Proverbs 5:15-18; 6:23-35 — If you don’t safeguard your moral purity, who will?
First, some scattered thoughts I noted earlier in the week:
- Do not drink in sights and experiences which are not yours — not “out there,” not in your house, not on your digital device, not in your head (Proverbs 5:15).
- Don’t take your sexuality into the public domain. Don’t make a public display of your sexual vigor, drive, or need (Proverbs 5:16).
- A stranger here is not just someone you don’t know (Proverbs 5:17). It’s anyone you don’t have a right to know sexually.
- Satan and the world tell us something entirely contrary to this verse (Proverbs 6:23). They picture divine and godly reproof and restraint as repression and oppression. They paint commandments, laws, and correction as negative and counter-productive.
- God’s instructions and rules guard us from moral evil and immoral people (Proverbs 6:24). His commandments and teachings guard us from the seductive enticements of that evil and those people.
- We must choose not to indulge and nourish the desire for the undeniable beauty and attractiveness of that which does not belong to us — be it a person or a philosophy (Proverbs 6:25).
Read more of my thoughts on these verses in two of my blog posts this week:
Unfortunately, the Deceiver has used this verse to lead countless people further into sin. The lie goes something like this: “Since you are already guilty of adultery for merely looking and thinking, what further difference will it make if you go further by acting? If you are already guilty anyway, you just as well get some further fun out of it. Not doing it will not make you any less guilty.” Such logic seems reasonable and even difficult to refute. What would you say to defeat such a lie?
Find my answers here: Safeguarding Moral Purity
Oh, and just in case you’re wondering, the actual CLP youth/adult Sunday School lesson title is “Safeguarding Moral Purity.”
Additional reading on how to safeguard your moral purity
