Outlandish women will cause you to sin!

Nehemiah13:23-31

Heritage Addition church of ChristBy Jim BradshawSunday PM, May 17, 2015

None of us are too strong to fall

1Co 10:12 NKJV Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

There are many things that we need to teach our children.

Read Nehemiah 13:23-31

God Knows Best1. God always knows best!2. The children of Israel were not to intermarry.

• Deu 7:2-3 NKJV and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. (3) Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.

• God said it, that should have settled it!!!• When God speaks we should listen.

God Knows Best

• There was nothing racial involved.• God had a valid reason.

• Deu 7:4-5 NKJV For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. (5) But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

God Knows Best

3. It takes courage and strength to follow God’s law.

• As early at Joshua 9, the children of Israel made a pact with the Gibeonites.

• Jos 18:3 NKJV Then Joshua said to the children of Israel: "How long will you neglect to go and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?

God Knows Best

• Jdg 2:1-3 NKJV Then the Angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: "I led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers; and I said, 'I will never break My covenant with you. (2) And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.' But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this? (3) Therefore I also said, 'I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be thorns in your side, and their gods shall be a snare to you.' "

God Knows Best

4. Was God Right?• Jdg 3:5-7 NKJV Thus the children of Israel dwelt among

the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (6) And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons; and they served their gods. (7) So the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baals and Asherahs.

God Knows Best• Eze 23:35-39 NKJV "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:

'Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, Therefore you shall bear the penalty Of your lewdness and your harlotry.' " (36) The LORD also said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. (37) For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.

God Knows Best• Eze 23:35-39 continued (38) Moreover they have done this

to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Sabbaths. (39) For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed thus they have done in the midst of My house.

God Knows Best

Now After All This They Were Back Intermarrying!!!

Neh 13:26 KJV Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

The Sins of Solomon

1. His kingdom started with so much promise.2. Solomon may have been the wealthiest man to ever live.3. The downfall of Solomon.

• Read 1 Kings 11:1-10

4. Outlandish woman• Foreign, not native• Idol Worshipper• These women led to a divided kingdom

Shall We Transgress Against God?1. Transgression against God is evil.2. Transgression against God is Sin

• Nehemiah 13:27 KJVR Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

• 1 John 3:4 KJVR Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

3. Sin leads to destruction; Romans 6:23.

A Desire for Purity

1. We no longer choose our children’s spouses.2. Abstain from every form of evil.

• 1Th 5:21-23 NKJV Test all things; hold fast what is good. (22) Abstain from every form of evil. (23) Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

3. Unequally Yoked

2Co 6:14-18 NKJV Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? (15) And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? (16) And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM. I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE." (17) Therefore "COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND BE SEPARATE, SAYS THE LORD. DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN, AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU." (18) "I WILL BE A FATHER TO YOU, AND YOU SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SAYS THE LORD ALMIGHTY."

God Still wants us to be Pure

Eph 5:26-27 NKJV that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, (27) that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.