We're going to talk about things in this episode that those of you who listen with children are in delicate situations,

like you just want to listen to it first or his legacy

it's kind of a non legacy and sort of an odd presidency for him he's far enough

back that it doesn't feel super loaded with modern political issues to just talk candidly about that. So I'll say

Carter in my brain is like in the C minus D plus half soggy frosted mini wheatweets mediocre range of things as a president, but he said something

that he got really grilled for politically, but I appreciate what he was trying to communicate.

He was trying to communicate a kingdom value from right here in

Matthew chapter 5. I've looked at a lot of women with lust and I've committed adultery in my heart with

them or something like that

phrase had kind of gone out of the modern mind and that brought it back in or if everybody

knew exactly what he was talking about but certainly this is a passage that a lot of

people who've been alive a little longer will associate with Jimmy Carter and a campaign trail gaff.

I think there's more going on here as we get yet another one of these statements of Jesus where he's talking about what it is for him to be the

fulfillment of the law and he's going piece by piece through it he's talking about

how everyone really effectively has guilt and is insufficient in their

behavior through the law he's making another one of these,

you have heard that it was said, but I tell you statements.

And this one goes like this, verse 27 in Matthew 5.

You've heard that it was said, don't commit adultery, but I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully

is already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin,

gouge it out and throw it away. It's better for you to lose one part of your body than

for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

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