Words Matter
“Abomination”
1️⃣Abomination. (Noun)Repugnant or detestable act, person, or thing.
2️⃣The idea of abomination derives from the specific demands God’s holiness makes upon his people.
3️⃣Adjectives frequently used for abominations in the OT are “abhorrent,” “loathsome,” “unclean,” and “rejected.”
Examples
Deuteronomy 17:1
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Romans 12:1 (CWSB)
Exhortation to Practical Living
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Corinthians 6:19 (CWSB)
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Conclusion
Matthew 12:34 (CWSB)
34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Proverbs 18:21 (CWSB)
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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