To me, a wood chisel can be used for any number of things, including, if necessary, automobile engines. 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. It is also significant that He taught divorce causes adultery, except in the case where the divorce was based upon previous adultery. 12:13; Ps. When we leave the gospels of the New Testament and come to the epistles, there is a change which we should recognize and appreciate. 18:24-30; 20:22-26). The University of Memphis alumnae has been in education for about 20 years after receiving the call to teach. The Good Doctor. Gen. 39:9; 2 Sam. (2) The sanctity of marriage. 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. Judaism condemned adultery and sexual immorality, as can be seen from John chapter 8. Moses knew he had a big job because Israel was no longer just one family. The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Bachelor Sister Wives 90 Day Fiance Wife Swap The Amazing Race Australia Married at First Sight The Real Housewives of Dallas My 600-lb Life Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. 8-10). For a while, Shaun was dating Dr. Carly Lever (Jasika Nicole), a pathologist. Thus, whatever one does, he does in union with Christ. Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. I understand that possessing ones vessel in sanctification and honor (1 Thes. 6:15-20). As fans of the show will remember, they lost their unborn . 22-27). Satan, to save his skin, would begin to understand that he must begin to wage war on the seed of the woman. Exodus 22:16-17 "If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride price for her and make her his wife. Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine. The difference between John and me in this instance is that John believes everything should be used for the purpose it was made. 13:4). 's season finale. The reason seems to be solely because God has sanctified the marriage and the sexual sin has profaned it. I find it interesting that the fruit of this tree of knowledge of good and evil was good, like everything else God created (cf. We can cry out to God, and He will hear us. The implications of the sanctity of sex and marriage are the subject of this lesson. Now, he tells Abram that the blessings He will give him and all the nations will come through his seed. It is God who brought Adam and Eve together as husband and wife. It's been a long road, but on . For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people. Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his lords servants, but he did not go down to his house (2 Samuel 11:1-13). And the man said. He does not necessarily teach that attitudinal sins are as bad as action sins. The Israelites performed the same physical act of worship (obeisance) towards Yahveh and King David, as it is written, 1 Chr. This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man. For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh (Gen. 2:18-24). In fact, it wasnt bad, in and of itself. Smith lives and resides in Memphis, Tennessee. The Mohar.The funds, called mohar, are so important that this clause is called ikkar ketubahthe basic part of the ketubah, or simply the ketubah. When we come to our last text, we come full circle: Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge (Heb. The Hebrew midwives feared God and would not do what the king of Egypt asked. It is God who brought Adam and Eve together as husband and wife. Here, Davids immorality led to the additional sin of murder. Grietje Commelin. Closely related to the union of a husband and his wife is the intimacy which they experience in marriage. This union involved the husband's leaving of his parents 42 and cleaving to his wife. [ESV] The ESV here provides a textual note on before, saying "or besides ." And indeed, many translations use that phrasing. Leviticus 18 and 20 emphasize the defiling nature of adultery, and warn that the practice of such sins will defile the land and will result in expulsion from the land, just as the Canaanites were expelled (cf. Fornication is also applied symbolically in the Bible to the sins of idolatry and apostasy, or the abandoning of God. Will God forgive me for losing hope and the will to live? That is a topic for another article. 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 exodus of Israel was not easy, and it took time, but it was a God kind of job. The foundation for the sanctity of marriage and sex is laid early in the Book of Genesis, where we read of the first marriage. She has one stepson, Greg. The word fornication comes from the Greek term porneia (from which we . Why did you not go down to your house? And Uriah said to David, The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. "If a man who has married a slave wife takes another wife for himself, he must not neglect the rights of the first wife to food, clothing, and sexual intimacy. To remove either is a drastic action (as, for example, one would do in the case of cancer). Dr. Smith primarily teaches language arts. The assumption here is that the divorce is obtained in order to marry another, or that it will ultimately result in marriage to another. So, too, the pleasures of sexual sin are prominently proclaimed, but the price for immorality is exceedingly high (cf. One of the most important lessons was deliverance would only come from God. How long will you remain unclean? (Jer. But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. We sanctify those things to which we attach great value. We know that God is not a man that He should lie nor a son of man that He should change His mind (Numbers 23:19). We must even distinguish between what is personally permissible and what is personally beneficial (1 Cor. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. The difference between John and myself over the use of a wood chisel is also a matter of sanctification. 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). Leviticus 20Israel is not to play the harlot by consulting mediums or spiritists, but they are to consecrate themselves to the God of Israel, who sanctifies them (vss. But it is also referred to regularly in later Bible books. 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. Deuteronomy 22When a man accuses his wife of not being a virgin at the time they were married, the parents can show her (blood-stained) garment as proof of her purity. Pauls words in 1 Corinthians chapter 6 go much farther, showing the implications of a Christians sexual union with a harlot. To John, my Stanley chisel is a wood chisel, only to be used for chiseling wood. Let us briefly consider the important truths our Lord taught on sex and marriage. Why should I pardon you? Some of this may be cultural, but I think the primary reason is that in those days especially (and in other cultures still today) the woman is under the authority of her parents, and her parents authority over her is simply transferred to her husband. They were oppressive to the Israelites and made them create bricks. 4:11-12). Exodos means leave, and the book of Exodus tells how the nation of Israel left Egypt. But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you (for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled); so that the land may not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you. Most Americans seem to think that human sexuality is to be used in the same way I use my Stanley chiselthe more uses to which it can be put, the better. And, Paul says, it involves for Timothy the fleeing of youthful lusts, which surely include illicit sexual passions and conduct. For starters, we need to get the nature of marriage right. Marriage with the Midianites was allowed . When Moses was born (Exodus 2), he escaped this fate and became an instrument God used to deliver the children of Israel. But this does not take the Law far enough, as our Lord must continually point out to His listeners, and to His literalistic opponents, the scribes and Pharisees. Abraham marries Keturah, who couldn't have been a daughter of Israel as Israel, Abraham's grandson was yet to have been born. All rights reserved. . In both cases, partaking of the forbidden fruit brings disastrous results. 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. Verse Concepts . 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. In the Bible, this word is used for the departure of the people of Israel out of Egypt. Reproduction. 24, 30) and the land (vss. and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. Fornication is a term used in the Bible for any sexual misconduct or impure sexual activity that occurs outside of the bounds of a marriage covenant. (6) Though David was of the chosen seed, Uriah was but a Hittite. In these verses the sin of David is contrasted against the backdrop of the devotion and discipline of Uriah. The reproduction of life is that function which is carried out within the marriage union, according to Gods design and decree. There were many things that Israel had to learn during this process. 5:28-32). Hands and eyes are involved as precipitating causes of immorality, however. At this time, the children of Israel were fruitful, increased abundantly, became exceedingly mighty, and there were people everywhere. The Bible says God is near the brokenhearted (Psalms 34:18). As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your prostitution On the hills in the field, I have seen your abominations. 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. When we are willing to do whatever it takes to avoid a sin, we will likely take the steps necessary to avoid it. 1 Corinthians 7:1-6 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the . Viewed from a contemporary secular perspective, sexual pleasure restricted only to marriage is a tragic waste, a failure to make full use of ones sexual potential, and thus to deprive oneself of a great deal of sexual pleasure. and that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. Dr. Smith has freelanced for the Tri-State Defendernewspaper and Contempora magazine. Exodus 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. Any books with similarly powerful stories that you can suggest. Sanctification was, for example, the first great test which man failed in the Garden of Eden. Amongst the most surprising revelations would be the following: 1. The word exodus literally means "the road out". Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Exod. Finally, we shall attempt to distill the biblical teaching into a few guiding and governing principles. In Genesis chapter 12 further revelation about mans salvation is given as the benefits brought about by human (and ultimately divine) seed: And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you; And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. Second, if we want the world to understand God's faithful love, we need to . 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. Let the husband fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! 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. 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. The Net Pastors Journal, Eng. From the very beginning of creation, to commit adultery was to violate the sanctity of sex in marriage. (2) Jesus thus teaches here that attitudinal sins precede sins of action (cf. Joseph ended up in Egypt away from his family and did not understand until decades later when his brothers came to Egypt why all these events occurred (Genesis 50:20). The Egyptians worshipped gods created by their ancestors, but the Israelites kept their faith. Furthermore, the one who divorces their spouse also causes them to commit adultery, since a remarriage is assumed. Just as God gave life to all of His creatures in Genesis chapter 1, now in chapter 2 He gives a woman to Adam as his wife. Sin entered the human race and human history, and the consequences are evident all about us. 30 Verses to Reflect on in the Book of Hebrews. 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. Numbers 12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. Hence I have said to you, You are to possess their land, and I Myself will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples. And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. And the LORD GOD fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 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. I honestly don't think I'll ever be the same. If you look at Exodus 1:5, you will see that seventy souls had come out of Jacob and arrived in Egypt with Joseph. Ex). 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. He warned us . His brothers gave him an unplanned exodus simply because his father adored him (Genesis 37:3-4). If someone were to say there was a mass exodus across state lines, it is safe to assume that many people crossed the state lines. 20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the understanding. For this and other reasons, the Seventh Commandment is of vital importance, not only to a pagan world, but to a carnal and permissive church. The epidemic of sexual immorality is, I believe, the result of a failure to understand or appreciate the sanctity of sex and of marriage. 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). We also can learn that sometimes we will wander in the wilderness until we get our acts together. Lev. Our culture protests that Christians disdain and demean sex, that we have little appreciation for it. In chapter 35, Ruben lay with one of his fathers concubines (35:22). 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. Why Did Pharaoh Tell Joseph to Enjoy the 'Fat of the Land'? Eph. One can build up the other in those intimate areas of ones heart and life, but one can also do great damage in the intimate areas as well. The Book of Exodus (Exodus 2:5) does not give a name to Pharaoh's daughter, or to her father; she is referred to in Hebrew as simply the Bat-Paroh (Hebrew: ), a Hebrew phrase that literally translates to "daughter of Pharaoh."The Book of Jubilees (Jubilees 47:5) and Josephus both name her as Thermouthis (Greek: ), also transliterated as Tharmuth and . (3) The way to fully keep the Seventh Commandment is to view sexual sin as so serious (damning) that we are willing to take any measure required to prevent it. The forbidden fruit was not forbidden because is was intrinsically bad. The second layer of application relates to the church. This was now accomplished. 4:1-5). While I have cited only a portion of this important paragraph (vss. 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. From the standpoint of our sin against God, attitudinal sins and action sins are both rebellion against God. Some people seem to disdain sex in marriage as much as the Bible disdains it outside of marriage. They made their lives miserable with hard labor (Exodus 1). Our Lord teaches us here that divorce causes adultery. 5:1-14). In later chapters Reuel is called Jethro. Virginity is thus looked upon as a stigma, from which one should rid oneself as quickly as possible. The inference is quite clear: since sexual union joins a man and woman in marriage, adultery violates that union. This may be a matter of personal conviction, over which there is some disagreement, but marriage does not make every sexual practice holy. Understand they had been among people with idol gods. Indeed, in verse 16 Paul makes a statement of monumental importance. For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you. NLT - 27 Moses told them, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Each of you, take your swords and go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other. So David sent and inquired about the woman. If we have accepted the principle of sanctification in general, we must then see it in the particulars of our Christian experience. So, the Egyptians devised a plan to set taskmasters over the Israelites and enslave them. When the first sin was committed by partaking of the forbidden fruit God pronounced punishments which were appropriate to each party involved, as well as the consequences for all mankind. Exodos means leave, and the book of Exodus tells how the nation of Israel left Egypt. Marriage, in Josephs understanding, was an exclusive relationship. Prior to education, she worked in local and national television news for 13 years including positions as an overnight news anchor, reporter, and assignments editor at two local network affiliate stations. Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. (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. For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? Prepare yourself. After Joseph died, the children of Israel were numerous, a great nation. 0. who does sean marry in exodus. For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body (1 Cor. but the scene where Cecilia says goodbye to Sean in Exodus literally broke me. (Prov. Now flee from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart (2 Tim. An exodus of people left the company means the same thing. (1) Jesus teaches here that it is not enough to keep the Law in its letter, but must also keep it in spirit. v. 24). shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Published by at February 16, 2022. 1 also 1 Tim. In other words, what is it that makes a marriage distinct, unique, sanctified? We know, of course, that the Lord Jesus was not born of the union of Mary and Joseph, but by a supernatural conception brought about by the Holy Spirit.