Oh, how we love our Lord and Saviour for all that He has done for us!
How sad we would be if He had not come to this world to take our
punishment. How thankful we are for the Holy Spirit that was promised to
us after Jesus went away. He told His disciples that the Holy Spirit, or
the Comforter, could not come unless He went to the Father. (John 14).
We read how God gave the disciples the Holy Spirit, after Jesus arose
into the skies, after His resurrection from the grave. In Acts, second
chapter, they were waiting in the upper room and the Holy Spirit came
upon them and God performed a miracle. They spoke the wonderful news and
17 or 18 different nations heard about it in their own language. It was
on the day of Pentecost when people from all of these nations had come
to the temple to worship God. Many of them believed on Jesus as the
promised Saviour, were saved from their sins, and were filled with the
Holy Spirit. It's a glorious experience and is for everyone who has been
saved from sin.
Sins Named
My grandson, let us look at the Bible and see some sins that are
mentioned.
In Galatians 5:19 we read that adultery is a sin. In verse 21 it is
clearly stated that "they that do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God." So there is no doubt about these sins. _Adultery_
means, "violation of the marriage-bed." Romans 7:2,3 says "For the woman
which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he
liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her
husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another
man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she
is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be
married to another man." We know that when a couple marries, it is for
life or until one of them dies. Read Matt. 19:7,8, where Jesus reaffirms
this truth.
_Fornication_ is the "illicit sexual intercourse of unmarried persons,"
which is also adultery. This is a sin. Many today are just living
together. This is a sin and a stench in the nostrils of God. It is
terrible and so immoral, even if many today are doing it. "But
fornication, ... let it not be once named among you, as becometh
saints." Eph. 5:3. "Flee fornication.... What? know ye not that your
body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of
God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." 1st Cor.
6:18-20. You see our bodies are to be kept pure and clean. That means
our minds are to be clean and pure also. Sometimes the devil will bring
evil thoughts to our minds but we must not think upon them. Think pure
thoughts.
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