ADULTERY, LUST, AND DIVORCE (6 OF 12)
by Will McGee
Scripture: Matthew 5:27-32
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Adultery, Lust, and Divorce (6 of 12)
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Will McGee
Matthew 5:27-32
[27] ''You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' [28] But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. [29] If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. [30] And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
If you have been here the last few weeks, you know that at this point in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is going back and forth with the Mosaic Law... He is affirming the 10 commandments, and then expounding upon them.
Here, he affirms the seventh commandment. Which says, ''Thou shalt not commit adultery.''
Jesus also, affirmed earlier the entire OT sexual ethic. ''I didn't come to abolish the law.''
For Jesus to affirm the OT sexual ethic is for him to say: Sex is meant to be shared within a marriage covenant of a husband and wife. Anything outside of that, God does not endorse or bless. In fact, is categorized as adultery.
But inside of a marriage covenant, sex is a beautiful gift that God blesses. In fact, the Bible is a very pro-sex. Tim Keller says, ''There are parts of the Bible that will make even New Yorkers blush.''
But according to the Scriptures, sex was designed by God to be a covenant-sealing act of whole life entrustment to another person. That a husband and wife would commit the fullness of themselves to one another in an exclusive, permanent, one-flesh relationship, that is unbreakable until death.
And I know that that this view has not only fallen out of favor with our culture, but it is seen as absurd... Primitive... Regressive... Or perhaps even dangerous. You may even think that. I want t ...
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Will McGee
Matthew 5:27-32
[27] ''You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' [28] But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. [29] If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. [30] And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
If you have been here the last few weeks, you know that at this point in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is going back and forth with the Mosaic Law... He is affirming the 10 commandments, and then expounding upon them.
Here, he affirms the seventh commandment. Which says, ''Thou shalt not commit adultery.''
Jesus also, affirmed earlier the entire OT sexual ethic. ''I didn't come to abolish the law.''
For Jesus to affirm the OT sexual ethic is for him to say: Sex is meant to be shared within a marriage covenant of a husband and wife. Anything outside of that, God does not endorse or bless. In fact, is categorized as adultery.
But inside of a marriage covenant, sex is a beautiful gift that God blesses. In fact, the Bible is a very pro-sex. Tim Keller says, ''There are parts of the Bible that will make even New Yorkers blush.''
But according to the Scriptures, sex was designed by God to be a covenant-sealing act of whole life entrustment to another person. That a husband and wife would commit the fullness of themselves to one another in an exclusive, permanent, one-flesh relationship, that is unbreakable until death.
And I know that that this view has not only fallen out of favor with our culture, but it is seen as absurd... Primitive... Regressive... Or perhaps even dangerous. You may even think that. I want t ...
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