What is Adultery? Who is an Adulterer?

Well, if you will take your Bible and turn back to Matthew chapter 5, like I said earlier, we'll be in verses 27 to verse 30. But really we're going to divide verse 27 and 28 this morning. Now, not next Sunday because next Sunday is Easter, but the next we're going to finish up this portion of Scripture. We're going to approach it much like we did that first lesson from verses 21 on down to verse 26. Now, this past Sunday morning we did finish up that first lesson. We have six lessons starting in verse 21, going on down to the end of chapter 7 or chapter 5. And we finished up that first lesson.

Of course, this first lesson, it was on murder and anger. It was on anger and murder. That was in verse 26, verse 21 to 26. Now, we examine these verses in two messages. In our first message, I asked questions. I asked two questions. What is murder and who is a murderer? Now, in our second message, I asked the question, how can a murderer worship? Now, what do we see here in this first lesson, verses 21 to 26? We saw verse 20 being illustrated. In verse 20, Jesus said that man must attain a standard of righteousness that is beyond the standard of righteousness of the Jewish leaders.

Now, he is not talking about a bigger or a better religion of works. We know that. Jesus was talking about the inside of a man. He was talking about the heart of the man, the inner being of the man. Jesus was blasting apart their religion, which was concerned only with works. It was an external religion. And so this was a new standard. This was a new standard, a standard of heart righteousness. Now, I'm not going to go back all through that we look through what we looked at last week in verse 21 and 26. Now, I want to tell you as your pastor, if you're not caught up there, you really need to go back and you need to listen to three messages.

You need to listen to that message that I preached introducing this section of scripture. We looked at what I called a new authority and a new standard. And we're using that language all throughout these lessons. Jesus is establishing a new authority and a new standard. And then we divided this first lesson with two messages. What is murder? And who is a murderer? I've already said that. And then how can a murderer worship? And those messages are a must because all of these lessons really do tie together. But there's one thing that I do need to reiterate before we progress into our second lesson.

We have been learning this truth all along, but John MacArthur really captures it. Really, he says what I've been trying to say in a much, much better way. Now I'm quoting. John MacArthur says, "God's divine evaluation takes place in the heart." Isn't that what we've been seeing here? "God's divine evaluation takes place within a heart. He judges the source and origin of sin, not its manifestation or lack of manifestation." Now listen, that's what's been going on all along in these lessons. God is examining the heart, which is the source of sin. And we're going to talk more about this source.

And that's going to help us see that our sin is deeper and greater than we know. Now with all that we've learned in verse 21 to 26, this first lesson, let's move on to our second lesson. And that is found, like I said, in verse 27 to 30. Now at first glance in our verses, it appears that the subject here, the primary subject, is adultery. Go back to verse 27. "You have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery." But if we read on down into verse 28, it seems that lust could be the main subject. Verse 28, "But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent." Now a question, what is the main subject?

Is it lust, or is it adultery? Is it adultery, or is it lust? Well, it's both. As we progress in the message, we will see that it is adultery and lust. Those are the subjects, and they are related to each other in some ways in which you might not know. Now at this point, we must ask a question. We must ask a question, a simple question for some, but complicated for others. What is adultery? We must ask the question, what is adultery? If one of the main subjects of this lesson is adultery, then we must ask the question, what is adultery?

Now for some today, adultery is some antiquated sin from some bygone era from the 1950s, or even from a time before that. They might see adultery as some moral taboo from their grandparents' generation. So to them, adultery is some so-called sin from the past, and it's really not applicable to today. But there are others. They would say that adultery is a standard that is meant for today. They would define adultery as something like an affair. Now let me explain what I mean here. Some see adultery as cheating on your wife or cheating on your husband.

Simply after you get married, if you have a sexual relationship with another, well, then you have committed adultery. Now we could debate the definition of adultery, really, all day long. Now even with some, they would debate even the relevance of adultery for our day. I've already referenced that. Today, this is a hotly debated subject, whether you know it or not. But a question, what should we do? Those of us who would say that we are Christian, we would say we believe in the scripture. We would say even, hey, yes, I'm a born again Christian. What should we do? We must look into the scriptures.

We must view this subject of adultery through the lens of God's word. And then we must submit to the authority of God's word in defining the term adultery and then in dealing with adultery. This is not just a human issue. No, this is not just an issue with us, mankind. This is a Bible issue. Now why is this important? Whether you realize it or not, and I'm sure you do, we live in a sex saturated culture. Yes, we live in a sex saturated culture. Pernography is readily available everywhere. It could be seen on any cellular device. It could be seen on any desktop computer or notebook computer.

Listen, sexual immorality is just one or two clicks away. One of my resources that I study throughout the Sermon on the Mount is by the old Presbyterian Jim Boyce. And he wrote his material in the 1970s. So I really looked at what he said, and he was describing it in his day. He was saying in his day, yes, the 1970s, it's just a world of playboy. The reason I bring that up is look how far we have devolved. For us today, we are bombarded by sexual immorality or pornography on TV ads. Oh yeah, in the magazines that are there in the barbershop, we see them on billboards on the interstates. Listen, it's everywhere. It's everywhere.

It's everywhere. Sexual immorality, pornography, adultery, it is everywhere. And if that's the case, and it is, then this lesson here from Jesus, it will be very, very timely. And we'll be looking at adultery and lust, lust and adultery from verse 27 and 28. Let's go back to those verses. You have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Now let me explain to you our approach to these verses.

We're going to look at each of these verses, and I'm calling these major truths, or the major points in our outline. Number one, we're going to look at the serious sin, the serious sin in verse 27. And then number two, we're going to look at the difficult desire in verse 28. So we see number one, the serious sin out of verse 27. And then number two, we see the difficult desire out of verse 28. And as always, I encourage you to take notes. However you approach the message, let's just be good students. Let's study. Let's open up our heart and mind to the Lord.

And let's ask God to take the truth of his word and change us today and throughout the week and really all throughout our life. And really with this subject, this message really today could save a marriage. It could save one from shipwrecking their life, losing their job so much. So this is extremely, extremely important in my eyes. So our first major truth, number one, the serious sin at hand. Verse 27, the serious sin at hand. Look at verse 27. "You have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery." Now if we know our Bibles, we know that Jesus is quoting. He is quoting the Old Testament scriptures here.

Specifically, he's quoting Exodus 20, verse 14. This is the Sabbath commandment, one of the 10 commandments, one of the big 10. Also, we should know the context. Over and over, I've explained the context. Jesus is teaching to this very large crowd there on the mountainside, and it was mostly Jews. I have pictured it like this. We have the disciples there on the front row. The crowd is mostly the Jews. There are the religious leaders that are scattered in, maybe some Gentiles there on the back row. But this is mostly Jews. And the context of the whole crowd is Judaism and their Jewish religion.

So this leads us to something that we must examine. How did the Jews hear? How would they have understood this commandment, the seventh commandment? You shall not commit adultery. Of course, they would have said, this is a part of the Old Testament scriptures. They would have said, we believe in keeping this commandment. But what did that look like? What did it look like for those Jews in that day to obey that commandment? Well, the Old Testament scriptures, specifically the Mosaic law describes adultery as one of the most sinful, heinous sins before God. God was very specific in how he dealt with this sin.

In Leviticus chapter 20 and Deuteronomy chapter 22, we see both the description of the sin and the punishment for the sin. Now, I wanna take the time to turn to some of those passages because we need to see how God dealt with these passages in the Old Testament scriptures. But Leviticus chapter 20, starting in verse 10, on down to verse 14. If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness, both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them.

If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed perversion and their blood is upon them. If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination, they shall surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them. If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity. He and they shall be burned with fire and there may be no depravity among you. And then if you know your Bible, starting in verse 15, God deals with some other gross sexual sin. And the subject of sexual sin and the punishment for sexual sin goes all the way down to verse 21.

But then we need to look at this other passage in Deuteronomy chapter 22, starting in verse 22. Deuteronomy 22, starting in verse 22. If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. If there is a betrothed virgin, this would have been an unmarried woman. She's betrothed, but she's not fully married yet. And a man meets her in the city and he lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of the city and you shall stone them to death with stones.

The young woman, because she did not cry for help, though she was in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife, so you shall purge the evil from your midst. Out of all of those passages, we see two things. First, what adultery is. It's defined there what adultery is and the punishment for that adultery under the old covenant. Simply adultery was any sexual sin outside the confines or bounds of marriage and the punishment was death. Yes, it was death and we saw that repeated all through those verses. Now believe it or not, there's a New Testament verse or story that'll help you here.

In John chapter eight, we see that the scribes and Pharisees, they bring an adulterous woman before Jesus. She had been caught in the very act of adultery. That's what the text says. Imagine that. Maybe you shouldn't, but the very act of adultery, they brought her to Jesus and using the Old Testament law, they called for her to be stoned. Of course, their issue was not with the woman. Verse six says that they were trying to trap Jesus into disobeying the Old Testament scriptures. That's another subject for another day. But what is my point?

Knowing these Old Testament scriptures concerning adultery, you know why these scribes and Pharisees said what they said in John eight. They were using this standard as seen in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. So with all of that said, what must we see? This is a summary of what we have studied. Adultery was defined as any sexual relationship outside of marriage and none of the Old Covenant, it was punishable by death. Yes, death. Deuteronomy 22, again, verse 22 to 24. If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die.

But we must remember, we must remember the horrific mistake the Jews were making in all of their external religion. They approached adultery exactly like they did murder. Simply, it was approached on the surface level. They dealt with the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law. They only focused on the actual act of adultery, not the matter of the heart. Now remember what I taught us last week. The Jews were reductionists. They were masterful reductionists. They reduced the Old Testament scriptures to externals, rules and regulations.

And listen, they had thousands and thousands of rules that dealt with external behavior, but nothing that dealt with the heart. And listen, shame on them. The scribes, the Pharisees, the religious leaders and all of the Jews, shame on them, shame on them. They should have known the verses that spoke about the heart. The Psalms are full of them. There's one they should have known, Job 31, starting in verse nine. The Jews knew Job. Oh listen, Job was one of the heroes of the faith for them. But listen to what Job says. "If my heart has been enticed towards a woman..." Oh wow, Job starts with a heart.

"...If my heart has been enticed towards a woman and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door..." Verse 10, "then let my wife grind for another and let others bow down to her." Verse 11, "For that would be a heinous crime. That would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges." Job knew the secret of this sin. Job knew the secret of adultery. And the secret was its starting place. It was the heart, his heart. He would have known that even adultery within his heart would have been sinned because he knew where it started. And the Jews should have known that.

Now, as we seek to apply what we've learned from their day and our day, where do we start? How do we apply this? A question, is adultery sin for us today? Of course, sure, yes it is. But do we stone people for adultery in our day? No, but it's worse. Listen, you need to hear that. Is adultery a sin for our day? Yes, but do we stone people for adultery in our day? No, it is much, much, much worse than stoning. The New Testament forbids any sexual immorality, any adultery, any sexual immorality at all. And what I mean is that it is always portrayed as sin throughout the New Testament. A few verses for you to study.

First Corinthians six verse nine and following, Galatians five verses 19 on down to 21 and Revelation 22 verse 20. Revelation 22 verse two, all of these verses and many more condemn any type of sexual immorality. But notice what Paul says in first Corinthians six, nine and 10. And I'm quoting. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? He says, don't be deceived, don't be fooled, don't be tricked. Neither the sexually immoral, nor the idolaters, nor the adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkers, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

You see? So for us, we must see that adultery is a sin. Any sexual activity outside of marriage is deemed sexual immorality, adultery. It is a sin and it is punishable by hell. And I promise you hell is much worse than a physical stoning. So in application, my question for you is this. Are you committing adultery? Are you committing this sin? Have you committed this sin of adultery? Listen, we're gonna answer that question as we continue. So don't answer it quite yet. So let's move on. I want us to see number two, our second truth in our outline. This difficult desire at hand, verse 28, we have what I'm calling the difficult desire at hand.

Look back at the verse. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Now, whereas in verse 27, Jesus is stating what the Old Commandment, the Old Testament says, here in verse 28, Jesus is explaining the commandment. He is explaining the commandment and its true purpose, its true meaning. Now remember, the Jews had reduced this commandment. They had reduced it to a mere physical act of adultery and he blasts that error and he establishes God's standard. Now I know I'm repeating myself. I do it often. We must remember what Jesus is doing to the Jews.

He was telling them, you're all wrong. Imagine that great crowd, those religious leaders, the disciples there, yes, a few Gentiles, but this great crowd of Jews and in the backdrop, where's their Jewish religion? Is what is he saying? You got it all wrong. You're wrong. You're wrong. You're wrong. And look, they were shocked. I've said it over and over. They were shocked to death, shocked enough to put Jesus to death. Now, before we break down the verse, I wanna establish a very important truth here. This desire spoken of in verse 28, this desire is a natural, normal human desire.

And God puts that within a man, but it is only to be expressed within the confines of marriage. Now I'm not talking about homosexuality or any kind of perversion. What I'm showing you is this. The desire, the attraction between a man and a woman is a natural, a human desire. God puts that within a man and a woman, but it is only to be expressed within the confines of marriage. That's why I call verse 28, the difficult desire at hand. And we're gonna see how difficult this desire is. Now examining this verse, I wanna simply just break it down, four observations. And we will see how this will all build together. So follow along with me.

First observation, notice, I say to you, notice the verse, verse 28 says, I say to you. Look back at the verse, but I say to you. Now here this phrase goes back to the new authority. Remember, Jesus is bringing a new authority, a divine authority, and a new standard, a standard above and beyond, the religious standard of the day. But this word I hear in the original, it's in the emphatic. That points to the authority that Jesus has here, and that authority is of God and from God. And this authority and standard was new to the Jews, totally new.

In that, he trumped the standard and the authority of the day, which came from all of the scribes and Pharisees, even the ones who revered from days of old. But then second, notice, everyone who looks, look at the verse, verse 28, but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman. So second, we see everyone who looks. Now the construction of this phrase is key to understanding this verse. This word looks speaks to the continual process of looking. This is not the accidental look. This is not an unintentional glance to the left or to the right. This is an intentional look or the continual looking. And then third, notice, with lustful intent.

Again, this is just building. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent, this phrase with lustful intent speaks to an intended purpose. Here we see the act of looking with the intent or the desire of lust. There is a goal here, there is a purpose in the look, and that goal, that purpose is lust. Now here I wanna flesh this out some. This is the man who looks so as to satisfy this sinful desire in his mind and in his heart. This is the man who looks and then he looks with that purpose. He uses the internet to look with a sinful desire.

He watches a certain movie or TV program to look with that lustful sinful desire. He looks at certain people, men and women, with a lustful desire. Maybe he goes to the shopping mall or maybe he goes to the swimming pool or the beach with this lustful desire. There's a purpose, there's a desire, there's a goal. And then fourth, notice, he is committed adultery. Go back to the verse. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Here we have has already committed adultery in his heart. A long phrase. Now here is where we must follow along very well. Listen close.

This looking at a woman, this gazing at a woman with a lustful desire, this looking at any one, man or woman, with this lustful desire does not cause a man or a woman to commit adultery in their heart and mind. It doesn't because he already has. You see, this sin goes much deeper. I spoke about that earlier. It is not the lustful looks that produce the sin in the heart. The sin in one's heart is what causes the lustful looks. You see, this man has an immoral and adulterous heart and the lustful looks are an expression of that sinful heart. Now a warning here. Jesus is not talking about the temptation to lust. No.

When one is exposed to an unexpected, lustful temptation and then they resist that sin, then there is no sin. James teaches us that. It becomes sin when one looks with a purpose and that is to satisfy those lustful desires. Again, the manifestation of that sin comes from that adulterous, sinful heart. So with all of that said, what do we have here? What is the summary? In breaking down the verse, we see the purposeful look with the desire, the purpose to lust.

It is not this accidental look or the unwanted exposure to a sinful situation because the heart is sinful, because the human heart is immoral, because the human heart is adulterous, then one looks with the desire and looks to lust. The sin of adultery is already there within the heart. The heart is already corrupt with sin. The lustful look, it is simply a manifestation of that sin that is already there. But again, we have to remember the horrific mistake that the Jews were making, the horrific mistake of their external religion. You see, the seventh commandment had always been very, very important to the Jews.

But in their external approach to worshiping God, they had totally overlooked the fact that God expected truth in the inward parts of the man. Truthfully, they thought that they could earn their righteousness because of their own religious performance, their externals. And that is why they did not understand the way of salvation as Jesus is teaching here. They saw righteousness as a matter of works and performance. Jesus taught salvation was a matter of the heart all through his earthly ministry, the inward condition of a man.

The story of Nicodemus in John three is a great example of this terrible miscommunication between Nicodemus and the Jews and Jesus. When Jesus told Nicodemus that he needed a new heart, that he needed to be born of God, born of the spirit of God, Nicodemus was flabbergasted. He was in shock, he was confused. It was because he expected to be right with God because of his outward religion, his outward righteousness, his externals. Now how does this apply to us in our day? Remember folks, remember what the New Testament teaches? It is the same as the old. Listen, adultery, sexual immorality, it is a grievous sin against God.

All of this applies to our day and time. Now an application, I wanna simply ask some rhetorical questions. You know what a rhetorical question is. I'm not asking for a response. I'm asking these questions for you to ponder over and I wanna challenge you to be honest. Let's do not add lying to the list, not yet. 'Cause lying comes in lesson number four. So here are my rhetorical questions. First, are you ever tempted to look? Does that temptation come your way to open your eyes and look? Do those circumstances come your way?

And you have the opportunity to look, the opportunity to gaze, the opportunity to look and keep on looking, does that ever come your way? Yes. But remember that being tempted is not a sin. When you're shopping, when you're at a restaurant and you're eating, when you're at work, when you're at anywhere, when that opportunity comes, when you're tempted to look, if you do not look, that's not sin. Second question. Do you ever look and continue to look? Do you ever look and keep on looking? Do you ever look and keep on looking and your desire is to think lustfully? Listen, is your purpose in that to look and to think lustfully?

Is that you, listen, be honest with yourself and allow God to show you the truth. Don't add lying to the list. Do you purposely put yourselves in circumstances to look and keep on looking? Now think about that one. Do you purposely put yourself in circumstances to look and to keep on looking? With your cell phone or some other device which accesses the internet, do you look and keep on looking? Do you put yourself in that environment where you can look as you have access to the internet? Do you put yourself in that situation to look and keep on looking? Do you turn on that late night television show?

Really, it doesn't have to be late night today. Do you turn on that television show so as to look and keep on looking? Do you go to the swimming pool so as to look and keep on looking? Do you put your chair in that restaurant so that you can look and keep on looking? Listen, do you look at the secretary so that you can look and keep on looking? Do you walk down the aisles at Walmart or even at the hardware store so you can look and keep on looking? Listen, this is one that must be asked. Ladies, do you ever dress in such a way to call someone to look and look lustfully?

Listen, ladies, if looking lustfully is a sin, then dressing or not dressing is a sin as well. Dressing in such a way so that someone can look and keep on looking to desire to lust and not dress. Look, that's a sin and it must be seen. I believe it is a sin to tempt. It is a sin to be a stumbling block. Let me tell you something. You all need to hear this. We are all guilty. We're all guilty, all. Remember, when we dealt with murder, we were all murderers, A-L-L, all. And we're all guilty of this sin of adultery. This proves that we have a sinful heart. Remember, remember what I said earlier.

The lustful look does not cause us to commit that adultery. That adultery, that immorality is already there and the lustful look is a manifestation of that sin that's already there. That lustful look proves, listen, that lustful look and that desire, it proves that our hearts are corrupt to the core, corrupt in a way in which you might not even know. So my question for you is this. Are you committing adultery? I asked you that question earlier, but I told you not to answer it because the answer from what we've seen now is yes. Yes, yes. You see folks, we're all guilty. I said it earlier, A-L-L.

Our hearts are sinfully sinful, more sinful than we even know. Now this leads me to the title of the message. I did this with murder, murder and anger, anger and murder. I used two questions, remember? Who is a murderer or what is murder and who is a murderer? So the title of the message this morning is what is adultery and who is the adulterer? That's the title, what is adultery and who is the adulterer? Now I pose the first question from the title for you this morning, what is adultery?

Both the Old Testament and New, they both define adultery as any sexual activity outside the confines of marriage, before marriage, in marriage, any sexual activity outside the confines of that marriage. Now how did the Jews and their religious leaders approach this issue? Only in the physical. They only looked at the physical. They never considered the thoughts and the hearts of the man's mind and heart. They never did. Simply if they did not physically commit the sin, well they're good, they're good before God. That was their attitude. Remember, reductionism. This was reductionism 101 and we do that today. But how did Jesus define adultery?

His standard was the original intent and the original purpose of the Old Testament scripture that was given. Simply if you look with the desire to lust, that proves that adultery is in the heart, therefore you are guilty. It's a heart issue, it's a heart issue, it's a heart issue. What did Job say? If my heart has been enticed, he knew it started with a heart. But the second question in the title, who is an adulterer? Who does Jesus implicate here? How does mankind compare with this standard that is expressed here? This is God's standard. Can you find me one man or one woman or one young person who is not thought, a lustful thought?

No, you can't find one. Well, that proves who the adulterers are. Everyone, ALL, everyone. Now as I close, I wanna show us how guilty we all are. You might say, pastor, you try to do a good job there. I wanna show you just how guilty we all are. If we break the seventh, which is what we've been talking about, if we break the seventh and we most definitely have, then we've broken another one, number 10. Yes, we've broken another one. Automatically, Exodus 20, 17 says, you shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And so if you have committed adultery, you have coveted something that doesn't belong to you.

See the depth and the breadth of your sinfulness? You see, you see how guilty we are? We must see that. Now question, what do adulterers deserve? We're not under the old covenant, remember that? That's another subject for another day. We must see this. 1 Corinthians 6 and other passages show us that the sexually immoral, the adulterers, they do not have an inheritance in the kingdom of God. You know what they deserve? You know what we deserve? An eternal damnation. Hell. Now as I move towards concluding, I want you to see there are only two people here. Our sanctuary is relatively empty because of this coronavirus crisis.

Most of you are viewing online. We're very thankful for that. But whether you are in your living room or in one of these pews out here, there are only two people here this morning. First, the adulterers, those who are adulterers, and they are in their sin. And if that's you, I want to speak to you for a moment. You're in your sin. You're in your sin. You're wallowing in that sin. You have no hope outside of Christ. And you're guilty, guilty, guilty. And listen, this should point you to the need of a savior. You need Christ.

And if you're over here to my left and you see that you're an adulterer, you're an adulteress, and you know you're not forgiven, you need Christ. This shows you that you need Christ. Look to Christ. Go to Christ. Find Christ. He can forgive you. Remember the story in John 8? The religious leaders drug this adulteress woman, caught in a very active adultery, and they were trying to trick Jesus. What did he give her? Mercy and grace. His mercy is more. And he forgave her in her adultery. If that's you, need Christ. But the other person, those who are adulterers, and they know they're adulterers, but they're in Christ, they've been forgiven.

Oh, they praise God because they're not in their sin anymore. They're not perfect, no. They wrestle with that sin, and all of the other sins, yes. But they are in Christ, they've been forgiven. They can go back to that time when God saved them, and they can say like Paul, therefore if anyone is in Christ, they're a new creation. And they say this, I am in Christ. God has saved me, and changed me, and gave me a new heart and a new life. And see, for us, this just shows us how much we really did need a Savior. So what have we looked at this morning? What is adultery? And who is the adulterer?

Now remember, remember, this is the sermon, the sermon on the Mount, but this is the extraordinary Christian life. And listen, folks, we've lived in a day where churches reduce, reduce, reduce. Reductionism abounds. So listen to me, folks, this is God's standard. Don't run from it. Don't pick against it like the Jews. Embrace it. Because it could be that this standard that has been brought to you is God bringing you to faith in Christ. What is adultery? And who is an adulterer?