Dealing with Adulterous Hearts (Matthew 5:27-30 - Sermon on the Mount Series)

Thankful Homemaker: A Christian Homemaking Podcast

Marci Ferrell: Christian Homemaker, Wife, Mother and Grandmother

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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We live in a culture today that is obsessed with sex and sensuality. From tv ads, magazines at grocery store checkouts, perfume ads, images of women in their undergarments in store windows, to the songs on the radio that glamorize infidelity—how is it possible to live a life of purity in such a society? Our text in today's episode is Matthew 5:27-30:27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell. Adultery always first begins in the mind. In Matthew 5:28, Jesus has laid out to the Pharisees here and us that sexual purity doesn't just involve the physical act of indulging in sex outside marriage, but he gets to the heart of the matter. Sexual sin begins in our hearts, and we need to radically do some major surgery to live a life of purity in the world we find ourselves in today. HELPFUL LINKS: Head over to ThankfulHomemaker.com for full show notes. All episodes in the Sermon on the Mount Series at the blog Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by Martyn Lloyd Jones SOCIAL: Join Thankful Homemaker for access to the Free Library of Resources Follow ThankfulHomemaker on Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube & Instagram Join the Thankful Homemaker Facebook Group Subscribe to the Podcast on Your Favorite App Thankful Homemaker Merchandise

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker Podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and blessing
0:11.7	to each other and the role God has called us to as women.
0:15.1	I'm so thankful you stopped by, so grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit
0:20.5	as we talk about how God's Word impacts every area of our lives as Christian women.
0:26.5	Hello friend, I'm Marcy Ferrell from ThankfulHomemaker.com and I'm so glad to be with you today.
0:33.3	We are working through our series on the Sermon on the Mount, so if you're just joining
0:38.5	in for this first time or maybe you have some episodes you would like to catch up on,
0:43.9	you can find all of my episodes, these past ones in the series at My Home on the Web at
0:48.9	ThankfulHomemaker.com and they're under the Christian Living tab on my main menu.
0:54.2	If you hover over that, you'll see a drop-down menu will pop down and you'll see Sermon
0:58.4	on the Mount series there.
1:00.5	So last month we dealt with the sin of murdering others in our hearts and today we are tackling
1:08.4	the sin of adultery of the heart or the sin of lust.
1:13.3	Lust is defined as intense or unrestrained sexual craving or an overwhelming desire or craving.
1:21.5	We live in a culture today that is obsessed with sex and sensuality, from TV ads, to magazines
1:28.3	at the checkout counters, to cologne and perfume ads, to images of women in their undergarments
1:35.3	in store windows, to the songs on the radio that glamorize and fidelity, so how is it possible
1:41.4	to live a life of purity in such a society?
1:45.3	Elizabeth Elliott stated in her book, I highly recommend called Passion and Purity.
1:50.6	She stated, the majority will sacrifice anything, security, honor, self-respect, the welfare
1:57.4	of people they love, obedience to God, to passion.
2:01.9	They will even tell themselves that they are obeying God or at least he doesn't mind
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