Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Sin never delivers what it promises. Sin will lure you in with empty promises of endless pleasure and leave you addicted, enslaved, and utterly broken.

In today's episode, we'll continue through Paul's Bible study, the gospel one proverb at a time,

and look at three more themes found throughout this book of wisdom.

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Now, today's first theme is the danger of sin.

Proverbs is, paints for us a portrait of what sin is and what sin does.

In fact, you probably don't get a clearer description

of the seduction and the deception of sin

than you get in Proverbs.

And I think sometimes we read the Proverbs in a servicing way because we're just looking for these little nuggets of wisdom that will make life easier for us.

And we don't ask deeper questions and delve deeper in to what the

Proverbs is actually presenting to us.

One of the places where I think that's true is the warnings, like in Proverbs 5 and 6,

about the adulterous woman,

the danger of sexual sin.

I'm deeply persuaded that the volume of material

and its descriptiveness about the danger of sexual sin is not just to warn us about sexual sin,

but to give us a case study about the danger of sin, what sin does.

And so I want to unpack that for you.

If you look at these descriptions, the first thing you're confronted with

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