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The Sanctification Wars (Part 2) There are many people who call themselves Christians but are not living sanctified lives. They live in fornication and uncleanliness. A man that marries an unchaste woman commits such uncleanliness and experiences defilement. God cannot sanctify fornication. In order to resolve this problem in a sanctified manner, the husband should annul his illegitimate marriage. The woman should not date or marry anyone else after the annulment. Sanctification requires faith and repentance of a former sin The Apostle Paul delivered Christians to be killed before his conversion. He was fighting grace with the law. He was not as a wicked murderer killing for pleasure, gain or out of selfish rage; he thought he was obeying God by continuing in the law (Old Testament teachings) so as to abolish anything contradicting the commandments he knew to be correct. His non-acceptance of Jesus and the New Covenant coming into effect eventually led to his conviction and complete repentance. As you may read in the book Acts of the Apostles, he experienced a great revelation of Christ, and after studying the Scriptures became a great Christian. He no longer delivered up Christians after his conversion. He made a change for God, he repented of his former thought and deeds. He made a complete turn for God and helped the Christians live for God. This is what many need to do – repent -- who claim they are Christians or want to be but still are practicing former sins that they need to be washed from. Much different than Paul's battle with the Lord, they are fighting God with the lusts of their flesh. They need to put off that sin whether they be fornicators (pornoi), adulterers (moikoi), or are soft (malakoi) and effeminate, acquiescing as a target for homosexuals (arsenokoitai). (I Cor. 6:9) For instance if a man marries an unclean woman, a woman that was not able to offer him virginity or widow chastity, then he needs to put her away in order to not to continue in fornication. He can't justify a defiled marriage. He needs to repent and be washed of this sin, and keep himself out of bad relationships. It is not hard for repentant people to separate, it is an obligation. Marriage is not always recommended for virgins. Males and females as virgins in the New Testament were supposed to be in a good way. (1 Cor. 7: 25, 26) Some virgins and clean women cannot marry as the daughter of Jephthah (Judges 11:1), whose marital potential and life was changed by the decision of her father: “she knew no man” (Judges 11:39), it is not asking much for a defiled woman who cannot offer virginity to act without transgressing the law (I Ti. 1:8-10) and not commit or extend her fornication through unsanctified marrying. Illegitimate marriages need to be annulled. If a thief (verse 10) or another type of sinner mentioned in I Cor., chapter 6 can repent of his sin, so can an immoral person such as a fornicator, adulterer, effeminate man (and on the female part: woman who attracts lesbians), and a homosexual. They all must repent if they want to serve Christ, but the repentance can't be overlooked – it is a requirement. The washing from God is necessary. After his spiritual re-birth, the Apostle Paul never condoned his former sins of ignorance. He recognized the fulfillment of the law era as greater than the first and second law era. He was not as the modern, defilement preachers who tolerate remarriage and unclean marriage. His life and theology proved his repentance and faith. He proved his realization that remarriage was no longer valid in the New Covenant, as you may see in his instruction to the Corinthians (1 Cor., chapter 7). He served God in love of Christians and self-denial even at the cost of suffering from his previous associates, the Pharisees. Let all who name Christ live Godly lives and let not fornication or defilement be named once among you, including the abomination and uncleanness mentioned in Dt. 24:4. Mark 7:21 “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,” Ephesians 5:3 “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;” 2 Corinthians 12:21 “And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.”
Don't even associate or eat with people who ignore God's commandments and live in uncleanness such as Oral Roberts and other heretics promoted.
1 Corinthians 5:11 “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 idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.”
Get healed from this perversion. The next one of these monstrous, deceivers ask you for a donation, instead of supplying him money to pay the bills on his mansion and promoting his sexual devastation upon innocent victims among others, send him a rebuke such as, “Get behind me Satan; get behind me fake.” Have no more association with the works of darkness. Thank you. The Scriptures make it clear Jesus has made his followers clean. The Lord does not want what he has washed, sanctified and justified to go back and live in continuous defilement. Any type of continuous defilement or fornication, or adultery such as remarriage cannot be acceptable. Annulment and singleness would dissolve such unclean circumstances. 1 Cor. 6:9 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, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19 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? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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Links: Excommunication of Linkowski11 (March 22.2014) Ministry: Purity and Sound Doctrine Don't Marry a Defiled Woman, and Divorce a Whore! Reproof of The Shepherd of Hermas |