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Proverbs chapter 7 verses 22 and 23 talking about how a man is pulled away by an adulteress, these verses say all at once he follows her

as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast till an arrow pierces its liver.

As a bird rushes into a snare, he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Oh, these verses, what powerful imagery that beckons us specifically when it comes to temptations toward adultery or

sexual immorality. This picture whenever we walk into sexual immorality into adultery, we're like an ox walking to a slaughter,

a stag caught fast on arrow pierces its liver, a bird rushing into a snare. We don't realize that what

we're doing costs us our lives. I just think about all the ways that each of us are tempted when it comes to sexual

immorality this is talking specifically about adultery but just think the the

bigger picture all the ways we are tempted in this area in our culture in our lives in our marriages and so we

pray God help us to see sexual sin for the devastation it brings.

Lord, keep us from being so foolish, like oxen walking into a slaughter. God may that not be so in any one of our lives.

Help us to run from sexual temptation. Lord, help us not to be like a bird rushing into a snare.

Lord, help us to realize that it costs our lives,

that it pulls us away from you, that it

destroys not just our relationship with you, but destroys our relationships in marriage

and future marriages, it destroys our relationship with other people

around us. God, we pray that you people around us.

God, we pray that you would keep us from sexual immorality.

Help us to see sin for what it is.

The word says later, many a victim has the adulterous laid low and her slainer a mighty throng.

Her house is the way to shield going down to the chambers of death.

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