No. 11. About Adultry

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery. Matthew 5:28

Mathew 5:32; Mark 10:7-9, Deuteronomy 24:1-4

Focused aspiring immortals
hand in hand

Stroll carefully and confidently on the straight and narrow path

Loving God with every breath and with pure hearts

Not concerned that

Invisibly He watches from on high, to judge them by their mating love.

For Adam and Eve, it wasn’t the curiosity about the forbidden fruit, or even heeding the serpent’s skeptical words that expelled them from His Garden, but actually eating it.

The temptation to sin is not the crime, only the doing of it.

Adultery is the exception because the lust is the sin, even without the act.

Lust is disloyalty. Lust supplants the spouse in one’s heart, if not yet in the bed.

In Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the punishment for adultery is death for both parties. God deplores a divided heart. His love is loyal, abiding, unchanging; it is not fickle or double minded. How lucky for us, or He would have divorced us lomg ago.

To be like God, one must first and foremost love like God.

Fidelity is a virtue, so is loyalty.