Sleeping With Another Man's Wife

I understand that I am speaking to a mixed crowd this morning, so some of you could automatically dismiss my question as not being serious. Some of you may respond, "Pastor, I am a woman; that would be despicable. Only lesbians do that." If you are a married man in this congregation this morning, your response may be, "I have always been faithful to my wife." If you are single, you might be thinking of your pastor just trying to rile your cage this morning. But the Lord spoke to me this week and told me to ask the people of this congregation if you have been sleeping with another man's wife. If it would mean being a lesbian, then the implications of doing so would follow you this morning. If you are either married or single, the implications still follow.

I am not here to cast stones this morning. Jesus, very tactfully, showed that no man has the right to judge. Matter of fact, it was only if the man and woman was caught in the very act could the death sentence be carried out. That is why the men that tried to tempt Jesus with breaking the law of Moses needed to catch the woman that they brought to Him in the very act of adultery. Are there any eye witnesses today? No. But law of Moses did describe a method to use if someone was suspicious but with no solid evidence.

In the case of a mere suspicion on the part of the husband, not substantiated by legal evidence, the woman is compelled by the law in Num 5:11-30 to submit to an ordeal, or God's judgment, which consists in her drinking the water of bitterness. The water of bitterness is holy water that is mixed with the dust from the floor of the tabernacle and with, evidently, the ink from a page that is sworn to by the woman, and is blotted out by the priest, and seemingly caught into this cup. If the drink makes her sick, then it proves that she committed adultery. If it does not make her sick, then she is free to go.

It is amazing what words can do to the inside of us.

Heb 4:12-13

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

The Word of God is able to get down into our very soul to either heal or to kill.

Jer 29:11-13

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Let me break down my title for you this morning. "Sleeping With Another Man's Wife." I am not here to be kinky or perverted this morning.

Rev 21:9

9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.