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Chapter Three
WHAT GOD
SAYS ABOUT
YOUR SEX LIFE
T
HE COMMANDMENT
against adultery is short and to the
point. God says merely, "You shall not commit adul–
tery"
(Ex. 20:14). But
this commandment goes far
beyond the mere surface or limited technical meaning of the
word
adultery,
meaning sex with someone other than a
person's own husband or wife.
Christ clearly expands the meaning in Matthew 5:27-28:
"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."
Here, Christ expands the commandment to include not
merely the act of physical adultery, but sexual lust.
Thus we see that the commandment, which at first
glance may seem like a mere legal prohibition against one
type of improper sexual activity, includes under its umbrella,
both in principle and by application from other texts, a
prohibition against misuse of sex in every form.
But the real point of God's commandment against adul–
tery even goes further than this.
The point of the commandment is not limited to protect–
ing one's physical body or biological reproductive machinery,
though the modern curse of sexual diseases would certainly
be eliminated if everyone had been obeying this law. No, the