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Sermon on the Mount-Murder, Adultery, and Divorce
Adultery and Lust

Listen to the reading of Scripture below and then learn more from related resources. As you listen and reflect, think about this question: How is looking at someone lustfully rooted in the same attitude as adultery?

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Read - Matthew 5:27-30

Matthew 5:27-30

Adultery and Lust

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You have heard that it was said, “You will not commit adultery.”
And I say to you that anyone who goes on looking at a woman in order to cultivate lust for her, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
If your right eye causes your downfall, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into gehenna.
If your right hand causes your downfall, cut it off and throw it from you. For it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go off into gehenna.
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Watch - Visual Commentaries, Matthew 5:27-28: Adultery and Lust
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HIGHLIGHT

The Old Testament law about adultery reveals God’s wisdom about how we reduce people to objects of desire. Jesus invites us to view every human as an image of God to be honored in our actions and imaginations.

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Listen - The Meaning and Impact of Lust

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The Meaning and Impact of Lust

5 min

HIGHLIGHT

Looking at a woman as an object is the same thing as adultery, because both involve heart postures that reduce someone’s identity. This habit has devastating effects on the man who “goes on looking” and also on the woman who is objectified.

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