Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. When we sanctify sex, it is because we value it highly, not because we disdain it as something of little worth. 5:22-33). The important thing to note here is that God also promised salvation through the seed of the woman in the midst of the curse pronounced on Satan: And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you will bruise him on the heel (Gen. 3:15). Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the kings house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance. Throughout the Scriptures, both Old Testament (cf. Specifically, I am referring to what Paul has written in the Book of Ephesians, which especially relates to sexual impurity: Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you, and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. . How long will you remain unclean? (Jer. Therefore do not be partakers with them; for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Our Lord says that this union of husband and wife must not be severed (Matt. While depriving a partner tempts them, fulfilling a partner does not necessarily keep them from sexual sin. 1 Cor. If one were so serious as to be willing to pluck out an eye or cut off a hand then that persons attitude is what it should be with regard to adultery. The nation Israel is kept apart from other nations by her time in Egypt, and in the plagues, the Israelites are distinguished from the Egyptians. The Old Testament prophets take up the themes already developed in the Pentateuch. Here we come to one of the very crucial implications of the sanctity of sex. The differences between holy and unholy, clean and unclean are crucial. But if they marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance. Not only did his master not give him authority over his wife, he could not have done so. At times we are tempted to think that what God has called clean is really unclean (as was the case with Peter; cf. Our culture is adamantly opposed to the sanctity of sex. (3) The sanctity of sex. Our culture protests that Christians disdain and demean sex, that we have little appreciation for it. Men, what about that special car, or gun, or golf club? If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride price for virgins." If the passages don't mean that a woman has to marry her rapist, then what do they mean? The apostle Paul has the most to say of the apostles on the subject of sexual purity. 1 Lev. In Ephesians chapter 5 Paul focuses on the relationship between the Christian husband and wife, and the way it portrays an important spiritual truth to the world: So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? Yes, Marriage Matters to God. He does not necessarily teach that attitudinal sins are as bad as action sins. The children of Israel did all work in the field as well. The Net Pastors Journal, Eng. Genesis 31:38-40 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten, Philippians 4:11,12 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content, Exodus 4:20-25 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand, Exodus 18:2-6 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, . Fellowship. her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish, Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not, Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular, To scrape off, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold, Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular, Flesh, as living, for, food, food of any kind, kindred by blood, Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular, Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Law: Exodus 21:10 If he takes another wife to himself (Exo. Uriah was a Canaanite, but a godly one, while David, the Israelite, acted like a heathen. God not only created man and woman, He also created the institution of marriage. She is the author of the self-published novel GLORYTHE HAIR. and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. His indignation at discovering his daughter-in-law was pregnant out of wedlock (not knowing yet it was by him), reveals that sexual immorality was clearly condemned (cf. To understand Johns response, you have to understand John. Some people seem to disdain sex in marriage as much as the Bible disdains it outside of marriage. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org, Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,. I have heard it cruelly stated or implied that had a mate satisfied his or her partner in marriage, adultery would have been prevented. The consequences of either guilt or innocence are spelled out (vss. But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. There are many Christians in Ukraine. Thus, when a divorce is granted due to adultery, a later marriage on the part of the innocent (that is, not guilty of adultery) party is not viewed to be adulterous. Q. Now, he tells Abram that the blessings He will give him and all the nations will come through his seed. But it is also referred to regularly in later Bible books. We sanctify those things to which we attach great value. And it was said, WHOEVER DIVORCES HIS WIFE, LET HIM GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DISMISSAL; but I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except for the cause of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery (Matt. When Uriah came to him, David asked concerning the welfare of Joab and the people and the state of the war. We must begin by understanding that plucking out eyes and cutting off hands will not cure sin or assure us of keeping the Seventh (or any other) Commandment. from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods. Solomon held fast to these in love. 19:9). Let those who would consider divorce an option carefully ponder the implications of their actions in accordance with our Lords words here. The Gentiles were more like the Canaanites of Old Testament timesthey were distinctly pagan in their sexual conduct and values. Kill everyone - even your brothers, friends, and neighbors.". 0. who does sean marry in exodus. I honestly believe that. Not to mention, the Israelites were a faithful people who believed in God. The Good Doctor. If you look at Exodus 1:5, you will see that seventy souls had come out of Jacob and arrived in Egypt with Joseph. and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. Shaun and Lea got engaged in the Season 4 finale. (3) The Jewish religious leaders felt smugly self-righteous because they did not practice this form of sin, but they were guilty of other, more subtle, sins, which were more socially acceptable. him--perhaps to share his tent. This is what we shall seek to learn from the writings of the apostles in the New Testament. Mount Sinai, from which God spoke to Moses and the Israelites, was sanctified, set apart. For He says, the two will become one flesh. But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. We would thus expect him to wage war on the marital union, for it is through marital union that the seed will be preserved and the promised seed will come. Later, God commanded Moses to take a census of all the Israelite men over 20 years old, which amounted to six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. (Numbers 1:46). Why should I pardon you? Robert L. (Bob)Deffinbaugh graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary with his Th.M. The reproduction of life is that function which is carried out within the marriage union, according to Gods design and decree. To John, a wood chisel is to be sanctifiedset apart for use only on wood. When one comes to faith in Christ, when he is born again, that person becomes one with Christ. When we consider what does Exodus mean? we reach the books core message. Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Judaism condemned adultery and sexual immorality, as can be seen from John chapter 8. The Bible seems to teach that this union is not severed by anything but death, anything including divorce. This was now accomplished. Those distinctions are spelled out in the Law, one of which is that of the maintenance of sexual and marital sanctity. This union involved the husband's leaving of his parents 42 and cleaving to his wife. Consider, for a moment, how that forbidden fruit (whatever it might have been) is similar to the forbidden fruit of illicit sex. In order to do this, Christians must be holy, sanctified, just as God is holy (1 Peter 1:14-16). Her name. Now when they told David, saying, Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a journey? This is not one of the high points in Abrams life. Exodus 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. Amongst the most surprising revelations would be the following: 1. Sexual sin defiles the people (vss. When our Lord commented on this text He said, Consequently they are no more two, but one flesh. What is it that makes sexual purity so important to the New Testament saint, who is not an Israelite, but a member of the church, the body of Christ? Second, in order to avoid the evils of sex, we need to minimize our exposure to those things which only stimulate lustful thoughts and sexual temptations. 44 In saying that sexual pleasure in marriage is one of Gods safeguards against immorality, I am not saying that the husband or wife who gives freely of themselves in a sexual way thereby guarantees the sexual purity of their partner. When some have read Deuteronomy 7:2-5, they conclude that God is opposed to intermarriage among the races. For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you. 7:3-5). You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean. If you havent read it yet, I highly recommend it. Anytime you hear the word exodus, it causes you to notice. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed (Gen. 12:2-3). Just as God placed the forbidden fruit in sight and within the reach of Adam and Eve, so the forbidden fruit of sexual immorality is visible and available. Based on the Hebrew Bible, intermarriage was quite frequent in early Israelite society. 6:12). May God grant you the conviction to stand against the flood of cultural and peer pressure. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? The Tennessee native is a member of Temple of Deliverance COGIC, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc, Omicron Delta Kappa, The Golden Key International Honour Society, and Kappa Delta Pi. And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am pregnant. Then David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. So Joab sent Uriah to David. We must distinguish between truth and error, between good and evil, between holiness and unrighteousness. Their people have been under the foot of the Egyptians for four hundred years. He warned us . Nevertheless, the rest of the Pentateuch (the Pentateuch is the five books of the Old Testament, written by Moses) provides us with a great deal of detail concerning sexual sins, and the various forms of punishment required by each. You may wonder what wood chisels have to do with the Seventh Commandment. And if you right hand makes you stumble, cut it off, and throw it from you; for it is better for you that one of the parts of your body perish, than for your whole body to go into hell. 22-27). Here, Davids immorality led to the additional sin of murder. 4:11-12). The University of Memphis alumnae has been in education for about 20 years after receiving the call to teach. Sanctification involves purity, the absence of what is unclean. The Bible speaks otherwise. God was faithful to his promise that Abrahams descendants would number the stars in the sky (Genesis 26:4). Exodus 21:9 And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter. God is faithful. When I had fed them to the full, They committed adultery And trooped to the harlots house. Get a first look at Shaun and Lea's wedding on. Moses is born, and placed in a basket in the reeds of Nile. Personally, I have understood the word "before" here as referring to rank - that is, you may not consider any other god to be more valuable/worthy . We will discover in our lesson that marriage and sex were also sanctified by God. Let us work at growth in each of these areas. Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her? For a Christian to engage in sexual intercourse with a harlot puts two unions in conflict: his union with Christ and his union with a harlot. This may be a matter of personal conviction, over which there is some disagreement, but marriage does not make every sexual practice holy. Dr. Smith has freelanced for the Tri-State Defendernewspaper and Contempora magazine. John 3:16-17). God has here joined a man and a woman so that they have become a unity. In the Book of 1 Corinthians he focuses on illicit sexual union and its relationship to the believers union with Christ: Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Sanctification is then stressed, so that Israel must not practice the immorality of the Canaanites before them, lest they too be thrust from the land (vss. I think there is little evidence for this conclusion. Therefore, if a man cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work. (3) Terms referring to adultery and sexual immorality are employed non-literally, referring to Israels infidelity to God. The Bible says God is near the brokenhearted (Psalms 34:18). This union is violated and defiled by adultery. 19:12-13, 23-24). We can learn from the book Exodus that the Israelites continued to cry out to God until He delivered them. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water. Let us briefly summarize this revelation. He equates sexual union with marital union. Marriage, by Gods decree, is sanctified, it is a relationship that is set apart and restricted. His brothers gave him an unplanned exodus simply because his father adored him (Genesis 37:3-4). Thus Jesus majored on those sins which were more subtle, and which were more characteristic of the religious leadership of Israel. As I see it, the issue in Exodus 21 is two-fold, involving not only marriage, but slavery. From what we have already learned in Genesis, it is apparent that the Israelites understood what adultery was and that it was sin. Uncovering the nakedness of a relative is prohibited (vss. The sanctity of sex in marriage clearly calls for the sanctity of sex before marriage. Lots of exceptions to the rule. In both the New and Old Testaments we are urged to let the pleasure and enjoyment of sex within marriage serve as a godly defense against sexual immorality:44. Our culture believes that the obtaining of a certificate of divorce legitimizes adultery. Abraham, and his seed, is set apart from the rest of mankind, and through Him Messiah will come and will bring blessing and salvation to all nations. 19:4-6a). For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the. Remember that God made it, and that all He made was good. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but love from the Lord is its completion. There were many things that Israel had to learn during this process. Adultery mocks the union of a man and his wife, and the God who joined them together. Sanctification is one of the great principles of the Bible, whether in the Old or the New Testament. In my opinion, the rampant sexual immorality of our day is not primarily the result of greater temptation, of increased sexual desire, of greater opportunity, or even of the availability of the pill and abortion. We all restrict the use of (we sanctify) those things which we most highly prize. The sexually immoral, such as the woman caught in the act of adultery, honestly acknowledged their sin, but the scribes and Pharisees were hypocritical, refusing to acknowledge their own self-righteousness. Indeed, in verse 16 Paul makes a statement of monumental importance. As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people (Lev. Their numbers threatened the new Pharaoh. After Joseph and his generation died, a new king arose over Egypt who was not familiar with Joseph (Exodus 1:6-8). The old dependent and submissive relationship of child to parent had to be set aside so that this unity of husband and wife could be established (v. 24). He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. So the LORD GOD caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh at the place. Sexual sins and their penalties are spelled out in detail (vss. As we established, Exodus means to leave or depart. Judgment awaits this nation, which is likened to a harlot. Some scholars estimate that if we factored in those groups and other factors, there would have been as many as 3 million Israelites exiting Egypt. The union of husband and wife is one of the unique elements of marriage. What Is the Meaning of Psalm 91 and Why Is it Popular? I find it interesting that the fruit of this tree of knowledge of good and evil was good, like everything else God created (cf. (6) Though David was of the chosen seed, Uriah was but a Hittite. God told Satan, Adam and Eve that the Savior of mankind would be the seed of the woman. Drink water from your own cistern, And fresh water from your own well. The higher the vote, the further up an answer is. 5:1-14). Satan can be expected to attack the sanctity of marriage in order to wage war on the seed.. The sin of adultery is dealt with so severely because it is a violation of the sanctity of the marriage which God has ordained and set apart. Fornication is also applied symbolically in the Bible to the sins of idolatry and apostasy, or the abandoning of God. "You shall have no other gods before me. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. When we are willing to do whatever it takes to avoid a sin, we will likely take the steps necessary to avoid it. These three texts provide us with the essence of our Lords teaching on adultery and sexual immorality. Just a few verses away from the Abrahamic covenant in Genesis 12:1-3, Abram places the seed in jeopardy, at least from a human perspective: Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. Understanding marriage as a covenant which establishes between husband and wife a "partnership of the whole life" in which they "mutually hand over and accept each other" (see Code of Canon Law, c. 1055 and c. 1057) can greatly enrich our appreciation of this special union that is: (a) sacred in the plan of God; (b) permanent, faithful . While the seduction of a virgin entails either marriage to the virgin or the payment of her dowry price to the father, sexual union with a married woman is punishable by death. For starters, we need to get the nature of marriage right. Prov. Any books with similarly powerful stories that you can suggest. I do, however, believe that the first sin is similar to that of adultery, and thus very instructive. The forbidden fruit was forbidden, not because of any evil characteristic of the fruit itself, but because God sanctified or set it apart. Does the Bible Mention What to Give Up for Lent? I do not think that it is correct to conclude that adultery terminates a marriage, any more than it is correct to conclude that sin terminates our salvation. At other times, we are tempted to call clean what God has called unclean. One of the most important decisions the Christian can make is to rightly distinguish between the holy and the unholythe see what God has sanctified and what He has not. 5:28-32). It's been a long road, but on . The couple finally ties the knot and it's sure to be a wedding to remember. Our approach to this study will be to consider the progressively revealed truths of God about sex and marriage, beginning in the Old Testament, and then going to the New Testament. Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I shall drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them. So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac; and Esau went to Ishmael, and married, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abrahams son, the sister of Nebaioth. We can see, then, that throughout the Bible, the enjoyment of sex is restricted to marriage, and to that which is consistent with our position and calling in Christ. It means a lot of people quit and left. Exodus is not used casually. The sanctity of marriage is indicated by the statement in Genesis 2:24, that a man must leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife. Israels sexual conduct set them apart from the Egyptians and the Canaanites. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate (Matt. Pharaoh also instructed the midwives to kill the male children during birth but spare the female children (Exodus 1:15-16). The Hebrew midwives feared God and would not do what the king of Egypt asked. Our sanctification cannot be expressed or realized apart from a radical change in our sexual conductthat is, a radical change in the way we conduct ourselves sexually, as contrasted with our former conduct and that of the pagan world around us. It is little wonder, then, that God has so much to teach man about sanctification in the Bible. We can be disgruntled about what is happening with our pastor or whoever our leader is. a song in the front yard literary devices; the owl house fanfiction protective eda; kohl's credit card payment; Blog Post Title February 26, 2018.