Exodus chapter number 20. We've been in a series over the last several weeks. In fact, this is week number seven. We've been in a series entitled Written in Stone. Can we say that together?
Written in Stone. This is a series through the Ten Commandments.
So we're slowly working through the Ten Commandments one at a time. And these commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai only months after the exodus from Egypt.
So just a few months after God delivered them out of Egypt, remember they had been in slavery there in Egypt, the nation of Israel, for over 400 years. And finally, God heard their cries and delivered them through the 10 plagues. They leave Egypt, they escape, and they're heading into the land of Canaan. And just a few months after that, God calls Moses up on Mount Sinai and he gives him the law. He gives him the way of living, if you would, for the Israelite people.
The way that they can know God. And he talks all about this and he gives them really these 10 words or 10 laws, if you would, here in Exodus chapter 20 that would govern, if you would, the nation of Israel.
Now, the Ten Commandments, I really believe this, have probably impacted not only just the church, but society in general more than any other words in history. Especially in American society, because you can see these ten laws just woven throughout our judicial system and throughout our Constitution and just throughout how the way that our just civil system works in society. And so today we are going to continue this study as we look at these, but these have deeply impacted the way that we live.
Now, if you're a guest with us today, I'd encourage you to go back and listen to some of the other weeks, especially week number one, because we gave a little bit of a deep dive on the history of the Ten Commandments. And I think it will help give you a framework for the rest of the study that we have been in here over the last several weeks. And so we're going to go ahead and dive in Exodus chapter number 20, verse number one. We'll read all the way through the commandment that we are going to be looking at here today. says this, and God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
And here we go. Here's commandment number one. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. And he goes on, verse four, thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them.
For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. It goes on, verse 7. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Then the next one, verse 8, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. This is the longest commandment in terms of words and verses that God gives Moses about the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.
Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Verse 12, Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. And all the parents in the room said, Amen. And verse 13, Thou shalt not kill. And then today, what we are going to look at is found in verse 14, thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not commit adultery. Aren't you glad you came to church today? If you're a guest here today, we don't always talk about this. But the way that I like to preach is we work through passages of Scripture. And it's called expositional teaching.
and we like to work through passages of Scripture. And when they come to difficult or sometimes uncomfortable passages of Scripture, we still like to tackle it anyway. We don't skip over those because it's uncomfortable for those in the room. We actually tackle it and try to live our lives based on what God is telling us. And so we will be, in verse 14, thou shalt not commit adultery here today.
In 1631, two men, Robert Barker and Martin Lewis, they were royal printers in London, and they were fined 300 pounds. What they had done is they had printed a version of the King James Bible, and they had made multiple copies, and they had dispersed it all over. You say, what was their crime and why were they fined such a great deal of money that it was found out after it was printed and after it was sent out that their crime was that they omitted accidentally the third word of the seventh commandment. And so you have that right that in 1631 they printed a Bible that was dispersed all around that read, thou shalt commit adultery. And they were fine.
Unfortunately, when you look at that Bible, actually, most of those copies were destroyed. There's a couple of them still in museums around. It was deemed because of the omission. It was deemed the wicked Bible because of that, and that's what it was called. And unfortunately, here's what I will tell you, when you look at our culture, I'm not just talking about culture outside of the church, but also sometimes culture within the church, it seems that some of us and some of our churches and some of the people in our communities are still reading from the Bible that was printed in 1631.
Because if you think about our culture, this idea of adultery, this idea of sex, This idea of just the obsession with it, our culture is absolutely obsessed with sex. It's obsessed with these type of things. And unfortunately, it's hard to find a TV show where stuff like this is not kind of thrown right in the middle of it. It's hard to find a movie where this is not, in most cases, an unnecessary scene that has nothing to do with anything. but Hollywood feels like it has to throw things like this in what we see.
You see it in movies, you see it in shows, you see it in music, you see it everywhere that you go in advertisements and commercials and billboards and everything that you see. It is in front of us because our culture is obsessed with the idea of sex and things like this.
Now, as we look at this here today, I want you to know that this is somewhat of an uncomfortable type of topic. I get it. If you have children in the room, I understand. This is not something that you like to talk about. The young people in the room are already probably cringing and wishing that they hadn't have sat next to their parents today because it's a little bit uncomfortable.
I understand that, but what we have to do is have a biblical understanding about these things and what God is trying to teach us here with this seventh commandment. Out of the ten, the last five commandments all start with thou shalt not. In other words, the last five of the Ten Commandments are all negative in nature, which means that there is a corresponding positive side to each of those commandments. For example, last week when we looked at God's Word when He says, Thou shalt not murder, it is a negative command, But the positive side of that is he was trying to tell the Israelite people and us today that we should value life. That is the positive side of the commandment.
And when we come to this, thou shalt not commit adultery. I want you to know that the seventh commandment is more than just not committing adultery, which is wrong. And we're going to talk about that here today. But really the seventh commandment is about valuing God original design for the marriage relationship When you come to the seventh commandment I know it easy to look at this and say okay thou shalt not commit adultery That pretty self-explanatory, and it is, but I want you to know that the positive side of this negative commandment is to value God's original design for the marriage relationship. That's what the seventh commandment is really all about.
And which leads us to really ask this question, what is God's original design?
Now, I'll tell you this, that sometimes you have to go back to the basics just a little bit. And unfortunately, in the culture that we live in, we have to go back to the basics a lot. Because I think our world has lost its mind on some of these things. And we have to go back to the basics. It's like, who was it?
Was it Vince Lombardi? In one of his first practices each year, he would take out a football, you know, famous football coach, and he would look at his team who just made it, you know, to the big college scene of football, and they played football all their life, and he would, on his first practice, he would hold up a football, and he would say, guys, this here is a football. which obviously they're like, duh, why are we here? Or John Wooden, I think it was John Wooden, who won the most championships of anybody at UCLA. And he would, in his first practice each year, he would teach his players how to put on a pair of socks.
And so he would tell them in the locker room, take off your socks. And then when he would, he would show them how to put on a sock. And you know, they're all thinking like, what in the world? We all know how to do this. And he said, because if you can't put on a sock correctly, you're going to end up getting blisters.
And if you get blisters, you can't run correctly. And if you can't run correctly, you're not going to score points and you're not going to be able to do it. In other words, what you learn from those two stories is sometimes you've got to go way back to the basics. And sometimes when we look at God's original design, unfortunately, we have as a society gotten away from God's original design and the basics of his design.
So some of the things that I'm going to tell you here today, it's going to sound very elementary to most of us in here, but I want to reiterate what God's original design is because it will give us a better framework for understanding what he means by the seventh commandment, thou shalt not commit adultery.
So when you ask this question, what is God's original design? What did he, you know, design for marriage? There's two things that I want you to understand as we get into this. number one, way back in Genesis chapter number two, marriage was ordained by God to be a complementary union between a man and a woman for life. It was supposed to, it was designed in Genesis 2 to be a complementary union between a man and a woman for life.
And what you learn by this commandment, this commandment is built to protect this marriage union.
Okay? That's why the seventh commandment is there. It is built to protect the original design that God said. In Genesis chapter number two, God had created the whole world. He had created man, and he had seen that everything was good, but he noticed one thing, that it was not good for man to be alone.
Can I get an amen there? And God noticed that, and so what God did was he created woman to be a helpmate for him, okay, to be a complement to him, in other words. That doesn't mean that the man is more important than the woman. It just means that they have different roles, but she was created to, they were created to complement one another. And so what you learn from the very beginning is that God created them to complement one another.
And what Genesis 2 goes on to say is that a woman is to leave her, and you might not like this, but here's just the truth of what God said, that a woman is supposed to leave her parents behind and cleave unto her husband, and they are to be one flesh. In other words, they are to create their own family unit. and and you know you see this a lot of times that the grandparents try to speak into this new unit that God has created right and what what you see here is a leaving and a a cleaving together and so God's original design I can't stress this enough from the very beginning was that a man and a woman would complement one another and they would be in a covenant union together for life And let me just be very clear. He goes on to say that they are to be fruitful and multiply. And replenish the earth.
And all of these different things. And I hate that in 2025 we have to be so clear on stuff like this. But anything outside of this original design is unnatural. It is not normal. and and we have to be ultra clear because the way that god originally designed for the marriage relationship to work it's supposed to work and it's supposed to be really the foundation of a healthy society you want to know why we don't have a healthy society it's because we've gotten away from god's original framework and foundation of a healthy society and it was supposed to be the marriage relationship, because this is what he ordained from the very beginning.
And so what you learn is that marriage, number one, when we look at this and we look at God's original design, marriage was ordained by God in the very beginning to be a complementary union between a man and a woman for life. Number two, when we look at God's original design, it's this. God designed men and women intentionally different so that they can live out their God-given roles in the marriage relationship. You see this in Ephesians chapter number 5. Paul is writing to the church, and he's writing about marriage, and he says that marriage is supposed to be the way that Christ loved the church.
And he goes on and he gives these specific roles. For the husband, they're supposed to lovingly lead. That does not mean that men are to be dictators. That does not mean that men are supposed to just force their will on everything that happens. No, in fact, they are to lovingly and sacrificially lead their home.
That is the way God has led the church. And that is the way men are supposed to lead their home. But then for the wife, they are supposed to submit.
Now, we don't like to talk about that word. I'm sure that that's not on a decorative pillow in your living room, right? Wives, submit to your husband. If it is, right, you probably are not married any longer if you have that in your home, okay? But this word, it's not as negative as our culture makes it out to be.
It just means to yield. It just means to help. And that actually supports God's original design when he created a helpmate. It doesn't mean that you are less than, right? And what I like to tell couples is this, or whatever, you have equal value in your home.
Men, women, you have equal value. Men, you have forfeited your right to lead the minute that you think that you are more important or more valuable in your home than your spouse. because that is not the way that God intended for the marriage relationship to work. No, you have equal value, but different roles. You have equal value, but different roles within the home.
And when we see this analogy that Paul uses, that the home should look like the way that Christ loved the church, you've got to think, how did Christ love the church? He loved the church, so we should love our spouse. He served the church, so we should serve our spouse. That's the way that he loved the church, and that's the way, men, you're supposed to lead. And so what we see here from the very beginning is that God, first of all, ordained marriage to be a complementary union between a man and a woman for life.
And that he designed men and women intentionally different so that they can live out their God-given roles in the marriage relationship. This is why I wanted you to understand. This is why we've got to go back to the basics.
Some of you are like, duh, and some of you are looking at me like we already know this. The reason why we've got to get back to the basics of what God originally designed for marriage to look like is so that you, when you see anything out there or on TV or something like that, that is not this, I want you to know that it is unnatural and it is not his original design and therefore it's not going to work the way that he designed marriage to work. And that's what we learn from this. And so what I want you to understand is once you have the foundational blocks of what we just saw you can better understand the seventh commandment thou shalt not commit adultery You can better understand this original law that God gave us, but you have to understand God's original plan and his original design, and it gives you a better understanding of this commandment. Understanding God's divine design helps the seventh commandment make sense.
Listen to this. When you understand God's original design, and I want to be very clear, when you understand God's original design, it renders every kind of adultery, fornication, pornography, homosexuality, or any other sexual acts outside of His original design that we looked at, it makes them a violation of the seventh commandment. And so every single one of those things, okay? And so what we learn from all of this, all right, is this. God values the marriage relationship.
That's what the seventh commandment is all about. God values the marriage relationship, and he ordained it to be a loving, holy, and lifelong covenant between a man and a woman. And that is what he has originally designed for it to be. Thou shalt not commit adultery. We must value the marriage relationship, and when we do, we will not commit the physical act of adultery.
Now, when we look at this seventh commandment, I get it. Every one of us are probably in three different groups. And I want to speak to each group today because I was praying through this and I was thinking, you know what, there's people on different sides of this. There's some of you who have never committed the physical act of adultery. And you're in here today and you think, man, I'm doing really good.
I haven't done this. I want to speak directly to you here in a moment first. there's some of you that have been impacted by this. You have done this, or you're currently involved in it and nobody knows about it. You have a relationship that nobody knows about, and you're sitting here today, and you're under the sound of my voice, and you're reading something like this.
Secondly, I'm going to speak directly to you. And then the third one, because I know that this is a real thing, some of you are on an odd side of this whole thing. you're the victim of someone who has done this to you. And what does this mean for you? Those are the three groups of people we're going to look at.
So first, I want to talk to those who have not committed the physical act of adultery. And if that's you here today, I want you to lean in just a little bit because I think this will help you. In Matthew chapter 5, I've mentioned this a few times in our study through the Ten Commandments. In Matthew chapter number 5, in verses 27 and 28, Jesus is teaching his famous Sermon on the Mount, and he raises the bar a little bit on this commandment, on the seventh commandment. And he says this in Matthew 5, 27, you'll see it up on the screen.
He tells the congregation or the crowd that was gathered around to listen to him. He says, you have heard that it was said by them of old, thou shalt not commit adultery.
Now, his audience would have known this. They would have agreed to this. They'd have said, yes, that's exactly what it says. And bless God, I have never, ever gone out and committed the physical act of adultery.
So I must be doing really good. And you might perhaps feel that same way, just like the Jewish people listening to Jesus in this day probably felt. Like, I'm doing really good. I've never physically gone out and slept with anybody or had an intimate relationship with anybody that was not my wife or not my husband. And so you might feel like, hey, I'm doing really good.
And then Jesus in verse 28, he raises the bar just a little bit. Here's what he said. Jesus says, but I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her.
Now this could be either way. Women, this can apply to you as well. After her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. In other words, what Jesus is saying is he's saying this, hey, the law says, Exodus chapter 20, thou shalt not commit adultery, in which all of us are like, well, absolutely, that's a terrible thing. I mean, everybody in our culture would say that's a bad thing.
I mean, even if they're a non-believer, they probably think, hey, you shouldn't be doing this. But Jesus says, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to raise the bar. When you have a relationship with me and you get saved, here's what I'm going to tell you, is that if you in your heart lust after someone in a sexual way, you have already committed adultery in your heart. In other words, what Jesus is trying to tell us is this, physical, and do not miss this, if you're in here today and you're saying, hey, I've never gone out and committed the physical act of adultery, here's what I'm going to tell you, physical adultery begins with mental adultery, 100% of the time.
Physical adultery begins with mental adultery. And what I want you to understand, if you're in here today and you're like, I've never gone out and physically done anything, then hey, good, that is good. But I'll tell you this, where physical starts, it's in the mind. It's in the mind. And so if you're in here today, my challenge is for you is this.
It's very simple. Guard. If you've never gone out and physically slept with anybody that wasn't your spouse, here's what I'm going to tell you. Guard what you see and your thought life. My challenge is to you, to those that have not committed the physical act of adultery, guard what you see and your thought life because physical adultery always begins with mental adultery.
Your thoughts are so important, and what you think about is usually a response to what you are seeing. And with the world that we live in, our phones can be dangerous. Our computers can be dangerous. And a lot of lives are destroyed because there's a lot of people that are not taking seriously their thought life. What Jesus is trying to say in Matthew 5 is this.
He's saying that if we took charge of our thoughts more, there'd be a lot of less physical acts of adultery. And that's the problem. But you know what a lot of people think? A lot of people think, and you might be in here today, you think, man, I've never gone out and physically cheated on my spouse, but I'm looking at things on the side and I'm paying attention to things on the side and I'm entertaining these thoughts on the side. And let me tell you this, you are playing with fire.
And that the physical act of adultery always starts and begins with a mental act of adultery, an emotional act of adultery. It always starts that way. And so I want to tell you, if you're in here and you say, man, I've never committed the physical act of adultery, I'm doing pretty good. here's my advice to you. Watch what you're watching and watch what you're thinking about.
Guard what you're allowing your eyes to see and guard what you're allowing your mind to think. If you're a young person in here, you have your whole life ahead of you, let me tell you this. Pornography can destroy your life. It can destroy your life. I've seen it time and time again that when you start to let down the guard of what you're allowing your eyes to see and what you're allowing your mind to think.
It will destroy you and it will take you into a marriage relationship and it will give you such a distorted picture of what God's original design is supposed to be. And so I'm just telling you today, listen, take heed, don't miss this. Guard what you see. Our thoughts can be important. And that's why in Philippians 4, That's why the Apostle Paul tells us to think on good things.
Because if bad thoughts can lead to bad behavior, then good thoughts can lead to good behavior. That's normal logic, right?
So he gives us in Philippians 4 a whole list of things that you can think about that are good things. And when you dwell on good things, and you fill your minds with good things, and you allow your eyes to see good things, then you're going to think good things and it will eventually lead to good behavior. But if you fill your minds and your ears with things that are promoting and entertaining these things, here's what I'm going to tell you. It's going to lead to bad behaviors one day. And so for you, I want you to guard what you see in your thought life.
That's the challenge to those that maybe haven't physically gone out and committed adultery. Guard what you see in your thought life. The second group that I want to talk about is this, or talk to, and this is kind of a different sermon, so I get it, and I just want you to take heed on all of them and listen. If you're a guest with us here today, I want you to come back, because we don't always talk about this, and I don't always talk this directly, but I want to talk to those who have committed adultery. And perhaps there's people around you that know about it, perhaps your spouse knows about it, Or perhaps you're in here today and you're involved in a relationship that nobody knows about.
And you think, wow, I'm, I'm not getting called and I'm involved in something that nobody knows about. I want to just show you, we're not going to turn there, but there's a, I want to encourage you here today. There is a a passage of scripture in John chapter eight where Jesus is teaching and these religious leaders find a woman that was caught in the very act of adultery Many people believe that she probably was covered up with a blanket because they literally caught her in the middle of the act of adultery. They bring her before Jesus, and they demand that she be stoned because that's what the Old Testament law said. and Jesus he looks at him and you know the story he writes in the ground and all these kind of things and and he says he says hey if you know if you are without sin cast the first stone and nobody's casting a stone because everybody has sinned and pretty long after that everybody has left except for Jesus and the and the woman and he looks at the woman and he says where are your accusers and they had already already left he said listen i'm not here to condemn you but here's what i'll tell you jesus didn't come to condemn her he came to rescue her from her sin and here's what i want you to know if you're in here today and you have committed the act of adultery you have violated the seventh commandment physically my challenge to you is this is to rest, the challenge to those who have physically committed adultery, rest in the forgiveness of Jesus and seek to restore all broken relationships that your sin has caused.
And here's what I'll tell you. Jesus didn't come to condemn the woman. He didn't come to condemn you. If you've committed this, here's what He's done. He's came to give you rescue.
Now I want to be very clear. That does not mean that there's not going to be consequences for your sin. There will be and there should be.
So don't think that me coming means no consequences if I come out and say what I have done behind closed doors. Listen, exposure of your sin is the most painful but best thing that you could ever do. Exposing your sin and being honest with your spouse and those closest to you, it is the most painful thing you will ever do, but it is the best thing for you to ever do. And what I'm challenging you to do is, if it's not exposed, I want you to do it. Tell somebody, get it right, and then rest in the forgiveness of Jesus and seek to restore every broken relationship that your sin has caused.
And then last, let me talk to those who have been, because I know that there's some that have been the victim side of adultery. You've been the one on the wrong side of this, where somebody has done this to you. let me first say my heart breaks for you you were wronged and don't let the sin of your spouse leave you feeling like it was your fault i get it that in marriage each party can always do things better and they can grow in different relationships but it is never your fault that he or she went out and slept with somebody else.
So don't carry that. Don't let anybody tell you that. You shouldn't have to carry that baggage.
So what do we learn?
Well, here's what I'm going to tell you. This doesn't mean that everything's going to be the same, but my challenge to those who have been the victim of a spouse that has committed adultery, here's what it is. I want to challenge you to extend the same forgiveness to your spouse that Christ has extended to you.
Now, I want to be very, very clear because I don't know every situation in this room. I am not saying that everything has to go back to the exact way that it once was.
Okay? But you can still forgive. And the biblical example of this is in the Old Testament. God tells a prophet in the Old Testament, a man by the name of Hosea. You may know the story.
God tells Hosea to go out and marry Gomer who was a active prostitute. What a terrible ministry assignment, right? And God tells Hosea to go, this prophet, go marry Gomer who was a prostitute. And so he does, he obeys, he goes out and marries Gomer. And sure enough, they get married, they have these kids.
And sure enough, Gomer does what prostitutes do. They go right back into their sin. and what God tells Hosea time and time again throughout the book as he continues to tell him, I want you to go after. Continue to go to the auction block and I want you to continue to buy her back. And you got to think, what in the world?
Hosea, what is Hosea even thinking? In that moment, why am I being told as I'm continuing to be wrong to go back and to continue to buy back? What God was doing was this. he was using the story of Hosea and Gomer as a picture to show all of Israel what spiritual adultery is like. And how God continues that every single time that the nation of Israel, they are told to worship God and only God, but yet we know that they'd go out and they'd worship other gods.
And they'd go after these other things. They were committing this spiritual act of adultery. God has said, worship him and only him. And they were going out and worshiping these other idols. And so what God was doing through this story of Hosea and Gomer, he was showing, hey, listen, here's what I have done for you.
No matter how many times you go out and spiritually cheat on me, I am going to always come back and pursue you every single time. And what you can find is that God will always forgive us every single time we have gone away. and so when we see that story there's an application here and i admit i don't know your story and for some of you that this has happened to you you're probably already thinking josh you do not know and you do not understand there is absolutely no way and i admit i cannot empathize with you and i do not understand i'm just trying to tell you what scripture has shown us that this that it might not mean that everything goes exactly back to the way that it once was but i want you to consider to extend the same forgiveness to your spouse because christ has forgiven you and that's that's my challenge for you i encourage you to try that's what i tell couples when this has happened is i always tell them at least give this time to work at least give the gospel time to work the gospel is a story about us going the other way and God coming to us and pursuing us. And so when we live out the gospel, sometimes we have to realize that God in us gives us the power, not because of you, not because of me, but because of who lives inside of us to forgive the very worst things that have ever happened to us, like adultery. And what I'm asking you to do is to consider to extend the same forgiveness to your spouse.
Consider counseling with a Christian counselor that can work at restoring it. I've seen it. I've seen it. I've seen adultery. And then I've seen a couple commit to say, hey, we have this divine union that God called us to.
And we stood before one another and before a pastor. And we were in a covenant with one another. And one party breaks the covenant. And the easy thing is just to run. And I get it.
And there might be situations that that happens. And I get it. And Christ talks about that. And there being kind of the exception possibly for divorce and stuff like that. I get it.
But I just want you to give it a chance to work. Because the gospel in you can give you the power to extend the same kind of forgiveness that Christ has extended to us.
So when God's saying, thou shalt not commit adultery. here's the thing yes it's talking about the physical act of adultery yes it's talking about the mental act of adultery because christ raised the bar but here's the positive spin on this this positive side of the seventh commandment is to value marriage the way that god originally intended. If we valued marriage the way God originally intended, we would probably have a whole lot of less adulterous relationships. But you know what a lot of us do? We get off of what God's original design is, and we allow, we kind of let down our guard of what our eyes see, what our minds are thinking about, and we forget those things.
And guess what? Here's what happens. Is the next thing you know, our life is completely spiraling out of control because we did something that has ruined the people that we love dearest to us. And here's what I'll tell you. It probably started because you let down your guard and your mind and your eyes.
Here's the thing. Value what God said. If you're in here and you've never committed the physical act of adultery, here's what I'm going to tell you. Guard your mind. Guard your eyes.
Watch what you're listening to. Watch the people that you're around. Watch your entertainment that's going into your life. Watch all of those things so that you will not be one that violates this commandment. And here's what I'll tell you.
When Jesus raised the bar, all of us have violated the commandment in some way. All of us have violated this commandment in some way. every single person in this room. But for us to abide by this and to apply this to our everyday life, we have to watch and take heed to the warnings and we have to value marriage.
