1. 10 Stupid Things We Do
To Mess Up Our Lives
Engage in Immorality
(Putting the “Lock” in Wedlock)

2. Introduction
♦ I would like to just skip this
one.
♦ This sin is tearing apart:
– Our world
– Our nation
– Our cities
– Our churches
♦ Why do we do such a stupid
things as engage in immoral
acts?

3. What is Adultery?
♦ Narrow definition – sexual relationship
between two people, at least one of whom is
married to another
♦ Broader definition – Often adultery and
fornication are used interchangeably
♦ God forbids all sexual activity outside of
marriage!

4. Four Types of Adultery
Physical Adultery
♦ Genesis 2:18 - And the LORD God said,
“It is not good that man should be alone; I
will make him a helper comparable to him.”
♦ Genesis 2:24 - Therefore a man shall leave
his father and mother and be joined to his
wife, and they shall become one flesh.

5. Four Types of Adultery
Physical Adultery
♦ Leviticus 18:20 - Moreover you shall not
lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, to
defile yourself with her.
♦ 2 Samuel 11:4 - Then David sent
messengers, and took her; and she came to
him, and he lay with her, for she was
cleansed from her impurity; and she
returned to her house.

6. Four Types of Adultery
Physical Adultery
♦ Jeremiah 5:7 - “How shall I pardon you for
this? Your children have forsaken Me And
sworn by those that are not gods. When I
had fed them to the full, Then they
committed adultery And assembled
themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

7. Four Types of Adultery
Physical Adultery
♦ 1 Corinthians 7:2 - Nevertheless, because
of sexual immorality, let each man have his
own wife, and let each woman have her
own husband.

8. Four Types of Adultery
Mental Adultery
♦ Matthew 15:19 - For out of the heart
proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies.
♦ Proverbs 23:7 - For as he thinks in his
heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to
you, But his heart is not with you.

9. Four Types of Adultery
Mental Adultery
♦ Matthew 5:27-28 - 27“You have heard that
it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not
commit adultery.’ 28But I say to you that
whoever looks at a woman to lust for her
has already committed adultery with her in
his heart

10. Four Types of Adultery
Mental Adultery
♦ 2 Peter 2:14 - having eyes full of adultery
and that cannot cease from sin, enticing
unstable souls. They have a heart trained in
covetous practices, and are accursed
children.

11. Four Types of Adultery
Legal Adultery
♦ Matthew 19:6 - So then, they are no longer
two but one flesh. Therefore what God has
joined together, let not man separate.”
♦ Romans 7:2 - For the woman who has a
husband is bound by the law to her husband
as long as he lives. But if the husband dies,
she is released from the law of her husband.

12. Four Types of Adultery
Legal Adultery
♦ Matthew 19:9 - And I say to you, whoever
divorces his wife, except for sexual
immorality, and marries another, commits
adultery; and whoever marries her who is
divorced commits adultery.”
♦ Divorce for reasons other than fornication
♦ What if there are children involved?

13. Four Types of Adultery
Spiritual Adultery
♦ Jeremiah 3:9 - So it came to pass, through
her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land
and committed adultery with stones and
trees.
♦ Romans 7:4 - Therefore, my brethren, you
also have become dead to the law through
the body of Christ, that you may be married
to another—to Him who was raised from
the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

14. Four Types of Adultery
Spiritual Adultery
♦ 2 Corinthians 11:2 - For I am jealous for
you with godly jealousy. For I have
betrothed you to one husband, that I may
present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
♦ James 4:4 - Adulterers and adulteresses!
Do you not know that friendship with the
world is enmity with God? Whoever
therefore wants to be a friend of the world
makes himself an enemy of God.

15. Four Types of Adultery
Spiritual Adultery
♦ Ezekiel 16:32 - You are an adulterous wife,
who takes strangers instead of her husband.
♦ Ezekiel 16:35 - Now then, O harlot, hear
the word of the LORD!

16. This Command Forbids:
♦ The command is broader than just one very
specific sin.
♦ This command includes:
Rape Incest
Pedophilia Seduction
Lewdness Wantonness
Polygamy Homosexuality
Bestiality Pornography
Necrophilia Sexual abuse

17. Curse of Adultery
♦ Leviticus 20:10 - ‘The man who commits
adultery with another man’s wife, he who
commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife,
the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely
be put to death.
♦ Proverbs 6:32 - Whoever commits adultery
with a woman lacks understanding; He who
does so destroys his own soul.

18. Curse of Adultery
♦ Proverbs 6:23-26 – 23 For the
commandment is a lamp, And the law a
light; Reproofs of instruction are the way of
life, 24 To keep you from the evil woman,
From the flattering tongue of a seductress. 25
Do not lust after her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her allure you with her eyelids. 26
For by means of a harlot A man is reduced
to a crust of bread; And an adulteress will
prey upon his precious life.

19. Curse of Adultery
♦ Revelation 21:8 - But the cowardly,
unbelieving, abominable, murderers,
sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and
all liars shall have their part in the lake
which burns with fire and brimstone, which
is the second death.”

20. What if you Commit Adultery?
♦ You can be forgiven – John 8:11
♦ Repentance is required – Acts 17:30
♦ Repentance includes a ceasing of the sin
– Decide – change your mind about the sin
– Determine – change your attitude
– Direction – change your actions

21. Sexual Immorality is Wrong
♦ The command is clear.
♦ The violations of this command are
everywhere in our world.
♦ There is hope:
– Forgiveness is possible
– Correction is available
– Consequences are often very difficult

22. Why is Adultery Wrong?
♦ Sin against society – Proverbs 14:34
♦ Destroys the home – Malachi 2:16
♦ Sin against the body – 1 Corinthians 6:18
♦ Sin against soul – Proverbs 6:34
♦ Sin against God – Genesis 39:9