This is the Bible Book Club, and we're in Deuteronomy. Welcome to the club.

Last episode in chapters 19 through 22, continuing the just do it sermon, Moses was elaborating on the Sixth Commandment, You Shall Not Murder.

He took it a little further than just physically killing. Also,

talking about people's rights. For example, stealing some of their promised land upon which their

lives and the future lives of their children depended or the right of a certain life for the

captive women if they married an Israelite man. The point is, life is precious to God.

He created it, and he has a standard for how he wants us to live it.

All right, just do it.

Obey the Seventh Commandment is our next topic.

Exodus 20, verse 14, says you shall not commit adultery.

And that's what this is going to be all about.

Adultery is a concept that was used for more than just

married people. It was a concept that came from the impure mixture of different things,

which was to the Israelites outside of God's design for those things. So one word for it was in

marriage, adultery, you're mixing two things that

shouldn't be mixed. But they had other kinds of mixtures. We talked about one last week,

the mixture of wearing opposite clothes or we're going to get into more here. But understand,

God wanted them to be an example to the nations and to keep things super pure. Now, when something is pure,

it was considered holy. The biblical concept of holiness has two aspects. Separation from sin,

so you don't do what's wrong, and the dedication to something special. Instead, you say,

I'm going to do this and set this aside to be special.

When something is dedicated as special, it is not to be used for everyday purposes.

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