Adultery and the Law

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Sermon on the Mount

• Matthew 527-30

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Adultery

• Adultery is a serious offense in Gods sight Ex
  2013-14
• You shall not murder. You shall not commit
  adultery.

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Adultery

• Adultery is a serious offense in Gods sight Ex
  2013-14
• It was a capital offense Lev 2010
• The man who commits adultery with another man's
  wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor's
  wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall
  surely be put to death.

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Adultery

• Adultery is a serious offense in Gods sight Ex
  2013-14
• It was a capital offense Deut 2222
• If a man is found lying with a woman married to
  a husband, then both of them shall die-the man
  that lay with the woman, and the woman so you
  shall put away the evil from Israel.

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Adultery

• Adultery is a serious offense in Gods sight Ex
  2013-14
• It was a capital offense Lev 2010,
  Deut 2222
• God will judge adulterers Heb 134
• Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed
  undefiled but fornicators and adulterers God
  will judge.

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Adultery

• Adultery is a serious offense in Gods sight Ex
  2013-14
• It was a capital offense Lev 2010,
  Deut 2222
• God will judge adulterers 1 Cor 69-10
• Do you not know that the unrighteous will not
  inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
  Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor
  thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
  revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
  kingdom of God.

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Adultery

• Adultery is a serious offense in Gods sight Ex
  2013-14
• It was a capital offense Lev 2010,
  Deut 2222
• God will judge adulterers Heb 134,
  1 Cor 69-10
• Adultery is destructive!

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Adultery

• Oral tradition repeated the Law, You shall not
  commit adultery (27)
• As long as one didnt commit the act he was OK
• Jesus taught that one does not have to commit the
  act to be GUILTY (28)
• If he looks at a woman to lust for her
• Jesus is addressing the origin of all sin the
  heart Mark 721-23

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Mark 721-23

• "For from within, out of the heart of men,
  proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications,
  murders, "thefts, covetousness, wickedness,
  deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride,
  foolishness. "All these evil things come from
  within and defile a man."

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Adultery

• It can be controlled by right thinking
  Prov 237
• For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

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Adultery

• It can be controlled by right thinking
  Prov 237
• We need to make a radical amputation (29-30)
• Remove the offenses Matt 186-7
• "But whoever causes one of these little ones who
  believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him
  if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he
  were drowned in the depth of the sea. "Woe to the
  world because of offenses! For offenses must
  come, but woe to that man by whom the offense
  comes!

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Adultery

• It can be controlled by right thinking
  Prov 237
• We need to make a radical amputation (29-30)
• Remove the offenses Matt 186-7
• We must change our thinkingour hearts
• Fill it with good things Phil 48,
  1 Tim 415-16

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Philippians 48

• Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,
  whatever things are noble, whatever things are
  just, whatever things are pure, whatever things
  are lovely, whatever things are of good report,
  if there is any virtue and if there is anything
  praiseworthy--meditate on these things.

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1 Timothy 415-16

• Meditate on these things give yourself entirely
  to them, that your progress may be evident to
  all. Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine.
  Continue in them, for in doing this you will save
  both yourself and those who hear you.

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Adultery

• We are destined for eternity Ecc 127
• Then the dust will return to the earth as it
  was, And the spirit will return to God who gave
  it.

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Adultery

• We are destined for eternity Ecc 127
• We will give an account 2 Cor 510
• For we must all appear before the judgment seat
  of Christ, that each one may receive the things
  done in the body, according to what he has done,
  whether good or bad.

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Adultery

• We are destined for eternity Ecc 127
• We will give an account 2 Cor 510
• What we do or dont do now will determine our
  place in the future Rom 813
• For if you live according to the flesh you will
  die but if by the Spirit you put to death the
  deeds of the body, you will live.

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Adultery

• We are destined for eternity Ecc 127
• We will give an account 2 Cor 510
• What we do or dont do now will determine our
  place in the future Rom 813
• Nothing is worth risking our future!
• Goss goal for us is the Kingdom of heaven John
  142-3

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John 142-3

• In My Father's house are many mansions if it
  were not so, I would have told you. I go to
  prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare
  a place for you, I will come again and receive
  you to Myself that where I am, there you may be
  also.

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Adultery

• We are destined for eternity Ecc 127
• We will give an account 2 Cor 510
• What we do or dont do now will determine our
  place in the future Rom 813
• Nothing is worth risking our future!
• Goss goal for us is the Kingdom of heaven John
  142-3
• Sin can not be taken lightly!
• We must remove the things that might cause us to
  sin