Do Not Commit Adultery

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🗓️ 5 January 2019

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Why do the Ten Commandments single out adultery as particularly harmful? Because adultery can destroy the foundational unit of a society -- the family. If exposed, adultery leads to a sense of betrayal. If hidden, it forces the offending spouse to lie. Children are often the unintended victims. This may be one of the most difficult Biblical laws to follow, but it's also one of the most important. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's an old joke about the seventh commandment, do not commit adultery.
0:05.8	Moses comes down from Mount Sinai and announces, I have good news and bad news.
0:12.3	The good news is that I got him down to ten.
0:15.7	The bad news is that adultery stays.
0:19.8	The joke is telling.
0:22.5	The prohibition on a married person having sexual relations with anyone except his or her
0:26.9	spouse.
0:28.0	Maybe for many people, the most consistently difficult of the ten commandments to observe.
0:34.2	The reason shouldn't be hard to guess.
0:36.8	One is the enormous power of the sex drive.
0:39.4	It can be very hard to keep in check for the entirety of one's marriage, especially when
0:45.0	an attractive outsider makes him or herself sexually or romantically available.
0:51.2	Another reason is the human desire to love and be loved.
0:55.8	For normal people, there is no more powerful emotion than love.
1:00.0	If one falls in love with someone while married, it takes great effort not to commit adultery
1:05.6	with that person.
1:07.6	And if we add in the unfortunate circumstance of a loveless marriage, adultery becomes
1:13.4	even more difficult to resist.
1:16.6	That's why the joke with which I began is funny, because it reflects truth.
1:23.4	Why is adultery prohibited in the ten commandments?
1:27.5	Because like the other nine, it is indispensable to forming and maintaining higher civilization.
1:34.0	Adultery threatens the very building block of the civilization that the ten commandments
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