21. And the Lord smelled the pleasant aroma, and the Lord said to Himself, "I will no longer curse the earth because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, and I will no longer smite all living things as I have done. Genesis 8
People pick and choose what they believe scripture means.
Matthew 19 pretty much says it all. And Jesus said it.
I don't believe we should fornicate outside the marriage bed.
When someone marries the one they have the affair with. I call it a" license to commit adultry". "Until death you do part", but people ignore promises and vows.
There was a well known person who divorced her first husband, married another. That did not work out at all, she divorced the second bad marriage and recently remarried her first husband. Even after being apart for 20 yrs. She received many negative comments. I sent her a congrats, because I believe she is honoring the Lord.
I like what David Jeremiah has to say about sin in general and that is that the devil uses the same tactics over and over and over.
He attacks the eyes, the flesh and the pride
example if one looks at pornography, they will eventually desire it, and finally justify all the reasons they deserve to do what they intend to to.
If we look at food that we know we should not eat, we will begin to crave it and finally decide that we either deserve it, or a little won't hurt.
So make a conscious effort to protect your eyes, your flesh and your pride from the enemy by recognizing his tactics when he throws temptation your way.
Without the Devil there is no temptation. We absolutely need the devil to fall into sin. Why do you think after the 1000 year reign of Christ Satan will be cast into the lake of fire. there will be no more sin after that.
The battle is in the mind. Yes, we are surrounded by a fallen world filled with standards other than Godly standards. The bible sets the standards for what to think, why it is a good idea to think according to those standards, what happens when we do not think according to those standards.
That means however that we have taken a hold of our responsibility that we rightly divide the word. Hearing from Pastor bob is one thing, that however does not diminish our individual responsibility to ourselves, others, and God that we work the word ourselves. When the word is rightly divided, there are no contradictions, God is after all perfect, God's word is perfect...we are the imperfect ones, otherwise a Savior wouldn't have been needed.
