WHAT IS A LIFE HACK?

•  A strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more effective way
•   A practical and simple way to make life better

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WISDOM.

•  Wisdom is valuable. It is to see as God sees—all the nuances.

• •  Remember all the nuances of wisdom: spiritual, eternal, emotional, and relational.

•   It’s the right knowledge used the right way.
•   Where does wisdom come from? God.
•   How do we get it? Through Jesus, the gift of the Holy Spirit, His Word (the Bible), and His people.Proverbs 3:13–18 13Blessed are those who find (seek and find) wisdom, those who gain understanding, 14for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold.

THIS WEEK: WISDOM’S CALL TO PURITY.

•   The statistics concerning pornography are off the charts for both men and women. (Magic Mike, 50 Shades of Grey)
•   Sexual sin is progressive.

WARNING IN PROVERBS 5-7: THE ADULTEROUS WOMAN

•  David warned Solomon based on his own experience with sexual sin.
•   It’s an analogy of the devil and how he works.

Proverbs 2:16–21
Proverbs 6:23–32 23For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life, 24keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman. 25Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

Proverbs 7:24–27 24Now then, my sons, listen to me; pay attention to what I say. 25Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths. 26Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng. 27Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.

WHY DOES GOD SAY SO MUCH ABOUT SEXUAL SIN AND PURITY?

TO GET THIS AREA WRONG HURTS AND EVEN KILLS. 

• Think about the diseases, the broken relationships that continue to break homes, the broken hearts that damage our ability to trust, and the children born without God’s best.
•   Statistics prove that pornography (visual or written) is progressive and dangerous.

• •  It actually rewires your brain and becomes addictive!

JAMES IS THE “PROVERBS” OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. IT REINFORCES PURITY AND GIVES SOLUTION.

James 3:13–18

WISDOM IS PURE.

Pure: not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material; innocent or morally good

SEXUAL SIN IS IMPLIED IN THE GREEK WORD PORNIA.

•   It’s the root word of pornography.
•   It’s any form of sexual sin—adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lust, etc.
•   Sexual sin starts in the eye/mind, moves to the heart/source of the will, and then moves into the actions.
•   God designed pure sex—with the right heart, the right person, in the right way.
•   The devil attacks the design— “I use the other person for my own pleasure” … “What it does for me…”

SEXUAL SIN IS IN BOTH MIND AND ACTION.

Exodus 20:14–17 14“You shall not commit adultery. 15You shall not steal. 16You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”