Consequences of Immorality | Kay Arthur | Precepts for Life

can you be immoral and not reap the consequences just last night in a rare rare time I was watching television and an ad came on it was an ad for medicine for genital herpes and it was so interesting because they showed this gal and now how this has helped her so much and how it's taken away the pain and yet it doesn't cure it and that's the thing that they said there is no cure for genital herpes you know if that young lady had listened to the Word of God if she had paid attention to what God said and walked in God's Way then she wouldn't be looking for a medicine that would help her with the pain pain that came as an inevitable result of being immoral we're going to look at what God says about immorality and adultery [Music] [Music] do you know how thankful I am for the opportunity of sharing the Word of God with you and as I share it precious one I want you to know that I understand that you may be like the girl in the advertisement that had genital herpes and there was no cure for that but I want you to know there is hope and there's hope because there's God there's a new beginning because God is God and he offers us a new beginning there is forgiveness because God forgives but you and I need to know and understand that there are consequences for our behavior and God makes that very very clear in the Word of God can you be immoral and not reap the consequences no beloved there will come consequences one way or another let's look at some of these especially in relationship to marriage because you see what's happening today as so many families are being destroyed because one of the partners decides to be immoral because one of the partners is entrapped or or led away by the desire of their eyes or the the desire of their heart and then they transgress they step over God's line and then there are consequences in Romans chapter 1 God talks about what happens when men know God and they don't honor him as God they don't glorify Him as God to glorify God means that you have a correct opinion of God a correct and accurate estimate and you order your life accordingly and in Romans chapter 1 he talks about how all of us are going to be held accountable before him and how no man is going to have any excuse before God because God has given plenty of testimony the testimony of a knowledge within that there has to be a Supreme Being and the testimony of creation that says hey all this didn't happen accident there has to be a creator and then he talks about what happens when we have this knowledge of God and when men have this knowledge of God and they turned away and he says they exchanged the glory of an incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures therefore therefore because they turned away from truth because they turned away from this witness within and this witness without therefore God gave them over to the lusts of their bodies now you and I live in a body of flesh and it has desires it has lusts but God is able to restrain those but when you and I reject the knowledge of God he gives them over he gives us over to the lusts of our bodies and he says that their bodies might be dishonored among them and he's talking about sexual immorality there he's talking about having sex outside of marriage or being married to someone and having sex with someone that you're not married to he says they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and they worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever and that's what we're doing today I mean just stop and look at your society aren't we us or in it are we serving us and serving others and not acknowledging God don't we even take the standards of God and say I'm sorry but but those are outdated no God surely didn't mean that now that books written by man it's not written by man I mean man was the scribe but God was the author and he breathed into men the words that he wanted recorded for us and every word of God is pure the psalmist says purified his silver and a furnace of fire seven times so he goes on to say then in verse 26 for this reason God gave them over to degrading passions for the women exchanged the natural use the natural function for that which is unknown and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire one towards another men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error receiving in their own persons this is the consequence of immorality this is the consequence of when you and I do not obey God's laws 1st Corinthians chapter 6 and we've looked at it before but in 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verse 18 he says flee immorality every other sin that a man commits is outside the body but the immoral man sins against his own body sexually transmitted diseases STD are a consequence of being immoral God never intended for a woman to sleep with more than one man that's God's will and they have found that even young girls that have been immoral and had a numerous sexual partners are ending up with all sorts of problems so that many of them are having to have hysterectomies before they ever get married which means that they lose the ability to the wonderful ability to give birth to a child well I want to take you back to the book of Proverbs because the book of Proverbs has a lot to say about someone that's thinking about being immoral someone that's thinking about committing adultery we looked at proverbs 5 last week we want to look at proverbs 6 this week and he says in verse 23 the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life now listen if you don't have light you're gonna fall in the darkness you're not going to see where you're going and you're in danger that's why you need light and so God's command is light so that you don't stumble in the darkness his teaching is light so that you don't end up with the unfruitful deeds of the darkness and reproof are the disciplines of life in other words God comes along as as no don't and when you do then the reproof that comes along the whipping the divine taking you to the divine woodshed is is is to get you back in shape and to say wait a minute wait a minute you're about to destroy yourself he says there to keep you from the evil woman from the smooth tongue of the adulteress I was watching you the other day and I just want you to know that I am sound impressed with you listen you will hear those flattering words beware be careful there are so many women on the make today we have lost our scruples we have no fear of God before our eyes immorality is totally acceptable in our society now except for a contingency of those that believe the word of God and they know it will never be acceptable so he says listen to me it's going to keep you from the evil woman now listen if you're enticing men if you're seducing men if you're going around having sex outside of marriage if you're a little college girl and you're sleeping with this guy and then sleeping with that guy or if you're an adult woman a career woman and you're sleeping around if you turn on the television go to the movies look at all those women that are hopping into bed they're evil women and the eyes have gotten up that is hard language isn't it I was an evil woman and the eyes of God I was an adulteress and I knew how to use my tongue do not desire her beauty in your heart nor let her catch you with her eyelids in other words she knows how to flirt with her eyes don't catch don't be caught by that flirtatious I wants it carefully turn away from it don't look he says four on the account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread and an adulteress hunts for the precious life what is he saying she's on the make I mean she's out to get you she's looking she wants a man and she's looking and you are the target now some of you I know are saying I'm not the target of anyone well I want to tell you something you would be better off not being the target of any woman than to be having sex like so many men outside of marriage because you are in a place if you stay moral where God can bless you and you are going to restrain yourself from the judgment of God he says an adulteress hunts for the precious life in proverbs chapter 23 and I want to take you to proverbs chapter 23 because you you know it's interesting this is a book written by a father to his son of wise sayings I mean most of it is others are written by other men of wise saying it's a book of wisdom it's the wisdom that are the precepts and standards for your life and in proverbs chapter 23 in verse 27 he says this excuse me I was in the wrong chapter proverbs 23 verse 27 he says for a harlot is a deep pit and an adulterous woman is a narrow well have you ever fallen or seen somebody that's falling down a narrow well you can't get them out and they're in danger of dying they're in danger of dying of starvation says surely she lurks as a robber she's out to steal the blessing of God from you she increases the faithlessness among men she's going out and she picking off men one by one and increasing the faithlessness those that are not faithful not faithful to their wives not faithful to their children not faithful to their commitments I have seen a guy get involved with a gal like this and I have seen his life absolutely destroyed absolutely destroyed we'll go back to proverbs chapter 5 verse 6 verse 27 can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned can you pick up hot coals from the fireplace and put them on your under on your chest and not be burned now there's fire there and you are going to be burned can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched no so was the one who goes in listened carefully to his neighbor's wife whoever touches her will not go unpunished and what will that punishment be I'll tell you when I come back do you love Kay Arthur's teaching would you like to get up to speed on all of precept ministries news and events join us on facebook by visiting precept org slash Facebook receive daily Biblical encouragement special messages from ke updates on new products event announcements and get connected with others seeking the truth from God's Word see you on Facebook you start seeing how this book relates to this book and this book relates to that book and it allows you to not only see the picture of salvation you know the history of Israel the future whatever the future holds but it also really allows you to know your God in his heart in his heart for you you start having a personal relationship and a deeper relationship and a better understanding of why you believe what you believe discover truth for yourself through the precept abductive Bible study method what happens when a man commits adultery or as proverbs says the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife he says whoever touches her will not go unpunished now what's the punishment well just listen men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he's hungry I mean you see a thief and you see him take an Apple because he's starving to death he says but when he is found he must pay Sevenfold he was hungry he took a piece of food and and we don't despise him but we say look you didn't you've got to pay for it and they have to pay Sevenfold he says he must give all the substance of his house he stole and he's got to give the substance of his house he says the one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense he is excuse me but do hey stupid he is stupid he says he who would destroy himself doesn't why because there's a God in heaven and because God created you and because God created you for himself and because God did not create you for immorality you say but I have a sex drive yes you have a sex drive and God says if you're going to burn then you get married and that's where you satisfy your sex drive you say where is that it's in first Corinthians 7 and I've read it to you before but that's what he's saying if you're gonna burn then you get married and that's a reason to get married all right now he goes on to say wounds and disgrace he will find genital herpes sexually transmitted diseases other kinds of wounds the wounds that will come from knowing that you hurt another man's wife from knowing that you hurt your wife from knowing that your children found out and now they're full of bitterness towards you or hatred towards you or your kids end up just like you wounds and disgrace will he find and listen his reproach will not be blotted out it says for jealousy in rages a man that husband finds out that you went into his wife jealousy enrages him and that's natural and it says and he will not spare in the day of vengeance he will not accept any ransom nor will he be content though you give him many gifts there's other consequences too and we need to move on to proverbs chapter 7 where you see even more that God says happens when we don't listen to God he says in verse 6 he says of chapter 7 I was at the window of my house and I looked out through the lattice and I saw among the naive but duh i discerned among the youths a young man lacking sense now listen this is a young man lacking sense a young man I can sense passing through the street near her corner and he takes the way to her house he's going down the street he comes near to her corner he's tempted he's drawn have you ever visited a harlot have you ever gone to a house of prostitution have you ever driven down certain streets because you know who's going to be standing on this street corners and you know that you can get what you want in any shape and any form and any size any any sort of perversion all you have to do is pay for it you are lacking sense if you head that way and you are going to destroy yourself and listen no one gets away with it and you've heard about those that profess to know Jesus Christ those that have been on television those that have proclaimed that we should be holy and they have been caught God does not spare anyone God is not a respecter of persons it says in the Twilight in the evening in the middle of the night at the darkness when the light is going down when things are not as easily recognized when you think that you can hide and behold a woman comes out to meet him and listen carefully dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart you know I was in the beauty parlor the other day and I picked up a hairstyling magazine to look at it when I flipped the back over the back of the magazine over I nearly died I nearly died if these so-called evening clothes for these evening clubs and you see the g-strings you see the bare buttocks you see the bosoms you watch them in high fashion and you watch there's no brawn you can see through their clothes this is an abomination to God this is uncovering the nakedness of a person and that is only to be done in the marriage bed the short skirts the low blouses the tight clothes the seductive clothes are they attire of a harlot and if you wear that what you're saying is I'm for sale I'm up for hire here look at the merchandise you want to see it more closely look at my revealing outfit the of a harlot you're selling yourself so cheap so cheap I mean anybody can buy you anybody can have you you say but I want to be loved that's not going to be love my dear that's going to be erotic passion here today gone tomorrow someone better-looking than you somebody more seductive than you now don't sell yourself you know when you wear clothes like that you might as well put something a sign on it that says slightly soiled greatly reduced in price men really really in their hearts don't want second-class goods although they'll sleep with them you know really when they get married they'd rather have someone that's been pure she's boisterous and she's rebellious her feet do not remain at home I mean you watch girls that have no nesting instinct you watch women that that aren't interested in building a home you watch the women that are out on the streets and and hunting and looking and and dressed like that let me just say one more thing don't ever say well it's not my fault he's just a dirty old man remember men are turned on by sight so don't wear the attire of a harlot it says she's now in the streets and the squares and she lurks by every corner so she seizes him and kisses him and with a brazen face she says to him I have offerings I have today I've paid my vows therefore I'd come out to meet you to seek your presence earnestly and I found you I've spread my couch with coverings with colored linens of Egypt I sprinkled my bread come let us drink our fill of love until the morning let us delight ourselves with caresses for a man my man is not at home he's gone on a long journey he's taken a bag of money with him at full moon he'll come home with her many persuasions she entices him with her flat during lips she seduces him don't be a fool don't let a woman capture you with her enticing seductive words why suddenly he follows her why as an ox goes to the slaughter or as one in fetters to the discipline of the fool do you remember those things from early America when they would put them in the town square and when they would have them in the stocks like this and their head would be out and their hands would be out and there would be some sort of sign or they would know this person played the fool this person did something very foolish did something very bad it says suddenly he follows her as an ox goes to the slaughter or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool until an arrow pierces through his liver as a bird hastens to the snare he does not know that it will cost him his life he does not know it will cost him his life listen indiscretion can change the course of a person's life there was a man and this is a true story and he was faithful to his wife he went on one of these big business things where they take you away and they train you and train you and train you and that night they said you guys have you have studied so well you have hung in there with us we have a treat for you to end all treats and what was the tree they gave them all a woman free of charge for the night all the buddies were standing around he was embarrassed to not take the woman for the first time he went out and committed adultery with his wife the bedroom was paid for everything was paid for the booze everything when they finished he looked over at her sitting in the chair as she pulled on her hose and she looked at him and she said welcome to the world of AIDS it caused him his life it caused his wife her life and it left the children parentless all because of one act of indiscretion now my son's listen to me pay attention to the words of my mouth do not let your heart turn aside to her wage do not stray into her past for many are the victims that she has cast down and numerous are all her slain her house is the way to Sheol the way to hell descending to the chambers of death God says marriage is honorable in all he designs sex he means for you to enjoy sex and marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled enjoy it enjoy it but know this that fornicators and adulterers God will judge the ways of a man are before the Lord he knows your goings he knows that her path is the way to death and that's why he warns you don't go there he knows that a woman that has takes a man and and and a man that commits adultery reduces his life to nothing more as it says in Proverbs 2 the price of a loaf of bread listen you're worth far more than a loaf of bread you're worth the death of the son of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ came to set you free so if you're a slave to adultery or immorality I want you to know and believe me I've been there you can be set free you can be a new creature cry to God and ask him to save you we are on the air because of 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Published: Tue Jul 17 2018