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Understanding the Commandment Against Adultery
In this episode, we explore the meaning and implications of the commandm… (visit YouTube for more)
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It’s really easy to read what we want to into scripture, and I’ve had a few conversations with people who seem to want to explain away this particular verse that we’re meditating on today. Continuing our series on the Ten Commandments, it’s Exodus 20, verse 14, which says: You shall not commit adultery.
We would like to think that love is free. We can love whomever we want, however we want. But God has established a pattern in creation, and we can see that from start to finish in the Bible, and we can see that in nature.
But God for humans goes beyond just what we observe in nature. He creates this incredible covenant relationship of marriage. And when we have a godly marriage, we have something truly wonderful, a marriage that reflects God’s intention of rejoining the separated man and woman; when Adam and Eve were split out into two, at that point in the Genesis account, they are rejoined into this unit, this godly unit, which is a beautiful thing before God.
We see his moral character displayed in the Ten Commandments and he says don’t commit adultery. Sexual relations are to be between a married man and woman exactly as the Creator designed and intended.
This is the conclusion that many people draw from lifetimes of studying God’s word in context, what it means, what he’s communicating to us. So let’s apply it to our lives. And that’s not just to our actual life in reality, but also to our thought lives. Because God is interested in the state of our hearts. So we commit adultery, neither in reality, nor in fantasy. Let us ask for God to help us to keep this as all commandments.
Father, you are holy and we are not, but you ask us to be holy. So I ask that you help us in our thought life, in our dealings with others in the world, that Lord, we will observe your moral law, that we will conform to the pattern of marriage and relationship as you intended. Please strengthen us in this God so that we may please you. Amen.
