- In an age when consent is often invoked as the gold standard of sexual morality, our culture sometimes frames adultery as more permissible and understandable. But in Jesus’s day, having sex outside of marriage was widely considered an egregious offense.
- Jesus’s purpose was not to explain why adultery was problematic, but to take his listeners into the root of the problem: controlling lust.
- Any part of our lives in which we purposefully nourish lust and sexual fixation outside of marriage should have no place in the lives of Jesus followers.
- What would submitting to Jesus’s teachings here free us from?
- How do you think watching porn changes us, and changes our view of other people?
- Today, your action challenge is to take a personal inventory about how adultery and/or lust have affected your life. What role have these things played in your life and mind? Make a searching and fearless inventory of the role these vices have played in your own life, and make a plan to address them. If this feels too challenging, ask a friend to hold you accountable.