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“Radical Steps to Purity” brings us face to face with some of the most uncompromising words Jesus ever spoke.
Let us look at what the Word of God says:
> “If your right eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
> And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.”
> — Matthew 5:29–30 (ESV)
These words are not comfortable. They are not sentimental. They cut across the grain of a soft, easy, compromise-oriented Christianity. Jesus is confronting us with the deadly seriousness of sin—particularly sexual sin—and the eternal consequences that are attached to it.
Linked with these, the song draws from other key passages:
The central theme is this:
God calls us to radical, decisive, practical action in the pursuit of purity, because sin is far more serious than we naturally believe and eternity is far more real than we naturally feel.
Jesus is not calling us to mutilate our bodies. He is calling us to take ruthless, uncompromising measures against anything that leads us into sin. This is spiritual surgery, not physical mutilation.
Matthew 5:29–30 appears in the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus is teaching His disciples in the presence of the crowds (Matthew 5:1–2). He is describing the righteousness of the kingdom of God, which “exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees” (Matthew 5:20).
In this section He has just spoken about adultery:
> “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
> But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent
> has already committed adultery with her in his
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