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the purity, innocence, and fidelity of what marriage was intended to be.
If reading this teaching causes a deep grieving in your spirit, then this writing is
accomplishing one aim for which it is presented. It is the desire of this writer that the people
of God would understand the holiness of the marriage covenant and that they would loathe
all that would mar its sacredness.
But what then? Are those who sinned forever to suffer loss and regret for their
transgressions? Is there no forgiveness, no recovery of that which was carelessly discarded?
We should remember the words cited in the previous post.
A woman was brought before Christ who was caught in the very act of adultery. This
woman was close to having been stoned to death. She heard the charges of the men who had
caught her committing a great transgression. She knew what Moses had written concerning
adultery. She stood condemned. She stood before the righteous judge of Israel, and He saw
her filth and uncleanness.
Christ told the scribes and Pharisees, “Let the one who is without sin among you be
the first to cast a stone.” There were no men present among those to whom Christ spoke
who could cast a stone. They were all transgressors and stood condemned before Yahweh.
Christ, however, was without sin. He could have hurled a stone at the adulteress had He
chosen to do so. She was a sinner; He was not. She had violated Yahweh’s holiness; He had
fulfilled it.
Yet the only One who was able to execute the judgment of the Law said, “Neither do
I condemn you. Go and sin no more.” We all stand in need of the mercy of God. We would
all do well to consider the peril that our transgressions have placed us in. We all stand
within a hair’s breath of the executioner, and we are guilty. Our only hope is that the Judge
of all mankind might be merciful. We deserve the sentence of death, but He took the
sentence upon Himself. He stood in our place and received the just condemnation for every
woman who has cast away her virginity as if it was an unholy thing. Yahshua received the
lashes and the cross for every man who has violated a virgin.
God has not changed the penalty of the Law. He merely changed who would pay the
penalty. Let us weep and lament over the sins we have committed. Let us repent, and firmly
commit ourselves to “Go and sin no more.” Let us be grieved at those things we cast away
and cannot get back. A woman cannot regain her physical virginity once it is gone, but she
can become a virgin in her heart. Those who were once fornicators and adulterers can be
cleansed and purified.

I Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not
be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you; but
you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the
name of the Lord Yahshua Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

“You were washed.” The stain of sin has been removed. Those who were unclean
have been declared righteous through the blood of Christ.

Titus 3:5
He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but