Devotion 122
DEVOTION 122: “Adultery” coming out of Num. 5
Jesus Christ (the Word) is the Bridegroom. The church is the bride of the Word (Christ) . Whenever we stray off the Word, we become adulteresses.
Romans 7:2-4 “For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. [3] So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. [4] Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.”
He is a jealous God. He wants to be the only One we are married to, by the Word.
Eve committed auditory when she strayed from the Word, and believed the Serpent’s interpretation of the Word.
Genesis 3:4 “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:”
She believed the Serpent, and today we all surely die because of her straying from the Word of God.
God warns Israel of adultery.
Let’s read:
Numbers 5:1-7 “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, [2] Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: [3] Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. [4] And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel. [5] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, [6] Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty; [7] Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.”
What separates the Believer from the world is holiness.
When we become one with God in Word, we are separated unto holiness.
Confessing of our sins puts us in line with the Word. Sin brings us down (misalign us) from the Word. Confessing of our sins restores us back in line with the Word, Which is Christ.
We continue our reading:
Numbers 5:8-10 “But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. [9] And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his. [10] And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.”
When we confess our sins, we are pointing to what Jesus Christ as our Intercessor. Jesus Christ lives forever to make intercession for our trespasses.
Hebrews 7:24-28 “But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. [25] Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. [26] For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; [27] Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. [28] For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.”
Anyone that teaches that the Believer does not have to confess their sins is presenting the Serpent’s interpretation of the Word.
We continue our reading:
Numbers 5:11-27 “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, [12] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, [13] And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; [14] And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: [15] Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. [16] And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: [17] And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: [18] And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: [19] And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: [20] But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: [21] Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; [22] And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. [23] And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: [24] And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. [25] Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar: [26] And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. [27] And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.”
It’s the physical picture of how God abhors adultery. Spiritual adultery, which is the straying away from the Word, causes an equal spiritual bitterness, swollen belly, rottenness, and death.
We conclude our reading:
Numbers 5:28-31 “And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. [29] This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; [30] Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. [31] Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.”
The Lord wants us to bear fruit only to Him (the Word) in holiness and righteousness.
Romans 7:4 “Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.”
We do that by simply believing Him (the Word).
Let the Word bring you to bear fruit unto God. BELIEVE, and confess Christ the Word as we’ve revealed Him from the First Adam. Unconfessed sins are unforgiven sins. Sins confessed are sins forgiven, in Christ!
Jesus Christ (the Word) is the Bridegroom. The church is the bride of the Word (Christ) . Whenever we stray off the Word, we become adulteresses.
Romans 7:2-4 “For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. [3] So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. [4] Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.”
He is a jealous God. He wants to be the only One we are married to, by the Word.
Eve committed auditory when she strayed from the Word, and believed the Serpent’s interpretation of the Word.
Genesis 3:4 “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:”
She believed the Serpent, and today we all surely die because of her straying from the Word of God.
God warns Israel of adultery.
Let’s read:
Numbers 5:1-7 “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, [2] Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: [3] Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. [4] And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel. [5] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, [6] Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty; [7] Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.”
What separates the Believer from the world is holiness.
When we become one with God in Word, we are separated unto holiness.
Confessing of our sins puts us in line with the Word. Sin brings us down (misalign us) from the Word. Confessing of our sins restores us back in line with the Word, Which is Christ.
We continue our reading:
Numbers 5:8-10 “But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. [9] And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his. [10] And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.”
When we confess our sins, we are pointing to what Jesus Christ as our Intercessor. Jesus Christ lives forever to make intercession for our trespasses.
Hebrews 7:24-28 “But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. [25] Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. [26] For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; [27] Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. [28] For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.”
Anyone that teaches that the Believer does not have to confess their sins is presenting the Serpent’s interpretation of the Word.
We continue our reading:
Numbers 5:11-27 “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, [12] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, [13] And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; [14] And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: [15] Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. [16] And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: [17] And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: [18] And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: [19] And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: [20] But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: [21] Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; [22] And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. [23] And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: [24] And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. [25] Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar: [26] And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. [27] And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.”
It’s the physical picture of how God abhors adultery. Spiritual adultery, which is the straying away from the Word, causes an equal spiritual bitterness, swollen belly, rottenness, and death.
We conclude our reading:
Numbers 5:28-31 “And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. [29] This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; [30] Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. [31] Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.”
The Lord wants us to bear fruit only to Him (the Word) in holiness and righteousness.
Romans 7:4 “Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.”
We do that by simply believing Him (the Word).
Let the Word bring you to bear fruit unto God. BELIEVE, and confess Christ the Word as we’ve revealed Him from the First Adam. Unconfessed sins are unforgiven sins. Sins confessed are sins forgiven, in Christ!
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