Can you truly commit adultery in your heart? Well Jesus said you can and if he said it - it's truth my brothers and sisters. In his sermon on the mount he continues to reveal to us the sins of the heart and how those sins have eternal consequences. Let's continue our bible study in Matthew 5:27-30.
that the consequences for these will be based on what is in your heart rather than what you do outwardly.
Adultery is something physical, something you engage in with your physical body, you either get caught or not, others knew or not but you would definitely know and the other person would know as well. But a thought is something that you know, you do not have to share with others, you can keep it to yourself and repeat it in your head, over and over and over and no one would ever know! Now which is worst? Something you constantly engage in your head and heart or something you engage in with your body? Jesus is saying that both are wrong and although you were told the penalty of the physical act, Jesus said I'm going to take it a step further, the thought and what is in your heart carries an even more severe penalty! Why would a thought carry such a severe penalty?
27 “You have heard that it was said to those of old,[c] ‘You shall not commit adultery.’[d] 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and castit from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.Firstly Jesus looked at "Do not commit murder." Now he refers to another commandment, "You shall not commit adultery." With both of these commandments there was a consequence according to the law but Jesus is saying
that the consequences for these will be based on what is in your heart rather than what you do outwardly.
Adultery is something physical, something you engage in with your physical body, you either get caught or not, others knew or not but you would definitely know and the other person would know as well. But a thought is something that you know, you do not have to share with others, you can keep it to yourself and repeat it in your head, over and over and over and no one would ever know! Now which is worst? Something you constantly engage in your head and heart or something you engage in with your body? Jesus is saying that both are wrong and although you were told the penalty of the physical act, Jesus said I'm going to take it a step further, the thought and what is in your heart carries an even more severe penalty! Why would a thought carry such a severe penalty?
In life, we may pretend, lie and act out the best Oscar winning roles with others but we cannot do that with God. When we come to God in prayer, that is the time for us to humble ourself and know that God knows all things. We should be inclined to say, "Lord, you know me better than I know myself, when others can't catch me in the sinful acts I commit in my heart and with my body, you already know, so Lord purge me of that thing that is ultimately gonna lead me to hell." Can you imagine praying to God and trying to deceive Him? Lyring through your teeth about the things you have done and will do? I'm sure you can get away with lying to people but not to God.
No one may ever know what you do in private. But God knows. Whatever it is that is causing you to be a candidate for hell's fire, cut it off because it's not good to be whole and going to hell, its sometimes those missing members or missing parts that will get you into the Kingdom of Heaven.
I want to get there and I hope you do. Therefore, whatever it is, you know what it is, cut it off and leave it because in the end, it's a fight for our soul and we have to make sure that our hearts and every facet of our being is pure, every day and it every way, that's what Jesus is asking of us. We never know when we will breathe our last breath. It's not easy but let's continue to fight.
“For the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts” (1 Chronicles 28:9).
"Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart." (Psalm 44:21)
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