Body Parts Removal

...it is more profitable for you that one of your members [body parts] perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 

Matthew 5:29

Jesus said some very hard things.  He said:  If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.  And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. Matthew 5:29-30

These words reveal the seriousness of sin, so serious that if sin sends you to Hell, and it is caused by a body part, then remove that body part.  It would be better to miss a body part, to avoid sin, than to be cast into Hell with that body part that causes the sin.   

We know elsewhere in Scripture that removing body parts is not God's solution to our sin problem, but what Jesus said reveals the seriousness of the sin problem, and his words should cause one to seek what that solution is.  The solution is in Jesus dying on the cross to bear the penalty (consequences) that our sins required.  But that solution will not be meaningful until one sees the seriousness of sin and its consequences.  God has provided for the consequences of sin in the person and work of Christ.  That provision promises salvation (forgiveness of sins, justification, and eternal life) to all who believe in Jesus for it.  Through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins;  and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.   Acts 13:38-39