Hi Bob,
Thanks for your post. Here are some more comments for you to consider below.
Yes Bob, it is only by love that God, fulfils His Law in us as we walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. If we are breaking God’s commandments however we are not following God.
Let’s look at the Scriptures;
What is SIN? (
see also post 173 linked for more scripture)
1 John 3:4 Sin is the transgression of God’s Law (10 commandments)
Rom 14:23 whatsoever is not of faith is sin. If God asks us to do something and we do not do it than it is sin.
Now…
Gal 5:19-21,
19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21, Envying, murders, drunkenness, revelling, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
All of the above can be traced back to one of the 10 commandments
Commandments 1-2 (Ex 20:3-5) = Serving other God’s and Idols = Idolatry and witchcraft
Witchcraft is the sin of Idolatry and serving other God (Ex 20:3-5)
EXAMPLES:
Mic 5:12-13,
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
1Ki 16:31-33,
And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him. And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
2Ki 9:22,
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, what peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
Rev 2:20
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Commandment 6 (Ex 20:13) = Murder, the cause is Hatred, Variance, Strife, Seditions, and reviling.
Mat 5:22
But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Commandment 7 (Ex 20:14) = Adultery, fornication, lasciviousness
Fornication = unsanctioned or illegal sexual intercourse (sexual immorality) = adultery (Ex 20:14)
Greek meaning of "Fornication" πορνεία; inappropriate contenteia; por-ni'-ah From G4203; harlotry including adultery and incest or illegal sex (sexual immorality); figuratively idolatry: - fornication. The legal use for sex is for the union of man and women in marriage.
The Hebrew meaning of “adultery” is נָאַף; naaph From H5003: defines; to commit adultery; figuratively, to
apostatize -- adulterer(-ess), commit(-ing) adultery,
breaking wedlock union.
The Hebrew meaning of “fornication” זנה; zânâh; zaw-naw'; From H2181; defines;
to commit adultery; figuratively to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah): - (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, play the harlot, harlot, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
BDAG (the Greek Lexicon) defines
“fornication” as “
unsanctioned sexual intercourse”
including adultery. All unsanctioned sexual intercourse including fornication comes under the sin of Adultery.
The scripture reference and the word “fornication” is in line with “Thou shalt not commit adultery” (Ex 20:14) The
sanctioning of a sexual union is only in marriage if you have sexual intercourse (Union) outside of marriage (sanctioned union) you are breaking God’s commandments of committing adultery because you are committing “
unsanctioned sexual intercourse which is for the union of man and women in marriage (Gen 2:22-25; Matt 19:4-6). So committing fornication has the same reference to adultery and is and breaking God’s 8th commandments (Ex 20:14).
Commandment 10 (Ex 20:17) = Coveting, Envying etc.
Bob, already answered in post
462 above and in
post 173 addressed to you go read it.
Both of those verses are in
context to SIN and SIN is transgression of God’s 10 commandments. Hope it is helpful to you.
Bob already answered in post
462 above and in
post 173 addressed to you go read it.
Both of those verses are in
context to SIN. Hope it is helpful
If we break any of God's commandments whether they are inside the 10 or outside through unbelief we sin against God and are in danger of the Judgement. My prayer is that you and everyone of us can be ready Bob. If we willfully and knowingly break God's Law we are not following God and need to seek him to be ready.
In Christ Always!
