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Sexual Immorality: Understanding Fornication and Adultery

Explore the sin of sexual immorality with a focus on fornication and adultery. Discover the biblical perspective, the consequences, and the importance of upholding the sacredness of marriage.

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Sexual Immorality: Understanding Fornication and Adultery

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  1. Sins of Society (5) Sexual SinsAdultery

  2. Sexual Sins • In our last lesson in this study, we examined the sin of fornication(sexual immorality).

  3. Fornication • πορνεία (porneia), “illicit sexual intercourse” (Vine’s Expository Dictionary) • Describes any unlawful sexual relations (“sexual immorality”) • Includes homosexuality, bestiality, pre-married or unmarried relations, prostitution, incest, etc. • AND extra-marital sexual relations - adultery)

  4. Fornication • It is always a sin! • 1 Corinthians 7:2 Hebrews 13:4

  5. Adultery • Adultery is a type of fornication! • Sometimes distinguished from fornication – Matthew 19:9 1 Corinthians 7:2 Hebrews 13:4 1 Corinthians 6:9Galatians 5:19

  6. Adultery • Adultery receives special attention because of the sacredness of the marriage covenant • Marriage is intended to be for life Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:4-6

  7. Adultery • Malachi 2:13-16, Divorce is treachery as one abandons the covenant wife of his youth.The LORD HATES divorce • This covenant is so sacred, it is the ONLY reason that God permits the innocent party to divorce and marry anotherMatthew 19:8-9, 5:32

  8. Adultery • One of the 10 commandments – Exodus 20:14 • Under the Old Law, adultery was punishable by death – Leviticus 20:10, Deuteronomy 22:22 • Proverbs 6:32, “Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; He who does so destroys his own souls.”

  9. Adultery • Adultery and fornication were used of God to describe Israel’s unfaithfulness to Him, and cause to put them awayJeremiah 3:8Hosea

  10. Adultery • For one to divorce and marry again for another cause makes one an adulterer – Matthew 5:32, 19:8-9 Mark 10:11-12 • UNLESS God severs the marriage, it is binding for life! • We CANNOT make our own rules!

  11. Twisting Scripture on Adultery • Argument: The act of (getting a) divorce is adultery • Some say that since getting divorced is breaking the covenant, that is the act of adultery • Why? Because one can “repent” of “divorcing and remarrying” and then be free to marry again • ConsiderLeviticus 20:10 (LXX) John 8:3-5

  12. Twisting Scripture on Adultery • Argument: Mental divorce • Some say that there is a distinction in time between legal and biblical divorce • Why? One can legally divorce and then “wait” for their partner to “commit adultery” and then put them away

  13. Twisting Scripture on Adultery • Argument: Mental divorce • ConsiderMatthew 19:8-9, divorce was FOR fornication • One who abandons his/her spouse is in no way innocent! Cf. 1 Corinthians 7:2-5, 10-13, etc.

  14. Twisting Scripture on Adultery • Argument: Only believers • Some advocate that these restrictions only apply after one becomes a Christian. Obeying the gospel removes all sin, including the consequences of former divorces • Why? Seeking the lost removes concerns about former divorces and marrying again (emotional concern)

  15. Twisting Scripture on Adultery • Argument: Only believers • Jesus appealed to the beginning in Matt. 19:4-6. This was God’s intent, even BEFORE the Law of Moses.“Whoever” in Matt. 19:8 is not exclusive to believers! • This also fails to properly define repentance – 2 Corinthians 7:9-11

  16. Twisting Scripture on Adultery • Argument: But God wants me to be happy! • Answer: God wants you to be right! Matthew 7:21-23He wants you to repent – Luke 13:3, Acts 2:38, 3:19Matthew 19:11-12, eunuch’s for the kingdom of heaven’s sakeTrue joy comes in obeying Him

  17. Twisting Scripture on Adultery • Such arguments cheapen the sacredness of marriage as a lifelong covenant and undermine the morality of society • They dismiss the plain teaching of scripture appealing to emotions or truth

  18. Concluding thoughts • This is an unpleasant subject and difficult for some to accept. • It can have devastating consequences when unlawful relationships are discovered • But that doesn’t change the truth of God’s word.

  19. Concluding thoughts • IS your faith genuine? Will you really put to death the old man of sin and put on the new man? (Ephesians 4:22-24)

  20. Concluding thoughts • Adultery affects OTHERS in so many ways • It does violence to trust in marriage • It destroys families • It deteriorates the moral fiber of society (especially when it is tolerated and encouraged) • It damages our influence

  21. Concluding thoughts • “We do not help our worldly contemporaries by contriving theories which leave them in their sins. Yet that is precisely what some of our brethren have done. May God grant us the courage to speak the truth in love; but yes, it must be the truth.” (Wayne Jackson, What is Adultery?)

  22. Concluding thoughts • “There are questions I cannot answer, but there are also answers I cannot question.” JR Bronger • Let us choose to be lights in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation! Philippians 2:15

  23. How brightly is your light shining?

  24. Lust in the heart • Where fornication and adultery begin! • Galatians 5:19, Colossians 3:5, Ephesians 5:3 – Uncleanness, lewdness, passion. • Defined as moral impurity, unrestrained lustful conduct, “filthiness”, etc.

  25. Lust in the heart • Pornography, is a scourge on society. It provokes lustful thoughts and often portrays unrealistic expectations of what sexual relations is about. • Matthew 5:27-30 2 Peter 2:14, “eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin…”

  26. Lust in the heart • Christians are to live lives of purity! We are to be holy! • Matthew 5:8, the pure in heart shall see God. • 1 Peter 1:15-16, “be holy as God is holy! • Job 31:1, make a covenant with your eyes!

  27. How brightly is your light shining?

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