For y’all have spent enough time in the past carrying out the desire of the ethnic groups, having walked in sensuality, desires, drunkenness, hard partying, binge drinking, and illicit idolatries.
Such were some of y’all. But y’all were washed, y’all were sanctified, y’all were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
envy, drunkenness, hard partying, and things like these. I am warning y’all as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Empire of God.
“‘Lord YHWH says: “Enough, y’all princes of Israel! Y’all must turn from violence and plunder, and do what is right and just! Y’all must stop evicting my people!” says Lord YHWH.
For certain humans crept in secretly, those whose condemnation was written about long ago. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into sensuality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
They also reel with wine, and stagger with beer. The priest and the prophet reel with beer. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with beer. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
such that when I come again my God will humble me before y’all, and I will be grieved for many who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality and sensuality which they practiced.
Let us walk properly as in the day, not in hard partying and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and promiscuity, and not in quarreling and jealousy.
First I will repay their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their disgusting idols.”
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of YHWH that was before YHWH’s porch.
Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Y’all watch until Amnon’s heart is merry with wine and I tell y’all, ‘Strike Amnon.’ Then y’all must kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded y’all? Y’all must be courageous and valiant!”
then you are to tell them, ‘Because y’all’s ancestors have forsaken me,’ says YHWH, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.