OUTLINE -- Promiscuous or Prude: Wise Sexuality in the Proverbs
July 5, 2020 By Pastor Adam Hall
"Proverbs 5:21-23 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths. 22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray."
5 FACTS ABOUT WISE SEXUALITY IN PROVERBS
#1) Keep In the Word of God
#2) Avoid Sexual Immorality
#3) Avoid Lustful Desires
#4) Sexual Immorality Leads to Destruction
#5) Find Delight in Your Wife
#1) Keep In the Word of God
"Proverbs 1:8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,"
"Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent."
"Proverbs 2:1-2 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;"
"Proverbs 3:1-2 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you."
#2) Avoid Sexual Immorality
"Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."
"Exodus 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery."
"ESV Genesis 39:7-12 And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me." 8 But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. 9 He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?" 10 And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her. 11 But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house, 12 she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house."
"Proverbs 5:8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,"
"Proverbs 7:5 to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words."
#3) Avoid Lustful Desires
"Proverbs 6:25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;"
"Matthew 5:27-30 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell."
#4) Sexual Immorality Leads To Destruction
"Proverbs 2:18-19 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; 19 none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life."
"Proverbs 5:3-6 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, 4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; 6 she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it."
"Proverbs 6:26-29 for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life. 27 Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? 28 Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished."
#5) Find Delight In Your Wife
“Proverbs 5:15-20 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. 20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?"
"1 Corinthians 7:2-3 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband."
Application
1) Christ Forgives The Worst Of Sinners
"1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
2) Secret Habits Will Keep You From Secret Sin
"Psalm 119:9-11 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. 10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! 11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you."
Prepare for NEXT Sunday:
but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,
but the Lord weighs the spirit.
3 Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established.
4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose,
even the wicked for the day of trouble.
July 5, 2020 By Pastor Adam Hall
"Proverbs 5:21-23 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths. 22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray."
5 FACTS ABOUT WISE SEXUALITY IN PROVERBS
#1) Keep In the Word of God
#2) Avoid Sexual Immorality
#3) Avoid Lustful Desires
#4) Sexual Immorality Leads to Destruction
#5) Find Delight in Your Wife
#1) Keep In the Word of God
"Proverbs 1:8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,"
"Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent."
"Proverbs 2:1-2 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;"
"Proverbs 3:1-2 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you."
#2) Avoid Sexual Immorality
"Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."
"Exodus 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery."
"ESV Genesis 39:7-12 And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me." 8 But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. 9 He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?" 10 And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her. 11 But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house, 12 she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house."
"Proverbs 5:8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,"
"Proverbs 7:5 to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words."
#3) Avoid Lustful Desires
"Proverbs 6:25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;"
"Matthew 5:27-30 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell."
#4) Sexual Immorality Leads To Destruction
"Proverbs 2:18-19 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; 19 none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life."
"Proverbs 5:3-6 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, 4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; 6 she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it."
"Proverbs 6:26-29 for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life. 27 Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? 28 Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished."
#5) Find Delight In Your Wife
“Proverbs 5:15-20 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. 20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?"
"1 Corinthians 7:2-3 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband."
Application
1) Christ Forgives The Worst Of Sinners
"1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
2) Secret Habits Will Keep You From Secret Sin
"Psalm 119:9-11 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. 10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! 11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you."
Prepare for NEXT Sunday:
- Memory verse Challenge: Proverbs 16:1-4
- Read and think on the book of Proverbs.
- Sermon Title: Who is God in the Proverbs
but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,
but the Lord weighs the spirit.
3 Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established.
4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose,
even the wicked for the day of trouble.
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