Consider the consequences!John Farley
Pastor-Teacher Sunday, January 10, 2016 Practical Christianity: Comedians Preachers and Priests College coaches Mark Atteberry’s book The Solomon Seduction: What you can learn from the wisest fool in the Bible. His life was turned upside down by a single adulterous liaison he indulged in. Under indictment Tempted to play Consider the consequences! Wisdom : How to make the right choices and take the right actions in our daily lives. Our next practical subject in Proverbs Pro 5:1-23 If you are about to do something foolish with your sex life, please get a grip and consider the consequences first. "seduced": being enticed to make negative behavioral choices you would otherwise not get involved with. Eph 6:10-11 Satan is a master of deception! He makes David Copperfield and Penn & Teller look like amateurs ! 1Co 7:3-5 Pro 20:1 1. Alcohol. Men will do things after a few drinks that we would never do sober. Pro 13:20 2. Point out that other people you respect are doing it. So it must be OK, right? Pro 11:2 3. Appeal to our ego. 4. Drape us with the cloak of privacy (but don’t tell us that it’s a see through garment!). There is Someone who always "knows about it!" Pro 5:21-22 5. Appeal to our senses, emotions, and fantasies – but NOT our thinking, understanding, or wisdom!!! Pro 7:6-23 6. Keep us away from - or discredit - the one thing that will enable us to see through the disguise: God’s word! Pro 6:20-29 |