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1 Corinthians, 2019, Gospel of Mark, Hebrews, Leviticus

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Acts of sexual immorality

Honestly, I’d like to skip over this one, but — well, that will not do.

So what is sexual immorality? Sexual immorality per se is not given in Webster’s 1828 edition. However, immorality is defined as:

IMMORALITY, noun Any act or practice which contravenes the divine commands (emphasis mine) or the social duties. Injustice, dishonesty, fraud, slander, profaneness, gaming, intemperance, lewdness, are immoralities. All crimes are immoralities, but crime expresses more than immorality  source

Like it or not sexual intimacy beyond what is prescribed in the Holy Scriptures is sexual immorality.

1 Corinthians 7:2 (KJV) 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. source

And for those married folks:

Hebrews 13:4  (KJV)4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. source   This just might be better than we have yet believed.

Answering further is Leviticus 18.  If you are not familiar with this chapter of Holy Writ, I hope you will use the link provided; there you will find three translations to choose from and there you will read that GOD has covered it all.

The boundaries of sexual morality are narrow, extremely narrow, for the purpose of broadening the pleasure of GOD’s Children beyond mere human delight and satisfaction.

Mark 7: 20 And He said, “Whatever comes from [the heart of] a man, that is what defiles and dishonors him. 21 For from within, [that is] out the heart of men, come base and malevolent thoughts and schemes, acts of sexual immorality, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 acts of greed and covetousness, wickedness, deceit, unrestrained conduct, envy and jealousy, slander and profanity, arrogance and self-righteousness and foolishness (poor judgment). 23 All these evil things [schemes and desires] come from within and defile and dishonor the man.” source

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Until next time ~ ~  ~

1 Corinthians, 2018, Pictures

Garden Beds

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Perhaps, I should have known but I’m either inexperienced or woefully out of practice. I planted cucumbers and squash apparently in too close proximity.  As you can see the squash has heavily influenced the cucumbers.

Life Lesson: Choose carefully with whom you share a bed; the forces of nature are more powerful than you think. 

A bed. Time. Elbow to Elbow. You know. Life!

1 Corinthians 15:33  (TLV) 33 Do not be deceived! “Bad company corrupts good morals.” source

Disclaimer: This is not to say my cucumbers or squash are bad, you know. You are tracking with me, right? :)

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Just the Underlined

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Just the underlined parts was the message of the morning.

2 Corinthians 12

Verse 11 – . . . For I am in no way inferior to the super-special emissaries—though I am nothing.  

And the message? Healthy, holy, humility. The Apostle had it. I so need it! A healthy, holy, honest evaluation of myself that enables me the independence to boast not unto others, or seek their approval; yet to be utterly dependent upon my Savior. 

Verse 14 – . . .  for I seek not your possessions, but you!

Oh for this to be so! Us toward GOD and we toward one another! So often it’s not. Father, forgive us!

Verse 15 –  I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. . . .

This is holy, godly service played out with feet and hands because the heart has been made whole with healthy, holy, humility that has and continues to seek His Face, rather than His Hands.