Finding Sue Protection From a Satanic Trap - HATE IT-AS JEHOVAH DOES

Reflect on this:  God's laws to the nations of Israel were unique in the ancient world. Like a wall, they could serve to separate Israel from the surrounding peoples and vile practices.  (Deuteronomy 4:6-8)  Those laws made clear a vital truth; Jehovah hates sexual immorality.

In listing the perversions of nearby nations, Jehovah told the Israelites:  "You must not do what they do in the land of Caanan, where I am bringing you . . . The land is unclean, and I will bring a punishment on it for its error." "To the holy God of Israel, the Canaaniters' lifestyle was so foul that the land they lived in had become unclean, contaminated. - LEVITES 18:3, 25. 

Although Jehovah punished the Canaanites, other people continued to practice sexual immorality. Over 1,500 years later, Paul described the nations in which Christians lived as "having gone past all moral sense."  In fact, "they gave themselves over to brazen conduct to practice every sort of uncleanness with greediness." (Ephesians 4:17-19) Today, too, many people are brazenly immoral. As far as possible, true worshippers must avoid viewing the immoral actions of those in this world. 

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