Adultery Series

H. The permance of marriage.

1. More than procreation. We are different. Praise God!

2. Together, one mate, for life.

3. Marriages work because two people realize that it is for a lifetime. They invest in each other.

4. Studies have proved time and time again in every area that those who have good marriages have better lives.

5. (Mal 2:14 NIV) You ask, "Why?" It is because the LORD is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.

6. When God is Lord of our lives, He is also Lord of our marriage. When things get difficult, do we just say Bye Bye Lord.

7. Commit to each other from this day forward.

8. Get up before God and friends and family and say that you will be committed to each other. How good is your word?

I. Intimacy of marriage.

1. Sex involves sharing more than just one flesh. Sharing of life. Sex shares your body plus so much more.

2. One flesh, however, it also implies oneness in other areas. Things are going well in a marriage when the couple feels as one in many areas.

3. This is why sex is not encouraged before marriage. Hard to break up with someone whom you are attached physically but have no other attachments. Any two of opposite sexes can have this one but the others are more difficult.

2. What is adultery?

A. Physical adultery. This breaks faith with marriage partner. (Heb 13:4 NIV) Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. Good verse, often use it when talking with those who do not agree.

B. Mental adultery. (Mat 5:27 NIV) "You have heard that it was said, ’Do not commit adultery.’(Mat 5:28 NIV) But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

C. Legal adultery. No fault divorce.

1. Some things are legal by man but are not by God.

2. People are always trying to find loopholes. What about this and what about that. Again you gave your word before God and before others. For the good of your spiritual life and family life, we need to try to be reconciled.

3. People of character want to be right by God, not just right by man.

D. Adultery is a problem of the heart.

E. (Mal 2:15 NIV) Has not the LORD made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.(Mal 2:16 NIV) "I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel, "and I hate a man’s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment," says the LORD Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.

F. However, sometimes it is better for people to be separated for the good of the family and the good of their relationship with the Lord.

3. Strategies to avoid this sin.

A. Look to your eyes. Eve when she saw the fruit. The eye often sets the heart on fire.

B. Look to your lips. Do not engage in course talk. Words that kindle unclean thoughts. Do not flirt with those who are attractive to you.