Outline of Service 14th August 2022
Seventh Commandment – Keep Your Relationships Whole Deut 5:18
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Thou
shalt thou commit adultery
Exodus 20:14
Hymn 119: Unsurpassed Joy
The Lord’s Prayer (Luke 11:2-4)
Psalm 139:1-6 – An All-Knowing God
Bible Readings: –
An Exemplary Relationship: Genesis 24:58-67
Physical Weakness: 2 Samuel 12:1-12
Spiritual
Adultery: Ezekiel 16:14-19: Jeremiah
3:20-21
Babylon – the
Deceiver: Revelation 18:1-4, 9-10
Faithful Partners
of The Lamb: Revelation 19:1-9,
Personal Purity: 1 John 2:15-17;
James 4:3-8
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As
discussed under the Fifth Commandment, the importance of keeping the family unit
whole and holy is a foundational pillar of our society
·
Adultery
is an act that physically blows families apart;
but there are also other Laws which relate to keeping things pure, or
unadulterated – eg.
not eating certain food, not mixing different quality threads, keeping cattle
strains separate
·
Spiritual
adultery – that is having one foot on the worldly side of the fence and the
other on the heavenly – is also forbidden by God
·
Israel
showed this duplicity, and God referred to them as an “adulteress”; this Commandment
exhorts us to keep all things in our lives pure
·
We
must not enter into an “adulterous” relationship with Babylon, the world, as
Israel of old did – but keep our relationship with God pure
·
Those
who are pure may hold the hope to be changed in spirit and soul and body at the
return of Jesus Christ to collectively form the Bride of the Lamb.
Hymn 115: Trust for God’s Guidance
Message 1
Peter 1:15-16
Hymn 51: How to Be Ready
Doxology
