Hosea 5:10 AMPC
The princes of Judah are like those who remove the landmark [the barrier between right and wrong]; I will pour out My wrath upon them like water.
"I've done nothing illegal..." So says Jermaine Jenas after he was sacked by the BBC for "sexting" fellow workers behind his wife's back.
Everyone is meant to feel sorry for his harsh treatment! Yet surely he knew what he was doing and the hurt it would inflict on his wife.
How the boundaries between right and wrong have shifted in our day.
We have moved God's "goal posts", as laid out in the 10 commandments, and have legalised much of what God prescribed as wrong and, yes, sinful.
Relabelling the destruction of unborn babies as "abortion" and "pro-choice" defies "You shall not commit murder".
Who cares about the casual use of God's name these days? "OMG" is used in texting without a thought:
God cares though:
Exodus 20:7 AMPC
You shall not use or repeat the name of the Lord your God in vain [that is, lightly or frivolously, in false affirmations or profanely]; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Now adultery is termed as "an affair" and is deemed harmless and understandable when a marriage has gone stale.
But God's spiritual "boundary stones" still stand, even though we've seemingly moved them.
There are serious ramifications for these actions, especially towards those who know better - the spiritual leaders.
Will tearing up the pages of Scripture actually eradicate His Boundaries for Life? Of course not.
Our only redress is to humbly come to the Cross of Christ in true sorrow for our wrongs and live in repentance.
Jesus didn't excuse sin, He paid for it with His life... To the woman caught in the act of adultery He said go and sin no more after He forgave her.
The Lord wants us to acknowledge how we have derided His Boundaries and then come before Him in sincere sorrow:
Isaiah 66:2 AMPC
For all these things My hand has made, and so all these things have come into being [by and for Me], says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look and have regard: the one who is humble and of a broken or wounded spirit, and who trembles at My word and reveres My commands.
Relabel it as much as we like, it is still sin that Jesus took to the Cross and only His Death can erase it from our lives.
Selah
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