Scene 5: The Forest of Fear (Part 1)

ADDICTED TO THE "OLD WINE"

Scene 4: Threat of Lions! (Part 2)

THE SPIRIT OF PROSTITUTION

This spirit leads you to pay for 
something I have already paid for!

My beloved child, I saw the shock on your face as you turned around and saw that six young women were leading the “Sabbath walk” you had been on.  By their careless demeanor and frivolous attitude you knew that something was terribly wrong with the direction of this “walk”.  You were horrified to see that the people blindly followed their “leaders”.

I know that you didn’t understand what these six young women represented because “prostitution” is an ugly word that adults whisper about behind closed doors, but would never apply to themselves.  The word is offensive because it suggests unfaithfulness to your mate.  It implies that you’ve sought fulfillment of your legitimate needs for intimacy outside of the marriage relationship.  It means that you’ve chosen false intimacy through illegitimate means over the real thing.

My beloved children, these six young women represent the “spirit of prostitution” that leads you to mistakenly believe that you still have to pay for something that I have already paid for! This spirit deceives you into thinking that you will find fulfillment for your legitimate needs for intimacy with Me through illegitimate means—striving to obey the Ten Commandments. 

Don’t you see that the old covenant law has absolutely no power to save you from your human dilemma of trying to be righteous by the things that you do?  It will always lead you right back to the “woods” where you began this futile journey.  In fact this spirit makes you think that you’re actually going somewhere, and that Adventism’s lofty teachings are your “hedge” of protection against the lies of the enemy.  But you are looking in the wrong place.   For the law only serves to remind you of how sinful you really are.  That’s why it’s called a “ministry of death” (2 Corinthians 3:7).  

My beloved children, your fear of being lost causes you to cling to your false savior, the Sabbath…instead of clinging to Me.  You idolize and worship the 7^th day, slavishly striving to obey the Sabbath of the 4th commandment.  For you the “Sabbath” has become an idol—your golden calf that is a substitute for a real relationship with Me.  Instead of finding true intimacy with Me, you strive, out of fear, to obey a poor facsimile (the law of sin and death) of the real thing.  

Can’t you see that it’s futile to trust in your obedience instead of My obedience for you?  When you focus on the letter of the law as I see you doing on your “Sabbath walk”, you are being unfaithful to Me!  I know why you refuse to let go of the old covenant and fully embrace the new because letting go of your “affair” with the “Sabbath” causes you inner panic!  My cross and my grace threaten to strip away from you your need to repeatedly pay for something I have already paid for!

My beloved children, there’s no room for the old covenant to be in your hearts anymore.  You must die to the law so that you can be faithful to only Me!  You must give up your affair with the Sabbath! You must let your mistress go!  For I am your real Sabbath!  Turn around and see how I am not only illuminating the darkness of your “Sabbath walk”, but I’m also calling you back to the “harvest fields” where you can begin to experience true intimacy and rest in Me.