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Q2. (4:4) Why does James refer to church members as "adulteresses"? What does the adultery consist of? Who is the aggrieved husband? What is wrong with friendship with the world?
Q2. Spiritual Adultery
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Posted 19 February 2005 - 10:12 PM
James chose the word “adulteress” to describe those whose affections towards worldly pleasures and desires brought infidelity into their relationship with God. In New Testament terms we aggrieve Christ. Although Christians are the salt of the earth, we are not of the earth.
Mosaic Law stipulated death by stoning as the punishment for the crime of adultery. The New Testament warns us of an eternal death brought on at Judgment Day for our spiritual adultery. Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in a single hour your judgment has come. (Rev 18:10)
Mosaic Law stipulated death by stoning as the punishment for the crime of adultery. The New Testament warns us of an eternal death brought on at Judgment Day for our spiritual adultery. Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in a single hour your judgment has come. (Rev 18:10)
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 01:28 PM
Q2. (4:4) Why does James refer to church members as "adulteresses"?
He uses the feminine term “adulteresses” because we are the Bride of Christ. God expects us to be true to Him, just as we are to be true to our earthly husband or wife.
What does the adultery consist of?
Adultery is a love affair with pleasure. We choose things that pleasure us, instead of things that are pleasing to God.
Who is the aggrieved husband?
God
What is wrong with friendship with the world?
Friendship with the world means that we are “of” this world. God should be our main focus, not things of pleasure. When our focus is mainly on things of this world, we turn our back on God.
He uses the feminine term “adulteresses” because we are the Bride of Christ. God expects us to be true to Him, just as we are to be true to our earthly husband or wife.
What does the adultery consist of?
Adultery is a love affair with pleasure. We choose things that pleasure us, instead of things that are pleasing to God.
Who is the aggrieved husband?
God
What is wrong with friendship with the world?
Friendship with the world means that we are “of” this world. God should be our main focus, not things of pleasure. When our focus is mainly on things of this world, we turn our back on God.
If we meet today and you forget me, you have lost nothing. But if you meet Jesus Christ and forget Him, you have lost everything.
There is more joy in Jesus in 24 hours than there is in the world in 365 days. I know, I've tried them both.
There is more joy in Jesus in 24 hours than there is in the world in 365 days. I know, I've tried them both.
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 07:57 PM
The church is the bride of Christ, thus it is feminine. Adultery is anything that takes priority over Christ in our hearts. Christ, the Spirit, and God are aggreived. The world hates the Lord and if we side in any way by action or inaction to the world's ways, we are in effect agreeing with the world, thus disagreeing with God. (We cannot have two masters, we will either love the one and despise the other).
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 11:48 PM
1. To make it clear, He means All believers
2. Friendship with the world
3. God
4. You can not be friends of the world and of God, for the world does not follow God, Christians are in the world but not of the world, if you love the world then you do not love God for the world is sinful, our love for God marks us apart from the world
2. Friendship with the world
3. God
4. You can not be friends of the world and of God, for the world does not follow God, Christians are in the world but not of the world, if you love the world then you do not love God for the world is sinful, our love for God marks us apart from the world
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 09:17 AM
Why does James refer to church members s adultresses?
Because we, the church, are married to God and should not be unfaithful to Him
What does the adultery consist of?
The adultery spoken about here is our preference of pleasure and things of the earth above God which makes us unfaithful to Him.
Who is the agrieved husband
God is
What is wrong with friendship with the world?
Friendship with the world is wrong because then your focus is no longer on God but on earthly things whereas God wants us to leave everything of this world and follow him.
Because we, the church, are married to God and should not be unfaithful to Him
What does the adultery consist of?
The adultery spoken about here is our preference of pleasure and things of the earth above God which makes us unfaithful to Him.
Who is the agrieved husband
God is
What is wrong with friendship with the world?
Friendship with the world is wrong because then your focus is no longer on God but on earthly things whereas God wants us to leave everything of this world and follow him.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 10:18 AM
We are the bride of Christ and so the term adultress is used.
Adultery consist of taking your mind off yourtrue love, selling your integrity, and indulging in false pleasure.
The agrieved husband is God.
Frienship with the world puts us in enimity with God.
Adultery consist of taking your mind off yourtrue love, selling your integrity, and indulging in false pleasure.
The agrieved husband is God.
Frienship with the world puts us in enimity with God.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 01:05 PM
Q2. (4:4) Why does James refer to church members as "adulteresses"? What does the adultery consist of? Who is the aggrieved husband? What is wrong with friendship with the world?
Because they were concerned with the world and wanting the things of the world. Members of the church are considered "the bride of Christ". They are to be concerned with things of the Lord, not spending all their time getting and being concerned with earthly things.
Adultery consists of being married yet giving yourself to a "lover." This type of adultery Pastor Ralph speaks of here means giving yourself to things of this world, not things of the Lord.
God is the aggrieved husband.
When we spend our time, talents and money just to get something from worldly pleasures, we take these from their rightful owner-the Lord-and waste them.
Because they were concerned with the world and wanting the things of the world. Members of the church are considered "the bride of Christ". They are to be concerned with things of the Lord, not spending all their time getting and being concerned with earthly things.
Adultery consists of being married yet giving yourself to a "lover." This type of adultery Pastor Ralph speaks of here means giving yourself to things of this world, not things of the Lord.
God is the aggrieved husband.
When we spend our time, talents and money just to get something from worldly pleasures, we take these from their rightful owner-the Lord-and waste them.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 01:39 PM
Q2. (4:4) Why does James refer to church members as "adulteresses"?
Because they are Christ’s bride.
What does the adultery consist of?
Flirting with the world and it’s ways verses God’s
Who is the aggrieved husband?
God
What is wrong with friendship with the world?
It grieves God.
God says in James 4:4 4You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
Because they are Christ’s bride.
What does the adultery consist of?
Flirting with the world and it’s ways verses God’s
Who is the aggrieved husband?
God
What is wrong with friendship with the world?
It grieves God.
God says in James 4:4 4You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
God Bless
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 02:37 PM
Why does James refer to church members as "adulteresses"? What does the adultery consist of? Who is the aggrieved husband? What is wrong with friendship with the world?
God is considered the bridegroom and we the people the bride. By not doing out of love for the groom (GOD), but for our own pleasure it's like committing adultery against your husband.(GOD) Pleasure seeking being the person you do it with(adultry) against your husband(GOD).
God is considered the bridegroom and we the people the bride. By not doing out of love for the groom (GOD), but for our own pleasure it's like committing adultery against your husband.(GOD) Pleasure seeking being the person you do it with(adultry) against your husband(GOD).
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 07:45 PM
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2a.) (4:4) Why does James refer to church members as "adulteresses"?
[color=blue]2a.) I go to the epistle of Jude: "[/color][color=purple]They (Apostles) said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires." These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit[/color]."[color=blue] (Jude 18, 19); John writes: "[/color][color=purple]I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us[/color][color=blue]." (3 John 9) James warns us about trying to love the world and love God at the same time. It can not happen.[/color]
2b.) (4:4) What does the adultery consist of?
[color=blue]2b.) Trying to love the world and loving God at the same time. Jesus warned the disciples: "[/color][color=purple]If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you[/color][color=blue]." (John 15:18-19)[/color]
2c.) (4:4) Who is the aggrieved husband?
[color=blue]2c.) Many of you have answered God, but the Scriptures tells us that: "[/color][color=purple]For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior[/color][color=blue]." (Ephesians 5:23) John tells us: "[/color][color=purple]Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--[/color][color=blue]." (John 1:12) We are children of God through Christ's redemption.[/color]
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 08:43 PM
James refers to church members as "adulteresses" because we are the bride of Christ and when we love this world system more than we love Christ that is what we are, adulteresses. 1 John 2:15 "Do not love the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
The aggrieved husband is Christ.
The American Heritage Dictionary explains "friend" as one who supports, sympathizes with, a comrade. If that is the way a believer in Christ is toward the world system then that believer is unfaithful to Christ. Christ should be first in our lives.
The aggrieved husband is Christ.
The American Heritage Dictionary explains "friend" as one who supports, sympathizes with, a comrade. If that is the way a believer in Christ is toward the world system then that believer is unfaithful to Christ. Christ should be first in our lives.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 08:46 PM
Why does James refer to church members as adulteresses?
He does this because they are more into the World than for the things of
God.They are trying to mix God with Mammon; they are unable to shake off
the worldly influence from their spiritual walk. Adultery here leaving your
first and best love for that which the flesh lusts after
God is the aggrieved husband.
Friendship with the world is wrong in that it will conflict with your love for
God. "Come ye out from among them (The World) and be ye separate says
the Lord and touch not the unclean thing". For what fellowship hath light
with darkness? If any man love the world , the love of the Father is not in
him. Jesus said, " The prince of this world has come and I have no part in
him."
He does this because they are more into the World than for the things of
God.They are trying to mix God with Mammon; they are unable to shake off
the worldly influence from their spiritual walk. Adultery here leaving your
first and best love for that which the flesh lusts after
God is the aggrieved husband.
Friendship with the world is wrong in that it will conflict with your love for
God. "Come ye out from among them (The World) and be ye separate says
the Lord and touch not the unclean thing". For what fellowship hath light
with darkness? If any man love the world , the love of the Father is not in
him. Jesus said, " The prince of this world has come and I have no part in
him."
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 09:32 PM
Wy does James refer to church members as adulteresses?
We are the bride of Christ.
What does the adultery consist of?
Friendship with the world. Putting anyone or anything over Christ.
Who is the aggrieved husband?
Jesus. We are His bride.
What is wrong with friendship with the world?
How can I love the world which treated my Savior so?
God Bless,
Jen
Numbers 6: 24-26
We are the bride of Christ.
What does the adultery consist of?
Friendship with the world. Putting anyone or anything over Christ.
Who is the aggrieved husband?
Jesus. We are His bride.
What is wrong with friendship with the world?
How can I love the world which treated my Savior so?
God Bless,
Jen
Numbers 6: 24-26
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 07:05 AM
Q2. (4:4) Why does James refer to church members as "adulteresses"? What does the adultery consist of? Who is the aggrieved husband? What is wrong with friendship with the world?
[color=purple]In some translations it is adulterous and in some adulteresses. The meaning is same. We the body of Christ, the Church, is behaving in an adulterous way. Leaving the true husband and going after others. That is leaving God and going after Mammon or the evil pleasures of this world.
Adultery consists of flirting and having extra marital affairs. Our flirting with the world and its evil desires amount to the same.
Leaving Christ, the head of the church, and going after worldly pleasures tantamount to Christ as the aggrieved husband.
Friendship with the world produces conflicting situations. The interests that we serve here on earth are in conflict with God's ineterests. That's why it is a wrong procedure to adopt.[/color]
[color=purple]In some translations it is adulterous and in some adulteresses. The meaning is same. We the body of Christ, the Church, is behaving in an adulterous way. Leaving the true husband and going after others. That is leaving God and going after Mammon or the evil pleasures of this world.
Adultery consists of flirting and having extra marital affairs. Our flirting with the world and its evil desires amount to the same.
Leaving Christ, the head of the church, and going after worldly pleasures tantamount to Christ as the aggrieved husband.
Friendship with the world produces conflicting situations. The interests that we serve here on earth are in conflict with God's ineterests. That's why it is a wrong procedure to adopt.[/color]
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 01:50 PM
Because believers are married to God. Adultery is flirting with sin of any kind. When a believer is out of the will of God we are entertaining another lover. When we do worldly things it grieves God and we are saying that we don't trust and believe Him. Loving worldly things is adulterous. God is the aggrieved husband. When people get too friendly with worldly things they tend to push God out . They then become an enemy of God.
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 06:01 PM
Q2. (4:4) Why does James refer to church members as "adulteresses"? What does the adultery consist of? Who is the aggrieved husband? What is wrong with friendship with the world?
He use the word adulteresses and not adulterer because he wanted to let it be know that the church is the bride of Christ.
Adultery is looking away from one on husband and taking on desires for others that you have no right to. They are not your and you step out of line when you **** after another. When we **** after things of this world we are replacing God with them. That is wrong and it will not be excepted by our Lord. The aggrieved husband is the son of God, Jesus, The one that gave his life for us so we might live and be with him forever more. We have to be careful not to have a love affair with the world for that is not pleasing to God the Father or the husband his son Jesus Christ who died to pay the price for our sins. He put us first and we should do the same for him.
He use the word adulteresses and not adulterer because he wanted to let it be know that the church is the bride of Christ.
Adultery is looking away from one on husband and taking on desires for others that you have no right to. They are not your and you step out of line when you **** after another. When we **** after things of this world we are replacing God with them. That is wrong and it will not be excepted by our Lord. The aggrieved husband is the son of God, Jesus, The one that gave his life for us so we might live and be with him forever more. We have to be careful not to have a love affair with the world for that is not pleasing to God the Father or the husband his son Jesus Christ who died to pay the price for our sins. He put us first and we should do the same for him.
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 06:06 PM
Church members’ primary relationship, by definition, as the Body of Christ, the Bride of the Lamb, is with Christ. James refers to them as adulteresses because he sees them turning towards the world, probably to find fulfillment in the world, rather than in God. So, Christ is the aggrieved husband.
Adultery with the world consists of developing a relationship with world systems, of trying to draw life from it. This is wrong because life is found only in Jesus Christ and the apparent life of the world is actually condemnation and death.
A relationship with God is not compatible with a relationship with the world. That’s why in John 15 vs. 15-17 Jesus says, “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.”
Adultery with the world consists of developing a relationship with world systems, of trying to draw life from it. This is wrong because life is found only in Jesus Christ and the apparent life of the world is actually condemnation and death.
A relationship with God is not compatible with a relationship with the world. That’s why in John 15 vs. 15-17 Jesus says, “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.”
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 06:26 PM
Q2. (4:4) Why does James refer to church members as
"adulteresses"? What does the adultery consist of? Who is the
aggrieved husband? What is wrong with friendship with the world?
We are the bride of Christ. When we put other things before him it becomes adultery. Adultry is taking the love of God and giving it to someone else, or into our evil desires. We should not want to greive God. God's place in our lives should be first place, not anything from this world.
Lets get back to placing God first in our lives. And turn away from the things of this world. Pleasures that belong in this world should not replace our first love.
"adulteresses"? What does the adultery consist of? Who is the
aggrieved husband? What is wrong with friendship with the world?
We are the bride of Christ. When we put other things before him it becomes adultery. Adultry is taking the love of God and giving it to someone else, or into our evil desires. We should not want to greive God. God's place in our lives should be first place, not anything from this world.
Lets get back to placing God first in our lives. And turn away from the things of this world. Pleasures that belong in this world should not replace our first love.
God bless,
Mary
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