Consequences of Sexual Sin

Dennis Tuuri

Outline: Deuteronomy 22:13-30 Purging the Evil - Putting Sexual Sin in Perspective The Seventh Word, Part Four Sermon Notes for January 30, 2011 by Pastor Dennis Tuuri Intro - Law and Identity; Ps. 119:129-136 I. Purging the Evil - Context in Moses' Seventh Word Sermon Section A. Some Sexual Sins are Evil B. Master Your Stories - Don't Purge Non-evil C. White and Black Swans - Sex Isn't Evil D. A Peaceful Home and Community - Requires the Purging of Evil II. Purging the Evil - Varieties of Evil A. Dt 13:5 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. B. Dt. 17:7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. C. Dt. 17:12 The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. D. Dt. 19:19 then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. E. Dt. 21:21 Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. II. Purging the Evil - Varieties of Evil (Continued) F. Dt. 22:21 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her fathers house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her fathers house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. G. Dt. 22:22 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. H. Dt. 22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that 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 neighbors wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. I. Dt. 24:7 If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. J. Judges 20:13 Now therefore give up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and purge evil from Israel. But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel. K. 1 Cor, 5:13 God judges those outside. Purge the evil person from among you. III. Purging the Evil and Excommunication IV. Purging the Evil and Repentance 1 Cor. 6:9-20 Deuteronomy 22:1330 (ESV), Another Outline Taking A Wife, Followed by Hatred, Accusation and Trial 13 If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her 14 and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity, 15 then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. 16 And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her; 17 and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity. And yet this is the evidence of my daughters virginity. And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city. Protecting the Bride - Slander of a Virgin - Husband Fined, Can't Initiate Divorce 18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him, 19 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days. weak er vessel (1 Pet. 3:7); the family (2 or 3 gathered per Clement) is an area of grace Promoting Sexual Purity - Death to the Woman (False Virgin Bride), Purging the Evil 20 But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman, 21 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her fathers house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her fathers house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. Shechem and Dinah - Gen. 34:7 "folly in Israel" (see Josh. 7:15, Judges 20:6); "harlot" The Seventh Word Proper - Guarding Marriage, Purging the Evil 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. Sex with A Betrothed Virgin - Death to Guilty Party(ies) Purging the Evil 23 If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that 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 neighbors wife . So you shall purge the evil from your midst. 25 But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 26 But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor, 27 because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her. Shechem and Dinah, Good Samaritan, Presumption of Innocence Protecting Virgins - Seducer is Fined, Must Offer Marriage, Can't Initiate Divorce (Ex. 22:16,17) 28 If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days. Taking the Wrong Wife (Lev. 20:10,11) 30 A man shall not take his fathers wife, so that he does not uncover his fathers nakedness. Lev. 18; Reuben, Bilhah Gen. 49:14 and 1 Chr. 5:1; Absalom 2 Sam. 16:22; 1Cor. 5:1, Adonijah and Abishag Marriage Not A Right