Adultery - Ten Commandments Seven
Channel: Two Book Church
Date: 2013-05-29

Jesus once said that if you look at a woman lustfully you've committed adultery. Really? In a world filled with lustful 

opportunity, do any of us stand a chance of keeping the 7th commandment?

adultery - noun extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited 

as grounds for divorce"
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

"One late afternoon, David got up from taking his nap and was strolling on the roof of the palace. From his vantage point on 

the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was stunningly beautiful. David sent to ask about her, and was told, "Isn't this 

Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?" David sent his agents to get her. After she arrived, he went to 

bed with her..."
King David's "first mistake" as described in 2 Samuel 11:2-5

"You know the next commandment pretty well, too: 'Don't go to bed with another's spouse.' But don't think you've preserved 

your virtue simply by staying out of bed. Your heart can be corrupted by lust even quicker than your body. Those leering looks 

you think nobody notices—they also corrupt. "Let's not pretend this is easier than it really is. If you want to live a morally 

pure life, here's what you have to do: You have to blind your right eye the moment you catch it in a lustful leer."
Jesus in Matthew 5:27-30, MSG

Fidelity 1494, from M.Fr. fidélité, from L. fidelitatem (nom. fidelitas) "faithfulness, adherence," from fidelis "faithful," 

from fides "faith" (see faith).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

"You're the One I've violated, and you've seen it all, seen the full extent of my evil. You have all the facts before you; 

whatever you decide about me is fair. I've been out of step with you for a long time, in the wrong since before I was born. 

What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life."
King David in Psalm 51:4-6, MSG

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