OUTLINE FOR TODAY:
1. The Bible on Adultery
2. Adultery in the heart, the Inner Self
3. Why Looking Lustfully Breaks Two Commandments
4. Form and Content in the Second Anti-Thesis
Read more [...]…Category: Matthew 5
Lessons from Matthew chapter 5
OUTLINE FOR TODAY:
1. Jesus’ Use of Hyperbolic Language
2. Drastic Action Required to Combat Heart Adultery
Read more [...]…INTRODUCTION:
- Matthew 5:31-32 and the whole topic of Divorce and Remarriage is intellectually difficult and emotionally charged.
- Christians are very divided on this topic.
- Yet, virtually all of us have been touched by it in some way.
- We must continue to grapple with it.
Phil Yancey in his book Soul Survivor mentions that good writing does not just restate what you already know and believe but instead forces you to "ponder." I think that is true of good teaching too. Hopefully this study of "oaths" will help us to re-evaluate ourselves, to ask ourselves the question, "Am I an honest person?"…
OUTLINE FOR TODAY
- Lex Talionis (Eye for an Eye)
- Pacifism & “Do Not Resist an Evil Person
- The Bible and Resisting an Evil Person