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Originally Posted by Mikko Ainasoja
18. Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery. (Luke 16)
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what we forget and what the Lord is working with me about too.. is that his laws are true..
so what we have to remember is first we can be forgiven eternally for adultery.
but his laws in this life are still in effect.
if you steal you can go to jail, pay fines etc.. and rightfully so .. in some countries you can have your hands cut off.. if you repent His eternal forgiveness doesn't change you going to jail for breaking his law and the laws of the land and or the laws of his love for your neighbor because you stole some physical property from them.
so there is two kinds of laws and two kinds of forgiveness.
he offers eternal forgiveness for adultery..
he asks us to have mercy for the physical laws such as adultery when you yourself have been forgiven or have access to forgive . but mercy doesn't mean there is NO repercussions for sin in this life !
but we have to remember it clearly states LOve covers a multitude of sins..
now who is willing to pay the physical repercussions of a sin unto your death for that one you LOve ? and you better mean it.. because that is what he did it for us .. who is willing to do that for the adulteress and his self? because there will be physical repercussions in this life for sins unto death ..
and in the next, unless you ask HIM for eternal forgiveness..
Now if you married a woman who was married(had sex) before she was a Christian and(if legal was divorced) when unsaved, then when new in Christ and in the physical you are made all New , she is not an adultress now .
so verses like you quoted are stating a concept or level of God's law. either a physical or spiritual law. we have to ask him how to apply that law or condition of the law to this life or the next . there are HIgher laws in effect . but higher laws Cost something.. like repentance or forgiveness or sacrifice
I will add a verses here and why the son of David died , he died then rose again.. his house condemned for love's sake !and yes his love covers a multitude of sins!
Sng 8:6
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Sng 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be condemned.
His house condemned for our sake.... well my sake anyway! there is an offer on the table for all who wish to enter in can enter in by faith in the one who's house was condemned for our sakes.. his love covers a multitude of our sins.. both known or unknown sins.
but God won't be mocked, sins unto death .. means that. something is going to die for it! who is willing to pay it for that loved one?
Sampson was and David was and Jesus was,.. and how many of our soldiers go to war for their families and their loved one's sakes? yes, their love covers the sins of those that they love. we all also enter in and live in peace because of their sacrifices for their loves!