Are you trying to justify your sin by pointing to the sin of others in the Old Covenant? But were still used by God for His Glory? I will name only a few of those men in the Old Covenant and what their sin was.
Sin’s like:
Moses slaying a man.
Moses breaking the tablets.
Moses hitting the Rock instead of speaking to it.
David committing adultery.
David using trickery to kill Bathsheba’s husband.
Jonah fleeing from his calling.
Out of these three, I will talk about king David. Because many uses him as a means to justify their sin and believe they can still be an overseer of the congregation of God which is the Church.
To refresh you on the sin of David, I will in simplicity explain it.
King David decided to stay home rather than go to war with his men. Which was a huge mistake on his part. He should have been with his men as every king is during wartime. It was sitting down on his duty that gave Satan an opportunity to tempt him.
David went out on the roof just relaxing when he looks across the way and sees a beautiful woman bathing on her rooftop. He turned to his servant and asked who she was, and his servant told him the wife of Uriah who was off fighting in the battle.
After hearing who she was, he sends his servant to go get her and bring her to him. David and Bathsheba sleep together, and because of that encounter, she got pregnant. When David finds out he was very concerned because people would know of the sin he committed. So, he sends for her husband to come back home immediately. King David had it all planned out in his mind, Uriah comes home, sleeps with his wife and no one would be aware of the adultery.
King David did not take into account the good character and loyalty that Uriah had for him and the men in battle. Uriah refused, saying, how could he go lay in pleasure while the men still battle. So, he slept at the door, the next night David gets him drunk because men, alcohol, and sex is nothing new. But even that did not work he still would not go to his wife. Since things had to be taken care of quickly, he sent a letter to his commander by the very hands of Uriah! Telling him to put Uriah on the front lines so he would DIE! That is what happened and after the grieving period, David and Bathsheba were married.
King David did very wickedly in the eyes of the LORD and punishment was inevitably going to happen. He and Bathsheba should have been taken outside the eastern gate and be stoned to death, that was the Law. But God knows the heart of man and the intention of the heart as well. So He sent a prophet to David with a parable. After hearing the parable king David was angry and said whoever committed such a deed should be killed and pay back fourfold. After he said this then Nathan the prophet points to him and says, “YOU ARE THE MAN”! The LORD told him that the sword will not depart from his house because David had despised Him. And He would raise evil against him from his own house. And because of this sin, David had given the enemies of God a reason to blaspheme His name the child, Bathsheba was going to give birth but the child would die. But God would spare both David and Bathsheba’s life.
King David realized right then and there what he had done and how nothing is hidden from the LORD God.
Why did God allow David to live? Why did God allow David to stay king?
It is all a matter of the heart! David was still a man of flesh and blood, and temptations are very hard to overcome. He failed and the death penalty should have taken place, but God sees the heart. No one in the Old Covenant had a “new” heart given them, no one in the Old Covenant had the Holy Spirit living in them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Holy Spirit would come on them when needed then departed.
In the Book of Jeremiah, this is what we are told about our hearts.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
This is what was said about David by the LORD, speaking of him becoming king replacing Saul.
1 Samuel 13:14
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
How could David be this person after God’s own heart? God knows the end from the beginning, and He knows our heart and the intention of our hearts as well.
King David truly loved the LORD God with the kind of love everyone in the New Covenant should supersede but only a few does. Read the repentance Psalm that king David not only wrote about his sin with Bathsheba but also ordered that it be read OUTLOUD to all in Jerusalem!! God did not expose David’s sin, but in a show of true love and humility, David bares everything for all to know.
PSALM 51
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
1{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
16For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
So, in reading this, I am praying that even before I write an explanation you already understand why no one who has been born again can point to anyone in the Old Covenant to justify their sin of adultery or murder. And still, be a leader in the Church. Yes, they can be forgiven but they CANNOT EVER BE A Teacher, Preacher, Deacon, or Pastor.
Titus 1:5-9
Appointment of Elders on Crete
5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: 6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. 7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; 9Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
1 Timothy 3:1-13
Qualifications for Overseers
1This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) 6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Qualifications for Deacons
8Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; 9Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 10And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. 11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 12Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. 13For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
King David repented with amazing true repentance out of a heart that loved the LORD God so very, very, much and cried out to God to create in him a CLEAN heart wiping the sin away and God did. He used David’s old heart and cleansed it, we get a NEW HEART and His Holy Spirit!!
Ezekiel 36:26
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
John 14:16
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities (weakness’): for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Once a man OR woman is born again and in a MINISTRY IF they have an affair WHILE IN MINISTRY and SERVING God they ARE NOT TO BE PUT BACK IN AN OFFICE!! They cannot use king David as an excuse, there is no EXCUSE! NONE!
Now I am going to say exactly what the Holy Spirit of God is saying, “If these men and women are in an officer they are not placed there by God. AND they are NOT HEARING FROM GOD!” How dare I say this? First off God told me, but second, that is the Word and they are in REBELLION AGAINST HIM! Which is as the SIN OF WITCHCRAFT!
I am NOT JUDGING THESE PEOPLE the WORD OF GOD IS.
None of these people have God’s authorization to be in an office after they sinned against Him while in ministry.
Paula White-Cain~been married twice and had an affair with Benny Hinn while in ministry
Benny Hinn~affair with Paula White
Jimmy Swaggart~1988
Marcus Lamb~2010
Juanita Bynum~ married twice also praised a lesbian for getting a sperm donor off of craigslist at an ordination for a lesbian minister.
Jim Bakker~1987
These are just a few of the well-known ministers, pastors, bishops, or deacons.
In the New Covenant we are held to a higher standard by the LORD, because He made it possible for us not to walk in sin again continually.
When we are born again we are given a BRAND NEW HEART, WE ARE GIVEN A RIGHT SPIRIT, THE OLD MAN GOES AWAY AND WE ARE A NEW CREATION IN CHRIST, THE GREATEST GIFT HE SENDS US IS HIS PRECIOUS HOLY SPIRIT IN US TO TEACH US, GUIDE US, COMFORT US, WARN US, AND CONVICT US OF SIN.
There is no excuse for any of us, and if we do commit the sins listed above when saved, we can be forgiven, but, as God ripped the kingdom from Saul He rips the ministry of offices from those who do!
That is the Word of God and to be quite frank with you, I have no idea why the LORD gave me this study. So whoever needs to read this will and I have done my part now it is up to the LORD to do His.
I love you all.
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