We're going to go to a hard chapter in scripture today to look at the anatomy of an inappropriate

relationship, because these things happen, and when I talk about this, I want you to understand

I'm not talking about a physical assault where someone is taking advantage of someone and hurting

them. I'm talking about two willing people going into a relationship that is forbidden by God.

There is such a thing, and when that happens, there's a lot of things that go wrong as a result of such a choice.

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Now back to today's valuable study.

Thank you. back to today's valuable study. The anatomy of an inappropriate physical relationship is clearly outlined in

Proverbs chapter 7. The word anatomy has more than one meaning, but in this case we're

talking about the study or structure

or the internal workings of something. We're looking at the internal workings of inappropriate

physical relationships, whether it's fornication or adultery, whatever the relationship is that's

outside of the bounds of where God meant for a physical relationship to be, which is in the

bounds of marriage. Proverbs chapter 7 is a complete study, and it's actually a very hard and sad chapter,

but it's a necessary study. It's one that we don't want to skip over. You need to have your

Bibles open to Proverbs chapter 7 to go along in this study because you'll see

all of these pieces together. It'll probably be easier for you if you follow along. This is probably

not one of those episodes that's good to do on a walk. It's probably better at a table with your

Bible open and actually that was a nervous laugh because this is not a funny episode. This is actually a very hard episode. The Bible describes someone called a strange woman and it's described in Proverbs 7, 5. It actually starts the whole chapter opens with telling us that we need to keep God's words and lay up his commandments

and keep his commandments and keep his law as the apple or the pupil of our eye and that we're to bind it

upon our fingers, write them upon the table of our heart. That's how the chapter opens.

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