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PREACHING!. How to avoid sexual sin – Matthew 5:27-32. How to avoid sexual sin – Matthew 5:27-32. Lust is as bad as adultery, v27-28. ‘.
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PREACHING! How to avoid sexual sin – Matthew 5:27-32
How to avoid sexual sin – Matthew 5:27-32 • Lust is as bad as adultery, v27-28. ‘
You have heard that it was said, “You shall not commit adultery”.But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart’. Matt 5:27-28
How to avoid sexual sin – Matthew 5:27-32 • Lust is as bad as adultery – v27-28 Why does Jesus say lust is wrong? • Our thought life matters to God • Lust is the start of a slippery slope • Lust itself will harm relationships • How do we avoid Lust - v29-30 • Guard your eyes, v29 • Keep your hands to yourself, v30 • Guide your feet, Matt 18:8
How to avoid sexual sin – Matthew 5:27-32 • Jesus Teaching about Marriage - v31-32 • Marriage was for life • ‘…what God has joined together, let no one separate’. Matt 19:6 • Marriage was to be between a man and a woman • ‘…at the beginning the Creator “made them male and female,” and said, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife’ Matt 19:4 • Marriage was to be mutual • ‘The two shall become one flesh’ Matt 19:5
How to avoid sexual sin – Matthew 5:27-32 • Jesus allows divorce – just! v32 • Marital unfaithfulness • Desertion
How to avoid sexual sin – Matthew 5:27-32 • Practical implications: • If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence start to water your own side! • If the grass is green on your side – keep watering it! • Choose your partner wisely. What about those who are divorced ? • Know that sexual sin not unforgivable. • It is possible to know God’s smile and pleasure again. • How can we know his smile again? • Repent where necessary • Where necessary say sorry to others also. • Accept God’s forgiveness!