The Sixth Commandment Lesson 21

The Sixth Commandment You shall not commit adultery. Love for God's gift of marriage and family

What does God want us to know? Genesis 1:27-28 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

What does God want us to know? Genesis 2:18,22-24 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 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.” 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

What does God want us to know? God created both man (male) and woman (female)

What does God want us to know? God created male and female for marriage and mutual benefit Marriage = 1 man + 1 woman United for life!

What does God want us to know? Genesis 1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day. Genesis 2:25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

God’s Purpose for Marriage 1. “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make a helper suitable for him.” One purpose for marriage is loving companionship and helpfulness.

God’s Purpose for Marriage 1. “They will become one flesh.” A second purpose for marriage is a God-pleasing sexual union.

God’s Purpose for Marriage 1. “Be fruitful and increase in number.” A third purpose for marriage is to have children and to provide for them.

The Sixth Commandment You shall not commit adultery. Don’t spoil God’s gift of sex and marriage. Spoken to both the married and the unmarried.

What don't we want to do? Ephesians 5:1-8 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2) and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 3) But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. 4) Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. 5) For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a man is an idolater--has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6) Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. 7) Therefore do not be partners with them. 8) For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.

What don't we want to do? Before Marriage Fornication = Living together and having sex outside of marriage Use the gift of sex in the wrong way obscenity/pornography

What don't we want to do? Ephesians 5:1-8 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2) and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 3) But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. 4) Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. 5) For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a man is an idolater--has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6) Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. 7) Therefore do not be partners with them. 8) For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.

What don't we want to do? Before Marriage Fornication = Living together and having sex outside of marriage

What don't we want to do? Talk about God's gift of sex improperly Dirty jokes Dirty talk about someone else

What don't we want to do? Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

What don't we want to do? Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality…

What don't we want to do? Don't even think improper thoughts TV shows Magazines Movies

What don't we want to do? Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

What don't we want to do? After Marriage Adultery = Use sex outside of marriage

What don't we want to do? Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality…

What don't we want to do? Don't even think improper thoughts TV shows Magazines Movies

What don't we want to do? Matthew 19:4-6 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' 5) and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? 6) So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

What don't we want to do? Seek to end a marriage by divorce. Exceptions: If one spouse is guilty of adultery (unfaithfulness) cf. Matthew 19:9 or desertion cf. 1 Corinthians 7:15

What don't we want to do? Romans 1:24-27 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25) They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. 26) Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27) In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

What don't we want to do? Homosexuality and Lesbianism are also forbidden by God!

What do we want to do? Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

What do we want to do? Think, talk and act the way God wants about his gift of marriage and sex

What do we want to do? Save God's gift of sex for marriage.

What do we want to do? Genesis 24:1,3-4 Abraham … said to the chief servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, 3 "I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, 4 but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

What do we want to do? Find a Christian spouse

What do we want to do? Romans 7:2-3 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. 3) So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.

What do we want to do? Be faithful until death

What do we want to do? Ephesians 5:21-22 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22) Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

What do we want to do? Try to build a Christ-centered home

What do we want to do? 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

What do we want to do? Glorify God by taking care of our bodies