Sodomy, Stews, and Modesty For Christians

 By Pastor Benjamin Glaser - Posted at Thoughts From Parson Farms:

Why the Seventh Commandment is So Hard For Many to Follow

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Something that has always been an interesting curiosity to me has been how many cult leaders develop their philosophy of ministry based on polygamous desires. One could go down a long list of men who have come up with new religions, or new concepts based on older religions that are merely covers for their desire to entrap and seduce women. Why is there such an insatiable relationship between heresy and wicked sexual sin? Does the first produce the second or is the former a consequence of the latter? The same could be said for men in ministry. Of all the pastors I have known who have shipwrecked themselves, their congregations, their families in service of licentious pleasure far outstrips the number who’ve similarly fallen due to greed, power, or arrogance. I bet if you laid the same template down in the business world you’d probably find a similar level of self-destruction over similar issues. The reason I’ve come up with for why this is the case is really just what God teaches through the hand of Solomon in Proverbs 5:3-4:

“Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, nor let her allure you with her eyelids. For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a crust of bread; and an adulteress will prey upon his precious life.”

The heart is deceitful above all things and desires the pleasures of the flesh, and there is no higher pleasure of the flesh than that which we classify under the Seventh.

Now, at this point I am obliged to say that women sin to. Sometimes when we talk about the law in this regard we can on occasion act as if this is purely a male problem. However, reality will not bear this out. There is a common trope that Mother’s Day is often a day of celebration in the church and Father’s Day is when the pastor tells the men to shape up. It’s funny because it’s true.

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