{"id":185,"date":"2021-10-21T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2021-10-21T06:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T06:02:10","slug":"without-spot-or-blemish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/21\/without-spot-or-blemish\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Spot or Blemish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cFor My thoughts are not your thoughts,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    neither are your ways My ways,\u201d declares the <\/em>Lord<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the heavens are higher than the earth,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    so are My ways higher than your ways<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    and My thoughts than your thoughts.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaiah 55:8-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world\u2019s way is for us to become stronger and stronger; God\u2019s way is for us to become weaker and weaker…The Normal Christian Life<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGod uses the sexual relationship between husband and wife to analogize His depth of love and desire for intimacy with us…The Bible talks about believers as Jesus\u2019 bride who He is perfecting to be without spot or blemish on the wedding day (aka a virgin) (2 Cor. 11:2, Eph. 5:32).\u201d Delight Your Husband p.56<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way the world sees things, once you \u201close\u201d your virginity, there is no going back. By definition, ones\u2019 status as a virgin, is where they stand in relation to the act of sex: either they have committed the act (or had it perpetrated upon them) or they have not. Everyone starts out a virgin, however, once their status changes, it is not something that they can ever recover. Even within the church we use examples in youth groups kneading two separate lumps of play-dough together to signify the sexual act and to drive home the lesson that once something like this is done, it cannot be undone; there are lasting consequences for our actions. So how is it that Paul can speak of presenting us (the Church) as \u201ca pure virgin to Christ\u201d 2 Cor. 11:2? For elsewhere we read: \u201cThose who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 <\/sup><\/em>or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people\u2014none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 <\/sup><\/em>Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy<\/em><\/strong>; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.\u201d <\/em>1 Corinthians 6:9b-11 In other words, God can \u201cundo\u201d what, by definition, it is impossible for man to undo! Praise Him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFor My thoughts are not your thoughts,     neither are your ways My ways,\u201d declares the Lord. \u201cAs the heavens are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}