Overlooking Sin
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High(er) Standard in Verse 27+28
High(er) Standard in Verse 27+28
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Heavens Commandment in verse 27
Holy Commentary in verse 28a. “But I say unto you”
Heart Condition in 28b. “whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Mt 5:28). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, That there is no fear of God before his eyes.
2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, Until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Hard(er) Saying in Verse 29+30
Hard(er) Saying in Verse 29+30
Hindering Constraint in verse 29 “offend” to cause to sin ⇔ trip v. — to cause someone to sin, often with an idea of finality or falling away; conceived of as causing someone to stumble and fall. Hebrews 12:1 (KJV 1900) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2. Helpless Condition in verse 29 “pluck it out, and cast it from thee”
Can plucking out your eye or cutting off your hand get you into Heaven? Of course not! It’s hyperbole. But they are a..............
3. Handy Combination “pluck it out” (to extract v. — to remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense.) “cut it off” (to cut off (remove) v. — to remove by or as if by cutting.)
The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Mt 5:29). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
Help(er) Staying in Verse 31+32
Help(er) Staying in Verse 31+32
31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
His Context “It hath been said” Dt 24: 1-3
King James Version Chapter 24
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
2. Hardness Confronted
Matthew 19
3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
3. Hopeless Condition
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Mt 19:3–12). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.