TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - July 15, 2025 - Proverbs 6:24, James 1:13-15 - The Sin Baby

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manor. It's a tropical storm Tuesday here in Florida, and the state is being drenched. Fortunately, we missed a lot of it this morning. I was expecting a downpour several hours ago, but the storm has stayed a few miles off the coast away from us, and we have not been affected by it yet. So, we're here to study the Word of God, and we are studying the book of Proverbs, and

we are in chapter 6, and today we're going to examine verses 25 through 29. So let's pray and begin our Bible study. Almighty God, Father, we pray in the glorious name of Your Son Jesus Christ. Father, we adore You, we magnify You, we bless You. We praise You, Father. And Father, we humble ourselves in this class to be taught by Your Holy Spirit. So Holy Spirit, come, take Your seat, direct us, lead us, illuminate us, enlighten us, teach us the Word of God, and reveal to us Jesus Christ and his kingdom. In the name of Jesus we pray, amen.

Amen. Praise the Lord. Welcome to Morning Manna here in the eight o'clock hour on the East Coast. We're live right now for our international Bible study where people from all over the world are checking in with us today for our class. We have students from the Congo, from Switzerland, from Malaysia, from South Korea, from the Philippines, and across all over the U.S. and Canada. Welcome to our live Bible study here on faithandvalues.com. We appreciate that. This is a ministry of

faith and values fellowship. And so we welcome you today. Today we are continuing our study in the book of Proverbs, and we're in Proverbs chapter six today, we're gonna pick back up on verse 25, and read through 29. So if you got your Bibles, turn there with me Proverbs chapter six, read together with me. And verse 25, l not after her beauty in mine heart, neither let her take thee with their eyelids. For by means of a horsewoman, a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take

fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned? So he that goeth into his neighbor's wife, whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent." God bless the reading of his word today. Okay, if you knew, my style of teaching is to break up each verse into segments, study the segment one by one, and then put it together to get the full meaning. Also a reminder that in the Proverbs, we need to go beyond a surface level reading and drill down deeper for the full meaning.

In other words, there are people in places and things mentioned that represent something else. On the surface, it is exactly what it says but it goes deeper. There's more meaning to it. And we're going to see it in verse 25. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids. So we'll begin with the first segment, lust not after her beauty in thine heart. So this phrase addresses the internal battle against temptation.

It tells us that sin begins with unchecked desires in the heart. And this is a lesson for all of us. This is not just sexual sin, this is all sin. And we got to drill down deeper to get the full meaning. So this command, don't lust after the beauty in your heart. Don't lust after the beauty in your heart. Don't lust after her beauty in your heart. This delves deeper than outward actions. It addresses the inner source of temptation, the heart and its desires.

Lust not after her beauty is a warning against allowing physical attractiveness to ignite a sinful, uncontrolled covetous desire inside your heart. In other words, we see something in the natural world and in the physical world, and that sparks the beginning of a sin in your heart. And I'm going to…later here today, I'm going to walk you through the life cycle of sin. It's got a life cycle. And it mirrors the life cycle of humans.

So the physical beauty of this immoral woman is presented as a powerful snare. Now look, this can be the other way around. It can be an immoral man that's enticing a woman. But this power, the weapon is the powerful look in the eyes. This woman, and again, it can be a man, entices his or her victim, her prey, with the eyes to draw them away from their righteous walk. So the instruction is highlighting a biblical truth that sin finds its genesis, its origin in the desires and thoughts that are nurtured in our hearts.

So, we as disciples are being taught by this proverb the importance of internal discipline. Yes. You have to police your heart. You have to police your eyes. Your will has to be the police officer of your own eyes and your heart. So what we're being told here is that internal desires, if left unchecked, if unbridled, if there's no restraint on them, will be offensive to God, eventually. So the second part is,

neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids." So first, she captures your attention with her eyes. Well, actually with her beauty. She captures your attention with her beauty. And again, this can be reversed. A handsome man is capturing the attention of a woman with his physical appearance. The second part is, neither let her take thee

with her eyelids. This compliments the warning by focusing on the external, the visual means of seduction, the subtle power of enticing glances and gestures. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. It's referring to seductive glances, alluring eyes, suggestive facial expressions. Again, body language.

Just the look that somebody gives you. That's a nonverbal communication. And there are people who are experts in nonverbal communication. Yes. For very immoral purposes. Entrapping people is a game. It's sport.

And they love to do it. It's a game. And it's, hey, got another victim, put another notch. Brought one more down. I'll play this game. So what is it about the eyelids? The eyelids represent the subtle nonverbal cues that a person uses to captivate, to draw in, to ensnare the unsuspecting target, who then becomes, later becomes implicated in the sin. He starts out with, it can be a person who is not thinking about these things, and yet

there's somebody comes along who's searching, hunting for a victim, a prey. It's all fun. This is all sport. This is like, hey, this all fun. This is all sport. This is like, hey, this is fun. Every day I do this. And they receive, there's some type of emotional, spiritual energy that they get by enticing people. But it's the eyelids represent the subtle nonverbal cues unspoken but powerfully persuasive methods of temptation employed by the seducer to entice, to draw in, to captivate, to ensnare the target, the man or woman who is being targeted. So this proverb is warning about the danger of being captivated by visual temptation, the insidious power of alluring looks

that aim to entice and to sin. It says that she She takes to cap, that means to captivate. Right. All right, neither let her take. Seize. Yeah, to seize. Yes. Captivate, take, entrap, ensnare, bind. This woman or man uses his or her gaze as a weapon to draw others into a destructive

path. And often they just drop them. After they get them on the destructive path, hey, sucker, he fell for it. See you later. Goodbye. Again, it's a game. The imagery reinforces the idea that there are men and women who are active predators using every tool at their disposal to ensnare victims.

You've got two players in this. You have the person who is seeking to entice, and then you have the person who is enticed. Two different people, but the one that's the enticer is dangerous because this one is actively looking for people to ensnare. the time. The warning is this taken with her eyelids. It's teaching us about the immense power of visual temptation. Yes. There are some people you should just not make eye contact with them. just not make eye contact with them. But see, that's what's so dangerous about it, the seductive look in the eyes. Right.

If they didn't have that power, it wouldn't be seductive, would it? That's why this is what the warning is about. You know, break the eye contact. That's why this is what the warning is about. Break the eye contact. Don't engage that person. This extends beyond flattering words. We talked about that in verse 24. See now we're talking about flattering looks, seductive looks.

It's not enough to avoid the immoral person's presence. in moral person's presence, we have to actively resist the beginnings of lust in our hearts. And guard our eyes. See, the look, the gaze, the seductive look, it has no power on you if there's no lust in you. The look, the gaze, the seductive look has, it has no power on you if there's no lust in you. It's like Velcro.

You gotta have both parts of Velcro to work, to stick together. Now, I don't know if it was yesterday or last week, we talked about the lamp, that's verse 23. Right. I guess it was yesterday. Yesterday. Yeah, so we talked about the lamp and the light of wisdom that keeps us from the snares of the immoral

And and so This is a continuation of why we need the light Remember the lamp was for walking directly to see your feet The light was to illuminate a much wider area. Now, Doc, I'm going to do something different today. I want you to turn to James chapter 1.

Okay. And I'm going to do a two-fer today. This is two-fer Tuesday, meaning you get two books of the Bible for the price of one. That's right. So, we're going to do a two-fer Tuesday, and we're going to go to James chapter 1, and Doc, I would like you to read verses 13, 14 and 15. Okay, James chapter one, verses 13 through 15. All right, here we go. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, either tempteth he any man.

But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." Okay, so I said earlier at the beginning, I was going to show you the birth cycle, the life cycle of sin. It's presented in James chapter 1 verses 13 to 15. So, we're going to step away from Proverbs 6, and for the next few minutes, maybe the next 10-12 minutes here, I'm going to be focused in James. So if you want to open your Bible,

we're now looking at James chapter 1. If you're like, I can't find this in Proverbs 6, that's because we're not in Proverbs 6 right now. So if you just stepped away and you just came back, we have transitioned over to the book of James, chapter 1, verses 13 through 15. Verse 13 says, "'Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God.'" There's this is important that we we study James as we're studying chapter 6 verse 25 because it's talking about don't allow the lustful stares and glances of a seducer to capture your eyes and capture your heart and lead you to sin. The reason I'm studying this is, and James, is to show you the process. It's not just one glance. People seldom fall for one glance.

There's a cycle. So starting with verse 13 of chapter 1 of the book of James, let no man say he is tempted by God. This command addresses a common human inclination that stems from our fallen nature to seek excuses for our sins. Who did Adam blame? When God confronted him in the garden, Adam said, that woman you gave me. Yes. Adam was...

He was blaming God. He was blaming God. Yes, and who did Eve blame? The serpent. The serpent didn't have a leg to stand on so but but he believed it okay we as humans are prone to blame shifting. This is a very strong, forceful prohibition of blaming God for your mistake. We are never, ever to blame God. We have to take full responsibility, take full ownership of our sins, deal with it, you did it, it's yours, got your name on it, and God had nothing to do with it. It's a huge theological error. To me, it's blasphemous,

error. To me, it's blasphemous because it's imputing a sinful motive to a perfectly holy God. Why would people say, well, God's responsible? Well, they're saying, He tempted me, He tested, He was testing me with this temptation. Now, God doesn't test you with temptation. Satan is the one who tempts. God tests, Satan tempts. Don't confuse the two. God will test you. He will not tempt you. There's a difference between trials or test, which God allows for our spiritual growth, for our refinement. There's a difference between test and temptations to commit sin. God never instigates temptations to sin. So while God allows us to be tested, He never entices us to violate His commandments.

That would make Him similar to a pagan God. That would make him similar to a pagan god. That's right. So the second part of James one, verse purity, his absolute impossibility of being influenced by evil. It's not possible. The word for introduces the logical explanation for why blaming God is forbidden. His nature makes it impossible, for God cannot be tempted with evil. He has absolute moral perfection, holiness, incorruptibility. So God is inherently immune to all evil. How would he tempt you with something that he can't allow near him? I mean, it's just, you know, think of a magnet that pushes away from another magnet.

Yes, from another magnet. Hey, you can't come near me. So God can't be tempted. His character is unshakable. So people this so James is saying he's James getting ready to teach a principle, and he goes, first of all, let me set the record straight. God does not tempt you. And James is going to tell us where it comes from, why we fall into sin.

But he's making it very clear in the beginning, it has nothing to do with God. James 1.13 says, neither tempteth he any man. So this is a direct refutation against the idea that God is an active agent in leading people to sin. He doesn't place stumbling blocks of enticement in our path. Every temptation to sin originates from a source other than God. Right. And you've got to reconcile that with other scriptures and everything where it says that God is not willing that any

should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And so you got to think to yourself, if he's not willing that any should perish, why would he tempt people? What would be the motivation in tempting people? You know, it's one thing when there's a test and, you know, reading through the book of Job, you see that Job was tested, but not tempted. Okay. He was tested by the Lord, or allowed Satan to test him. So, but that's a whole different issue. It's not that God causes someone to sin. I mean, he wouldn't be God, would he? No. So, when God allows us to be tested, it. He permits circumstances to come into our life that often squeeze us. It forces us to

either draw closer to God or remain stagnant in whatever spiritual level we're at, or actually go backwards. The test is to find out, hey, what's inside of you? Satan tempts and says, I know what's inside of you, and I'm going to bring it out, and I'm going to use it against you like a hammer. So the lesson here is, don't let it get inside of you. Doc, which financial institution, the commercial says, what's in your wallet? Oh, Capital One. Capital One, yes. What's in your wallet?

What's in your wallet? So this is more like what's in your heart yes now we go to james 1 verse 14 but every man is tempted now we're going to get down to it okay james is about to lay it out this this opening phrase every man is tempted This opening phrase, every man is tempted, establishes a universal experience of temptation. It says that no human on earth is exempt from temptation. Nobody. The word but, that marks a clear distinction

from the previous verse, 13. Verse 13, James laid down the law, don't you ever say God tempted you to sin. Then he gets to verse 14, he says, but, but every man, every man and woman, every male and female, every male and female is tempted, every person. So, trials may come from God for our good, temptation to sin comes from Satan for our harm. God is never the source of evil But our own desires play a major role in events that lead us astray Satan has to have something in your heart to work with

You got to give him some material. That's what his that's what his he's like. Hey What you got in your heart that I can work with here. Yeah. Yeah what I got to work here show me What's in your heart? There's something in your heart i'm telling you every one of us we have things in our heart that satan can work with Every man is tempted every man if anyone says they're not Now I already know you're a liar. That's right. And so, your temptation is not my temptation. We each have separate temptations. Don't let pride say, well, I would never sin like that. Well, you'll sin like this.

You got your own sin. Don't have pride. Deal with your own sin. This is what this is about. Deal with your own heart. Don't be looking at somebody else's heart and go, hey, look what they did. No, you look at your heart. You've got sin in your heart.

That's what these scriptures are about. The declaration removes any possibility of claiming hardship or exemption, excuse for sinning. Yeah, you can't blame environment, culture, the way your mom and daddy raised you, you can't blame anything else, anything. You are solely responsible for that. That's right.

So let's draw a very clear principle here. Temptation is not sin. A lot of Christians feel shameful because they have tempting thoughts. The tempting thoughts are not the sin. The tempting thoughts are to get you to sin. Right? Okay? So you've got to draw a line, distinguish the difference between temptation and sin. What this is saying is that every man and woman on earth is tempted that you cannot live in this world and avoid temptation. And so here's this is teaching us here's how you deal with it so that you're not defeated by it. So your scalp's not hanging on Satan's wall

because that's what he's after. He wants to take your scalp, nail it to the wall and say, I got him, brought him down, move on to the next victim. Brought him down, moved on to the next victim. And he's, Satan's got a whole population in every nation of women and men who flirt with their eyes with non-verbal glances and gestures. He's got an army of them all over the world and every nation doing his work, bringing him new victims. We're not even talking about the person who does this stuff. This is only about the victims, the people that allow this to happen.

Proverbs is saying don't allow it to happen. There's a way to escape it. There's a way to prevent it from happening. Yes. You need to know that Satan has an army of seducers in the world who delight in seducing. It's fun. It's sport. It's sport, they get energy from it. So temptation is an unavoidable reality of life, yet the source of its power over us is not external, but it's internal. We get to the next part of this verse in James. When he is drawn away of his own lust. Okay, this is where we all can start squirming in our seats. This gets down to the gritty part of it. You're drawn away by your own lust, not the lust of the seducer. See? Seducer's got his or her own problems, okay?

But they can only draw you away. Draw you away from what? Draw you away from the Lord. Draw you away from the righteous path. Draw you away from the road of righteousness. Draw you away. They can only do that if there is lust in your heart. This is what we own.

Individually, we own it. It's got our name on it. That's your lust. Okay. And we all got one. And we all have it. On different items. This is not all sexual. This has to do with, again, has to do with money,

prestige, power, people lust after a lot of things. So this identifies the internal, inherent desires of the individual as the starting point for temptation. The seducer's glance, winks, smiles, that's searching your heart. That's like a spotlight searching your heart. That's like a spotlight searching your heart. Hey, is there anything in your heart that likes this? That's what's taking place here. The seducer's looking to see,

you have anything in your heart that likes this glance? This lustful, seductive look that I'm getting you right now? Okay. See, the seducer can't put the lust in you. The seducer is looking for the lust. I think some people think the seducer is like transferring lust over to you. Like it's going through the air. It's you know being transmitted through the air. Well I was just sitting there drinking my coffee at Starbucks. Bam!

It hit me. Yeah it just hit me. I looked up and she was winking at me. Next thing I know I had her phone number. Okay. No it didn't work like that. The seducer, whether male or female, is looking in your heart. Do you have the lust that I'm searching for?

Because they're searching for lust. Lust is the energy they need. They need to connect with that energy. So the scriptures are telling us don't have that energy. This is negative energy. Don't have it in you. Satan's got an army of people out there searching for it. So what's the lust? It's any strong, illicit, ungodly desire. It could be for pleasure, for power, for possessions, for status, anything that's contrary to God's will. And so the lust is an active agent pulling us away from what is good and right, seeking to influence, to dominate our will. Notice it's drawn away. When he is drawn away, he's pulled.

Like the hook gets in the mouth. It's like a fish being reeled in. Oh man, that bass saw that worm, saw that lure. I got to have it. Oh, look at that thing. Looky here. Look what's swimming in the river. Grabs on it. There's a hook in it. Now the fish is being drawn to the shore. the shore. When the fish has got the bait in its mouth, it's like I got what I've after, but something doesn't feel right. And I feel like I'm being drawn. I feel like I'm being pulled somewhere. I just wanted to eat the bait. But this bait is taking me somewhere. And then

you come up out of the water and you go, Hey, something doesn't look right here. If you're a fish and you can see sky, something's not right. Well, where are you going? Are you going to be filleted? Yes. That's where you're going. You're going to be filleted. You're going into frying pan. And it all started with the fish's lust for that lure. And maybe there were other fish saying, hey, don't add something not right about that. That bait, I don't know, I would stay away from it. Uncle George ate one like that. We haven't seen since.

I don't know fish talk. You probably do. Yeah. So there's a drawing away that's deceptive, gradual nature of temptation. Temptation just doesn't grab you and yank you into the sin pot. Oh, it entices. Hey, walk this way. Come on, take another step, take another step. Come on, keep coming. It draws you in slowly over time.

That's what the message is here. But Satan has to have something in your heart to work with, and what he works with is your lust, whatever you're lusting for. So Satan will present opportunities, but we don't have to accept the opportunities. But we bite down on that bait because it appeals to something in our heart that shouldn't be there, that's contrary to the Word of God. So segment three of James 1 14 says and enticed. Yes. So when he is drawn away of his own lust, his own lust, he

owns it's got his name on it. Him or her doesn't matter, male female doesn't matter. It's their lust. They own it. Their name is on it. They have to take personal responsibility for it when they are drawn away by their own lust that they own and enticed. Doc, the Greek word for enticed literally means to bait a hook.

Yes, it does, yes. I mean, I'm using the fishing analogy. It's honestly, this is what it means. The word enticed is a Greek word that means bait a hook, to catch a fish. that means bait a hook to catch a fish. So it's portraying the deceptive nature of temptation like a fisherman using bait to lure a fish.

Come on, come on, that's it, take a bite, take a bite. You want that bait, take it. The bait appears attractive, harmless, it promises pleasure. Central pleasures, monetary pleasures, gain, whatever it is, just take it. But it conceals the hidden hook Yes, that is there to lead you to captivity and destruction So the cunning Manipulative tactics of temptation plays on our desires By presenting sin as appealing. Right. But here's what you need to remember. Sin hasn't happened yet. Not yet. You've been enticed. You've seen the bait. You've been enticed by the bait.

But the bait is attractive because there's lust in your heart. That's the only reason the bait appears attractive. That's why you're salivating. That's why your your heart's racing. That's why your palms of your hands are sweating. The bait is beautiful. It's been presented in a way with tempting looks, with nonverbal communication. Say, come on, this is gonna be fun.

Go for it. But that only works if the lust is in your heart. And the lust that's in our heart is different for each person. But it doesn't matter to Satan. He doesn't care. He doesn't care. He's not freaked out by different kinds of lusts, he loves all of it. It's material to work with. He's got something in his bag for everybody. I hope this is helping people to deal with real life, with real life. So the process involves a deception of the mind where the immediate gratification of the desire overshadows the long-term painful consequences. Look, as commonly known, everybody knows where a man's brain is located, it's not in his skull.

And so what happens? They just they turn off the thinking process and all they can do is is meditate on the anticipated pleasure. The brain is going hey hey hey hey whoa no don't do this don't do this. But the heart is saying, I've been thinking about this. So the enticement is the external opportunity or suggestion that activates the internal lust. You have to have the two. You have to have the two. The glance, the wink, the smile, the seductive look, that's the match. All right, but there has to be something that catches fire

What catches fire is the lust in your heart No lust in your heart Nothing gets burned So again every one of us has different types of loss different types of desire it's's all there. Well, how do I know that? Because the Bible says temptation comes to every single human, to every single human. So, I'll give you an example. From time to time, Doc and I have to go to the casinos, the bars, all that, the noise. I'm impervious. I can just walk past it, go straight to the convention rooms, have the meeting, go leave.

I'm impervious to it. But recently, I, we were in Vegas a couple of months ago, and there was a famous entertainer in the hotel. And after I came back, I said to a friend, oh wow, you ought to go out there to Vegas and you'd love that show. I had, Doc, I had to call that friend a couple of days later and apologize and ask for forgiveness.

And here's why. Here's why. That friend has struggled with alcoholism. He's a recovered alcoholic. He's not, he doesn't drink now. He hasn't drank for years, but it's his it's his sin that he struggles with And it didn't occur to me that I just said hey, yeah, they just go out there to vegas and see a show and go home That see because I wasn't thinking about it that hey he he can't do that

He can't do that he can't go into he can't go into a casino like that and leave It's too seductive to him. That's interesting. I apologize. I asked him to forgive me. I said, that was really unthoughtful that I gave you that suggestion. I'm sorry. And he goes, no, don't worry about it. Wasn't gonna go. He goes, I know you didn't mean wrong. But this is how I'm trying to get it down to the real life. What entices another person doesn't entice you.

And vice versa, okay? And we need to be aware that each of us have our weak spots, right? So, the process, as I said, the entitle the the enticement is the external opportunity or suggestion that activates the internal lust. And so there's this dangerous interplay between inner desire and outer stimulus. You got to have both outer stimulus inner desire

Outer stimulus goes nowhere if he or she can't find somebody with the inner desire, right? The two need each other So the process of being enticed Demonstrates that sin is a progression, beginning with a subtle pull from the tempter, the enticer, to pull the targeted victim into a path that culminates in a destructive act. The two work together. They go hand in hand. If you're tempted, there's a tempter somewhere. All right?

You can't be tempted if there's not a tempter. The tempter can't be satisfied until he or she finds a temptee, someone who receives the temptation and acts on it. So temptation is this active process that seeks to lure us away from safety and lead us into a trap. So sin is never presented as evil, it's always presented as desirable. Right. The lust for the eyes, the lust of the flesh, or the pride of life. Yes.

All of them are one of those categories. So what are we learning here? We have to recognize the bait. The bait offers false promises, fleeting pleasures. We have to recognize the bait for what it is and know that behind the bait is a hook and the hook guarantees inevitable pain. You can have a hook in your mouth and not hurt. Every bait has a hidden hook. All right, so the next time somebody is giving you that glance, you're thinking, now I know what's behind that bait. A nasty hook is going to hurt. So while every man, male and female, while every male and female are

tempted, the origin of sin lies within our own lust. So we're being taught here to guard our heart so that because we're drawn away by our own lust in our hearts. So it starts there. The temptation entices us by presenting sin as luscious bait. Right. Let me get to James verse 15, James 1 verse 15. Now here's the sin birth cycle. After today, I think you're going to see this so you're going to see sin and temptation so differently after today. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. Then the lust when it has conceived gives birth to sin." So this is a solemn warning that vividly depicts the dangerous progression of temptation from an initial desire to its ultimate devastating consequence, which in if it's carried out to its end with no repentance, the end is death.

So this verse is telling us the life cycle of sin. It reveals how it is developed within our heart and if left unchecked will lead to physical and spiritual death. So I wanna use the birth metaphor. There's conception, gestation, and birth. The word then. The word then. That is the direct progression from the previous verse.

Then this doesn't happen. Verse 15 doesn't happen until verse 14 happens. When does verse 15 happen? After you have successfully carried out verse 14. Yes. 15 can't happen without 14. Verse 15 explains what happens after you are drawn away by your own lust and you are enticed? So this imagery of lust conceiving It personifies the desire as an active agent

It says that sin begins with an illicit craving that is welcomed and embraced internally by your will. Again, Satan has to have something to work with. He's got the seducer. The seducer is already over there in his corner. This isn't talking about the seducer. This is talking about what happens to the victim of the seducer. The seducer is working for Satan. So the conception, you have, first you've got lust conceiving. There has to be conception, all right?

The lust conceives. After, sorry, this conception, it's the sperm and the egg. The sperm and the egg in this case, you've got the seducing look and let's say the seducing look is the sperm and the lust in the heart is the egg. They have to both come together. When they come together, you have conception. Is this making sense now? This is how sin is born in your heart.

Right. So the conception implies a deliberate yielding, an agreement of the mind and the heart with the forbidden desire It's a moment of inner consent to the temptation It's when the heart says to the seducer come on in I've been looking for you.

The seducer says, I've been looking for you. Let's have a baby. It's a sin baby. So after conception, the lustful desire gestates in your heart, growing bigger and stronger each day that you think about it. Finally, the sin fetus is born. It brings forth sin. That's what James says. That's when the internal desire has now matured into an actual act of transgression against God's law. So there's a transition from temptation,

which is not sin, to sin itself, which is sin. And it occurs when the desire takes root in our will. underscores that every sinful act is the offspring of an unholy union between desire and the will's consent. This is all about what's going on in you now. This doesn't even involve the tempter The baby the sin baby is not born Until inside you the desire shakes hands with your will It says let's do it let's let's push that baby out

Let's let's have a baby now that it's time for this baby to be born it's when your will agrees with your lust Your lust can't push the baby out until your your will says, okay, I'm in on it. Let's go. So the battle against sin is won or lost at the point of this inner conception. So we, you have to abort that sin baby before it's ever born. That's called repentance. Repentance is the abortion of a sin baby. I've never taught it like this, Doc. That's a good book, Sin Baby. Yeah, the Sin Baby. When you said it, I was like…

So, the next part of verse 15, James 1, 15, and sin when it is finished, or when it's full grown. That's what it means. Not when it's stopped being sin, when it's full-grown. That's what it means not when it's stopped being sin when it's full-grown So now we're describing The further more perilous progression where sin is not merely an isolated thought or an idea It's now been allowed to mature to gain full control over the person's life to gain full control over the person's life. The person no longer needs the tempter, no longer needs the seducer.

The seducer has done her or his job. They've had a baby. So you see, since progression, it moves from conceived desire to a mature force that dominates a person's life. Sin when it is finished, when it is full grown, that tells us that sin is not always a singular event, but it develops, it deepens, it strengthens over time. Just like a baby. Sin does not stay an infant. It grows up into a mature adult.

That's what sin does in our life. Comes out as a baby. It's still sin, it's a sin baby. But then the will and our lustful heart says, let's just raise it. We had a baby, let's just go ahead and raise it. I'm talking the will and the lustful heart inside you says hey it's our baby. Let's just feed it. And you're gonna be paying child support the rest of your life. That's right. Go ahead and feed it. It's gonna grow up So

Finished full growth means Repeated indulgence in the sin. That's how you that's how the sin grows up You repeatedly indulge in the sin you feed it Until that Sin baby is now a, you know, six foot six mature adult that looks down on you and says, I run things here. That's eating all your groceries, sleeping on the couch. Right. So sin, if left unrepentant, will gain momentum. It will take over your life. Repentance aborts the sin baby. Repent of that thing.

You know? And God allows abortion of sin babies after they're born. You can have pre-birth, partial birth, post-birth, it doesn't matter, God, kill it. It's a sin baby. Kill it with repentance. Take its life from it. Because it's going to take your life.

Because you gave birth to a Frankenstein. It will be a destructive entity in your life. It will always seek to expand, to dominate, to take over your life. Satan doesn't, you don't, you know, sin is not born six foot tall. It's born small. But when we feed it by indulging in it, enlarging it, magnifying it, then it grows up. This does not apply to just... The mistake here is to think that we're just talking about sexual sin.

It's all sin. If you are a negative thinker, if all you do is think negatively, full of doubt, full of, your mouth is full of criticism, condemnation, slander, gossip, that's sin. And if you keep feeding that baby, it's going to grow up and dominate you. It's going to take up and dominate you. It's going to take your life from you. It's a sin. Some people give birth to triplets. They got a whole house full of these things and they're feeding them. They don't recognize negativity as sinful. Well, I just call it like it is. No.

The Word of God says, call things that be not as though they were. That's by faith. You just calling it like it is, that's your excuse to be critical. You're just coming up with a religious excuse to be, you know, just a bad mouth person that just always says wrong things about everything and everybody. But that's sin. See, it's a sin baby. You didn't start that way, but years ago you gave birth to that sin and then you nurtured it.

And then 20, 30 years later, that thing dominates you. And you can't understand why people get upset with you about it. So we are to nip sin in the bud and don't give it a chance to mature. Why? Here's why. James says it brings forth death. The ultimate consequence of the sin baby is to bring forth death. Your child will choke you to death. Your sin baby will grow up and kill you. That thing is evil. Again, your womb, your heart is the womb that gives birth to the sin baby.

And so now the life cycle is completed conception, gestation, birth, life, death. The final stage is death death of your life not just physical death You could be alive in this world, but everything's been drained out of you you're you're just a shell that's right Your your sin baby grew up and has eaten your life But eventually if it's unrepented of, there will be spiritual death. So you're giving birth to your killer. Yeah, allowing sin to run its full course always ends up in destruction.

So every sin, not just sexual sin, all sins, they all start small. But when we feed them in our hearts, in our minds, they grow bigger and bigger and bigger until they take over our life and brings about death. Death is the ultimate outcome of unchecked sin, unrepented sin. But the good news is God gave us a way to overcome the tempter. That is, Jesus Christ was tempted and defeated Satan. Satan tempted Jesus Christ. How did Jesus defeat him? With the Word. So when Christ is in us, when we live in Christ,

we are able to defeat the tempter. We're able to defeat all temptation. Okay, and we only got to verse 25. Well praise the Lord, great lesson today and that term sin baby is going to be stuck in me for a while. Yeah. So that's good. I hope you appreciate these daily lessons from the Word of God, especially the Book of Proverbs. I brought in James chapter 1 verses 13 through 15 today. And I would encourage you to reflect upon today's lesson and think about those times in your life that maybe you've allowed sin to conceive in your life. The lust, the temptation isn't the sin. It's when you give into it and when you follow up on it that it becomes sin.

When it conceives. So, but recognize that when the temptation comes that you have no power in yourself to fight it anyway, you need the Holy Spirit's work. So, praise God. All right, Rick, any final words before we sign off for today? No, I just think there's a lot of seducers today are going to be shocked that it's not working for certain people. Hallelujah. Because now there aren't, you're armed and dangerous now. That's right. You're gonna, I know what you're up to now. I see where this is going. Praise God. Okay. Be blessed. We'll see you tomorrow. God bless you. We'll see on the Wednesday edition of Morning Manna.