THE CORD OF YOUR IMMORALITY OF THE PAST:

"Yet she multiplied her harlotry In CALLING TO REMEMBRANCE the days of her youth, When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt”. Ezek 23:19

Have you broken the cords of your past immoral life or you are still struggling with it after you have become born again? When you come to Christ, He makes you a new creation and all your past sins where forgiven and forgotten. But, when there is no total repentance on your part, deciding never to return to the old lifestyle, its possible to keep falling back into the same old sin.

In the above verse, the faithlessness of Oholibah cost her the only true protection she ever had, which is Jehovah. Yet instead of repenting of the sins she committed in her youth while in Egypt, become more and more promiscuous. Her cycle of sin brought her back to the very worthless and immoral men with which she had originally been defiled and which had enslaved her.

God's Word said “she multiplied her harlotry, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth; her lusts, practiced when in Egypt and then actually returned to them”. Mark the danger of suffering the memory to dwell on the pleasure felt in past sins. 

Her complain is that since she came to Christ, no brother is blessing her the way the worldly guys does. And worse of all, no brother is approaching her. She forget that whatever the former guys gave her was in exchange for her body. 

So many of you ladies (including men) are pleasing yourselves with the remembrance of your past immoral acts. When you began to set your affections upon Egypt, you encourage yourselves to put a confidence in immorality, because of the old acquaintance you had with those men, as if you still retained the gust and relish of the leeks and onions you ate there, or rather of the sex orgies and styles you learned there, and brought up with them thence. When you began an acquaintance with Egypt you remembered how merrily you were treated by men, what music and dancing you had at that sport, which you learned in Egypt; and you hoped you should now have a fair pretense to come to that again. Thus “she multiplied her whoredoms”, repeated her former whoredoms, and encouraged herself to close with present temptations, by calling to remembrance the days of her youth. 

 

Note, Those who, instead of reflecting upon their former sins with sorrow and shame, reflect upon them with pleasure and pride, contract new guilt thereby, strengthen their own corruptions, and in effect bid defiance to repentance. This is returning with the dog to his vomit.