Num. 5 [The Message]

Faithfulness in marriage is important to God, so much so that the offending party was subject to death by stoning or drinking water mixed with Temple floor dust. Get the picture?

A big reason is that marriage is an earthly relationship that mirrors the Heavenly relationship of Christ with His Bride, the Church. God is jealous over His Church. Jesus took the value of faithfulness even further. He zeroed in on the heart and thought-life of people. Adultery was not only that of a physical act, but was even the thought-life and fantasies in a person’s mind.

We’ve all sinned and come short, but we STRIVE to be pure in mind AND body.