Seven Deadly Sins Series of Sermons

The Snare of Foxes.

Proverbs 29:6 (LEB)

In transgression, an evil man is a snare, but the righteous will sing and rejoice.

(I) The Missed Fox

Quote: “we react to spider webs more than we do to less tangible dangers. We recoil at a web, for instance, but become quite comfortable with our sinful tendencies and their devastating consequences. We hire exterminators to crawl in, around, and under our houses in the quest to destroy tiny adversaries, while we incautiously dismiss “small sins” as insignificant”

A. The Little things can be the ones that entangle.

Any Sin is a Snare

We forget its power it has to enslave any person ...

It has no repect of persons ....

Ills / The Sin will cause skin cancer on any man that stands for hours under its power?

The Snare of sin is exactly that...

But it can be the little one’s we tend to dismiss …these can begin a web of others?

The Bible takes any sin seriously

2 Timothy 2:19 LEB

However, the solid foundation of God stands firm, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and “Everyone who names the name of the Lord must abstain from unrighteousness.”

5. There is a generation who believe that sin is not something to not be of any concern?

a. They believe that preachers have exagerated the consequence

b. Therefore they take it light ....and don’t turn from sin

6. The Church should be different ....we should take every liitle sin seriously because as the word teaches us - it is the Little Foxes that spoil everything

Song of Solomon 2:15 (LEB)

Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying vineyards,

for our vineyards are in blossom!

a. The Word Liitle Foxes - they are small and seem not to be a fret ...

2 Corinthians 2:11 LEB

in order that we may not be exploited by Satan (for we are not ignorant of his schemes).

Ills / Talking Ps Farrel - about Foxes in his back yard .....he was telling me they are incredeblt cute when they are 3 months ....they Dale Callahan told the story bought a little baby fox ..they tried to raise it but they couldn’t tame it and would bite it and eventually stank ....it is wild by nature

He has no sympthy for little foxes ......as he had an experience with Foxes as they kill everything without eating. They kill for fun !!!

Rela: Sin is wild ..anything outside of nature is wild,

B. Sin is like a cobweb - it infiltrates our lives like cobwebs in the corner our houses?

First: no man can cure his own sin ?

Hebrews 3:13 LEB

But encourage one another day by day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you become hardened by the deception of sin.

2. Thought here is sin is delusional - just like a Fox when things look cute we propbabley don’t want to deal with

Ills / David with Adanijah .....was cute and David never disciplined him and one day this little boy became a big Fox and wanted to take out David’s life.

3. Ills / Little foxes come out around december ....summer time ?

4. Bible warns:

Galatians 6:7 LEB

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked, for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap,

5. Sin is like a Fox ......

Ills / Pair of Foxes were brought into Australia in 1855 for recreational hunting .......now it is estimated over 7.2 Million in 2012 ....a German Vet estimated that realistically there are over 20 Million

The Danger of a couple Foxes - if rabies were to enter these foxes …we have a major crises ....

6. Don’t be decieved ....A Farmer in Boyup Brook caught over 700 Foxes in one night “A Little Fox spoils the Vine”

(II) Sin is the Most Cunning Fox

A. Fox - circle around you to find a way where you won’t see them coming.

Older Foxes - are accutely aware in stelf - the older they are the more cunning they become

Rela: this is like sin that we become comfortable with …or don’t deal with it

The Longer the Fox is left the more damage it impacts .

Don’t be deceived …whatever you sow is what you will reap”

Jesus spoke if its power to impact the etrnal destiny of a soul

Matthew 5:29–30 LEB

And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your limbs be destroyed than your whole body go into hell.

(III) Good Fox is a Dead Fox

A. Jesus said - cut it …Kill it

Truth is if it causes you to sin …Kill it …get rid of it ?

Don’t let that Fox Live ....they are cunning, sneaky, they want evrything

Ills / If a Fox breaks into a Chook Farm it will kill everything for fun not just to eat?

Song of Songs 2:15 (NKJV)

15 Catch us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vines, For our vines have tender grapes.

4. God has Tender Grapes for every believer .....this is what the Foxes want to Spoil ....bind up and hinder?

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