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Exodus 20:14, “You shall not commit adultery.”
Adultery means: Sexual intimacy between someone who ___________ and someone who is not their spouse.
How Destructive is Adultery?
(1) It destroys the _______________________ of marriage.
1 Corinthians 6:16-19 (Msg), ”There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, ‘The two become one.’ Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the kind of sex that can never ‘become one.’ There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for ‘becoming one’ with another. Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body.”
What are the three things that the Bible would say can legitimately end a marriage in the eyes of God? a) ________________________; b) _______________________; c) ____________________.
(2) Sexual sin is a ___________________________ against God.
(3) It exposes us to ____________________________________.
Proverbs 6:27-29, “Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? 28 Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? 29 So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished. But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.”
(4) We can avoid any _________________________.
Matthew 5:27-28, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
What about Porn?
(a) It is the active pursuit of the sin _________________.
The word “pornography” comes from two Greek words that mean _______________________________________.
(b) It leads to ___________________________.
(c) It creates emotional and physical ______________________.
(d) It’s highly ________________________.
(e) It’s _____________________________.
(f) It’s ________________________ to women.
(g) It’s ________________________ for women.