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The Subtle Path to Adultery
Scripture Passage:
Job 31:1-12 Introduction: The home is under attack. Each part of the home is attacked in different ways. Often the children are targeted through toys, video games and movies. The women are targeted through various means with the “dream guy” concept or the lifestyle of sin operas. Often women fall prey by what they hear. Men are different. Men are endangered by what they see. This world is trying to make sure and corrupt the minds of godly men through the eyes. Job understood this tendency and sought a way to fight it. We too ought to do the same.
- THE WANDERING EYE (Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
See All...) - A Covenant with the Eyes
- Why Think on a Maid
- THE FOLLOWING HEART (Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
See All...) - The Eyes Effect the Heart (Lamentations 3:51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
See All...) - The Look of Lust is Adultery in the Heart (Matthew 5:28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
See All...) - THE CONSUMING FIRE (job 31:11-12
See All...) - It is a Heinous Crime (Job 31:11For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
See All...) - It is a Fire that Consumeth
- It consumes to destruction (Job 31:12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
See All...; Proverbs 6:25-29 [25] Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. [26] For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life. [27] Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? [28] Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? [29] So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
See All...) - It would root out all mine increase (Job 31:12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
See All...; Proverbs 6:26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
See All...) - HINDERNG THE PATH
- The Covenant of the Eyes (Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
See All...) - The Word of God (Proverbs 6:20-24 [20] My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
[21] Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
[22] When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
[23] For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
[24] To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
See All...) - The Work of the Wife (Proverbs 30:10-12 [10] Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
[11] There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
[12] There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
See All...)
Conclusion: What are your eyes looking on? Where is your heart wandering? Ladies what are you doing to help men keep their minds and hearts pure?
Proverbs 26:9
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.