3, 24-30). Here, Davids immorality led to the additional sin of murder. Such could be the conclusion one would reach from a reading of John chapter 4, where Jesus spoke to the immoral woman at the well, or of John chapter 8, where Jesus refused to cast stones at the woman caught in the very act of adultery. There are several reasons for the difference in the emphasis of our Lord from that of the Old Testament, which condemned adultery and demanded the death penalty. Their people have been under the foot of the Egyptians for four hundred years. Yes, Marriage Matters to God. The third chapter of the Book of Genesis is significant to our study as well. Flee immorality. There is usually a large number of people making an exodus. He is a purist in that regardI am not. The forbidden fruit was forbidden, not because of any evil characteristic of the fruit itself, but because God sanctified or set it apart. NLT - 27 Moses told them, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Each of you, take your swords and go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other. By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing. Then David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go. So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. What Is the Significance of Not the Letter but of the Spirit? Shaun ( Freddie Highmore) and Lea ( Paige Spara) started out as neighbors. What Is the Meaning of Psalm 91 and Why Is it Popular? Finally, we shall attempt to distill the biblical teaching into a few guiding and governing principles. 20:6). (4) While Uriah was willing to lay down his life for the king and the nation, David was willing to take Uriahs life to save his own reputation and to satisfy his own sexual desires. There were many things that Israel had to learn during this process. Satan made great promises about the benefits of partaking of the fruit of that tree, but he failed to tell all. Thus Jesus majored on those sins which were more subtle, and which were more characteristic of the religious leadership of Israel. The Tennessee native is a member of Temple of Deliverance COGIC, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc, Omicron Delta Kappa, The Golden Key International Honour Society, and Kappa Delta Pi. Moses is born, and placed in a basket in the reeds of Nile. Exodus 21:10 (MSG) If he marries another woman, she retains all her full rights to meals, clothing, and marital relations. How tragic it is to see young people seduced (philosophically and physically), so that they will share that most treasured gift with those who cannot even be named or numbered. The sexual immorality of Israel has defiled the people and the land, and necessitates their expulsion from the land. And it came about when he came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman; and it will come about when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. Our Lord says that this union of husband and wife must not be severed (Matt. The consequences of either guilt or innocence are spelled out (vss. When some have read Deuteronomy 7:2-5, they conclude that God is opposed to intermarriage among the races. Abraham, and his seed, is set apart from the rest of mankind, and through Him Messiah will come and will bring blessing and salvation to all nations. There is no explanation for this name change, but the title "priest of Midian" accompanies both names, and he is called Moses' father-in-law, so it is safe to assume this was the same man. There are other instances of sexual immorality in Genesis, but let us turn our attention to the bright light of Josephs character, in contrast to that of his close relatives.43 Joseph was a young man, with all of the sexual desires of any other healthy male. The answer to the question is in Exodus 22:17 - the woman does NOT have to marry a . My master made me swear, saying, You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live; So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. 4:4), and holding the marriage bed in honor, keeping the marriage bed undefiled (Heb. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king. 2:11-12). Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? In order to do this, Christians must be holy, sanctified, just as God is holy (1 Peter 1:14-16). She has one stepson, Greg. In these verses the sin of David is contrasted against the backdrop of the devotion and discipline of Uriah. The man, on the other hand, is under his parents authority as a child, but when he leaves them he terminates that chain of command and establishes a new chain of command, being the head of his wife and the family which may follow. Second, if we want the world to understand God's faithful love, we need to . And it was said, WHOEVER DIVORCES HIS WIFE, LET HIM GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DISMISSAL; but I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except for the cause of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery (Matt. Kill everyone - even your brothers, friends, and neighbors.". 4:3-8). Since marriage matters to God, it should matter to believers too. Let us briefly summarize this revelation. Uncovering the nakedness of a relative is prohibited (vss. We also can learn that sometimes we will wander in the wilderness until we get our acts together. There are two specific applications which I would suggest emerge from the observation of these unique areas in which marriage is sanctified, unique. For this and other reasons, the Seventh Commandment is of vital importance, not only to a pagan world, but to a carnal and permissive church. We must begin by taking the Bible literally, and thus we acknowledge that any act of adultery must be avoided. Pauls words in 1 Corinthians chapter 6 go much farther, showing the implications of a Christians sexual union with a harlot. There is a saying that success is when preparation meets opportunity. Just as God placed the forbidden fruit in sight and within the reach of Adam and Eve, so the forbidden fruit of sexual immorality is visible and available. Gen. 39:9; 2 Sam. 13:4) implies that not every sexual practice of the pagan world is permissible or beneficial for the Christian. He then immediately turns to our sanctification as it relates to our sexual conduct. Leviticus 20Israel is not to play the harlot by consulting mediums or spiritists, but they are to consecrate themselves to the God of Israel, who sanctifies them (vss. "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the . As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love. (2) Sexual impurity defiles both the persons involved and the land. shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? If we have accepted the principle of sanctification in general, we must then see it in the particulars of our Christian experience. In effect, Abram was not only endangering the promises of God and the purity of his wife, but he was paving the way for men to unknowingly commit adultery with his wife. In the Bible, this word is used for the departure of the people of Israel out of Egypt. Reproduction. It is very important for me to be precise in what I say here. and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. Bible Answer: Marriage between people of different races occurs every day in spite of the conflicts that occur between nations and different interest groups. Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular, To show willingness, be pleased, determine, undertake (to do anything), Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct, To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular, Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular. But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. This union is violated and defiled by adultery. They were oppressive to the Israelites and made them create bricks. Thus, when a divorce is granted due to adultery, a later marriage on the part of the innocent (that is, not guilty of adultery) party is not viewed to be adulterous. Sanctification involves purity, the absence of what is unclean. Then David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. And Uriah went out of the kings house, and a present from the king was sent out after him. The consequences of guilt or innocence are spelled out (vss. From the standpoint of the harm done to men, action sins are more serious. As we established, Exodus means to leave or depart. While I have cited only a portion of this important paragraph (vss. The marriage union which God established, God also sanctified. What I would say is this; if the slave viewed his marriage as sacred, and held it in high regard, then a provision to sustain his marriage is set forth here in this text: the slave can renounce his "freedom" and remain a slave to his master, and in so . To John, a wood chisel is to be sanctifiedset apart for use only on wood. It is significant that our Lord began by talking about adultery, but that He almost immediately came to the subject of divorce. This is what we shall seek to learn from the writings of the apostles in the New Testament. Our Lord is teaching us that we must, unlike our culture, take sexual sin most seriously. Judgment awaits this nation, which is likened to a harlot. Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan, and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. 5:18). Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For this reason it says, Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you (Eph. 19:4-6a). If you havent read it yet, I highly recommend it. Visual and sensory (touch) stimulation are often the prelude to immorality. Most Americans seem to think that human sexuality is to be used in the same way I use my Stanley chiselthe more uses to which it can be put, the better. And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. I understand that possessing ones vessel in sanctification and honor (1 Thes. Teenagers, culture is lying to you. 18:24-30; 20:22-26). He had promised Abraham that his descendants would become a great nation (Genesis 17). Will God forgive me for losing hope and the will to live? The relationship between a husband and his wife is a union. For starters, we need to get the nature of marriage right. From the very beginning of creation, to commit adultery was to violate the sanctity of sex in marriage. In short, there has been both a leaving and a cleaving, a separation and a union. Deuteronomy 7:4. We can learn from the book Exodus that the Israelites continued to cry out to God until He delivered them. Every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers. Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self-control (1 Cor. Sinai was a further means of sanctifying His people, to be a priestly nation: You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles wings, and brought you to Myself. Having said this, let us note that eyes and hands are very precious body members. Let us conclude by seeking to isolate the principles which underlie and govern sexual purity, and then some of the practical outworkings of these principles. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride price for virgins." . (3) The Jewish religious leaders felt smugly self-righteous because they did not practice this form of sin, but they were guilty of other, more subtle, sins, which were more socially acceptable. Our culture protests that Christians disdain and demean sex, that we have little appreciation for it. 22-33), the important point to recognize here is that the relationship of a Christian husband and wife is to be a reflection of the relationship of Jesus Christ to His church. God told Satan, Adam and Eve that the Savior of mankind would be the seed of the woman. Should your springs be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets? 2:16-22). The inference is quite clear: since sexual union joins a man and woman in marriage, adultery violates that union. God not only created man and woman, He also created the institution of marriage. The KJV Study Bible, Barbour Publishing, 2011, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body (1 Cor. 4:1-5). It is no wonder, then, that Eve was attracted to the forbidden fruit: When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate (Gen. 3:6). Some people did not enter the promised land that God had promised to give them because of their disobedience. Sanctification involves setting something apart for a special use. and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. The sin of adultery is dealt with so severely because it is a violation of the sanctity of the marriage which God has ordained and set apart. Thus, it was not necessary for our Lord to dwell on the sinfulness of sexual immorality, since the Jews of His day agreed with Him on this point. He instructed his people to cast every male child born into the river (Exodus 1:22). Marriage's original intent was so that man would not be alone . Judah marries Shu'a the Canaanite. If you have been following global events, the people of Ukraine are making an exodus because the Russians have invaded their country. It's been a long road, but on . I would suggest that the categories of unity, intimacy, reproduction, and fellowship are four specific benchmarks of the quality of our marriages, and thus four specific areas for concentrated effort. Why Did Pharaoh Tell Joseph to Enjoy the 'Fat of the Land'? The difference between John and myself over the use of a wood chisel is also a matter of sanctification. When we come to our last text, we come full circle: Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge (Heb. So thank you to whoever it was that posted about the last book being released and brought the series to my attention. Sin entered the human race and human history, and the consequences are evident all about us. As I see it, the issue in Exodus 21 is two-fold, involving not only marriage, but slavery. . It was Gods will to use Joseph as a forerunner to prepare the children of Israel for what was next (Genesis 45:7-9). It is against the backdrop of Israels history as described in Genesis that the Seventh Commandment is given to the Israelites: You shall not commit adultery (Exod. Does the Bible Mention What to Give Up for Lent? The epidemic of sexual immorality is, I believe, the result of a failure to understand or appreciate the sanctity of sex and of marriage. Sexual sin defiles the people (vss. When Uriah came to him, David asked concerning the welfare of Joab and the people and the state of the war. When one comes to faith in Christ, when he is born again, that person becomes one with Christ. They become one in spirit, and sexually they become one in physical union. The Israelites themselves were set apart from the Egyptians and from all other nations. (3) While David enjoyed sexual intimacy with Bathsheba, even though forbidden, Uriah refused such pleasure, even when legitimate and encouraged by the king. Robert L. (Bob)Deffinbaugh graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary with his Th.M. In later chapters Reuel is called Jethro. And, Paul says, it involves for Timothy the fleeing of youthful lusts, which surely include illicit sexual passions and conduct. 13-21). 8-10). and that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. In 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 Paul says that the will of God is for us to be sanctified. In conclusion, let me suggest three additional ways in which the sanctity of sex is to be applied in a practical way. Num. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate (Matt. The University of Memphis alumnae has been in education for about 20 years after receiving the call to teach. Exodus 34:16 - and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods. Bob was born and raised in a Christian home i More. In chapter 38, Judah engaged in sexual union with his daughter-in-law, whom he thought to be a Canaanite cult prostitute (38:14-23). After Joseph and his generation died, a new king arose over Egypt who was not familiar with Joseph (Exodus 1:6-8). Anytime you hear the word exodus, it causes you to notice. I think there is little evidence for this conclusion. Marriage, by Gods decree, is sanctified, it is a relationship that is set apart and restricted. In both the New and Old Testaments we are urged to let the pleasure and enjoyment of sex within marriage serve as a godly defense against sexual immorality:44. She is the author of the self-published novel GLORYTHE HAIR. For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the. Our culture believes that the obtaining of a certificate of divorce legitimizes adultery. Thus, one should be careful not to think or say that since adultery is a sin against a marriage, it has also, de facto, terminated the marriage. Ex). The word exodus literally means "the road out". 0. who does sean marry in exodus. (6) Though David was of the chosen seed, Uriah was but a Hittite. The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Bachelor Sister Wives 90 Day Fiance Wife Swap The Amazing Race Australia Married at First Sight The Real Housewives of Dallas My 600-lb Life Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. This incident reveals several important truths: (1) Joseph knew he could not lie with this woman because she was the wife of another man. Taken as a whole, I believe that the above passages convey several vitally important truths, which we must pause to underscore: (1) Adultery is a more serious sexual sin because it is a violation of a marriage. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. The higher the vote, the further up an answer is. Viewed from a contemporary secular perspective, sexual pleasure restricted only to marriage is a tragic waste, a failure to make full use of ones sexual potential, and thus to deprive oneself of a great deal of sexual pleasure. We must remember that those who teach and lead are held to higher accountability (James 3:1). Our approach to this study will be to consider the progressively revealed truths of God about sex and marriage, beginning in the Old Testament, and then going to the New Testament. Sexual sin is also related to religious apostasy (cf. 6-18), as well as illicit intercourse (vss. Thus, whatever one does, he does in union with Christ. There are many things and situations where people make an exodus. Most importantly, we must get in the Word of God and ask for Gods help. Second, we move from an Old Testament dispensation (centered around the nation Israel) to a New Testament dispensation (centered around a predominantly Gentile church). I honestly don't think I'll ever be the same. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Law: Exodus 2:21 Moses was content to dwell (Exo. The Good Doctor. God is faithful. It is God who brought Adam and Eve together as husband and wife. (NIV) Exodus 22:16-17, which seems to be a restating of the same law, sheds some light on this passage: If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification (1 Thess. 6:15-20). I find it interesting that the fruit of this tree of knowledge of good and evil was good, like everything else God created (cf. (2) Jesus thus teaches here that attitudinal sins precede sins of action (cf. The Mohar.The funds, called mohar, are so important that this clause is called ikkar ketubahthe basic part of the ketubah, or simply the ketubah. Marriage, in Josephs understanding, was an exclusive relationship. 13:4). That's the immediate need that marriage was created to address in Genesis 2. Jesus did not have nearly as much to say about adultery and sexual immorality as did the apostles. v. 24). The covenant which God made with Israel on Mt. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but love from the Lord is its completion. For He says, the two will become one flesh. But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. When we leave the gospels of the New Testament and come to the epistles, there is a change which we should recognize and appreciate. Just as no man can have two masters, neither can one have two unionsone with Christ, and another with a harlot. We can see, then, that throughout the Bible, the enjoyment of sex is restricted to marriage, and to that which is consistent with our position and calling in Christ. He has also set this unity apart, distinguishing it from the previous parental-child entity. Why did you not go down to your house? And Uriah said to David, The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. I would suggest that the four things which set a marriage apart from other relationships are the very four things which distinguish a Christians relationship with his Lord and with His body, the church. The important thing to note here is that God also promised salvation through the seed of the woman in the midst of the curse pronounced on Satan: And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you will bruise him on the heel (Gen. 3:15). In a divine vision, God said to Peter, What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy (Acts 10:15). You may wonder what wood chisels have to do with the Seventh Commandment. He responded, Ill bet youve been using that Stanley wood chisel to scrape gaskets off of automobile engines again.. The union of husband and wife is one of the unique elements of marriage. It is God who brought Adam and Eve together as husband and wife. Later, God commanded Moses to take a census of all the Israelite men over 20 years old, which amounted to six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. (Numbers 1:46). He feared that Israel would unite with Egypts enemies (Exodus 1:9). Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his lords servants, but he did not go down to his house (2 Samuel 11:1-13).