Pluck Out Your Eye and Cut Off Your Hand

Getting to Know You: 

• What’s one thing about you that if you could change you would change? 

Going Deeper: 

• Look up the “you have heard it said, but I say to you” statements of Jesus in Matt. 5:21-48. 

o Why is Jesus so concerned to correct these sayings? 

o Which one stood out to you as the most serious? 

o Which one do you need to work on the most? 

• How do we know that Jesus is using hyperbole in vs.28-30 about plucking out eyes and cutting off hands?

o Why is Jesus commanding his followers take such drastic measures? 

• Look up the following verses about lust/adultery and discuss God’s opinion on both. 1 Cor. 6:18-20, 2 Tim. 2:22, 1 Thess. 4:3-5, Psalm 119:9-11, Col. 3:5, Heb. 13:4 

• According to these verses, what’s the only way to be remarried and not commit adultery? Matt. 5:31-32, Lk. 16:18, Matt. 19:9, 1 Cor. 7:10-11, 15-16, 36-40 

• According to 1 Cor.7:1-5 what’s a good way for a married couple to avoid lust/temptation? 

Taking it Home: 

• Review the 8 ways to wage war on lust that PK spoke about on Sunday. Choose one and implement that this week. Start gouging and cutting!