![]() Paul said there is a way of escape for every temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13). Yet the Bible does not present the removal of sin from one’s life as an unattainable ideal but as a realistic goal. They have been convinced that we can never defeat sin therefore, they have resigned themselves to the belief that they will always struggle with it. Yet many Christians are content to remain enslaved to it. WHO COMMITTED ADULTERY IN THE BIBLE FREEJesus Christ came to set us free from the bondage of sin (Romans 6:3-6 John 8:34-36). WHO COMMITTED ADULTERY IN THE BIBLE SERIESInstead, let us serve the Lord wholly and exclusively.ĭaily Notes & Observations contains all 365 articles from this series and is available in paperback from Gospel Armory. Let us not allow the things which God has made to compete with Him for our allegiance and devotion. If we are unfaithful to God and choose to serve another “god,” we have sinned in the same manner as those mentioned by Paul – they “ worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator” (Romans 1:25). Instead, he is devoting himself to something that is common, ordinary, and that only exists because it was created by God. ![]() But when one commits spiritual adultery against God, he is not going after one who is in any way comparable with God. That does not mean that his mistress will be comparable in virtue or godliness to his wife, just that both are women. When a married person commits adultery against his spouse, he is committing adultery with one who is comparable to the one he is committing adultery against. ![]() This is why spiritual adultery is so bad. It is something that has been created by God. Any idol, when reduced to its most basic form, is something common and ordinary (“ stones and trees“). While the people Jeremiah addressed generally served graven images, there are many different things that can be made into idols that we must guard ourselves against today (1 John 5:21). Because of the lightness of her harlotries, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees” (Jeremiah 3:8-9). “ And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear but she went and was a harlot also. Though they should have learned from the mistakes of their brethren in Israel, they ignored their sins and God’s punishment for them and continued along the same path. Judgment was coming against the people of Judah for their infidelity. ![]() Thought from today’s Bible reading from Jeremiah 1-3. ![]()
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