RPG Adults
PURITY IN ALL RELATIONSHIPS!
THURSDAY, MAY 30
Leviticus 18
Matthew 5:16
“…even the souls that
commit them shall be cut off
from among their people.”
PURITY IN ALL RELATIONSHIPS!
It was different for the early believers and those in the time of the nation of Israel with regard to finding Christian spouses. The nation of Israel were God’s people and everything was ordained by God for them, from their dressing and their diet, to the Tabernacle and their God-given priesthood and Levitical laws on how to approach God in holiness. In the days of Adam and Eve, their children had to marry their own siblings, for there was no one else but Adam and Eve. After the flood, there was only Noah and his family of eight. They too had to marry within the family. Abraham had to marry his half-sister Sarah. Isaac married his cousin Rebekah. Jacob also married his cousins Leah and Rachel. This occurred when the manner of holy witness for Christ was through individual godly families like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
But when the nation of Israel was formed, marriage within the close bloodline had to stop because it would ruin the holy testimony of Israel as a nation. The phrase used by the LORD was “their nakedness thou shalt not uncover” (Lev 18:9, 10). This phrase referred to marriage but it also included all sexual transgressions such as fornication and adultery. This protected Israel from destroying the holy fabric of their godly families. All forms of sexual transgressions were direct attacks on the family. When families were broken up, society would fall into chaos. The results of such failures are seen all over the present so-called first world countries. Immorality prevails. Broken homes abound, leading to children growing up with a single parent or multiple parents, because mothers and fathers remarry after they divorce. Without godly families, there are no godly witnesses. Every society is the sum of all the families combined. Destroy the families, and society is destroyed. This has been the aim of the devil.
Purity in all relationships will build strong nations. This was how Israel was to be a holy witness for Christ. Is your family a godly family?
MEMORISATION: Leviticus 18:6
PRAYER: Father, help every Christian home to honour Christ by obeying Thy Word. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.