.
Without this security tab, you would really have to accept a
woman’s word by faith that they were pure.
It would be a great leap of faith.
What proof or assurance do you have that she will not commit
adultery later on?
This security tab is very glorious and important, and it makes it
even more profound when God makes mysterious spiritual statements when calling
redeemed Israel a virgin…
Ultimately, this prophesied redemption has to be fulfilled in days
to come… But in what ways will God
preach it?
If God physically reseals you, then this is a statement all of its
own. Who can argue with it? -- Even physical Israel would have to admit that a
physical salvation had happened.
Pre-Marital Salvation by Spiritual Miracles
If
any woman could take a hold of anything of biological restoration, that would
mean something important spiritually, and I would want to know about any such
cases.
It
might even be beneficial to research this, but I don’t think it would be best
for me to research this.
This
would be a very specialized variant of redemption of prophetic proportions
Special Case of Supernatural Healing
Just as we have said repeatedly, each person's calling
may indeed shine with its own particular splendor as each one is given special
favor and exciting opportunity as God glorifies each disciple to preach a
pointed proclamation of truth, until we all culminate into one big light of the
world in some sort of composite being that is out of this world.
I say this repeatedly lest at any time the glories of
variants and exceptions be standardized among the obsessively high ambitions of
the righteous.
If a woman ever obtains favor to pray and receive
biological healing from her past immoralities, this indeed would be a special
work on the earth with very unique meanings and implications.
If there were ever any case where a woman was
supernaturally biologically healed of her past, we all need to know about
that. In fact, the whole world needs to
know about that, especially national Israel. All the leaders of the Assembly
would be involved in verifying this cloth as Deuteronomy describes, and then it
would only be a matter of time until this special proclamation was made.
Over and over again God charges Israel with harlotry, but
afterward when speaking of her hope and redemption, He makes these profound
statements of her being a virgin. Although we "less
strict" gentiles can so readily accept things by faith (as is appropriate
because that is who we are) this "virginity despite harlotry" cannot
by any means really be claimed to a physical Jew without the Deuteronomy
22 blood test, because it is the physical sign which God ordained to their
entire nation to insist on and obsess over, and they rightly have ingrained
this sign in their awareness and consciences for thousands of years.
In the culmination of all things, whenever repentance is
preached to Israel, I could deeply wonder what signs might be used and in what
way God is going to call them to repentance and re-virginity. And if some
supernatural biological healing happened among the righteous it might very
pointedly throw them into being involved with calling the Jews to repentance.
This would be a case were someone's sexuality, although
visually protected in modesty, would particularly be used as a "public
parable" of forgiveness, and it would ultimately be a social issue as
Deuteronomy 22 with the cloth-testimony of her virginity.
How Does This
Supernatural Healing Pertain to Me?
Although I am a type of Moses, and,
Although I am leading the Bride out of Egypt (in many
parabolic senses), and,
Although we seem to be in the latter part of human history,
and,
Although I naturally pertain to the type of substance in
the Two Witnesses (since I am a type of Moses), and,
Although it is possible that I might could be a pre-type
of one of these witnesses, and,
Even though many of you have sought to suggest that I
might could actually be one of them, yet,
I have never claimed to be one of the Two Witnesses in
Revelation, especially in the ultimate manifestation of these two figures.
If God wanted to prove to me that I was definitely one of these ultimate Two Witnesses, who testify to all of Israel and the rest of the world, then I am pretty sure that He would have my wife supernaturally healed in this way. If that did not happen, then I would be resolved to be whatever else God has called me to be.
Cleaned Prostitutes Better than Dirty Pharisees
There is a repeated theme in the testimony of Truth that teaches us that which those who have repented are more honorable than those who have never been saved.
Those who have considered their ways, and repented as the Ninivites, and actually chosen righteousness deserve more recognition, honor, and praise than those who have simply received what they already had.
Consider Your Ways
Hag_1:7 WEB This is what Yahweh of Armies says: "Consider your ways.
Hag_1:7 CAB Thus says the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways!
Hag_1:7 τάδε λέγει
κύριος
παντοκράτωρ Θέσθε
τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν
εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς ὑμῶν·
[Original context: Putting natural work ahead of the obligations to sacred work]
Harlots and Tax Collectors Are Entering Before You
Mat_21:28-31 CAB "But what do you think? A man had two children. And having come to the first, he said, 'Child, go, work today in my vineyard.' 29 "But he answered and said, 'I will not,' but later he regretted it and went. 30 And having come to the other, he said likewise. And he answered and said, 'I am going, sir,' but he did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to Him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you.
Mat_21:28-31 Greek Τί δὲ ὑμῖν
δοκεῖ; ἄνθρωπος
εἶχε τέκνα
δύο, καὶ
προσελθὼν τῷ
πρώτῳ εἶπε·
τέκνον, ὕπαγε
σήμερον ἐργάζου
ἐν τῷ ἀμπελῶνι
μου. 29 ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς
εἶπεν· οὐ
θέλω· ὕστερον
δὲ
μεταμεληθεὶς
ἀπῆλθε. 30 καὶ
προσελθὼν τῷ
δευτέρῳ εἶπεν
ὡσαύτως. ὁ
δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς
εἶπεν· ἐγώ,
κύριε· καὶ
οὐκ ἀπῆλθε. 31
τίς ἐκ τῶν
δύο ἐποίησε
τὸ θέλημα
τοῦ πατρός;
λέγουσι αὐτῷ·
ὁ πρῶτος.
λέγει αὐτοῖς
ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς· ἀμὴν
λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι
οἱ τελῶναι
καὶ αἱ
πόρναι
προάγουσιν ὑμᾶς
εἰς τὴν
βασιλείαν τοῦ
Θεοῦ.
TSK: the publicans: Mat_9:9, Mat_20:16, Luk_7:29, Luk_7:37-50, Luk_15:1, Luk_15:2, Luk_19:9, Luk_19:10, Rom_5:20, Rom_9:30-33, 1Ti_1:13-16
And concerning the religious He says,
You Are Full Of All Uncleanness
Mat_23:25-28 CAB Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and unrighteousness. 26 Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. 28 Thus also you outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Mat_23:25-28 Greek Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν,
γραμματεῖς
καὶ Φαρισαῖοι
ὑποκριταί, ὅτι
καθαρίζετε
τὸ ἔξωθεν τοῦ
ποτηρίου καὶ
τῆς
παροψίδος, ἔσωθεν
δὲ γέμουσιν
ἐξ ἁρπαγῆς
καὶ ἀδικίας. 26
Φαρισαῖε
τυφλέ,
καθάρισον πρῶτον
τὸ ἐντὸς
τοῦ ποτηρίου
καὶ τῆς
παροψίδος, ἵνα
γένηται καὶ
τὸ ἐκτὸς αὐτῶν
καθαρόν. 27
Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν,
γραμματεῖς
καὶ Φαρισαῖοι
ὑποκριταί, ὅτι
παρομοιάζετε
τάφοις
κεκονιαμένοις,
οἵτινες ἔξωθεν
μὲν
φαίνονται ὡραῖοι,
ἔσωθεν δὲ
γέμουσιν ὀστέων
νεκρῶν καὶ
πάσης ἀκαθαρσίας. 28
οὕτω καὶ ὑμεῖς
ἔξωθεν μὲν
φαίνεσθε τοῖς
ἀνθρώποις
δίκαιοι, ἔσωθεν
δέ μεστοὶ ἐστε
ὑποκρίσεως
καὶ ἀνομίας.
All uncleanness? Including sexual immorality? Yes, indeed…
You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor’s Wife
Deu_5:21 CAB You shall not covet your neighbor's wife [οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον σου]; you shall not covet your neighbor's house, nor his field, nor his male servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor any beast of his, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Deu_5:21 Greek οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις
τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ
πλησίον σου. οὐκ
ἐπιθυμήσεις τὴν
οἰκίαν τοῦ
πλησίον σου οὔτε
τὸν ἀγρὸν αὐτοῦ
οὔτε τὸν παῖδα
αὐτοῦ οὔτε τὴν
παιδίσκην αὐτοῦ
οὔτε τοῦ βοὸς αὐτοῦ
οὔτε τοῦ ὑποζυγίου
αὐτοῦ οὔτε
παντὸς κτήνους
αὐτοῦ οὔτε ὅσα
τῷ πλησίον σού ἐστιν.
Jas_4:2 CAB You lust [or coveting] [ἐπιθυμεῖτε] and you do not have. You murder and are jealous and you cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have because you do not ask.
Jas_4:2 Greek ἐπιθυμεῖτε,
καὶ οὐκ ἔχετε·
φονεύετε καὶ
ζηλοῦτε, καὶ
οὐ δύνασθε ἐπιτυχεῖν·
μάχεσθε καὶ
πολεμεῖτε· οὐκ
ἔχετε διὰ τὸ
μὴ αἰτεῖσθαι
ὑμᾶς·
(also: Jas_2:11 – you have become a transgressor of the law)
This law is the same Greek language as Jesus saying not to commit adultery / Lust:
Mat_5:27-28, etc.
Rom_7:7-8 CAB What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known lust [or coveting] [τήν τε γὰρ ἐπιθυμίαν οὐκ ᾔδειν] unless the law had said, "You shall not covet [or lust]." [οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις] 8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of lust [πᾶσαν ἐπιθυμίαν – All (covetous) heating up of lust upon]. For apart from the law sin was dead.
Rom_7:7-8 Greek Τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν;
ὁ νόμος ἁμαρτία;
μὴ γένοιτο·
ἀλλὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν
οὐκ ἔγνων εἰ
μὴ διὰ
νόμου· τήν
τε γὰρ ἐπιθυμίαν
οὐκ ᾔδειν εἰ
μὴ ὁ νόμος ἔλεγεν,
οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις· 8
ἀφορμὴν
δὲ λαβοῦσα ἡ
ἁμαρτία διὰ
τῆς ἐντολῆς
κατειργάσατο
ἐν ἐμοὶ πᾶσαν
ἐπιθυμίαν· χωρὶς
γὰρ νόμου ἁμαρτία
νεκρά.
These “former harlots” who have changed all their affections to discipleship are now cleaner, more exclusive, more pure, more virgin-like, than everything the evil flesh has to offer!
Unexposed
5/25/15-5/26/15
Unknown And Unknowing
Be unknown as one having known no one.
"Forget your people", and 'forget the names of
the Balams'
You have got to completely forget what certain body parts
even look like. Or else how will you worship with every fiber of your being
that which you already know?
Seeing
Man Represents Seeing God
Forget
If, in a past life of horror, you have known the intimacy
of demons (that is, fornication) then let the repuliveness of them be vomited out
of your knowledge and memory completely. And let there never at any time be a
competitive comparesen between what you now have with the previous knowledge
you should not even have!
Visual Virginity
Visual Impact is More Important than Women Realize
Women tend to downplay the effect of visual exposure to
gender intimacy, but it is what you know by perception that defines who you
are. Even though women always need to be dealing with Babbies, there is still
something troubled by a woman who "knows a man", even visually, when
Marry says, "I have not known a man" -- that's a real virgin!
A man ought to always know more than a woman, but if a
woman has more knowledge than a man, then she retains her harlotry.
Re-Sensitized!
Be sensitive, visually vulnerable, be a blank slate so
you can be dominated and defined, be sensitive, impressionable, be surprised,
awe struck, astonished, shocked,
Your Bubble Can Show
Your Level of Virginity
Your bubble shows your vulnerability to value and your
success in being re-sensitized. You should be a vacuum for love and value, and
you should blush at even the thought of potential value overlapping your
bubble.
You should tremble with blushing lest any love or value
come near you, that you may protect what is sacred...
Let it not be that value passes through your bubble and
you did not know it, because you did not know that it was that potant. Don't be
so dull as to not feel. Be re-sensitised to become a vaccume for love and
value... Then turn around and protect your zealous and potant vaccume.
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Original Exhortation…
(Daniel/
John 10)
-
Enkaine; Hanukkah; “feast of dedication” (KJV)
Mary
of Bethany:
-
she so desperately needed to be fixed, especially in light of the degradation
of her shameful past.
-
Received a “renewal of feminine value” that all women need at the core of who
they are
-
She was captivated by the worth she had received from Jesus
-
cry out for the renewal of the virginity of your emotions
--
→ Why does Biblical abstinence from indulging in premarital romance seem hard while the game of dating seems unavoidable in our culture? – Because you have to die to your idea of romance. Biblical romance is not just the dating game:
Biblical Romance is for marriage!
→ If you look for romance you will find judgment from God.
If you look for God, you will find Him and, (if
you’re called to marriage), He will give you romance that is more than you
could have imagined!
--
--
Purity Renewal
“stored
up many things” (Song 7 to the end)
>
have you blown it? start storing up now!
>
Jesus had 30 years of prep: embrace the buildup of Godly passions
>
Now also embrace the buildup of virginity
“a
sealed fountain”
A TIME of Restoration
· God divorced Israel
· Joseph divorced Marry
· After TIME, God called his people back through Jeremiah
· Hosea said that his married wife should just “sit” and “wait” in the house for him, and not know any lovers -- i.e. make sure all of the seed and the lust and memory of former lovers was killed off, and the heart had time to learn purity and, hopefully, fill up in chastity as a sobering and painful prerequisite for resuming “marriage as normal”. A season and a time of hoping for internal repentance and sanity. Space to hurt and be restored
· Peter went through some sort of an absence of hearing from Jesus (i.e. not full time like it used to be…). He went fishing and seems to have finally been pierced enough to process his restoration.
· Song: I have stored/laid up many good things for you…
· Generally: Soberly receive your probation, specifically: hope in your multiplied worth of waiting in virginity / storing up Godly passions
· Kill off poly-Andrey, favorably and cooperatively learn restored virginity, and learn virtues for the first time that will actually keep you (unlike what your parents gave you)
Obtaining Song of Songs
9/24/07; 10/3/07 (Word:
Modified); 2/20/17 (recompiled)
18:20, 28; 1Sa
Exclusivity
8/22/14-8/23/14; 8/26/14 (Downplay Your
Attractions); 9/6/14; 9/13/14; 10/11/14; 12/19/14-12/20/14 (one who finds
peace); 2/22/15 (Taking The Magic Out Of Lust); 3/8/15 (Some Godly Cases of
Regular-Looking Marriage & Obsession
Marks Exclusivity); 3/19/15 (Thorns); 3/20/15
(recompiled); 3/24/15 (Minimize attractions); 3/30/15; 4/04/15-4/5/15;
4/10/15-4/14/15; several other dates; 4/19/15; 4/27/15 (presented No False
Starts!); 5/3/15 (Arranged
Marriage); 5/5/15-5/8/15; 5/10/15 (Parable Matchup vs. Generic Qualities Lust); 5/11/15;
5/13/15-5/14/15; 5/17/15-5/19/15; 5/26/15; 7/23/17
Here is the Exclusivity Bibles study link: http://www.trueconnection.org/BibleStudies/purity-proclamation.htm#Exclusivity
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Exclusivity--01--Intro-and--Why-You-Should-Be-Motivated--4.14.15.mp3
Intros To Exclusivity
You might not have all your answers right now at this
season, but in so many ways it’s the best time for exclusivity.
Better to do it now while there is a particular
sacredness.
Where
Some of Us Are At
Including A few
exciting updates
(1) I do not have info for others
(2) H
(3) Al
- From much research and careful consideration of repeated predictions of Al, it looks like she is at least going to teach married women how to repent of being evil, and courageously be great and submissive, Abigail-like wives in the face of the most troubled marriages.
- This could very well happen in celibacy, as being the quick-learning, submissive Bride of Christ, but (I could also easily believe that) this could take place in the context of her own great marriage as a parable instruction of this amazing submission…
- If it included physical marriage, it seems we would need to see assembly…. So intend to keep transporting you all for this and other reasons…
- in any case, Al, you should happily act like you are getting married, and your special betrothal to Anointed One is of the highest praise and glory, and is sufficient to make you great… i.e. whatever it means/takes to proclaim that (in celibacy or prophetic marriage), this is going to make you great out of this world…
>> we’ll see about how all of these details play out…
Purpose
Goal: Solidifying Celibacy
While Not Seeking Marriage
A lot of what we want to do is to expand off of the
original exhortation and hopefully give a critical roadmap for how to accomplish
exclusivity...
How to Embrace Crucifixion
Our Purpose:
Our specific goal, in our case, is not to use these things to get excited and
"revved up" for marriage, but actually, rather, we are currently
seeking to use the principles of exclusivity (and even "obsession")
to learn to minimize all attractions / temptations, for the rest of our lives,
in every scenario, up to the point that some of us may one day receive divinely
indicated scenarios.
In the
meantime, we are still on a mission, and I am still committed to not troubling
your purity.
Future Bliss and Discipleship
· I also want to let you in on some secrets on how you can potentially gain the greatest marriage possible, for as many of you as may marry someday.
· We are not only going to cover the particular needs we have, but also the larger principles as a whole.
· The more you ask, the more you can get, as much as I am permitted.
· Initially, we want to solve, sharpen, and polish our needs for virtue, but I am of course going to seek to prepare you to teach all nations.
· If I attack the worst-case scenarios, please don’t take that as incriminating you.
· As far as personal application, this is on a “shoe fitting bases” (i.e. if the shoe fits, wear it.)
· By the way: Sometimes presenting the worst case scenario actually serves as a contrast to provoke you to know for sure that good thing which God has actually worked out in you and or in us.
· Some of these things will be intentionally provocative to glorify current virtue. (Feel free to hear from God as to how amazing and glorious things have already been at work among us.)
· Sometimes attacking what is bad will actually be intended to glorify what is good among us, but in many ways I will pass over things you do not ask about.
Shoe Fitting
Reminders
Remember that some of the things I am saying
may be very well enough to provoke you to know the opposite and glorify the
true virtue among us that is good.
When I say it theoretically, I really do mean
it theoretically so that you can identify what's up spiritually,
and choose to reject what is bad and more solidly affirm what is good.
Original
Exhortation
How to save
yourself from multiple-options before you have them
What are going
to do when you are around 5 great people?
>> Preparing now as though you’re going to
be around five great people, and they will all have the qualities you wanted.
>> it would be better for you to be in
that situation because at least it would speak to you about your foundation…
If you don’t fix these things now, they will
still cause problems even when you don’t have options
Otherwise: shaky foundation and don’t know how
to fortify yourself…
You will be confused, when around 5 great
people… you can reap havoc now even though you are not in that situation.
Need right foundation so you can sort out God’s
voice from your own intoxication…
Vs.
Disney’s qualifications of qualities… if they
match this list, then they must be the one…
Curveball are were your faithfulness is tested…
Then God’s sobriety will pull you through your
intoxications on into greatness.
Glad to eliminate possibilities, but also glad I
kept digging for more exclusivity so I could have a better foundation for my
soul…
Exclusivity is based on parable-matchup, not
ideal qualities, conveniences, the will of God… being able to say yes or no
until shown otherwise…
Not what I see or add up with your eyes…
Desperate Cave Daughters Syndrome
Lot’s Daughter’s
Mountain Syndrome
Lot Syndrome /
Mountain Syndrome
Important note: we are not dealing with this story in its
original sense, but only in a partial reapplication
Lot’s Story – From
Sodom to the Mountains
Gen_19:15-38,
esp. Gen_19:31-38
Gen_19:15 – …ἵνα
μὴ συναπόλῃ ταῖς
ἀνομίαις τῆς πόλεως
Gen_19:16 –
WEB: But he lingered / CAB: And they were troubled [καὶ ἐταράχθησαν]
No Change of Appetite When Walking Through the Desert
If you’re put in sort of a desert-like strain
you’ll be tempted to attribute divine qualities to potentials that you would
not otherwise be tempted to make under normal circumstances with normal
provisions. When you’re put in desperate situations then things can be more
appealing than there would otherwise be. Don’t be deluded by the desperation of
the hour.
I’m not really tempted because of who they are
but because of how much in need I am.
Be rational and know what your passions are
doing
Pro_27:7 – To a Hungry
Soul, Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet
Pro_27:7 WEB A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
Pro_27:7 CAB A full soul scorns honeycombs, but to a hungry soul even bitter things appear sweet.
Pro_27:7 Greek ψυχὴ ἐν
πλησμονῇ οὖσα
κηρίοις ἐμπαίζει,
ψυχῇ δὲ ἐνδεεῖ
καὶ τὰ πικρὰ
γλυκεῖα φαίνεται.
This is usually a good thing, but in the
inverted sense, it can be dangerous.
Shun Desperation in
Limited Contexts
If you had more options, and if things would be less tempting in that potential context, then don't even think about going in any desperate directions in the meantime, because that is not exclusivity! If you could theoretically marry someone else but you consider limited possibilities in the meantime, although that is humanly understandable, it is dangerously treacherous, and it is spiritually unacceptable. -- Although things may temporarily look like potential options, it is treacherous in a context were people are going after greatness.
If you could theoretically marry someone else in faith in a different context, then don't risk and toy with non-greatness in the meantime.
Note: At the moment we are primarily considering these things from the vantage point of limited social scenarios, and we will hopefully expand on this more later to make it even more bullet proof in an abundant context as well.
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V: How to Not Participate in Your Country’s
Pleasures and Correlating Judgment
3/29/15
Participate in a country’s pleasures, then you
will participate in its judgment too
>> how should we escape in America?
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h: Why was lots daughters capable to rape their father. How did they even know how to do this?
Ay: for some reason I thought there was something mentioned about them having been in sodom
Ay: influenced by its evils
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See: Long-Term Purity Protection
Long-Term Community Purity Protection? -- How to
Maintain it
What can we do for the long run, to be less exposed to each other's general personable-ness & gender dynamics? What more can we do to keep/maintain things for the long run (esp. so that we don't slip in uninspired directions)?
Example: me staying in 55 more...
Seek to avoid circumstances that feel circumstantially flirtatious / provoking / teasing / breeding discontentment (aselgiea)
11/3/14
Making little of your attractions means viewing all purity needs as objective, universal needs that call for a limit to exposure.
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Avoiding Syndrome of "Lot's daughter's"...
Don't want isolation...
Believe that there are other potential situations if
that is what you are called to.
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Avoiding Cave Compromises
Avoiding the
Compromises of Cave Desperation
Shoe Fitting Reminders -- you really don’t have to take anything personally unless it applies…
5/12/15-5/13/15
I don't have many of the needed answers for this, but I just want to say things in case I can do
something to contributing to safety, sanity, and Orthodoxy. As much as we are
helped, I am ambitious to make good safe healthy confessions that God can do
good with.
You may consider that Lot is great
But there are also ways in which any of the 5 men that
might come later are great (their greatness may or may not be comparable to
Lot, but we hope it will be at least pertinent...)
Wishing for maximum association with exponential levels
of greatness vs. Insisting on your specific calling may be a paradoxical
challenge in some cases.
But that is why we have a blessed hope that celibacy does
not mean 'no relationship'... Jesus loved Martha...
>Jesus is forever in increasing glories with these new
creations
>even if it felt like current denials meant risking
marrying someone 'less great than Jesus', you should still not compromise
'Samson callings'
>with all of the potential conflict, I bless the
goodness of NC celibacy...
I do not want you to feel like you have to compromise any
of the spiritually good, parabolic-ally significant things you have specialized
needs for just because the overall tide of someone might be very great...
Don't compromise specific parable/calling hopes for the
sake that one or more righteous people are the only great people around right
now.
Only challenge?
Just got to actually figure out what preference are
"picky flesh" and which ones are actually righteous and needful
parables that you should insist on and not compromise.
(In this covenant) Desperate Cave decisions are
inherently about compromising even for righteous Lot when you
pertain to Samson. You could imagine strong Samson as being more attractive,
maybe even in light of your real calling to throw down strongholds or
something, but Lot is the only one around and seems so great that it feels like
your being picky by not just compromising your potential Samson preferences for
Lot.
Knowing What You
Really Want is A Big Answer
But it is the greatness-es of Lot plus the specific
parabolic preferences for Samson, all occurring in one person that is
worth fighting to wait for.
No Compromise
·
You don't need to worry about making "Desperate Cave
decisions" as long as you don't compromise...
·
as for that old flesh, well, you don't even need to
compromising its lusts either, because you really just want to go ahead and
kill the whole thing on its cross!
·
Ironically, you don't need to compromise great needs for
great people.
·
Insist on your calling, and then beg God and insist that
it will be great.
Why You
Should Be Motivated By Exclusivity!
Salvation of
Exclusivity
·
Exclusivity is premarital monogamy, and
post-marital faithfulness
·
Exclusivity is the old path of absolute purity we need
today
·
They were unexposed, untainted, sheltered, clean
·
Perfect Monogamous Exclusivity has always been even more
extremely vital for women, and is now so glorious that even men are
compelled to run in
·
Social barriers were in place to maintain absolute
sensitivity and emotional dependence on Father and Husband (and brothers)
·
It is the ultimate winning victory in sexual purity
·
If you are one of the blessed few who win before marriage
(which you ought to fight for with every ounce of your breath), it requires
faith in what you don't see, and endurance through many of the harshest pains
and nasty evils and excruciating trials... If you win, then you are saved and
gloriously loved by God indeed!
A Harlot [?]
is a Deep Pit... Those who are Loved by God will Escape from Her?
Pro_22:14 The mouth of an adulteress [strange woman] is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
Pro_22:14 The mouth of a transgressor is a deep pit, and he that is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. (22:14A) Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them, but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.
Pro_22:14 βόθρος
βαθὺς στόμα
παρανόμου, ὁ δὲ
μισηθεὶς ὑπὸ
κυρίου ἐμπεσεῖται
εἰς αὐτόν.
εἰσὶν ὁδοὶ
κακαὶ ἐνώπιον ἀνδρός,
καὶ οὐκ ἀγαπᾷ
τοῦ ἀποστρέψαι
ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν· ἀποστρέφειν
δὲ δεῖ ἀπὸ ὁδοῦ
σκολιᾶς καὶ
κακῆς.
If you win in sexual purity it does pertain to being
loved God.
Through rationale and logos and your love for exclusivity
can affect what tempts you.
·
Obtaining a celibate heart in your singleness can be a
harsh context, but it is this absolute denial that is the most honorable and
true place to learn exclusivity -- rejoice to learn blessed exclusivity now in
your suffering "& leap for joy, because great is your reward in
heaven" when you endure such persecutions...
·
Love is the truest Love when you have multiple
choices and appealing alternatives and you still choose only one Love over
and over again
·
“Learning” to do good when it’s hard tests and changes
your heart; just “learning” to do good when its easy just externally
conforms you to your circumstance -- what reward/favor do you have?
·
(This is the worst sense in which “needing marriage” is
called "weakness" and "un-mightiness" by Paul in 1Co_7)
·
To be circumstantially exclusive in the flesh when
it is easy lasts for this life alone, and it adds nothing to your credit as God
demands of you, but to be exclusive when frantic and harsh and contradictory
temptations are abundant on every side, this salvation lasts forever in glory
and honor and praise and eternal life...
·
The less you have exclusivity, the more you
need a social “fence” put around you to force you into circumstantial
exclusivity by the wisdom of others managing your life.
·
People that have fallen wanted their mind to dwell in
naive – ness with an implied belief that ignorance is bliss, even if they never
gave over what God most passionately wants… but You should get the happiest
when God gets the happiest – the sooner you learn to cooperate, the more blessed
you will be…
·
God is not happy when you feel safe, but when you’ve
endured trials and chosen what is right
·
When monogamy is already physical, it can be less certain
if you have ever changed.
·
You don't just want to be a creature that is
constrained to do right, but a new creation that IS what is right!
·
If you wait, it might be too late – If you wait till you are married, it might
be too late to obtain some rewards... you might have forfeited them
already!
·
Pass up sacredness, and you have no guarantee that you’ll ever get a chance
to obtain that greatness again
·
The most glorious, sacred,
and gratifying complete context to test and win in exclusivity is when
you have no external affection, and you need it deeply, and you
remain in the trust of God with zealous exclusivity.
Restoration Must Be
Deep
Singleness is also the blessed way to be restored and
recreated into a spiritual virgin... – See: A TIME of Restoration
4/1/15
-- Hos: you will sit and wait for me many days... -- A TIME of
Restoration
If
anyone is in Anointed One... New creation
2Co_5:17 CAB Therefore, if anyone is in Christ [Anointed One], he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, all things have become new.
2Co_5:17 ὥστε εἴ
τις ἐν Χριστῷ,
καινὴ κτίσις·
τὰ ἀρχαῖα
παρῆλθεν, ἰδοὺ
γέγονε καινά
τὰ πάντα·
·
You don’t want to just stop what
you used to like, but you want to completely hate it
·
You want to completely repent and
overthrow the entire basis of ever having liked it
·
Repent of the beautiful images in
your mind, and harshly reject them in warfare
·
You don't just want the initial devotion of
your mind purified, you want your very memories and defaults to be changed and
your furthest depths to be marked with exclusivity...
·
For example: when I think about my past I feel like a
different person...
·
I do not relate to my past, and it is totally
irrelevant...
·
If desires ever happen to reoccur, then I count it as
vital to get fixed so I can be assured of a new and perfect and clean life...
·
This is our important goal.
·
The spiritual cheapness of a harlot is more
revolting than the appeal of their attraction
h: what does it mean that your heart has attached
to other men? Is this solely physical attraction/ physical responses like your
heart beating fast etc?
Ay: Tara sung "God blessed the broken road
that led me straight to you" at their wedding reception.... Glorying in
"broken roads/relationships that didn't work" has been unsettling.
h: Does restoration mean that you dont
remember what different body parts look like? Especially with unwanted images flashing before you randomly
even when you weren't looking for this
H:
When I'm tempted to lust I remember my mommy and this helps me a lot. Does this
mean anything?
Emotional
Recovery
A mark of exclusivity is quick emotional
recovery from temptations, esp. to where emotionally, you are ok when someone
else gets the one you were tempted against.
Personal Story: Exclusivity is Not The Gift of Celibacy
P mike seemed a little baffled that I was
completely ok and happy when others got harlots that had been used against me.
Several times he and several others thought I had the gift of celibacy. It is
not celibacy, but moral faithfulness and exclusivity!
When you have rationality on your side to
quickly pop bubbles you will be a lot quicker in throwing down temptations that
you use to be tempted against.
You Did Well to Believe in Restoration
You did well to believe the good message I spoke to you
about restoration. You did not distrust me or doubt my words at all, but
received them with much gladness and happiness and faith. You did well and did
not try me or judge me, but you believed me and did well in happily trusting
that I told you the truth. Now since you did well to fully believe me and the
good words I spoke to you, and you did so well without testing and trying me, I
will all the more gladly prove to you what you did not try with doubt, and I
will gladly verify to you what Spirit I speak from when saying these things,
when I was helped to know and understand and speak and teach... And I wish to
show you that these words are also written in the ancient Scriptures... So
since you did well to not try me with disbelief or test the saving message, I
will prove and show to you more gladly the proof of which spirit I am helped
by, and addicted to, and in agreement with as I testify to you of deep and
mysterious things that I am often helped to understand...
Hosea 2 Restoration -- Cleaning Mouth And Memory
Compare: Let the Memory of Them Perish
No
Name gods
Exo_23:13 (No Name remembered); Deu_12:3; Jos_23:7, Psa_16:4, Zec_13:2; Jer_10:11
(Gen_26:18; 2Ch_28:2; Mic_5:13; Zep_2:11)
Jer_31:34 –
"For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember
their sin no more."
Remove the
Balaams out of your mouth...
Hos_2:17
Context: Hos_2:10-23
Hos_2:10 – Stripped for fornication
Hos_2:11 – No Celebrations
Hos_2:12 – Take Back / Ruin Good things
Hos_2:13 – “the days of the Baals” -- Punished (dished out righteousness) for forgetting husband while luxuriously worshiping Baals / other masters
Hos_2:14 – Forced poverty & trial + God’s Heart-Tugging Appeal
Hos_2:15 – Renewal/restored value as in early days
Hos_2:16 – Generic/basic title used to re-establish orthodoxy
Hos_2:17 – Polluted names (intensely) lifted out [εξαρω], forgotten/not remembered
Hos_2:18 – Peaceful covenant
Hos_2:19 – Eternal Re-Betrothal in Truth!
Hos_2:20 – renewed faithfulness based on knowing the Lord!
Hos_2:21-22 – God and creation listening to justice
Hos_2:23 – Mercy and fulfilled renewal
Hos_2:16 It will be in that day," says Yahweh, "that you will call me 'my husband,' and no longer call me 'my master.'
Hos_2:16 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, that she shall call Me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalam.
Hos_2:16 (2:18) καὶ ἔσται ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, λέγει κύριος, καλέσει με Ὁ ἀνήρ μου, καὶ οὐ καλέσει με ἔτι Βααλιμ·
Hos_2:17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
Hos_2:17 And I will take away the names of Baalam out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.
Hos_2:17 (2:19) καὶ ἐξαρῶ τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν Βααλιμ ἐκ στόματος αὐτῆς, καὶ οὐ μὴ μνησθῶσιν οὐκέτι τὰ ὀνόματα αὐτῶν.
- Glen, as one constantly involved in counseling and deep
psychological healing ministries, seemed to think that past immoralities were
so devastating for couples to talk about that he counseled couples to not even
ask or tell the spouses about their past relationships, or if they were even a
virgin...
- now much of what I am about to say is in contrast to
the praise of your virtue in many ways, but perhaps somewhere it still helps to
target some deeper substance and shows what it means to obtain and promote
restoration...
- You will need to listen very carefully in faith knowing
the truth of what I am saying, although it is in harsh and painful words…
- Gomers might be tempted to say, 'It’s no big deal, I'll
be faithful now, let me in bed...' -- but it is a big deal... That calls for
passionate jealousy for deep, thorough change and renewal!
- In this passage, God, as her man, deeply and zealously
insists that your mouth and your memory be changed for his jealousy to be
satisfied over you... There is a “no compromise” zeal on seeing that the depths
of you are revolutionized...
- Polygamy worked for men so that they were still men to
many women, and even so, fornication affects men in much different ways than
women...
- God is very aware of her need to change, probably even
more than she is, because 'woman was made for man' (1Co_11:9) and he knows
about the meaning and significance of her gender more than she does...
- a man repenting of fornication can still readily turn
around and love his wife in unspeakable ways, but a woman with previous
knowledge of sexuality is evil and bitter and polluted in body and evil in
heart toward her husband... Despising and undermining his dominance over her,
and defying his prized sexuality and thrusting it far from exclusively defining
her... Therefore he absolutely demands a renewal and thorough purging of her
mouth and her memory...
- a man may repent of fornication and flee from it and
turn around and still define a beloved wife with his sexuality, but a woman
with active knowledge of previous
sexuality is evil, predefined by another, polluted and irreverent, cursing
the precious seed with unfaithfulness, defying his shadow over her, knowing and
touting the flexibility of her impurity over the zeal of His rules... Defying
his reverence, undermining his seriousness, mocking his faithfulness, murdering
his honor, eroding his courage, betraying his weakness, shaming his body,
plotting against his ambitions, destroying his labor, wasting his substance,
denying his integrity, accusing his character, wounding his love, rebelling
against His authority, unsatisfied with his dominance, and leaving the
boundaries of their home, looking for affection from other friends, being
treacherous and defiant, shameless and proud, audacious and bold, flagrant and
immoral, lawless and hateful, defiled and foolish, selfish and lustful,
ignorant and loud, disobedient and sinful, polluted and aggressive for more
sin, flirting with his enemies, unworthy of cohabitation, unsatisfied with
faith, a hater of good, angry at correction, burnt and seared in conscious,
evil and atheistic to the core, a teacher of worldliness and vanity to
children, having fondness of witchcraft, a gossip telling lies to vindicate
herself, gloating at the downfall of innocent men, a laugher at men’s prayers,
pretending goodness while coveting abominations, skillfully plotting evil lest
her sins ever be hindered, repeatedly plaguing his efforts toward good,
embittering his heart and darkening his house, making him stall and dread to
come home, ruining his moments of peace, attacking those who support him,
changing her agreements with him lest he maneuver her grief, excusing herself
from self-denial, permitting herself to every pleasure, a lover of shame, a
never-ending harlot is her who stays in evil and brings it into marriage. Woe
to that man, because he has become companion of an enemy for life! And woe to
that woman, because she is full of all curses and evil, and she has never
gotten out of bed with satan…
Because of this, the Gospel of reconciliation &
restoration must go out into the earth to do vindication and cleanness again in
the Land!
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Hos_3:1-3
1 Corinthians
6 – ...Such Were Some Of You
1Co_6:11 And such were some of you! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
1Co_6:11 καὶ ταῦτά
τινες ἦτε· ἀλλὰ
ἀπελούσασθε,
ἀλλὰ ἡγιάσθητε,
ἀλλὰ ἐδικαιώθητε
ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι
τοῦ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ καὶ
ἐν τῷ
Πνεύματι τοῦ
Θεοῦ ἡμῶν.
Marriage Exaltation is An Escape From Temptation
9/2/14; 4/12/15
Most
Men Still Face Temptation After Marriage!
· There is a marriage that does not relieve couples from temptation – and we should be unwilling to ever let that come near us!
· Marriages that do not fulfill & “meet each other’s needs” come from failure, not exaltation.
· Does Pro_5:19 leave you with a prerogative to be tempted with adultery after marriage if you are exclusive?
Pro_5:19 – Always Being Ravished With Her Love
· this shows what you should even be tempted by after marriage!
· Exclusivity carried into marriage means an eventual freedom from multi-person temptations!
· Talk about perfect bliss!
Exclusivity is
Ultimately About Marriage
Although
exclusivity is initially about self-denial in singleness, its end goal is
exaltation in marriage
Despite all of this talk of singleness, exclusivity is
not just about how to stay single, but it is also about how to get married.
(remember that we said it is also '...post-marital faithfulness'.)
Exclusivity is Always
Worth it, Even if You Do Not Get Married in this Life
If you die ready for Jesus' return, guess what? You will
pop out of the ground ready for His return. If you die a martyr, having stored
up exclusive passions for marriage, what do you think is going to happen at the
resurrection?
(2Pe_3:14
CAB Therefore, beloved, looking forward
to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot
or blemish;)
(Son_8:10
CAB …one that found peace.)
With a renewed body those stored up Godly passions will
still be there, and they will even be there with interest! With a new and
Divine upgraded body, all your gender passions will now be upgraded and
properly suited for direct gratification in marrying God in the clouds.
If you marry out of obsession for exclusivity before you
are martyred, then you marry God in this life and the next.
Whatever you do, marry the Word of God in your heart, and
you will marry God Himself in person in the end. Some of you might even get a great parable of
blessed things to come in the meantime.
The Clean Passions of
Heavenly Marriage Do Not Endanger Exclusivity
What does exclusivity mean with no specified foreseeable
marriage in view?
It means living with the hope and ambition that you may
be married to Jesus, not by sedating your desires in dead complacency and
unattractive, anti-romantic apathy, but in a buildup of godly passions.
No disciple is allowed to solve the problem of lust by
being anti-romantic
The fact that fire exists, and the knowledge that it is
used as a positive picture of God, proves that God hates the quenching of
passion and romance. The answer is cleanness,
not dead complacent numbness and apathy.
Those who believe and are clean can freely burn with
clean romance toward God without sexual pollution in the process. God is the
properly correlating romance for the faith of a new creation. This faith is not
against the romantic promises of God in the garden, but rather, its truest
fulfillment. If you fulfill the physical parable of romance in the spirit by
faith toward God, then you will by no means be defiled by troubling your
physical purity in the process, because monotheism is not fornication, but the
perfect essence of the marriage of virgins.
Virgin purity plus marriage is saved humanity plus God...
Therefore if you successfully push saved humanity toward God it cannot make you
ricochet backward into fornication, since that is not what it correlates with.
You will not by any means be defiled nor will you kill
your gender passions so as to be unsuitable for physical marriage (like
Catholic heresies often promote). Real spiritual marriage with God is real marriage,
and it directly correlates with the parable of truth (physical marriage) that
God built in the garden.
How can we accomplish this without being accidentally
confused and mixed up with our own natural, contemptible, fleshly lustful
passions?
By the addition of clean and unhypocritical, untainted,
unpolluted, unmodified faith, and by the perceptive subtraction of every dirty
energizing which is opposed to obedience.
2Co_10:4-6 – Pulling Down Strongholds that are Opposed
To The Knowledge Of God
2Co_10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war [στρατευόμεθα] according to the flesh.
2Co_10:3 ᾿Εν
σαρκὶ γὰρ
περιπατοῦντες
οὐ κατὰ
σάρκα
στρατευόμεθα·
2Co_10:4 For the weapons [ὅπλα] of our warfare [τῆς στρατείας ἡμῶν] are not carnal [σαρκικὰ], but mighty [δυνατὰ] by [the] God to the pulling down of strongholds, [πρὸς καθαίρεσιν ὀχυρωμάτων (from ἔχω) – See: Pro_10:29; Pro_21:22]
2Co_10:4 τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα
τῆς
στρατείας ἡμῶν
οὐ σαρκικὰ, ἀλλὰ
δυνατὰ τῷ
Θεῷ πρὸς
καθαίρεσιν ὀχυρωμάτων·
[…]
2Co_10:5 casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,
2Co_10:5
[λογισμοὺς
καθαιροῦντες]
καὶ πᾶν ὕψωμα
ἐπαιρόμενον
κατὰ τῆς
γνώσεως τοῦ
Θεοῦ, καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζοντες
πᾶν νόημα εἰς
τὴν ὑπακοὴν
τοῦ Χριστοῦ,
2Co_10:6 and being ready to avenge every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.
2Co_10:6 καὶ ἐν
ἑτοίμῳ ἔχοντες
ἐκδικῆσαι πᾶσαν
παρακοήν, ὅταν
πληρωθῇ ὑμῶν
ἡ ὑπακοή.
Sacrificing Marriage for Calling Means
Great Marriage
Think: Abraham offering up Isaac and then receiving him
back as a parable of Jesus!
You can faithfully sacrifice bliss-full marriage for
preaching, because if marriage does not make much of how God says you are
great, then that marriage is of little worth and is cheapening indeed!
If marriage does not prioritize marrying God, then there
is nothing tantalizing about that to me at all...
Give Over a Sacrifice Before Receiving Romantic Input
The real virtue of exclusivity is the crying
need for YOU to give over holiness toward God while exclusively putting on hold
and reserving all your fiery passions for romantic input from others.
Give over a sacrifice of yourself before looking
for the loving input and excitement from anyone else on earth at all.
See: The Guilt of Loving
Fairytales Over Integrity
Great Marriage is The
Reward of Exclusivity
One thing is important: that you set your heart on the
Words of God and do not settle to be entertained with things that have less
than Divine authorship and approval. You should want something serious of
perfect heavenly exaltation, and demand to know something from God before
risking a disruption of your pure, blessed faith. Every time you get tempted to
think about marriage fantasies, use it as motivation to seek God’s Words all
the more earnestly.
The Reward Does Not Interrupt
The Sacrifice – It Properly Fulfills It
If it does not
properly correlate in fulfilling it, it is the wrong reward!
Exclusivity before marriage must have its properly
arranged exaltation fitted with it to be consistent and uninterrupted with its original
righteousness
The Divine attitude of exclusivity is a provocative
sacrifice that has its proper correlation with the exalting words of God.
The divinity of your great sacrifice should match the
divinity of your great reward.
, so that marriage is not giving up and finally giving
into need, but rather than a marriage that abolishes exclusivity, it
establishes exclusivity as the very point and praise of it, and truest reward
and correlating exaltation for the righteousness you have done. Your pure faith
must have a Divine reward that matches its Divine sacrifice so that your
exclusivity serves God in the suffering before marriage, and obtains a perfect
reward after marriage in the image of God as you look at your spouse.
Divine Intimacy that Last Forever
Potential bliss of being intimate with greatness
and joyous eternal celebrations.
Get the bliss
of getting married, and it is like worshiping God at the same time!
The Blessedness of
Marriage to God!
Although we are initially seeking celibacy, please allow
me a little expression to praise the lot of the righteous whenever they get
married in the highest greatness.
You want to look at your spouse and say, "I waited
in perfect purity, and behold, I won God as my reward in the face of this, my
beloved!"
Although he knows Himself to be playing the Part of
Anointed One, the spiritual man hungering after Wisdom will say, "Look! I
married the Divine Wisdom, who is Jesus in a spiritually disguised feminine
form!" and the woman, knowing herself to be scooped up as the Assembly,
will say more directly, "Look! I married Jesus, manly beard and
all!"
Let’s say that again!
The man will say, "Look! I married the Divine
Wisdom, who is Jesus in feminine form!" and the woman will say more
directly, "Look! I married Jesus, manly beard and all!"
Let me say
that again in more detail…
So shalt thine adventurous, profound marriage to God be
greatly blessed, in this life, and yet again into the life that is to come!
Apply this to
your life
·
This is the highest form of marriage exaltation a couple
can experience in this life… And you
should lust toward this goal for the rest of your life if you expect to get
married.
·
Great Marriage is why You
should be motivated by the exclusivity of Celibacy now!
How Can a
Woman Be 'Divine' in Marriage if She Represents The
Assembly?
If you marry naturally, then your marriage is a natural
picture of a supernatural reality.
If you marry supernaturally, it is not only a physical
picture, but also a spiritual profound reality at the same time.
Physical parable + spiritual reality = great marriage
In one sense, it says, 'In Anointed one there is neither
male nor female,' so spiritual realities have boundless implications... But in
other senses, it is lawful to conceive of divine femininity.
First, because the Bible does this repeatedly, especially
in Proverbs, Wisdom, and Hebrews.
Sir_4:10 To the fatherless be as a father,
and help their mother as a husband would;
thus will you be like a son to the Most High,
and
he will be more tender to you than a mother.5 [5 [Sir4:10] Heb(A) “would;
and he will be kindly to you, and will deliver you from the pit”]
Mat_23:37 / Luk_13:34 – Jesus as a
mother hen
Gal_4:19 – Paul in birth pains
And Paul’s other endearing and gentle words of oversight
Mat_23:37 iGNTGr …ποσάκις How Often G4212 ADV ἠθέλησα Would I G2309 V-AAI-1S ἐπισυναγαγεῖν
Have Gathered Together G1996 V-2AAN
τὰ G3588 T-APN
τέκνα G5043 N-APN
σου G4675 P-2GS ὃν
Thy Children, G3739 R-ASM
τρόπον In The Way G5158 N-ASM ἐπισυνάγει
Gathers Together G1996 V-PAI-3S ὄρνις
A Hen G3733 N-NSM
τὰ G3588 T-APN
νοσσία G3556 N-APN ἑαυτῆς
Her Brood G1438 F-3GSF ὑπὸ Under Her G5259 PREP
τὰς G3588 T-APF
πτέρυγας Wings, G4420 N-APF καὶ And G2532 CONJ οὐκ G3756 PRT-N ἠθελήσατε
Ye Would Not! G2309 V-AAI-2P
God’s Motherly “Wings”
Deu_32:11-12, Rth_1:16; Rth_2:12; Rth_3:9; Psa_17:8, Psa_36:7, Psa_57:1, Psa_63:7, Psa_91:4
The Point: the feminine aspects of God can very much be applied to God's people, both men (Rth_3:9) and women (Rth_1:16).
Hos_11:3-4 – a mother
Hos_13:8 – a mother bear
Deu_32:11-12 – mother eagle
Deu_32:18 – God who gives birth
Isa_66:13 – God as a comforting mother
Isa_49:15 – God compared to a nursing mother
Isa_42:14 – God as a woman in labor
Psa_131:2 – God as a Mother
Psa_123:2-3 – a mistress / Matriarch
Luk_15:8-10 – God as woman looking for her lost coin
even more to compile...
http://clubs.calvin.edu/chimes/970418/o1041897.htm
Furthermore, not only has God been occasionally expressed
in feminine form, but this feminine picture is fulfilled in His Assembly, even
now by faith, and ultimately when she is upgraded as a fully Divine form to
marry God.
This affects the way great people consider marriage.
If you marry, you should really want to marry the favor
of God, which is God. If a man marries a woman with favor, then He is marrying
God, and would not even consider her if that amazingness was not the essential
element provoking the ordeal.
She is a picture of Assembly, but even the idea that the
woman has some mysterious Divinity going on is seen in our upgraded bodies at
resurrection:
1Jn_3:2 CAB Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.
1Jn_3:2 ᾿Αγαπητοί,
νῦν τέκνα
Θεοῦ ἐσμεν,
καὶ οὔπω ἐφανερώθη
τί ἐσόμεθα.
οἴδαμεν δὲ ὅτι
ἐὰν φανερωθῇ,
ὅμοιοι αὐτῷ
ἐσόμεθα, ὅτι
ὀψόμεθα αὐτὸν
καθώς ἐστι.
We don't have a name for it, but it is some sort of
joined-with-God-divinity...
Does her upgrade blur any spiritual pictures? No, rather,
it provokes the most profound parables.
The Divine Intimacy of
Rationality, Perception, and Awareness
A cheap person treats other humans as base animals, but a
noble person cares about the higher needs of their nature.
There is this deep-set, higher emotional need inside of
man that cries for a rational self-aware creature of intelligent thought to
excite all intimacy. -- making her another conscious soul "comparable to
him" (as Genesis says), which is more than an individual's own fantasy,
and is more than what even animals can do.
...since, for example, the emotional intimacy of a
chimpanzee just does not cut it...
God Likes Eyes
Deu_34:7 – Moses’ eyes and vigor
Pro_20:12
Eze_1:18
Eze_10:12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophanim
(Isa_6:2)
Rev_4:6-8
Wiki: “The Hebrew word for "wheel" (ôpannîm) was
also used in later Jewish literature to indicate a member of the angelic orders
(1 Enoch 71.7; 3 Enoch 1.8; 7.1; 25.5-6, etc.)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_creatures_%28Bible%29
4/25/15
We also see that He hates evil eyes…
Mat_5:29
Pro_21:4
Zec_11:17
There are, of course, countless references to the need to
have your eyes open…
Notice that God likes "eyes" everywhere – this is
because eyes make knowledge and perception...
“A picture is worth 1,000 words” – we now finally have a
righteous application for this boast
Compare the resolution of cameras with one picture… now
how about a video – that’s much bigger
The human eye takes in and processes Terabits, or perhaps
even Petabytes of information sometimes in a span of seconds
The vivid perception of eyes is a wild onrush on
knowledge and perception
When the potency of this vivid perception is combined
with the conscientiousness of a thinking creature who is aware of logos, this
provokes exciting and overwhelming intimacy...
The intimate knowledge of a logos creature is
overwhelmingly love-jolting, value zapping, fullness.
The more logos-oriented you are, the more overwhelming
the exciting intimacy.
See, I told you monotheism has the competitive edge and
monopoly on exciting romance and marriage! :+)
Animal Vs. Human Eyes
There is not a lot to look at in an animal’s soul, so
that's why they do not 'look deeply into each other's eyes'.
Eyes Pertain to Human
Intimacy Because there is Something Rational In There
Son_4:9 – One eye ravishment…
Pro_21:4 / Mat_6:22 / Luk_11:33-36 – The eye is the lamp of the body…
The Image Of
Rationality
So also, we are already exciting being made in God's
image (with woman participating through man) so that we are made rational,
verbal, and thoughtful, and very aware creatures, and our thoughtful intimacy
is attractive to God if we are kept holy...
Just as all human relationship are superior to animals
and add more comfort and worth to your life with their will and awareness
Yet on top of this limited physical form, we also hope to
be upgraded to infinite intelligence and rationality that provokes irresistible
intimacy from Jesus at our resurrection, and this is knowledge and rationality
and awareness to the divine degree, because it says,
'we will see Him even as He is' (1Jn) and again, 'we will
know Him even as we are known'. -- that is Divinity!
1Jn_3:2 CAB Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.
1Jn_3:2 ᾿Αγαπητοί,
νῦν τέκνα
Θεοῦ ἐσμεν,
καὶ οὔπω ἐφανερώθη
τί ἐσόμεθα.
οἴδαμεν δὲ ὅτι
ἐὰν φανερωθῇ,
ὅμοιοι αὐτῷ
ἐσόμεθα, ὅτι
ὀψόμεθα αὐτὸν
καθώς ἐστι.
1Co_13:12
So also, a cheap woman is for perverts who hate intimacy
and love to act like worthless animals, but a mindful and perceptive woman raises
the concept to lofty terms.
And though we wait for a new body that can handle all
knowledge and perception, yet even in the meantime it says,
1Co_2:1 – "man can't know...but God has revealed them to us
by His spirit"
So then we participate in the upgrade, by faith, in the
spirit ahead of time as a down payment of ultimate glories to come.
A mostly natural woman may indeed be thoughtful and
provocative enough with a few virtues, but a spiritual woman who knows truth by
God's spirit, she is an upgraded woman that shares in the promise of upgraded
Divinity, even ahead of time by faith! And the provocative intimacy of that
rationality is out of this world, and marrying her in favor is in so many ways,
marrying God!
Just as manly Jesus marries a divinely feminine bride, so
also with the parable, in that marrying the favor of God is marrying God in the
greatest and most overwhelming degree.
A man marries a woman because she has logos that makes
her intimacy valuable and correlate with him.
Jesus gets the Divine Assembly, not only with the eyes of
one person but all the miraculous supernatural revelation and logos of all
righteous people combined into one unity of being and unthinkably great
intimacy!
No False Starts! No Partial Initiations! – Premarital Polygamy is Intolerable
Presented 4/27/15
Parable Matchup | The Mightiness of Celibacy | “No False Starts!”
Exclusivity--03--No-False-Starts--4.26.15.mp3
The Unbearable Horror of Premarital Polygamy
It is a tragic and unbearable bitterness that
you or anyone else might “fall in love” or “have a crush” on more than one
person in your lifetimes. It is a horror of dishonor; it is a breach of loyalty
and faithfulness and exclusivity…
The very principle of “no
fornication” absolutely demands that there are no false starts at all!
Because you CAN choose who you fall in lust
with, and you can choose what whims you own as your own, or reject as foreign
trash…
Guiding principle: If you don’t own it then you
cannot leave room for lust to cultivate.
Just like you wouldn’t want your spouse to fall
in love with someone at the office; you should not tolerate yourself falling
in love with someone now. Because if you do get married it is evil to act like that is not adultery if done before you got married.
>> revise ?? /\/\
Therefore, let us no longer own or be defined by
such evil bitter treacheries* anymore.
*
deceits, treasons, betrayals, disloyalties, duplicities, seditions
Consider the Pre-Exclusivity of the
Patriarchs, and Beyond
>Scrip…
Isaac
Dodging the local pagan harlots, Isaac held out long years waiting
for his Rebecca.
Esau
Esau partook of worthless and evil women and grieved his father
and mother…
Jacob
Jacob waited for Monotheism like his father did, and even went to
the same country as his beloved mother had come from to repeat the favorable
scene of his parents.
Joseph
After great risks and painful trials in running away from the
defilement of polyandry, somehow Joseph was providentially given a sweet
Egyptian girl who connected with his favor by God’s exaltation in the midst of
an evil and pagan culture.
Shechem
Shechem was not exclusive, but touched what did not belong to him
– ‘which thing ought not to be done…’
Moses
Moses waited many years until he got out of Egypt and found favor
from a good father, and then from the hospitality and exaltation from this
priest of Monotheism he married a daughter given from purity and truth.
Nehemiah
When the remnant was endanger of being messed up with the sins of
Solomon, Nehemiah fought fiercely for an exclusivity to valuable marriages.
Joseph
with Mary
When exclusivity was in question it was righteous for Joseph to seek
to halt all plans!
This is very important for navigating truth and the will of God.
It has not always been required for men to be exclusive to you in
one marriage to be great and coheirs according to faith
This also speaks about the nature of women. – If a man fornicated
before marriage, she had no place to divorce him, but if she had not stayed
pure, it is almost always assumed that she will never be true and clean in
Jewish maintenance. (Blazing Exceptions: the surpassing faith of Rahab, etc.)
V: Sir you can
correct this if I am wrong with my thinking. A man is a pencil/pen and a woman
is the slate. It is easier for you to re-sharpen a pencil so it can continue write
(define) the slate. However, it is not easy to thoroughly erase what was
already written on the slate. It is easier to sharpen a pencil than to erase
all trace of graphite/ink.
Phillip
While appearing here and there by a repeated Divine swooping transportation,
Phillip waited till God “placed him right in front of a wife” before trying
other ideas along the way.
Also consider the blessedness of Aquila and Pricilla…
Summary
While fornicators like Esau destroyed themselves with worthless
marriages, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and many others painfully denied themselves to
get great marriage. Joseph shunned adultery and won the exaltation of God, and
others did faith and saw miracles in obtaining a blessed marriage to multiply
truth on the earth!
Tamar Waiting For A Suitor To Marry
·
What was this scene like
culturally/morally?
·
How would have Tamar felt if she
had, indeed, set her heart on one of the men, entertained romance thoughts of
living in their house, and then seen that she was not given to them?
·
She was put in a situation where
she was very much tempted to imagine the relief of their gender in her life. If
she had messed up in that area, it would have hurt her morally and would have
been a non-exclusive fantasy
·
It seems like it’s supposed to be;
it really should be; but then it’s not…And that’s a test of your integrity
·
If your craving is circumstances
then you are vulnerable to not being exclusive.
·
If you set your heart on the word
of God then you have a bullet-proof faith
·
You need a bullet-proof faith that
will remain uninterrupted when temptations, distractions, and counterfeits are
placed in front of you.
·
You can remain exclusive even in
the most impossible looking scenarios
We’re gonna do something that no one else is doing so that we can
obtain a reward that no one else is getting.
We want to please God to the max out this world with our
exclusivity and unthinkable purity.
Even if you Are Interrupted By Courageous Death, False Starts are Tragic Evils
Deu_20:5-7 CAB And the scribes shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man dedicate it. 6 And what man is there that has planted a vineyard, and not been made merry with it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man be made merry with it. 7 And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
Deu_24:5 WEB When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Deu_24:5 CAB And if anyone should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall anything be laid upon him; he shall be free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Deu_24:5 Gr Ἐὰν
δέ τις λάβῃ
γυναῖκα προσφάτως,
οὐκ ἐξελεύσεται
εἰς τὸν πόλεμον,
καὶ οὐκ ἐπιβληθήσεται
αὐτῷ οὐδὲν πρᾶγμα·
ἀθῷος ἔσται ἐν
τῇ οἰκίᾳ αὐτοῦ
ἐνιαυτὸν ἕνα, εὐφρανεῖ
τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ,
ἣν ἔλαβεν.
Whether it is vineyards, houses, or especially women, we can see the seriousness of apprehending the blessings that God has favorably bestowed… God put a premium this…
Favorable blessings call for non-interruption (Deu_24:5), all other lusts are evil and should never be started in the first place.
It should either show itself of being worthy of non-interruption, or it should not be started in the first place
h: Exciting overseer, are you saying that if a man and woman get married the man should not go to work for a year, that for a whole year there is absolutely no physical separation?
If “holy war” should not interrupt lawful betrothal, much less should your temporary and cheap attractions defile or frustrate a future marriage.
If you have a false start that is not worthy to be protected like this, then it is worthy to be terminated immediately.
Now,
if the risk of death for the sake of saving the country of God’s people and
eternal heritage is not a good enough reason to risk interrupting a lawful
romantic thing you started, then how could anything less, such as your cheap
and temporary attractions, even be worthy of consideration if it might risk an
interruption?
And if interrupting romance by death is bad
enough, how much worse is it when a first man is still alive!?
· Deu_24:1-5 – defilement
· False starts are evil and they ultimately results in defilement
· If you have false starts before marriage, you might have defilements after marriage
· Phaltial wanted Michal, but she belonged to another
It is worse than a tragedy – it is permanent,
life-long defilement!
Only truth can give you a hope for the life to
escape such evils…
Truth and Faithfulness Happens When You Only Proactively Love The One You Are Going To Marry
V: my faithful lord overseer, did Jacob set his heart on Rachel wrongly? What if Laban ended up giving Rachel to another man after Jacob married Leah?
Gen_29:18-21 CAB And Jacob loved [ἠγάπησεν] Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel. 19 And Laban said to him, It is better that I should give her to you, than that I should give her to another man; dwell with me. 20 And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they seemed only a few days, because of the love that he had for her [παρὰ τὸ ἀγαπᾶν αὐτὸν αὐτήν]. 21 And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.
Gen_29:18-21 Greek ἠγάπησεν
δὲ Ιακωβ τὴν
Ραχηλ καὶ εἶπεν
Δουλεύσω σοι ἑπτὰ
ἔτη περὶ Ραχηλ
τῆς θυγατρός
σου τῆς νεωτέρας. 19
εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ
Λαβαν Βέλτιον
δοῦναί με αὐτὴν
σοὶ ἢ δοῦναί με
αὐτὴν ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ·
οἴκησον μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ. 20
καὶ ἐδούλευσεν
Ιακωβ περὶ
Ραχηλ ἔτη ἑπτά,
καὶ ἦσαν ἐναντίον
αὐτοῦ ὡς ἡμέραι
ὀλίγαι παρὰ τὸ ἀγαπᾶν
αὐτὸν αὐτήν. -- 21
εἶπεν δὲ
Ιακωβ πρὸς
Λαβαν Ἀπόδος τὴν
γυναῖκά μου,
πεπλήρωνται γὰρ
αἱ ἡμέραι μου, ὅπως
εἰσέλθω πρὸς αὐτήν.
Then after some drama…
Gen_29:28 CAB …Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as wife also.
“Picking
up the Pieces” also Happens When
· A man raped a woman
· A man lusts after a (shamed?) captive woman
Deu_21:11 CAB and should see among the spoil a woman beautiful in countenance, and should desire her, and take her to yourself for a wife,
Deu_21:11 Greek καὶ ἴδῃς
ἐν τῇ προνομῇ
γυναῖκα καλὴν
τῷ εἴδει καὶ ἐνθυμηθῇς
αὐτῆς καὶ λάβῃς
αὐτὴν σαυτῷ
γυναῖκα,
That’s how important finishing romantic things is: you finish what you start, even if you have to marry someone you raped/who raped you, or marrying a captive woman you lusted after.
How Ruth is Different
Ruth took a huge and enormous social risk, (she was not given to Boaz yet) but her courageous actions were based on the Word of God, (1) socially, for the Divine requirement of the kinsmen redeemer, and, (2) spiritually, for identifying and preferring the Divine destiny of the righteousness of Boaz – because her virtue was true and golden, God blessed her with the perception to fight her way into the blessed lineage of David and Jesus!
If it is anything less than the indication of God, then it is time to fight for celibacy, lest the labor of your preciously defended gender be spent on empty promises and the vain maintenance of a natural heritage…
How Can a Woman
Be 'Divine' in Marriage if She Represents The Assembly?
Arranged Marriage and/or Getting a Prophecy – Is There a Difference?
Arranged Marriages
Help When You Are Prophetic and They Can Help Even More When You Do Not Know
What Your Parable Calls For
Exclusivity--04--Arranged-Marriage--5.3.15.mp3
Exclusivity--04--Excerpt--Al-Pertains-to-Great-Marriage--5.3.15.mp3
“Arranged Marriage”
Has it’s Spiritual Implications
Arranged
marriage applies to all who obey exclusivity, whether they get married or
remain celibate
Although talking about “arranged marriage” could imply
that you are going to get married, we should still be applying this in general
to the trust of those who remain exclusive and pure until God says otherwise.
You are the least qualified person on the face of the
earth to decide who you get married to, unless you are prophetic.
If you are qualified to be prophetic enough to choose who
you get married to you have suffered for the sake of the word of God beyond the
capacity of just about everyone else on the face of the earth
Marriage to Jesus
The marriage to Jesus is an exclusive marriage arranged
and decided completely by the Father for all those who hope to get married
spiritually. – do you remember when Jesus prayed in the garden “not my will but
your will be done” God the father decided for Jesus how he would get married.
Also consider that we are getting married to Jesus whom
we have not even seen. All our hope is based on a romantic Father who demands
that we believe Him, and He will not let you change your mind or pick out your
own spouse!
Having Not
Seen Him, You Love
1Pe_1:7 so that the genuineness of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, though being tested with fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1Pe_1:7 ἵνα τὸ
δοκίμιον ὑμῶν
τῆς πίστεως
πολυτιμότερον
χρυσίου τοῦ
ἀπολλυμένου
διὰ πυρὸς
δὲ
δοκιμαζομένου
εὑρεθῇ εἰς
ἔπαινον καὶ
τιμὴν καὶ
δόξαν ἐν ἀποκαλύψει
᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ,
1Pe_1:8 Whom not having seen, you love, in whom now not seeing, but believing, you rejoice with inexpressible joy and glorified,
1Pe_1:8 ὃν οὐκ ἰδότες
ἀγαπᾶτε, εἰς
ὃν ἄρτι μὴ ὁρῶντες,
πιστεύοντες
δὲ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε
χαρᾷ ἀνεκλαλήτῳ
καὶ
δεδοξασμένῃ,
Compare: the Salvation Marriage of Tobias
Consider all those in the Bible who gladly submitted to
arranged marriages…
·
Adam and Eve – the first marriage was arranged!
·
Isaac and Rebecca
·
Jacob, Rachel, Leah
·
Even Abigail
·
Tobias and Sarah
·
Joseph and Mary
·
Etc.
Do You Need The Gift
of Prophecy To Get Married?
Prioritizing a person’s calling means you need to know
what God is saying. But how do you do
that if you do not yet have the gift of prophecy? Can only those who have prophecy get married?
You need to marry based on what God is saying about the
significance of someone else’s parable, but How do you do that without
prophecy? – It’s time to re-introduce arranged marriages among the righteous
for the glory of the Anointed One!
Despite how vital and absolutely critical to the safety
of your soul it is to do marriage the right way, it is completely within God’s
prerogative to not give you prophecy before you get married. But no matter what
you have, you should still be eagerly seeking what God is expressing in whatever
means He is willing to communicate with you, and you should use this as a basis
before getting married.
Even though prophecy is the greatest way that God speaks
to men on earth, there is a discipline and a virtue required of all men and
women to be faithful with whatever God has given you to communicate his
sentiments.
If you’ll be faithful with little you’ll be
faithful with much. You don’t get to say, “hey let me be faithful with much”.
Be Faithful With What
You’ve Got
You can definitively be exclusive before ever hearing
prophecy, especially when you wait and faithfully obey what you already have
available.
Arranged Marriages are
A Good Way to Hear What God is Saying
There are many
deep and morally excellent reasons why arranged marriages are good when
available.
It is more of a thrill of excitement to have your whole
life decided for you by faith than to go out and be evil.
It is more romantic to get a surprise from God that works,
than to do a foolish thing yourself that hurts.
Arranged marriages are a good example of how to
automatically submit to God's voice even if you do not have prophecy. God's
will is often expressed in ordained authorities and general submission to as
much accountability as possible -- especially when they operate within their
jurisdiction.
Note: when others are holding you accountable, you should
anticipate that their purity requirements for you are virtually Divine,
especially compared to your own drunken standards for purity when going in that
direction.
Your overseer would feel privileged to arrange as many
marriages as possible, if permitted.
Ignatius Says An Overseer Determines the Nature of A
Proposed Marriage
“If any one can continue in a state of purity, to the
honour of Him who is Lord of the flesh, let him so remain without boasting. If
he begins to boast, he is undone; and if he reckon himself greater than the
bishop, he is ruined. But it becomes
both men and women who marry, to form their union with the approval of the
bishop, that their marriage may be according to God, and not after their own
lust. Let all things be done to the honour of God.
Give heed to
the bishop, that God also may give heed to you. My soul be for theirs that are submissive to the
bishop, to the presbyters, and to the deacons, and may my portion be along with
them in God! Labour together with one another; strive in company together; run
together; suffer together; sleep together; and awake together, as the stewards,
and associates, and servants of God.”
Ignatius,
who is also called Theophorus, to Polycarp, Bishop of the Church of the
Smyrnæans
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0110.htm
5/3/15
Surprise Marriage Callings
2. » Does The Lord ever do a surprise [with marriage /
parable match up], like building David a house where you end up marrying in a
situation that was better than you were expecting.
1. » How do you know difference between surprises and compromise?
Submit to authority, your Daddy will let you know. If you don’t have an Overseer then sweat bullets, beg God with tears for integrity, conformation or something. Ultimately you need discernment.
Surprise marriages can happen, even when you did not know how you
were going to be made great.
The
Nature of Marriage Itself is a Surprise
Marriage itself is a big surprise, because you don’t actually know
who you’re marrying, and what they are like at home, or sometimes even what
they look like! Surprise, surprise, God is wise!
God likes for people to make huge life-long
commitments to someone, and then get surprised by learning all of their
elaborate mysteries, and then stick with the faith of your covenant to them for
life!
No test driving allowed! Your morality alone should tell you what
is right and appropriate to do, and you should even be willing to suffer for
committing to marriage if it is the will of God for the providence of your
life.
Adam and Eve
The first marriage was a surprise, totally orchestrated
and run by God. God intentionally made Adam wait while seeing many other
couples joined and have lots of fun, all without himself finding someone
compatible, then with an exciting climax and Divine miracle God made it clear
to bring a miraculous new person to Adam. Passionate waiting, supernatural
preparation and provision, and full confirmation of God's blissful composed
dramatic climactic surprise!
Jacob, Rachel, and Leah
At first Jacob exclaimed that they were related, but then
her father and Jacob made it open to a marriage thing.
And then again, Leah was one of the biggest marriage
surprises in the Bible!
Big Note: the hazards of being willfully vulnerable in trusting
God with arranged surprises always turns out for your greatest possible
exaltation.
Ruth & Boaz
Ruth was a shocking and potent surprise to Boaz, who had
simply sought to be kind to her in all modest purity.
David and Abigail -- BIG Surprise Indeed!
(David and
Michal vs. Her sister was also a surprise...)
Obtaining greatness in the context of a surprise marriage
usually means submitting to the orchestration of an overseer and/or
accountability person who administers your adventure. In every case it means
the revealed will of God was intentionally held back at first to increase the
drama and excitement of the climax of revealing marriage to you.
Women Are Naturally
Made Flexible
3/25/15
Most people do not know what their parable is, and much
less do they know what significances they should be matched up with. And this
is one aspect why it can be good and exciting to do arranged marriages.
Additionally, women are especially made more flexible because others are
usually deciding their life for them.
Sir_36:21 A woman will receive every man, yet is one daughter better than another.
Sir_36:21 πάντα ἄρρενα
ἐπιδέξεται
γυνή, ἔστιν δὲ
θυγάτηρ
θυγατρὸς κρείσσων.
1/25/15
Despite our rich and folly-lusting culture, you should seek to
obtain real knowledge while being sure to shun opinionated pickiness and
independent preferences which all grow out of folly. By default, women
creatures should naturally be happy to be given to just about any man their
father chooses. – such is the lot of women!
Thankfully, the biggest exception to this is spiritual women who
get extra help from God to know what’s up spiritually!
Spiritual Exceptions
to “Flexible” Women
Think: how should this “flexibility” be different for
spiritual disciples?
DAP Question (Paraphrased): If A Woman Does Not Just Wait for a Surprise, Then Maybe She Needs to Recognize a Man’s Parable?
“…perhaps you should understand the differences between Moses, Abraham, Elijah, etc. Does parable matching also include preferences?”
Also: Personal vs. Prophetic Preferences – How to know the
difference? Your Daddy will let you know and hopefully get discernment. And if
you don’t have discernment yet, then go to spiritual female Overseer.
Despite the default of feminine flexibility, esp. in the
New Covenant, there is more involvement of a woman's will, and maybe she will
obtain to special knowledge if she is called to know that.
“V: our Daddy is
different, why can't we be different like our Daddy?”
“h: How is
it that things are spoken in the spiritual realm about what things would be
like if we were to get married if we dont know for sure if we will get married?
I don't think I understand this”
Your
calling should precede your marriage! You don’t have to know your calling
necessarily, but you should want to know.
Your
marriage does not even begin to be great unless it is within your calling.
“h: With examples like bathseba
who went from one righteous man to another, how does exclusivity take place as
far as not taking memories of one man into another marriage when he was
righteous?”
h: Judith had children?
Ay: Adding to the follow up to H's question: Contrast the widow Judith
The Foreshadows of the Kinsmen
Redeemer
OT Example: Kinsmen Redeemer
Deep Question
about spiritual woman: Does the Old
Testament Kinsmen Redeemer foreshadow
anything of the exaltation of some New Testament women who are prophetic enough
to know the will of God? – Aggressive women are usually very evil, but a
prophetically commissioned woman might just be very exciting… – I don’t
completely know how or why, but I seem to be looking forward to seeing this
happening at least once, despite all the default virtues women are required to
have…
I
foresaw and forespoke of this happening in a bad inverted way to my former
brother, and afterward when he called me about it, I said, “Oh, Lord, isn’t
this what I said when I was in my own country…” – Despite this sad example, I
had already started becoming aware that somehow there was a good New Covenant
version of this…
Think:
“tent pegs” and “swords” make exciting exceptions for women pressed by the will
of God to do extra-ordinary things… (If any female disciple is unsure about
this, they can feel free to ask me…)
Levels of
Feminine Flexibility and Knowledgeableness
Level 0: A Selfish woman – whether loose and cheap, or picky and
elitist
Level 1: Flexible & Trusting no matter what her father says
– (You can even be as great as Abigail and find yourself here!)
Level 2: Understanding
who you are – Marriage is limited by what she knows about her own
calling
Level 3:
Understanding who he is – So spiritual she recognizes his calling and
has to marry him (& even maxes out obsessing over his parable defining her
calling)
If you can get to level 3 before you’re married, is advantageous and is worth going after.
Level 3- That is a spiritual and early apprehending female
Ay: how do you "obsesses over his calling defining you", if you said that even within a Tamar setup you should not set your heart on being comforted by a man's masculinity in your life.
Ay: I was left with the impression that unless you are in betrothal (marriage is being established), part of exclusivity is the need to ensure that if you don't have permission, you are to regard other people in a way such that if they were to get married to someone else, you would still be happy.
“V: wow that sounds like some real self-control
to know that and still be "straight face" around him. That's probably
why level 3 is the minority.”
Variants of Feminine Knowledgeableness
·
So spiritual she has the favor of celibacy
·
So spiritual she pulls a “Ruth” at Boaz’ feet!
“h: Is there something about Ruth that although
she was around Boaz for a while it wasn't until prophecy happened that she was
able to fully go that way and then marriage happened quickly. Should we expect
it to be like this too, is not a prolonged needing to just be around them
knowing”
h: Oh my ques is more along the lines of the "straight face" of being around them like all the time. That probably wouldn't happen without marriage happening quickly?
Al: “As far as exercised discernment: Is cheapening a litmus test that can reveal the difference between wondering before the Lord about parable things VS. getting into fantasy? (i.e. if the result of your “wondering” in essence cheapens sexuality (either yours or others) then is that one way you know you’re dealing with fantasy)”
Note 1: “h: Has my mommy come a very long way in these things is this why she correlates with a great marriage already?”
Note
2: These are NOT necessarily levels of Spiritual-ness, but it is
levels of blessed knowledge you should strive for… You can be great and get
married before your knowledge increases!
Note
3: To emphasize this virtue of flexibility and trust in
unfathomably potent and passionately spicy ways, it might be neat to get
someone betrothed and or married blindfolded one day. – am I saying something
cultish and unbiblical, or didn’t righteous Rebecca jump into a great marriage
with no natural idea what Isaac was like? It could be neat to see someone do
this willingly by faith… after all, it is RIGHTEOUS for the Father to arrange
our marriage to Jesus, without us ever having seen Him! (by the way: Some say
that “lifting the veil” at marriage came from Jacob’s surprise ordeal).
“Ay: In my past
life, I was not a typical female daydreamer about marriage and romance but in
the glory of exclusivity, I think the most romantic thing is for a groom on the
wedding day to perplex the world that he doesn't know what she looks like
physically. And if he's asked, "Aren't you nervous?" He can
resolutely be able to say, "I've known her before I met her, and she's
beautiful."”
The Point:
·
Despite the feminine defaults unto much flexibility, if
you can be aware of what you are called to, it is much better to apprehend that
for good ahead of time as early as you can.
·
To whatever degree you have knowledge, to that same
degree do not compromise valuable “attractiveness-es”!
·
Make your flesh flexible within the realm of what is
good.
·
To whatever degree you are faithful to make your flesh
flexible and your spirit knowledgeable, you increase your virtue and the
quality of your reward.
Not Having Special Knowledge Yourself Means
Needing Help Knowing What God Wants
If more than one person could theoretically do in your
mind, then you might just need arranged marriage through a perceptive overseer
in order to carry out the will of God, because you have not yet seen the
specialized essence of yourself or the one you would have to marry to fulfill
greatness. – No matter how it happens, it is best if you hear the most you can
about what God is saying before getting married.
Greater Marriage Means
More Particulars, But Not Necessarily Less Arrangement
The greater the marriage, the greater the need for
particularity, and the more likely Divine expression will be more pointed and
specific. (Notice I didn’t say, “whether or not you heard it”.) But even
marriages like this may still use the faithful and accurate arrangement of a
helper. There aint nothing wrong with being great like Isaac, getting Divine
help from an angel, and getting the infinitely great arranged marriage of a
lifetime with confirmations and rejoicing!
The Point: Exclusivity is not just about suffering alone before
getting married, but it is also about hearing something of what God is
communicating in preparation in case you do get married. Whether through
prophecy and or through ordained leadership and doing arranged marriages, you
should do what God says instead of marrying on human ideals.
Normal-Looking Marriage, While Maintaining as Much Greatness as Possible
>> Tags: Regular-Looking Normal Marriage
While
“exciting” might just be a guarantee of greatness, “Normal-looking” does not
mean “not great”. Normal-looking, submissive marriage can definitely still be
great before God. We do not get to prioritize the ideals you have conceived in
your own heart, or determine what signs God is willing to give in order to
express His greatness over your life. The only “signs” you should insist on are
those true things you have received in prayer and prophecy. Those are the only
things you should set your heart on. You should not assume how God is going to
make you great.
For some cases,
exclusivity may just mean that you are available for marriage, you need
marriage, and provision is just placed in your lap. Parental agreement is in
place with the woman (esp. if she has an active father), and hopefully there is
blessing from every side. The overseer sees that this is good, submission to
purity accountability is working, and your good to go! You really can determine
the will of God in that way in such cases. – In some sense, if I could just see
any example of someone consistently staying pure while getting married I could
almost count on something supernatural being involved in this.
In all cases,
you really can marry whoever you choose, as long as they are not already bound,
and they belong to the same God.
In more painful
cases, lots of endurance and waiting is needed to know the will of God.
Hopefully that particular pain is one of your ways to greatness.
The Point: The will of God can sometimes be determined in
“Normal-looking” ways. Arranged marriage is a good way to elevate both physical
and spiritual marriages closer toward the will of God. In ideal cases, arranged
marriage is usually the guaranteed way to know what God wants. In sizzling
cases, you be maxing out on level 3!!!
Parable Matchup vs. Generic Qualities Lust
Lusting
After Generic, Ideal Qualities or Specialized Spiritual Confirmations of
Calling
Parable Matchup | The Mightiness of Celibacy | “No False Starts!” | Accept their
Restoration By Faith
Exclusivity--05--
Parable-Matchup--5.10.15.mp3
Intro 1: Reminders: We
Are After Celibacy, Perception, & Greatness
·
“Purpose Goal: Solidifying
Celibacy While Not Seeking Marriage”
“give
a critical roadmap for how to accomplish exclusivity...”, and,
“How to Embrace Crucifixion”
· The main reason we are talking about possible great marriages in the future is so we will be motivated to be absolutely celibate now. – Great Marriage is why You should be motivated by the exclusivity of Celibacy now!
· Remember we talked about “No False Starts!” & “The Unbearable Horror of Premarital Polygamy”
·
Arranged Marriages are an exciting way to ravish people into
great marriages assigned by God, and they are almost absolutely necessary
(whenever available) to give you no excuse to lust in the meantime or defile
yourself in uninspired pursuits of lust.
(by the way: seduction and fornication-like rape go hand in hand, just
as great marriage and continual ravishment go hand in hand)
· We also said that rare Spiritual women can sometimes take hold of increased knowledge early so as to know their parable before they get married, and this is seriously advantageous, and real exciting too
· The variant of a prophetically commissioned woman could be downright exciting
· Arranged marriage is righteousness; knowing your parable is downright exciting and sizzling. In any case, you need someone to know what God thinks before getting married if you’re gonna get a great marriage
· Are you ready to get ambitious to seek and know as much of your parable as you can ahead of time, as early as possible?
· Ultimately this means hearing and/or perceiving something from God -- but how can you be “taught” to do that? While in most aspects we do not seek to directly “teach” you to hear God, yet we are ambitious to lead by example and provoke you unto prayer with good ammunition to use in approaching God with requests, and hopefully we’ll do even better than Eli did with Samuel in this New Covenant
· One of the first things you can do to seek out the significance and meaning of your parable is to chop off what is bad and holy-ify your sentiments so that they will be available for requesting truth
· So here we go: We are pitting “Parable Matchup vs. Generic Qualities Lust” to see who wins in the battle for truth and greatness!
Intro 2: Generic
Marital Ambitions Do Not Matchup Parables
5/8/15
More Mid-Point, General Reminders for all of us
·
No Desperate Cave
Daughters Syndrome -- desperate decisions do not pertain to life-long
bliss, so it's not what you want if you are going after great marriage
·
We are absolute in our stance: we want to make marriage
decisions based on parables and callings, not “Cave Desperations”
·
“Cave Desperations” may indeed be temporarily satisfying,
but they are not great and sizzling with Divine excitement
·
We cannot say, "I guess you'll do" (i.e.
"so I can get done what I need to achieve", etc.)
·
We cannot make decisions with reckless/unsaved standards
·
Even if you say, "I just need to find someone to
help me fulfill my calling" -- even this can be a dangerous motivation
·
Seeking "someone" starts with you, and it
treats their significance as, well, "someone"...
·
Seeking "someone": Assumes that they should be
defined by your calling. -- If you are that great so as to assume that, then
you should already know who they are, vs. 'needing to find someone'...
·
It is not bad to feel generic marital needs, but you are
in danger of NOT LOVING them if you carry things out for yourself
(as our culture does) in the strength of not knowing who they are
·
If you are generically needing "someone"
marital-ly, that definitely means you need someone else to think for you and
make decisions for you, so they can help you exclude your own selfish
foolishness and leave room for submission to God, which will leave room
for you to actually possibly love them according to God at the end of
all this! (btw: it would sure be exciting and very advantageous for you to
actually know what's up spiritually...!)
·
Either get a prophecy or submit to someone else so that
God will work prophetically.
·
Can you maintain encouragement when the worst happens? Or
are you going to be disenchanted when shame covers David’s face? This is huge!
If you know who someone is then you can really love them. When David was at his “worst” Michal was in another man’s
house, and he was
left alone to get a prophecy and encourage himself. When David was at his
“worst” Michal was in another man’s house VS. Abigail…
·
This is not about how ideal or appealing things could
feel, because drunkards are prone to error and making big mistakes
·
We cannot just reason our way into making something work
·
The pressure can be too great
·
Ravaging temptations can be too dangerous
·
It is way too easy to sin
·
Avoiding sin when making considerations is a sign and a
wonder in and of itself
·
Staying clean and saving your soul when going in these
directions is a rare and scarce hope of barely, maybe making it, even for
David!
·
Ultimately, the only solution is apprehending what God is
indicating
·
In the most extreme cases all you can ask is, "what
is God saying?" (esp. When the stakes are high and the confusion is great)
·
(i.e. Which is why it
seems like it would take a miracle for me to get married...)
Polygamy to Exclusivity – Higher Stakes
Cries Out for More Supernatural Help
Back in the day when Ahasuerus needed to find an appropriate bride
to be queen, he did massive polygamy to find the best option. Now with
exclusivity upon us we are constrained to only one shot, and we are believing
God to do a miracle and make our only goes at this to be the right ones! --
(And you cannot kill your wife if you want to change her out because murder is
NOT an option)
Whether it is your own marriage or your help with someone else’s
marriage, exclusivity waits for a parable match up in hopes of great marriage.
The Hazards of
Qualities, and the Salvation of Calling
Parable Matchup Means Lusting After Their Calling
More than Your Feelings
If you are going around and admiring qualities and using that
as a basis to consider marriage, you are extremely vulnerable to be lusting
left and right for the rest of your life!
Looking for ideal qualities can very quickly make you a harlot at heart,
and disqualify you from all the eternal rewards of exclusivity.
Qualities Lust is changeable with each new model that
comes out every year, but calling is solid and reliable, never ending, always
lasting, enduring, faithful, always en-ravished, always attracted…
Calling does
include qualities and features, but the specs are specified by God, and these
specifically correlate with the Divine Words God is saying about you and them,
and these features happen to mean something profound and Divine in you and
them, so that there is yet greater heated attraction than that cheap and
shallow old flesh, and because it is based on a purpose instead of a perishable
lust, it is good and never ends. – Note:
all this comes from a man who in his past life did not see why a woman
complained if a guy said he loved her when it was only based on loving her
visually…
If you start
with cheap lust (whether emotionally and or visually) then it will easily blow
away with the shifting of time and circumstance. But if you are lusting after
God, then none of your desires will return void!
Have You Been Tempted?
Example: Maybe you could potentially lust after the appeal of
several different types of people, and truth be told, you could have even
imagined yourself in a happy marriage with several ideal people in your life
(if not many of them!) and each of them might have a completely different look,
come from a different background, having a significantly different personality,
and a completely different calling!
Examples of
People Who Hard-Core People Might Be Tempted By
·
Someone discipled by: Paul Washer/Keith Green/P
Mike?/etc.
·
Not talking about shabby church people
I knew a female who went from being engaged with a rough
biker (Nick Schmitt) to marrying a more introverted soft person (Roberto
Evans). While they were engaged to the biker this girl even got her eyebrow
pierced! – There was a time when both of these guys had something partly useful
going on in them. (Although, maybe they were both primarily just being
flirtatious with an unknown God, or something…)
Beware, lest one day you are embarrassed at how
completely off your concept was about who you were going to marry. You are very
close and prone toward this if you are going around looking at generic
qualities.
Natural Parables and
Spiritual Matchup
Every lawful couple is another Adam and
Eve, and represents Anointed One and His Assembly.
Every spiritual couple seeks to not only
have a natural accidental parable for this life, but also to have an
intentional parable of greatness that lasts forever by matching up in a great
and perfect and significant and Divine way.
God will use your parable in spite of you
if that’s all you want, but you will reap none of the personable eternal
benefits of the profoundness of that parable if you only marry in a natural
way.
A Disciple is Worth
More than a Cow
Story: once when I was considering moving away because of the
spiritual hostility at home, my mom tried to dissuade me by saying I was
appreciated at the house because they did not have to lock the doors when they
left... -- But I want to be more than a cow of the earth!! -- and I later said
to my sister and niece that even the cows treat each other with more fidelity
than our family does… and my sister said, “that’s true”, and my niece always
remembered that and later said, “I like how you said that the cows treat each
other better than our family does”
Cow, Human,
Disciple – It Just Keeps Getting More Complex, Doesn’t It?
Cows are thrown
into heat without any moral need for marriage, but humans absolutely need
lawful and moral ownership before they are allowed to even touch someone else
romantically. Cows have as many shots at
love as they find opportunity, but humans only get one marriage for life! God
intentionally designed humans to have more complexity and meaning than cows. –
And there is yet even more complexity than a natural human when you take on the
higher nature of a disciple…
While many women could have done
sufficiently for the rest of Abraham’s relatives (as even Esau was later
willing to do), we need a promised golden woman for Isaac!
Human
Complexities Make Animalistic Purchasing Decisions
Insufficient
You could look at a cow and decide to buy it because it
has ideal qualities, but the defining particulars of a human personality and
its specialized value and character that have been laboriously chiseled over
time is so much more than what a cow has the capacity for. The particular
complexities of a person’s natural soul are really enough reason to not settle
for generic qualities, so how much more specialized is a person above a cow if
their spirit is made alive!?
Flesh is Not Enough
4/2/15
For a person of flesh, loving someone’s flesh is enough,
especially if you are dealing within a covenant of flesh, even as Michal loved David,
esp. when he was in the spot light.
Gen 8:? & Gen_9:15-19 ~ mk a cov with all flesh...
For spiritual people, knowing who someone is and what
they are called to and what this means is of prime importance! How are you
going to consider a person’s significances if no one knows what God thinks
about them?
Reminder: Although this specific knowledge is not a prerequisite
for marriage, it is necessary if there is need for testing out the will of God.
You should not aggressively seek marriage without at least someone knowing what
has been ordained and sanctified for greatness.
Don’t Reapply
Advertisement-Mentality from The World
We learned to look for the "advertisements" of
a person in the world, and now we cannot reapply that to righteous people --
they indeed selfishly taught you to selfishly please yourself in your own
self-feeding appetites by drawing off of the potential resources of other
shallow people of little worth, but now that you have come into truth and are
seeking to promote the increased value of your own life and the soul of others,
you have to be reserved exclusively for truth. You should use different means
of determining how to feel about others, their value, their purpose, and you
should reverently evaluate them according to truth and proper value and
purpose.
A consumer looks for advertisements on how features can
benefit themself and feed their own stomach for this life, but a great person
looks for truth in others that will serve others with benefits that last
forever.
Qualities Reoccur, But
Calling Happens Only Once
The potential danger of primarily looking at qualities is
that they could potentially reoccur in more than one person. Qualities can be generic
enough, and when you are shopping for what looks good to you, then you are
shopping selfishly in a way that does not actually value who they are. And
while qualities can be very generic and even selfish and shallow, looking at
calling demands that you actually care enough to reverently insist on having
the depth and thought necessary to recognize who they are, lest you at any time
be found to have exploited and cheapened their glory with your vanity.
Qualities are often generic, but calling only happens in
one person.
Looking at qualities imagines how their resources can be
exploited to potentially benefit you. Looking at calling admires the truth at
work in them that might have been there long before you ever came into the
picture, and faithfulness with
orthodox perception of approved calling craves to enter into that greatness.
Looking at Qualities is usually self-serving, but looking
at calling focuses your attention and priority on who they are and what is
their real value and how you can or cannot max out on the special parable-story
God has expressed by their life.
If common attractive qualities are used to determine a
preference toward an individual, then it is hazardous for spiritual people in
most cases. If specialized qualities are used to determine appropriateness,
whether these qualities be “attractive” or otherwise mysterious spiritual
“fetishes” (if I can use that word), then you have got hope for greatness.
Evaluating their qualities in your eyes prioritizes their
potential for your value and your appetites, as may appear suited for your own
use, but knowing their calling prioritizes your service to God through their
value and significance.
“h: So if
someone says I need a David to fulfill my calling oh there's David I shall
marry them is wrong? But seeing David and saying wow I need what he has and be
attached to his destiny, is this correct?”
Don't think, as an animal does, on how you might feed on
their qualities to self-actualize, but reverently understand what God is saying
through their life, and what they represent spiritually, and in what capacities
you can lawfully boost real favor by interfacing with that.
Esp. when you’re aggressively considering someone in
particular. ..you need to ask yourself
Are you in heat because the appetite of your heart
is hungry for love, or are you in heat because of the meaning of what God is
saying about someone else?
If you’re in heat for yourself then you are in danger of
not loving them, and you are
setting yourself up for a normal marriage.
I learned, thru much pain and agony, that seeking, and
even praying to meet your own marital needs is NOT how you set yourself up for
greatness. I learned that the way to make yourself great is that you care about
the Word of God and you care about serving and benefiting other people, and
then God rewards you with more comfort than what you asked for. Greatness means
that you find some way to care and benefit other people even when you are in
more pain than you can manage. If you do this then you will be considered
courageous, and great, and God will repay!
Instead of seeking to just put two cows together for a
short life of limited pleasure (Oh, how romantic thou art o Disney), you should
be seeking how to get caught up (and or even violently force your way) into the
great legacy of spiritual Monotheism so that all the God-favored heart-pounding
thrill of your marriage will resound with rejoicing throughout all the ages of
eternity!
Remember These
Examples
·
Ruth & all the other daring Monotheists in the Scriptures.
·
David thought he was getting in on a good deal because he
loved wisdom, but at the same time, Abigail was humbled that even she as a
widow was getting caught up in an explosive deal with being hitched up with
David!
Before Abigail ever thought about marriage with David,
she said…
1Sa_25:29-31 WEB Though men be risen up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling. 30 It shall come to pass, when Yahweh shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over Israel, 31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.
1Sa_25:29-31 CAB And if a man shall rise up persecuting you and seeking your life, yet shall the life of my lord [κυρίου μου] be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and you shall whirl the life of your enemies as in the midst of a sling. 30 And it shall be when the Lord has brought to pass for my lord all the good things He has spoken concerning you, and shall appoint you to be ruler over Israel, 31 then this shall not be an abomination and offense to my lord, to have shed innocent blood without cause, and for my lord to have avenged himself. And so may the Lord do good to my lord, and you shall remember your maidservant, to do her good.
And before David ever proposed marriage, he said…
1Sa_25:32-34 WEB David said to Abigail, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me: 33 and blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand. 34 For in very deed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, except you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.
1Sa_25:32-34 CAB And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you [ἀπέστειλέν] this very day to meet me. 33 And blessed be your conduct, and blessed are you, who has hindered me this very day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself. 34 But surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who hindered me this day from doing you harm, if you had not hastened and come to meet me, then I said, Surely there shall not be one male left to Nabal till the morning.
It is
righteous and lawful to admire what God is saying about people long before
considering marriage with them.
It is
pre-required for someone to know the greatness going on in people before
marriage in order to intentionally choose great marriage.
The
Point: Calling is the Only Thing Worth Desiring
·
“Is it from God” -- this is the only real question
·
If it is not from God, then throw it away from you
·
Divinity is the only worthy aspect to let your
heart desire
·
At the end of the day, don’t bring forth any other
desires or persuasions
(by the way: did you understand what I said when I said, “At the end of the
day”?)
·
The flesh guesses the wrong qualities to identify
your great mate in the same way as the soul guesses the wrong spirits and
thinks they are gods!
·
God made all of your good preferences, but how
will you sift between what is good and what is polluted?
·
A spiritual person will discriminate between (1)
what God put there at the origin of your physical creation, and, (2) what you
need to chop off from what satan added in the meantime, and, (3) what new
obligations to spiritual greatness you have now that you have come into truth
·
Being spiritual is the only way to know your
calling and make a parable matchup that results in eternal greatness
Understanding
Marriage Parables
Addressing
some Pending Parable Questions, and more
Different Glories
“V: With
all of what you are saying Sir, how are we going to disciple people who are
going to "settle" for just someone in the faith, and not we despise
that?”
>> each person shines in their own particular glory
as each is given a calling and favor to do something supernatural
Men’s Parables
4. » Do men have parable match ups too?
>> yes but not all the parables of women are shown the Bible.
3. If A Woman Does Not Just Wait for a Surprise, Then Maybe She Needs to Recognize a Man’s Parable?
3.
» If not then perhaps you should understand the differences between Moses,
Abraham, Elijah, etc. Does parable matching also include preferences?
5. » To what degree does a women's parable shape the character of a man?
>> there are definite aspects of gender that require the primary effect to be a man defining a woman
>> Nevertheless, Women help save men (as seen below…)
>> each person brings something to the table that helps the other
How to Recognize Your Parable
This is Ay: Exclusivity Questions from
dinner
6. » What are the right questions to ask and answers to look for in understanding your parable?
4/15/15
Monogamy for
Jesus & Men
V
Another thing that has been hard for me is polygamy. For
some reason I have a hard time shaking any feelings of spiritual polygamy
happening.
I really like the idea of a faithful man that is completely obsess with his
wife and nothing/no one distracts him from her. There might be a need to
understand exclusivity with males. Things like “God having favorites” has not
made this easier for me.
V: However, I do find some hope with the story of Rachel and Leah. Leah is very encouraging to me.
“I want to be the blessed ones on the earth that is considered a servant of all. I know there is much glory in been a servant and the least. However, I see my insides struggling to understand why I should ever desire being a side servant girl that were given to some of the women of old when they got married. It appears these girls were made into concubines at the hand of their mistress and have no hope of ever getting married themselves/being a wife.
The thought of concubines seems almost unbearable to
me. Especially because I do not see any
righteous women of old being concubines.
Being a servant girl that is just thrown to a man at the whims of his wife is
currently not a posture of content to me.
Being a servant is one thing but giving of myself sexually and then it not be
the “center of his world” is probably one of the worst pains I can imagine.
Maybe that is one of the reasons I admire Leah so much because she has / have
taken a hold of something I need. She was very unselfish and loving towards her
husband while he hated her. Just to write this is painful to me.
(C) Another thing that has been hard for me is
polygamy. For some reason I have a hard time shaking any feelings of spiritual
polygamy happening. I know Jesus just has one bride and he is not doing
polygamy in heaven. However, things like “God having favorites” has not made
this easy for me. God having favorites makes it feel like there's more than one
bride. If she is all one bride, why favorites? Favorites remind me of the story
of Rachel and Leah and this can feel bitter to me. Why favorites when God
should be the place of refuge and safety away from all the competition and
strive.
Lets say I was ever in a polygamy situation, I can see myself completely
hogging my husband and never letting the other women ever sleeping with him.
They would be his wife only in theory. And I see no other way of doing polygamy
unless I am the 1st wife.”
May 2015
Righteous Sewing Person
Salvation
Marriage / Saving Marriage
Goal: Understanding Marriage Parables, and
using Salvation Marriage as one
example
Exclusivity--06--Salvation-Marriage--6.2.15.mp3
Prefaces, Reminders, Notes
·
Although we started with the goal of solidifying celibacy, you’re provocative
questions have veered us off back into marriage again…
·
Nevertheless, I have actually wanted to go over
this point for a good number of years… (based on some of the things we have asked
and reviewed in discussed at times…)
·
Is there a way that you can hear these things and
know what virtues you should be going after in your single years?
·
Is there a way you can apply these things to your
spiritual hope in God to save you by the marriage from Heaven?
Getting
Greater After Marriage
Sometimes, in hard-core internship
settings it can feel like you have to understand a lot and be fully blasted
before you get a great marriage, but some of the examples in the Bible actually
seem like they developed into greatness after they got married.
·
Gen_17:1 – Abraham was told to be perfect after so many
previous revelations (this was when he was old after many years of marriage)
·
Jacob had some early visions of God (for example:
Jacob's ladder – Gen_28:10-19), but had even more establishing revelations
after marriage
·
Gen_31:32-37 – Rachel – at first she had idols in her tent
& lied to her father
·
Moses – Although he perceived God’s expressions in
his heart (Act_7:23, Act_7:25, etc.) Moses has no recorded visions until 40 years after he was married in the
desert tending sheep (Moses married a Midianite: Exo_2:16-22;
Act_7:29; Burning bush: Exo_3:1 – Exo_4:1; Act_7:30)
·
(Also compare: Jeremiah was told to purify his
words after so many prophecies…)
·
In fact,
one of the greatest and most defining testimonies to the unthinkable greatness
of Moses is in Num_12:1-15 / Heb_3:2-6 (as Al quoted recently about being a testimony), and it is somehow associated with the hot racial
controversy of him making a prophetic statement by marrying a Cushite/Ethiopian woman.
(this is one of the two or three main Mosaic pillars of defining
Scripture I have been vitally hoping in for greatness from God since about
2000-2002)
Note: You may truly get great after
marriage, but nonetheless, this post-marital exaltation is usually based on
your exclusivity (and other subjected faithfulness-es and sacrifices)
before marriage. -- Even if you are not yet as great as you’re going to be, you
still need to be “great” in exclusivity and other self-denials if you are
hoping to get greater after marriage.
Salvation
Marriage Throughout the Bible
Not only do we see that people can get
greater after marriage, but sometimes we even see that marriage itself seems to
save people.
Matriarchs Married into Monotheism
Think
of all the Matriarchs Who Were Associated with Monotheism through Marriage
·
Jos_24:2-3 – Sarah
(implicitly)
·
Rebecca
·
Leah and Rachel
·
Joseph’s Egyptian wife – what chance did she have
if it were not for Joseph?
Physically, Joseph came into the house of Egypt by his own suffering,
sacrifice, integrity, and humility to save the whole world from famine, and
spiritually he brought that Egyptian daughter into the house of Israel when all
was said and done
·
Moses’ Midianite Wife might have already been
Monotheistic (like we already said: Exo_2:16-22;
Act_7:29 – we hope to go into
more detail about this later)
·
Num_12:1 – Moses’ Cushite/Ethiopian wife? – Wherever she
was before Moses, we can safely say she was exalted to unimaginably greater
degrees after marriage with him… and maybe this was how she obtained to
Monotheism to begin with
·
Ruth
·
David forced the symbol of Saving Michal
·
There is, of course, the obvious and explicit,
repeated theme of God saving His woman from sin/fornication throughout the
prophets and the New Testament
Psa_45:10 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
Psa_45:10 Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear; forget also your people, and your father's house.
Psa_45:10 (44:11) ἄκουσον,
θύγατερ, καὶ ἰδὲ
καὶ κλῖνον τὸ οὖς
σου καὶ ἐπιλάθου
τοῦ λαοῦ σου καὶ
τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ
πατρός σου,
Psa_45:11 So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.
Psa_45:11 Because the King has desired your beauty; for He is your Lord.
Psa_45:11 (44:12) ὅτι ἐπεθύμησεν
ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ
κάλλους σου, ὅτι
αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ κύριός
σου.
Starting Righteous, But Still Needing Some Kind of Salvation Marriage
·
Eve? – Well, at least Adam was supposed to save her from the serpent…
·
Zipporah Moses’ (Midianite / first) wife: Exo_2:16-22; Exo_3:1; Exo_2:18 (Exo_18:1-6)
>> How do you “save” a daughter of Jethro/Reuel, who is a priest in the
land of Midian?
>> Moses rescued all of these daughters from bad shepherds: Exo_2:17 / Exo_2:19 …ἀναστὰς
δὲ Μωυσῆς ἐρρύσατο αὐτὰς
>> Ultimately you could say that Zipporah was converted by marriage from a
shepherdesses daughter into the wife of the leader of Israel
·
Abigail – Spiritually sizzling before marriage,
but still physically saved from her bitter heritage & context, and brought far
away from the dreaded land of hurtful memories she was eager to forget, and
ended up in the palace with David!
What
Does Salvation Marriage Include?
·
Physical – from danger (another example: married people
are usually healthier than singles… probably esp. when compared to hurt and
lonely fornicators)
·
Emotional – example: comfort/healing (Bible Greek
Reminder Note: salvation is a healing)
·
Spiritual – getting in on Monotheism
·
Training, correction, and even discipline (rod of correction
turns your soul from hell)
·
Exaltation Calling – becoming greater by marriage than
you could alone
·
Others? – can you think of any other examples of Salvation Marriage?
The Range of
Combinations and Variations of Salvation Marriage
·
Salvation Marriage could be a variation, variety, and or combination of any
of these and or other “salvations” that God works out in and through you by
marriage.
·
Making you good by comforting away bad hurts, fears, and
vulnerable feelings, or making you good by discipline, correction, rebuke,
punishment, chastisement…
·
Making your body safe and pulling it out of danger, or
making your spirit safe and pulling it into favor…
·
In every case Salvation
Marriage saves / benefits / changes you in some kind of qualitative and
defining way to make you better off with this salvation than you would have
been without such marriage.
New
Covenant Women Can Spiritually Save Men
Zipporah helps circumcise Moses’ son along
the way and saved Moses’ life
1Co_7:16
1Pe_3:1-6, etc.
Al is all up in that verse…
Disciple Question
about Men’s Parables
4.
» Do men have parable match ups too?
>>
yes but not all the parables of women are shown the Bible.
3.
If A Woman Does Not Just Wait for a Surprise, Then Maybe She Needs to Recognize
a Man’s Parable?
3.
» If not then perhaps you should understand the differences between Moses,
Abraham, Elijah, etc. Does parable matching also include preferences?
5. » To what degree does a women's parable shape the
character of a man?
· Order of Creation – there are definite non-negotiable aspects of gender that require the primary effect of marriage to be a man defining a woman (if nothing else, at least physically) (for that reason, women should not be fundamentally ambitious to seek the reverse of this)
· Spiritually – Women can still save men (as seen here)
· Developmentally – Men can learn to be more like the parable of Anointed One that they are supposed to be (although this is less about salvation, and more about a man learning in himself to be a man)
· Generally – each person brings something to the table that helps the other
So, “To
what degree does” this happen? For
both man and woman, it depends on their parables, calling, greatness, level of
salvation, etc.
If a woman had a new believer as a husband,
or if she were as great as Deborah, or if she were saved after marriage, these
would be the primary ways a woman could more directly and definitively “save”
her husband and “shape his character”.
Although there is still an original
fundamental element of men saving and defining women, (1) spiritual things
definitely surpass the flesh, and, (2) there is some since in which the theme
of women saving men by healing and comforting has its place as a very lawful
expression, and even positive and ideal parable in the Scriptures.
(lawful
expressions of women saving men, so even this can work as a good parable.)
Gen_24:67 WEB Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Gen_24:67 CAB And Isaac went into the house of his mother, and took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted [παρεκλήθη] over Sarah his mother.
Gen_24:67 εἰσῆλθεν
δὲ Ισαακ εἰς τὸν
οἶκον τῆς μητρὸς
αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔλαβεν
τὴν Ρεβεκκαν,
καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῦ
γυνή, καὶ ἠγάπησεν
αὐτήν· καὶ
παρεκλήθη
Ισαακ περὶ
Σαρρας τῆς
μητρὸς αὐτοῦ.
Likewise, even Anointed One will be
comforted after all the evil he has beheld when He embraces His sweet, holy,
therapy-comforting, and perfect Bride!
Al: “there is some since in which the theme of
women saving men by healing and comforting has its place as a very lawful
expression”- ex Jesus will be comforted over his bride after having seen
and borne so much evil for so long
How do we know this? Because mysteriously,
God beckons us humans to do therapy to Him!
Greek Therapy/Healing Words
G2330 – θέρος, – Strong’s: “(to heat); properly heat, that is, summer”
G2322 – θεραπεία healing(s) / healer(s)
Gen_45:16; 2Ki_10:20; Est_2:12; Joe_1:14; Joe_2:15; Mat_24:45; Luk_9:11; Luk_12:42; Rev_22:2;
G2323 (verb) – θεραπεύω – Do Therapy-attendance/service
2Sa_19:24; 2Ki_9:16; Est_2:19; Est_6:10; Pro_14:19; Pro_19:6; Pro_29:26; Isa_54:17; Mat_4:23; Mat_4:24; Mat_8:7; Mat_8:16; Mat_9:35; Mat_10:1; Mat_10:8; Mat_12:10; Mat_12:15; Mat_12:22; Mat_14:14; Mat_15:30; Mat_17:16; Mat_17:18; Mat_19:2; Mat_21:14; Mar_1:34; Mar_3:2; Mar_3:10; Mar_3:15; Mar_6:5; Mar_6:13; Luk_4:23; Luk_4:40; Luk_5:15; Luk_6:7; Luk_6:18; Luk_7:21; Luk_8:2; Luk_8:43; Luk_9:1; Luk_9:6; Luk_10:9; Luk_13:14; Luk_14:3; Joh_5:10; Act_4:14; Act_5:16; Act_8:7; Act_17:25; Act_28:9; Rev_13:3; Rev_13:12;
G2324 (noun) – θεράπων Be a Therapy-attendant/servant –
as an occupation
Gen_24:44; Gen_50:17; Exo_4:10; Exo_5:21; Exo_7:9; Exo_7:10; Exo_7:20; Exo_8:3; Exo_8:4; Exo_8:9; Exo_8:11; Exo_8:21; Exo_8:24; Exo_8:29; Exo_8:31; Exo_9:8; Exo_9:14; Exo_9:20; Exo_9:30; Exo_9:34; Exo_10:1; Exo_10:6; Exo_10:7; Exo_11:3; Exo_12:30; Exo_14:5; Exo_14:31; Exo_33:11; Num_11:11; Num_12:7; Num_12:8; Num_32:31; Deu_3:24; Deu_9:27; Deu_29:2; Deu_34:11; Jos_1:2; Jos_8:31; Jos_8:33; Jdg_17:5; Jdg_18:14; Jdg_18:17; Jdg_18:18; Jdg_18:20; 1Sa_15:23; 2Ki_23:24; Job_1:8; Job_2:3; Job_3:19; Job_7:2; Job_19:16; Job_31:13; Job_42:7; Job_42:8; Pro_18:14; Pro_27:27; Heb_3:5;
WS:
G2323: “To wait upon, minister to, render voluntary service, heal, but primarily signifies to serve as therápōn…
…To take care of the sick, to tend with the more general meaning of to relieve, heal, cure (Mat_4:24; Mat_12:10; Mar_1:34; Luk_6:7; Luk_10:9); with the gen. and apó (G575), from (Luk_7:21; Luk_8:2) followed by the acc. of disease (Mat_4:23). In Rev_13:3 of the healing of the wound. Therapeúō means to heal miraculously in Mat_4:23-24; Mat_10:1, Mat_10:8; Act_4:14.”
G2324: “Therapeúō (G2323) may be used of the physician's watchful
attendance of the sick and man's service to God. Therápōn
approaches more closely the position of oikonómos (G3623), manager, in God's house.”
Examples of Therapy
Healing
2Sa_19:24 CAB And Memphibosthe the son of Saul's son went down to meet the king, and had not dressed [ἐθεράπευσεν – lit. done therapy to] his feet, nor pared his nails, nor shaved himself, neither had he washed his garments, from the day that the king departed, until the day when he arrived in peace.
2Sa_19:24 (19:25) καὶ
Μεμφιβοσθε υἱὸς
Ιωναθαν υἱοῦ
Σαουλ κατέβη εἰς
ἀπαντὴν τοῦ
βασιλέως· καὶ
οὐκ ἐθεράπευσεν
τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ
οὐδὲ ὠνυχίσατο
οὐδὲ ἐποίησεν
τὸν μύστακα αὐτοῦ
καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ
οὐκ ἔπλυνεν ἀπὸ
τῆς ἡμέρας, ἧς ἀπῆλθεν
ὁ βασιλεύς, ἕως
τῆς ἡμέρας, ἧς
αὐτὸς παρεγένετο
ἐν εἰρήνῃ.
Rev_22:2 CAB …on both sides of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, each yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing [θεραπείαν] of the nations. [τὰ φύλλα τοῦ ξύλου εἰς θεραπείαν τῶν ἐθνῶν]
Wis_7:20 The natures of living
creatures, and the furies of wild beasts: the violence of winds, and the
reasonings of men: the diversities of plants and the virtues of roots:
Wis_7:20 φύσεις
ζῴων καὶ θυμοὺς
θηρίων, πνευμάτων
βίας καὶ
διαλογισμοὺς ἀνθρώπων,
διαφορὰς φυτῶν
καὶ δυνάμεις ῥιζῶν,
Note: it is lawful to use safe (natural?)
drugs / herbs for healing/therapy.
This “Therapy” is Applied towards the benefit of God
2Ki_10:20 – although the nations think all gods should be therap-ied by idolatrous therapy-services…
Act_17:23-25 – the Monotheistic God is not therap-ied by idols
1Pe_4:3 -- God is not comforted by idols, because their services
are unclean
Job, Moses, and others are called God’s
therapy servants/attendants
WS: “Heb_3:5;
Sept.: of Moses in Exo_14:31;
Num_12:7-8; of Job
in Job_2:3,” Job_42:7-8
We could say that by their therapy of God’s
“hurts” and discomforts, and by stopping the resulting angers and wraths, these
therapy workers worked out the maximum amount of mercy possible on the earth:
Eze_14:14, Eze_14:16, Eze_14:18, Eze_14:20
Now if humans (which are feminine) can
“heal” God’s heart in some way, so also, even more so, women can save men.
Tobias
Defines a Salvation Marriage
– as Told in Tobit
Tob_6:9-17
Tob_7:1
Tob_8:1
Tob_6:16 Br And when thou shalt come into the marriage chamber, thou shalt take the ashes of perfume, and shalt lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shalt make a smoke with it:
Tob_6:17 καὶ ἐὰν
εἰσέλθῃς εἰς τὸν
νυμφῶνα, λήμψῃ
τέφραν θυμιαμάτων
καὶ ἐπιθήσεις ἀπὸ
τῆς καρδίας καὶ
τοῦ ἥπατος τοῦ ἰχθύος
καὶ καπνίσεις,
Tob_6:17 a
Br And the devil shall smell it, and flee away, and
never come again any more:
καὶ ὀσφρανθήσεται
τὸ δαιμόνιον
καὶ φεύξεται
καὶ οὐκ ἐπανελεύσεται
τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος.
Tob_6:17 b
Br but when thou shalt come to her, rise up both of
you, and pray [βοήσατε] to God which is merciful [τὸν ἐλεήμονα
θεόν], who will
have pity on you [ἐλεήσει], and save you [σώσει
ὑμᾶς]: fear not
[μὴ φοβοῦ], ·for she is appointed unto thee from the beginning [ὅτι
σοὶ αὐτὴ ἡτοιμασμένη
ἦν ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος]; and thou shalt preserve [σώσεις
– save] her, and she shall go with thee
[καὶ πορεύσεται
μετὰ σοῦ]. Moreover I suppose that she shall bear thee children
[καὶ ὑπολαμβάνω
ὅτι σοὶ ἔσται ἐξ
αὐτῆς παιδία]. Now when Tobias had heard [ἤκουσεν] these things, he loved [ἐφίλησεν] her, and his heart [ψυχὴ] was effectually [fig. exceedingly] joined [glued] to her. [καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ
αὐτοῦ ἐκολλήθη
αὐτῇ σφόδρα]
Tob_6:18 ὅταν δὲ
προσπορεύῃ αὐτῇ,
ἐγέρθητε ἀμφότεροι
καὶ βοήσατε πρὸς
τὸν ἐλεήμονα
θεόν, καὶ σώσει ὑμᾶς
καὶ ἐλεήσει· μὴ
φοβοῦ, ὅτι σοὶ αὐτὴ
ἡτοιμασμένη ἦν
ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος,
καὶ σὺ αὐτὴν σώσεις,
καὶ πορεύσεται
μετὰ σοῦ, καὶ ὑπολαμβάνω
ὅτι σοὶ ἔσται ἐξ
αὐτῆς παιδία.
Tob_6:19 καὶ ὡς ἤκουσεν
Τωβιας ταῦτα, ἐφίλησεν
αὐτήν, καὶ ἡ
ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ ἐκολλήθη
αὐτῇ σφόδρα.
Remember / consider how this “love before
seeing” is like what we praised when establishing “Arranged Marriage”
Marital
Fillings?
--------------- 4/18/15
Al
Note for Sir. Exclusivity QnA:
If the Lord is going to come thru the clouds, and by his Spirit enter into our
dieable bodies, and save us and fill us to the uttermost and join us to the
Godhead then couldn't someone play that parable with their marriage on earth?
In other words, if a female was not filled with the Holy Spirit before she got
married then is it possible for her to be resurrected in a sense upon her
uniting with a man (maybe he would already be filled), and not only may God
make them one flesh but maybe He would make a heightened point and fill her
with his Spirit too??
h: Wow now that sounds exciting : )!
Ay: Wow.....
Al
(btw, maybe that man got filled by having a prayer meeting
or something with our overseer sometime during the betrothal period)
Just a thought=-)
>> I would like to see that happen when he baptizes her into his own name!
---------------
Al:
"All Things Are yours" vs. ‘Getting Saved by Great Associations
within Marriage to Great People
·
Assuming you stay in the faith
·
You all already have a corporate inheritance
·
You can be great w out marrying Jesus if you are
one of the women disciples, but you cannot be great if you are Sarah and you
decide not to get married to Abraham
·
If you’re going to get married, associations w
great people is just the right way to go
·
All things are yours now by the promise of faith,
including future things, but the means of obtaining them is often yet to be worked
out and varies depending on calling
·
If marriage is not a means of obtaining all things
/ doesn't pertain to inheriting all things / doesn't save you somehow by
associating you in greatness, then you might be better off celibate
Will Your Salvation
Marriage
Mean Comfort and/or Discipline?
Do You Get The Point of Salvation Marriage?
Do you really want to get saved in marriage to the degree and in
the sense God is willing to save you?
In some cases it could be comfort, therapy,
and consolation. In other cases it could mean salvation from potential sins and
character flaws. -- This depends on how much and in what ways you have
suffered/been disciplined before marriage.
After telling women how they ought to be
submissive in marriage and even suffer wrongly (1Pe_3:1-6),
Peter says,
1Pe_4:1 CAB Therefore, since Christ [anointed one] suffered for us in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same mind, because he who suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
1Pe_4:1 Greek Χριστοῦ
οὖν παθόντος
ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν
σαρκὶ καὶ ὑμεῖς
τὴν αὐτὴν ἔννοιαν
ὁπλίσασθε, ὅτι
ὁ παθὼν
σαρκὶ
πέπαυται ἁμαρτίας,
Note: suffering like Jesus did
(even if you are innocent) makes you stop sinning!
What
Happens when a Salvation Marriage Means Discipline & Correction?
We
may already be well adjusted to rejoice in the hope of comforting marriages,
but what happens when the salvation includes the zeal of correction?
For men it
depends on courageously loving spiritual things above the strength of the
flesh, and being a real man who is won over by the surpassing virtues of his
amazing woman. I tell you, he will probably be making some trips out to the
woodshed to get saved after facing his overwhelmingly convicting wife.
For women, it depends on loving/craving/hurting for/and even
begging for discipline…
·
In this case, since a man is now finally back in the
place of Adam, he can finally use this to be a spiritual Adam who saves his
wife from sin
·
He can use his thundering and authoritative voice and
rightful position to finally beat away that old serpent!
·
And if spiritual women are able to save men, how much more readily can
the man, who is a savior by nature, save his own woman? (Just as Paul remarks
about the “natural branches” being more efficiently grafted into their own
olive tree in Rom_11:17-24)
·
How then can a woman run after greatness within such a
salvation marriage as this?
·
You cannot be saved in marriage if you do not crave and
beg for correction to change in great humility and virtue lust...
·
Crave being defined and changed by someone else’s
substance
·
I want to see women following after their men and putting
a belt in their hand and begging for truth, salvation, and life, and redemption
(esp from the snake that will inevitably attempt to come to her; by the way, if
she is spiritual and “on top of things” then when her savior comes she should
be ready to jump into his arms, dashing away from the danger; also, it’s a
healthy posture to beg God for correction and you will be mercied- ex Psa_139:23-24, 1Co_11:31-32; be righteous like Job and be happy for God to just speak
to you because He is indeed being romantic to his own and bestowing value upon
you through his Words; Imagine yourself in prayer towards God, and now max out
in this reasonable and healthy posture in marriage)
“I want God to correct me, and not man” –
let’s crush this evangelical, heretical posture (by the way, a woman said this)
“h: How shall a righteous female who is
married to an unrighteous man long for his unrighteous discipline, I guess I
only understand her submitting and longing for righteousness....”
Do what you can on your side to win him
over and also to squeeze anything you can out of him to feel the righteousness
of the parable. Just find something, anything, to incite him to be a man. By
the time you are chasing after a righteous man with a belt he will be so
overwhelmed with romance that he won’t know what to do with you. (This is
probably as close as you’re going to get to making a righteous man faint).
These things are spicy, salty, extremely
profound parables
Reminder about discipline (5/31/15):
Whether it means suffering wrongly or it means hurting from being legitimately
corrected, the Bible parallels all such “discipline” as being valuable for
obtaining virtue and endurance and correction from God. Therefore, if a woman
suffers wrongly from an unjust husband she can speak to how a woman ought to
submit in a good marriage, and even more mysteriously, a woman who loves to beg
for correction from her righteous husband can speak directly to a woman
suffering wrongly.
Remember how Hebrews 12 parallels Jesus'
innocent suffering (Heb_12:2-3)
with our receiving correction from God (Heb_12:3-14,
etc.) just like we just saw in 1Pe_3:1, 1Pe_4:1?
Heb_12:11 – ALL discipline works good- this
can get a bit romantic (hint- Greek word for “trained”)…
Therefore, I would say that salvation
marriages that include salvation by discipline make a woman ready to preach to
troubled women, and I am getting that specific because it looks like some of us
have already gotten written into these things…
Side
Spiritual Notes – How We Ended Up in This Bible Study
·
5/23/15 Al started facing a deep
and painful trial (after a community talk we all had that night)
·
Salvation Marriage was originally set to be taught
the next day 5/24/15, but it was postponed (it was not ready yet so we did a
QNA instead), and now I am really glad it was postponed!
·
The next morning of 5/25/15 I told
Al that I had written several things that morning and the night before in light
of “helping” with her trial
·
Among other things I wrote, the
morning of 5/25/15 around 11am, I added these last two sections to Salvation Marriage, including the
quotation of 1Pe_4:1 (as
seen previously).
· Even though we were not actually doing this Bible study yet, I read this verse and part of the rest of this chapter (which deals with trials) to the disciples between about 11am and 12 pm (in light of Al’s current trial, and in light of the errands we were about to go on), and I also read Act_14:21-22 (and partly referenced Heb_12:1-2) -- note- remember that even the trials in the rest of the 1Peter 4 chapter do pertain to discipline
· Al (who was under a heavy trial) had quoted 1Pe_4:1 and Act_14:21-22 in prayer that same morning
· While driving in the SUV and starting our way out to our errands, Al mentioned (from behind the modesty curtain) that she had just quoted these same two passages (1Pe_4:1 and Act_14:21-22) that morning in prayer
· Indeed I had written some things to help Al in her trial with depths that I did not realize
· With excitement I replied and said that this was spiritual, and compared it to the same type of principle as Jesus prophesying while on the cross -- i.e. I knew she was suffering through a trial (being emotionally hurt) yet she was getting spiritual things that were correlating with the passages I had just read that morning
· Furthermore, the fact that I reference 1Pe_4:1 (and linked it to Acts 14) to suffering within marriage is a very strange and distinctive application by default, but it just so happened to be the exact same verses that Al was quoting
· Al and Ay both responded right back to me and said that this comparison I just made was what Ay had just said to Al that morning, in praise and admiration of Al’s virtues in the mist of Al’s trial (more specifically, Ay had greeted Al and said that she was like Jesus bleeding virtues while suffering on the cross)
·
Said in Chat: “on the way
out to errands today, we all realized something else important and spiritual
happened... more details later. Its great living around exciting people who are
prone toward the orchestrations of God :+)” (3:26 pm CT)
· I had added 1Pe_4:1 in light of learning to suffer / love being disciplined both before marriage and within marriage, prefacing this quotation with the specific words, “After telling women how they ought to be submissive in marriage and even suffer wrongly (1Pe_3:1-6), Peter says…”
· As for what I have composed here, It would seem Al pertains a lot to all of this
· There Al goes again, learning things and personifying something spiritual to help women in the worst marriages!
· What should we do with these things? Muse and be amaze, I suppose, until God fulfills all of these mysteries and parables.
Followups
--------------- 6/2/15
Al: (sidenote my family: I found something I wrote on 4/17/13 - "Btw, I am encouraged to fulfill 1Pe_3:1-6 in very astronomical, prophetic ways (how a woman is going to be a despot and type of overseer and hidden away writing Scriptures, winning the world over…)"
Hd: Wow..... wow... things just keep rolling in....
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Discipline Follow Up
Identifying The Privilege of Exaltation
3/15/15;
5/17/15; 5/31/15; 6/7/15-6/8/15 (presented)
Exclusivity--06--Identifying-The-Privilege-of-Exaltation--6.8.15.mp3
Goal: Understanding Marriage Parables, and
expanding on Salvation Marriage
Like always with these marital discussions, I am aiming to give you things that are both true spiritually, and righteous for the physical parable as well that you may obtain in this life. Please always be asking “how is this true spiritually, and how is this illustrated in the parable of marriage?”
Prerequisite
Disclaimers and Explanations
· This point is related to salvation marriage, so I am including it here. I don’t doubt we already glory in the humility addressed in this point. Even if we might already have many of these virtues, it might somehow find a way to be useful if I establish them a little more explicitly, so here we go.
· Even if it seems these things are already established, perhaps we will still yet go over them in case it helps solidify anything for ourselves or for the nations we teach…
·
At first I was trying to think about where this
section would even fit…
·
Furthermore, I thought about not including this
section at all, since, I think, for the most part we are already exhibiting
these types of “humility” virtues…
·
I did not want it to seem as though I was implying
that something was particularly lacking where it has actually been a bit
abundant
·
But maybe we can keep this as a shoe fitting point for us so I can still
cover this without anyone feeling incriminated -- and then maybe we’ll get to
somehow go over some aspects that help…
· Update 6/7/15: I think I finally wrote some conclusions toward the end that makes this point make a lot of sense and be very applicable for us
What is “Identifying The Privilege”?
Each time God makes great marriages, they are based on big and mysterious parables. Whenever this happens, explosions happen and favor is profoundly conferred and Divinely multiplied in the process. One example we have been considering is salvation marriage where some saving favor happens in the process of people getting married.
“Identifying The Privilege of Exaltation” is about identifying and reinforcing the real, most important, most defining, and most critical thing God is saying and doing when there is a parable match up, and in what way major favor is conferred by this defining thing, and how that favor can save others when they believe the message God is proclaiming through all of this. It is about recognizing who is getting saved and in what ways, and it involves engaging real prophecy in faith and apprehending an Orthodox understanding when considering a salvation marriage (or I might say, marriage parables in general).
“Identifying The Privilege” is about praising the right thing, the right way, and doing the Justice that is the point of this thing to begin with, so that God’s message is glorified, and the hearers are saved by admiring, loving, rejoicing in, and believing in such Orthodoxy by proclaiming in what way people are saved and or exalted by God’s favor in getting married. It is about looking at something mysterious going on in front of everyone and standing up to preach and set the record straight and do sufficient Justice on what declaration just happened (and or maybe what declaration is even still at hand).
It’s like when something important happens and then when someone with a little less perception comments and belittles what just took place… “this is about how they’re called to be an ice cream man” -- then someone stands up and sets the record straight and says how the whole world is going to be saved, obey all the Bible, and avoid antichrist,
And then all the truth lovers standing on the side lines go “whoa, that’s exactly right, how’d they know that?” -- but that’s the truth we all know we want to follow.
One big example you must not miss in the Scriptures if you hope to make it to heaven is that Mary is so sizzling out of this world that she is supernaturally pregnant with God in her stomach. Joseph is a righteous man too. Joseph must marry Mary in order for all righteousness to explode on the earth in the New Covenant (example: Jesus had to have an adopted “Father figure”, among many other mysterious things). So both Mary and Joseph increase in Divine and unthinkable greatness by getting married, with Joseph conferring his manly righteousness as a husband and father, and Marry conferring, well, God Himself. Both of them are saved, favored, and exalted to infinite greatness in various ways by being together, and no one can make it to heaven if they don’t believe the Gospel that just happened through their eternal and Earth-dominating marriage.
>> Example: If Joseph was not there, then the Scripture could never
be fulfilled that says “out of Egypt I have called My son...”
>> in one since Joseph saved Marry and Jesus from Herod and other threats, and in many more ways Marry, and especially Jesus, saved Joseph
>> Bildad the Pharisee called it fornication, and righteous prophets and prophetess called it God-with-us… -- Did you get that parable and are you able to do justice to it? If you perceive this parable wrong then you are really wrong.
Whenever God moves and speaks, let’s circumcise our ears with faith and holiness and reverence and tenacity to zealously burn with the truth that is being declared to us from heaven.
We Must Understand the Nature of What is Going On
Every time something happens from heaven, it is important for spiritual people to accurately perceive the true nature of what is actually going on. We have to base everything on prophecy and on knowing God rather than being motivated or energized by error or shallowness or shortsightedness, especially to the degree that we might lead or direct anything that affects ourselves or others.
Joh_12:28-29 CAB Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it and will glorify it again." 29 Therefore the crowd which was standing and heard were saying that it had thundered. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to Him."
Joh_12:28-29 Greek
πάτερ,
δόξασόν σου
τὸ ὄνομα. ἦλθεν
οὖν φωνὴ ἐκ
τοῦ οὐρανοῦ·
καὶ ἐδόξασα
καὶ πάλιν
δοξάσω.
29 ὁ οὖν
ὄχλος ὁ ἑστὼς
καὶ ἀκούσας
ἔλεγεν
βροντὴν
γεγονέναι· ἄλλοι
ἔλεγον· ἄγγελος
αὐτῷ
λελάληκεν.
Who’s Got the
Privilege in Each Marriage?
Or, in which way does each person have a
distinct and particular privilege in this parable matchup?
As we said previously,
“David thought he was getting in on a good deal because he
loved wisdom, but at the same time, Abigail was humbled that even she as a
widow was getting caught up in an explosive deal with being hitched up with
David!”
Let’s Determine…
·
Who is saving who, and in which senses? -- Big Question!
·
Orthodoxy is concerned with the real things that
are going on
·
This makes you know God and be faithful to His
truth
·
We want to actually do the Justice that is at hand
·
There are often varieties of privileges going on –
we should seek to potently understand each one as much as possible!
·
It is good to make much of marveling on the things
that God is testifying to by significant parables when each person is saved in
special ways
·
Although we typically have lots of humility going
on among us, I do not know that most of us are able to do this yet (and that’s
why we are going through this)
·
We should seek to thoroughly account for every
aspect of “privilege” whenever considering these things, and from that,
determine what is the most defining and critical thing going on, so we will
actually praise things in the fullest way and complete the proclamation that is
at hand, because this is the whole reason that motivated God to do this in the
first place.
How Many Directions of
Exaltation, and in What Senses?
A
deep-set privilege of marrying someone should be facing the right direction.
What
is God saying? In what sense and to what degree(s)?
·
right
to left?
·
left
to right?
·
bi-directional?
Ruth 3 – Ruth
to Boaz and Boaz to Ruth
Rth_2:8-17, etc. – Boaz is generous to Ruth, & Ruth falls on her face because she's a foreigner, but Boaz is impressed with her virtues
Ruth Thought of Marriage to Boaz as Protection,
Rest, Honor, Being Rescued, and Being Redeemed
Rth_3:1 WEB Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
Rth_3:1 CAB And she lodged with her mother-in-law. And Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
Rth_3:1 Εἶπεν
δὲ αὐτῇ Νωεμιν ἡ
πενθερὰ αὐτῆς
Θύγατερ, οὐ μὴ
ζητήσω σοι ἀνάπαυσιν,
ἵνα εὖ γένηταί
σοι;
Rth_3:9 WEB He said, Who are you? She answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: spread therefore your [fig.:] skirt* [כנפך H3671 (a form of kānāp)] over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.
Rth_3:9 CAB And he said, Who are you? And she said, I am your maidservant Ruth; spread your [fig.:] skirt* [πτερύγιόν – winglet / little wing] over your maidservant, for you are a close relative.
Rth_3:9 εἶπεν
δέ Τίς εἶ σύ; ἡ δὲ
εἶπεν Ἐγώ εἰμι
Ρουθ ἡ δούλη
σου, καὶ
περιβαλεῖς τὸ
πτερύγιόν σου ἐπὶ
τὴν δούλην σου, ὅτι
ἀγχιστεὺς εἶ σύ.
Winglet / Little wing: Num_15:38; Rth_1:16; Rth_2:12; Rth_3:9; 1Sa_24:5
Also: Rth_3:10; Rth_2:12; Deu_22:30; Deu_27:20; 1Ki_19:19; Eze_16:8; Mal_2:16
Rth_4:4, etc. – being bought/acquired/fig. redeemed
Boaz Said it was Kindness/Mercy for Ruth to Propose Marriage
Rth_3:10 He said, Blessed are you by Yahweh, my daughter: you have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich.
Rth_3:10 And Boaz said, Blessed are you of the Lord God, my daughter, for you have made your latter kindness greater than the former [ἠγάθυνας τὸ ἔλεός σου τὸ ἔσχατον ὑπὲρ τὸ πρῶτον], in that you followed not after young men, whether any be poor or rich.
Rth_3:10 καὶ
εἶπεν Βοος Εὐλογημένη
σὺ τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ,
θύγατερ, ὅτι ἠγάθυνας
τὸ ἔλεός σου τὸ
ἔσχατον ὑπὲρ τὸ
πρῶτον, τὸ μὴ
πορευθῆναί σε ὀπίσω
νεανιῶν, εἴτοι
πτωχὸς εἴτοι
πλούσιος.
1st
Samuel 18 – David’s Feelings of Unworthiness Toward Marry Saul’s Daughters
1Sa_18:20-24 CAB And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. And it was told Saul, and the thing was pleasing in his eyes. 21 And Saul said, I will give her to him, and she shall be a stumbling block to him. Now the hand of the Philistines was against Saul. 22 And Saul charged his servants, saying, Speak privately to David, saying, Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become the king's son-in-law. 23 And the servants of Saul spoke these words in the ears of David. And David said, Is it a light thing in your eyes to become son-in-law to the king? Seeing I am a humble man, and not honorable? 24 And Saul's servants reported to him according to these words which David spoke.
1Sa_18:20-24 Greek Καὶ
ἠγάπησεν
Μελχολ ἡ θυγάτηρ
Σαουλ τὸν
Δαυιδ, καὶ ἀπηγγέλη
Σαουλ, καὶ ηὐθύνθη
ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ. 21
καὶ εἶπεν
Σαουλ Δώσω αὐτὴν
αὐτῷ, καὶ ἔσται
αὐτῷ εἰς σκάνδαλον.
καὶ ἦν ἐπὶ
Σαουλ χεὶρ ἀλλοφύλων· 22
καὶ ἐνετείλατο
Σαουλ τοῖς
παισὶν αὐτοῦ λέγων
Λαλήσατε ὑμεῖς
λάθρᾳ τῷ Δαυιδ
λέγοντες Ἰδοὺ ὁ
βασιλεὺς θέλει
ἐν σοί, καὶ πάντες
οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ
ἀγαπῶσίν σε, καὶ
σὺ ἐπιγάμβρευσον
τῷ βασιλεῖ. 23
καὶ ἐλάλησαν
οἱ παῖδες
Σαουλ εἰς τὰ ὦτα
Δαυιδ τὰ ῥήματα
ταῦτα, καὶ εἶπεν
Δαυιδ Εἰ κοῦφον
ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ὑμῶν
ἐπιγαμβρεῦσαι
βασιλεῖ; κἀγὼ ἀνὴρ
ταπεινὸς καὶ οὐχὶ
ἔνδοξος.
24 καὶ ἀπήγγειλαν
οἱ παῖδες
Σαουλ αὐτῷ κατὰ
τὰ ῥήματα ταῦτα,
ἃ ἐλάλησεν
Δαυιδ.
Something very important in identifying the privilege of exaltation is the self-perception that leads one to humility and amazement with the surpassing exaltation of potentially getting married.
Michael’s
Failure to Recognize the Privilege of David!
After being forcefully redeemed out of
adulterous remarriage, The Despising heart of Michael failed to identify her complete
unworthiness that David should ever even look at her defiled self again! Since
David did well in having continual mercy on her unworthiness, God took it upon
Himself to speak against her by keeping her barren the rest of her life...
2Sa_9:1 – Mephibosheth’s Good Confessions to
David
David
Receives Mephibosheth at His Table
David
putting Jonathan's lame descendant at his table -- he called himself a dead
dog!
2Sa_2:1, etc. – David Made king of the house of
Judah
2Sa_3:1, 2Sa_3:6 – David at war with Saul's house; David
getting stronger
2Sa_4:4 – Memphibosthe made lame by fleeing (at 5
years of age)
2Sa_5:3, etc. – David king over all Israel
2Sa_5:6-9 – Pagan people despised David by boasting
in the weakest of them... "Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame
shall not come into the house." (2Sa_5:8)
2Sa_7:1-29 – David proposes building God a house,
and God flips it all around to build David a house -- David received special
mercy from God!
2Sa_8:18 – David concurs all the pagan enemies
2Sa_9:1-5 – David talking to Siba about
Memphibosthe to Bless the Memory of Jonathan
2Sa_9:6 – Memphibosthe falls upon his face
2Sa_9:7 – Mercy & Royal Table extended by
David
2Sa_9:8 – CAB: “Memphibosthe did obeisance, and
said, Who am I thy servant, that thou hast looked upon a dead dog”
2Sa_9:9-11 – Siba assigned to exalt & serve
Memphibosthe
2Sa_9:12-13 – Memphibosthe exalted in Jerusalem
(Before and after these events, David was killing Saul’s descendants. Example: 2Sa_21:1 – because of the drought)
2Sa_19:28 CAB …all the house of my father were but as dead men before my lord the king; yet thou hast set thy servant among them that eat at thy table: and what right have I any longer even to cry to the king?
2Sa_19:28 (19:29) ὅτι
οὐκ ἦν πᾶς ὁ οἶκος
τοῦ πατρός μου ἀλλ᾿
ἢ ὅτι ἄνδρες
θανάτου τῷ κυρίῳ
μου τῷ βασιλεῖ,
καὶ ἔθηκας τὸν
δοῦλόν σου ἐν
τοῖς ἐσθίουσιν
τὴν τράπεζάν
σου· καὶ τί ἐστίν
μοι ἔτι δικαίωμα
καὶ τοῦ κεκραγέναι
με ἔτι πρὸς τὸν
βασιλέα;
Memphibosthe is redeemed by his faith, but
part of that faith is identifying the
privilege of exaltation.
It has always worked this way: the
Canaanite woman recognized the inferiority of her flesh and Jesus recognized
the redemption of her faith.
Interesting Textual variation
1Ki_20:11 WEB The king of Israel answered, Tell him, Don't let him who girds on his armor boast himself as he who puts it off.
1Ki_20:11 CAB And the king of Israel answered and said, Let it be sufficient; let not the humpbacked boast as he that is upright.
1Ki_20:11 Greek …μὴ
καυχάσθω ὁ
κυρτὸς ὡς ὁ ὀρθός.
1st
Samuel 25 – Abigail’s Humility Toward the Surpassing Privilege of David!
1Sa_25:40-41 CAB So the servants of David came to Abigail to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to you, to take you to himself for a wife. 41 And she arose, and bowed down with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, your servant is for a handmaid, to wash the feet of your servants.
1Sa_25:40-41 Greek καὶ
ἦλθον οἱ παῖδες
Δαυιδ πρὸς
Αβιγαιαν εἰς Κάρμηλον
καὶ ἐλάλησαν αὐτῇ
λέγοντες
Δαυιδ ἀπέστειλεν
ἡμᾶς πρὸς σὲ
λαβεῖν σε αὐτῷ
εἰς γυναῖκα. 41
καὶ ἀνέστη καὶ
προσεκύνησεν ἐπὶ
τὴν γῆν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον
καὶ εἶπεν Ἰδοὺ ἡ
δούλη σου εἰς
παιδίσκην νίψαι
πόδας τῶν παίδων
σου.
Abigail Humbles Herself By Faith in this
Great Privilege
·
Abigail was previously associated with David's
enemy...
·
She was among those whom he might have massacred
·
sometimes wars like this only saved virgins, and
being the wife of Nabal, it might not have looked good for her life at all even
if she were spared alive…
·
But David considered the surpassing redemption of
her provocative wisdom
·
Abigail well perceived the privilege of exaltation
Romans 3 – Even Your Pre-Salvation Past Can Affect Your Concept of Worthiness
Rom_3:23 CAB for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom_3:23
πάντες γὰρ ἥμαρτον
καὶ ὑστεροῦνται
τῆς δόξης
τοῦ Θεοῦ,
Rom_3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,
Rom_3:24
δικαιούμενοι
δωρεὰν τῇ
αὐτοῦ
χάριτι διὰ
τῆς ἀπολυτρώσεως
τῆς ἐν
Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ,
Luke 17 – 10 Lepers
Luk_17:12 Then as He entered a certain
village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood at a distance.
Luk_17:12
καὶ εἰσερχομένου
αὐτοῦ εἴς
τινα κώμην ἀπήντησαν
αὐτῷ δέκα
λεπροὶ ἄνδρες,
οἳ ἔστησαν
πόρρωθεν,
Luk_17:13 And they lifted their voice and said, "Jesus, Master, have
mercy on us!"
Luk_17:13
καὶ αὐτοὶ ἦραν
φωνὴν
λέγοντες· ᾿Ιησοῦ
ἐπιστάτα, ἐλέησον
ἡμᾶς.
Luk_17:14 And seeing them,
He said to them, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And so it was
that as they went away, they were cleansed.
Luk_17:14
καὶ ἰδὼν εἶπεν
αὐτοῖς·
πορευθέντες ἐπιδείξατε
ἑαυτοὺς τοῖς
ἱερεῦσι.
καὶ ἐγένετο
ἐν τῷ ὑπάγειν
αὐτοὺς ἐκαθαρίσθησαν.
Luk_17:15 And one of them, seeing that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,
Luk_17:15 εἷς
δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν,
ἰδὼν ὅτι ἰάθη,
ὑπέστρεψεν
μετὰ φωνῆς
μεγάλης
δοξάζων τὸν
Θεόν,
Luk_17:16 and fell down on his face at His feet, thanking Him. And he was a Samaritan.
Luk_17:16
καὶ ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ
πρόσωπον
παρὰ τοὺς
πόδας αὐτοῦ
εὐχαριστῶν
αὐτῷ· καὶ
αὐτὸς ἦν
Σαμαρείτης.
Luk_17:17 So Jesus answered and said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
Luk_17:17 ἀποκριθεὶς
δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς
εἶπεν· οὐχὶ
οἱ δέκα ἐκαθαρίσθησαν;
οἱ δὲ ἐννέα
ποῦ;
Luk_17:18 Were not any found returning to give glory to God except this foreigner [ἀλλογενὴς]?"
Luk_17:18 οὐχ
εὑρέθησαν ὑποστρέψαντες
δοῦναι δόξαν
τῷ Θεῷ εἰ
μὴ ὁ ἀλλογενὴς
οὗτος;
Luk_17:19 And He said to him, "Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well [σέσωκέ]."
Luk_17:19
καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ·
ἀναστὰς
πορεύου· ἡ
πίστις σου σέσωκέ
σε.
1st Corinthians 15 – Not Worthy To Be Called An Apostle
1Co_15:7 Thereafter He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
1Co_15:7 ἔπειτα
ὤφθη ᾿Ιακώβῳ,
εἶτα τοῖς ἀποστόλοις
πᾶσιν·
1Co_15:8 And last of all, as of one born out of due time, He appeared to me also.
1Co_15:8 ἔσχατον
δὲ πάντων ὡσπερεὶ
τῷ ἐκτρώματι
ὤφθη κἀμοί.
1Co_15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1Co_15:9 ᾿Εγὼ
γάρ εἰμι ὁ ἐλάχιστος
τῶν ἀποστόλων,
ὃς οὐκ εἰμὶ
ἱκανὸς καλεῖσθαι
ἀπόστολος, διότι
ἐδίωξα τὴν
ἐκκλησίαν
τοῦ Θεοῦ·
1Co_15:10 But by the grace [χάριτι] of God I am what I am [εἰμι ὅ εἰμι], and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
1Co_15:10
χάριτι δὲ
Θεοῦ εἰμι ὅ
εἰμι· καὶ ἡ
χάρις αὐτοῦ
ἡ εἰς ἐμὲ
οὐ κενὴ ἐγενήθη,
ἀλλὰ
περισσότερον
αὐτῶν
πάντων ἐκοπίασα,
οὐκ ἐγὼ δὲ,
ἀλλὰ ἡ
χάρις τοῦ
Θεοῦ ἡ σὺν ἐμοί.
Luke 5 – Peter Feels Unworthy – I Am A Sinful Man
Luk_5:7 CAB So they beckoned to their partners who were in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking.
Luk_5:7
καὶ
κατένευσαν
τοῖς
μετόχοις τοῖς
ἐν τῷ ἑτέρῳ
πλοίῳ τοῦ ἐλθόντας
συλλαβέσθαι
αὐτοῖς· καὶ
ἦλθον καὶ ἔπλησαν
ἀμφότερα τὰ
πλοῖα, ὥστε
βυθίζεσθαι αὐτά.
Luk_5:8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down [προσέπεσεν τοῖς γόνασιν] at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!"
Luk_5:8 ἰδὼν
δὲ Σίμων
Πέτρος προσέπεσεν
τοῖς γόνασιν
᾿Ιησοῦ
λέγων· ἔξελθε
ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ, ὅτι
ἀνὴρ ἁμαρτωλός
εἰμι, Κύριε.
Luk_5:9 For astonishment [θάμβος] gripped him and all who were with him at the haul of fish which they had taken.
Luk_5:9 θάμβος
γὰρ
περιέσχεν αὐτὸν
καὶ πάντας
τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ
ἐπὶ τῇ ἄγρᾳ
τῶν ἰχθύων ᾗ
συνέλαβον,
Luk_5:10 And likewise also it gripped James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not fear; from now on you shall be catching men."
As soon as you are gripped, loud, passionate, feeling unworthy, making a loud noise, running to fall on your face with deep hot passionate breathing upon amazement at the privilege of the exaltation, you are not far from Jesus telling you what the whole parable is all about.
Acts 10 – I Myself Am Also A Man
Act_10:25 Now when it happened that Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell at his feet and worshipped him.
Act_10:25 ῾Ως
δὲ ἐγένετο
τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν
τὸν Πέτρον,
συναντήσας αὐτῷ
ὁ Κορνήλιος
πεσὼν ἐπὶ
τοὺς πόδας
προσεκύνησεν.
Act_10:26 But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up; I myself am also a man."
Act_10:26 ὁ
δὲ Πέτρος αὐτὸν
ἤγειρε λέγων·
ἀνάστηθι· κἀγὼ
αὐτὸς ἄνθρωπός
εἰμι.
Reviews,
Summaries, and Partial Applications
·
What attitudes of amazement should there be in
regards to worthiness and the privilege
of exaltation?
· What are such parables actually saying?
·
If you do not understand these
things, then you do not understand parable match ups
·
I, for one, hope to be a preaching
match maker that fulfills justice and makes the glories of parables known on
the earth
·
As with discipleship, also with a saving
marriage: recognizing the benefit being conferred to you, has a lot to do with
your salvation and hope and redemption
· This identification of privilege is only one of many aspects when actually seeing what is going on with parable matchups, but you do have to ultimately take hold of it
·
To actually embrace your parable
and be defined by it, at some point you have to recognize the privilege
of exaltation
Faithful Feelings of Unworthiness Beget Impassioned
Tenacity, Not Cowardice – Concluding Climaxes!
I hope you can follow me spiritually because this self-abasement and profound humility and zeal and eagerness is ironically the very thing that gives you a basis to uncontrollable and wildly be propelled into greatness.
A lot could be said about the virtues of ambition and tenacity, but I will give at least a few examples to provoke you unto righteous faith…
Approach
the Consuming Fire Throne with Favor, Boldness, and Fear
Heb_4:16 CAB Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Heb_4:16 Greek
προσερχώμεθα
οὖν μετὰ
παρρησίας τῷ
θρόνῳ τῆς
χάριτος, ἵνα
λάβωμεν ἔλεον
καὶ χάριν εὕρωμεν
εἰς εὔκαιρον
βοήθειαν.
Heb_8:12 For I will be merciful to
their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I shall by no
means remember anymore."
Heb_9:26 since it would have been
necessary for Him to suffer often from the foundation of the world; but now,
once at the consummation of the ages, He has been revealed for the removal of
sin through the sacrifice of Himself.
Heb_10:38-39 CAB But the just shall live by faith, and if he withdraws, My soul has no pleasure in him." 39 But we are not of those shrinking back to destruction, but of faith, to the saving of the soul.
Heb_10:39 Greek ἡμεῖς
δὲ οὐκ ἐσμὲν
ὑποστολῆς εἰς
ἀπώλειαν, ἀλλὰ
πίστεως εἰς
περιποίησιν
ψυχῆς.
After saying ‘Don’t let your hands grow limp!’ he says…
Heb_12:28-29 CAB Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have grace [χάριν], through which we serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Heb_12:28-29 Greek
Διὸ
βασιλείαν ἀσάλευτον
παραλαμβάνοντες
ἔχωμεν χάριν,
δι᾿ ἧς
λατρεύωμεν εὐαρέστως
τῷ Θεῷ
μετὰ αἰδοῦς
καὶ εὐλαβείας· 29
καὶ γὰρ ὁ
Θεὸς ἡμῶν
πῦρ
καταναλίσκον.
It takes a real MAN with lots of manly “nerve” to say: fear me with terrifying reverence and Love me with all your strength and don’t you dare run away from me because of my belt, and in fact you best run to my love quickly no matter how much I might discipline you…
So also women must give all their greatest strength to their men to love and fear them with trembling and run toward them with worshipful love, even if they might carry fearful discipline in their hand. -- talk about emotional dependence on an everything-dominant man.
By the way: the bad shrinking back fear / irreverent fear / unfaithful mourning has to be broken out of cats and humans…
Daniel kept
saying to the angel of God, ‘show me more, tell me more!’
Dan_12:8-9 CAB And I heard, but I understood not. And I said, O Lord, what will be the end of these things? 9 And he said, Go, Daniel; for the words are closed and sealed up to the time of the end.
(David putting on the Ephod
& eating showbread from the temple)
Psalms
51 – After Sinning and Repenting, David is Continually Ambitious
Psa_51:13 – I will teach lawless ones
Psa_51:15-17 – prophesying about sacrifice and offering
Psa_51:19 – You will be pleased!
So David basically said, “Sorry for killing someone and committing adultery, now let me prophesy the Words of Jesus” -- and David said all that in the same Psalm! This is some profound tenacity.
Jacob was wildly after the name and birthright of all Monotheism forever! – He was the second born, and by all means did not fit the bill or feel personally worthy to lay hold of the right of the first born, but he was tenacious out of this world to apprehend the despised birth right and break in, however possible, to get his father’s blessing.
Some
Partly Related Heroines Who Were Tenacious in the Face of Intimidations
Esther
Tamar – ‘she is more righteous than me…’ (Gen_38:26)
Ruth
After Peter at first said “depart from me…a sinful man” (Luk_5:8), he later went on to energetically, wholeheartedly, and enthusiastically grab all the greatness of Jesus’ Kingdom he possibly could.
Joh_21:7 – Peter throws himself into the sea
God
Likes Drama
Joh_20:4 – They run to the tomb
Joh_11:28-31 – Marry quickly runs to Jesus when He comes
Notice that God likes drama. Drama is often caused by the contrast of two extreme feelings and possibilities with your whole life on the line.
· Discipleship is like this
· The good announcement has hell on one end and marriage to God on the other
· Greatness is like this: you have a worthless life or greatness in front of you
· Jesus gives every reason to deny your fleshly passions and forsake all to follow Him
Note: You cannot forsake all unless God first intentionally puts things in your hands that you might otherwise want.
Likewise how will you have the right tenacity and eager faith to truly break into greatness unless you first face the fear of your unworthiness, and then use that contrasting tension to count the cost and require from yourself all the more depth of eagerness to overcome all the odds and build up the courage to run into great redemption anyway?
By the surpassing greatness of being pressured and compelled with unstoppable spiritual motivations, press in much more passionately to break through and run into greatness…
Likewise how will you have
the right tenacity and eager faith to break into greatness unless you first
face the fear of your unworthiness, and then use that like the contrasting
tension of a rubber band and finally burst forward to overcome all the odds by
the surpassing greatness of being pressured and compelled with unstoppable
spiritual motivations to much more passionately press in, break through, and
run into greatness?
Face both the good humbling (which is exceedingly attractive, by the way, to both God and man) as well as the potentially intimidating fears of unworthiness, and then be amazed much more surpassingly with the uncontrollable lust for the great hope of entering into greatness.
Your passionate love for the possibility of exaltation and greatness has to infinitely outweigh all the worst fears you have ever had. – Then you will be like David who kept coming wildly after God no matter what.
Don’t be a depressed person easily bowing to phantom feelings of condemnation and unworthiness when the goodness of God loves those who hope and believe to actually be rewarded for their trials. Salvation is ambitious love and faith in better things, and is more impressed with the reward than your own fears and dreads of unworthiness.
NO complacency allowed! God has made the stakes so infinitely high, if you are not building up passions to get in, then it is only because of dullness and blindness. Truth always gives you all of the most extreme contrasts, motivations, and logical and compelling reasons and realities so that all that you do is dramatic and impassioned adventure in bursting forth into God!
No matter how unworthy you might feel or how fearful it is for Esther to risk herself to come before the king, the fiery opportunity to enter into greatness and take hold of exaltation should be so over-motivating, persuading, obsessive, consuming, compulsing, and driving that as soon as the door opens you throw all your greatest fears behind you and are wildly pressed and unbearably compelled to immediately run in with the full force of all your might and energy, and as soon as you burst through the door, you quickly duck and slide in on your knees with reverence and cannot contain the uncontrollably loud and eager cries that burst forth from your mouth for the intense explosions and redemptions of God.
So, how much do you want to enter the marriage chamber of God?
How much do you want David to
carry you away from the Land of Nabal?
How much do you want to be
redeemed by Boaz?
On one hand you need to truly recognize how you desperately need the privilege of God redeeming and saving you, and on the other hand you have to overcome all the fear and dread of yourself with the infinitely greater and wildly obsessing hope of redemption and entering into infinity!
Identifying The
Privilege
>> we
never went over this lagging thought (I was not transferred in time…)
For spiritual truth lovers, it is not really that exciting
if someone comes in uninvited and asks for candy. People have been wanting fire
insurance and cheap warm fuzzy feelings from God for a long time, and frankly,
it cheapening to even suggest that and is anti-motivating, yes, it is even
abominable in its irreverence. In the same way cheap and treacherous lusts have
been promoted among the children of men and it itself is also a cheap and
defiling parable. But those who have a real reason to bust through the door and
beg for real food and grasp at the hope of really eating and reciprocating with
the King, that request is quite a bit more relevant and motivating.
Appeal Recognition vs. Attraction Violations
Recognizing and
distinguishing the boundaries between them
>>
Appeal Not: Appreciation
Different Ways of Responding to Someone’s Gender Appeal
·
Appeal Rejections – Assessing Evil Sentiments Toward
Someone’s Gender Appeal
(A) Weakness Despising –
Unmerciful conceptions of real weaknesses, esp. when they are vulnerable (i.e.
despising Leah, Lazarus, Jesus, etc.)
(B) Opinionated Irk – a
self-created and projected illusion and reactional feeling of disgust to
justify despising someone else’s gender
(C) Denial – calling the
grapes “sour” to avoid discontentment
(Note: these can all overlap)
·
Attraction Violations – Being drawn into pre-marital or
post-marital adultery fantasy
·
Appeal Recognition – Common, reverent, objective,
non-personable, happy sentiments of accurate value for all those who are owned
in the community – ranging from Esther to Jesus, or even sick Lazarus! –
happiness, faith, compassion… all good is compatible with truth! (note:
accurate compassion for the real Lazarus actually belongs here rather than in Irk)
·
Calling Recognition – Perceiving parable matchup /
ordained marriage (only one person for life)
These first two are not exclusive, but these last two
are.
World: Rejections & Attractions
vs. Assembly: Recognitions & Callings
Recognition
Rejoicing & Calling Excitement
The World deals with Gender Appeals in terms of rejections
and attractions, but the Righteous Assembly deals in terms of recognition
of what is good, compassion for what is truly weak, and downright
excitement for what pertains to calling. Note: You cannot maintain
righteousness and keep wrongly assessing other people’s gender appeals as
weakness. There is no gender despising allowed in the Righteous Assembly,
because it is God who made all gender as a glorious prize to set His heart on.
We got to know the difference!
God Gets Passive-Aggressive Against Irk
Gen_29:17 Leah's eyes were weak [ἀσθενεῖς], but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
Gen_29:17 And the eyes of Leah were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in appearance, and exceedingly fair in countenance.
Gen_29:17 οἱ δὲ ὀφθαλμοὶ
Λειας ἀσθενεῖς,
Ραχηλ δὲ καλὴ τῷ
εἴδει καὶ ὡραία
τῇ ὄψει.
Gen_29:18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
Gen_29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.
Gen_29:18 ἠγάπησεν
δὲ Ιακωβ τὴν
Ραχηλ καὶ εἶπεν
Δουλεύσω σοι ἑπτὰ
ἔτη περὶ Ραχηλ
τῆς θυγατρός
σου τῆς νεωτέρας.
Gen_29:31 WEB Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Gen_29:31 CAB And when the Lord God saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Gen_29:31 Ἰδὼν δὲ
κύριος ὅτι
μισεῖται Λεια, ἤνοιξεν
τὴν μήτραν αὐτῆς·
Ραχηλ δὲ ἦν στεῖρα.
Deu_21:15
Jesus
·
Like one from whom men hide their
faces
·
He Despised the shame
Why we call
“Attraction” “Adultery”
·
Attraction is called “adultery”
especially in reference to exclusivity
·
By calling it this, we are just
saying what attraction really is in
almost every case, by reminding you were it leads!
·
You are not “just being honest”
when you say you are helplessly attracted to them, I am being honest when I say
you are choosing to commit adultery when you cooperate with feeling of
attraction toward them
Reject Lust,
Not People
·
Reject the idea to sin, not the goodness of their appeal.
·
We do not want personable attraction or rejection,
but objective recognition.
· We can avoid lust while not preaching heresy to our own heart against each other’s appeal.
Contentment should be if you get to obey the Word of
God, not if you get to have what looks really appealing to you. (Remember the
incest of David’s son!)
(jumping over reverence and
instantly and selfishly grabbing what does not belong to you in your sentiments)
Deeper Definitions of Disaster and Duty
Let’s define and redefine
some words to seek a more orthodox awareness…
Someone can be “attractive” (appealing) and have every dynamite potential to very potently
ravish and please the heart of their spouse and family, but that is not the
same thing as a non-family member being “attracted” and drawn into their sexuality from outside of the home.
Reverent people must approach gender glories with
sacredness, so that they recognize the appeal of potential attractiveness from
a safe distance without actually being drawn in themselves in the process.
The active sexual admiration of non-pertinent people is
unlawful and violates and profanes what does not belong to them.
·
The “attractiveness”
of a family member’s gender belongs exclusively
to their family, especially for women. (If you are not of their family, then
move along.)
·
Willingly admiring and feeling “attracted”
to someone’s (opposite gender) “attractiveness”,
and committing personable rejoicing in their gender glories, is for fornicators
who steel and murder in their heart what does not belong to them in reality.
(Sometimes also applicable to same gender, or even your own gender.)
·
Feeling “attracted”
to someone is for reckless unbelievers who sin continually without ever having
hope of obedience and self-control.
·
“Appeal Recognition” is for the reverent remnant of the
earth who deal carefully in rejoicing in the rich blessings of God, and blush
and shy away with modest shame from beholding the “attractiveness” of gender glories lest “attraction” sin ever happen.
·
The reverent fear God too much to willingly lust and
fornicate in their heart, and that is why God is pleased to save and glorify
their lives with Him forever.
Family
example: I like my mom and my sister having long hair. It has the potential to
help me get over sicknesses faster. I like it when my mom does not wear makeup
any more. etc.
Attraction is when you start to be drawn into the admiration and/or desire of another person’s
sexuality, especially based on unlawfully rejoicing in their sexual
glories and participating in entertaining personal admiration and praise.
“Appeal Recognition” is when you objectively recognize
the good gender glories God made while shunning the world’s random and
purposeless despising which even rejects and criticizes the gender glories
among the Assembly.
Recognition means that we do not have any despising going
on at all which would endanger any person with being cheapened based on worldly
and lustful distortions and blindness-es.
Get Inspiration from
God, or Else Wage War Against False Definitions of Yourself
You either need inspired considerations or ruthless war
and deep cleansing rejection against uninspired attractions. -- the doctrine of
uninspired attractions really does come with its own theology and assumptions
that makes completely immovable strongholds, and they fester and promote
falsehood until they are completely exposed, and denounced, rejected, and defeated.
It is not good enough to say, "I really am
attracted to them, but I guess because I am not fully called to that I should
just go against my potent needs & feelings and just avoid dealing with
things too much"
There is a foundational, evil deception going on. That is
NOT who you really are! Some untrue and
evil definition is acting like you and speaking in first person and trying to
define you according to a fleshly definition so you can believe things that exclude
your hope and frustrate your faith with instabilities. Who are you in the first
place? By faith in recreation you are not even someone who is intrinsically
motivated by non-exclusivity. Therefore, You do not ever have to despair
against the pressures to commit pre or post-marital adultery.
You don't just need to deny your temptations,
because that is not really what you even want to begin with! It is lying about
who you really are. And your definition is cleanness, perfectness, sexual
purity, romantic exclusivity, monogamy, happiness in pure boundaries, being
fully content and happy with what God has called you to.
Die to the flesh every day. If any non-exclusive,
deep-set, defining "desires" impress against your righteousness, then
you know you are dealing with counterfeits and deceptions and lies that are not
even who you really are.
That is false and non-exclusive theology. God made you
for one person and you can fully resolve in full contentment on that by faith
in the truth.
For super-spiritual people, believing attraction without
prophecy is not truth. Deception enters in, and deeply hidden strongholds of
falsehood (& even heresy) will do arpox in dominant, aggressive, magical
strength when we even partly believe uninspired attractions.
We are at war with the mafia. We cannot let anarchy rain.
We have to pull down strong holds and raise up pure blameless truth and
integrity and sanity.
Irk & Attraction
Both Come From Pride
·
>> based on proudly and
haphazardly boasting your lust before you as you go
>> (of course you’re going to madly come up with disgust for others when
you yourself acting disgustingly!
·
>> by prideful indulgence,
You came up with the idea of profaning your sexuality, not them!)
Sometimes people have to justify why they “aren’t
attracted” to someone, so they establish despising to protect themselves
against lust, and even think of someone as “gross” in order to accomplish that.
– but of course hypocrisy says, “I’ll still love them, but I am not attracted
to them, and it feels gross to even consider that there is good in their
gender.” This is a feeling of “irk” against one person while “feeling
attracted” to another person. But you should repent of “feeling (randomly)
attracted” to some people and feeling “not attracted” to other people, because
all of this lust is based on pride and indulgence.
(clarify: thorns vs. All “irk” that is not based on moral
disgust is evil.)
If any Godly person can love their spouse’s gender
glories, then you do not have a right to despise and believe any “irk” feelings
against that spouse. This redefines what you are allowed to think about other
people’s gender glories.
We might even need to be careful with things like
“wrinkles”, for example. Because one day you may grow old, and then you’ll really
need help with an orthodox view of your body. Pride really does defile and
pollute what is truly good. God enjoyed Abraham being old and producing a baby
with Sarah. God really likes it when people defy all the odds and have truth in
their body by faith even after their bodies are “as good as dead”.
We should destroy all such evil, prideful, vain feelings
of unlawful attraction lust and despising “irk”, which has no moral basis and
is not real beyond the evil despising of lustful people.
Remember that even with what appeared to be a “worst case
scenario” when it comes to non-glorious appearance, Jesus had no glory that
people should desire Him but He was extremely worthy of being desired, and now
has every godly woman’s heart in the world! (talk about Mac-ing Out!) In His
life here he had no women to marry Him, but now He has the romance of all godly
humanity lusting after Him continually…
Remembering Jesus’ humiliation and exaltation by the
Father can help us sober up from despising. It tells us how much our Irk
feelings are really worth!
Despising may randomly happen to many people without
being noticed, but we should intentionally hold ourselves in question to see if
we would then also be prone to despise Jesus’ humiliation as well. If we would
despise Jesus’ appearance based on our posture and values, then this tells us
something important about the worthless, demonic, and perverted nature of “irk”
feelings we have for some people as well as the worthless temporary lusts we
have for others. We should never call something ugly which God has not cursed,
and even the afflictions from God should be set aside in our eyes for a more
healthy view of their glory.
The Goal and Statement of Faith of Appeal Recognition
·
I am glad God generically made
almost all people with sufficient gender appeal for very good things.
·
Although there are many varieties
of glories, and although some people shine in some or even many of these
varieties in exceedingly glorious ways…
·
And although God likes to reward the
righteous with exceeding happiness (& even uses this as bate in showcasing
the reward of being reverent)
·
And although their gender glories
may or may not temporarily seem very appealing
·
And although I, like anyone else
with anyone else, may very easily and cheaply be deceived into thinking that
their glory should pertain to meeting my needs (as though God were pleased to
speak by lust to communicate His will)
·
Yet despite all of this, I refuse
to degrade my sentiments into breaking personable boundaries by partaking of
their gender glories
·
I refuse to even start taking steps
and letting things start in my heart of going in the direction of being
drawn into personable admiration, that is, being attracted in my heart, as
though God has authorized their good glory to meet my needs because of my lust
·
I see enough evidence of their
glory to recognize that it exists, but that does not mean that I have a right
to peer further into it, and admire it, and take it into my heart as a special
and personable thing that pertains to me
·
The nations lust left and right and
are absolutely convinced that they cannot help it, but we refuse to even
acknowledge what they take for granted to be absolute and unavoidable
·
Rather than being foolish and
indulgent consumers who randomly lust based on vain pride, we instead hope to
preserve ourselves in exclusivity for maxing out on sizzling callings that
exalt us into great marriages
Recognition is Better
at Avoiding Lust Than Fear Tactics
Some, in an attempt to avoid lust, have told themselves
that other people are “unattractive”, and found ways to try and keep their
heart “clean” by criticizing those they could otherwise be tempted by… and
although this might not be immediately recognized because it is usually applied
against perverts (since even Proverbs despises immoral woman and men), it is
not yet truth and causes even Bigger problems when applied against those who
belong to the faith of truth.
If done in absolute and perfect truth, Appeal Recognition
allows us to believe the physical good truth that God has glorified in each
other without lust.
Truth is always better than untruth, even when someone is
trying to do good with untruth.
But the painful challenge is that there is basically no
“middle ground” between falsely despising or lusting vs. recognizing appeal.
Don’t Feel Attracted
to Non-Spouses!
·
It is often myth-ed that you cannot help who you “feel
attracted to” or fall in love with – but you can choose not to lust!
·
When you are married to someone, you should not “feel attracted”
to someone else, instead you should be completely true in your faith to that
spouse, inside and out, in theory and in truth.
·
You should be so true and righteous that you choose
monogamy NOW before you are married, and renounce Attraction-Violations
Sin & Temptation
vs. Appeal Recognition
Question: what is the difference between cheap lust vs.
reasonable appeal recognition?
Answer: David had that good understanding before it was even
lawful for him to marry Abigail...
Question: How should we process Appeal Recognition and keep all
of the disciples absolutely pure????
Answer: There is some kind of superior and freeing truth here
for the majority of godly people when relating to each other in absolute
purity...
Question: How do you 'recognize appeal from a distance' without
some defilement happening somewhere, especially in a weak moment when your
integrity is being tested?
Answer: Adam was tempted with the fruit before he ever sinned,
& even Jesus was tempted in every point even as we are tempted without
sinning...
Heb_4:15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but having been tempted in all respects in quite the same way as we are, yet without sin.
Heb_4:15 οὐ γὰρ ἔχομεν
ἀρχιερέα μὴ
δυνάμενον
συμπαθῆσαι
ταῖς ἀσθενείαις
ἡμῶν,
πεπειρασμένον
δὲ κατὰ
πάντα καθ᾿ ὁμοιότητα
χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας.
Heb_4:16 Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Heb_4:16
προσερχώμεθα
οὖν μετὰ
παρρησίας τῷ
θρόνῳ τῆς
χάριτος, ἵνα
λάβωμεν ἔλεον
καὶ χάριν εὕρωμεν
εἰς εὔκαιρον
βοήθειαν.
Also: Mat_4: / Luk_4: – Jesus was tempted in the wilderness
Factoring in temptation as a normal/intentional/necessity
for righteous people in estimating your integrity needs is very reasonable and
even required for complete righteousness and answers... Even perfect Adam and
Eve and more perfect Jesus were tempted. Temptations were an element for the
perfect from the beginning before sin ever modified the human race...
Seeing that the fruit is desirable is not the same thing
as taking it and eating it.
Ideally, we would not have bred shoved up in our
face while we’re seeking to fast, but even if that happens, we are blessed if we
endure all temptation and only receive what God has given us.
Big and Vital and Exciting Truth: The more you
say no to polygamy and yes to faithfulness and reserved purity, the greater
your exclusivity will be, and the greater your exclusivity is before marriage,
the bigger the explosion after marriage.
If exclusivity is really your goal, you should
greatly rejoice at the opportunity to choose it over and over again… (remember:
this rejoicing happens when you believe you’ll win).
Choose
A Spouse Who Has Said No
If I were to choose a spouse for myself or
others, I would much rather greatly rejoice in a spouse who has recognized
appeal in many, fought long and hard in honor to say “no” over and over again,
and then made a distinction with the one they are now obsessed over marrying.
More
“No”s Now Means More Obsession Later -- Extremely Important!
There is a real sense in which the more you have
said no to allowing many very appealing people to be seriously taken to heart
personably, the more romantic and overwhelmingly exciting it is when you say
“yes” to someone you cannot help but obsess over!
Joseph fleeing from adultery was more exciting than
Michal getting married!
Just how privileged do you thing Joseph’s wife
was?
If you are tested with temptation by appealing
situations, then be motivated by the surpassing excitement of something so much
more superior and infinite…
Temptations are only temporary… Sanity will be restored in God’s next expression. If you just endure and choose sanity in the meantime, you will be rewarded.
---------------
Then
the focused needs can be tested with temptations in the wilderness, and lust
can be narrowed down and dealt with / defeated on a meaningful basis.
Same
goes for spot light lust / "ruling and reigning", and other glories,
pleasures, and exaltations
Don’t Take Your Lust
Temptations Seriously
One of the greatest keys to fighting lust is to reduce
your own attractions and not take the attractions of others personally. In
fact, don't even take your own attractions toward others as truly being
personal toward them, since lust never actually truly knows the one it defiles
(sin not knowing the value assessed by God's voice), but instead search to find
a reverence toward their appeal, the real original substance and answer to what
is otherwise usually exploited by lust. That not-so-personable recognition of
their Appeal is a full and complete and accurate response to the meaning of
another person's gender potencies who has been placed in proximity to your
life. Don't take your personal attractions personally, but instead, crucify
your intoxications, your heart-felt attractions, and instead apprehend the real
purpose of their appeal...
Appeal Recognition
Without Lust
Bible: So-and-so was very beautiful in face and good to
look at :+)
The Inspired Commentary of Scripture on these events was
mostly written through people who were not married to these attractive Holy
people. In his writing and compilation, Moses celebrated the passions that were
ignited in Isaac by the wounding beauty of Rebecca. Men wrote about impressive
women without lusting after them! – now that’s supernatural! This is beyond any
man’s comprehension today, but it is somehow possible, because it made it into
the Bible…..!
Reverent Appeal Recognition is when you are able to
rejoice over how good of a deal the Shunamit or Solomon gets when they marry
each other, without defiling your soul at all with attractions to either of
them in the process. Recognizing “Appeal” (based on their calling) is a less
direct way of rejoicing in someone's gender excitement Even when someone else
marries an appealing person and gets a REALLY good deal (in many ways)... –
“I'll bet they are going to have fun!” This is the Biblical alternative to
watching a romance movie where two attractive people get together, and you love
to watch every heated moment, even though you are not one of them, except with
the Bible there is no visual prostitution going on in the process. The difference
between Soap Operas and the Bible is that the Bible requires faith in order to
apprehend much of its message and hope, and if you do apprehend it, its faith
dodges all defilement, and at the same time, it blows every heart-throb movie
out of the water!
Appealing Examples You
Might Have Seen or Heard About
Righteous Appeal Can Partly Happen when you watch some
guy take a girl's family to a restaurant to do a surprise marriage proposal,
and all the waitresses are peaking around the corner to watch what happens when
he pops the question. A corporate celebration of the exalted passions of
others... It is good and highly needed/required for societies to highly
celebrate the gender excitements of each member without prostitutions. It is
right for all to share in the consolation, relief, satisfaction, and fun, by
rejoicing highly over each married couple.
Exclusivity
means you are only “jealous” if God has called you to marry them. …Remember: David and Abigale!
Appeal allows
you to protect your heart from the deceptive and potentially defiling
intoxications of Attraction-violations, and maintain exclusivity.
Reverent Appeal
says, Abigail belongs to another, and I will be content (& hopefully
satisfied) with that unless told otherwise.
You should
(hopefully/ideally) get to the point where you are only 'unsatisfied' whenever
there seems to be a marriage calling toward someone. Other than that, remain
exclusive!
You can cry out
with full urgency to apprehend that which Anointed One Apprehended you, and
this is the only way you should insistently beg God for marriage.
Fighting For Cleanness In The Midst of Potent
Recognition
9/22/14
>>
The challenges of being excited over someone else’s qualities... And why wise
people actually even obsess over this!
Blunt fact: Virtue is extremely appealing &
compelling & attractive.
Although it is honorable and righteous to
consider and reverently value virtuous people as "extremely
appealing", and amazing, and breathtaking, and although this admiration in
your heart has its righteous basis, however you should be extra careful to do
so very "reverently" and carefully and quickly process what is the
extent and what is the nature of the divine placement of their extravagant
appeal in your life...
Just
as David left the sizzling charm of Abigail's breathtaking virtue in the arms
of another man's intimacy, and refused to delight in unlawful warmth, and
refused to interpret objective honor from her extreme faithfulness (in loving
the divine truth in him) as if these were hints of personable yearning from her
to him... So also we have to very quickly place the potency of a person's
appeal in the righteous posture.
We
should remember to do this swiftly and militantly lest we forget our own lack
of exclusivity, and actually end up bringing dishonor on the very virtues we
love in them, by bring cheapening on their gender with disrespecting games that
are less-than-obsessive toward their gender value.
We
must zealously place them "as sisters" and brothers before we defile
them with charming flattery that is less than obsessive in its basis of
commitment. "Till death do us Part" is quiet an extreme and obsessive
riveted commitment, and few ever even come close to giving over a reasonable
obsession that is necessary to match such a commitment.
Although appeal
is sometimes worthy of consideration, it should still not be taken seriously
without confirmation.
Thorns! – Helpful
Boundaries That Even Apply To The Righteous
- SoS: Thorns -- learn them early w out despising in the
meantime!
A lily among thorns! -- one of the only places
where righteous people could be like thorns to another righteous person
It is possible for someone to be infinitely great, and
still someone be considered a “thorn” relative to someone else’s calling.
----
In terms of objectivity and social recognition, they have
their own gender appeals.
In terms of personable appetite (preference, craving,
conceit, desire,) they are thorns!
We all celebrate their gender glories and we all have
great joy with them whenever they have fun, but we let no personable sight of
them ever enter into our hearts.
Selfish Imagination Lust After Your Fantasy of Their Person
Michal’s Bitter Story of Short-Lived Lust-Love of David
See:
Divorce and Remarriage Repentance
Revolution -- 2Sa 3 – David and The
Lord’s Example About Divorce And Remarriage
· 1Sa_17:25, 1Sa_17:46-51; 1Sa_18:17 – The MT and some LXX copies indicates that after David saved the kingdom by killing Goliath, king Saul owed his daughter to David as a wife.
· 1Sa_18:20-27 – Saul gave Michal to David as his first wife for “100 Philistine foreskins” (MT says “200”).
·
1Sa_25:44 – David was separated from her, and she
remarried another man named Phaltiel, (having been given to him by her father).
·
2Sa_3:14-16
– When David came to power and called his first wife back to himself.
·
2Sa_6:16-23 – Michal was
bitter in the end.
This bitter story spans through First and Second Samuel.
2Sa_3:14-16 CAB And David sent [ἐξαπέστειλεν] messengers [ἀγγέλους] to [πρὸς] Ishbosheth [μεμφιβοσθε*] the son of Saul, saying [λέγων], Restore [Ἀπόδος – give over (to)] me my wife Michal, whom I took for a hundred
foreskins of the Philistines. 15 And
Ishbosheth [μεμφιβοσθε*] sent [ἀπέστειλεν], and took her from her husband [ἔλαβεν
αὐτὴν παρὰ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς
αὐτῆς], from [παρὰ] Paltiel the son of Laish. 16 And her
husband [ὁ ἀνὴρ
αὐτῆς] went [ἐπορεύετο] with her [μετ᾿ αὐτῆς] weeping behind her as far as Bahurim. And Abner said to [πρὸς] him, Go, return [πορεύου ἀνάστρεφε],
[i.e. to your home]; and he returned.
A Fan Proposes to a Famous Singer
Story: A Singer had a fan say that ‘god told
them to marry them’, but the singer knew they had no idea who he really was…
The fan was just imagining things about popular
people on TV that they don’t actually know.
The same thing happens on smaller scales…
The Distraction And Deception of Qualities-Lust
9/6/14; 4/10/15
Some have said, "don't focus on finding the
right person, but focus on becoming the right person" - you can be tantalized
(supposedly) over "other people's qualities" to the point that you
don't see that the compulsion is really about satisfying your own needs (it is
never really about how special they are), and while you are supposedly focused
on being impressed with their qualities (or even "virtues") you are
forgetting to meet their (and your own) crying needs for the exclusivity of
your soul.
Dreaming for Yourself
About Someone You Do Not Actually Know
Looking for generic ideal qualities (GIQs) leave you
hyping up a fantasy of your own heart about the value of someone you don't
actually know .
>> Example: Michal lusts after David's fame
·
Lusting after ideal qualities can be so generic
·
it happens without identifying who they actually are
Specialized confirmations tell what God is actually saying about the potency of
someone's specialized precious calling.
Example: Gen_24: Rebecca and the Camel Test -- Servant saw Rebecca's
impressive service of the Camels...
Gen_24:51 …let her be wife to the son of thy master, as the Lord has said.
Shinning Light and
Redefining Love by Loving Who They Really Are
Minimizing
Attractions & seeking who they really are
Lust is wreckless, but Love has integrity.
Lust is selfish and ignorant, but love is wise and
helpful.
You may indeed love the pleasure of being with someone in
the same way as a childish dog who does not know what it good. But a
responsible parent, without romance, has more love for their child by keeping
them out of the street than you do with all of the wreckless zeal for your
ignorant lust combined. Now you boldly take someone from their parents as
though it were supposed to be an upgrade to their life in bringing them into
the grown up marriage state, but you confer less real value to them than their
parents did, and you have instead downgraded them in your folly and
unlovingness
Loving who someone really is, is not the same thing as
willingly loving their gender.
Loving who someone really is, means knowing and valuing
them based on how God feels about them, and prefering their greatest benefit
and profit and life and salvation above your personable inclusion in their
life. Loving them means loving their profit above your own personal pleasure from
them.
Loving someone's gender does NOT indicate the greatest
and deepest love you can have for someone, unless indeed, marrying them would
truly be for their greatest profit and salvation.
Loving someone unlawfully is always unloving and selfish,
because it prioritizes your own deluded pleasure with the unsaved fantasy of
who you imagine them to be, rather than confering real value and benefit to
their life by promoting that they become the greatness that God seeks them to
be. Your useless lustful love seeks the temporary pleasure of sin above the
saving of their soul and glorification of who they really are in truth.
And what is your useless love worth when it cannot even
survive the Judgement without being condemned? Even if you do marry them and
experience good from that marriage, after Judgement, all that was
hapenstancially good in your life will be stripped away from you since it was
only due to the automated processes which are accredited to God alone, the
ever-wise Creator. The only love you actually contributed was worthless to
benefitting them, and too shallow to save them, and left them on their own in
evil.
Now unlawful pleasure is for a short season and is never
love, but treachery, and foolishness, and selfishness, and it makes you guilty of
defying their life and goodness and honor and worth. If you fall into this lust
as everyone else does, then you are not doing them any good favor by loving
them, but at best you are only flatering them with your wrecklessness, tempting
them with your deception, ignorance, shortsightedness, and shallow view of
them, and using them as a resource to consume for your own pleasure above an
eternally valuable soul to save for eternaty.
You do not love someone when you try to trick them into
doing something that will hurt them. You do not love someone when you would
rather them believe your perverse foolishness above God's truth. You do not
love someone when you tempt them to sin with you. You do not love someone when
you are willing to add your unsaving gender to their life without the revealed
Word of God blessing you to multiply life with them. You cannot love someone
when you seek their intimacy without knowing who they are. If you are willing
to move forward with seeking your desires before resolving your own ignorance
of what God has said about them, you do not yet love them.
Now God really loves His creatures and is continually
seeking to save them, and when defiled little you comes along, if you actually
loved them you would hold back what is unlawful and dirty that they might not
be tainted or hindered from the truth by your worthless and cheapening lusts.
...
So you don't know who they are, but is there any hope for
marriage before supernatural knowledge?
Do you hope to eventually learn to love them after
partaking of their good things in marriage? This can almost only happen if you
have a saine and sober mediator who is only willing to put you both together in
ways that are in both of your best interests. You can be much safer deffering
to such a one, and fervantly interceeding that they may do what is good and
that you may gain commendable understanding as soon as possible in the
meantime.
But don't claim the deepest love for someone until you
aprehend something of a real knowledge of them and their significance.
The Guilt of Loving Fairytales Over Integrity
Remember: You should be seeking to complete/fill
up a sacrifice before looking for romantic input. – this is the integrity of
exclusivity.
Non-exclusivity is a series of fairytale love
stories with different people where their magical qualities complete your lack
of integrity without you ever having to learn to draw water and feed cattle.
Since these fantasies change repeatedly, they
will attach their affection upon whatever victim happens to fall close enough
within the convenience of your ideals and appetite.
See:
Give Over a Sacrifice Before Receiving Romantic Input
Betraying Prince Charming by Your Own Self-Deception
Your own need for exclusivity is crying out
because without it, especially if they are wise, you will leave them hanging in
bitterness, and you will stab "prince charming" with misery, having
only given them Michael's fleeting and treacherous attraction. - You don't love
THEM, but your own ideas about THEM, which makes a harlotry of their image that
cheaply pretends to meet your own needs without you doing crying justice in
your romantic passions.
The Betrayal of David in His Trial
Making a harlotry fairytale of another person, is
when a person loves David's popularity and social glory as he rides in on a
horse, but despising his shame when God lets Satan persecute him. When David's
facial expressions look guilty and despicable to you, and at the time of
Nabal's outrageous accusation, you are still liable to love in the house of
another person, and abandon greatness when they are chased, whipped,
persecuted, and wounded.
You
can praise David when God makes it easy for everyone to feel good about him,
but you will betray him with love for others when God brings down David's head
in shame. And when David's wounded heart needs help the most, instead of being
a help and strength and support to him, you will add hatred to his wounds and
love adultery, and comfort a stranger, and leave him sleeping in the bed of
hurt by himself!
The Bitter End of Fairy Tales
Like all fantasies, as soon as it says,
"and they lived happily ever after"
The fairy tale pops with bitterness, as you are
shocked back into the sad reality of still lacking the crying virtue and
integrity to really love the truth in another person.
Fiery
Trials or Fairy Tales?
I would rather choose the temporary pain of fiery
trials, rather than the bitter end of fairy tales.
Minimize Attractions
Downplay
Disrespect Your Attractions
It really is very simple: no word, not serious.
If there is no Divine help, then get really unimpressed &
unmotivated toward that direction.
Name some generic things girls are sometimes attracted to
5/9/15
·
Hairdo
·
Kindness
·
Voice?
·
Smell
·
Oh yes, visual might sometimes happen too, right? (the
reverent are going to make their mark in amazing ways with the lost women of
this age...)
A Summary of What it Means to Minimize
Attractions
Exclusivity is about continually rejecting your own natural,
worthless, selfish, vain attractions… It is about minimizing, disrespecting,
insulting, degrading, and rejecting your own stray attractions to other
people’s qualities (whenever they may arise) and reserving yourself for
something much more exciting and real and true in the favor of God matching you
up with a great story/parable that achieves a proclamation of greatness through
your lives.
We have heard about "...a woman spurned" – but
we will proceed anyway
Foolish Harlot: “I
Feel so Much Love for Him!”/ Let Us Solace Ourselves With Love…
Pro_7:18 WEB Come,
let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with
loving.
Pro_7:18 CAB Come, and
let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.
Pro_7:18 Greek ἐλθὲ
καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν
φιλίας ἕως ὄρθρου,
δεῦρο καὶ ἐγκυλισθῶμεν
ἔρωτι·
But due to her inexperience with meaningful, quality
thought, a shallow-hearted prostitute it is excited about being gullible so
that she is greatly amazed and impressed with the raise in her own blood
pressure, and the fumes of her own silly intoxications, and considers the
hallucinations of her drunkenness to be visions from heaven!
She thinks the indulgent ecstasy of losing control when
going in heat is honorable.
Sin feels profoundly novel to one who is ignorant of
righteousness.
She would be received as one worthy of compassion if she
would simply cry in meekness at the pain of exposure to temptations when her
needs were not met...
A harlot is surprised by the whims of her own lust but a
reverent person easily comprehends her predictable and shallow sin...
\/
You Shall Not Be
Shallow in Your Sorrowful Temptations
If you must cry, do so only briefly due to your
understanding, knowing that you have not lost anything since it is truth you
are after and not lust or disappointing vanity... Have understanding and know
that sanity will soon relieve the wise who believe...
Do not sorrow as the world sorrows, or despair when you
are increased in value, but share God's values and let your sorrow attach to no
attractive person, but let your happiness quickly know that You have gained
help to be more exclusive...
Sorrow only until your understanding appears, and be
sorrowful for lack of truth, rather than lack of romance. Then quickly be glad
that you were not allowed to be cheapened, and rejoice in increased
exclusivity.
Where is
the Real Source of Your Attraction?
Is it that they're qualities are actually
compelling you to marry, or is it based on actually knowing their qualities/significance/calling/parable?
Selfish lust is extremely treacherous and
unfaithful...
You will be in someone else’s bed within a
matter of time and circumstance w Michal's lust...
Winnow Out the Chaff
So You Only Have Truth Left
3/23/15
Disregard/despise/degrade your natural attractions/lusts
so that all you have left is faithful sentiments.
After you minimize your more shallow attractions, then
all that should be left are those that are unhindered and promote other
people's best interests / greatest glory / exaltation
– vs. –
The seductress who shallowly pursues lust at the expense
of her value and his life!
The real deal is when you know / accurately perceive (at
least to a sufficient degree) another person's real value (according to the
sentiments of God), and based on that reality, you are making exciting
considerations of maxing out on that value. (results in bliss.)
Consecrated Parables
Are The Only Valuable Lust
Unlike Michal, the only attractions you should take
seriously or ever happily express are the deep and sizzling, provocative
parables of God.
All sexuality should zealously be linked by faith to its
reality in the marriage of Anointed One. "let nothing be wasted" with
the bread Jesus multiplied, and let no aspect of gender be made worthless as a
means to its own end... Let no gender glory be its own goal... Let nothing
perish in this life for selfishness and worthless temporary pleasures, because
such things perish under a bitter and unbearable rebuke at death.
All other attractions which are outside of the parables
of God should be confessed and opposed, and you should begg for accountability
to cut them off and put them far from you just as if you were already
married to someone else, because in your non-exclusivity you are being
tempted with premarital adultery, and you should not play around with things
that disqualify you as a proper wife/spouse. Even if you never get married in
this life, you are being defiled by cheating against your husband from heaven.
If you grieve over premarital adulteries in the seasons of your temptations,
you can rejoice greatly over parables of truth in the times of your exaltation.
Do not ever delight or be happy with any non-exclusive,
non-favored, anti-prophetic attractions you may feel. Hate them as a married
woman shuns daydreams of adultery so that you will be free from sin and married
with exclusive delight on into greatness.
Minimize Everything That
Does Not Save
·
The result of a seductresses is
death
·
The goal of a believing woman is, 'how do you know oh
woman, if you will save your man?' -- even if a man had already been saved,
this is still their goal lest he slip from that hope.
·
If following attractions would not save someone (glorify
them / answer their value), then make little of them.
·
If you do not understand / perceive
how to transmit real value (incl. How to meet needs...) then you should
minimize all attractions
·
If your attractions do not have real substance to them,
& are not based on knowledge & perception, then they should be
minimized...
Wisdom is Very Unexcited About Lust
The
way of wisdom makes you extremely unexcited about everything everyone else is
thrilled about
· Football
· TV/Movies
· Falling in love/lust
Same
Old Boring, Dull, Unimpressive Temptations that are Not Impressive Enough to
Take Seriously
Be wise and downplay your
attraction/needs/lust/infatuation/interest. Until you have a divine basis,
don't take your attraction seriously at all... it is not deep, meaningful, or
even that much (no matter how intensely you feel it)... it is shallow,
superficial, fleeting, temporary, not real, not intense enough to take
seriously, not persuasive, not impressive, notable, admirable. It doesn't
matter at all if "you have never felt this way before". What you
believe and feel is NOT special, unique, beautiful, or lovely. Every dog and
every fool has had your exact same lust with a thousand million more people,
and just give it some time and or just the right circumstances and you'll
quickly be feeling these same things about another 100 other people.
Although you may be temporarily hurt by the
rakings of temptations, just wait in faith and wisdom for your sanity to
return. “Wisdom is Very Unexcited About Lust”.
No
Temptation Has Overtaken You Except That Which Is Common To Man
1Co_10:12-14 CAB So then,
let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he should fall! 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such
as is common to man [i.e. it is not special or divine]; but God is faithful, who will not permit you to
be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation, He will also make
the way out, so as for you to be able to
bear it. 14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
1Co_10:12-14 Greek ῞Ωστε
ὁ δοκῶν ἑστάναι
βλεπέτω μὴ
πέσῃ.
13
πειρασμὸς ὑμᾶς
οὐκ εἴληφεν
εἰ μὴ ἀνθρώπινος·
πιστὸς δὲ ὁ
Θεός, ὃς οὐκ ἐάσει
ὑμᾶς
πειρασθῆναι ὑπὲρ
ὃ δύνασθε, ἀλλὰ
ποιήσει σὺν
τῷ πειρασμῷ
καὶ τὴν ἔκβασιν,
τοῦ δύνασθαι
ὑμᾶς ὑπενεγκεῖν. 14
Διόπερ, ἀγαπητοί
μου, φεύγετε ἀπὸ
τῆς εἰδωλολατρίας.
Taking
The Magic Out Of Lust
10/9/14
>> Scrip:
"...sniffing at the air" (Jer_2:24) is the shameful behavior of a woman as an animal. Multiple partners where "any will do" is about your own need instead of the spiritual meaning of someone else.
Exclusivity is
about taking the magic out of lust, and sacrificially reducing what
overwhelmingly feels divinely inspired, and rationally wording it by
crucifixion* into its uninspired and shameful/dishonorable description that it
is... What Disney says is praiseworthy and surely feels like the most solid and
divine love from God you have ever had in your whole life, is actually shallow deception
that is less than the experienced foresight of a lost person...
The whimsical
and fickle lust of your special feelings for someone, your special
"relationship", is not only uninspired, but it is less sacred (holy)
than the wisdom of a lost person!
Your unholy
reverence over how the gods put you together or made you have enraptured
feelings for someone is not praiseworthy, but a predictable, pathetic, typical,
repeat of what every romantic drunk has foolishly worshiped.
* Instead you
should pursue extremist sobriety, and all re-convincing of your mind, beliefs
and perceptions...
\/
Deep
Sleep vs. Deep Quality
Your feelings
are not really that “deep” -- despite how thoroughly deep your feelings feel...
They are only “deep” in the sense of "deep sleep" because you are so
deeply intoxicated so that you are that thoroughly far from conscious and
rational thought...
\/
Fight
Deception
Insult the lack
of truth and inspired thoughtfulness of your romantic feelings... Pop their
bubble and save yourself alive from delusion, deception, drunkenness,
sin-tainted and beast-like instincts and impulses that override all
reasonableness and clear headed and sound judgment, and are even willing to
self-deceive yourself in a desperate attempt to do anything to get you in a
sexual relationship with someone.
Sin-tainted
instincts are willing to self-deceive you, or do any other desperate measure,
or do anything at all, sounding every biological and sub-conscientious and
psychological alarm in your being ...as though your life depended on it, all to
get you to succumb to the call of mating -- even if it means fornication.
Your
sin-tainted being will do whatever it takes to get you desperate to have a
partner, no matter how it tricks you and messes you up to get there to that
goal...
I am telling
you the truth: you are not doing something honorable and blessed when you have
special feelings for someone, you are being tricked by your own natural and
fleshly predictable desires and shallow and gullible lusts that everyone else
falls for... You are made a joke, and subjected to being wrong about your
feelings like every other looser that has ever felt lust.
(i.e. by
feeling special about someone whom you are not marrying.)
The only thing
that is really special according to truth is if you marry according to
obedience to God, which obviously no one else is doing. But be sure if you are
doing things like everyone else, your love for them is no different than a
pig’s lust for slop. (Only the wisdom of God, working in spite of man, makes
any marriages worth anything to God's own parable...)
Shallow Seductresses
Non-exclusive lust is SHALLOW Lust
Biblical Stories Of
Shallowness
Michal Loved David (then Phaltial easily loved her) then despised
David
>scrip
Gen_39:7 –
Potiphar's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, but then through him in prison!
Pro_5:4; Pro_6:32; Pro_7 –
Seductress does not care if it kills the man she claims to “love”
Killing someone is not love, but ugly lust -- and you must despise its
shallowness like I do
Do we do the same thing today? – ever heard of
STDs? If you had an STD would it be loving to pass it on to someone else, esp.
without telling them?
“According to Stanford University’s Sexual
Health Peer Resource Center, 1
in 4 college students have an STD.”
4/14/15
Humanly speaking, shallow lust can be a reason
to marry (Deu_21:11), but
it sure is shallow and fleshly, and temporary. If you use it, you will also pay
for it dearly.
Personal Stories / Examples of Treachery, Foolishness and Shallowness
8/23/14
LJS bold seductress kept trying to hug me, but then I was told they hugged others
GD girl could not even finish hitting on me before she lusted after a pic of my relative...
Seductresses who made lustful sentiments about
me - I later saw them marry others, and I deeply took this to heart and pondered
it greatly.
(btw: Should I warn their husbands what they
were getting into?)
I took it to heart that at no time did their
many seductions mean anything. Even though their actions made a pretense of
conferring value, the bitter treachery was that at no time did they ever even
start to actually love me, because they were capable of "getting over
me" AND MARRYING OTHER MEN! Wicked treachery! (think: Michal)
- I knew a
daughter of a remarried woman, and I watched her deeds closely and considered
that she would not ensnare me, and then be like her mom...
- I saw people
younger than me getting married and then getting divorced because they could
not work things out...
- all of these
flirts that I knew long enough, I saw them get married to other people in a
few years! Glad I never took them seriously! If they can casually marry
someone else one day, then I refuse to take them seriously now...
- They may have
done deep damage (and I am chopping to become less vulnerable to that), but I
cannot take them seriously, and I have repeatedly set all their vanity aside
with great zeal, and I despise their “bait and switch” by observing their
faithless lack of obsession.
- Reformed
guy’s attraction to a girl did not last long before he called me again and said
he had gotten engaged to someone else!
Learn from
David's trial the pain of marrying Michal...
(and although
he had polygamy back then with wise Abigale, which might have eased the pain,
now it’s even more serious for men!)
The
Point: Truth Says Knowing People is the Value that Makes You Exclusive
Hos_2:20
Obsession is Required For Exclusive Marriage
No passing interests allowed
You want Biblical excitement in marriage?
How about we talk about lawful obsession that
cleanly drives a person to a constantly inflamed mind about you?
Let’s not just avoid lust in order to put
out a fire, let’s avoid lust and seek exclusivity because we want a nuclear
explosion!
We’re not avoiding lust because it is too
hot, but we despise it because it is too shallow and cold…
The shallowness of lust is boring – its
lawful obsession that actually tantalizing and exciting with enduring
heart-pounding thrills for the rest of your life
Great marriage is something you can basically
worship without restrictions… Because in
as much as you are obsessed over great marriage, you are our obsessing over
marrying God…
(of course the parable must submit to the
point, and Abraham offered up Isaac on the altar, but hopefully get my point…)
Infinite Love means you actually acknowledge who
someone really is, and you constantly refuse to ever believe anything false
about them.
Real love has the profound effect of accurately
obsessing over someone's truest value.
Deep Love = Isaac
What is This “Obsession” Then?
·
Clean obedience faith & favor obsession
·
I am zealous to tear down and completely overthrow
everything that is not passionately obsessing over the Words of God...
Flesh vs. Faith -- The
Temporary and Permanent Obsessions of those who loose and Those who win
Most people are extremely cheap and shallow in their
romantic life
A few desparate people obsess based on hyped up lust and
religious spirits, and other shallow people think this is unhealthy, therefore
obsession seems more like a sickness than an ideal to most people.
Wether they are cheap or wether they obsess, despising
ultimately takes over in most cases, and virtually everyone ends up apathetic
and worthless in the end because flesh eventually gives up, and cannot endure in
hope and faithfulness.
Only Biblical people who endure have a never-ending
obsession like Song of Songs...
Obsession for the sake of truth is based on the Words of
God and the ambition for greatness and the hope of winning by faith... Zealous
fireballs of truth can win eternally because they are attracted and attched to
something eternal and are driven with obsession over marrying God in their
spouse...
Obsession
Marks Exclusivity
Defining Definitions
·
“Obsession” is not “Drunkenness”!
·
In this case, we are talking about the truest
stuff, much like the Bible often makes it a point to talk about the truest
“love”
Some people
need to just get married by faith (knowing perfectly that prophecy works), but
for tested exclusivity, "obsession" is needed.
We should all
know that you are supposed to Love God more than your spouse, but nevertheless,
you should obsess over them in a similar reflection as a convincing picture of
Anointed One with His Assembly. Ask yourself: How zealous and constantly
earnest should I be in prayer?
Isaac obsessed
over Rebecca - play/jumping after many years!
Jacob obsessed
over Rachel - waited 7 years by faith with still being motivated
Leah obsessed
over Jacob and became a major matriarch of monotheism!
Song of Songs
is unending in mutual fiery hot obsession, and they never run out, but keep
going passed the end of the book as strong and passionate as the beginning...
Tobit obsessed
over his Sarah by faith before he met her -- we sill not sit to eat until we
get this settled
Ruth made a
very jaw-dropping move on Boaz, and Boaz obsessed to take care of things
asap... Naomi, being so wise, knew that Ruth's blessed faith would obsess Boaz
to deal with it that day, and Ruth could sit still and wait on her extremist
deed to burn and ultimately accomplish putting them in the great lineage of
Anointed One!
> I love the
story of Ruth because it is one of the few places were a woman gets to
'display' obsession before marriage.
I have dealt
with a lot of seductresses, harlots, and generally complacent women in my life,
and I have always worked hard in logos to swiftly minimize their flirtations
and seductions because I saw right through them that they were not obsessive
now, nor would they by any means continue in some faithful obsession if they
were ever married.
Seduction Lust vs. Obsession
Crushes and infatuations come and go in
unfaithful people, but the obsessions of exclusivity are based on an addictive
grip that gives over every honorable reason to tell someone "till death do
us part".
At best, lust (esp. incl. premarital polygamy)
is about meeting your own personal needs, but even then it is not really about
who they are and their special qualities, but about how much in need you are...
this is NOT infinitely loving someone and who they really are. Exclusivity now
reserves you to truly and infinitely love someone later in enduring
unchangeable faithfulness later.
Personal Note: The seductresses never knew who I was or shared what spiritual thing I knew and was defined by.
The first part of exclusivity includes
completely despising cheap lust, and being completely unpersuaded by it.
(non-commitment)
The second part is infinitely obsessing over the
truest essence of who someone really is.
Exclusivity later makes a life-long obsessive
compulsion over the reality of someone, leaving you totally unable to stomach
the idea of moving on to someone else if this person rejects you.
Remember how faithful (and obsessive) God is
toward unfaithful Israel?
‘I remember the kindness of your youth’
‘when you danced going out of Egypt...’
Rev: remember your first love!
God demands perfect, infinite, obsessive love
for all our relationships.
Tobit’s Obsession
Tob_6:9-17
Tob_7:1
Tob_8:1
Tobit tells you
the answer to obsession. Without it, you should not take any of your own
attractions seriously, because it is only pre-made adultery against someone
else’s spouse!
If you
valiantly fight against your own soul's blindness with fervent truth, then you
can also sift through the level of potential exclusive obsession in others, and
ultimately defeat all temptations to think defilement by minimizing all your
own attractions and any of their seductions.
It may feel
like "playing hard to get", but it is actually a serious obsession
over divinity that is not at all "non-romantic", but insists on
something much deeper and obsessively burning than the quick lusts of this
world.
Typically you
will be sifting through shallowness, but ultimately you should be looking for a
Tobit-like / Rachel-like confirmation before you go taking any passions very
seriously.
Obsession of Boaz
Cannot do anything but seal up and affirm God's
Words... he will not rest until the matter is solved
Notice: Boaz praised Ruth for coming under God’s
wing, and she later said she should come under Boaz’ wing! – do you
see a divine parallel here?
So I see… storing up that monotheistic
vocabulary and then wisely reusing it again later to get yourself in the great
lineage of Anointed One…. I see how these things work!
Notice that her words to Boaz are in direct
contrast to flirting with the young and or rich men…
"I am not TRULY tempted because of how
special and appealing they are, but because of how much in need I am."
That only changes when you have a parable
matchup. You are only uncontrollably obsessed in THEIR specialness (surpassing
your own ego-centric selfishness) when their greatness and superlative virtue
and character fit you into prophetic greatness and complete your obedience as
God's parable - physically and spiritually.
When their sizzling holiness and righteous
mindfulness and your great calling make a heart-striking prophecy of Jesus and
the church, only then do you truly love them because of obsessing over their
appealing virtues that define who they are.
David wisely took Abigale and Isaac rejoiced
over Rebecca – who’s virtue divinely chose her for Isaac- and Tobit clung to
the prophetic words saving His Sarah.
it truly
fits you and them into prophetic Adam and Eves, and Jesus and great
church-bride!
The Bible is the Real
Source of Obsessing Romance
I am not motivated at all by Disney or any other shallow
and cheapening dirty romance Movie I used to watch… The Bible is the most
exciting and motivating romance answer in all of existence!
Don’t give me that harlot Disney Jazmine touting all her
fornication for all men to see! Worthless and dirty, and worst of all, PRIDEFUL
self-defending self-valuing loose and foolish beast-like fluff acting like an
animal or a cow touting its gender organs in plain daylight, making them as
worthless as they can be!
If I were going to
marry, tell me where that provocative hidden Rebecca is with her tantalizing
beauty behind her enticing modest veil with clean gentle virtues powerfully
shinning and preaching into all the earth, making any sensible man amazed by
her humble amazingness! – Listen! That modest “veil” shines forth more
excellent virgin beauty than when you fornicate and defile all men with your face!
It has been said that a real professional never has to
say so. Much more rather, any real female of value and integrity does not have
to persuade men to hurry to urgently marry them!
>> “Sit still” said Naomi. That monotheistic man
can’t help to make this happen after seeing Ruth’s strong virtue!
Getting Exclusive!
Pending…
Accept their Restoration By Faith?
How Can a Woman
Be 'Divine' in Marriage if She Represents The Assembly?
Your God
Will Be Your Husband
- this is proof that God does not want
shallow and non-romantic celibates... He made you to be passionate, and He idealizes
you as always needing marriage!
- romantic exclusivity toward God as your
spouse leaves you open to exclusivity to a physical husband too -- because the
man falls right in line with the God you worship and adore while waiting.
- Hope is bullet proof (it does not
disappoint) -- If you wait 'too long' in celibacy, then 'the time will stand
upon itself', and the physical man who comes will actually be Jesus Himself...
Then 'your God will be your husband' indeed!
Unfaithful
Breaches Before Marriage Sets You Up for Intolerable Adulteries After Marriage
Why
exclusivity is so important
4/3/15
One BIG problem / indicator of evil is
that if you don't find exclusivity / kill non-marital attractions now, then you
are liable to still be breaching with adulteries after marriage! -- if marriage
does not end all temptations and put an end to all "flashbacks" &
memories & heal all trauma, it is not tolerable to endure the trouble!
Although Hosea was great beyond this
world, Gomer was not (at least at first?)
Although there is much less room for this
in the new covenant, some are still called to save a weak spouse and endure
trials by marriage & hurt where they should live, and bear the shame of
others until their less-than-glorious bond is finally redeemed for virtue.
\/\/\/
Josiahs’ Particular Parable of Exclusivity
A Particular Parable
of Extreme Exclusivity That Can Partly Teach The Nations
The Meaning of A
Particular Calling of the Most Extreme Exclusivity
Maybe parts of my Extreme exclusivity extend and apply
into some general values that are good for all to consider...
I Always Remember Lot Syndrome
If you could consider other possibilities if you had more
options then don't consider the desparate one at all in the meantime...
Eph_4:13 – Each one has special gifts of favor, until we
all get perfect in all favor
Profound Personal Spiritual Note: It is not right that I should at any
time receive a woman who still has the capacity to be attracted to other men
after meeting me (and having an opportunity to know who I am). If I do not
infinitely surpass, disable, ruin ("for anything less"), and spoil
them for all other romantic capacities and considerations, ambitions, and
possibilities, then there is no point to making considerations.
- Not everyone is called to insist on
this, especially to this degree, but I have to be, which is a lot of why I can
most potently proclaim exclusivity!
- not for the sake of bragging or
self-conceit, but for the purpose of fulfilling a calling and picture
- I don't say this because I think I am
that attractive, but because I know God could definitely find someone who
somehow just so happened to have the right settings (from birth or rebirth) to
think everything was fully perfect -- so that they might fulfill that necessary
correlating parable / story.
- I dare not say any of these things to
provoke lust, I definitely DO NOT want to "suggest the idea", but
rather, since this standard is very unlikely, and could even be
considered basically impossible, I say these things to effectively dismiss and
minimize any partial temptations that may ever arise, so that people may be at
peace knowing the significance, definitions, and boundaries.
- if anyone ever thought they were doing
me a favor by overlooking deficiencies, they would not be.
- am not called to not be known, but to be
known
- some people can work on saving their
spouses into exclusivity after marriage as Hosea did with Gomer and even as
great Leah did with great Jacob, but I cannot.
- I have more gender trials than I can
bear without marriage; I have no use for more gender trials after marriage...
- I am hopeful and ambitious to use the
particular leverage of my calling to exhort and prepare all people to
exclusivity, and eventually multiply marital bliss and its sweet song on the
earth till all justice and truth has come and been established.
Women Absolutely Must
Have Monogamy, Even More Than Men
Monogamy is even more important and universally required
for women. Although it could be understood why a man may struggle with
considering more than one woman (since polygamy was once allowed, and that
capacity is still there), yet it has never been tolerable for women to have
multiple men in her heart.
(They may say that a man fell to adultery, but if a woman is unfaithful, they may say she choose to do that.)
The Point: the Reward of Exclusivity is Greatness and Exaltation and Blessed Peace
If you get
exclusivity, then you are "as one who finds peace" (son 8)
Cross ref: 2Pe_3:14 CAB Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these
things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot or blemish;
---------------
Defining Fornication
12/14/17
It is assumed that Monotheists Would Not Fornicate, But marry
12/14/17
Deu_21:11 WEB and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
Deu_21:11 LB and if you should see [ἴδῃς] among the spoil a woman *beautiful in countenance [* καλὴν τῷ εἴδει – lit. good in perception (εἴδει), (related to “see” – ἴδῃς) – this is the way to describe a visually attractive person who is “good to look at”], and should desire [ἐνθυμηθῇς – lit. (get) heated up/ (start) breathing hard inside (fig. in your deeper passions and thoughts) (for)] her, and take [λάβῃς] her *to yourself for a wife [* σαυτῷ γυναῖκα],
>>>> Get from DAR!
Homosexuality
Other
dates (including ~2008-2009); early 2017 (recompiled); 5/7/17; 8/22/17; 1/10/18
· Jacob waiting for Rachel
· Joseph leading about Marry
They were in separation of betrothal.
The selfless love of the Bible does not include stirring up love before it is ready for the marriage bed.
This truth is also reinforced by Family purity after marriage.
Example include a woman’s monthly separation of blood flow as well as the blood flow after child birth.
When it comes to selfless love the Bible does not take the side of the evil world with its perverted ideals of men pretending to be soft in order to do physical romance without the marriage bed during times of sickness and strain, but much rather instead the Bible takes the side of real men who are careful and reverent and clean and devoted to truth by separating during seasons where the bed is not available.
Don’t awaken Love out of season.
Separate during times of womanly uterine bleeding.
For a man to fast it defaults to 3 days in which a man is considered to have sacrificed being with a woman in order to sanctify his seed as a special fast and a holy-ified refilled man unto spiritual service to appear before God in a special way.
It is not fit for a man to engage in romance and the Biblical “expectation” praised in Song of Songs unless fulfillment is available the same day.
Contradicting this praises the evil catastrophe of nocturnal emission which defile a woman the same way uterine blood defiles a man.
Praising romance without the marriage is evil because it praises the hatred and dishonor of the male species and promotes and causes nocturnal accidents and intentional chooses the very defilement which the Law and Jews in general go to such great lengths to avoid.
Jacob waited 7 years for Rachel and they “seemed like nothing to him because of his love for her”
Very selfless and very challenging and quite appealing romance!
Jacob did not wait and date
They were separate.
God is a real man who raised up a “baby girl” to marry -- in His parable as he tells it.
In Jacob’s case it is simple math: 13 or 14 - 7 = 6 or 7
Rachel was evidently approximately 6 or 7 years old
The ancients tried to get their women married off as early as they could be attractive (Songs 8) and have babies.
Laban would not be aiming for 16 (that’s pushing the lateness of the boundaries!)
Laban was almost certainly aiming for about 12 to 13 years of age -- we have got to think and conclude this by default unless indicated otherwise.
Laban was not about to let a good marriage deal pass him by.
See how eager Laban was to marry of Leah before she got too old?
See how Saul and many others did not wait long to marry off their daughters? -- Even though that meant that Saul’s previous daughter did not get to be married to David as Saul had wished.
They would rather give their daughters off in an early and timely way rather than risking waiting for the “best man”.
Paul is a faithful monotheist and ancient moral thinker and is totally against inappropriately postponing marriage after a girl reaches her “acme” in 1Co_7.
Waiting “beyond the time” is strictly disapproved, especially for girls, by many ancient cultures including the Bible.
We don’t think of marrying “girls” in our cultures, but in the Bible that is exactly the type of man God describes Himself to be.
>>Scrip
Child-molesting is always wrong.
Child-marriage is inappropriate.
We have generally been conditioned to avoid both of these problems altogether in our cultures by only marrying “consenting adults”.
Ancient cultures knew that child marriage was inappropriate, but instead of avoiding it altogether they simply waited until they were grown after betrothing them.
In the Bible, they still did not want to marry children, but that did not stop them from arranging their marriages in the meantime.
So they did not want to marry children, but they betrothed them and prepared for marriage in the meantime.
This waiting for children while establishing their spouses and planning their marriage was especially true for girls being married by men, and those men might be just about any and every age (as with Jacob being MUCH older than Rachel), but it also happened for sons married to older widows as in the case of Tamar with Juda’s sons.
Jacob was being a real man like God by waiting years for his “girl” to grow up and be ready for marriage, and that love is a real virtue admired throughout the Bible.
Jacob waited appropriately for Rachel because there is a mechanism in men to be able to wait for a girl to grow up first before activating any lust for the marriage bed “before the time” (see: Son_2:7; 3:5; 8:4).
When the time was up Jacob was quite bluntly and unapologetically ready for action.
one of the insane confusions within
the homosexual movement is comparing everyone as if they were all fornicators
being compared with homosexuals, and like Burger King said, assuming that we
are all the same inside.
how are homosexuals comparable with
fornicators?
if all people fornicate and give
themselves to the murderous desire of dirtiness and perversion, then yes there
is a lot of similarities between fornicators and homosexuals.
... Etc, etc....
and while homosexuals might be
comparable indeed with fornicators to a certain degree, they are not at all
comparable with a virgin or one who has chosen to be celibate for God's
Kingdom, nor is homosexuality even at all comparable with those who wait until
they are lawfully married to be with someone.
those who sin in complete and utter
wickedness and hate God and hate humanity and hate sexuality are not at all the
same inside in their hateful heart with someone who is clean and loving and gentle
and pure and true and heart by the truth of the good announcement and the love
of the real God.
Intro
Basically, we all know that homosexuality is wrong.
We all know that it is dirty, and evil, and against nature, and against the Bible.
When people pretend like this is “unclear”, they are almost always just playing fool-hearty games.
Homosexuality is a grievous
sin that will condemn a person to hell. When churches participate in it, it is a
sign of the coming of the lawless Antichrist (see 2Th_2:8, where it speaks of the
“Lawless One”).
The Bible clearly says that
homosexuality is a sin worthy of death: Lev_18:22, 29-30; 20:13; Rom_1:26-27,
32 (also see Gen_19:5; Lev_18:22, 27-28; Deut_23:17-18;
Jdg_19:22; 1Cor_6:9-10; 1Tim_1:10; Jud_1:7). God Himself will enforce
this just death penalty eternally at the judgment, so we had better plead with
all sinners now out of Love, including homosexuals, to spare themselves from
the wrath that is to come (Mat_3:7; Luk_3:7; Act_2:40, 43; 1Thes_1:10;
2:16; Rev_6:17; 11:18).
May all of those inside and
outside the church in sexual sin repent quickly while there is still time for
salvation.
Lev_18:22 WEB " 'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
Lev_18:22 LB And you shall not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.
Lev_18:22 καὶ μετὰ
ἄρσενος οὐ
κοιμηθήσῃ κοίτην
γυναικός· βδέλυγμα
γάρ ἐστιν.
_
Men Can Be Defiled
Lev_18:24
WEB " 'Don't defile yourselves in
any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before
you were defiled.
Lev_18:24 LB ‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drove out before you,
Lev_18:24 Μὴ μιαίνεσθε
ἐν πᾶσιν τούτοις·
ἐν πᾶσι γὰρ τούτοις
ἐμιάνθησαν τὰ ἔθνη,
ἃ ἐγὼ ἐξαποστέλλω
πρὸ προσώπου ὑμῶν,
Lev_18:24
WEB " 'Don't defile yourselves in
any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before
you were defiled.
Lev_18:24 ‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drove out before you,
Lev_18:24 Μὴ μιαίνεσθε
ἐν πᾶσιν τούτοις·
ἐν πᾶσι γὰρ τούτοις
ἐμιάνθησαν τὰ ἔθνη,
ἃ ἐγὼ ἐξαποστέλλω
πρὸ προσώπου ὑμῶν,
Lev_18:25 WEB The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
Lev_18:25 and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it.
Lev_18:25 καὶ ἐμιάνθη
ἡ γῆ, καὶ ἀνταπέδωκα
ἀδικίαν αὐτοῖς
δι᾿ αὐτήν, καὶ
προσώχθισεν ἡ
γῆ τοῖς ἐγκαθημένοις
ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς.
Lev_18:26 WEB You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;
Lev_18:26 And you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and you shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you:
Lev_18:26 καὶ φυλάξεσθε
πάντα τὰ νόμιμά
μου καὶ πάντα τὰ
προστάγματά
μου καὶ οὐ ποιήσετε
ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν
βδελυγμάτων
τούτων, ὁ ἐγχώριος
καὶ ὁ προσγενόμενος
προσήλυτος ἐν ὑμῖν·
Lev_18:27 WEB (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);
Lev_18:27 (for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled)
Lev_18:27 πάντα γὰρ
τὰ βδελύγματα
ταῦτα ἐποίησαν
οἱ ἄνθρωποι τῆς
γῆς οἱ ὄντες πρότεροι
ὑμῶν, καὶ ἐμιάνθη
ἡ γῆ·
Lev_18:28 WEB that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Lev_18:28 and lest the land be enraged with you in your polluting it, as it was enraged with the nations before you.
Lev_18:28 καὶ ἵνα
μὴ προσοχθίσῃ ὑμῖν
ἡ γῆ ἐν τῷ μιαίνειν
ὑμᾶς αὐτήν, ὃν
τρόπον προσώχθισεν
τοῖς ἔθνεσιν
τοῖς πρὸ ὑμῶν.
Lev_18:29 WEB " 'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
Lev_18:29 For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people.
Lev_18:29 ὅτι πᾶς, ὃς
ἂν ποιήσῃ ἀπὸ
πάντων τῶν
βδελυγμάτων
τούτων, ἐξολεθρευθήσονται
αἱ ψυχαὶ αἱ
ποιοῦσαι ἐκ τοῦ
λαοῦ αὐτῶν.
Lev_18:30 WEB Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.' "
Lev_18:30 And you shall keep My ordinances, that you may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time; and you shall not be polluted in them; for I am the Lord your God.’”
Lev_18:30 καὶ φυλάξετε
τὰ προστάγματά
μου, ὅπως μὴ ποιήσητε
ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν
νομίμων τῶν ἐβδελυγμένων,
ἃ γέγονεν πρὸ
τοῦ ὑμᾶς, καὶ οὐ
μιανθήσεσθε ἐν
αὐτοῖς· ὅτι ἐγὼ
κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν.
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Incest
8/15/18
Jos_15:16 WEB Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath
Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife."
Jos_15:16
LB And Caleb said, “Whosoever shall
take and destroy the City of Letters, and master it, to him will I give my
daughter Achsah for a wife.”
Jos_15:16 καὶ
εἶπεν Χαλεβ Ὃς ἐὰν
λάβῃ καὶ ἐκκόψῃ
τὴν Πόλιν τῶν
γραμμάτων καὶ
κυριεύσῃ αὐτῆς,
δώσω αὐτῷ τὴν
Αχσαν θυγατέρα
μου εἰς γυναῖκα.
Jos_15:17 WEB Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of
Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
Jos_15:17
LB And Othniel the son of Kenaz the
brother of Caleb took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
Jos_15:17 καὶ ἔλαβεν
αὐτὴν
Γοθονιηλ υἱὸς
Κενεζ ἀδελφὸς
Χαλεβ ὁ νεώτερος,
καὶ ἔσωκεν αὐτῷ
τὴν Αχσαν
θυγατέρα αὐτοῦ
αὐτῷ γυναῖκα.
Philip and Herodias
Acts: Close marriage
Revelation 3 – You are Wretched!
Rev_3:17 CAB Because [ὅτι] you say [that (ὅτι)], 'I am wealthy [or Rich] [Πλούσιός (same as SOM, etc.)], and have become [wealthy] rich [πεπλούτηκα], and have need of nothing'--and do not [οὐκ] know [οἶδας] that you are wretched [ταλαίπωρος – i.e. wretchedly afflicted], [and (καὶ)] miserable [ἐλεεινὸς – lit. mercy-able / (worthy of) mercy; i.e. pitiful/miserable], [and (καὶ)] poor [πτωχὸς], [and (καὶ)] blind [τυφλὸς], and [καὶ] naked [γυμνός],
Rev_3:17 ὅτι
λέγεις ὅτι
Πλούσιός εἰμι
καὶ
πεπλούτηκα
καὶ οὐδὲν
χρείαν ἔχω,
καὶ οὐκ οἶδας
ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ ταλαίπωρος
καὶ ἐλεεινὸς
καὶ πτωχὸς
καὶ τυφλὸς
καὶ γυμνός,
Rev_3:18 I counsel [συμβουλεύω] you to buy [ἀγοράσαι] from [παρ᾿ – next to] Me gold having been ·tried by fire [πεπυρωμένον ἐκ πυρὸς – i.e. fired out of fire], so that you may become rich [πλουτήσῃς (see: 1Co_4:8)]; and white robes [ἱμάτια λευκὰ], so that ·you may be clothed [περιβάλῃ], and the shame [ἡ αἰσχύνη] of your nakedness [τῆς γυμνότητός σου] may not appear [φανερωθῇ]; and ·eye salve [κολλούριον], so that you may anoint [ἔγχρισον] your eyes, ·in order that you may see [ἵνα βλέπῃς].
Rev_3:18
συμβουλεύω
σοι ἀγοράσαι
παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ
χρυσίον πεπυρωμένον
ἐκ πυρὸς ἵνα
πλουτήσῃς,
καὶ ἱμάτια
λευκὰ ἵνα
περιβάλῃ
καὶ μὴ
φανερωθῇ ἡ
αἰσχύνη τῆς
γυμνότητός
σου, καὶ
κολλούριον ἔγχρισον
τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς
σου ἵνα βλέπῃς.
Rev_3:19 ·As many as I love [warmly like] [ἐγὼ ὅσους ἐὰν φιλῶ], I rebuke [ἐλέγχω – word (into) convincing conviction] and discipline [παιδεύω]. ·Be zealous [ζήλευε] therefore [οὖν], and repent [μετανόησον].
Rev_3:19 ἐγὼ ὅσους
ἐὰν φιλῶ, ἐλέγχω
καὶ παιδεύω·
ζήλευε οὖν
καὶ
μετανόησον.
Punished by Things You Don’t Recognize
~Dec 2017 - Feb 2018; (other dates seen
below); 4/16/18
The Creator first makes you care and then punishes you by taking away what you have learned to care about.
But if you are just a dense and blind pagan, you might get shamefully punished and not know why you are made so worthless and at what time you were ruined and destroyed.
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Mic_1:16 WEB Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!
Mic_1:16 LB Shave your hair, and make yourself bald for your delicate children; increase your widowhood as an eagle; for your people have gone into captivity from you.
Mic_1:16 ξύρησαι
καὶ κεῖραι ἐπὶ
τὰ τέκνα τὰ
τρυφερά σου, ἐμπλάτυνον
τὴν χηρείαν
σου ὡς ἀετός, ὅτι
ᾐχμαλωτεύθησαν
ἀπὸ σοῦ.
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Isa_47:1 WEB "Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Isa_47:1 LB “Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called tender and luxurious.
Isa_47:1 Κατάβηθι
κάθισον ἐπὶ τὴν
γῆν, παρθένος
θυγάτηρ Βαβυλῶνος,
εἴσελθε εἰς τὸ
σκότος, θυγάτηρ
Χαλδαίων, ὅτι οὐκέτι
προστεθήσῃ
κληθῆναι ἁπαλὴ
καὶ τρυφερά.
Isa_47:8 WEB "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Isa_47:8 LB “But now hear these words, you luxurious one, that sits at ease, that is secure, that says in her heart, ‘I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.’
Isa_47:8 νῦν δὲ ἄκουσον
ταῦτα, ἡ τρυφερὰ
ἡ καθημένη
πεποιθυῖα ἡ λέγουσα
ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτῆς
Ἐγώ εἰμι, καὶ οὐκ
ἔστιν ἑτέρα· οὐ
καθιῶ χήρα οὐδὲ
γνώσομαι ὀρφανείαν.
Isa_47:9 WEB but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
Isa_47:9 But now these two things shall come upon you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you, for your sorcery, for the strength of your enchantments,
Isa_47:9 νῦν
δὲ ἥξει ἐξαίφνης
ἐπὶ σὲ τὰ δύο
ταῦτα ἐν μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ·
χηρεία καὶ ἀτεκνία
ἥξει ἐξαίφνης ἐπὶ
σὲ ἐν τῇ
φαρμακείᾳ σου ἐν
τῇ ἰσχύι τῶν ἐπαοιδῶν
σου σφόδρα
…..
Etc. etc.
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4/13/18
first like children, then potentially punish you by taking them away
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Deu_28:48 WEB therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
Deu_28:48 LB And you shall serve your enemies, which the Lord will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the desire of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until He has destroyed you.
Deu_28:48 καὶ
λατρεύσεις τοῖς
ἐχθροῖς σου, οὓς
ἐπαποστελεῖ κύριος
ἐπὶ σέ, ἐν λιμῷ
καὶ ἐν δίψει καὶ
ἐν γυμνότητι
καὶ ἐν ἐκλείψει
πάντων· καὶ ἐπιθήσει
κλοιὸν σιδηροῦν
ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλόν
σου, ἕως ἂν ἐξολεθρεύσῃ
σε.
God may punish you with shame /
immorality / degeneration even when you don't recognize it...... !
First adopt God's values of what is
shameful, and then he may even use it to punish you...
Deu
Deu
>> TSK
Deu
Holy used as profane:
...
Make sure your actions right now
(even if you are single) are consistent with being a proverbs 31 woman (so
you'll be safe if you get married)
Always be sweet, and never bitter
Always loose the heavy yokes, never
be a heavy yoke, as Sir says...
Num_25:1 WEB Israel
abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the
daughters of Moab:
Num_25:1 LB Worship of Baal of Peor
And Israel sojourned in Acacia Grove, and the people profaned themselves by
committing harlotry with the daughters of Moab.
Num_25:1 Καὶ
κατέλυσεν
Ισραηλ ἐν
Σαττιν· καὶ ἐβεβηλώθη
ὁ λαὸς ἐκπορνεῦσαι
εἰς τὰς θυγατέρας
Μωαβ .
Num_25:2
WEB for they called the people to the
sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.
Num_25:2 And they
called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their
sacrifices, and worshipped their idols.
Num_25:2 καὶ ἐκάλεσαν
αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ ταῖς
θυσίαις τῶν εἰδώλων
αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔφαγεν
ὁ λαὸς τῶν θυσιῶν
αὐτῶν καὶ
προσεκύνησαν
τοῖς εἰδώλοις
αὐτῶν.
Num_25:3
WEB Israel joined himself to Baal Peor:
and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel.
Num_25:3 And
Israel consecrated themselves to Baal of Peor; and the Lord was very angry with
Israel.
Num_25:3 καὶ ἐτελέσθη
Ισραηλ τῷ
Βεελφεγωρ· καὶ
ὠργίσθη θυμῷ κύριος
τῷ Ισραηλ.
Num_25:14
WEB Now the name of the man of Israel
that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of
Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.
Num_25:14 LB Now the name of the
smitten Israelite man, who was smitten with the Midianite woman, was Zambri son
of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Simeon.
Num_25:14 τὸ δὲ
ὄνομα τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
τοῦ Ισραηλίτου
τοῦ πεπληγότος,
ὃς ἐπλήγη μετὰ
τῆς Μαδιανίτιδος,
Ζαμβρι υἱὸς
Σαλω ἄρχων οἴκου
πατριᾶς τῶν
Συμεων·
Num_25:15
WEB The name of the Midianite woman who
was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a
fathers' house in Midian.
Num_25:15 And
the name of the Midianite woman who was smitten, was Cozbi, daughter of Zur, a
prince of the nation of Hommoth: it is a chief house among the people of
Midian.
Num_25:15 καὶ ὄνομα
τῇ γυναικὶ τῇ
Μαδιανίτιδι τῇ
πεπληγυίᾳ
Χασβι θυγάτηρ
Σουρ ἄρχοντος ἔθνους
Ομμωθ, οἴκου
πατριᾶς ἐστιν
τῶν Μαδιαν.
Num_25:16
WEB Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num_25:16 And
the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
Num_25:16 Καὶ ἐλάλησεν
κύριος πρὸς
Μωυσῆν λέγων Λάλησον
τοῖς υἱοῖς
Ισραηλ λέγων
Num_25:17
WEB Harass the Midianites, and strike
them;
Num_25:17
‘Harass the Midianites as enemies, and strike them,
Num_25:17 Ἐχθραίνετε
τοῖς Μαδιηναίοις
καὶ πατάξατε αὐτούς,
Num_25:18
WEB for they harassed you with their
wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the
matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was
slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.
Num_25:18 for
they are enemies to you by the treachery in which they ensnare you through
Peor, and through Cozbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Midian, who was
smitten in the day of the plague because of Peor.’”
Num_25:18 ὅτι ἐχθραίνουσιν
αὐτοὶ ὑμῖν ἐν
δολιότητι, ὅσα
δολιοῦσιν ὑμᾶς
διὰ Φογωρ καὶ
διὰ Χασβι
θυγατέρα ἄρχοντος
Μαδιαν ἀδελφὴν
αὐτῶν τὴν
πεπληγυῖαν ἐν
τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς
πληγῆς διὰ
Φογωρ.
Fornication is Wrong
4/10/17-4/11/17
Lev_19:20 WEB " 'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
Lev_19:20 LB And if anyone should lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home-servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, and her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.
Lev_19:20 Καὶ ἐάν
τις κοιμηθῇ
μετὰ γυναικὸς
κοίτην σπέρματος
καὶ αὐτὴ οἰκέτις
διαπεφυλαγμένη
ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ αὐτὴ
λύτροις οὐ λελύτρωται
ἢ ἐλευθερία οὐκ
ἐδόθη αὐτῇ, ἐπισκοπὴ
ἔσται αὐτοῖς·
οὐκ ἀποθανοῦνται,
ὅτι οὐκ ἀπηλευθερώθη.
Lev_19:21 WEB He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.
Lev_19:21 And he shall bring for his trespass to the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of witness, a ram for a trespass-offering.
Lev_19:21 καὶ προσάξει
τῆς πλημμελείας
αὐτοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ
παρὰ τὴν θύραν
τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ
μαρτυρίου κριὸν
πλημμελείας·
Lev_19:22 WEB The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed: and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
Lev_19:22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, before the Lord, for the sin which he sinned; and the sin which he sinned shall be forgiven him.
Lev_19:22 καὶ ἐξιλάσεται
περὶ αὐτοῦ ὁ ἱερεὺς
ἐν τῷ κριῷ τῆς
πλημμελείας ἔναντι
κυρίου περὶ τῆς
ἁμαρτίας, ἧς ἥμαρτεν,
καὶ ἀφεθήσεται
αὐτῷ ἡ ἁμαρτία,
ἣν ἥμαρτεν.
Lev_19:29 WEB " 'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
Lev_19:29 LB ‘You shall not profane your daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not whore after, and the land be filled with iniquity.
Lev_19:29 οὐ βεβηλώσεις
τὴν θυγατέρα
σου ἐκπορνεῦσαι
αὐτήν, καὶ οὐκ ἐκπορνεύσει
ἡ γῆ καὶ ἡ γῆ
πλησθήσεται ἀνομίας.
NETS: makes the hearts of young men
to fluter
rev: why did you marvel?
Marvel comics, for example (much like
others), are a exact types of disobedience.
so don't heat up in lust upon
includes a command to not be impressed, amazed, or marveling at the cheap and
third grade pollutions of cheap and evil sin.
just because you have never tried it
before, that does not mean that the forbidden fruit is really that enjoyable
and exciting as it is exadurated to be, especially if you actually think and
care about meaningful things that are deeper than cheap fake plastic.
Family Purity
9/8/16-9/16/16; 6/7/17…8/5/20 (40-day goal); 9/7/20
9/7/20
@Hd Thank you Great Sir for
your wise words yesterday. I greatly appreciate hearing how to love and honor
God and Men more. I really like solutions for caring about men's masculinity.
Something on my inside felt relieving to hear the words you spoke yesterday
=)-K
11/22/18
Sarah’s Tent
Niddah hut
40-day goal
8/5/20
40 Days has always been our
general goal (never 6 weeks / 42 days)
and this 40-day goal is not
even our (gentile) law, but just so happens to correlate with what we seem to
experience as seen in the Jewish law:
Lev_12 (40 days
for male, 80 for female)
we are doing 40 because
that correlates with our experience, even though we have no such law specified
@Al: “In other words, it's
interesting how pagans say that 6 weeks is what's normally healthy (due to cervix
findings for example), and that just so happens to correlate with the minimum
Jewish requirement”
both child birth laws
(given to Jews) and regular monthly regulations (for gentile also), are based
on a "fountain"/flow of blood and also setting apart/impurity:
Jews: Lev_12:7; Lev_15:19
Jews & Gentiles: Lev_18:19; Lev_20:18
Birth
Can husbands attend?
Num_12:12 WEB Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."
Num_12:12 LB Let her not be like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother's womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.”
Num_12:12 μὴ
γένηται ὡσεὶ ἴσον
θανάτῳ, ὡσεὶ ἔκτρωμα
ἐκπορευόμενον
ἐκ μήτρας μητρὸς
καὶ κατεσθίει
τὸ ἥμισυ τῶν
σαρκῶν αὐτῆς.
I found you in your blood
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Lev_12:2 –
the concerning part is "as in the days of her customary
impurity" both greek and hebrew versions seem to say the same thing.
Lev_15:19 –
Lev_18:22 WEB " 'You
shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
Lev_18:22 And you shall not lie with a man as with a woman, for
it is an abomination.
Lev_18:22 καὶ μετὰ
ἄρσενος οὐ
κοιμηθήσῃ κοίτην
γυναικός· βδέλυγμα
γάρ ἐστιν. 19 –
Lev_20:18 –
2) There are three bible words for a female in a flow: a) niddah: females in a menstrual flow b) Yoledet: flow of a pregnant woman c) Zavah: any other type of uterine flow
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Gen_3:16
Targum: "Unto the woman He said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy affliction by the blood of thy virginity, and by thy conception; in sorrow shalt thou bear children, and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he will have rule over thee unto righteousness or unto sin."
Lev_12:2 (A) – "to the children of Israel"
Lev_12:2 (B) – she shall be uncleanH2930 = "̣āmē’, ָטְמָאה"
Lev_12:2 (C) – of "the daysH3117 of the separationH5079" = of the days of Niddah "נָדּה niddāh"
the concerning part is "as in the days of her customary impurity" both greek and hebrew versions seem to say the same thing.
Lev_12:5 – have femail child: "as in her separation:H5079" 66 days
>> is this a comparisen, parallel, or equation to monthly separation?
Lev_15:2 – "to the children of Israel"
Lev_15:2 – males are unclean in a flow...
Lev_15:19
– 'if flow of blood' = "put apartH5079" = Niddah; LXX: ἑπτὰ
ἡμέρας ἔσται ἐν
τῇ ἀφέδρῳ αὐτῆς
Lev_15:20 – ἀφέδρῳ contaminates
Lev_15:24 – any man/male lie with her....
Lev_15:25 – beyond normal separation
Lev_15:31 – These Jewish laws are based on "My tabernacle that is among them"
Lev_15:33 – accedental sleeping witgh flow
5 s
We Gentiles are not allowed to keep "don't touch" rules
Col_2:20-23, esp. Col_2:22
Lev_18:2 – "to the children of Israel"
Lev_18:5 – "if a manH120 do,H6213 he shall liveH2425 in them" -- Rom_10:5, Gal_3:12
Lev_18:6 / Lev_18:8 – Noah
Lev_18:12 / Lev_18:14 / Lev_20:2 – evidence that this only applies to men / it is gender-specific <> Calab's brother married Calab's daughter
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Lev_18:16 >> Lev_18:18 – till death do part ... probably applies back to: Lev_18:12 / Lev_18:14 / Lev_18:17
>> this brings up the Jacob & his sister-wives -- if close family marriages happen anyway, should they stay together?
>> is this now like DAR?
>> It was not like DAR in Jacob's time -- they stayed together despite the negativities later mentioned in the law
Lev_18:18 – Jacob experienced that vexation and stayed married... so what do you do with that?
–
Lev_18:19 – !!
/\\/
Lev_20:18 –
Lev_18:23 – a rule given to a woman
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Lev_18:24 ‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drove out before you,
Lev_18:25 –
Lev_18:25 and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it.
Lev_18:25
καὶ ἐμιάνθη ἡ
γῆ, καὶ ἀνταπέδωκα
ἀδικίαν αὐτοῖς
δι᾿ αὐτήν, καὶ
προσώχθισεν ἡ
γῆ τοῖς ἐγκαθημένοις
ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς.
Lev_18:26 And you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and you shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you:
Lev_18:26
καὶ φυλάξεσθε
πάντα τὰ νόμιμά
μου καὶ πάντα τὰ
προστάγματά
μου καὶ οὐ ποιήσετε
ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν
βδελυγμάτων
τούτων, ὁ ἐγχώριος
καὶ ὁ προσγενόμενος
προσήλυτος ἐν ὑμῖν·
Lev_18:27 KJV+ (ForH3588 (H853) allH3605 theseH411 abominationsH8441 have the menH376 of the landH776 done,H6213 whichH834 were beforeH6440 you, and the landH776 is defiled;)H2930
Lev_18:27 (for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled)
Lev_18:27 πάντα
γὰρ τὰ βδελύγματα
ταῦτα ἐποίησαν
οἱ ἄνθρωποι τῆς
γῆς οἱ ὄντες πρότεροι
ὑμῶν, καὶ ἐμιάνθη
ἡ γῆ·
Lev_18:28 KJV+ That the landH776 spue not you outH6958 H3808 (H853) also, when ye defileH2930 it, asH834 it spued outH6958 (H853) the nationsH1471 thatH834 were beforeH6440 you.
Lev_18:28 and lest the land be enraged with you in your polluting it, as it was enraged with the nations before you.
Lev_18:28
καὶ ἵνα μὴ
προσοχθίσῃ ὑμῖν
ἡ γῆ ἐν τῷ μιαίνειν
ὑμᾶς αὐτήν, ὃν
τρόπον προσώχθισεν
τοῖς ἔθνεσιν
τοῖς πρὸ ὑμῶν.
Lev_18:29 KJV+ ForH3588 whosoeverH3605 H834 shall commitH6213 anyH4480 H3605 of theseH428 abominations,H8441 even the soulsH5315 that commitH6213 them shall be cut offH3772 from amongH4480 H7130 their people.H5971
Lev_18:29 For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people.
Lev_18:29 ὅτι
πᾶς, ὃς ἂν ποιήσῃ
ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν
βδελυγμάτων
τούτων, ἐξολεθρευθήσονται
αἱ ψυχαὶ αἱ
ποιοῦσαι ἐκ τοῦ
λαοῦ αὐτῶν.
Lev_18:19 –
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Lev_20:18 –
Lev_20:18 KJV+ And ifH834 a manH376 shall lieH7901 withH854 a womanH802 having her sickness,H1739 and shall uncoverH1540 (H853) her nakedness;H6172 he hath discoveredH6168 (H853) her fountain,H4726 and sheH1931 hath uncoveredH1540 (H853) the fountainH4726 of her blood:H1818 and bothH8147 of them shall be cut offH3772 from amongH4480 H7130 their people.H5971
Lev_20:18 LB And whatever man shall lie with a woman that is set apart for her impurity, and shall uncover her nakedness, he has uncovered her fountain, and she has uncovered the flux of her blood: they shall both be destroyed from among their generation.
Lev_20:18 καὶ ἀνήρ,
ὃς ἂν κοιμηθῇ
μετὰ γυναικὸς ἀποκαθημένης
καὶ ἀποκαλύψῃ
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτῆς, τὴν πηγὴν
αὐτῆς ἀπεκάλυψεν,
καὶ αὕτη ἀπεκάλυψεν
τὴν ῥύσιν τοῦ αἵματος
αὐτῆς· ἐξολεθρευθήσονται
ἀμφότεροι ἐκ
τοῦ γένους αὐτῶν.
Lev_20:23 KJV+ And ye shall notH3808 walkH1980 in the mannersH2708 of the nation,H1471 whichH834 IH589 cast outH7971 beforeH4480 H6440 you: forH3588 they committedH6213 (H853) allH3605 these things,H428 and therefore I abhorredH6973 them.
Lev_20:23 LB And do not walk according to the customs of the nations which I drive out from before you; for they have done all these things, and I have abhorred them:
Lev_20:23 καὶ οὐχὶ
πορεύεσθε τοῖς
νομίμοις τῶν ἐθνῶν,
οὓς ἐξαποστέλλω
ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν· ὅτι
ταῦτα πάντα ἐποίησαν,
καὶ ἐβδελυξάμην
αὐτούς.
Ezekiel on Separation from Blood Flow
Other
date(s); 9/7/20
Eze_18:6 –
Eze_22:10 –
Eze_36:17 – .
Monthly Absence
Marital abstinence during
prayer and fasting
11/4/18
this may be a series that could
unofficially be titled the bedroom of the righteous...
don't come toward a woman
for 3 days before receiving the 10 commandments
>Tsk
eating the showbread as
long as three days of abstinence proceeded
no separation accept
temporary prayer and fasting
1co7 only temporary
separation for prayer and possibly fasting
if men are going to
properly build up a Sanctified Supply for the purpose of sacrificial Devotion
to the Creator, this means not even coming toward a woman for 3 days.
if men and women are not
going to be getting busy anytime soon it is better for them to not even be in
the same room since it is contradictory and against the nature of the proper
use of a woman for a man to be exposed to a woman and not do anything with her.
this becomes more and more
the case as it approaches 3 days of waiting.
the proper use of a woman
when David was not busy
using Abigail or Bathsheba or any of his other women, he was sleeping alone.
for some reason they had to
get him a new woman at the end of his life because he had begun to grow cold
from sleeping alone even though at least some of his women were still alive
after his death.
Joseph, Hosea, and the
captive slave woman sitting in the house in another room for many days
Can Sister’s Raise Their Brothers / Change their Diapers?
9/17/16
Lev_20:17 KJV+ And ifH834 a manH376 shall takeH3947 (H853) his sister,H269 his father'sH1 daughter,H1323 orH176 his mother'sH517 daughter,H1323 and seeH7200 (H853) her nakedness,H6172 and sheH1931 seeH7200 (H853) his nakedness;H6172 itH1931 is a wicked thing;H2617 and they shall be cut offH3772 in the sightH5869 of their people:H1121 H5971 he hath uncoveredH1540 his sister'sH269 nakedness;H6172 he shall bearH5375 his iniquity.H5771
Lev_20:17 LB Whosoever shall take his sister by his father or by his mother, and shall see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is a reproach: they shall be destroyed before the children of their family; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, they shall bear their sin.
Lev_20:17 ὃς ἐὰν λάβῃ
τὴν ἀδελφὴν αὐτοῦ
ἐκ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ
ἢ ἐκ μητρὸς αὐτοῦ
καὶ ἴδῃ τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτῆς καὶ αὕτη ἴδῃ
τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην
αὐτοῦ, ὄνειδός ἐστιν,
ἐξολεθρευθήσονται
ἐνώπιον υἱῶν γένους
αὐτῶν· ἀσχημοσύνην
ἀδελφῆς αὐτοῦ ἀπεκάλυψεν,
ἁμαρτίαν
κομιοῦνται.
Sexual Courage
8/6/16-8/7/16
I do not know how that might fit with
· Noah’s example (if a father were ever converted, for example)
· Acts: Phillip baptizing men and women (unless it was actually done by proxy)
It's disgusting and it's classless
http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/talk/
8/6/16
A foolish and bold woman, who does not know modesty
í
KJV+ And it came to
passH1961 at thatH1931 time,H6256
that JudahH3063 went downH3381 fromH4480
H854 his brethren,H251
and turned inH5186 toH5704 a certainH376
Adullamite,H5726 whose nameH8034 was
Hirah.H2437
Judah and Tamar And it came to pass at that time, that
Judah went down from his brothers, and came as far as to a certain man of
Adullam, whose name was Hirah.
KJV+ And JudahH3063 sawH7200
thereH8033 a daughterH1323 of a certainH376 Canaanite,H3669
whose nameH8034 was Shuah;H7770
and he tookH3947 her, and went inH935 untoH413
her.
LB And Judah saw there the daughter of a Canaanite man,
whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in to her.
KJV+ And JudahH3063 tookH3947
a wifeH802 for ErH6147 his firstborn,H1060 whose nameH8034
was Tamar.H8559
LB And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name
was Tamar.
18:16; Gen_19:1, Gen_
– Blood on wedding night
The Excellence of Celibacy
The Blessing of Celibacy
Isa_54:1-4; Mat_19:10-12; 1Co_7:1; 1Co_7:6-9; 1Co_7:25-38;
OT Examples of Celibacy
CAB [And you
shall not take a wife]↓, ↑[says the Lord God of Israel].
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CAB [And there
shall be no son born to you, nor daughter in this place.]↑
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When it is present, men take example at it; and when it is gone, they desire it: it weareth a crown, and triumpheth for ever, having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.
Jesus Was Celibate
5/19/24;
6/2/24
Question: Could JC Have Been Married?
5/19/24
Sun_11:12am(edited)
Question: I have a default conditioning
that Jesus was never married but I don't really know why I believed that. I
used to hear what I considered must be heresies and conspiracy theories about
Jesus being married and having kids.
In churches and what my
impression has been is that thinking Jesus was married has a conotation likened
to blasphemy. How do we know for sure whether Jesus was celebate? Where does
that idea come from and does the Bible actually say that or is that some type
of extra thing religious people assigned/assumed unto Jesus?
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Demonic Fake Knowledge Says JC was Married…
· The Gnostic “Gospel of Philip”, and possibly Cathars (as some 13th-century sources claim), and Dan Brown (in 2003) blasphemously claim JC was married
· The married antichrist idea often goes along with things like denying Jesus’ divinity or even saying the creator was bad -- i.e. married antichrist is already associated with bad ideas (non-monotheistic, satanic, God-hating)
· The Gnostics and the supposed “Knights Templar who claim to have "secrets" such as knowing that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene” are all part of free-think satanic blasphemies
· In 2003 Dan Brown revived these demonic blasphemie & made them more famous than ever
https://knightstemplar.org/wp/kt-today/
The Point: married antichrist ideas have only come through satanists (such as Gnostics) all throughout history.
Historical/Biblical Jesus ≠ married antichrist
We can all very easily know that the Jesus in the Bible is the exact opposite of the one which satanists promote, including the fact of Jesus’ blessed, sacred, and holy celibacy.
Everyone can easily see that the moment someone talks about a married christ, that is antichrist they are referring to and pictorializing.
Perplexity: it would be highly unlikely for his wife to go unmentioned if he had one
Ironically, some goofy writers think that the Bible is silent on this important biographical detail, but that is foolish and de-educated.
We can clearly establish that Jesus was celibate because this vitally important biographical detail is confirmed by what the Bible actually says:
Isaiah 53
· Isa_53:8 – no one could speak of His seed when He was cut off (it clearly teaches this)
· Jesus would not get married and risk having children and (theoretically) endanger His crucified identity, by default
· (claiming otherwise would require serious proof and take some wild explanations)
Celibacy Taught by Jesus & Paul
· Mat_19:10-12, etc. – Jesus definitively taught superior celibacy, just as Paul
·
1Co_7:1,
etc. – Marriage is even less advantageous for a known short-term Crucifixion
calling
Paul said you should
consider celibacy even more when there is hardship, such as persecution, which
is why a calling to short-term crucifixion does not warrant getting married in
the meantime.
It is illogical to think that Paul could suggest that celibacy is better, especially in persecutions, if Jesus had been a married crucified martyr.
1Co_9:5 – Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas [Peter]?
A married Anointed One would have been crucial evidence for Paul’s authority to get married, but it was not there / available.
Women at a Distance at the Crucifixion
· Mat_27:55-56/Mar_15:40-41/Luk_23:49 – Women stood at a distance at the crucifixion, due to strict purity requirements
·
Suggesting an exception
would require explicit proof, and only His mother is excepted like this
Mat_27:55-56 "And many women were there beholding
from afar, which had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: among
whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother
of the sons of Zebedee."
· Joh_19:25-26 – John in less specific about the women’s proximity, however…
Jesus Gave Away a Mom, NOT a Wife
· Joh_19:26-27 – Jesus gave His mom to John when dying
· Jesus had a mom to take care of at the cross, but no recorded wife
Resurrection Restrictions -- Purity Requirements Enforced for Women
· Joh_20:17 – Jesus specifically told Mary Magdalene, not to touch Him (also in John) in a modifying way [μη μου απτου], after the resurrection, until He had been glorified (in direct contrast to the supposed Gnostic secrets).
· 1Co_7:1 μὴ ἅπτεσθαι – “do not touch in a modifying way” is the same purity rule and word mentioned in 1Co_7:1, which indicates not marrying.
· Mat_28:9 – Women specifically grabbed His feet – the safe zone for outside of marriage (showing that none of them were married to Him)
· Mat_22:30 – “at the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage", and Jesus is the first-born of this physically celibate resurrection phenomena, especially after being glorified
Question: Hugging the
Lord, if you’re a Woman
Sun 2:05pm(edited), 6/2/24
In Joh_20:17 the Lord told Mary Magdalene not to haptomi him cuz he hadn't ascended yet.
Does this mean that at the resurrection we will finally be able to physically give him a big big big hug ?
[& concerning if he were
married…]
(Hint: If the Lord was married to anyone then scholars suspect that it might be Mary Magdalene. But see how in John if he was married to her then he wouldn't have told her not to haptomi touch him. Furthermore, rewind back to the crucifixion, see how the closest people to him at the foot of the cross were his mother and John. All the other woman stood at a distance, including Mary Magdalene (probably for modesty reasons at the least). Additionally, when the Lord got his house in order, the main thing he did on the cross at his dying breaths was transfer responsibility to John to take care of his mom)
Mom at Pentecost, Not a Wife
Act_1:15-26 – There were 120 disciples in Jerusalem waiting for the One Spirit Who is Holy on the Day of Pentecost
Early Church Confirms Celibacy
There was a drastic increase in celibacy in the early church.
This is because the New Covenant did much to glorify this courageous sacrifice of celibacy, which they knew was most excellently christened by Jesus Himself:
“some of the earliest Christian writers claimed that Jesus did not marry. In his response to a group that took a stand against marriage, Clement of Alexandria (c. 150–215) wrote, “Some openly declare that marriage is fornication and teach that it was introduced by the devil. They boast that they are imitating the Lord himself . . . .”7 So although he disagreed with their position, Clement’s quote shows an early reference to Jesus being unmarried. Tertullian (c. 160–230) wrote, “. . . since the last Adam (that is, Christ) was entirely unwedded . . . .”8”
https://answersingenesis.org/jesus/was-jesus-married/
6/2/24
Jesus’ Heavenly Wife
· Eph_5:23-32 – I speak of anointed one and the assembly… let each one love his wife this way
· Rev_19:6-9 – His wife has made herself ready
· Jesus has a specific calling to marry the Assembly -- as the ultimate super-natural marriage
· And it is after resurrection about which Isa_53:10 says, "he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand."
Concluding Jesus was Unmarried
In classical liberal free-thinking mindless style, just like divinity denial, and blaspheming the creator, and all kinds of other gross hate crimes… Heretics present JC’s marriage as a revealed secret, which plainly shows that they are trying to reverse and blaspheme what serious conservatives have always taught from the very beginning, for hundreds of years.
Jesus is our courageous sacrifice who inaugurated the full blessings of the poor hungry beggars, including the blessed excellence of celibates, and not a single or married heretic liberal proud flesh-monger can take this blessing away!
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