until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.
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… But most of the time, he is the victim. Listen to Proverbs 7, verses 21 to 23. This is the anatomy of a seduction, how it happens. With her many persuasions, the adulteress entices him. With her flattering lips, she seduces him. 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, the trap, so he, the adulterer, does not know it will cost him his life. Sometimes that's literally. Sexual immorality sometimes costs a person his physical life. Do you know how to protect yourself against sexually transmitted disease? All this talk today about safe sex, you cannot safely sin against Almighty God without consequence. The Bible says the only way to truly engage in safe sex is to obey that boundary that God has put into effect, no sex outside the marriage relationship. but that's not the only way sexual immorality destroys our lives there's not only a physical cost there is a financial cost the fact is immorality can be very painful to the pocketbook listen to proverbs 6 verse 26 for on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread and an adulteress hunts for the precious life if you engage in sexual immorality it's going to cost you. It's going to cost you financially. Divorce can be financially costly. But thirdly, consider the emotional cost of sexual immorality. You know, there's some people who say, you know, …
… She seduced him with her smooth talk till an arrow pierces his liver like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it would cost him his life. he didn't know, oh, I'm going to go after the cheap thing. It's going to cost me my whole life, but it does. But sin always presents itself better than it is. Sin is always good in the passing pleasures. Sin is fun until the bill comes. But when you go God's way, you'll never regret making the decision. I will not exchange what's real. Oh, come on, everybody. Clap and thank God. I'm not messing with the cheap stuff. If I can get a dose of the real stuff. In fact, I would say the only reason why the cheap stuff looks so good is because you haven't really experienced the real stuff. Because when you experience the real stuff, you go, no, no, no. Nothing can compare to the love of the Father. Nothing can compare to the presence of God. Nothing can compare to covenant committed relationship. Put it on the screen. This is the reality you need to be aware of. Attention feels intoxicating, but it's not covenant. Desire is not devotion. Chemistry is not character. Attraction fades, but love stays. We get caught up like, whoa, there's attraction and affection and they desire me and they like me. …
8. Some sinners flatter themselves, that they are already converted. They sit down and rest in a false hope, persuading themselves that all their sins are pardoned; that God loves them; that they shall go to heaven when they die; and that they need trouble themselves no more: Rev. iii. 17. “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” Sinners very generally go on flattering themselves in some or other of these ways, till their punishment actually overtakes them. These are the baits by which Satan catches souls, and draws them into his snare. They are such self-flatteries as these that keep men from seeing their danger, and that make them go on securely, Proverbs vii. 23. “as the bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.” Those that flatter themselves with hopes of living a great while longer in the world, very commonly continue to do so till death comes. Death comes upon them when they expect it not; they look upon it as a great way off, when there is but a step between. They thought not of dying at that time, nor at any time near it. When they were young, they proposed to live a good while longer; and if they happen to live till middle age, they still maintain the same thought, that they are not yet near death; and so that thought goes along with them as long as they live, or till they are just about to die. …