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For you brother s have been called to Liberty only do not use Liberty as an opportunity for the flesh but through love serve one another. For all the laws with filled in one word even in this you shall love your neighbor as yourself, but if you bite and devour one another beware lest you be consumed by one another. Greatest Word of Our Lord may be seated.

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So this morning we get to talk about something. That's not all that fun to talk about. So, I'm sorry, but please bear with me because it is important to talk about this.

As we've been going through the study on Jesus Christ on his ministry on his life on his teachings.

We've come to Matthew chapter 5. The last time we were talking about in Matthew Chapter 5 and we were talking about the heart. I don't know if you guys remember that or not, but we were talking about how sin begins in the heart of a person.

It doesn't matter so much what the actions are.

Because the sin that you commit does not start when you do something.

You begin to sin when it starts in your heart.

And that is an incredibly important key to understanding how we are to live at as Christians. We need to understand where sin starts. We need to understand how.

how to walk in godliness we also need to understand when we are walking in sin.

Because if you don't know or understand that you were walking in sin. It's hard to fix it, isn't it?

It's hard to come back to terms with God or it's hard to know why you are having such a hard time being a Christian. If you don't come to terms with the idea that you might have seen in your life. Even if your actions are perfectly Godly good moral. We need to understand that sin starts in the heart.

And that's what we were talking about last weekend as we move forward and in Jesus's teaching in the in the fifth chapter of Matthew. We begin to see some of the ways that that comes out in our lives. and today if you're in Matthew chapter 25 looking at verse 27, you already know that this is going to be a fun talk this morning. Matthew chapter 5 verse 27 if you're not there already, please go there with me.

You have heard that it was said to those of old you shall not commit adultery.

All right. I'm going to park there. Sorry. I want to talk to you guys about adultery this morning. Because it's very important.

Remember, I'm no Jesus was reminding them of what had already been said in the Bible about adultery that in the Old Testament as you look through the very first books of the Bible. You're going to find that God told them. You shall not commit adultery.

But then Christ goes on and remember his theme sin begins in the heart.

And Jesus goes in and goes forward and says that is adultery. But I say to you in verse 28 that whoever looks at a woman to Lust For Her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

This is incredibly important case. because as you as you live for Christ

you need to understand what adultery is and that's especially important in this culture. And I'm not just talking about the country. The country's culture and talking about Christian culture in the United States. Please understand that the Bible is very straightforward on the topic of adultery. It's very simplistic. When it comes to adultery. In fact as we move forward in the passage today, it's also very simplistic as far as divorce is concerned.

God's ideas and opinion on adultery and divorce are very clear-cut and very plain and simple.

Problem is that in? Our culture are Christian culture? We refuse to accept it.

So often Christians refuse to accept the simplicity. I'm God's opinion on these matters.

and because we refuse We are as hard-hearted as the Israelites were in the Old Testament which by the way Jesus confronts later on and says and I'm kind of jumping the gun here, but concerning divorce. He said it was because of the hardness of your hearts.

That the laws concerning divorce were bothered to be written.

But God's ideas in God's opinions on divorce on adultery are very clear-cut are very simple. Very plain. They're wrong.

Adultery is wrong. Divorce is wrong.

Please understand that as we go forward.

You guys know what adultery is? I'm sure.

But because we're here and because we're talking about it. I'm going to review.

adultery first and foremost

is having sex outside of marriage.

I don't. I really do not care whether you're talking about man with man woman with woman man with woman. Whoever you might be whatever you might be doing if you are having sex outside of marriage.

You're sitting.

Age doesn't matter gender doesn't matter if you are having sex outside of marriage you are sitting and that has to be simple and straightforward in your mind's as we continue on because everybody is always looking for a way out a way around did God leave a loophole in this part of his moral character?

very simply put

if you are having sex outside of marriage. Be at one person not married to the other. Be one single person with a married person to single people to married people with people who they are not married to. You're talking about adultery and adultery is sin.

There are no loopholes here. This is a moral characteristic of God adultery is sin.

By the way, as Jesus puts as as Jesus exposes it has to do with the heart as well, but we'll get into that in a moment, please also understand. fornication When were talking about adultery fornication is included in it? Any form of sex sexual activity outside of marriage is included under the umbrella term adultery if the Bible is talking about adultery. A sub-point will be fornication. Please understand.

Okay, we're talking about adultery here. It's a very

topic

and no we don't like to talk about it. Okay, because we're very prim and proper and private Society.

I'm sorry, we're going to have to move forward. All right, but if you can write down your question, I'd love to talk with you about it after it's yeah, I'd appreciate that but let's keep on going.

Although it's not something we like to talk about in this culture. The Bible does talk about it. Jesus did talk about it, very plainly and straightforward. We have to talk about this. You need to understand the Simplicity of God's opinion on the matters of adultery. On the matters of marriage, please know what marriage is marriage is not like the animals.

Please understand that this world this universe is full of creatures. That have sexual activity.

It's a part of life. It's called procreation. Sex is a real thing. And it's found not just between humans, but also between animals and its usefulness is for the continuation of the generations of whatever species were talking about.

that's what it is plain and simple but The Bible also makes this very clear.

sexual activity in between two humans has much deeper meaning

then procreation although that is an incredibly important part.

There's a reason why the Bible.

mandates abstinence Outside of marriage and when I say I've since I mean you don't have sex outside of marriage don't have sex before marriage.

abstinence is required biblically speaking because

marriage is a precious thing.

between two humans

You remember in Genesis the very beginning of the Bible? When the very very first things that was spoken about was the relationship between a man and a woman the Bible starts with it.

It starts by talking about relationship first relationship between God and a human and then relationship between a human and another human and how precious is that relationship is and how terrible and frustrating it is when that relationship is broken.

And marriage throughout the Bible is used. As an example to be held up and shown. To show what a proper relationship should look like what kind of repercussions and consequences a relationship so deep. What kind of consequence is it has on a person. In fact Genesis talks about it this way that a man will leave his family. We're not talking about walking out the front door. We're not talking about going to college.

We're talking about I was a part. I was identified with this family unit. But no longer that is not my family unit anymore. the woman separates from her family. She is no longer a part of her family unit anymore. That doesn't mean that she loses the relationship of being part of the family, but she is no longer within the household. and the two show me one. Flash

the man in the woman's will separate from their households their their family units and become a new unit. a single entity

No, I don't know if you are thinking this far ahead already in in what we're talking about here, but just consider for a moment marriages used. By God is an example of his relationship with humans.

marriage He consider Chi-Chi uses marriage as an example to show his relationship with Israel Israel the Bride of God. the wife of God

the Israel within the relationship that they experienced with God were one. With God reunited with God because of the relationship that he started with them. The relationship that we have with Christ the church is the bride of Christ.

We Are One in Christ

We are unified with Christ. It's no longer us living anymore is Christ Living Through us. the marriage example Is used to help us understand the concept of the death of the relationship that we have. with our savior

We are unified within and with Christ.

We are no longer two separate beings. We are one with Christ. We have been made one with him and within the Redemption that he provided for us.

And you're going to take that example that God gave us.

And you're going to trample on it with adultery.

I'm going to add an additional level to this concept before we move forward. Although it is kind of a tangent. It also runs in line with what you need to understand about marriage marriage happens on a spiritual level as well as a physical level. in fact And I don't have time to get into it too much. but sex itself

Is a spiritual experience as well as a physical experience?

It is an emotional and a relational experience. And spiritual experience as well as physical. Please understand that when you give yourself to someone physically.

You are giving yourself to them spiritually as well. And emotionally and you are committing yourself to a relationship with them. However broken that relationship might be however broken that spiritual relationship might be however broken that emotional relationship might be after having had sex physically with them. Please understand that activity that experience of having sex has consequences. Physically emotionally relationally spiritually, please understand this is something deep that God has used and has designed. to be such

important part of how we relate with people

Please understand that no matter who you have a relationship whatever relationship that might be. Whoever you have a relationship with. You have a relationship with them physically emotionally and spiritually.

with your brother with your sister with your mother with your father with your family with your friends with your enemies every person that you have a relationship of any sort with There is a physical component to that relationship. There's an emotional component to that relationship and there is a spiritual component to that relationship. and sexual activity also has consequences as well. You change the nature of the relationship when you change any one of those three components of your relationship.

If you look to someone spiritually for guidance. you affect how you relate to them emotionally and physically if you lean on someone for emotional support through a hard time, you are changing and affecting your spiritual relationship with that person and the way that you relate with them physically as well. I'll give you an example.

Saying you approaching. a stranger on the street

and a stranger is crying.

Remember that as a stranger your physical emotional and spiritual relationship with that person is almost non-existent at this point. You don't touch them. That's physical relationship. You don't touch that person. You don't know them. You don't. personalized with them Because you are not emotionally connected. You have no spiritual authority over them. You are not spiritually related with each other at this point that you see them crying and you begin to have an emotional connection with that person you walk up.

Maybe you Pat them on the shoulder.

Maybe you're one of those Huggy people and you just walk up. And you said you mind if I give you a hug?

Your emotional connection with that person begin immediately to have consequences spiritually and physically in the way you relate with that person. That's the way it works. God designed us. to be more than just

natural creatures We don't operate on nature alone. We relate. with each other and that has consequences in that consequence carries into the way we relate with each other on a sexual level.

And please understand. adultery

very basically quit

Is the tearing apart? a relational commitment with someone

so that you selfishly motivated

and turn to another Please understand the god uses adultery to describe his relationship with us. humans

when we sin against him we were designed to be in relationship with God and for us to act selfishly selfishly pridefully and sinfully is an act of adultery in our hearts against God.

That's how God is using the word adultery the same word that is used to describe when a man or a woman turns away from their partner in marriage and

turns to another person physically

You need to understand please. The depth of the abhorrence that you should have for adultery.

Please remember this is anything under the umbrella of the term adultery.

He's a gross thing.

It's abhorrent.

And the fact that we look at adultery and say well.

in our culture today in churches today

Please try to understand how important it is to God and what he must think when he looks at a person who is acting in this way.

if you

Are drawn to this in any way in your hearts with your actions, whatever it might be, please.

Go to this chapter and look at Jesus's response. Let's take a look. Verse 29, I believe it is if your right eye causes you to sin. Pluck it out. Cast it from you.

It's more profitable for you that one of your members perished and for your whole body to be cast into hell and if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off. Cast it from you for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish than that your whole body be cast in hell.

Please understand. He's not saying. Has Jesus so often tends to do he tends to use pic word pictures of physical things to represent spiritual significance. He's not talking about physically grabbing a spoon and cutting your eye out. He's not talking about grabbing a knife or a saw and cutting your arm off. He's saying you need. Tender stand if your body if your mind. Is drawing you to sin? Turn away from it and I don't care whether that is something that you have. I don't care whether that is something that you want. I don't care if it's something that you're looking for if it is taking you away from God if it is causing you to commit adultery in your heart against God. Cast it far from you.

You wonder why the Bible talks?

About things like eating food that was offered to Idols wonder why the Bible talks. About witchcraft you wonder why the Bible talks? about getting drunk

it's not because The physical items in this world are sinful in and of themselves. It's because you when you

try her when you turn away from God and give preference to something else anything else.

You are committing adultery in your heart against God. And that is sin.

If it's seeking after money if it's seeking after things if it's seeking after other spirits. That you do.

If you are turning away from God and giving preference to something else tear it away from yourself cast it far from you and move towards God. Because it's better that you don't have that thing, whatever it might be. However, great. It might be however wonderful in might be however much. conciliation

Sorry, I forgot the word in in in English. Conciliation. What's a better word for conciliation?

concurrent consolation that's a better way of putting however much consolation in might give you

if it is taking you away from God throw it away.

Because it's better that you don't have that then to lose your relationship with God.

You see what adultery is.

And by the way, it is a terrible terrible thing. commit adultery

Now it's look at a consequence of committing adultery.

divorce

you've heard it said he says. Inverse on 3031. Sorry furthermore. It has been said whoever divorces his wife. Let him give her a certificate of divorce.

Remember that was a lot in the Old Testament.

But I say to you whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery and it and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.

No, please don't tell me about the loopholes. This is simple and straightforward.

This is what adultery is.

Now, please also understand that he's not giving you a loophole. As a married person if your partner commit sexual immorality in any way shape or form by the way, but SRI label it adultery if they commit adultery in any way shape or form. God is not saying well you got permission to divorce them.

Please understand the flow of thought here. If you divorce someone for any other reason other than adultery your divorce will lead that person into adultery.

In other words if they haven't already gone to adultery. You divorcing them will get them right into adultery if they haven't already gone there. They're going there and so are you Any man who divorces his wife and marries a divorced woman is committing adultery.

please understand when when two people are united. There is no tearing it apart.

There is no clean cut.

It's always going to be dirty sinful. And very very very messy.

when adultery enters into a relationship and marriage

whether that's before divorce or after divorce.

When you divorce yourself from the world and become a Christian. Have you lost all relationship with everybody who you ever knew before you got saved?

No. You still have relationship with those people you still have that spiritual emotional and physical connection with those people that you previously knew when you were not saved and when you became saved or divorced from the world.

That's spiritual emotional and physical connection with those relationship with those people did not stop.

When you are divorced from another person in marriage the spiritual emotional and physical connection relationship that you had with that person does not stop.

You've written a piece of paper that says that you don't have to fill it anymore.

We've been divorced from our old self. We are.

We are separated from our old self. That doesn't mean that we don't experience the pole of that relationship that old life.

and same thing happens in marriage Please know that.

for divorced people

What are you are divorced? Or whether you know someone who is divorced or whether you're interested. Physically speaking. And sexually speaking in a person who is divorced.

Please understand God's opinion on the matter. Is very simple. They're taken.

If you are thinking about divorce. and I'm pretty sure that nobody in here is pretty sure if you played around with the idea of divorce. Please note this.

Christ himself said that if you divorce your partner

you are leading them straight into sin.

If they haven't already gone there.

It is a dangerous thing. to play around with the idea of divorce

Please understand just how dangerous for you and for the people you relate with. I'm dangerous. the idea of divorces

important but dangerous

Again, you've hurt. But it was said to those of old you shall not swear falsely the shelter for me roads. to the Lord

I want you guys to understand something else. L i v I talked rather strongly about divorce now and it's rather strongly about adultery now.

you are

a new creature in Christ, aren't you?

And I don't care if you have committed adultery in your heart or not.

I don't care if you have committed adultery physically or not.

I don't care if you have divorced anyone in your life emotionally or spiritually or physically.

You are a new creature in Christ.

And whatever you may have done in your past.

Whatever sin you may have committed physically or in your heart. It doesn't matter because Christ paid for all of it. Paper every single last bid of your sin.

And when you accept the wonderfulness. Jesus is salvation for you.

He is faithful to cleanse you of all your sin.

Who am I to step in and get mad at you about your sin now?

this

This is a basic principle.

Of how you should look? Towards acting this is not a basic principle of how to browbeat somebody else for something that they did or didn't do.

This is not your chance. I'm not teaching you about adultery so that you can go to your neighbor or your partner or whoever it might be and start beating him over the head with the idea that adultery and divorce are wrong.

Understand your freedom understand the freedom of your brothers and sisters the Liberty that we have been given within the person and the work of Jesus Christ who gave himself to cleanse us from every bit of sinfulness in our past every bit of sinfulness that's in our heart. And every sin that you may commit in your life Christ is taken that and reconciled you yet to God.

He's done the same thing for your brothers and sisters in Christ.

When you give your word.

Let your word stand.

If you give your word.

We're going to be coming together this Saturday and commemorating 25 years of some people having given their word.

They committed themselves to something. You've committed yourselves to things in your life.

If you're yes.

The word yes came out of your mouth. And yet you've lived a no.

What good is any oath?

If you said no with your mouth and you lived by yes with your life. No amount of promises. It's going to change the fact that you're a liar.

Can you do not the truth? cats John puts it

don't give pulse.

Don't don't don't place. your word on other people's heads. Don't place the commitment your commitment on the shoulders of any being whether it's a person or a deity or anything don't give that responsibility to others just say yes and live. Yes, say no and live a no.

God is the one who judges In The End by the way.

And he'll deal with you as though you were responsible. Even if you gave the responsibility of your actions to someone else by an oath.

Have you ever promised? That you would do something.

And maybe you think he's weird. Have you ever done a pinky swear? Have no nobody's familiar with with pinky. Swear. He's Okay. Alright. So few people know what a pinky swear is. Essentially you you pinky swear you grab each other's pinkies. And you say I swear on my pinky. It will be done, you know. Alright, I pinky swear. Okay, that's essentially saying if I don't live by this oath that I've given. My pinky will stand to blame. Do you see how ridiculous that is?

others give their olds to gods That's happened a lot in the Old Testament. And that's why this locking about don't swear on anything except God. Why because God is the only righteous and true judge.

Don't swear on anything else and yet Christ says don't even swear on God. Understand your responsibilities and live up to it. Let your yes be yes and let your no no.

by the way

And I don't have time for a parenting class. But I'll give you this advice.

Biblically based advice. Don't worry. It's not just my opinion.

If you tell your kid, no. And you act out a yes. You're teaching your child that the Bible doesn't matter to you.

If you tell your child, yes, and you live out on no. You're teaching your child. The God has no priority in the way you live your life.

Let your yes be yes.

Let your no be no.

I don't have time to get into it any more than that.

Oh, yeah, by the way, I love the way that he finishes up in verse 36 now you shall not swear.

A tall don't swear by Heaven. That's God's throne. Don't swear by the Earth. That's his footstool. Don't swear by Jerusalem. That's the city of the great king. That's not yours. I don't belong to you God's Throne doesn't belong to you guys, but still doesn't belong to you God's City. Doesn't belong to you don't even swear by your head.

You can't tell your hair whether it's going to be black or white. Don't tell me that you own your own head. You have no, right?

Steven swear by your own bald-headed gear

Let your yes be yes, but your no be no for whatever is more than these. Is from the evil one?

Would you jump over to Galatians 5 with me?

Because I did actually bring this verse up for a reason. Did actually have Adrian read this verse with meaning. Play Sims 5. Verses 13 through 15 says for you brother and have been called to Liberty. only do not use Liberty as an opportunity for the flesh

but through love serve one another all the laws for filled in one word. Even this you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Do not leave them into sin. Do not dry yourself into sin. Love your neighbor as yourself. If you bite and devour one another beware lest you be consumed by one another.

We are lead. We are saved and we are identified with a loving God who gave himself for us and I did this in the last service. I'm going to do it again because it's such a beautiful way. To remind you guys about this.

Let me see if it'll actually work for me.

I might just have to backtrack here.

You guys were singing with me earlier, right?

Do you remember? last words of this song

dear Lord. Thank you so much. Thank you for the way that you provided for us. Thank you for the love that you acted on

to give us a chance to be in relationship with you and please draws nearer to yourself. Don't let us fall into temptation. Don't let us. Commit adultery against you don't let us commit adultery against each other. Lord, please help us to be centered and grounded in you. I know you are.

And your desires in your will? Please give us the strength and the wisdom to live life in a testimony worthy of Your Love.