How do we defend ourselves from the temptations we face?
1. Watch your heart
"Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways" (7:25a)
Temptation always starts in the inward thoughts. We must not entertain them.
2. We must not stray into her paths.
"Do not stray into her paths" (7:25b)
Literally stay away from places, situations, and persons that make it ways for our minds to go down the wrong trail.
3. Assure ourselves of the inevitable damage and spiritual destruction that always come.
Proverbs 7:27 NKJV
Her house is the way to hell,Descending to the chambers of death.
(NKJV)
27 Her house is the way to hell, Descending to the chambers of death.
Look down the road and "see the ultimate tragedy and wrongfulness of sin: It grieves God and spurns the sacrifice He made to save you in Jesus Christ." Keller
