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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.
Craig’s Celebration of Life Service went really well.
The church was almost completely full and this showed the impact that Craig had on people.
There were 8-10 model A’s out in front of the church.
And the Lord showed up!
Please continue to pray for Franca and her family!
We have come as far as Matthew 5:31, so let us open our Bibles there.
But, we will need to reread last weeks passage, because it is connected by the word Furthermore which is aa term of contrast, a marker of closely related events.
I would suggest, in verses 31-32 in Chap 5, that Jesus is giving his listeners an example of adultery...
Read Matthew 5:27-32
Prayer
Gracious Father, thank you for all the gifts, graces, and blessings this week has brought and thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit and your Word.
As we open Your Word today, we would ask for nuggets to fall upon us.
And may these nuggets of grace produce fruit for your Kingdom.
For the down cast ones who might be here, we pray that you would encourage and love them well.
In Jesus Name, we Love You! Amen!
Review
Last week we learned that the Pharisees and scribes thought they were keeping the law, until Jesus gave them the one, two punch.
Yes, the religious leaders were not committing the physical or external act, but when Jesus spoke to them and us, we found ourselves all guilty.
Jesus moved from the external act, to the internal matter and motives of our hearts.
The purpose of being guilty is to bring us to Jesus.
Once we are there, then its purpose is finished.
If we continue to make ourselves guilty—to blame ourselves—then that is sin in itself.
Corrie ten Boom
Have you noticed that Jesus is raising the standard that we cannot keep apart from Him?
Jesus came to fulfill, the Law church, we did not.
However, if we are walking in the Spirit, we will not be fulfilling the lust of the flesh or our carnal desires.
Paul says it like this:
So Jesus’ is draw his listeners to himself.
That is you and me.
The only way for us to ever to be in the will of the Father is through a relationship with Jesus and his saving and enabling grace.
Saving grace makes a man as willing to leave his lusts as a slave is willing to leave his galley, or a prisoner his dungeon, or a thief his bolts, or a beggar his rags.
Thomas Brooks
Last week we ended on verse 29, so I would like to pick up there.
As we closed out the service last week, I shared that an early church Father by the name of Origen who was struggling with lust decided to castrate himself, which means, well you know what it means.
But guess what?
Did it fix the problem of lust in his heart?
NO
He continued to struggle, why?
Well he still had two eyes right?
But what if he gouged out his eyes?
Would this fix the problem?
Or if someone cut off his right hand, would this fix the problem?
NO, it would not!
Why, its because the have a left had to continue in sin.
Jesus is using hyperbole here, which means he is trying to use an exaggeration or overstatement in order to drive home a point.
And the point is, that sin begins in the heart, therefore if we struggle in the arena of lust, we must do something radical to get free of it.
Did you notice that Jesus uses the right eye and the right hand?
It is because the Jews believed the right eye and right hand were the strongest and most powerful.
We can see in the Word that God’s right hand is often used....
But how do we get free from sin????
Three things to do when we are caught in sin:
Confess your sin to God!
Repent!
If you have tried this and are still struggling with a certain sin or pet sin, then invite someone into the situation to help hold you acceptable.
Because if true repentance is not there, you will go right back to what you know.
I have a friend who I love dearly, but he is addicted to gaming.
This man is 62 years old and is a faithful church goer.
Several years ago, we were talking about plucking out our eye and cutting off our hands with regards to our sinful habits, we prayed and guess what he did?
He was convicted by the Holy Spirit that he needed to deal radically with his gaming!
He had spent hundreds of dollars on this gear, if not thousands, and he grabbed it all and threw it in the trash.
That day the trash truck came and it was gone, all gone!
He had plucked out his eye, and cut off his hand!
Did he have a victory?
YES! Did it last?
NO Why?
It is because he dealt with the what he was addicted to, and not the why!
He did not ask the question, “Why am I still addicted?”
And he did not invite anyone into his life to help hold him accountable.
So today, he spends much of his time on a recliner with his gaming controller in hand… SAD
And if we are all brutally honest we can identify with this story.
Church, we are called to deal radically with our sin!
Someone once said they would not change until the pain of remaining the same, is greater than the pain of change.
Pain and loss are often the precursors of brokenness and repentance.
But it doesn’t have to be that way!
God desires his goodness to lead us to repentance church and he is so, so good.
What is God calling you to radically deal with?
Is it living in self-gratification?
Is it lust or anger?
Is it over spending or over eating?
Is it laziness?
Is it not being kind or generous ?
Is it an addiction like food, drugs, alcohol, porn, gaming???
Is it fornication?
What is it?
Church, I know the text that we are dealing with is talking about adultery, but this text has great application to a believers life.
Last week, we talked about how King David was in the wrong place at the wrong time and committed murder, adultery and lied.
He confessed his sin, he repented of his sin, and had surrounded himself with men to hold him accountable and he did not commit these same sins again.
He confessed his sin, he repented of his sin, and had surrounded himself with men to hold him accountable and he did not commit these same sins again.
The scripture says that King David was a man after God’s own heart, why?
Why was he a man after God’s own heart?
David trusted and had faith in God.
It is not our trust that keeps us, but the God in whom we trust who keeps us.
Oswald Chambers
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