LIVING WATER DAILY DEVOTIONAL
Wrong examples to avoid (5)
4TH , AUGUST 2022
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Isaiah 48-51
READ: 1 Corinthians 5:1-13
1 It is reported commonly that there is
fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among
the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather
mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present
in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that
hath so done this deed,
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye
are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the
destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord
Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye
may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is
sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company
with fornicators:
10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of
this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then
must ye needs go out of the world.
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep
company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or
an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no
not to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that
are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
13 But them that are without God judgeth.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
MEMORISE: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall
not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind.” - 1 Corinthians 6:9
EXPOSITION
One of the commonest social vices is sexual immorality, that is, Reckless sexual misbehavior with our
body and anything, even animals-bestiality. All sexual immoralities and
perversions are inspired by Satan. The likes of these sins caused God Himself
to visit and destroy the cities of biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, with fire and
brimstone. This hellish spirit once fell upon a member of the early Church in
the days of Apostle Paul. He slept with his father's wife exutantly, proudly rejoicing,
but he was immediately strictly rebuked and judged with expulsion so as to
avoid contamination of the whole body of Christ.
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The cost of
wrong sextual engagements are many. It breeds eccentricity and shameful
behaviour e.g. Lamech (Gen.4v19,23-24). It also breeds provocation, hate and
genocide, e.g the rape of Dinah and Tamar (Gen.34v1, 2,25-31; 2
Sam.13v8-17,28-31). It corrupts humanity and breeds generations of abnormal
beings, e.g. the giants (Gen. 6v1ff, 2 Sam.17v4-10, Matt.3v7, 12v34,39).
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Added to the
above are losses of dignity and respect, e.g Judah (Gen.38v16-26), and
birth-right, Reuben and Esau (Gen.49v3,4, c.f. 1 chro.5v1, Heb.12v16). Murder
of the innocent and curse e.g. David
versus Uriah (2 Sam. 11v14-17,24-27). It joins Christ with Belial and
causes the antichrist to inhabit God's temple (1 Cor.6v14-17). It destroys the
human body and flesh (Prov. 5v1ff, c.f.. 1 Cor. 6v18).
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Beware of sexual
immorality. Run away from youthful lusts as found on our television screens,
social media, soft magazines and handsets, etc. May God keep you holy and
acceptable to Him to the end. Amen.
PRAYER POINT:
1. Lord, deliever me from the spirit of sexual
immorality pervading this generation.
2. Lord, sanctify and deliever me from lust, in all
its forms.
3. Pray that God should cause those hands of
institutions, companies and other organisations who are fond of asking for sex
before assisting their subordinates and others who need their help, to see the
need to repent.
DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY
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