Look But Don't Touch
Notes
Transcript
Sermon Tone Analysis
A
D
F
J
S
Emotion
A
C
T
Language
O
C
E
A
E
Social
Introduction:
Perhaps one of the most unbiblical statements ever made was, “Look, but don’t touch!” It is a phrase that has caused countless marriages to be ruptured. It is rooted in the belief that as long as lust isn’t acted on, then it is okay. But, is this what the Bible teaches? You probably can already figure out that this is not in the Bible, but let’s look at what Jesus had to say.
Read text. Pray.
1. The Obvious Command: Don’t Commit Adultery (v.27)
1. The Obvious Command: Don’t Commit Adultery (v.27)
Rooted in OT Law
“You shall not commit adultery.
“ ‘And you shall not commit adultery.
Part of the Moral Law - still binding
Rooted in the Character of God
God demonstrates His faithfulness by using the marriage analogy to describe His love for Israel and Christ’s love for His bride, the Church
Not much debate over this among orthodox Christians
2. The Heart of the Matter: Lust is Adultery (v.28)
2. The Heart of the Matter: Lust is Adultery (v.28)
Jesus gets to the heart of the commandments because they reveal the heart of man
Ephesians 5:35
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Adultery and Lust are Coveting what you cannot have
Sin Begins in the heart
James 1:14-1
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
3. Extreme Measures: We Are Called to Take to Avoid Sin (vv.29-30)
3. Extreme Measures: We Are Called to Take to Avoid Sin (vv.29-30)
Hyperbole
The Dangers of Looking -
Pathways in the brain
Unsatisfaction in marriage
Belief in a fictitious Ideal
Make a Covenant with the Eyes
“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
Practice Modesty and the Stumbling Block Principle
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—
but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
Romans 14:
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
ROmans 14:13
Conclusion:
1 Cor. 6:1
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
We are all in this together.
It is time to live for Jesus.
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
We can be free in Christ.