The Sermon on The Mount - Teaching 9

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Speaker Notes Refuse Contempt, Pursue Peace

Matthew 5:27-30

27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 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. 30 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.

1 - Adultery is a Matter of the Heart
2 - The Decisive Power that Lust exercises in us
3 - How Can We Be Changed

“It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Nathan is the Senior Theologian & Associate Directorof The Octet Collaborative at M.I.T.