YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY

MESSAGENOTES

YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY

OCTOBER 3/4, 2020

MattHEW 5:17 (ESV)

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” 

MattHEW 5:19 (ESV) 

“Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

MattHEW 2:37-40 (ESV) 

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE, MAKE DISCIPLES 

Exodus 20:14 (ESV) 

“You shall not commit adultery.”

We can better understand the seventh commandment by observing 3 ACTIONS OF GOD:

ACTION #1: DESIGN—GOD DESIGNS FAMILY

Genesis 2:18 (ESV) 

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Genesis 2:21-25 (ESV)  

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

ACTION #2: PROTECTION—GOD PROTECTS FAMILY

LevITICUS 18:20 (ESV) “And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.”

MattHEW 5:27-30 (ESV) “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If 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. 30And 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.”

ACTION #3: SALVATION—GOD SAVES FAMILY

John 3:16 (ESV) “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

John 3:17-21 (ESV) “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”