The High Price of Lust | Matthew 5:27-30 | Pastor Neil McClendon

Oct 5, 2025

GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH

Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
Grand Parkway Baptist Church

Matthew 5:27-30
The High Price of Lust

1. Jesus upholds the sufficient sanctity of marriage, v. 27-28

• Genesis 2:24

God’s design for marriage…
a) priority loyalty- “Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother…
b) lifelong loyalty- …and hold fast to his wife…
c) bodily loyalty- …and they shall become one flesh.”

2. The eye reveals what is in the heart, v. 28

Lust does four things…
a) starts with dissatisfaction
b) turns people into things
c) teaches you to relate to the world out of your appetites instead of your understanding
d) trains you to sow to the flesh

• Galatians 6:7-8
• Galatians 5:19-21

Signs You Are Sowing to the Flesh
1) Pleasure becomes your master- "sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality . . .”
2) Worship is misplaced- “. . . idolatry, sorcery . . .”
3) Conflict is your pattern- “. . . enmity, strife, jealousy . . .”
4) You can’t control your emotions- “. . . fits of anger . . .”
5) Competitiveness is your posture- “..rivalries, dissensions, divisions . . .”
6) You refuse to celebrate others- “. . . envy . . .”
7) Escapism is a way of life- “. . . drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.”

3. Jesus is trying to change the way we view sin, v. 29-31

• Matthew 7:24-27


Mental worship…

1. In your opinion, have Christians changed the way the culture views marriage or has the culture changed the way Christians view marriage? 
2. Is there anybody or anything that you currently desire too much?
3. What struck you today as something you will need to think more about? 
4. If you are a Christian, how has your view of sin changed since you came to faith? 
5. How do you feel when the rain, floods and wind beat down on your life?