Mat 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, 'YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY';
Mat 5:28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Mat 5:29 "If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Mat 5:30 "If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.
Sin is in the heart and mind first before it becomes an action. If it were merely physical, as the Pharisees taught and practiced, then it would be a matter of cutting off an arm or gouging out an eye and not sin. Since it's the HEART and THOUGHTS that are the problem, we need to get rid of the OLD HEART and have a NEW ONE. That means we need regeneration in order to see our sin as GOD sees it and seek His forgiveness and salvation. And that can ONLY be done by God Himself.
Eze 36:22 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
Sin is in the heart and mind first before it becomes an action. If it were merely physical, as the Pharisees taught and practiced, then it would be a matter of cutting off an arm or gouging out an eye and not sin. Since it's the HEART and THOUGHTS that are the problem, we need to get rid of the OLD HEART and have a NEW ONE. That means we need regeneration in order to see our sin as GOD sees it and seek His forgiveness and salvation. And that can ONLY be done by God Himself.
Eze 36:22 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
Eze 36:23 "I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD," declares the Lord GOD, "when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight.
Eze 36:24 "For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land.
Eze 36:25 "Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
Eze 36:26 "Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.
Tit 3:5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Tit 3:5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Tit 3:6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
Tit 3:7 so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
So whether you're talking about shooters, pornography watchers, or Islam's burkas for women (because it's "their fault" the men lust), God is NOT a God of reductionism. Rather He is one of precision:
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
So whether you're talking about shooters, pornography watchers, or Islam's burkas for women (because it's "their fault" the men lust), God is NOT a God of reductionism. Rather He is one of precision:
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Heb 4:13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
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