A Discussion about Infidelity
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Matthew 9:13 KJV
By David Berg and Members of the Family Mission 8/76
(From a discussion about a conversation with the newlyweds at our hotel, David and Jean:)
When she said she could not forgive her husband for Infidelity, she was saying that she loved herself more then Him! She worshiped Fidelity more religiously than God! She valued, in other words, his total Faithfulness to her more than Love Itself! For to Forgive is Love--Divine Love!
To say you cannot forgive is to say you cannot have the love of God! You cannot love as GOD loves, because that's all God does all the time--Forgive! God has forgiven His wife the Church for infidelity thousands and ten thousand times! He forgave Israel and the Church for innumerable infidelities--Spiritual whoredom!
The Divine Supernatural Miraculous Infinite Marvelous Love Of God Is Love Enough To Forgive! If you don't have love enough to Forgive, you don't have Love--because forgiveness IS love! Jesus Himself said following the Lord's Prayer: "If you cannot forgive men Their trespasses, neither will your Father in Heaven forgive you Your trespasses!" (Matthew 6:15)
THEY WORSHIP MARRIAGE--THEY MAKE IT A GOD! It is a worship of the LAW. It is a form of LEGALISM:--It's got to be THIS way or ELSE--ALL or NOTHING at all! It's a worship of the LAW more than LOVE, forgiveness or mercy. It's LEGALISM: "Thou shalt NOT!"
THE WORSHIP OF MARRIAGE LAWS IS A LEGALISM--THAT THE LAW IS INVIOLABLE! The legalists say that NOTHING can supersede it--not even the LOVE, mercy or the grace of GOD! And if they violate the LAW, they CANNOT be forgiven!
THIS IS THE JUSTICE OF THE DEVIL, THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SATAN! This is what HE advocates all the time! "They have broken the LAW!--JUDGE them!"--Just like the Scribes and Pharisees!
"FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US!" If WE'RE only going to be forgiven the way we forgive OTHERS, and be shown the mercy that we show OTHERS, some people are going to be in a pretty bad fix, especially the churches and churchy Christians, who are almost the most UNFORGIVING people I know of!
EVEN THE PUBLICANS AND THE SINNERS AND DRUNKS AND THE HARLOTS ARE MORE UNDERSTANDING AND MORE FORGIVING, because they KNOW they're that way and they can't HELP it and they're more MERCIFUL, more FORGIVING because they'd like to be forgiven THEMSELVES! But SOME people are SO self-righteous they think they NEVER make a mistake! They're ALWAYS right, so why should they ever have to be FORGIVEN, why should they have to forgive OTHERS?
IF YOU CAN'T FORGIVE, YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY HAVE REAL LOVE OR REAL HUMILITY! You haven't got MERCY, because love IS forgiveness and mercy! Which kind of person are YOU?--The just, unforgiving, unloving, unbending, unmerciful proud SELF-RIGHTEOUS?--Or the merciful, loving, yielding, forgiving, humble, unrighteous SINNER saved only by the grace of GOD!
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TO TRULY GIVE IS TO GIVE CHEERFULLY!
God likes people who are cheerful givers, who give voluntarily because it makes them happy and because they know it pleases the Lord and they're helping others, expecting nothing for themselves in return. That kind of giving, true giving, can be the greatest of all pleasures, because as the purse is emptied, the heart is filled!
"The Lord loveth a cheerful giver" (2Cor.9:7). We must give willingly and in love, if we want our giving to do any good and if we expect any credit for it from the Lord!
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. (James 1:5 NIV)
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Comments (3)
Dear Ken, thanks for your harsh opinions; your scripture understand lacks much truth: as Jesus noted "Ye do err not knowing the scriptures." Interpretation weighs heavily in "dividing the word of truth." Best of Love! (Matthew 6:33; 22:29 & 2 Timothy 2:15)
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ-But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice: - For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. (John 1:17; & Romans 9:15 KJV)
Yes, it's natural to get Ones Salvation structured according to your faith, dear Ken. You're welcome to your interpretation of Christ. ATHWO!
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Matthew 12:37 KJV
As for the Christian Faith, we only have 2 commandments:
The Greatest Commandment (Mark 12:30-32)
…30AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.' 31"The second is this, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' There is no other commandment greater than these." 32The scribe said to Him, "Right, Teacher; You have truly stated that HE IS ONE, AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM;… NASB
"WAIT ON THE LORD!" (PSA.27:14).
What does that really mean, "Wait on the Lord"? Well, a lot of people have taken that to mean they're supposed to sit around doing nothing while they wait for God to do something. They're waiting for God to do something for them rather than with them. They're not waiting on God!--God's waiting on them to get busy!
Finding God's Will is not just sitting around doing nothing!--It's doing what you can! The secret is doing something else while you're waiting. To "wait on the Lord" is like a servant waits on his master. That's the kind of waiting the Lord is talking about. "Wait on the Lord" like a waiter or a waitress, serve the Lord, keep busy!
And that's what we do for the house of God: We are His servants taking care of His house, His children. We feed and clothe them and take care of His babies, and He really is grateful for our help and admires us for our service. The picture of waiting on the Lord is like waiters and waitresses waiting on a customer, where the customer is king and can do no wrong! That's serving the Lord, that's waiting on the Lord, that's ministering to the Lord and others!