Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:22
‘’flee all appearances of evil’’ (1 Thessalonians 5:22)
‘’flee all appearances of evil’’ (1 Thessalonians 5:22)
Generally, adultery is willful sexual intercourse with someone other than your husband or wife or a married person cohabiting with another who is not his or her lawfully wedded spouse.
Adultery is not limited to having real sexual intercourse with another, other than one’s husband or wife. Adultery can be committed subtly in the name of intimacy in many other ways that constitute unfaithfulness to one’s spouse.
Did Jesus Christ not say in Matthew 5:28 that if you look at a woman lustfully, you have committed adultery with her in your heart?
Therefore the thought is as deadly as the deed!
Remember that in Luke 12:16-21, the rich fool was condemned by his thoughts even before he implemented his wishes.
Remember that in Luke 12:16-21, the rich fool was condemned by his thoughts even before he implemented his wishes.
The many faces of adultery (marital unfaithfulness) include the following:
1. Touching any woman or man for the purpose of having sexual fulfillment
2. Allowing any man or woman to touch you for the purpose of attaining sexual fulfillment
3. Kissing the opposite sex: a man or woman secretly, on the hand, jaw or lips
4. Embracing a man or woman secretly
5. Squeezing a man’s or woman’s hand secretly
6. Touching any part of the body of the opposite sex with a lustful desire
7. Touching any part of the body of the opposite sex without a lustful desire but in ways that you would not want anyone else to know about it
8. Writing love letters or sending love text messages to a man or woman that you would want kept as a secret
9. Calling a man or woman a pet name that you do not want anyone else to know, which indicates that the intimacy is shady
10. Cherishing a love letter or text message by a man or woman that you would not want anyone else to know about it
11. Visiting the opposite sex - a man or woman - you do not want anyone to know about
12. Receiving a visit from the opposite sex - a man or woman - which you do not want anyone to know about
13. Watching porn films
14. Gazing at the photo of a naked man or woman who has sensitive parts of his/her body exposed
15. Deliberately looking at the opposite sex in nude or when dressing and sensitive parts are exposed
16. Imagine yourself having any form of sexual relations with a man or woman
17. Talking immoral words to the opposite sex
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