Pastor's Corner
Welcome to the Pastor's Corner.
The other day I was watching Kay Arthur and she was speaking on Jeremiah 5:1-10. The subject matter she brought out was how men and women that are claiming to be Christians are living together, not married, and are claiming to be heaven bound Christians. She also did a very good job in explaining to them that this is an act of gross sin and they "shall not inhierate the Kingdom of God."
She may have not gone far enough as there are so many today that have and are making this a heritic practice believeing that God will not condem this for this practice. What they are doing is creating their own god that will accept whatever life style that they want to live. It does not have to be just adultry but anything that you do that God says in His Word that we are not to do. If we go ahead and do what we want and believe that it is OK with God (your god), then we become idolaters, creating our own god.
The other thing is, once we realize our sin and try to make it right by, let us say, getting married and thinking that has taken care of the problem and we are now OK, well, I got news for you. You still have to repent and ask forgiveness for what you were doing. Just cleaning up the problem will not do it. You will need forgiveness and that takes one asking for it. You may also need to make restitution by apologizing to those you have hurt or giviing back what you have taken.
Pastor Gordon