It is not your work by which the church stands or falls. It is not your faithfulness that gives the church her life. And it is not your efforts that keeps you firmly in Christ’s kingdom. The glory belongs solely to Christ.

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These commandments forbid the sin of coveting. The Hebrew word means, at its most basic level, desire, to take pleasure in. Now to be sure, it is good and proper to take pleasure in those gifts God has given to us . . . but we must be careful to take pleasure only in those things which God has given us. When the line is crossed and we begin to desire and take pleasure those things that are not given to us—those things that God has given to our neighbor—then we enter into coveting.

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The consequences of defiling the marriage bed—of bringing anything outside of husband and wife experiencing intimacy together—are severe: they corrupt and rot us down to our very core. And the reason for that is simple: because God does not give us marriage merely for our own pleasure, but to teach us something about His relationship with us.

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