#31 On the Nature of God: His WARNINGS about Adultery

As we drive down the highways, we watch the road signs for warnings of dangers ahead. We monitor our health and consult a doctor when we spot something that seems to be wrong and ask, ‘What’s going to happen to me?’ Warnings of what may lie ahead in life are a constant in our lives.

Although few may realize it, God provides warnings in His word about sins that will keep us out of heaven. Adultery is an example.

Prominent among the ten commandments is number seven, Exodus 20:14:

“You shall not commit adultery.”

Details were offered about the harsh penalty for adultery, Leviticus 20:10:

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”

King David committed adultery with Bathsheba, 2 Samuel 11:2-4:

“…David… saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David… inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So, David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her.”

When Bathsheba was pregnant, David arranged for her husband to be killed. Then he married her. God sent a prophet to confront David with a parable that showed a rich man stealing a little sheep from a poor man. David was enraged and said the rich man disserved to die. Then Nathan confronted David, 2 Samuel 12:7:

“Nathan said to David, “You are the man!”

David confessed his sin and God forgave him. A penalty of death was placed on the child.

Later, after the kingdom had split into a ten-tribe northern kingdom and a two-tribe southern kingdom, both began worshipping idols. God sent prophet after prophet to warn the people and bring them back to proper worship. This horrible sin of idol worshipping was described as a spirit of whoredom or adultery against Him and showed how God felt about idol worship, Hosea 5:3-4:

“I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled. Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD.”

These verses show that the horrible sin of worshipping idols was considered adultery or whoredom to God and stand as a warning to us today.

Jesus spoke several times about an individual committing the sin of sexual immorality and adultery, Matthew 5:27-28; 19:9:

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart…

…And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries commits adultery.”

Jesus placed adultery and sexual immorality among a list of terrible sins like murder and lying, Matthew 15:19-20:

“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person.”

In this way, God uses His Spirit-inspired word to sternly warn against adultery.

The lesson to us is to never be involved in adultery, Hebrews 13:4:

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”

The nature of God is to warn mankind of sins such as adultery that will eternally condemn their soul away from His presence to eternal darkness.

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