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Ten Habits

Highly Healthy Homes. of. Ten Habits. Habit 7. Protect Your Marriage. Exodus 20:14. Exodus 20:14. Do not commit adultery. “Women’s magazines practically recommend adultery to their readers as a fun and healthy activity …” - Katie Roiphe, New York Times Magazine .

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Ten Habits

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  1. Highly Healthy Homes of Ten Habits

  2. Habit 7 Protect Your Marriage Exodus 20:14

  3. Exodus 20:14 Do not commit adultery.

  4. “Women’s magazines practically recommend adultery to their readers as a fun and healthy activity …” - Katie Roiphe, New York Times Magazine

  5. “An affair can be a sexual recharging, an escape from a worn-out relation-ship, a way into something better.” - Elle Magazine

  6. “[Women’s] marriages are improved by their affairs. Because they get their fill of rapture elsewhere ...” - Harper’s Bazaar

  7. What's Accepted M E D I A The true power of mass media is the power to REDEFINE NORMAL

  8. M E D I A What's The true power of mass media is the power to REDEFINE NORMAL Expected

  9. Prime Time TV 65,000 sexual references every year 7out of 8involve extra-marital relations

  10. adultery

  11. adultery

  12. adultery

  13. adultery

  14. adultery English root ADULTERATE to contaminate or make impure

  15. adultery Hebrew root LO NA’APH no apostatizing (to abandon one’s principles or promises)

  16. Colossians 3:5 Don’t be controlled by your body. Kill every desire for the wrong kind of sex. Don’t be immoral or indecent or have evil thoughts …

  17. Hebrews 13:4 Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

  18. 6 ways to affair-proof your marriage

  19. 1 make a commitment

  20. Psalm 119:9 How can a young person stay pure? By obeying your word and following its rules.

  21. Proverbs 5:15 Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.

  22. 2 magnify the consequences

  23. Six Good Reasons Not To Commit Adultery • You do incredible damage to your spouse.

  24. 1 Corinthians 6:16 And don’t you know that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.”

  25. Six Good Reasons Not To Commit Adultery • You do incredible damage to your spouse. • You do incredible damage to yourself.

  26. Proverbs 6:32 But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys his own soul.

  27. Six Good Reasons Not To Commit Adultery • You do incredible damage to your spouse. • You do incredible damage to yourself. • You do incredible damage to your children.

  28. Exodus 34:7 Even so I do not leave sin unpunished, but I punish the children for the sins of their parents to the third and fourth generations.

  29. Six Good Reasons Not To Commit Adultery • You do incredible damage to the church.

  30. 1 Corinthians 5:6 Don’t you realize that if even one person is allowed to go on sinning, soon all will be affected?

  31. Six Good Reasons Not To Commit Adultery • You do incredible damage to the church. • You do incredible damage to your witness.

  32. 2 Samuel 12:14 But you have given the enemies of the Lord great opportunity to despise and blaspheme him …

  33. Six Good Reasons Not To Commit Adultery • You do incredible damage to the church. • You do incredible damage to your witness. • You sin against the Lord.

  34. Genesis 39:9 How could I ever do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God.

  35. 3 maximize your marriage

  36. 1 Corinthians 7:3 A man should fulfill his duty as a husband, a wife should fulfill her duty as a wife, and each should satisfy the other’s needs.

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