11/09/17-Eph 6:2-3, 10 Commandments, Pt. 24, The 7th Commandment, Pt. 4 

Lesson # 17-120

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lw4I6brwWA

Pastor/Teacher, Jim Rickard

Grace Fellowship Church
www.GraceDoctrine.org

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Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, (If You have - Trusted in Him for Eternal Life), it is important to prepare yourself to: Take-in God’s Word and/or Participate in a Communion Service, so take a moment to name, cite, or acknowledge your sins privately, directly to God the Father. This will assure that you are in fellowship with God the Father & the Holy Spirit’s convicting ministry will then be able to teach you as the Holy Spirit is the real teacher.

1 John 1:9 says— “If we confess [simply name, cite, or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown & forgotten sins].”

For those of you who have not yet accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord & Savior, please see: The Salvation Message @ the end of this document.

2 Pet 3:9, “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”

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The Doctrine of the Ten Commandments Related to the Church Age, Part XXIV.

The 7^th Commandment, Pt 4.

Ex 20:14; Deut 5:18, “You shall not commit adultery.”

Mark 8:38; Luke 18:11; 1 Cor 6:9-18; 7:2-5; James 4:4; 1 Peter 1:15-16; 2 Peter 2:14

Adultery is defined as voluntary sexual intercourse between a married or engaged person and a partner other than their spouse. This is also called infidelity. Under Divine Institution #2, Marriage, the 7^th Commandment has been given to protect every right man and right woman, even before they meet, and to protect their relationship after they marry.

New Testament Usage, (continued):

This commandment uses the Greek Verb MOICHEUO, μοιχεύω that means, “to commit adultery,” which is used 14 times in the NT, Mat 5:27-28, 32; 19:18; Mark 10:19; Luke 16:18, (twice); 18:20; John 8:4; Rom 2:22, (twice); James 2:11, (twice); Rev 2:22.

Other cognates of MOICHEUO include:

1. The verb MOICHAOMAI μοιχάομαι that also means, “commit adultery,” which is used 4 times in the NT, Mat 5:32, (at the end); 19:9; Mark 10:11-12. These all have to do with Jesus’ teaching on Divorce as noted above.

2. The Adjective MOICHALIS, μοιχαλίς that means, “adulteress or adulterous,” is used 7 times in 6 passages the NT in Mat 12:39; 16:4; Mark 8:38; Rom 7:3 (twice); James 4:4; 2 Peter 2:14.

In Mat 12:39; 16:4, our Lord rebukes the Pharisees who were looking for Him to perform a sign or miracle. Because they did not believe in Him through faith, they are classed, “an evil and adulterous generation,” meaning they trusted in other things, (their eyes, their emotions, etc.) rather than God, which made them idolaters.

In Mark 8:38, Jesus commanded that we put aside the things of this world and take up our Cross and follow Him. If we do not, we are an adulterer towards God, (idolater).

James tells us, once again, of adultery towards God, (i.e., idolatry), being when we are more concerned with the things of this world, (Satan’s cosmic system), than we are with God.

James 4:4, “You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”

In a similar way, Peter uses it regarding the lustful heart of the false teachers of false doctrines, in 2 Peter 2:14. Those who lead people away from a true relationship with God, which is the dissemination of idolatry, are adulterers towards God.

2 Peter 2:14, “Having eyes full of adultery and that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children.

In Rom 7:3, “adulteress” is used by Paul in the analogy of marriage, “till death do they part,”  regarding our freedom to be joined to Christ because we have died to sin through faith in Him, vs. 4.

3. The Noun MOICHEIA, μοιχεία that means, “adultery” is used 4 times in Mat 15:19; Mark 7:21; John 8:3; Gal 5:19.

In Mat 15:19; Mark 7:21, as noted above, the overt physical sin of adultery germinates from evil being in the heart first.

In John 8:3, we have the object lesson of Jesus’ forgiveness of the adulterous woman, as noted above under MOICHEUO.

In Gal 5:19 the KJV includes adultery, as some Greek manuscripts have MOICHEIA in the list of the “deeds of the flesh,” (i.e., sins that emanate from our Old Sin Nature). The NASB does not, but clearly adultery is included under “sexual immorality, impurity, and sensuality.”

 

Gal 5:19, (NASB77), “Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality.” Vs. 20, then continues the list beginning with “idolatry.”

4. The Noun MOICHOS, μοιχός that means, “adulterer, the one who commits adultery,” is used 3 times in Luke 18:11; 1 Cor 6:9; Heb 13:4.

In Luke 18:11, Jesus told a parable about a self-righteous Pharisee who thanked God in his prayer at the Temple that he was not a MOICHOS like all the others, yet his pride caused God to reject him. 

Likewise, in 1 Cor 6:9, the unbeliever is excluded from inheriting the kingdom of God, including the MOICHOS, “the violator of the marriage bond.”

1 Cor 6:9, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals.”

And finally, in Heb 13:4, marriage must be held in high honor, “and the marriage bed undefiled,” lest one be judged by God.

Heb 13:4, “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.”

This commandment is directed toward protecting the sanctity of the home, the fundamental building block of society. The marital vow is a holy commitment that should not be violated by sexual unfaithfulness under any circumstances. In 1 Cor 7:2-5 and 1 Thes 4:1-8, the word adultery is not used but clearly meant for the protection against adultery and to keep the sanctity of the individual and home intact.

1 Cor 7:2-5, “But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. ³The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. ⁴The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. ⁵Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”

1 Thes 4:1-8, “Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more. ²For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. ³For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; ⁴that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; ⁶and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you. ⁷For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. ⁸So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.”

This may come as a shock to some, but God is the author of sex, and as such, He has laid down rules to protect the happiness for which it was designed. Yet, if we abuse our freedom of volition and disregard God’s design, there are consequences as a result.

Adultery has a destructive effect on the body of both male and female, as well as on the soul, 1 Cor 6:13-18. Promiscuity results in male impotence and inability to enjoy fully the right woman for whom he was designed. Promiscuity results in female frigidity, or the antithesis, nymphomania, and destroys the woman’s ability to respond to the right man and to receive from him the fulfillment for which she was designed.

Adultery produces “scar tissue” on the right lobe (heart) of the soul, Eph 4:19; cf. Prov. 6:32. As such, adultery carries certain laws of punishment, such as frustration, and leads to certain forms of slavery. It is one of the manifestations of both sublimation and emotional revolt of the soul. This principle is taught by the use of the Greek noun translated “greediness” in Eph 4:19 and “greed” in Eph 5:3, which we have noted in our study of Ephesians, and means a “frantic search for happiness.” It indicates the built-in punishment that goes with adultery.

Prov 6:32, “The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; He who would destroy himself does it.”

While the Lord can forgive the sin of adultery, 1 Cor 6:9-11; John 8:1-11, like David, the adulterer and adulteress must live with the sad consequences of forgiven sin, 2 Sam 12:13-14; Psa 51.

What does this command teach us about God? It reminds us of God’s faithfulness and holiness. God is holy and He commands His people to be holy, 1 Peter 1:15-16. God expects His people to faithfully follow His word in regard to relationships. God is not trying to spoil your fun. Inside the covenant of marriage there is great enjoyment and intimacy in a one-flesh union. God’s commandments are for your good, as well as the good of others.

1 Peter 1:15-16, “But like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; ¹⁶because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY." Cf. Lev 11:44-45; 19:2; 20:7.

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A PERSONAL NOTE FOR YOU

John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.”

Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have;” it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it, and it can never be lost or taken away from you [John 10:28-29]. Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life [also called eternal life in Scripture] is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

Eph 2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

If you have never accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, I am here to tell you that Jesus loves you. He loves you so much that He gave His life for you. God the Father also loves you. He loves you so much that He gave His only Son for you by sending Him to the Cross. At the Cross Jesus died in your place. Taking upon Himself all of your sins and all of my sins. He was judged for our sins and paid the price for our sins. Therefore, our sins will never be held against us.

Right where you are, you now have the opportunity to make the greatest decision in your life. To accept the free gift of salvation and eternal life by truly believing that Jesus Christ died for your sins and was raised on the third day as the proof of the promise of eternal life. So right now, you can pause and reflect on what Christ has done for you and say to the Father:

"Yes Father, I believe that Your Son, Jesus Christ, 

died on the cross for the forgiveness of my sins."

If you have done that, I Welcome You to the Eternal Family of God !!!

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