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

This chapter is, there's 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 is the 5th of October. And this being the book of wisdom, it would be wise for us to take a look

and see what God's 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,

not for us to change based on how we feel.

As Christians, we must always view this from the biblical perspective and call it like it is.

And just because adultery is being handled differently in our society does not remove the seriousness

of what it is and the practice of it.

And this is deadly.

Deadly for us physically and spiritually, especially when you talk about the church for several reasons.

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