Friday, May 10, 2013

The sin that is worse than other sins

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

I Cor. 6 ... Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.  14And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15Know 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. 16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19What? 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? 20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

When a Christian commits fornication it is different from all other sins because at the time of sexual intercourse the two become one flesh.  Therefore fornication is a sin against his own body.

Fornication is just one of the sins that prohibit the person from inheriting the kingdom of God.  Unless that person repents and does that sin no more, that person will not inherit the kingdom of God.  There are also other sins which prohibit a person from entering the kingdom of God.

KJV: I Cor. 6 ... 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, 10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And 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. 

NASB ... I Cor. 6 ... Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

NIV ... I Cor. 6 ... Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived:  Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

In Jn. 8 we have the story of the woman taken in adultery.  Jesus freed her but Jesus also commanded her as follows:   "Go and sin no more."  Recently I realized what Jesus was saying to this woman is do not commit the sin of adultery any more.  If you are a drunkard, don't get drunk any more.  If you are homosexual, do not commit sex with men any more.  Whatever your sin is, when you see God and HE is revealed to you, you must not continue in that sin. 

It is a very serious matter for a Christian to commit these sins.  But when a Christian commits fornication it is a sin that is different from all other sins for it is a sin against his own body.  I Cor. 6

Paul tells us not to keep company with a Christian if he does these sins.  Paul says to put such a one away from us, away from the church.

I Cor. 5 ... I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10Yet 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. 11But 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. 12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?  13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

We do not judge the world.  But if the man calls himself a Christian and is doing any one of the above sins we as the church are supposed to judge this man and put him away from us. 

The above is in keeping with what Paul told us to do when we see a "brother" (a person calling himself a Christian) who is a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard of an extortioner.  Just put such a one away from you when this is the case.