and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. The second layer of application relates to the church. It marks out yet another way in which the marriage is sanctified. God delivered Israel, but many things had to be worked out of them. It chronicles the story of their deliverance from four hundred years of bondage and how God sent Moses as an instrument of deliverance. Shaun and Lea exchanged their first kiss in a Season 3 episode of The Good Doctor. Exodus. Second, we move from an Old Testament dispensation (centered around the nation Israel) to a New Testament dispensation (centered around a predominantly Gentile church). Smith is also a playwrightand poet. Bob is a pastor/teacher and elder at Community Bible Chapel in Richardson, Texas, and has contributed many of his Bible study series for use by the Foundation. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church (Eph. Some of this may be cultural, but I think the primary reason is that in those days especially (and in other cultures still today) the woman is under the authority of her parents, and her parents authority over her is simply transferred to her husband. Moses knew he had a big job because Israel was no longer just one family. Gen. 1:11-12, 31). He can never divorce her as long as he lives. If you look at Exodus 1:5, you will see that seventy souls had come out of Jacob and arrived in Egypt with Joseph. The implications of the sanctity of sex and marriage are the subject of this lesson. He instructed his people to cast every male child born into the river (Exodus 1:22). 42 One may wonder why only the husband is to leave his father and mother, and not the wife. The forbidden fruit was forbidden, not because of any evil characteristic of the fruit itself, but because God sanctified or set it apart. The Bible says God is near the brokenhearted (Psalms 34:18). More than this, it was very desirable: And out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:9). It did not look bad, it did not taste bad. (5) Divorce causes adultery. We also can learn that sometimes we will wander in the wilderness until we get our acts together. We all restrict the use of (we sanctify) those things which we most highly prize. 4:4), and holding the marriage bed in honor, keeping the marriage bed undefiled (Heb. The Israelites performed the same physical act of worship (obeisance) towards Yahveh and King David, as it is written, 1 Chr. So thank you to whoever it was that posted about the last book being released and brought the series to my attention. And I will destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, These are my wages Which my lovers have given me. And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field will devour them (Hos. When God brought man and woman together as husband and wife, He commanded them to be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:27-28). As for a man or a woman, if there is a medium or a spiritist among them, they shall surely be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their bloodguiltiness is upon them (Lev. Here we come to one of the very crucial implications of the sanctity of sex. But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you (for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled); so that the land may not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you. One of these particulars is that of marriage. Our sanctification cannot be expressed or realized apart from a radical change in our sexual conductthat is, a radical change in the way we conduct ourselves sexually, as contrasted with our former conduct and that of the pagan world around us. The Good Doctor. There are many things and situations where people make an exodus. Neither man nor beast was allowed to draw too near to it (Exod. The word Exodus came from the Latin exodos and was adopted as the book's title when the Bible was translated into Latin. The Law pertaining to adultery also confirms the sanctity of marriage. 13:4). Jesus did not have nearly as much to say about adultery and sexual immorality as did the apostles. Leviticus 20Israel is not to play the harlot by consulting mediums or spiritists, but they are to consecrate themselves to the God of Israel, who sanctifies them (vss. 3, 24-30). The man, on the other hand, is under his parents authority as a child, but when he leaves them he terminates that chain of command and establishes a new chain of command, being the head of his wife and the family which may follow. If someone were to say there was a mass exodus across state lines, it is safe to assume that many people crossed the state lines. If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. Physical intimacy is the most obvious, but there is also a spiritual and emotional intimacy. We must begin by taking the Bible literally, and thus we acknowledge that any act of adultery must be avoided. (3) The way to fully keep the Seventh Commandment is to view sexual sin as so serious (damning) that we are willing to take any measure required to prevent it. Amongst the most surprising revelations would be the following: 1. 11-31). 24, 30) and the land (vss. When we consider what does Exodus mean? we reach the books core message. They were well-fed lusty horses, Each one neighing after his neighbors wife. Throughout the Bible, God sets certain things apart; He restricts their use; He sanctifies them. Will God forgive me for losing hope and the will to live? Exodus 34:16 - and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods. In chapter 35, Ruben lay with one of his fathers concubines (35:22). Viewed from a contemporary secular perspective, sexual pleasure restricted only to marriage is a tragic waste, a failure to make full use of ones sexual potential, and thus to deprive oneself of a great deal of sexual pleasure. . New Century Version Chapter Parallel Marriage, in Josephs understanding, was an exclusive relationship. Great were the consequences. in 1971. Thus, because Israel practiced the same sins as the Canaanites, who lived in the land before them, they were thrust forth from the land, just as their predecessors, and just as God had warned: Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. In chapter 38, Judah engaged in sexual union with his daughter-in-law, whom he thought to be a Canaanite cult prostitute (38:14-23). 1 Cor. When we thus honor marriage, we will see to it that the marriage bed, the blessing of sexual union, remains undefiled by sexual union outside of that marriage, which profanes. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. NLT - 27 Moses told them, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Each of you, take your swords and go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other. Sanctification, therefore, was the first test which God gave mankind, and it was this test which man failed. Joseph ended up in Egypt away from his family and did not understand until decades later when his brothers came to Egypt why all these events occurred (Genesis 50:20). 13:27). And the LORD GOD fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Reproduction. Finally, we will attempt to discover how these principles apply to our daily Christian walk. The epidemic of sexual immorality is, I believe, the result of a failure to understand or appreciate the sanctity of sex and of marriage. And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am pregnant. Then David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. So Joab sent Uriah to David. I know you all will understand my book hangover and all the emotions swirling through me after finishing it. We would thus expect him to wage war on the marital union, for it is through marital union that the seed will be preserved and the promised seed will come. We must remember that those who teach and lead are held to higher accountability (James 3:1). This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man. For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh (Gen. 2:18-24). First, we move from a Jewish to a Gentile culture. Gen. 39:9; 2 Sam. As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love. Sanctification involves purity, the absence of what is unclean. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king. But Uriah slept at the door of the kings house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. Can you guess what that was? John did not hesitate, even for a moment. Her name. (2) Sexual impurity defiles both the persons involved and the land. Why Did Pharaoh Tell Joseph to Enjoy the 'Fat of the Land'? Hence I have said to you, You are to possess their land, and I Myself will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples. From the Old Testament perspective, adultery was a violation of the sanctity of marriage, which God established, and which the Law sought to maintain. Why did you not go down to your house? And Uriah said to David, The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. So, the Egyptians devised a plan to set taskmasters over the Israelites and enslave them. Shall I not punish these people, declares the LORD, And on a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself? (Jer. By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing. Then David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go. So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. (6) Though David was of the chosen seed, Uriah was but a Hittite. Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her? 20:6). We must even distinguish between what is personally permissible and what is personally beneficial (1 Cor. The Hebrew midwives feared God and would not do what the king of Egypt asked. Would You not be angry with us to the point of destruction, until there is no remnant nor any who escape? Shaun ( Freddie Highmore) and Lea ( Paige Spara) started out as neighbors. It is little wonder, then, that God has so much to teach man about sanctification in the Bible. 18:24-30). Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. Personally, I have understood the word "before" here as referring to rank - that is, you may not consider any other god to be more valuable/worthy . (2) While David enjoys all the luxuries of the palace, Uriah refused to enjoy them, even when urged on him. Virginity is thus looked upon as a stigma, from which one should rid oneself as quickly as possible. Genesis 31:38-40 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten, Philippians 4:11,12 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content, Exodus 4:20-25 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand, Exodus 18:2-6 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, . v. 24). Who knows better how to hurt his mate than the one who has the most intimate knowledge of her? He responded, Ill bet youve been using that Stanley wood chisel to scrape gaskets off of automobile engines again.. All rights reserved. Every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers. An exodus of people left the company means the same thing. It is God who brought Adam and Eve together as husband and wife. What is it that makes sexual purity so important to the New Testament saint, who is not an Israelite, but a member of the church, the body of Christ? Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? When one enters into a sexual union, Paul reasons, one enters into marital union. Their people have been under the foot of the Egyptians for four hundred years. Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his lords servants, but he did not go down to his house (2 Samuel 11:1-13). Leviticus 18 and 20 emphasize the defiling nature of adultery, and warn that the practice of such sins will defile the land and will result in expulsion from the land, just as the Canaanites were expelled (cf. Leviticus 18Israel is to distinguish herself from practices of Egypt and Canaan by maintaining sexual purity (vss. Exodus 22:16-17 "If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride price for her and make her his wife. He joined the first man and the first woman together in marriage. This was now accomplished. Our Lord teaches us here that divorce causes adultery. Not only was this event crucial for the . Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I shall drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them. Marriage is sanctified in the degree to which a man and his wife have fellowship with one another. The forbidden fruit was not forbidden because is was intrinsically bad. Let us conclude by seeking to isolate the principles which underlie and govern sexual purity, and then some of the practical outworkings of these principles. Just as God had clearly forbidden the partaking of the forbidden fruit in the garden, so He has clearly forbidden the fruit of sexual impurity. Sexual sin is also related to religious apostasy (cf. Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan, and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. It is crucial to study the book of Genesis to understand Exodus. Adultery mocks the union of a man and his wife, and the God who joined them together. Fellowship. New American Standard Bible Chapter Parallel Exodus 21:10 (NAS) "If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. This union involved the husband's leaving of his parents 42 and cleaving to his wife. In order to do this, Christians must be holy, sanctified, just as God is holy (1 Peter 1:14-16). Sin entered the human race and human history, and the consequences are evident all about us. Here, Davids immorality led to the additional sin of murder. 5:22-33). He is a purist in that regardI am not. If you havent read it yet, I highly recommend it. 44 In saying that sexual pleasure in marriage is one of Gods safeguards against immorality, I am not saying that the husband or wife who gives freely of themselves in a sexual way thereby guarantees the sexual purity of their partner. Here, the church is the bride of Christ, with the responsibility of exemplifying the relationship of Christ to His church (Eph. Marriage, by Gods decree, is sanctified, it is a relationship that is set apart and restricted. The foundation for the sanctity of marriage and sex is laid early in the Book of Genesis, where we read of the first marriage. For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? The higher the vote, the further up an answer is. Exodus 21:9 And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter. The dubious distinction for the most well-known case of adultery would have to go to David, who sinned by committing adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah: Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. In both cases, the forbidden fruit is available. Dr. Smith primarily teaches language arts. 19:9). He had to mature in Egypt away from his family. This is not one of the high points in Abrams life. who does sean marry in exodus. shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? At this time, the children of Israel were fruitful, increased abundantly, became exceedingly mighty, and there were people everywhere. We sanctify sex because we value it highly, as a good gift from the hand of a gracious God. 6:12). God was faithful to his promise that Abrahams descendants would number the stars in the sky (Genesis 26:4). Smith lives and resides in Memphis, Tennessee. In fact, it wasnt bad, in and of itself. The Bible is full of Israelite men marrying foreign women. In a divine vision, God said to Peter, What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy (Acts 10:15). Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. As a matter of fact, my differences with John over the proper use of a wood chisel have a great deal to do with the commandment, You shall not commit adultery. The principle underlying this commandment is that of the sanctity of marriage. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. It was Gods will to use Joseph as a forerunner to prepare the children of Israel for what was next (Genesis 45:7-9). To John, my Stanley chisel is a wood chisel, only to be used for chiseling wood. It's been a long road, but on . And, Paul says, it involves for Timothy the fleeing of youthful lusts, which surely include illicit sexual passions and conduct. But if they marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance. Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. They were oppressive to the Israelites and made them create bricks. It is very important for me to be precise in what I say here. Third, we must beware of that teaching (either by direct statement or by inference, or by silence) which holds that any and every sexual pleasure can be enjoyed by a married couple behind closed doors. The first is that the sanctity of marriage not only demands that we not defile the union in any way, including adultery, but that we actively seek to enhance the marriage. It is no wonder, then, that Eve was attracted to the forbidden fruit: When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate (Gen. 3:6). Sexual sin has very serious theological implications. If He spoke it, He will make it good (Numbers 23:19). We sanctify those things to which we attach great value. But the messianic line until Mary was preserved through the union of a man and a woman in marriage. Our Lord says that this union of husband and wife must not be severed (Matt. 2:19-22). For a while, Shaun was dating Dr. Carly Lever (Jasika Nicole), a pathologist. Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth. Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? In Genesis chapter 12 further revelation about mans salvation is given as the benefits brought about by human (and ultimately divine) seed: And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you; And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. Moses consented, and in course of time took to wife Zipporah, one of Reuel's daughters. 6-18), as well as illicit intercourse (vss. 20:22-27). From the standpoint of our sin against God, attitudinal sins and action sins are both rebellion against God. This is what we shall seek to learn from the writings of the apostles in the New Testament. 19:4-6a). How tragic it is to see young people seduced (philosophically and physically), so that they will share that most treasured gift with those who cannot even be named or numbered. Exodus 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. Judgment awaits this nation, which is likened to a harlot. I did something which would make you cringe. Some people did not enter the promised land that God had promised to give them because of their disobedience.
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