As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. (Col. 2:6)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Cor. 5:17)
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (James 1:21-22)
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2)
Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:13-16)
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For,“All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever. (1 Peter 1:13-25)
When God through his One and Only Son comes into a persons life the outlook on life of that person changes. The life they once led a lie of the flesh. Sin and evil was the master. You were slaves to sin. Sin was the master of your flesh. The desires of your flesh was the first priority. You strived toward fullfilling the lust of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature children of God's wrath. You were an enemy of God and at enmity with God. The love of the world was your desire. Scripture tells us "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever." (1 John 2:15-17)
Life doesn't end at death. Human beings have a soul that returns to God who gave it. It is God who will be the judge. Jesus said you must be perfect to inhabit God's kingdom. Only one was. God's one and only Son. The only name by which anyone is saved from the wrath of God in judgement. Just one sin eliminates anyone from the chance of everlasting life. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Hence the reason Jesus came down from heaven, born of a virgin, born under law. To save His people from their sins. The power of the Holy Spirit descending upon a young woman, overshadowed her, and the One born was called the Son of God.
Jesus Christ's story began before the foundtion of ther world. Even after the transgression of the federal heads of the human race who doubted God and believed the lie of satan. God promised one who would bruise the serpents head. "The Messiah, the eminent seed of the woman, would destroy him and all his principalities and powers, break and confound all his schemes, and ruin all his works, crush his whole empire, strip him of his authority and sovereignty, and particularly of his power over death, and his tyranny over the bodies and souls of men; all which was done by Christ, when he became incarnate and suffered and died,"(John Gill)
You may inquire here: Well, what is the will of God? That all should come to repentance. Specific boundarfies to God's will are sexual purity and moral conduct. Which believers are encouraged to follow. In His first letter to the Thessalonians chapter four The Apostle tells them,"this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit."(I Thess. 4:3-5;7-8)
It makes me cringe when I look at the state of our culture today. Much of our music, most of our cinematic entertainment is drowning in a sea of sexual titillation and immoral practices to inflame the most contemptable actions of humanity. My generation of the 70's coined the term, "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll." "Whatever lights your board." Do it! Anything goes when everything is acceptable. Bascially If it feels good, do it idealogy! Any restraint is a hinderance to basic human freedom of the will. Nothing is taboo if OK with you. Go ahead indulge. Make your choice. Be your own God. It matters not; for nothing matters but how one preceives some perverse activty one may wish to pursue. In other words its all about feelings!
Fornication: Sexual liaisons minus marriage; adultery takes center stage and becomes an option. Sexual hook ups outside marriage; incest may inflame a heart to completion of a sordid act; homosexuality becomes a fleshly choice; bestiality may enter into the fray; or even a man may want to believe they are a woman. Or a woman may adopt the look and personality of a man. Some may even decide to change their physicality if their heart so desires. To be more like how they feel. Just say it and it is so.
Yet others may adopt the worship of one or more of the many gods and goddesses that populate our world. Gods who are not gods at all and the God of scripture hates. Gods the people of Caanan bowed down to and sacrificed their children to as an offering. One of the reasons why God gave Israel that land to be taken by force and commanded Israel to destroy the Canaanite people, men, women, children, everyone. For God knew if Israel allowed them to remain Israel would adopt their practices. And become just like them. Wipe them from the face of the earth, out from existence. Which by the way Israel did not do completely. Instead coveting their practices, bowing down to their gods, adopting and worshipping their gods, and even offering their own children in religious sacrifice to the caananite gods and were punished for their disobedience to God's command by these abominable actions. Being conquered by other nations, captured and sold into slavery. Sin is that serious to a Holy, Righteous and Perfect God. God is patient. But continued rebellion against God warrants His punishment and wrath.
In the book of Habakkuk 1:13 the prophet writes of God, Your eyes are too pure to look on evil." This is a recognition of God's righteous character. God will not ever sanction sin. God will never look upon wickedness with favor. He does not wink at sin or turn a blind eye to it. For the wicked will be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God. (Ps. 9:17)
God is serious about sin. So serious that the animal sacrifices depicted in the Old Testament were but a shadow of the One who was to come. For God so loved that world that He gave. A child born, a Son given, whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For even in mankinds rebellion against God He still chose to send his One and Only son into the world, the Word who was in the beginning with God and was God. The Word that became flesh, born of a woman (a virgin Is. 7:14) Born under the law. And dwelt among us to fulfill the law and the prophets. To save His people, "who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." For without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Sin has a hold over everyone born into this world. Human beings are tainted with corrupt and evil natures. The result of the disobedience of our first parents (Adam and Eve) who believed the lie of God's adversary, the devil, satan, and the tempter of mankind, rather than the Word of God. Who told them that if they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they would die. The serpents words to them, "You will not die, but be like God." They took the bait. They desired to be like God. Their eyes were open to the reality of sin. Because they represented us all, and chose death over life, God subjected all of creation to futility, to vanity, uselessness, worthlessness and death became a part of the created order. For no one is righteous, no not one. All have turned away. They have together become worthless. There is no one does good, no not one.
Sin is glorified in our culture, our society. We can see, and hear it through entertainment: music, films, TV programs, the internet. We are inundated with all sorts of temptations from the moment we awake till we close our eyes in sleep. The world and it's desires long to lure us into lifestyles contrary to the will of God; the morality that God demands of His people: being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers (gossips), backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things (a man can become a women; a woman can become a man...a lie from the pit of hell and smells like smoke), disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.(Romans 1:29-32) God gives a disobedient and unbelieving rebellious race over to a reprobate mind.
People fail to discern the truth because they flee from the truth. Because their deeds are evil. (John 3:19) They embrace the lust of the flesh: " Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication (sexual immorality any sexual liason outside the bonds of marriage which is to be only between a man and a woman:Matt. 19:5), uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry (having any god besides the One True God of the Bible), sorcery (in biblical times the use of drugs in incantations to false gods), hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Gal. 5:19-21)
We are awash by and involved in every sort of deviancy that the human mind can concoct. And it only seems to be getting worse and worse. Anyone who speaks out against what God calls sin and an abomination is labeled as extreme or worse. If you believe in God, believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The only name by which anyone is saved from the wrath of God that is coming, in this life and the next; We know what is right and what is wrong. For it is plainly and undeniably spoken of in God's Word. For all those who practice such things are condemned as enemies of God. Following the course of this world, the prince of the power of the air. The spirit that works in the sons of disobedience and are by nature children of God's wrath. (Eph. 2:1-5)
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Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:9-10)
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Matt. 7:13-14)
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Jesus told the people of His time, "I am the door (the gate). If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved; I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." (John 10:9)
Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” (Acts 17:30-31)
Jesus the Christ said, "“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26)
"If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9)
God is serious about sin; but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. The final judgment in Revelation 20:11-15 describes those whose names are not found in the Book of Life being cast into the lake of fire, symbolizing eternal separation from God. This imagery is both terrifying and sobering, emphasizing the ultimate fate of unrepentant sinners.
BUT to those who believe, confess, repent, and are born again by grace through faith, they will spend eternity in the presence of the Lord and the glory of His power.
“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God....And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.... And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”..... There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever. (Rev. 21:3; 22:3-4; 21:4; 22:5)
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