Sex & The City

Its been a while since i posted, anyway here's something i wrote to my CG which I think its interesting:

This morning when I turned on the TV, Channel NewsAsia was showing the preview of “Little Children” staring Oscar nominee Kate Winslet. In the movie, someone asked her, “Why do you commit affair?” She replied, “I don’t. It’s hunger. Hunger to live differently. Hunger to live out unhappiness.”

This movie generally talked about this lady committing affairs because of unhappy marriage. Yesterday someone was telling me the story of Potiphar been incompetent, thus leading the wife yearning for someone else to satisfy her physical needs.

Well, one would feel sorry for these people… anyway this morning I was somehow awoken up before my alarm ring to read this verse which was raised during our guys-secret-discussion last night. Ok ok, what else but Sex and The City… ha ha!

Mathew 5:27-30 (from biblegateway.com)
27"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'[e] 28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, 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. 30And if your right hand causes you to sin, 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.

Here’s the simple explanation from my application bible in The Message version.

The OT Law said that it is wrong for a person to have sex with someone other than his or her spouse. But Jesus said that the DESIRE to have sex with someone other than your spouse is mental adultery and thus SIN. Jesus emphasized that if the act is wrong, then so it is the INTENTION. To be faithful to your spouse with your body but not your mind is to break the trust so vital to a STRONG MARRIAGE. Thus is condemning not natural interest in the opposite sex or one healthy sexual desire but the deliberate and repeated filling of one’s mind with fantasies that would be evil if acted out.

The implications:
It causes people to excuse rather than to stop sinning.
It destroys marriages.
It is deliberate rebellion against God’s Word.
It always hurt someone else in addition to the sinner.

Note:
Sinful actions are more dangerous than sinful desires, and that it is why desires should not be acted out. Nevertheless sinful desires are just as damaging to obedience, left unchecked, wrong desires will result in wrong action and turn people away from God.

Question:
Anyone ever pondered why Jesus, although figuratively, mentioned about the eye and the hand? Why not ear or leg? Guess it’s a very simple answer to squashed away arguments to other areas that people sometimes committed other than sex outside marriage. Eye satisfies your mind, hand satisfies body right?

One brother gave a very good valid suggestion. To make a vow to God and seeing it been fulfilled. I must agree it is better to experience the pain of REMOVAL (getting rid of bad habits or something (sin) we treasure) than to allow it to bring judgement and condemnation.

May God bless your HOLY weekend!