I pray that you would indeed bless this time that we freely give back to you as we commit ourselves to hearing your word.

We ask that you would just open our ears and hearts and minds and understand that what your word says is exactly what it is. And by the power of your might, go before us now

and bless us with your presence. In the name of Yeshua, Jesus, the Christ, and the only way we pray. Amen.

So tonight, our Bible study will be on Proverbs chapter 5. Not as the week was already a downer.

This chapter is nothing nice to say the least when it comes to what it's dealing with, but this is God's word.

And we're not going to skip over it. This being the 5th of October and how many of us do, we read a proverb chapter a day.

So I just felt that this would be the one that we'll go to since this 5th of October.

And this being the book of wisdom, it would be wise for us to take a look and see what God

Word is saying.

As you know, the overall theme associated with this message contained in Chapter 5 is addressing the dangers associated with adultery.

Here in America, nearly one-fifth of all divorces are due to extramatital affairs, and that's high.

And within our culture, without reference to the Bible at all, within our culture, in most cases,

adultery is deemed bad.

It's wrong.

In most cases, I say that. Because we as a society have downplayed adultery.

In fact, we like to use that word cheating, which does not provide that same convicting power of God's word.

We're talking about adultery.

Cheating leads you back to, in my opinion, junior high school, when you were engaged in

a verbal intimacy with someone, and then they saw you talking to somebody else, and you cheated

on me.

And that's how it's getting downplayed and that's a shame.

And we need to address it because it's in God's word the way God meant it to be,

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