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Introduction
Please open your Bibles to as we pick up where we left off in our studies in proverbs.
This past week, news broke out that a prominent minister and expositor was removed from his church because of sexually immorality.
I received a text from Pastor Mark and that just made my whole day sour.
The church issued a statement that this minister would be removed as senior pastor because he fail to live up to the standards of 1 Timothy and .
The official statement reads:
“We grieve the shame this brings to the Gospel and the sorrow it brings to God’s people.”
This news came like a sledge hammer because this man’s ministry was highly respected and revered.
The man was a conference speaker, an author, a professor, a pastor who planted churches, and a man who was very influential in our circles.
I found out about the news on Monday and was shocked the whole day.
I was disillusioned and saddened.
It was sobering news.
I kept thinking to myself, how could this happen?
The man had everything.
How can a man be so gifted, yet so far away from God?
And through this act of immorality, he lost everything.
His name was taken off websites.
He was removed from his church.
And I have no idea what is going on his family life right now.
And the news of the adultery spread like wildfire in an online world.
Through this act of folly, the man has literally lost everything.
And I was sharing my grief with another friend, he told me that another person we know is undergoing the stages of church discipline because of an adulterous relationship.
Sex matters.
And in matters to God.
And sexual sin is no private matter, but it brings great damage upon the individual, the spouse, the children involved, the church, and drags the name of Christ under the mud.
Recap
Last week, we learned that foolish debt and laziness and wickedness will lead you to poverty and death.
This week, we see the devastating consequences of adultery and how that will lead you to death.
Proverbs gives us wisdom.
And that wisdom is for everyday life.
This is why the passage we are studying this morning matters.
Solomon tells his son to remember his teaching so that we would not buy into the deception and lie of sexual immorality through an adulterous relationship.
He tells his son again for a third and fourth time:
Adultery will ruin your life if you do heed my instruction.
And we too, if we don’t heed today’s warning, could ruin our lives if we do not listen to what God says to us today.
The seventh commandment tells us “You shall not commit adultery” ().
Proverbs shows us how that practically looks like in everyday life.
Proverbs fleshes out what we must avoid and how we must avoid the sin of adultery.
The broader application is that we must avoid and flee all forms of sexual immorality as God’s people.
Main Proposition: So in , we get a sober warning to heed to the Father’s teaching, so that we would not ruin our lives through immorality.
If we are going to have wisdom to avoid adultery, we must see the
Devastating Consequences of Adultery (vv.
19-35)
The Strategic Seduction of Adultery (vv.
1-27)
Scripture Reading: Let us read .
I. The Consequences of Adultery (6:19-35)
There are six consequences we see in this text.
But notice the Father is teaching his son again and obeying the instruction from to diligently teach his son.
Heed Your Father’s Teaching (vv.
20-23)
Keep mom and dad’s instruction/law.
Treasure these things by binding them on your heart.
These commandments are to be worn like a necklace so that they may stay close to you.
Some of us have our phones with us all the time and we can’t live without it; or an apple watch and it tells us the time of day and tasks we need to do.
Well in the same way, you need to have the Word of God near you in your daily walk.
You need to have access to the word of God at any moment of the day, whether you walk, or whether you lied down, or when you wake up.
The commandments from the parents are likened to the Word of God which is a lamp and light like the hymn we sung.
The commandments are for our good and our correction so that they may show us how to live.
And specifically, these commandments and instructions will keep you from the evil woman or the adulteress...
Parents—Some may think its taboo to talk about such a talk like this to their children, but we must talk to our children at the appropriate time regarding God’s design for sex and the context for sex.
If we will not teach them and have conversations about these topics, the world and the media will teach them.
Again, people married earlier in that culture.
And that is why this teaching was so relevant.
When you pay heed you will avoid the forbidden woman (v.
24)
Proverbs call her also the “strange” or “alien” woman.
It is not her nationality that makes her ‘foreign,’ but the fact that she resides outside your covenant of marriage.
Proverbs 2:
Any sexual activity outside the covenant union between one man and one woman is sin in the eyes of God.
What are the consequences of not paying heed to the teaching?
A. Poverty (vv.
25-26)
Proverbs 2
The point of the lecture is brief and to the point.
Don’t let her capture you with her eyes so that you are tempted to lust after her beauty
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