DON’T COMMIT ADULTERY

“Live Free” Series

Week 8

Tim Bycroft, Lead Pastor  

THE POINT EXISTS TO WELCOME THE UNCHURCHED TO BECOME FULLY DEVOTED FOLLOWERS OF JESUS. 

Pointing People to God  

Pointing People to Jesus  

Pointing People to Community 

A church characterized by Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness.

Exodus 20:14, “You shall not commit adultery.” 

WHAT IS MARRIAGE? 

MARRIAGE IS A COVENANT NOT A CONTRACT (CIVIL UNION) 

Malachi 2:14, “The Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth…she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.”

A COVENANT IS A DIVINE AGREEMENT BETWEEN GOD AND US.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COVENANT AND A CONTRACT? 

• A CONTRACT IS TRANSACTIONAL, TEMPORARY, AND ENFORCEABLE BY LAW. 
• A COVENANT IS RELATIONAL, ETERNAL, AND SUSTAINED BY LOVE. 

Genesis 2:24, “A man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.”

MARRIAGE IS A PORTRAIT AND A PICTURE OF SOMETHING FAR GREATER. 

Ephesians 5:25-27, Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

Leviticus 20:10, If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to Death.”

“For Christian swingers, things are not easy. Often other religious people judge you. Out of ignorance or envy, telling you that your lifestyle and love practices are wrong, but the Bible teaches us, judge not lest you be judged.” 

I Corinthians 6:9-10, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? DO NOT BE DECEIVED: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”  

Matthew 5:27–28, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

SEXUAL PURITY REQUIRES: “WANT-TO” AND A PLAN FOR “HOW-TO. “

FIRST TALK IS WITH JESUS.

TALK WITH YOUR SPOUSE.

John 8, “Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and sat down and he taught them. And the scribes and the Pharisees, the religious folks, brought a woman who had been caught in Adultery.” 

“‘Now in the Law of Moses we are commanded to stone such a women,’ they said. ‘So what do you say?’ they asked. “This is what they said to test him, “that they might have some charges to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, ‘Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.’ 

And he bent down once more and wrote on the ground. And when they heard it, they all went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.”

“And he said to her, ‘Woman, where are they? No has one condemned you?’ She said, ‘No one, Lord.’ And Jesus said, ‘Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more.’”