Sin leaves us divorced from the spirit and without a marriage to Jesus Christ. 

John 4:16-18

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“Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here. The woman answered and said, “I have no husband. Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” John 4:16-18

When Jesus asked the woman to bring her husband to Him, He already knew she was “divorced” five times and living with a man out of wedlock. The Samaritan woman knew the Jewish laws, and knew Jesus was Jewish, so she tried to tell a “half-truth” to bypass the humiliation of living deeply in sin. Jesus focused on the fact that the woman had no husband.

Today, Jesus wants to draw our attention to the fact that we have no spouse while living in sin. The thing which forms what we think, feel, say and do is not married to us in a partnership because it completely discards the human spirit. It strictly demands that we do and speak according to what it gives us to do and speak as it enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people in every city around the world. People everywhere are conformed to the anti-Christian and non-spiritual global culture. They are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

The thing which leaves us without a spiritual spouse hardens the human spirit against marrying the Spirit of Christ. Even though it has a form of Godliness, it thrives on sin by blaspheming God, discarding the need for the remission of sin through Jesus, and tramples on the Holy Spirit. Sexual immorality plagues the world with rampant casual sex, rampant influx of the LGBQT+ lifestyle, unfaithfulness in carnal marriages, the promotion of the killing of the unborn, etc.

Today, people do not acknowledge the sin of being under the control of the thing which forms what they think, feel, say and do, but are quietly taught to live by its direction. Revelation 2:24-25 calls it Satan’s deep secrets, “…to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’” The world follows it except for those whose name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

As humans, we want to hide the embarrassing and sinful things about ourselves, and it can be very hard to admit that we are sinners. Today the focus is so heavy on human dignity and self-esteem that no one feels a need to admit they are sinners. However, Jesus knows our heart and sees the dark secrets and stain of sin on every soul.

I was sinking deep in sin
Far from a peaceful shore
Very deeply stained within
Sinking to rise no more;
But the Master of the sea
Heard my despairing cry
From the waters lifted me
Now safe am I
Love lifted me! Love lifted me!
When nothing else could help
Love lifted me

All my heart to Him I give
Ever to Him I’ll cling
In His blessed prescence live
Ever His praises sing;
Love so mighty and so true
Merits my soul’s best songs;
Faithful loving service, too
To Him belongs
Love lifted me! Love lifted me!
When nothing else could help
Love lifted me

Church Hymn

We can assess that we want to “keep a lid” on the humiliating and embarrassing sin in our life. The diagnosis is that unless we come clean through Jesus Christ then we will never be able to fill the cup of our soul with the Holy Spirit. The plan is to reconcile to God by confessing our sin to Jesus Christ, and only to Jesus Christ, who is trusted to forgive us of our sin. “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9 We implement the plan by acknowledging that we are sinners, by accepting what Jesus Christ did for us on the Cross to atone for sin and acknowledging the existence of God as our creator. We know the success of the plan as we live in the mercy and grace of God as sinners living for Jesus Christ in the spirit of Holiness.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1