CAN ONE LIVE IN ADULTERY?

CAN ONE LIVE IN ADULTERY?

I know there has been a lot of discussion about living in adultery.  The person who divorces his mate for a reason other than fornication and marries another is living in an adulterous marriage and the woman who has been divorced for a reason other than fornication and marries someone else is living in adultery. The person who marries her is living in adultery.  

There are some who deny that you can live in adultery. They say that adultery is an act. I realize that adultery is an act, but the Bible teaches that you can live in adultery. Paul asks the question, "How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?" . Can a person live in sin? Well, the Holy Spirit taught that you can.  This does not mean that every moment you live you are committing a sinful act.  It means you are living in a state of sin.  You are living separated from God. Paul wrote, "Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them" .  Paul here says that the Colossians once lived in fornication.  Fornication is a generic term used for "all kinds of unlawful sexual intercourse" (See Thayer).  One form of unlawful sexual intercourse is adultery. So, if it is possible to live in fornication it is possible to live in adultery.  That does not mean that you are continually involved in the act, it means you are living in a sinful relationship. The sin of adultery is separating you from God.  Until you turn from that sinful relationship you are living in sin.  In order to quit living in adultery, you must seek God's forgiveness. In seeking God's forgiveness you must meet His conditions of forgiveness. One of His conditions of forgiveness is repentance. You must turn away from your sin. When you do that, you are  no longer living in sin.