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Tonight we’re going to be continuing our series on God’s new path for us
We’ve gone over Anger, how God calls us to be totally different from the world, but tonight we’re talking about sin.
What is sin?
The bottom of sin, the root of all sinning, is such a heart — a heart that prefers anything above God, a heart that does not treasure God over all other person and all other things.
A Call for Loving God
A Simple Command
Jesus starts out with a “You have heard it said” phrase.
he’s perfecting the law right here
You shall not commit adultery=Jesus affirming God’s law of purity
God called for sanctity within marriage.
Multiple wives was against His law
God calls for purity in marriage—we should love God then our spouse more than anyone else
A Radical Clarification
Jesus goes one step further.
Don’t just have the right actions, but also have the right heart
The original law (like every other law) was to reveal the sinfulness of the human heart
Jesus says in this verse, sexual impurity begins in the desires of the heart.
Jesus is concerned with the heart in a culture that isn’t.
Jesus is concerned with our hearts now
We need to be fighting sin whenever it creeps around
this is what john piper says sin is
It is the glory of God not honored.—he is before and above all
The holiness of God not reverenced.—He
needs to be separated from the world
The greatness of God not admired.—
The power of God not praised.—We
trust in other things before HIm
The truth of God not sought.—We
try to find answers elsewehere
The wisdom of God not esteemed.—
We think we know more or better than HIm
The beauty of God not treasured.—
We run to others for satisfaction
The goodness of God not savored.
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The faithfulness of God not trusted.—
We forget that He always has a good end for us
The commandments of God not obeyed.
— Choosing other things over Him
The justice of God not respected.
— Not trusting in Him as the just judge
The wrath of God not feared.
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The grace of God not cherished.
The presence of God not prized.
The person of God not loved.
That is sin.”
Lust, like any sin, starts in the mind, then to the heart, then to actions.
James 1:14-17
Although Jesus is NOT saying these sins are identical, He is saying they are equivalent.
Sexual impurity begins in the desires of the heart.
Again, Jesus is not saying that lustful desires are identical to lustful deeds, and therefore a person might just as well go ahead and commit adultery.
The desire and the deed are not identical, but, spiritually speaking, they are equivalent.
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The “look” that Jesus mentioned was not a casual glance, but a constant stare with the purpose of lusting.
It is possible for a man to glance at a beautiful woman and know that she is beautiful, but not lust after her.
The man Jesus described looked at the woman for the purpose of feeding his inner sensual appetites as a substitute for the act.
It was not accidental; it was planned.
But the constant stare with the purpose of lusting
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Purify the desires of the heart
Discipline the actions of the body
Spiritual surgery
Jesus isn’t saying go mutilate yourself, he’s saying deal immediately and decisively with sin.
Don’t taper off---Don’t ween off— Cut off
Spiritual surgery is more imporant than literal surgery.
Sins of the body lead to eternal judgment
The man Jesus is describing looked at the woman for the purpose of feeding his inner sensual appetites as a substitue
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