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The Sermon on the Mount, continued. Jesus reveals the twelve spiritual aspects of the seventh, eighth, and tenth commandments.

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  1. The law forbids adultery; but in the eyes of the law, adultery is an overt act, the satisfaction of the sensuous self outside the marriage bonds 💄.
  2. Now, marriage in the sight of the law 🖋️ is but a promise made by man ♂️ and woman ♀️, by the sanction of a priest; to live forever in harmony and love.
  3. No priest ❌ nor officer has power from God to bind to souls in wedded love.
  4. What is the marriage tie? Is it comprised in what a priest or officer may say 🗣️?
  5. Is it the scroll 📜 on which the officer or priest has written 🖊️ the permission for the two to live in marriage bonds?
  6. Is it the promise of the two that they will love each other until death 🔒?
  7. Is love a passion ❤️‍🔥 that is subject to the will of man?
  8. Can man pick up his love, as would pick up precious gems 🔶, and lay it down 🏖️, or give it out to any one 🫴?
  9. Can love be bought 🏦 and sold like sheep 🐑?
  10. Love is the power of God that binds two souls and makes them one; there is no power on earth that can dissolve the bind. 🫶
  11. The bodies may be forced part by man or death for just a little time; but they will meet again 👋.
  12. Now, in this bond of God 🫂 we find the marriage tie 💍; all other unions are but bonds of straw, and they who live in them commit adultery ❌.
  13. The same as they would satisfy their lust 👠 without the sanction of an officer or priest.
  14. But more than this; the man or woman who indulges lustful thoughts 💭 commits adultery.
  15. Whom God has joined together man cannot part; whom man has joined together live in sin.
  16. Upon a table of the law 📜, the great lawgiver wrote: Thou shalt not steal.
  17. Before the eyes of law a man to steal must take a thing that can be seen with eyes 👁️ of flesh, without the knowledge or consent of him to whom the thing belongs.
  18. But lo, I say that he who is in his heart desires to possess that which is not his own, and would deprive the owner of the thing without his knowledge or consent, is in the sight of God, a thief.