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The 7th Commandment
This is a foundational commandment throughout biblical history.
Adultery is still a crime (thought rarely prosecuted) in several states.
It is still a felony in 5 states.
So obviously the 7th commandment has stood the test of time.
But it isn’t just concerned with actions.
Jesus says the 7th commandment is more concerned with the heart:
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Reveals God
1) Reveals that God is COVENANTAL.
Marriage is a covenant relationship.
A man and a woman come before God and witnesses and make a covenant (a big and powerful promise) with one another.
We say “as long as I live, you will be my one and only.”
Marriage is a reflection of God’s covenantal relationship with His people.
God makes promises throughout Biblical history.
Adamic covenant
Abrahamic Covenant
Mosaic Covenant
The New Covenant
Jer 31:31
This is the Christ Covenant, which is connected to the Adamic Covenant and the other covenant.
In Christ, God fulfills all His promises.
Following the 7th commandment is a reflection of God as He ALWAYS fulfills the commitments He makes to His people.
2) Reveals that God is FAITHFUL.
The covenantal nature of God displays His faithfulness.
God chose Abraham’s family to bless and to multiply and He did not turn His back on them even when they were disobedient.
Paul says the work that has started in those who trust in Christ will be brought to completion.
Keeping the 7th commandment reflects the faithfulness of our great God as we remain faithful to the one we have committed ourselves to.
This is not just for married people, but for those who will one day marry, remain faithful to the person whom will be your spouse one day.
3) Reveals that God is a GIVER of GOOD GIFTS.
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New flash: God created sex and desires for it to be enjoyed WITHIN the boundaries He has created.
Sex is a gift from our generous God to mankind for enjoying our spouse.
God created sex to multiply and fill the earth, but He made is enjoyable and infused deep, spiritual purpose behind it.
Perversion of God’s good gift distorts its purpose and robs it of the true pleasure it brings.
Confronts our Sinfulness
1) Confronts our DEVALUING of sexuality and marriage.
God created marriage.
1) Confronts our TRIVIALIZATION of sexuality and marriage.
In God says to Adam “It is not right for man to be alone.
I will create a helpmate for you.”
Eve is created from Adam and he declares:
He makes the case that we treat marriage like a consumer relationship, focusing more on what we get out of it rather than the importance of the relationship.
There is a natural, “creation connection” between Adam and Eve.
The next verse introduces the marital covenant:
gen 2 24
The ONE FLESH union of marriage means at least 2 things for marriage.
The marital union is more than a legal contract.
It is the merging of two lives in all aspects: physically, spiritually, emotionally, financially, and socially.
Marriage is not something we can throw away when it doesn’t meet our needs anymore.
Tim Keller says:
In a Covenant relationships the good of the relationship takes precedence over the immediate needs of the individual.
Sociologists argue that in contemporary Western society the marketplace has become so dominant that the consumer model increasingly characterizes most relationships that historically were covenantal, including marriage.
Today we stay connected to people only as long as they are meeting our particular needs at an acceptable cost to us.
When we cease to make a profit—that is, when the relationship appears to require more love and affirmation from us than we are getting back—then we “cut our losses” and drop the relationship.
The ONE FLESH union is talking about sex.
This is God’s introduction to sexuality.
The act of sex and the results of sex point to this ONE FLESH union.
homosexual marriage is a distortion of the ONE FLESH union.
both anatomically and reproductively
Sex outside of marriage is a perversion of the ONE FLESH union.
There is no commitment that made between the man and women, so the physical union is outside of the created purpose.
Pornography is perversion of the ONE FLESH union.
Our eyes, our hearts, our brains, and our other body parts are all a part of this union.
Pornography degrades the ONE FLESH union of marriage.
The 7th commandment confronts our trivialization of marriage and sexuality.
It has lost its purpose and power in our modern culture, and has become a simple physical exchange between people.
2) Confronts our PROMISCUITY.
As marriage and sexuality increasingly become more and more devalued in our culture, sexual activity is increasingly becoming more and more casual.
But there is a reality to sex that we often fail, or refuse to understand.
Sex unites us to another person in a deeply spiritual way.
I heard a story this week about a person who mistakenly put super glue in their eye thinking it was eye drops.
When you use super glue for what it was made for it is incredibly helpful.
But when you put it in your eyes it is quite a different story.
Sex unites us to another person in a very permanent sort of way that should only be reserved for your spouse within a marriage covenant.
The 7th Commandment is a warning to avoid the pain of gluing your eyes shut.
Confronts our
3) Confronts our SELF-CENTEREDNESS.
Tim Keller, in his book on marriage, compares consumer relationships with covenant relationships.
Consumer relationship are concerned with an exchanging of goods and services.
You provide me with a good or service and I pay you what it is worth.
Covenant relationships are more concerned with the health of the relationship than what a person gets out of it.
(think about a parent/baby relationship).
Keller says:
Tim Keller says:
Sociologists argue that in contemporary Western society the marketplace has become so dominant that the consumer model increasingly characterizes most relationships that historically were covenantal, including marriage.
Today we stay connected to people only as long as they are meeting our particular needs at an acceptable cost to us.
When we cease to make a profit—that is, when the relationship appears to require more love and affirmation from us than we are getting back—then we “cut our losses” and drop the relationship.
The 7th commandment is concerned with our posture.
Sex in our modern culture has become more about serving MY needs than serving the needs of my spouse.
1 cor 7 3-
there is purpose behind sex in marriage, and it isn’t just about your getting yours.
The 7th commandment confronts our self-centeredness.
Instructs our Living
1) Instructs us to be HUMBLE and SELFLESS.
James teaches us the root of our conflict in marriage.
“you desire and do not have, so you murder, covet, fight, and quarrel.”
The heart of adultery is “I desire but I do not have, so I will go and find it!”
the 7th commandments instructs us to be humble and to not think so much about ourselves.
2) Instructs us to pursue FAITHFULNESS and FIDELITY.
Marriage is used throughout the bible as God’s analogy for His relationship to His people.
The significance of marriage goes beyond our wants and needs, it puts on display God’s relationship to His people.
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