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Honey From The Rock Psalm 81:16 |
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NIGHT BLIGHT - PART 2 This entry was posted on 03-20-2008 and is filed under uncategorized. "Not in sexual immorality and debauchery..." (Romans 13:13-c NIV).
America is becoming more like Rome every day. Roman banquets were famous for their debauchery. The sex business is a multi-billion dollar business. Just last week the Governor of New York resigned after being caught in a prostitution ring. The Berkley Version translates this as "prostitution." The NASB has "sexual promiscuity." Such behavior cheapens the lives of both the prostitute and the one who seeks her out. It is hardly a "victimless" crime as some protest. What of the Governor's poor wife and three daughters? Bill Paul's "Understandable Version" translates "debauchery" as "indecent vices." The NKJV has "lewdness and lust" for this couplet. It's not a pretty picture. Sin never is. And yet it is somehow alluring to some who are in Christ. Otherwise Paul would not tell them to beware of what we are calling "night blight." The Phillips Translation gives us a sound admonition: "Let us live cleanly, as in the daylight, not in the 'delights' of getting drunk or playing with sex..." Paul told the church in Corinth: "Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?...Therefore, honor God with your body" (1 Cor. 6:18-19 NIV). Hymn/Prayer: "Holy Spirit, faithful Guide, ever near the Christian's side, Gently lead us by the hand, Pilgrims in a desert land" (M. M. Wells). |
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