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... There is another aspect of this. Jesus said, "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.... Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me either" (Matthew 25:40, 45 HCSB). If my life is a sentence and everything I do is the verb, then Jesus is the object. In grammar, the object of the sentence receives the action of the verb. So, whatever I do, I do it to Jesus—good or bad. Jesus is the recipient of all our actions. Jesus said that to lust after another person is to commit adultery with that person in your heart (Matthew 5:27-28). If everything we do is done to Jesus, that means that lust is committing adultery against Jesus (whether you have a spouse or not)! You think that's bad? Whom are you lusting after? Not just a person. You are taking sexual liberty with the image of God, without the consent of God! It doesn't matter how willing the other person is, every sexual act outside of marriage is nonconsensual! It's God's image you're messing with! When you commit any sexual sin, you are raping the image of God! Get that? Every time you commit the sin of lust, pornography, fornication (sex outside of marriage), homosexuality, or adultery, you are raping Jesus! That sounds sacrilegious, doesn't it? It ought to. It is. Most of us—especially men—don't think too seriously about lust. ...