1. Uncovering Adultery Discovering Marriage
Matthew 5:27-32

2. Matthew 5:27-32
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

3. Matthew 5:27-32
31 "It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

4. “Adultery”
Usage of the word “Adultery”, 200 years

5. “Adultery”
Number of divorces in Scotland, 150 years

6. “Adultery”
A married person sleeping together with someone they’re not married to
Lust in the heart after someone not your spouse (5:28)
Divorce (unless due to an affair)
Remarriage after an illegitimate divorce
… “against the covenant of marriage”

7. 1. Uncovering Adultery
Is this for men only?

8. 1. Uncovering Adultery Is this for men only?
No, it is for Men and Women
Deut 22:22-27, Proverbs 5-6

9. 1. Uncovering Adultery Is this for men only?
No, it is for Men and Women
Deut 22:22-27, Proverbs 5-6
Must we literally chop off and gouge?

10. 1. Uncovering Adultery Is this for men only?
No, it is for Men and Women
Deut 22:22-27, Proverbs 5-6
Must we literally chop off and gouge?
We must literally choose

11. 1. Uncovering Adultery Is this for men only?
No, it is for Men and Women
Deut 22:22-27, Proverbs 5-6
Must we literally chop off and gouge?
We must literally choose
It’s the heart that needs surgery above all (28)
Proverbs 4:23, 1 Corinthians 6-7

12. 1. Uncovering Adultery Is this for men only?
No, it is for Men and Women
Deut 22:22-27, Proverbs 5-6
Must we literally chop off and gouge?
We must literally choose
It’s the heart that needs surgery above all (28)
Proverbs 4:23, 1 Corinthians 6-7
Is divorce indeed adultery?

13. 1. Uncovering Adultery Is this for men only?
No, it is for Men and Women
Deut 22:22-27, Proverbs 5-6
Must we literally chop off and gouge?
We must literally choose
It’s the heart that needs surgery above all (28)
Proverbs 4:23, 1 Corinthians 6-7
Is divorce indeed adultery?
Yes, Matthew 19:9

14. 2. Discovering Marriage

15. 2. Discovering Marriage We’re not animals!
“God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. (Gen 1:26)
“You have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honour (Psa 8:4)
“the body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body…” (2 Cor 6:13)

16. 2. … a Divine Mystery Ephesians 5:31-32
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” 32 This MYSTERY is profound, and I am saying that IT REFERS TO Christ and the church”