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Listen to the Saviour

 

The word of God says, in Galatians 4-5, 

4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Fullness of time

There must be something significant about this event. First of all it happened in the fulness of time. Not too late and not too early.  Obviously, certain things had to run its course before God sent his son. He was made of a woman and made under the Law. He was subjected to the same sexual exposures and the same legal restraints.

 

We learn that God in sending his son said to Peter and John on the mount of transfiguration " This is my beloved son, listen to him. Quite certainly God identified Jesus as his choice to bring his  message to mankind.  In Hebrews he said, in these last days he has spoken to us by his son whom had been appointed to be the heir. God says we should listen to him.  Jesus had some thing to say that  no one else said. Mat. 17:5

Something had happened before. Moses had brought the Law.  God gave Moses the Law, written on two tables of stone. But now God is sending his Son Jesus Christ with Grace and Truth. The Law was given by Moses but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ. But now the law had run its course. and Jesus came to fulfill it  and introduce Grace and Truth. Moses in giving the law said  in Deut. 6:25 It shall be our righteousness. But now Christ came to bring righteousness by Faith. Paul declares if righteousness came by the Law, Christ is dead in vain. Gal, 2:21.  God nullifies the righteousness which is by the works of the Law, He said for by the works of the Law no flesh shall be made righteousness.

One might ask, what purpose does the law  serve? The answer is found in Gal. 3:19  Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.  And in Romans 5:20: The Law entered that the offence might abound.  These two scriptures clearly states that the Law was added and that the Law entered.

In addition the the Laws addition was for a duration: Till the seed come to whom the promise was made. This seed was Jesus Christ,. Paul emphasize this when he says that the Law was a Scool Master to bring us unto christ but after Christ came we are no longer under a schoolmaster.  It is not surprising that God says we should listen to him.

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Idolatry

There were four significant events in the Litfe of Jesus concerning sexual sin;

1. The peeping Tom

2. The Woman at the Well

3. The Woman taken in Adultery

4. The temptations of Christ.

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Peeping Tom

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Christ acknowleged that the incident of a man looking on a woman would naturally take place. It.s not that women don't look on men. They do. I have experienced it. But this is not a casual look. It's not a look of admiration. It's not the rear view mirror look or the second look. It is a look of longing and desire to be in bed with that woman. Jesus Christ says that when ot reaches the stage of desiring the woma, he has committed adultery in his heart. Christ calls this fulfilling the Law and the prophets. The slightest form of interaction between a man and a woman is an offense to God. 

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The Woman at the Well

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Christ intent is not to make you a sinner. His intent is to work his redemptive and sanctifyijng power in your life. He knows he is talking to a woman who has done more tha to look  and lusts, he is talking to a woman who has looke, lusted and taken and yet he says I have some thing better than that. Whosoever drink of this water shall thirst again but whoso drink if the water I shall give will never thirst. The Law could not do that. It could condemn her but could ot help her. Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.

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The woman taken in adultery

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The third case is case a of mercy in the midst of mess. Hat no man condemned thee. No man Lord. Niether do I command thee. Go and sin no more. The sanctary is there for every sinner. Christ came not to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved. 

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  • The post-law believer—accountable not to stone tablets but to the Spirit and the body of Christ.

  • The mirror of mercy—his sin is exposed, but the goal is healing, not humiliation.

  • The sanctuary ethic—where grace doesn’t excuse sin but transforms the sinner.

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He was tempted like as we are

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One exception. Yet without sin. With Martha, Mary Magdalene, And Salome and the Son's of Zebedee's mother  bouncing around the Saviour I would not be surpised if he did not look  upon them especially if those women were like our modern day women - brushing you with their bulging bustling breasts. But the srcipture records -yet wiithout sin. Jesus never looked on a woman "to lust after her". The sanctuary is saying he is able to succour those who are tempted. And for those who have yielded, he says: Go and sin no mor.

Sabbath

Sex Sin and the Sanctuary

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