Chapter 10 - Woman
Mat 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Mat 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Mat 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Mat 5:31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Mat 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery
Bonhoeffer- 'Adherence to Jesus allows no free rein to desire unless it be accompanied by love. To follow Jesus means self-renunciation and absolute adherence to Him, therefore a will dominated by lust can never be allowed to do what it likes. Even momentary desire is a barrier to the following of Jesus...making us sell our heavenly birthright for a mess of pottage, and showing us that we lack faith in Him who will reward mortification with joy a hundredfold. Instead of trusting to the unseen, we prefer the tangible fruits of desire and so we fall from the path of discipleship and lose touch with Jesus. Lust is impure because it is unbelief, and therefore it is to be shunned. No sacrifice is too great if it enables us to conquer a lust which cuts us off from Jesus.
The gains of lust are trivial compared with the loss it brings-- you forfeit your body eternally for the momentary pleasure of eye or hand. '
My thoughts--
Self-renunciation.
We've become so incredibly indoctrinated to believe that to deny ourselves means we are trying to earn salvation that we've given up on self-renunciation altogether. We leave self-renunciation to the weirdos, the freaks, to those who are fanatical to a fault. We call them cultish, crazy, lunatics and we surely do not want to classify ourselves among them.
Self-renunciation. Isn't that for the monks, the nuns, the cults? Or hey, isn't it just a temporary thing in the grand scheme of the year, maybe a few weeks of self-denial, that's enough, right? And even that, shouldn't we just limit our self-denial to a few things, surely not a total self-renunciation.
Self-renunciation.
self-re·nun·ci·a·tion
[self-ri-nuhn-see-ey-shuh
n, self-] noun
renunciation of one's own will, interests, etc.
Pasted from
Giving up our own will.
Giving up our own interests.
Giving up our own desires.
Giving up our own thoughts.
Giving up our selves all so we can live for another- Jesus Christ.
Bonhoeffer says this--
'To follow Jesus means self-renunciation and absolute adherence to Him, therefore a will dominated by lust can never be allowed to do what it likes.'
Absolute adherence to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
If we are truly putting Jesus FIRST in our lives, it would be impossible for us to put ourselves first, right?
Where is Jesus in your life?
What position does Jesus hold in your life?
This isn't a trivial question. Where does He rank in your life? What does He come before, or after? Is He just an after thought? Is He simply there as a shadowy part but never fully realized? How many times a day do you even think about Jesus?
We are caught up in Satan's deceptions that tells us Jesus must be a SILENT partner in our lives and not much more, because if we truly put Him first and foremost we'd be classified a one of those fanatical freaks, and we don't want that, do we?
The truth of the matter is… we are NOT setting our affections on things in heaven, our treasures are NOT laid up in heaven, heaven is something reserved for the dead not the living which is a LIE! If our Savior tells us to put our treasures in heaven, it has to be for the LIVING, for US! And it has to be a REALITY! The fact this WORLD as it is truly is NOT our home, must be REAL TO US! Yet we cling to this world and all its evil in so many ways because we are afraid to live for our Savior! We are terrified to live for heaven!
God help us!
Satan has done his work well. Yesterday we did a study on the dead, and how so many believe the lie that we transform upon death into spirit beings and go on in all our full knowledge of the life we've lived, to heaven. Because of that lie, people have regulated heaven to a place they don't have to concern themselves about, because they'll be there soon enough. Lies. They believe heaven is their due. They believe deep down when all is said and done, they'll be forgiven even if they don't ask. They believe this white light people see, the tunnel they enter, the beings they meet are all waiting for them and they're all lies. They are things that have been distorted to perpetuate Satan's biggest deception and it's worked.
Live our lives for Jesus.
Truly believe in self-renunciation utilizing it in our own lives so that we may live for Christ and only Christ,
These are the things we need to do and yet the world will fight us and try to hold onto us, hold us back, keep us caught up in ourselves and all our self serving pursuits.
Please LORD, help us to learn self-renunciation, please!
More on all this tomorrow.
All by the grace of GOD!
Mat 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Mat 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Mat 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Mat 5:31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Mat 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery
Bonhoeffer- 'Adherence to Jesus allows no free rein to desire unless it be accompanied by love. To follow Jesus means self-renunciation and absolute adherence to Him, therefore a will dominated by lust can never be allowed to do what it likes. Even momentary desire is a barrier to the following of Jesus...making us sell our heavenly birthright for a mess of pottage, and showing us that we lack faith in Him who will reward mortification with joy a hundredfold. Instead of trusting to the unseen, we prefer the tangible fruits of desire and so we fall from the path of discipleship and lose touch with Jesus. Lust is impure because it is unbelief, and therefore it is to be shunned. No sacrifice is too great if it enables us to conquer a lust which cuts us off from Jesus.
The gains of lust are trivial compared with the loss it brings-- you forfeit your body eternally for the momentary pleasure of eye or hand. '
My thoughts--
Self-renunciation.
We've become so incredibly indoctrinated to believe that to deny ourselves means we are trying to earn salvation that we've given up on self-renunciation altogether. We leave self-renunciation to the weirdos, the freaks, to those who are fanatical to a fault. We call them cultish, crazy, lunatics and we surely do not want to classify ourselves among them.
Self-renunciation. Isn't that for the monks, the nuns, the cults? Or hey, isn't it just a temporary thing in the grand scheme of the year, maybe a few weeks of self-denial, that's enough, right? And even that, shouldn't we just limit our self-denial to a few things, surely not a total self-renunciation.
Self-renunciation.
self-re·nun·ci·a·tion
[self-ri-nuhn-see-ey-shuh
n, self-] noun
renunciation of one's own will, interests, etc.
Pasted from
Giving up our own will.
Giving up our own interests.
Giving up our own desires.
Giving up our own thoughts.
Giving up our selves all so we can live for another- Jesus Christ.
Bonhoeffer says this--
'To follow Jesus means self-renunciation and absolute adherence to Him, therefore a will dominated by lust can never be allowed to do what it likes.'
Absolute adherence to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
If we are truly putting Jesus FIRST in our lives, it would be impossible for us to put ourselves first, right?
Where is Jesus in your life?
What position does Jesus hold in your life?
This isn't a trivial question. Where does He rank in your life? What does He come before, or after? Is He just an after thought? Is He simply there as a shadowy part but never fully realized? How many times a day do you even think about Jesus?
We are caught up in Satan's deceptions that tells us Jesus must be a SILENT partner in our lives and not much more, because if we truly put Him first and foremost we'd be classified a one of those fanatical freaks, and we don't want that, do we?
The truth of the matter is… we are NOT setting our affections on things in heaven, our treasures are NOT laid up in heaven, heaven is something reserved for the dead not the living which is a LIE! If our Savior tells us to put our treasures in heaven, it has to be for the LIVING, for US! And it has to be a REALITY! The fact this WORLD as it is truly is NOT our home, must be REAL TO US! Yet we cling to this world and all its evil in so many ways because we are afraid to live for our Savior! We are terrified to live for heaven!
God help us!
Satan has done his work well. Yesterday we did a study on the dead, and how so many believe the lie that we transform upon death into spirit beings and go on in all our full knowledge of the life we've lived, to heaven. Because of that lie, people have regulated heaven to a place they don't have to concern themselves about, because they'll be there soon enough. Lies. They believe heaven is their due. They believe deep down when all is said and done, they'll be forgiven even if they don't ask. They believe this white light people see, the tunnel they enter, the beings they meet are all waiting for them and they're all lies. They are things that have been distorted to perpetuate Satan's biggest deception and it's worked.
Live our lives for Jesus.
Truly believe in self-renunciation utilizing it in our own lives so that we may live for Christ and only Christ,
These are the things we need to do and yet the world will fight us and try to hold onto us, hold us back, keep us caught up in ourselves and all our self serving pursuits.
Please LORD, help us to learn self-renunciation, please!
More on all this tomorrow.
All by the grace of GOD!
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