7th kommandment
History makes it clear that various cultures and traditions existed before our time, they obviously regarded the number 7 (seven) a lot.In Africa for instance, they had festivals considered sacred almost every seven years or sacrifices had the number seven running through them, one might have to cross seven rivers to get to the land of the dead and so on.
Seven was a number for completeness,the passion for seven exceeded the African tradition as the bible is also littered with various instances where the number seven was passionately patronized. For instance creation was within seven days, slaves were free in their seventh year, Israel went round Jericho seven times, Naaman deep himself into Jordan seven times and there were seven lamp stands in the temple built by Solomon.
Well this is why I have decided to tag this article the seventh commandment. It’s an issue I believe has been very crucial to virtually every generation in the last couple of centuries. Every generation has had to deal with it and with it being said that this generation might be the last, I believe we need to be complete in all ramification and where else would we look to but to the commandments of which this issue has the seventh place amongst them. All the commandments are very important I must say but I have decided to pick just the seventh for several reasons of which I believe is the fact that our time needs some restrains on this issue.
Before now we were told that we are living in the jet age, but I want to believe that things have changed a little and it would be more appropriate to call this age the computer age. the jet age and the computer age have something in common (speed) you may say, but I think credit should be given to the computer as the jet can be said to be slower than the computer in terms of speed. Speed has become a driving force behind almost every thing in this generation, from business to pleasure, speed drives us crazy.We live on the fast lane nowadays, so much that we resort to doing whatever gives pleasure to our minds. Unfortunately our passion for speed has not paid off well in other areas like it did in the use of computers for production and manufacturing.
The seventh commandment as outdated as it is never stop amazing me when I consider the way it cuts across every generation and how despite its seemingly uncivilized nature it determines a lot of who you become.The seventh commandment says: ‘thou shall not commit adultery”.I’m sure you now understand why I said it sounds uncivilized. Especially in an age where we have developed new words for adultery, to some this commandment is not applicable to then as it is believed that adultery is hardly committed this days. Well sorry for the unpopular word used (thou &adultery) but if I were to rephrase the commandment to sooth your computer mind, it would read:do not fornicate or do not have sex when you are not married, do not have flings or better still do not f...;some call it "fun" now so I'll just say do not have "fun".(pardon my use of language)we have various words for adultery nowadays, I’ ll like to mention some of them, we have words like fornication which sounds churchy ,then we have fling ,fuck, kpanch ,zung ,need and so on.. There are as many words as we have group of friends.
Dear friend, the seventh commandment might not sooth your computer age set, it might sound too harsh or outdated but I can assure you that it has helped people live to achieve great success.(especially those that complied.The commandments were not meant to appeal to you judgment ,neither were you suppose to be considered before declaring it.Now I know you might not really give a hoot about what I said thus far but wait until you see the implications of not keeping the seventh commandment.
Implication 1: This implication offers you a choice as to whether or not you’ll keep this thou shall not commit adultery injunction. If you keep this command, you’ll have saved yourself the trouble of having to battle with the many sexually transmitted deceases of our time. When you consider these deceases, you’ll keep your pants on anyway. If you are the critical type, you’ll be arguing your way out by preaching the condom message by now. Well whatever you do just try and understand that there are other consequences beyond deceases and unwanted pregnancies.
Consider the value called dignity; do you keep that by using condoms during sex? (NO) There are a lot more things that indulging in elicit sex steal way from you that the eye cannot see. Your joy, confidence, worth, pride and lots of things that you always notice gets out of place after unlawful sex. May be you should consider the fact that you are worth much more, most times the most affected persons in our society are the ladies, they get a little less than enough to start with compared to the chunk of things you give in return. From a drink to a ride in his car, some gifts (cheap compared to the value you are worth) in this days of phones, he could send you recharge cards. At the end of the day whatever you get cannot be compared to who God has made you. Most times the guy don’t make it clear that the return on his investment would be in form of a sexual reward but when the time comes, you ‘ll definitely not have anything of value to give him for so much he has put into you. So you give him your body. What a profit on so little investment.
Less I forget there are people out there that do nice things for people without making sexual demands in return but I can assure you that they are hard to come by. Similarly, I want to believe that you are not a dog, how would you feel if you knew early enough that the guy or girl thinks you are as cheap as a dog that will give into a bone in form of gifts. I m sure you’ll never have anything to do with him or her. Well it will suffice you to know that many persons after your pants think like that. You only never have an insight into their minds to know that. Take my advice don’t commit adultery. I know how hard it could be to make some folks see the wisdom in this commandment, because most times you are too emotionally engrossed to think about the consequences of your actions. Not withstanding, I believe that amidst the entire emotional clamor, you’ll always have an opportunity to back out, put on your pants and flee. You are not been a jerk, you’re just been a smart girl/guy that knows that life is worth more than some seconds of pleasure and years of grief and pain: First for you, then for those that love you.
Implication 2: In the first implication, I said keeping the seventh commandment is a matter of choice and the benefit and disadvantages were what you could analyze with you human thinking faculty. Unfortunately, the second implication offers you little benefits as the basis for adhering to the command. As a matter of fact you are expected to keep it whether you like it or not. Considering the fact that the commandment came from an uncommon personality, it will be impossible to bye pass him with a computer minded argument
To make things a lot easier for your understanding, I’ll simply describe the personality in the words of those that have encountered him. Read that he of whom we speak was last seen in a garment down to the feet and a girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire. His feet like fine brass, as if the burn in a furnace and his voice as the sound of many waters. His countenance is as the sun in its full strength.Some other persons saw him on a white horse and I can assure you that of all that saw him none was standing in his presence.You’ll not be an exception.
This personality is God almighty and he respects no one.Even if he were to respect someone, I doubt if you’ll be such a person for him to respect. I’m sure you can now see why his command needs not comply with your civilized mind. He has and will always outlive every civilization so if he says don’t indulge in sin, that’s final. God is omnipotent and omnipresent, he’s alpha and omega, the beginning and the end and if he says it then he must mean it.God said you should not commit adultery then it must be for your own good. Whatever God says, must be good since he sees all things from an omnipotent and omnipresent perspective and if you think your speed driven mind can comprehend his infinite wisdom then you must be way out of your mind and wrong.
Personally, I believe there are reasons for every move God makes; there are reasons for the commandments as well as reasons for you coming across this article. God has a very good plan for you and I, and I believe what we must do is to drop our preconceived notions about his commandments and begin to comply with his ways. There are some of you out there that know the seventh commandment means no harm and would really like to comply but it just happen that you can’t seem to muscle enough courage to do the things God has commanded. Well I’ve got news for you. You aren’t alone. The issue of struggling to walk with God has become a limiting factor to so many people as often there is a spiritual willingness but the flesh is weak.
As a matter of fact the problem you encounter with the seventh commandant is equally eminent with all other commandments. This has led most people into thinking that his standards are too high, but I’ll like to correct this impression by saying that he is God (holy and pure) and his standards are just okay for his personality.we just happen to have very poor and low standards as a result of our sinful nature. Now I’m sure you are beginning to see why it’s almost impossible to live up to his expectations or his commandment perfectly.So what do you do? You go back to God and find out how you can walk with him and I assure you that he already has a laid down plan for you.
Main while, God knowing that you and I would be interested in aligning our ways with his, sent Jesus to die on the cross of Calvary. On that death he tied sufficient grace to enable you live right and enjoy other things along side. Now all you have to do to become a party to the grace and other benefits is to simply believe that the death was for you and accept the lordship of Jesus over your life. The moment you have done this, you’ll better understand what Jesus meant when he sad that the Ten Commandments are up held in just two.You shall love the lord your God with all your heart, with all thy might and with all your strength.(this is the greatest commandment)The second is like it; love your neighbor as yourself.
You’ll now see that one of the immediate benefits of giving your life to Jesus is that the once impossible becomes possible in that you can now unconsciously keep the Ten Commandments as you focus your mind on loving God which initially was not possible due to the existing barriers between you and God; of course caused by your sins. Keeping the seventh commandment becomes so easy since you now walk in love. I love to give this example, imagine you love a guy or a girl; you’ll always do nice things and not things that are unpleasing to the one you love. You do these things without thinking, just because you love this person similarly, it is not possible to declare your love vehemently for God and still go sleeping around or doing those other things outlined in the other commandments. Or can you imagine a prayerful Christian that put God first in all things praying before having sex.You’ll not get your pant below your knee.
From what we have said, the antidotes for adultery are:Give your life to Jesus, by accepting him as you lord and savior.Walk in the spirit; not by might, power but my spirit says the lord.Love God with all your heart.Be prayerful at all times.
(luke22vs 40) Dear friend, let me conclude with this lines; are you are a guy out there that believes that ladies are object of pleasure and sex is your heritage as a man, listen I believe you are worth more than that, God can help you overcome that mentality. Make an effort towards the right direction, redefine responsibility and this time around major on integrity and not how to gratify you emotions. If you think other wise then always remember that what a man sows that he shall reap.” your harvest is coming.”
For the ladies, I strongly believe that the health implications of adultery on your person is so great that you don’t need so many words but incase you don’t care for your health try and consider dignity and self worth. You are not a dog at such I believe you deserve some respect, for your body and for your person as a woman.
Incase you still don’t care I would plead with you to consider the love than God has for you, so much that he has led you to read this article. You can’t afford to neglect so great a salvation which God in his mercies has poured out on us. You have a chance to make it right; it’s not too late for a change.My prayer is that the seventh commandment will become real in your life so that when you imagine the lord Almighty, you’ll see love and not fear. May the grace of God empower you to walkout righteousness in this generation more than ever before? God bless you.
History makes it clear that various cultures and traditions existed before our time, they obviously regarded the number 7 (seven) a lot.In Africa for instance, they had festivals considered sacred almost every seven years or sacrifices had the number seven running through them, one might have to cross seven rivers to get to the land of the dead and so on.
Seven was a number for completeness,the passion for seven exceeded the African tradition as the bible is also littered with various instances where the number seven was passionately patronized. For instance creation was within seven days, slaves were free in their seventh year, Israel went round Jericho seven times, Naaman deep himself into Jordan seven times and there were seven lamp stands in the temple built by Solomon.
Well this is why I have decided to tag this article the seventh commandment. It’s an issue I believe has been very crucial to virtually every generation in the last couple of centuries. Every generation has had to deal with it and with it being said that this generation might be the last, I believe we need to be complete in all ramification and where else would we look to but to the commandments of which this issue has the seventh place amongst them. All the commandments are very important I must say but I have decided to pick just the seventh for several reasons of which I believe is the fact that our time needs some restrains on this issue.
Before now we were told that we are living in the jet age, but I want to believe that things have changed a little and it would be more appropriate to call this age the computer age. the jet age and the computer age have something in common (speed) you may say, but I think credit should be given to the computer as the jet can be said to be slower than the computer in terms of speed. Speed has become a driving force behind almost every thing in this generation, from business to pleasure, speed drives us crazy.We live on the fast lane nowadays, so much that we resort to doing whatever gives pleasure to our minds. Unfortunately our passion for speed has not paid off well in other areas like it did in the use of computers for production and manufacturing.
The seventh commandment as outdated as it is never stop amazing me when I consider the way it cuts across every generation and how despite its seemingly uncivilized nature it determines a lot of who you become.The seventh commandment says: ‘thou shall not commit adultery”.I’m sure you now understand why I said it sounds uncivilized. Especially in an age where we have developed new words for adultery, to some this commandment is not applicable to then as it is believed that adultery is hardly committed this days. Well sorry for the unpopular word used (thou &adultery) but if I were to rephrase the commandment to sooth your computer mind, it would read:do not fornicate or do not have sex when you are not married, do not have flings or better still do not f...;some call it "fun" now so I'll just say do not have "fun".(pardon my use of language)we have various words for adultery nowadays, I’ ll like to mention some of them, we have words like fornication which sounds churchy ,then we have fling ,fuck, kpanch ,zung ,need and so on.. There are as many words as we have group of friends.
Dear friend, the seventh commandment might not sooth your computer age set, it might sound too harsh or outdated but I can assure you that it has helped people live to achieve great success.(especially those that complied.The commandments were not meant to appeal to you judgment ,neither were you suppose to be considered before declaring it.Now I know you might not really give a hoot about what I said thus far but wait until you see the implications of not keeping the seventh commandment.
Implication 1: This implication offers you a choice as to whether or not you’ll keep this thou shall not commit adultery injunction. If you keep this command, you’ll have saved yourself the trouble of having to battle with the many sexually transmitted deceases of our time. When you consider these deceases, you’ll keep your pants on anyway. If you are the critical type, you’ll be arguing your way out by preaching the condom message by now. Well whatever you do just try and understand that there are other consequences beyond deceases and unwanted pregnancies.
Consider the value called dignity; do you keep that by using condoms during sex? (NO) There are a lot more things that indulging in elicit sex steal way from you that the eye cannot see. Your joy, confidence, worth, pride and lots of things that you always notice gets out of place after unlawful sex. May be you should consider the fact that you are worth much more, most times the most affected persons in our society are the ladies, they get a little less than enough to start with compared to the chunk of things you give in return. From a drink to a ride in his car, some gifts (cheap compared to the value you are worth) in this days of phones, he could send you recharge cards. At the end of the day whatever you get cannot be compared to who God has made you. Most times the guy don’t make it clear that the return on his investment would be in form of a sexual reward but when the time comes, you ‘ll definitely not have anything of value to give him for so much he has put into you. So you give him your body. What a profit on so little investment.
Less I forget there are people out there that do nice things for people without making sexual demands in return but I can assure you that they are hard to come by. Similarly, I want to believe that you are not a dog, how would you feel if you knew early enough that the guy or girl thinks you are as cheap as a dog that will give into a bone in form of gifts. I m sure you’ll never have anything to do with him or her. Well it will suffice you to know that many persons after your pants think like that. You only never have an insight into their minds to know that. Take my advice don’t commit adultery. I know how hard it could be to make some folks see the wisdom in this commandment, because most times you are too emotionally engrossed to think about the consequences of your actions. Not withstanding, I believe that amidst the entire emotional clamor, you’ll always have an opportunity to back out, put on your pants and flee. You are not been a jerk, you’re just been a smart girl/guy that knows that life is worth more than some seconds of pleasure and years of grief and pain: First for you, then for those that love you.
Implication 2: In the first implication, I said keeping the seventh commandment is a matter of choice and the benefit and disadvantages were what you could analyze with you human thinking faculty. Unfortunately, the second implication offers you little benefits as the basis for adhering to the command. As a matter of fact you are expected to keep it whether you like it or not. Considering the fact that the commandment came from an uncommon personality, it will be impossible to bye pass him with a computer minded argument
To make things a lot easier for your understanding, I’ll simply describe the personality in the words of those that have encountered him. Read that he of whom we speak was last seen in a garment down to the feet and a girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire. His feet like fine brass, as if the burn in a furnace and his voice as the sound of many waters. His countenance is as the sun in its full strength.Some other persons saw him on a white horse and I can assure you that of all that saw him none was standing in his presence.You’ll not be an exception.
This personality is God almighty and he respects no one.Even if he were to respect someone, I doubt if you’ll be such a person for him to respect. I’m sure you can now see why his command needs not comply with your civilized mind. He has and will always outlive every civilization so if he says don’t indulge in sin, that’s final. God is omnipotent and omnipresent, he’s alpha and omega, the beginning and the end and if he says it then he must mean it.God said you should not commit adultery then it must be for your own good. Whatever God says, must be good since he sees all things from an omnipotent and omnipresent perspective and if you think your speed driven mind can comprehend his infinite wisdom then you must be way out of your mind and wrong.
Personally, I believe there are reasons for every move God makes; there are reasons for the commandments as well as reasons for you coming across this article. God has a very good plan for you and I, and I believe what we must do is to drop our preconceived notions about his commandments and begin to comply with his ways. There are some of you out there that know the seventh commandment means no harm and would really like to comply but it just happen that you can’t seem to muscle enough courage to do the things God has commanded. Well I’ve got news for you. You aren’t alone. The issue of struggling to walk with God has become a limiting factor to so many people as often there is a spiritual willingness but the flesh is weak.
As a matter of fact the problem you encounter with the seventh commandant is equally eminent with all other commandments. This has led most people into thinking that his standards are too high, but I’ll like to correct this impression by saying that he is God (holy and pure) and his standards are just okay for his personality.we just happen to have very poor and low standards as a result of our sinful nature. Now I’m sure you are beginning to see why it’s almost impossible to live up to his expectations or his commandment perfectly.So what do you do? You go back to God and find out how you can walk with him and I assure you that he already has a laid down plan for you.
Main while, God knowing that you and I would be interested in aligning our ways with his, sent Jesus to die on the cross of Calvary. On that death he tied sufficient grace to enable you live right and enjoy other things along side. Now all you have to do to become a party to the grace and other benefits is to simply believe that the death was for you and accept the lordship of Jesus over your life. The moment you have done this, you’ll better understand what Jesus meant when he sad that the Ten Commandments are up held in just two.You shall love the lord your God with all your heart, with all thy might and with all your strength.(this is the greatest commandment)The second is like it; love your neighbor as yourself.
You’ll now see that one of the immediate benefits of giving your life to Jesus is that the once impossible becomes possible in that you can now unconsciously keep the Ten Commandments as you focus your mind on loving God which initially was not possible due to the existing barriers between you and God; of course caused by your sins. Keeping the seventh commandment becomes so easy since you now walk in love. I love to give this example, imagine you love a guy or a girl; you’ll always do nice things and not things that are unpleasing to the one you love. You do these things without thinking, just because you love this person similarly, it is not possible to declare your love vehemently for God and still go sleeping around or doing those other things outlined in the other commandments. Or can you imagine a prayerful Christian that put God first in all things praying before having sex.You’ll not get your pant below your knee.
From what we have said, the antidotes for adultery are:Give your life to Jesus, by accepting him as you lord and savior.Walk in the spirit; not by might, power but my spirit says the lord.Love God with all your heart.Be prayerful at all times.
(luke22vs 40) Dear friend, let me conclude with this lines; are you are a guy out there that believes that ladies are object of pleasure and sex is your heritage as a man, listen I believe you are worth more than that, God can help you overcome that mentality. Make an effort towards the right direction, redefine responsibility and this time around major on integrity and not how to gratify you emotions. If you think other wise then always remember that what a man sows that he shall reap.” your harvest is coming.”
For the ladies, I strongly believe that the health implications of adultery on your person is so great that you don’t need so many words but incase you don’t care for your health try and consider dignity and self worth. You are not a dog at such I believe you deserve some respect, for your body and for your person as a woman.
Incase you still don’t care I would plead with you to consider the love than God has for you, so much that he has led you to read this article. You can’t afford to neglect so great a salvation which God in his mercies has poured out on us. You have a chance to make it right; it’s not too late for a change.My prayer is that the seventh commandment will become real in your life so that when you imagine the lord Almighty, you’ll see love and not fear. May the grace of God empower you to walkout righteousness in this generation more than ever before? God bless you.
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