Right, Wrong, or Irrelevant Right, Wrong, or Irrelevant? A Survey of Biblical Christian Morality SEXUAL MORALITY PART 1 Exodus 20:14 Pew Bible p. 74

You shall not commit adultery. Exodus 20:14 You shall not commit adultery.

Truths to Take with You Sex is a beautiful gift from God to husband and wife. God calls us to sexual purity in thought and deed.

To sexualize: to endow with a sexual character or cast

What the 7th Commandment Says You shall not commit adultery. Exodus 20:14 NIV Thou shalt not commit adultery. KJV No adultery. MSG Be faithful in marriage. CEV

What the 7th Commandment Means “adultery”: voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than that person's current spouse

Adultery is Serious Sin throughout the Old Testament Proverbs 2:16-19, 5:1-23, 6:20-7:27 The prophets; Hosea, for example

The 7th Commandment Is Affirmed in the New Testament Jesus—Matt. 5:27-28, 15:19, 19:18 Paul—Rom. 13:9, I Cor. 6:9, Gal. 5:19, Col. 3:5 Other New Testament writers—Heb. 13:4, Jas. 2:11, 2 Pet. 2:13-14, Rev. 2:21-22

Genesis 1:26-28 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Genesis 1:26-28 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.”

Theological Background of the 7th Commandment God created human beings. God created human beings in two complementary sexes: male and female. God invented and commanded sex.

Genesis 2:23-24 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Theological Background of the 7th Commandment God performed the first wedding. In marriage, the two complementary human beings, male and female, become one flesh.

The Theological Perspective On Marriage Marriage is rooted fundamentally in how God created the world in the beginning. Marriage, and the children that result from marriage, form the fundamental social units of which all human society is composed.

The Significance of the 7th Commandment Adultery attacks and destroys marriage. The 7th Commandment serves to emphasize the importance and to safeguard the sanctify of marriage.

The Implications of the 7th Commandment The only legitimate place for sexual intercourse is within the sanctity of marriage. All sexual activity outside a valid marriage is sin.

Sexual Sin Adultery, in its specific sense - Exod. 20:14 All forms of extra-marital sex - Exod. 22:16-17, Lev. 21:16-17, Deut. 22:13-22 Pre-marital sex Cohabitation Post-marital sex

Sexual Sin Prostitution - Lev. 19:29, Deut. 22:20-21 Homosexual sex - Gen. 19, Lev. 18:22, 20:13, Rom. 1:26-27, 1 Cor. 6:9-10, 1 Tim. 1:9-10 Incest - Lev. 18, 20:17-19 Bestiality - Exod. 22:19, Lev. 18:23, 20:15-16, Deut. 27:21

Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Truths to Take with You Sex is a beautiful gift from God to husband and wife. God calls us to sexual purity in thought and deed.

Challenge Repent of sexual sin. Obtain God’s forgiveness. Make sexual purity your goal in thought and deed.