Adultery

Are you an adulterer or an adulteress?  Before you say no, let me clarify. Are you a SPIRITUAL adulterer or adulteress?  And by SPIRITUAL I mean, are you unfaithful to God? Is God truly your God, or do you serve another god? Do you serve the god of self over God? Do you serve the god of riches? Do you serve the god of the prideful? Do you serve the god of your belly? Do you serve the god of a loved one? Is another human being the god you serve? Whatever rules your life, whatever you use to lead your life even yourself, because yes, you can choose to serve yourself as your own god, whatever it is the you look to for guidance in life, in your day to day living, this is the god you are serving and if it's not GOD it's another god whether you want to call it another god or not, and you are an adulterer or an adulteress.

So you see the question isn't whether or not you are cheating on your husband or wife, but whether or not you are cheating on God.

'Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.'  James 4:4

The friendship of this world is an enmity with God.

If you are a friend of this world, you are an enemy of God's.

This is truth.

Think about it for a moment.  Do you truly believe that this sin infected world is the world we were intended to inhabit?  For every seemingly wondrous thing in this world there seems to be a counter evil to it in some way. This is NOT what the Lord intended for us human beings.  There are many people who will tell you differently. They'll rattle off the millions of amazing things about this world and tell us we have to love this world, but God tells us we do NOT have to love THIS world. We are to Love one another as children of God, and we are to love God, but we are not to love the thing of this world.  Too many get caught up in loving the things of this world over loving one another and loving God. Too many allow the enticements of this world to capture them.  And there are enticements around every single corner we turn.

Today if you tell someone you despise this world they might go off on a rant about having to protect this world from pollution of all sorts, that we have to stop global warming and love this world we live on because it's our home.

Am I advocating purposefully destroying the world? No, I would never say it's fine and dandy to pollute the waters and land, to destroy the air we breathe. However I will never say we have to love this world either, especially not loving it over loving each other even the person that lives to bring destruction upon the earth.

We are told this--

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

EVERYTHING in this world passes away, it corrodes, it degrades, it withers, it changes, it become completely invaluable to us upon our final rest.  Everything in this world can be destroyed and will be destroyed eventually.  The only thing that remains forever is God and His Kingdom and those of His Kingdom.

How can we have the love of the Father in us when we love the world and the thing of the world more than we love Him?

The lust of flesh.

The lust of the eyes.

The pride of life.

All thing of the world, not of the Father.

We are told--

Col 2:8  Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Spoiled through philosophies and vain deceits. Spoiled through traditions of men. Spoiled through the rudiments of this world.

Save through CHRIST.

We are told-

Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The RENEWING of our MINDS in our Savior alone can save us and keep us from conforming to the world.

The renewing of our minds will help us PROVE what is the good, acceptable, perfect will of God.

Please, Father, we would NOT be conformed to this world. Please, we would not be adulterers or adulteresses, we would not be friends with this world! Help to be solely Yours! Please, Father, we would be YOURS and not the worlds! Renew our minds! Help us to know and to do Your will always!

In Your love, by Your Grace, all through Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ!

Amen.