RHEMA 5/28/11  SEE THAT NO MAN DEFRAUDS YOU

HEARD:  May you always walk worthy of such a thing.  To walk worthy of your calling.  Fellowship.  To keep our lives without fault.  Before the throne room.

Eph 4:1-4

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

HEARD:  See that no man defrauds you. 

1 Thess 4:1-8

Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.  3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

Mark 10:19

You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"

NT:650  DEFRAUD

apostereo (ap-os-ter-eh'-o); from NT:575 and stereo (to deprive); to despoil:

KJV - defraud, destitute, kept back by fraud.

NT:5233

huperbaino (hoop-er-bah'-ee-no); from NT:5228 and the base of NT:939; to transcend, i.e. (figuratively) to overreach:

KJV - go beyond.

NT:4122

pleonekteo (pleh-on-cek-teh'-o); from NT:4123; to be covetous, i.e. (by implication) to over-reach:

KJV - get an advantage, defraud, make a gain.

NT:4123

pleonektes (pleh-on-ek'-tace); from NT:4119 and NT:2192; holding (desiring) more, i.e. eager for gain (avaricious, hence a defrauder):

KJV - covetous.

DIVORCE, PORNOGRAPHY & PROSTITUTION 

A few days ago I met a very precious and lovely Christian lady who mentioned she was divorced.  She had been married for only 3 years when she found out her husband was addicted for pornography.  She discovered this when he changed and started hurting her during intimacy.  This rent my heart to see such a precious child of God so defrauded.  

I had recently done a study on the following passage of scripture and had discovered that Jesus said that pornography and prostitution were grounds for divorce and such grounds was not considered adultery if one remarries. 

Matt 19:3-12

The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"  4 And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'  5 and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?  6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."

They said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?" 8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.  9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, {#4202}  and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery."  10 His disciples said to Him, "If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry."

But He said to them, "All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given:  12 For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it."

THE GREEK WORD SEXUAL IMMORALITY IS PORNOGRAPHY & PROSTITUTION

NT:4202  FORNICATION

porneia (por-ni'-ah); from NT:4203; harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry:

KJV - fornication.

Matt 5:32, Matt 15:19, Matt 19:9, Mark 7:21, John 8:41, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:29, Acts 21:25, 1 Cor 5:1, 1 Cor 5:1, 1 Cor 6:13, 1 Cor 6:18, 1 Cor 7:2, 2 Cor 12:21, Gal 5:19, Eph 5:3, Col 3:5, 1 Thess 4:3, Rev 2:21, Rev 9:21, Rev 14:8, Rev 17:2, Rev 17:4, Rev 18:3, Rev 19:2

NT:4203

porneuo (porn-yoo'-o); from NT:4204; to act the harlot, i.e. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (figuratively) practise idolatry:

1 Cor 6:18, 1 Cor 10:8, 1 Cor 10:8, Rev 2:14, Rev 2:20, Rev 17:2, Rev 18:3, Rev 18:9

NT:4204

porne (por'-nay); feminine of NT:4205; a strumpet; figuratively, an idolater:

KJV - harlot, whore.

Matt 21:31, Matt 21:32, Luke 15:30, 1 Cor 6:15, 1 Cor 6:16, Heb 11:31, James 2:25, Rev 17:1, Rev 17:5, Rev 17:15, Rev 17:16, Rev 19:2

NT:4205

pornos (por'-nos); from pernemi (to sell; akin to the base of NT:4097); a (male) prostitute (as venal), i.e. (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine):

KJV - fornicator, whoremonger.

1 Cor 5:9, 1 Cor 5:10, 1 Cor 5:11, 1 Cor 6:9, Eph 5:5, 1 Tim 1:10, Heb 12:16, Heb 13:4, Rev 21:8, Rev 22:15

NT:4097

piprasko (pip-ras'-ko); a reduplicated and prolonged form of prao (prah'-o); (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); contracted from perao (to traverse; from the base of NT:4008); to traffic (by travelling), i.e. dispose of as merchandise or into slavery (literally or figuratively):

KJV - sell.

Matt 13:46, Matt 18:25, Matt 26:9, Mark 14:5, John 12:5, Acts 2:45, Acts 4:34, Acts 5:4, Rom 7:14

SEVERE WARNING:  Those who practice pornography will go into the great tribulation, unless they repent.  I believe this includes all levels of television bedroom scenes and romance novels suggesting bedroom scenes. 

Rev 2:21-23

And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, {#4202}  and she did not repent.  Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.

1 Cor 5:9-13

I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral {#4202} people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner — not even to eat with such a person.  12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."

RAISING CHILDREN ON THE BALANCE SCALES OF PRUNING FOR FRUITFULNESS  11/30/08

You are My intercessors and I listen to your pleas and voice.  What you have to say matters to Me and I listen when I AM weighing the balance scales of justice.  Merciful ones, the truth is that if I were to raise My children with all mercy and no judgment, they would not learn accountability.  No accountability to My Word would carry them off into apostasy.

I raise children upon a balance scale that builds up and tears down. I build My character within their lives and I tear down altars of sin.  I build up My gifts within My children and bring the rod of correction to rebellion.  I prune the dead works of flesh so that I may bring forth good fruit of My Spirit into their lives.  In all ways because I love My children, mercy and forgiveness always reign over judgment.  Even so, correction is a necessary part of My family.  This needed correction produces the fruit of rightful living and walking in My paths of righteousness.  Beloved ones, to accept this is to embrace Me and My ways.

Heb 12:6-7; 11-13 AMP

For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes.  You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?

...For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it [a harvest of fruit which consists in righteousness — in conformity to God's will in purpose, thought, and action, resulting in right living and right standing with God].  12 So then, brace up and reinvigorate and set right your slackened and weakened and drooping hands and strengthen your feeble and palsied and tottering knees, [Isa 35:3.]  13 And cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet [yes, make them safe and upright and happy paths that go in the right direction], so that the lame and halting [limbs] may not be put out of joint, but rather may be cured.