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Matthew 5:27-30 NIV

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

 

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MAIN IDEA

 You can’t walk in life that is truly life when you are still inviting death in. 

GOING DEEPER
Questions from this weeks message.

Alert: You may wish to break into gender specific groups if using for small group time.

1. What insight, principle or observation from this week’s message did you find to be most helpful, eye opening or troubling? Please explain.

2. What is something you get really serious about, in a positive or negative way? What actions revealed just how serious you were?

3. Read Matthew 5:27-28. How does Jesus redefine what the law actually meant? How does Jesus’ new definition of adultery challenge you specifically?

4. Read Matthew 5:29-30. Jesus gets real serious about sin, specifically here is sexual sin. Do you think we can take Jesus seriously? What do you think Jesus actually means by these extreme statements?

5. How has sexual sin and lust been a temptation and struggle for you? How is it currently a struggle? If you have never told anyone, start be telling your group, or a few members in your group after the large group time.

6. Jesus says something will die. Our hand or eye, or our whole body in hell. What is causing you to sin sexually? What needs to die? When it comes to sin (sexual sin), what would it look like for you to get serious and cut something from your life?

7. Often our struggle with lust is the result of things we look at or places we go. What has been the source of your greatest struggle? Why can there not be a universal standard as to what is allowed when it comes to what we look at and where we go? Why must this be personal to each of us?

8. For many years we thought lust and sexual sin was simply a male struggle, does it surprise you that more and more females are struggling with this as well? What could we/you do to open up more conversations with females about this?

9. For parents: Have you thought about sexual sin and lust in regard to your parenting. How could you as a parent be ahead of the game when it comes to this area with your kids?

SUMMARY POINTS

 55% of Married Men, 25% of Married Women

 64% of Christian Men 15% of Christian Women 

 84% of boys 14-18 57% of girls 14-18 

 The average age of first-time exposure to porn is 11 or 12 

 The heart of the problem is at the bottom of our hearts. 

 Get serious about Sin. Get serious about Lust. 

 Lead Your Heart 

 You can’t walk in life that is truly life when you are still inviting death in. 

CALL TO ACTION

Consider what it is that needs to die in your life, and choose to talk with a godly person today.

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