Scroll through your phone, walk through a mall, turn on the television.

Sexual temptation isn't lurking in dark corners anymore.

It's everywhere, unavoidable and relentless.

And if we think we're immune, we're already in danger. The statistics are sobering.

Marriage is destroyed. Ministries ended. Lives shattered. So how do we avoid becoming another casualty?

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall confronts the reality we all face and provides the biblical

wisdom we desperately need.

This isn't about sheltering ourselves from the world. It's about standing strong within it.

Chuck titled today's message, A Plea for Morality.

Let's understand right away that illicit sex is not novel or new. It is not something that has grown out of our society.

It has been with us throughout time.

My Bible is open to James I that describes in clear and briefest terms a downward cycle

that is taken by all who taste of this forbidden fruit.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God.

For God is not tempted by evil, neither tempts he any man.

But every man is tempted when he is drawn away from his own lust.

The new international version says, dragged away. That's not bad.

Every man is tempted when he is dragged by his own lust and enticed. And lust, when it has conceived,

brings forth sin. And when the process continues, when sin conceives, it brings forth an existence that is like death.

And if it continues, an addiction that is worse than death.

Rather easy to analyze a sexual problem in a safe place like we find ourselves today.

Bible open in our laps. Lights are bright,

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