Hello Tamina, nice to meet you!! I would like to say first that feelings can fool you, and are to be dealt with thru prayer and fasting, because Jesus said if a man lusts after a woman, that he has already committed adultery with her in his heart,
Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at
a woman lustfully
has already
committed adultery with her in his heart. So we see this is a serious matter and needs our attention speedily.
Then in verse 29 he says ; 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.…
This is strong language indeed,
Jesus had just warned His audience against using their eyes for lustful purposes (
Matthew 5:28), so His prescribed remedy for lust—to pluck out an eye—makes sense, in a radical sort of way. But it is the radical nature of His statement that makes it so memorable.
When Jesus advises us to pluck out a sinful eye or cut off an unruly hand, He is employing a figure of speech known as hyperbole. Hyperbole is an obvious exaggeration or an intentional overstatement. Examples of hyperbole in modern speech would include statements like “This bag of groceries weighs a ton,” “I’ve been waiting forever,” and “Everyone knows that.” The apostle Paul uses hyperbolic language in
Galatians 4:15. Hyperbole, like other figures of speech, is not meant to be taken literally.
Jesus’ purpose in saying, hyperbolically, that sinners should pluck out their eyes or cut off their hands is to magnify in His hearers’ minds the heinous nature of sin. Sin is any action or thought that is contrary to the character of God. The result of sin is death, from which Jesus wants to preserve us (see
Hebrews 2:9). Jesus warns of
hell because He doesn’t want people to go there (
Matthew 5:29–30).
Sin takes people to hell (see
Revelation 21:8), and that makes sin something to avoid at all costs. Jesus says that, whatever is causing you to sin, take drastic measures to get that thing out of your life.
Nothing is worth missing heaven for.
Nothing is worth going to hell for. Nothing.
God takes sin seriously—seriously enough to sacrifice His only begotten Son to destroy it. We must take sin seriously as well. A lack of repentance is a crime punishable by eternal death. It is better to deny our flesh ,than to risk sinning against God. God demands holiness (
1 Peter 1:15), but we naturally tend to pamper ourselves and excuse our sin. That is why we need Jesus’ shocking, radical hyperbole to wake us from our spiritual complacency.
Psa 105:4 Seek, inquire of and for the Lord, and crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek and require His face and His presence [continually] evermore.
Psa 138:3 In the day when I called, You answered me; and You strengthened me with strength (might and inflexibility to temptation) in my inner self.
Prov 5:8 Let your way in life be far from her, and come not near the door of her house [avoid the very scenes of temptation
Matt 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Matt 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
1 Cor 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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