“If a person commits a sin against another person, the judges can mediate between them. But if a person commits a sin against Adonai, who can intercede for him?”-1 Samuel 2:25
One day a group of men decided to rob the produce growing in a farmer’s field.
However, unbeknownst to these scoundrels, there was a Rabbi among them.
He volunteered to serve as a watchman.
In other words, the Rabbi would be the one to yell out and warn the thieves someone was coming so they could make a quick escape.
So the men set out to plunder the farmer’s fields.
However, no sooner had they traveled about 50 yards when the Rabbi yelled out…
“Stop! Someone knows what you’re doing!”
Startled, the men stopped and looked around…
But they couldn’t find anybody.
“There’s nobody in sight”…they told the Rabbi.
The Rabbi answered…
“God knows and sees what you’re doing”.
End of story.
Okay, so what’s the point behind my half-baked and simple little tale?
The point is this…
Whenever a man commits a sin against another man, there are 2 types of consequences.
There are EARTHLY consequences and there are SPIRITUAL consequences.
Earthly consequences because one man cheating or stealing from another is a fleshly issue between humans.
Spiritual consequences because God’s moral laws have been broken.
And we can see this duality also expressed in God’s Torah or justice system.
For instance, when one man steals from another, a human judge steps in and orders the thief to pay back what he stole as well as a penalty for his crime.
This is how amends are made on the earthly plane.
But things aren’t done yet.
Restitution must also be made on the spiritual plane.
This is done when the criminal visits the Levitical Priesthood and offers up the prescribed sacrifice for his sin.
So can you see restitution must be made on BOTH the physical and spiritual levels.
That’s why it’s the height of stupidity to think that your behavior doesn’t matter just because other humans don’t know about it.
Like going on a porno binge without your wife’s knowledge and thinking everything’s cool just because she’s unaware…
Trust me, on a deep-seated soul level, she knows something’s up when you commit unclean acts behind her back.
And of course, God knows.
If you ever wondered why you always feel this deep-seated guilt after going on a porno binge, this is the reason.
Because deep down inside your soul, you know you’ve wasted seed and committed an unclean act…
You may try to rationalize it away with all of the secular theories out there that say “it’s normal” and “everybody does it”…
Believe me, I’ve tried…
But deep down inside the guilt remains…
And you feel dead inside.
So just remember what I said here.
Every transgression you commit affects BOTH God and man.
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