RESPONSABILITY

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In the last section of the Sermon on the Mount, we heard how our internal thoughts, desires, and emotions can bring us success or struggle in our most important and personal relationships. Jesus Christ made this point in the material that follows:

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

“It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

Matthew 5:27-32 NIV-11

Responsibility

If we do not want to experience the pain of adultery and the misery of divorce, we must hear the call of the Lord to stop looking outside of our own selves to find responsibility for our actions and attitudes.

Jesus taught us that success and failure within the commitment of Christian marriage lies in our hearts, in our most intimate thoughts and attitudes. We cannot place blame on anyone or anything else.

Action

In the material found in verses 29-30 we heard that if we have a desire to be involved in healthy personal relationships, we need to take action to extricate ourselves from areas of trial, temptation, and personal challenge.

· Where do you most often face the temptation of lust or ungodly sexual desire outside of marriage?

· What media, what websites, what kinds of personal interactions trip you up and lead you into a place of personal struggle?

Whatever source you named, you need to listen to the call of the Christ to step away from this source of temptation and sin. More than that, if you cannot find a way out, then perhaps it is time to remove yourself from that source, limit your access to the source of trial.

More

This is not the only place where the Lord counsels his people to excise the sources of temptation and sin in our lives. In fact, Jesus Christ taught us that it is the will of God the Father to cut out all of these areas of temptation so that we might live in true freedom.

Listen to what the Lord had to say to you:

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

John 15:1-5 NIV-11

Lust, adultery, divorce… these are not the fruit that the Lord wants for us.

The Lord knows that these ungodly fruit will only serve to bring us pain and misery and so he is at work in us, even now, cutting away at that which threatens to bring us into real and lasting pain.

Ready?

· Are you willing to join the Father in this work?

· Are you ready to submit your areas of weakness?

· Are you willing to step away from that which is leading you into pain and misery?

Prayer

Lord Jesus,
help me bear fruit that will last for all eternity.
I am tired of failing and falling down.
I am ready to have you reach into me
and help me be rid of these areas of temptation and trial.

I submit to you
in your holy and precious name, Lord Jesus.

In Christ,

Ryan Laden

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