Playlist: Harlotry, Spiritual (topic)
The Purpose of the Marriage Relationship
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsThroughout the Scriptures, God's relationship with His people is portrayed as a marriage, where Jesus Christ is the Husband and His people are His wife. When Israel broke its covenant with God, this act was likened to breaking the marriage bond, signifying spiritual harlotry. The prophet Ezekiel extensively used the marriage …
Divorce and Remarriage
Sermon/Bible Study by John W. RitenbaughSpiritual harlotry encompasses a wide array of sins beyond physical adultery, as illustrated in Ezekiel 16 where Israel trusted in its beauty and poured out harlotry on all who passed by, building high places and multiplying acts of harlotry even to the land of Chaldea. These actions represent not only false religion at the …
The Seventh Commandment: Adultery
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughSpiritual harlotry represents Israel's national sin of faithlessness toward God, depicted as a wife who departs from her husband by committing whoredom and pursuing lovers. This attitude originates in deceit within the covenant relationship established at Sinai, where the people gave their word yet quickly turned to idolatry. …
The Commandments (Part Sixteen)
Sermon/Bible Study byIt is absolutely impossible for lust to bring about any kind of satisfaction. Adultery cannot be entered into without irrevocably damaging relationships.
What's So Bad About Babylon? (2003) (Part 1)
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe world's political, religious, economic, and cultural systems pose a danger to God's people, but God wants us to work out His plan within the Babylonian system.
Lamentations (Part Three; 1989)
Sermon/Bible Study by John W. RitenbaughAs Lamentations opens, Jerusalem is personified as a widow who has had to endure the destruction of her family as well as the mocking scorn from the captors.
Amos (Part Seven)
Sermon/Bible Study by John W. RitenbaughGod, through His prophets, warns that He will chasten His people with increasing severity until they repent and begin to reflect His characteristics.
The Glory of God (Part 4): Glorifying God
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughA raw display of emotion and exuberance does not necessarily glorify God. What we do to glorify God will reflect just how highly we esteem Him.
Passover (Part Eight)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe temple Passover commanded by Hezekiah was a very unusual circumstance in which the king centralized worship to keep Baalism from defiling the Passover.