Matthew 6:27-30 (NKJV): “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
Strong’s #1939: epithumia (pronounced ep-ee-thoo-mee’-ah)
from 1937; a longing (especially for what is forbidden):–concupiscence, desire, lust (after).
Thayer’s Greek Lexicon: ̓́ epithumia
1) desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust
lust (as found on Meriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary)
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This is not the type of love we should have either. Jesus instructed us to be careful of this type of love. This is the type that can cause us to sin.
We read in the Bible of some accounts of what happens when one lusts. An example is found in 2 Samuel 11-12, when David stayed home when other kings were in battle. He saw Bathsheba bathing on her roof. He lusted after her and called for her to be brought to his home. The problem? she was married.
We learn that she was married. David impregnated her and then set on this venture to cover it up. He tried to get her husband drunk and sleep with her and failed. He then planned and collaborated with someone to murder him. After this was accomplished, he brought Bathsheba to his home to make her his wife. this to cover up that he impregnated her prior to killing her husband, Uriah. What David did was not honoring to God and God dealt with his sin.
Instead of being like David and committing sin and then repenting when confronted with it. we are to live righteously. In fact, we are told to live as a living sacrifice;
Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV): I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Let’s continue to do what honors God today.
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