(Exo 20:14) Thou shalt not commit adultery.
What is the law adultery? I will use the male gender as an example. It's when a man sleeps with someone other than his wife, or with the wife of another.
In other words, somebody has got to be married here.
(Mat 5:17-18) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. {18} For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
The law is the subject here.
(Mat 5:27-28) Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: {28} But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
What is the law adultery? If you can remember, then what kind of woman are we talking about in Matt 5:28?
A married woman. In fact the word (Gr.) gune means "specially a wife". G1135.
Either the looker or the lookee must be married, or there is no adultery in the looking.
What does "to does lust" after mean? The word "to" is Gr. pros = toward. The guy is doing just a little more than looking.
But even if the married woman says "No", as far as God is concerned, you've committed adultery.
Today, it is commonly taught that it's a sin to look at a girl.
(Mat 23:4) For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
What a burden to place on a young man, who was created by God to have natural desires towards a girl, to tell him that it's a sin to look!
Now I should interject something else, there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. "Cat-calls" and "googling", or anything else that is obviously disrespectful, should be avoided.
Especially in these evil last days, when all a man has to do is look at a woman with his eyes crossed and WHAM! He's being sued for sexual harrasment.
What is the law adultery? I will use the male gender as an example. It's when a man sleeps with someone other than his wife, or with the wife of another.
In other words, somebody has got to be married here.
(Mat 5:17-18) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. {18} For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
The law is the subject here.
(Mat 5:27-28) Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: {28} But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
What is the law adultery? If you can remember, then what kind of woman are we talking about in Matt 5:28?
A married woman. In fact the word (Gr.) gune means "specially a wife". G1135.
Either the looker or the lookee must be married, or there is no adultery in the looking.
What does "to does lust" after mean? The word "to" is Gr. pros = toward. The guy is doing just a little more than looking.
But even if the married woman says "No", as far as God is concerned, you've committed adultery.
Today, it is commonly taught that it's a sin to look at a girl.
(Mat 23:4) For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
What a burden to place on a young man, who was created by God to have natural desires towards a girl, to tell him that it's a sin to look!
Now I should interject something else, there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. "Cat-calls" and "googling", or anything else that is obviously disrespectful, should be avoided.
Especially in these evil last days, when all a man has to do is look at a woman with his eyes crossed and WHAM! He's being sued for sexual harrasment.
