THE SACREDNESS OF SEX (7 OF 10)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: Exodus 20:14
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Title: The Sacredness of Sex (7 of 10)
Series: Written in Stone
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Exodus 20:14
June 18, 2023
In 1631, Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, reprinted the King James Bible, but they had one error in the reprint. It was a minor error if you think about all the words in the King James Bible. It was just one word, one little word, one three-letter word, but it was a colossal mistake. And that mistake was found in Exodus chapter 20, verse 14, "You shall not commit adultery," the Scripture reads, but they left out the word not, "You shall commit adultery" is the way their version of the Bible read. It is known to this day as the Wicked Bible, the Sinner's Bible, the Adulterer's Bible. And those two guys lost their license to print anything else. They were fined significantly. And as one report said, they almost lost their lives for leaving out the word not.
Now, we're in a series on the Ten Commandments and we're going through commandment by commandment. And today, we're on commandment number seven. Exodus 20, verse 14, "You shall not (emphasize not) commit adultery." Now, that's a very simple, straightforward verse, but it's packed with meaning as we see God's heart toward the sacredness, the holiness of the sexual union between a husband and wife.
Now, in our world today, we have so thrown the seventh commandment to the dogs, so to speak, and we have disregarded it and disgraced it and degraded it and discarded it, and we say, "Oh, that's so passe." But there's a reason why that commandment was written on the tablet of stone, written by the finger of God. You know, it has well been said, when we talk about breaking God's commandments, you don't really break God's commandments; you're broken on them. And people in our world today are so broken when it comes to the seventh commandment.
I was looking online at the CDC, the Centers of Disease Control, and they said this: "One in five people ...
Series: Written in Stone
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Exodus 20:14
June 18, 2023
In 1631, Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, reprinted the King James Bible, but they had one error in the reprint. It was a minor error if you think about all the words in the King James Bible. It was just one word, one little word, one three-letter word, but it was a colossal mistake. And that mistake was found in Exodus chapter 20, verse 14, "You shall not commit adultery," the Scripture reads, but they left out the word not, "You shall commit adultery" is the way their version of the Bible read. It is known to this day as the Wicked Bible, the Sinner's Bible, the Adulterer's Bible. And those two guys lost their license to print anything else. They were fined significantly. And as one report said, they almost lost their lives for leaving out the word not.
Now, we're in a series on the Ten Commandments and we're going through commandment by commandment. And today, we're on commandment number seven. Exodus 20, verse 14, "You shall not (emphasize not) commit adultery." Now, that's a very simple, straightforward verse, but it's packed with meaning as we see God's heart toward the sacredness, the holiness of the sexual union between a husband and wife.
Now, in our world today, we have so thrown the seventh commandment to the dogs, so to speak, and we have disregarded it and disgraced it and degraded it and discarded it, and we say, "Oh, that's so passe." But there's a reason why that commandment was written on the tablet of stone, written by the finger of God. You know, it has well been said, when we talk about breaking God's commandments, you don't really break God's commandments; you're broken on them. And people in our world today are so broken when it comes to the seventh commandment.
I was looking online at the CDC, the Centers of Disease Control, and they said this: "One in five people ...
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