Proverbs 5:20-23
“For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress and embrace the bosom of a foreigner? For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He watches all his paths. His own iniquities will capture the wicked, and he will be held with the cords of his sin. He will die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.”
Q: What is the issue being addressed by Solomon? What is the result of sexual immorality?
The issues are sexual immorality and impurity. The result is being lead astray from God and eventual spiritual death, if not actual physical death.
Proverbs 16:25
“There is a way which seems right to a man, but it end is the way of death.”
Q: Why is it that our sin seems “right” to us? How have you experienced sin leading to death?
We like our sin, and it provides “in the moment” happiness. Example: “In the past, I fed my addiction and until I needed more and more to satisfy. This type of sin took me to my lowest point, and I had to die and ask Christ for forgiveness.”
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Matthew 5:27-28 – “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 lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
Q: How honest have your eyes been this week? When do your lustful eyes cause you to sin?
Example: “I’ve tried to resist temptation, but I have slipped sometimes with my eyes and looked at porn.” Sin comes from continuing to look at a person, picture or video for my selfish enjoyment.
Matthew 19:4-6 – “And He answered and said, ‘Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let no man separate.”
Q: What is God’s design for marriage? Why do we experience internal death when we do not follow God’s design for marriage?
God made marriage for one male and one female. When we are not following God’s design, we are going directly against His Word which is life to our soul. Without Christ, there is no life, only death.
Paul
Romans 6:23 – “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord.”
Q: What is the result of your sin? How do you receive the free gift of eternal life from God?
DEATH – both spiritual and physical! By accepting Jesus into my heart and seeking to obey Him daily.
Peter
1 Peter 2:11 – “Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.”
Q: What is one area of your life that you need to abstain from “fleshly lusts”?
Example: “When I am on social media, I look at others with lustful eyes.”
APPLICATION: How do these passages relate to me today? What changes do they bring to my life?
LOCKER ROOM: Is there anything this week that you have been enslaved to, and how we can help you?
