What is
spiritual Adultery? Idolatry..
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Why do Christians
settle for mixture in the church and life? What are Christians afraid of?
Temptations:
Christians were tempted to engage in various vices that were a part of their
lives before they became Christians (idolatry, sexual immorality, covetousness,
etc.).
Deceptions:
Christians encountered various heresies and false teachings spread by false
teachers and prophets that threatened to seduce them away from their pure
devotion to Christ.
Persecutions:
Christians were persecuted by the governing powers of the day for their
allegiance to Christ. Many Christians were threatened with certain death if
they would not deny Christ.
Thus saith
the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen... For the customs of the people are
vain:” (Jer. 10:2,3). “Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by
following them [the heathen]... and that thou enquire not after their gods,
saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God:” (Deut. 12:30,31)
Injected
into the Church:
You have
supposed it is part of the true Christian religion to observe Lent, "Holy
Week," "Good Friday," to buy hot cross buns at the bakery, to
have colored eggs, to dress up and go to Church Easter Sunday, perhaps to
attend an Easter sunrise service! Really
what dose Easter hunt and Jesus have in common you have to find them...? I
never realize that My Lord was lost..
Because of
the "sheep" instinct in humans, most of us believe a lot of things
that are not true. Most of us do a lot of things that are wrong, supposing
these things be right, or even sacred!
The Spirit
of Adultery & the Contaminated Human Spirit
We have a
"spirit body" inside of us that looks just like our natural body. We
are living spirits. The Holy Spirit protects "our spirit" or
"Human spirit" from "demon spirits" which include but not
limited to; lust, perversion, murder, rage, slandering, angry, rage, wrath,
pride, forgiveness, bitterness, depression, anxiety, rebellion, witchcraft,
lack.
Spiritual
adultery was not only a problem in the Old Testament; it is an ongoing problem
in the New Testament as well. In the Old Testament the children of Israel
habitually transgressed against God's laws by taking up the ways of the heathen
nations around them and by borrowing their abominable customs. The same rituals
and customs that the pagans used in worshiping their false gods, the children
of Israel used to worship the true God. “For of old time I have broken thy
yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon
every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.”
(Jer. 2:20). God likened these practices to a whorish wife committing adultery
against her husband, and regularly warned his people against committing such
acts. Jesus said, “I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery
with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds
Adultery is
also defined in a scriptural sense as “idolatry, or apostasy from the true God.
Jer. 3.” Idolatry is defined as “1. The worship of idols, images, or anything
made by hands, or which is not God. 2. Excessive attachment or veneration for
anything, or that which borders on adoration.” (An American Dictionary of the
English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, see Adultery and Idolatry). Adoration is
“a feeling of profound love and admiration.” Idolatry can be a profound love or
admiration for anything or anyone – an image, a statue, a living or deceased
saint, a preacher, a prophet, a pope, etc.
In ancient
times God allowed his people to go astray and worship in the idolatrous ways of
the nations of the world (Deut. 4:19; 17:3; Judges 2:13; 10:6; I Sam. 7:3,4;
12:10; I Kings 11:5,33; II Kings 23:3-5,13; Jer. 7:18; 44:17,18). And the New
Testament makes it clear that God will allow his people to go astray today.
Ancient sun-worship was an idolatrous custom of the nations of the world from
the earliest times of recorded history. Ancient celestial deities were
worshiped under a variety of names, but they all shared identical or similar
attributes. The Scriptures record numerous instances when God's people turned
to pagan idolatry; “and they worshipped the sun” (Ezek. 8:16); “the queen of
heaven” (Jer. 7 & 44); etc. (Judges 2:13; 10:6; I Sam. 7:3,4; 12:10; I
Kings 11:5,33; II Kings 23:13; Ezek. 8:13-16). When God delivered the children
of Israel from bondage in Egypt, many of his people yearned for the idols of
the pagan gods (Ezk. 20:1-16). The book of Acts says of God's own people, even
after he delivered them from bondage in Egypt, “in their hearts turned back
again into Egypt,...Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of
heaven;” (Acts 7:39-43). Click thumbnails below to see images comparing the
striking similarities between the various ancient and modern idolatries:
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