Live In The Land

Proverbs 2:16-22 – Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. None who go to her return or attain the paths of life. Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

Exodus 20:14 – “You shall not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 4:1 – Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Psalm 37:9,11 – For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land…But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity.

Application:

• ·         The “marriage bed should be kept pure”.
• ·         A life of immorality leads to the destruction and death of all who are involved.
• ·         God’s call to His people to hear and obey is a frequent theme in Deuteronomy and elsewhere in the Old Testament.
• ·         Those who hope in the Lord—i.e., trustfully look to Him to bestow life and its blessings as a gift—will inherit the land, not those who apart from God and by evil means try to take possession of it and its wealth.
• ·         Meek are those who humbly acknowledge their dependence on the goodness and grace of God and betray no arrogance toward others.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV