Question 139. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?

 

Question 139. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment? 

Answer. The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment are, besides the neglect of the duties required, adultery, fornication, rape, incest, sodomy, all unnatural lusts, all filthy imaginations, thoughts, and affections; all corrupt or filthy correspondence, or listening thereto; lewd looks, impudent and frivolous actions, and vulgar and indecent apparel; also the prohibition of lawful marriage, and the entering into of unlawful marriage, and the allowing, tolerating, managing, and adultery of the heart; also entering into vows of celibacy, and unjustly delaying marriage, and unjustly divorce or desertion; also idleness, gluttony, drunkenness, and associating with filthy companions; enjoying filthy songs, books, dances, and plays; and all provoking to filthiness, or doing filthy acts, either to ourselves or to others.

In Mark 10:1-5, “Jesus left there and went to the region of Judea and across the Jordan. The crowds gathered around him again, and he was teaching them again as he usually did. The Pharisees came to him and tested him with this question, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What command did Moses give you?” They said to him, “Moses permitted her to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.” But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart we wrote you this commandment.”

It is said that Moses gave a certificate of divorce to all the stubborn people who wanted a divorce. Basically, all people are stubborn people who have committed spiritual adultery. In Matthew 10:11-12, "He said, 'Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.'" However, if you have Moses' certificate of divorce, you can remarry without committing adultery. What does Moses' certificate of divorce mean spiritually?

 Romans 7:2-3, "For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. Therefore, if while her husband lives, she marries another man, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress even though she marries another man." Here, a certificate of divorce means the death of a husband.

In Galatians 4:29-30, a comparison is made between those under the law and those under the promise: "But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is also now. But what does the Scripture say? Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman."

The one born of the law refers to the fleshly self (Ishmael), and the one born of the Spirit refers to the spiritual self (Isaac). The fleshly self born of the flesh persecutes the spiritual self born of the Spirit. That is why the spiritual self cannot appear in the human heart, and the fleshly self reigns. However, it is said to cast out the fleshly self. The way to cast out the fleshly self is to have a certificate of divorce.

The divorce certificate Moses gave was the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. To receive this certificate is to be united with Jesus who died on the cross. Carrying one's own cross is the only way to cast out the fleshly self. The only way to be free from the law is through the death of the cross. Saying that you have received the Holy Spirit while not dying to the law on the cross is spiritual adultery. It is calling someone who says that they have received the Holy Spirit while being bound by the law a prostitute.

Romans 8:5 says, "For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit." Those who are according to the flesh refer to their physical self, and those who are according to the Spirit refer to their spiritual self. These two are not separate people, but they appear in the same person's soul. Therefore, it is said to fight and win the victory. The fight between the two ends with the death of the cross. And the result of the war is the fruit of resurrection. If you receive Moses' certificate of divorce (the death of the cross), you can officially get married again. This is being united with the resurrected Christ. The wedding feast in heaven will take place. Those who do not believe in the present resurrection are still fighting.

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