Berean Studies

05/03/2026

EXCEPT FOR FORNICATION - A Spiritual Understanding

1. The Bible Speaks in Parables
It reveals how God deals with the Church

2. Marriage: A Picture of Christ and the Church
Husband = Christ
Wife = The Church
Marriage = A divine covenant

3. God Requires Faithfulness:
Faithful to Truth - Obedient to God’s Word

4. Fornication (Spiritually):
✔ False gospels
✔ Idolatry
✔ Turning from truth

5. The Church Commits Fornication
✔ Israel (Old Testament)
✔ The Corporate Church (New Testament)
Both: Departed from truth and became unfaithful

6. Separation Without Cause
The Church:
✔ Rejected Christ without cause
✔ Turned to false doctrine

7. Except for Fornication - Christ allows separation only for fornication:
✔ Apostasy justifies separation

8. God Divorces With Cause - due to unfaithfulness:
✔ Gives a bill of divorce (Jeremiah 3:8)
✔ Now, separation of wheat and tares

9. End Times
The Church becomes fully apostate - God:
✔ Separates from the corporate church
✔ Brings judgment

SUMMARY
👉 “Except for fornication” reveals a spiritual law - Not primarily about human marriage.

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10/29/2024

THE BEGINNING: CHRIST, THE CREATION, THE FOUNDATION, FIRSTBORN.…

Mt 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [] at THE BEGINNING made them male and female,

Mt 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from THE BEGINNING it was not so.

Mt 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since THE BEGINNING of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Joh 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from THE BEGINNING , and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

1Jo 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from THE BEGINNING . For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Joh 15:27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from THE BEGINNING .

2Th 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from THE BEGINNING chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [] from THE BEGINNING of the creation.

1Jo 1:1 That which was from THE BEGINNING , which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

1Jo 3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from THE BEGINNING , that we should love one another.

2Jo 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from THE BEGINNING , ye should walk

Re 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, THE BEGINNING and the end, the first and the last.

Re 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the AMEN, the FAITHFUL and true witness, THE BEGINNING of THE CREATION of GOD;

Lu 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from THE FOUNDATION of the world, may be required of this generation;

Heb 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from THE FOUNDATION of the world.

Re 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from THE FOUNDATION of the world.

1Co 3:11 For other FOUNDATION can no man lay than that is laid, which is JESUS CHRIST.

Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the FIRSTBORN of every creature:

Eph 2:20 And are built upon THE FOUNDATION of the apostles and prophets, JESUS CHRIST himself being the chief corner [stone];

Joh 1:1 In THE BEGINNING was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Ge 1:1 In THE BEGINNING God created the heaven and the earth.

10/27/2024

TO BE “SPIRITUAL”, IT MUST RELATE TO GOD’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHURCH (CORPORATE OR ETERNAL)

1Co 14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of SPIRITUAL {}, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of **the church**.

Eze 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a PARABLE unto the **house of Israel**;

Eze 24:3 And utter a PARABLE unto the **rebellious house**, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:

Mt 13:13 Therefore speak I to **them** in PARABLES: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Ho 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; **Israel** shall know it: **the prophet** is a fool, the SPIRITUAL **man** is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

1Co 14:37 If any man think himself to be a **prophet**, OR SPIRITUAL, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

Ga 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, **ye** which are SPIRITUAL, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

1Co 2:14 But the **natural man** receiveth not the things of the SPIRIT of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are SPIRITUALLY discerned.

Re 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which SPIRITUALLY is called **S***m and Egypt**, where also our Lord was crucified.

Ro 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be SPIRITUALLY minded is **life and peace**.

Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an **habitation** of God through the SPIRIT.

1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a SPIRITUAL **house**, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

10/13/2024

IN PART: CHURCH OF WHEAT AND TARES PRIOR TO SEPARATION - JUDGMENT?

1Co 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy **in part**.

Ro 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that **blindness in part** is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

DOING AWAY WITH THAT WHICH WAS IN PART: FALL OF THE UNSAVED CHURCH BABYLON - JUDGMENT?

1Co 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is **in part** shall be DONE AWAY .

1Co 13:12 For now we see through a **glass , darkly **; but then face to face: now I know **in part**; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Jas 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his **natural face in a glass **:

1Co 15:24 Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have PUT DOWN all rule and all authority and power.

Eph 2:15 Having ABOLISHED in his flesh the enmity, [] the law of commandments [] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [] making peace;

2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall DESTROY with the brightness of his coming:

Heb 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might DESTROY him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

2Ti 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath ABOLISHED death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

NO LONGER IN PART: REDEMPTION OF THE BODY - CHURCH IS COMPLETE IN CHRIST AND NO LONGER BURDENED BY BABYLON?

Ro 7:6 But now we are DELIVERED from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.

1Co 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I PUT AWAY childish things.

2Co 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same **vail untaken away** in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is DONE AWAY in Christ.