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Craig’s Celebration of Life Service is this Saturday October 15 at 10:30am.
Priscilla will be baptized October 30, Potluck immediately following.
Introduction
Good morning and welcome to FCC where we worship God in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time, one book at a time.
We have come as far as Matthew 5:27, so let us open our Bibles there.
Read Matthew 5:27-30
Prayer
Lord heavenly Father, we thank you that we can gather freely to worship You in Spirit and in Truth because there are many in other countries that cannot.
As we continue to work our way through the Sermon on the Mount, we ask that you would help us all to know the depths of Your love and grace for us as we make our way through this challenging text.
Lord we want to be like Jesus, so we welcome your Spirit here now to deal with the unrighteousness in our hearts.
And we ask that you we empower us to deal radically with the sin in our hearts.
Remove all distractions, so that can receive with meekness your implanted Word which is able to save our souls.
In Jesus Name, we Love You!!! Amen and Amen!
Review
In looking back, we have learned that our righteousness must exceed that of the scribes and the Pharisees.
Praise God for the Great Exchange.
It is here that Jesus exchanges our unrighteousness or sin, for his righteousness.
Therefore, when we come to him, abide in him, we are placed in right standing with our Heavenly Father.
It is clear that the religious leaders thought Jesus came to destroy the law we learned, but he did not, He came to fulfill it.
If you have read through the rest of chapter 5, you will quickly realize that Jesus is giving us 6 illustrations or comparisons if you may regarding the teachings of old versus His teaching.
And he is doing this to deal with the issue of self-righteousness because the pious and religious of the day struggled with this.
So he goes right for the juggler vein and starts off with murder begins in the heart.
See the Pharisees and scribes taught that if you do not do the physical act, then you are good, while Jesus said if your angry with your brother, you have already committed murder.
Do you think the Pharisees and scribes were angry with Jesus?
I am confident they were, therefore, Jesus was reading their hearts, and met them right where they were!!!
Church, if we do not deal with the anger in our hearts it will damage all of our relationships and leave us lonely.
We will end up all alone.
So please church, let us deal with our anger and be reconciled to those we have hurt if possible...
To those of Old is pointing back to the Rabbinic teaching of the day.
Jesus is getting ready to contrast his teaching, to that of those of old, to those religious leaders who were listening.
Why did Jesus go here?
Could it be because he knew what was in the heart of man?
Was anger and adultery and major problem in his day?
Is it in ours?
This is the 7th commandment church!
But what is adultery?
According to Easton's Bible Dictionary, the simple meaning of adultery is marital infidelity.
However, let us dive a little deeper into this word.
Adultery-moicheuō- v.- to commit adultery with, have unlawful intercourse with another's wife (or husband).
But what is interesting is the word adultery is etymologically related to the word adulterate, which means “to render something poorer in quality by adding another substance.”
Adultery is the adulteration of marriage by the addition of a third person.
Adultery is voluntary sexual activity between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse.
Synonyms ( are words that have the same meaning of another word) of adultery include terms like cheating, infidelity, and unfaithfulness.
Is cheating, infidelity, unfaithfulness, and adultery common place in our culture?
Is it accepted as being ok in the US today?
How many of you know marriages that have ended because of this?
Top 10 Countries Where Cheating Is Unacceptable
(% of people who view extramarital affair as morally wrong)
Turkey
94%
Palestinian territories
94%
Egypt
93%
Jordan
93%
Indonesia
93%
Lebanon
92%
Pakistan
92%
Philippines
90%
Tunisia
90%
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Malaysia
90%
Source: Pew Research Center 2020
But wait!
Where is America?
Why are we not listed here when we are a Christian nations church?
Have we come to accept this as the norm?
The top 10 countries where people consider extramarital affairs as unacceptable are from Asian and African regions.
5 in the top 10 countries with most numbers of respondents who consider extramarital affairs as acceptable are from Europe.
France is the only country that tether between considering extramarital affairs as unacceptable (47%) and not being a moral issue (40%).
Over 90% of Americans consider infidelity as immoral.
Around 30% to 40% of Americans cheat on their partners.
These statistics are blasphemous church, because God said THOU shall Not commit adultery!
So, adultery - is a consensual sexual relationship between a married person with someone other than their spouse.
Here we are at a BUT!
Buts are a term of contrast church, or the key that unlocks that passage as someone taught me years ago.
So Jesus shifts from the Rabbinic teaching of old to his teaching about the 7th commandment.
Can I ask you a question?
Did Jesus lower the standard here?
Certainly not!
He raised it.
Like murder, the rabbis taught if you do not engage in the physical act, you are ok!
Jesus says, If you lust after a woman (or man), you have committed adultery in your heart!
So Jesus moves from the letter of the law, to the Spirit of the law again.
Anger & Lust are 2 very powerful things, they both really reach down & touch the core of our being.
And from the disciples sitting in front of Jesus on the wild grass of Galilee’s hillside to each of us sitting in the today...none of us can fit ourselves into His kingdom.
Jesus set the standard far too high.
(we must come thru HIM )
Jesus has a more exacting standard for His followers than what the Jewish Law demands.
Again, Jesus deals with the present day misconceptions, misinterpretations, & bad rabbinical explanations.
So what is Jesus saying about looking and lusting here?
I really like KING Jimmy here because of the looketh.
Depending on the context in the KJV bible, when you see a word written with the ending eth, it means continual or on going.
This means that it is not a one time look church!!!
This is looking the second, third, fourth, and fifth time!
Look- blepo’- v. — to perceive with attention; direct one’s gaze towards, to turn towards.
Again church, this is not a one time look, but a continual looking that causes our minds to wonder and guess what?
Our thoughts can determine our destiny!
So Jesus not only used the word look, but the word lust.
Let’s take a closer look at this word.
Lust-epithymeō- v. to covet things that are forbidden, or unlawful, to set one’s heart upon, to long for, to fix desire upon, desire earnestly, and to thirst after.
It denotes the affection of the mind.
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