DZION
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Q2. God purposely created us with a good and natural sexual desire. How do we distinguish between that God-given sexual desire and forbidden lus+?
Forbidden **** is anything outside the marriage. I believe we will have sexual desires before marriage because that is how we are made. However, we must learn to push them down and not act upon them or even keep them in our minds. The time for acting upon them is after the marriage vows have been taken. Society today has too liberal a view on sex. Any and everything is acceptable. This must be changed, discouraged. We must get back to God's Word, His way.
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Q1. (Matthew 5:27-30; Exodus 20:17) What is the point of similarity between adultery and lus+? What is the difference? How does lus+ break the Tenth Commandment?
Adultry is having sexual contact with another person outside the marriage. **** is in the heart, the mind when looking at desiring to have. According to Christ there is no difference. To **** is the same as adultry and thus breaks the 10th Commandment.
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Q5. (Matthew 5:21-26) Verses 21-22 are about murder, anger, and insult. Verses 23-24 discuss some fault against one's brother. Verses 25- 26 discuss settling a civil suit before going to court. What is the overarching theme of Jesus' teaching in our entire passage, verses 21-26?
I believe He is teaching the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would want to be treated. Love your neighbor as yourself. By living our lives in this manner we DO become more Christlike.
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Q4. (Matthew 5:25-26) What is the point of Jesus' parable of settling out of court? Who are we supposed to settle with, according to this parable? What does "settling" entail? What are the reasons that we should settle?
The point of settleing out of court is so you will not go before the judge and be put in prison. You will not have your family and friends against you. Settling entails paying back what is owed, making things right. We need to do this so we do not go before the judge GOD carrying our sins. God's judgement is harsher than mans and we need to rectify ourselves to avoid this judgement.
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Q3. (Matthew 5:23-24) What's wrong with worshipping while a brother has something against us (or us against a brother, Mark 11:25)? What is the appropriate action for us to take? How far should we go to bring about reconciliation with someone whom we have offended? Are there any situations that we shouldn't try to resolve? Or that we can't resolve?
If we are worshiping and a brother (sister) has something against us or we have something against them it is a distraction from our worshiping God. Also, we are told to forgive so that the Father can forgive our sins. If we have not forgiven then we are worshiping with sin on us.
We need to approach the person that we have offended or that has offended us in humility and ask for forgiveness. We are to make amends or make right whatever we have done. The person has free will to accept and forgive or to refuse. But as long as we have sincerely, humbly, honestly tried and have forgiven the person ourselves then we have done what is required and are forgiven by God.
We should try to resolve all situations. I believe the only situation we cannot resolve is the one where the other person does not want it resolved.
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Q2. (Matthew 5:21-22) Why does Jesus treat calling someone a fool in the same classification as murder? Does this mean that murder is no worse than an angry insult in God's eyes? How would we act differently if we actually believed that angry attitudes towards others are viewed by God as murder?
When we belittle another person it causes harm to that person. It may well be that they carry that forward in their life and it can affect them later. It can murder their self esteem.
God wants us to be like Christ, and Christ did get angry. But he was not mean and did not belittle others. We are to contol our anger, and to forgive those that anger us. It does not matter if the anger is justified or not. Jesus is saying that it is the anger that causes one to murder, so we must be slow to anger. That is why anger and murder is the same.
I think we would act differently. I know that I do. It is not easy. We live in fleshly bodies and have tendencies of the flesh. In order to control our anger we must learn to control the flesh.
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Q1. (Matthew 5:17-20) Can you see any tendencies in the church today to effectively "abolish" the Old Testament from our Christian faith? What does a "Christian" legalism look like in a church? What does it look like in a church where there are no moral standards and no obedience expected of Christians?
Wow, this is a very complex question. First of all most churches that are based on "religion" and make their own doctrine tend to abolish the Old Testiment from our Christian faith. The New Testiment CANNOT be understood without the Old Testiment. Though we now come under grace because of what our precious LORD and Savior did for us, it does not negate the Law. The Law could not save man from sin only grace can do that. Grace does not mean we can run rampant and do just anything that the secular world does. God does not hold a live and let live mindset. He is clear in both the old and new testiments about His commands for the way we are to live. The New Testiment repeats much of the Old Testiment in how we are to live. Jesus said He brings a new covenant, He did not say He brings a new law. In a church where there are no moral standards you will see homosexuals in positions of leadership, this is not right, it is an abomination to God. You will see people calling evil good and good evil. There will be no accountability. They will condone if not encourage divorce. I have even seen a mixing of mystisism with Christianity.
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Q3. (Matthew 5:14-15) In the parable of "the light of the world," Jesus notes the stupidity of lights being hidden under bowls. Concerning what danger in the life of a Christian disciple does Jesus warn us in this parable?
If we do not let our light shine, by witnessing, by living and acting as Christ did, then we are in danger of becoming as the world. By letting our light shine we have influence over others, as they see Christ in us. They want what we have.
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Q3. (Matthew 5:14-15) In the parable of "the light of the world," Jesus notes the stupidity of lights being hidden under bowls. Concerning what danger in the life of a Christian disciple does Jesus warn us in this parable?
Being a light in this since means that we live our lives as Christ did. We are not ashamed of being Christians and we do not fear speaking about Christ and God. The Bible tells us to spread the Word everywhere so that the light will shine even in the darkest corners of the world.
If you put a candle, or lamp under a bowel it will not get air. If it does not get air it will go out. I believe if the Christian does not shine, spread the word, his light will go out.
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Q2. (Matthew 5:13) What might be the symptoms of a Christian who has lost his "saltiness"? Is it possible for a believer to detect such symptoms in himself or herself? What do secular people notice about a "de-saltified" Christian? What do other Christians notice about you? Is it possible to "resaltify" your life?
A Christian who has lost his saltiness might become lazy in attending church. Laugh at and condone unchristianlike behavior. Not stand up for what he claims to believe in. Yes, I believe you can tell if you have lost your saltiness. Secular people say that Christians think they are better than everyone else, yet look they act just as we do. There is no difference. Other Christians may call you a hypocrite as will non christians. Yes it is possible to resaltify yourself, with the help of the Holy Ghost, getting back into God's Word, attending Church. God will refill you.
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Q1. (Matthew 5:13) In what sense are Christians the "salt of the earth" using the preservation analogy? In what sense are Christians the "salt of the earth" using the seasoning analogy?
Christians are the Salt of the earth in that we preserve the Word of God by keeping it, passing it on, preserving it. We live our lives that others might see Christ in us, as in seasoning. When others see what we have by the way we live our lives, having joy in hard times, neither grumbling or complaining. They want what we have. They want the seasoning.
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Q5. (Matthew 5:8) Why can people with a pure heart see, know, and discern God? Why can't "chronic" sinners see God? How do we obtain the pure or clean heart that Jesus describes?
People with a pure heart can see, know and discern God because their heart is pure. None can see the face of God with an unpure heart. We cannot obtain a pure heart on our own. We cannot make our heart pure. It is only the Holy Spirit that lives in us that can make our heart pure. It is in our heart that the Holy Spirit lives.
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Q4. (Matthew 5:6) How can an intense desire for righteousness put you at odds with the world? What sort of righteousness is Jesus talking about, do you think? What promise are we given in this Beatitude?
The world puts the flesh first. Anything is ok if it gets you where you want to be even at the risk of causing harm to someone else. We as Christians hunger after righteousness, God's righteousness is given to us because Jesus died on the cross that we might be justified and made righteous. It is nothing that we do that makes us righteous. We are promised to be filled with righteousness. When we are born again we are made a new man, and that is when we are made righteous.
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Q3. (Matthew 5:5) How does this sort of gentleness contrast with the world's ideal? How is humility important to Christlikeness?
The world is a me first kind of place, with no compassion or caring for the welfare of others. The Christian is to be like Christ. We hold compassion for our brothers and sisters and when anyone in the body of Christ suffers so do all.
In the world people get puffed up and full of themselves. They think that it is they that do all things. There is no credit given to God. It is important for the Christian to be humble to keep in rememberance that it is the Most High God who does all things. We are not to get puffed up. All things belong to God and are from God. It is the humbleness that keeps us growing and learning, it keeps us dependent on God.
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Q2. (Matthew 5:3-4) Why is it necessary to be aware of your spiritual poverty before you can become a Christian? What kind of mourning is necessary for a person to become a Christian? What kind of mourning is a common experience of Christians? (See Isaiah 61:2-3; Ezekiel 9:4.)
To become a Christian you must first ask Jesus into your life as your LORD and Savior. If you do not know that anything is missing, if you do not know what it is that is needed, you cannot ask for it. You do not know you are in spiritual poverty. So you must become aware of the spiritual poverty in order to seek God.
We mourn the lack of knowledge of God, we long to seek His Face. This makes us hungry for His word. Christians today mourn the lack of morality, the sinfulness of the world today. The injustices done to others and to us as Christians. These things make us cry out to God.
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Q1. (Matthew 5:3-11) Each Beatitude consists of two parts. What are these parts? Why do you think Jesus made each Beatitude a paradox? What is the relationship of the Beatitudes to the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)?
The first part tells who is blessed, the second part tells us the reward, or what the blessing is. Jesus spoke in paradoxes because it was how they spoke then when imparting wisdom. The fruits of the spirit are are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. If you put these next to the beatitudes there is a direct correlation. i.e. longsuffering would go along with verses 10 and 11. You can see this relationship with each of the beatitudes and the fruits of the spirit.[size=2][/size]
Q3. So-called Victimless Crime
in 4. Adultery, Lust, and the Spirit of Marriage (5:27-30)
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It promotes **** which is sin. It degrades women, it causes men to sin in ****, they become adicted to it. Going to prostitutes has always been wrong. It is ****, it is adultry. The victims are everyone, men, women, children. IT IS SIN. No other way to look at it.