Pornography is the mouth of hell, and it is yawning all around us in our modern post-Christian culture. There are disturbing statistics gathered somehow of the number even of pastors who indulge.
Bathsheba has been vindicated, but King David is not; he fell into that pit of hell that his son later wrote about: “The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein” (Prov. 22:14, KJV). The allurement of illicit sex splashes its tragedies across our newspaper headlines and TVs, as honorable career after career is shattered by exposure.
But to be “abhorred of the Lord” does not mean that He hates you or that He has forsaken you forever; He can love somebody’s soul whose character He “abhors.” He loved King David’s soul throughout his painful ordeal, but He hated, abhorred, the pain and disgrace and death that the sexual sin entailed.
And although we “justify” Bathsheba in this prominent case history, we cannot say that only men are sinners in the eyes of God (Rom. 3:9, etc.). It would be spiritually healthful for us all to taste the evil of what it means for “self” to be un-crucified—what it means to be “abhorred” in the eyes of God because we all are really wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked in His sight (cf. Rev. 3:14-18). If it weren’t so sad it would be funny, strutting self-confidently and always smiling on the stage of the world and of the universe like the Emperor in his new “clothes.” Reality is what the true Holy Spirit ministers to us (John 16:8-11), both personally and corporately.
For the earth to be lightened with the glory of God’s last message of mercy (Rev. 18) is wonderful; but for that to happen, the Holy Spirit will have to perform His ministry of the ages in the most profound repentance the world has ever seen (see Acts 5:31). It will take us (or whoever takes our place if we insist that it must be a future generation) to the cross of Jesus, where at last self will be “crucified with Him,” both personally and corporately.
The “woman” of Song of Solomon 5 deeply wronged the only Man in the world who truly loved her; but the Song plays out in the drama before she repents appropriately; she never finds Him in the Song. That has to come in the last pages of the Holy Bible.
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