It is written:
"Take the 'L' out of Lover and it's Over..."
Sgs 5:8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.
Mat 5:28-32 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
One day I was in the park enjoying the day and warm weather, as were many people in a public garden of sorts...and not far from where I was sitting came a young man with no arms. He sat down and took off his sandals and using only his feet extracted a cigarette from his shoulder bag and lit it and smoked it using only his feet!
Amazing to me!
I did not speak to him, so I do not know how he lost his arms or whether he was born like that or what, but I thought, "Amazing! The Power of Death to lure even the handicapped!"
Of all the things to learn to do without arms and hands! Smoke?!
My Mother once confessed to me that the reason she smoked was to cure loneliness, but if this was true then her life filled with people around her and devotion to an ideal of an all inclusive society of mutual acceptance and love had to be a lie. If these people really loved one another, why such a strong need for bad habits and sin? It's clear sin separates and defiles, leaving one with no arms with which to even consider hugging his or her neighbor and more often hands willing to strangle ones enemies to protect what is one's own.
Even without arms many will find a way to partake of Death! How desperately wicked are the hearts of men?!
That is the weakness of the flesh and the power of sin to bring down the mightiest of men to the level of dog returning again and again to its own vomit...
And another realization that came is that it is hard to enjoy fellowship without sin. Sitting around chanting prayers is not very fun. Especially when compared to sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll... What chance has an holy life of luring a young man or woman away from this Whore of a Culture when a nunnery is the alternative?
It becomes clear to me that these two opponents, must meet and join together to heal that which can be healed.
Obviously a God who tells a prophet to marry a whore because the land is full of whoredoms does not care about the sin of prostitution. But what He cares about is people committing Adultery. Leaving Him, going after all manner of abominations and suffering for it...He is a Jealous God. Jealous for His People, His Creation's very Heart and Soul.
God did not create stupid individuals in His own Image. Obviously sin defiles, yet it heightens joy and awareness of self for a season or more that made deists of all men once faithful to Him and His Holy Spirit.
Men created a stupid God.
Jhn 12:16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and [that] they had done these things unto him.
And what? History repeats itself...
God winks at innocent transgressions. Serious ones, like partaking in Death quite willingly and calling it life, He Hates and this causes the Separation. Who can forgive that which hates Life. What kind of despicable, cowardly creature could possibly sink so low? And we know.
Mat 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
We were warned.
Luk 12:5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
2 Nephi 2:18 And because he had fallen from heaven, and had become miserable forever, he sought also the misery of all mankind.
Forgetfulness and vice go round in circles...
At any rate, I do not think Jesus intended for people to go around cutting their hands off and plucking out their eyes. But I believe that either of these consequences would be preferable to Hell. I also think that maybe he intended to mark evil people with their own cruelties, the ones they had in there hearts. Only a truly evil person could go through with plucking out their own eye or cutting off their own hand, rather than stop sinning and/or forgive and seek forgiveness for a trespass that may have been pretty innocent to begin with...And a particularly evil person would seek the right to be among those who might somehow pluck out the eye of their neighbor...
Thus anyone who leads into sin, is really trying to pluck your eyes out! They hate you simply because you can see what they cannot.
Consider the time when Jesus stated these things as well...He was looking with eyes that saw a new reality. The world he was in had already passed away for him. He was a new creation. He was condemning the old and ennobling the new. Soon after making these statements, he makes clear there is a better, more loving Way to escape sins like these and their consequence. To escape Hell and exonerate through Divine Reasoning and acceptance and reliance upon the Atonement. That is why he sent Paul not to baptize but to preach the Gospel.
Jhn 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
And [some] of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
Regaining sight, by heeding what matters...
Mat 6:14-15 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Pro 10:12 Love covereth all sins.
Pro 17:9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth [very] friends.
Real Love would never suggest that one sin is more acceptable than another. Real Love condemns ALL sin yet saves the sinner.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Paul knew there was little hope for him, and if there was little hope for him, how much less those he was preaching to, and verily how very little less for you and I in the Latter-days, our end times, when wickedness and adultery are rites of passage and acceptance into society.
You can't even be handicapped and refuse to sin and be accepted and enjoy fellowship with others if you refuse to sin, and accept sinners...Jesus commiserated and spent time with sinners, but he never condoned their actions nor sin.
Yet into this heathen's playground of Latter-day America and especially in the WWW/Internet which not only condones and sells sin in a zillion flavors and forms, but willfully and impishly seeks to make all sins as pleasurable and enjoyable as humanly possible- God is willing to send innocent lambs!
What Divine Trust and Love! What complete and total safety there is in Him!
So that we might truly rest with the Saint and say as he did,
"Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should prayfor as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in myinfirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. "
This makes me think of little old Jewish ladies, sitting around comparing aches and greivances. And it is true that God and His Holy Spirit helps even these endure the often long and hard road home, back from defilement to a raised Holy Body and Union.
The wicked desire nothing so strongly as the innocent hearted and minded hurting themselves! They want a lamb to take it's own life! They want him to scar and mar himself and do all manner of evil to him or herself. Your Father in Heaven has already forgiven you! Do not buy into self condemnation and martyrdom. You're not Jesus! Do not try to sacrifice yourself, or hurt yourself for anyone or anything that you have done. Know yourself to be innocent because that is what is in your heart and that is where you came from, Above. Let Him do the hard part, the part you cannot do no matter how hard you try and how perfect you become...
2 Nephi 25:23 For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.
Lust is a tough sin to overcome especially in a reality that always sells and leads with the chain of lust that is so long and strong and seemingly unbreakable that none shall escape the shackling of soul that it was formed to execute.
Pro 7:27 Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Hate sin even and especially while you are in your sins-and you belong to Him who saves from sin. Sin is loathe to be known for what it truly is, the weakest of all abominations ever formed in the heart of mankind. When you hate it, particularly when you are slave to it and practicing it, it knows that though you are in its grasp, it ultimately has no power over you. And nothing drives the devil more crazy nor proves the Righteous Love of God more profoundly than a sinner like Paul struggling with sinand ultimately overcoming because of God's Almighty Power and not because Paul, nor you nor I were strong enough to overcome, but because He and His love made us so.
And when and if you should overcome, the last and most powerful sin is waiting their to trip you up and take you down when you thought you had overcome all. Pride.
Mat 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
The Price? Revealed in the last two verses...Who will be ransomed? Who can afford the price?
27-28For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
What works had these people done? Only the mightiest task of avoided sin and not agreeing with Death! Same type of people the world condemns and calls useless...
Sex is not sinful. Lust is. Breaking a heart is not permitted in Heaven, nor is envy and all sins that lust feed in a creature. One cannot experience an adverse or unwanted feeling in Heaven, this is the realm for that and those who seek to make that which is commonplace above, possible in this realm also, are confirmed as His, and those who do not are condemned of their own thoughts, words, deeds and desires...
The devil loves to feed Christian psychosis and insecurity with his own prearranged messages of hate-filled antagonistic mockery of you and the One who created you to overcome the devil. Fear this and him. Don't give him the opportunity for victory. Flee and be true.
2Ti 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
The pleasures of marriage are the most enjoyable pastime there is. The devotion and love. The unity and sharing. The affinity and flattery. Everything about Divine Love is Holy and Beautiful and that makes a seemingly base act of "lovemaking" Divineand behooveth the Creature and Act.
And what happens when your beloved becomes a whore or prostitute because of worldly demands, trappings, needs, etc.?
As the song goes, Everybody Knows...everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long stemmed rose...
Is a man going to stop loving his wife because she becomes a whore? Particularly if she did so to survive and provide? Who should a man be angry with? His wife or his brethren and the society which they birthed apart from their LORD?
He may put her away and separate from her if she refuses to leave that life behind, but it may be more complicated than Scripture makes it seem. Ultimately the Truth is as simple and clear as Scripture tells it, but when we stray from God, we complicate the relationship and most importantly how we are going to return to Him. If we are a slave in debt and up to our necks in sin and dung, only a miracle is going to extract the sinner from the bonds he or she is struggling with, and thus the Atonement was made and the Way provided in which men could do so...
1Ti 2:3-5 For this [is] good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
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