Lust

Intimacy and fidelity with your spouse is worth everything it takes

What does he mean by lust?

Is Jesus being serious or funny?

What’s the remedy?

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Matthew 5:27–30 ESV

27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

Lust & Adultery

Lust Leads to Adultery

Males and females are wired for connection

Chemical reactions

Dopamine

Oxycontin

Distortion of the image of God & Destruction of humanity

Is Jesus being literal or funny?

Neither option gives us an escape

Literal - cut it off does the sin stop?

funny - if this is a joke, so are the 10 commandments, so is God’s revelation, therefore yesterday was as good as it will ever get.

Seriously

The eye is the medium through which lust begins

The hand is the interment to commit the sin

Sin will receive its punishment

Do what it takes to get healthy.

The Bible teaches control of desire, not suppression of sexuality

What’s the remedy?

Understand Love - love is intimacy

Love lasts

Love grows with knowledge and time, courtship, truth, and trust

love is individual - all other relationships are secondary

love thrives in conversation

love purses the good of the other, with self-control, concern, reason, and patience

Jesus puts all the cards on the table to say your intimacy and fidelity to your spouse is worth everything it takes - trust me.