TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - July 16, 2025 - Proverbs 6:26-29 - Hunted By Desire

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. It's Wednesday and we are studying the Book of Proverbs. We're in the sixth chapter. And we only got through, I think, two verses yesterday in a set of verses that I intended to study. So we're going to pick it up today at Proverbs 6, verse 26, 27, 28, and 29. Let's pray.

And then Doc will read the word and we'll begin our lesson. Dear Heavenly Father, Father, we come to you in the name of Jesus and we come with hearts that desire to know you, to know you more than we know you today, to know you more than we know you at this very hour. Father, our desire is that by the end of this one-hour class we'll know you even closer. That's our desire. That's our purpose to be here, Father, to know our Father. That's it, to know our Father. So we ask that the Holy Spirit, your Spirit, would take charge of this class and direct us, lead us, educate us, illuminate us, enlighten us, reveal to us the truth of your word in

the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to our live Bible study here on faithandvalues.com. A Bible study we call Morning Manna, where hundreds of people gather each morning live with us to study the word of God together. We're continuing our study in Proverbs and we are in Proverbs chapter six. And today we're reading verses 26 through 29. We welcome people from all over the world

as far removed as Malaysia and Germany and Switzerland and the Middle East and all points in between all across the US and Canada. God bless you. Thank you for being here with us live today. Verse 26 of chapter six of Proverbs, for by means of a horrid woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread and the adulterous 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? 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. today. Okay. As as usual, the way I teach is to break verses into segments, study one segment at a time to understand the full verse. Also, we look for metaphors, we look for types, we look for images that the Scripture is teaching things deeper than

what's on the surface level. And so we're going to look for those things today in this lesson. Verse 26, for by means of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. The modern English version says, for because of a prostitute, a man is brought to poverty, and a promiscuous woman hunts for his precious life. The two women that are presented in this verse are two different women. The promiscuous woman, the adulteress, is not the prostitute. These are two different women. And again, surface level, yes, they represent, the King James says a horish woman, a prostitute,

and then they also represent a promiscuous adulterous woman, but there are deeper meanings. And so we need to apply this to all areas of life. So for the first segment for by means of a whole horish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread. It's a sobering. It's one that everybody should contemplate, meditate on, you need to chew on this all day and get the full meaning of it. The phrase directly explains the severe economic consequences of succumbing to the temptation of immoral people throughout life

at some point, you will descend into poverty into destitution. That's it. That's the message right there. Right. If this is your lifestyle, this is what you're doing, the eventual result is going to be poverty. The word for links this verse to the immoral woman in verses 24, 25, which is what we studied yesterday. So now we get to verse 26 and we get a four, F-O-R, four, by means of a whoreish woman. So the four is to tell you why you should avoid

a relationship with anybody like this. And again, this can be male and female. There are male whores, there are male, not adulterers, there are adulterers. This is not gender specific. So by means of a whorish woman, a prostitute, a harlot, and again, if you take it to the deeper level, it applies to anybody and anything that is horish. And I noticed just before we started the class, and I forget who said it,

this also can have meaning towards harlot religions. So it's anything, anything in our life. But here it's identifying the specific agent and the type of sin that leads to financial ruin. So it talks to us about the deceptive nature of the immoral person who is offering sensual pleasure but produces financial ruin. Yes. So this phrase, a man is brought to a piece of bread. What does that mean?

Means that if he continues this path, he'll lose everything. He'll be reduced to, he's just got enough food to eat for a day. Utter destitution, extreme poverty, the loss of everything. Why? Because he kept pursuing the forbidden fruit. The piece of bread, it's the abject poverty, the degradation that's associated with the sin. The financial drain comes from frequently visiting prostitutes, using money that should be used for good things,

using the money to do evil. And so the message here is, if you continue to do this, there'll be a day that what you're paying for will turn around and eat you. Yes. So this loss is all encompassing. It's not just financial, it's economic security. The ability to provide for yourself, the ability to provide for yourself,

the ability to provide for your family. You may lose your family. It's a direct economic consequence for frequenting immoral people. for frequenting immoral people. So it has severe tangible ramifications that can destroy your financial livelihood. Second part says, remember the first part is on the harlot, the prostitute.

The second one is, again, these have multiple meanings. It's not just a woman who is standing on a street corner, okay? This gets into business, it gets into all kinds of things of somebody that has that prostitute mentality. I don't know whether to tell this story or not. I don't know whether to tell this story or not. I'm obviously not going to say a name. I don't talk about people's sin and speak with their names. I don't do that. Okay. But many years ago, a Christian businessman,

who was a really nice guy, really liked the man, he said to me one day, and he was staying in a hotel and we were at a business meeting. And he said to me, Rick, last night something very odd happened. I said, what? He goes, like, two o'clock in the morning, I woke up. I was wide awake and I heard the Lord tell me, go get your car and drive into the downtown area. I'm like, you did that at two o'clock in the morning. This was a large city. I said, you did that at two o'clock in the morning? He goes, yeah, because I heard the Lord tell me do it. And he said, I got to the downtown area. And he said,

the only people there were prostitutes and drug addicts and pimps. And I said, Lord, why am I here? And he looked at me and he said, Rick, do you have any idea why the Lord would send me downtown at an hour when the only people there were prostitutes, Or when the only people there were prostitutes, pimps, and drug addicts? I knew the reason, but I couldn't tell him. He lusted for money. He had an insatiable lust for money. He was very successful, just made money. I mean, he just made money. All day long, he made money. And I knew what the Lord was showing him.

Your lust for money is no different than the prostitute and the drug addict and the pimp. Amen. Yes. See, he was he was horrid. He was he was willing to pursue business deals to be connected to people who were not Right agent. He had a lust an insatiable lust for money Okay, he's not a man that would have committed sexual sin

He wasn't a man that was going to use drugs. But the Lord was trying to show him your destitute, this lust you have for money has reduced you to the level of a prostitute and a drug addict. Wow. That's a strong message, isn't it? Yeah, it is. But it's true. And that's, you know, and I'm not speaking any judgment condemnation on that man. I don't know how he ever worked it out.

Okay? But I'm trying to show you that these scriptures are not just the surface level meaning. So the pursuit of the lust, if it continues uninterrupted with no repentance will eventually reduce you to Uh a poverty state where you just have enough to eat day to day To the basic level of of survival So the warning here is be wary of the deceptive illusion that these relationships are cost free because the pleasures come with immense danger and peril. And then the second part is, and the adulterous will hunt for the precious life.

So the prostitute, the whore brings the man to the place of poverty, but the adulterous who's not this streetwalker, okay? Will hunt for the precious life. This, this dovetails with what I was talking about yesterday. There are people, a lot of people in this world that tempting somebody sexually is a sport It's fun right

Um a Lot of them will see how far can I go without crossing the line? Others will say I'm gonna cross the line. Okay, but in this one, this is a hunter. The woman is a hunter She's seeking a victim. She's like a hunter in the forest who plans to take down an animal and skin it. That's her purpose to be there. A hunter with a gun or a bow in a forest didn't go there just to get exercise on a cold winter morning. Right. He went there to kill something. And he's going to hunt

it. It's going to track it. Going to lay in wait for that perfect moment to put a bullet or an arrow in that animal. So here you have a woman, this is now the adulteress, so this means this is a married woman. This is a deeper, more severe comprehensive destruction than a financial hit that the prostitute delivers on her victim. So this broadens the warning beyond professional prostitution. Will hunt, that speaks of a deliberate, predatory, cunning pursuit. That the immoral woman actively seeks to trap and destroy her victim.

The hunt, if you're on a hunt, you're not just taking a stroll. You take a stroll through the park. But you go on a hunt in the forest. Right. You're willing to endure the heat or the cold or the long wait. Yeah, to get the prize. What's the prize? Well, when you're hunting, it's whatever you're hunting, of course, but for the chorus woman or the adulteress, it's you. or the adulteress, it's you.

Yeah, you're the prey, you're the deer. So the hunt implies an active malicious intent to snare a victim for destruction. This underscores the destructive nature of this particular sin, which seeks to devour not just the money, but the soul of the victim. Yes. See the prostitute goes after the money but the adulteress goes after the soul. The precious life. And the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

The precious life is something invaluable given by God. And this adulteress is hunting for it for the purpose of taking it away from this man. The man has been given precious life by God. The adulterer says, I'm going to take it. So it's the precious life. It doesn't just mean the physical existence. It's the man's entire being, family, relationships, peace of mind, everything, the woman is hunting for his precious life. That's what she's after.

She's after his precious life. I mean, this shows how evil this is. Yes. I mean, this shows how evil this is. Yes. There are a lot of people in the world driven by these devils. And the Proverbs were written to tell you that they exist. That there are people hunting for your soul, driven by devils to inflict harm on somebody.

And so the Proverbs is a warning to say don't let your passions, don't let your lust, don't let your desires get out of control. There are people out there hunting for your soul. So it's saying, don't become a victim. Don't make yourself a target of these people. Don't fall into the trap. You need to be aware that you're being hunted. Yes. So the difference between the two women,

the whore's woman is to inflict momentary financial discomfort. But the adulteress is seeking existential devastation on her victim. It's at a far different level. So keep this in mind. All right. When somebody is tempting you, OK, you can put them in two classes, two categories, poor or adulterous. And again, this is it's not gender specific. It is not necessarily confined to sexuality. This can apply to other areas of life.

Then we get to verse 27. Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned. So verse 27 presents a rhetorical question. It directly challenges us to consider the inherent undeniable danger of deliberately engaging with temptation. Okay, so now the focus is taken away from the tempters. And now the focus is on the tempted. In other words, just what did you think was going to happen when you started playing games with the tempter?

Yes. That's what this is saying. The question is asked in such a way that the only responsible answer can be no. There's no other way to answer the question. It has to be no. So the question is asked to confront the obvious, the undeniable truth about the consequences of playing with sin. And yet, as obvious as that question is, Rick, as obvious as it is, can you take fire and hold it close to your chest and not be burned? Of course not. Yet, the ridiculousness of the question, and yet people don't make that same application to sin. That's right. And again, this is not confined to just sexual sin.

Right. This applies to all areas of life. Can you, if you're in business, can you play around with questionable business tactics, deals, contracts that you know are really, they're not ethical, honest business practices. Do you think you can do that and not get burned? This is the question that is asked about all things that we know, hey, there's no way I can play those games

and not get hurt. So in business, the tempter can be a business partner or a sales person, somebody who's saying, hey, I got a great plan here to make a lot of money real quick. We can cash out, move on. And your head is saying, hmm, there's something about this that just doesn't sound right. But the lust in your heart for money says, Hey, don't dismiss this too quickly. Take a look at it. And your head is saying, I don't want

to go to jail. And your heart is saying, but he's got a good lawyer. He said he'll keep us out of jail. See, it's back and forth. And the question is, can you take fire to your chest and not get burned? The person who has no none is not affected by lust for sex can be affected by lust for money or power or respect or something. Ambition. Yeah, something, anything. And you can be sure Satan has an adulterous or a whore that will come to you with an offer

and say, take this fire to your chest. Because he knows your weak places. He knows your vulnerabilities. He's not going to tempt you where you are strong. He's going to tempt you where you are weak. So in these situations, you have the tempter, you have the tempted. A tempter is out of business if there's no tempted. The tempted has no problems if there's no tempted. The two have to get together. That's what these verses are telling you. Don't let this union come together. Remember yesterday we talked about the sin baby, the life cycle of sin, the conception, the gestation, the birth, the life, the death. It mirrors the life cycle. So you have to have, you know,

as when producing a child, you have to have sperm and an egg. In sin, you have to have a tempter and attempt it. Just because you have a temptation has come doesn't mean you have accepted it. It's the accepting it in the heart where the will, your will says, all right, come on in. Pull up a chair. Sit down in my heart. Once it gets to that stage, you're in trouble. So fire is a strong metaphor for the consuming, uncontrollable damage, the destructive nature of submitting to your passions.

The bosom is your, obviously it refers to your chest, but it refers to your innermost being, your affections, the very core of one's person. We talk about the heart. The heart of the person. The heart of the person. The most being. Your affections. The very core. Of one's person. We talk about our heart. We're not talking about.

The organ that's pumping blood, but we say, Hey, my heart. We touch our chest. But we're talking about. The seat of our being, our will, our emotions, our feelings. But we always touch our heart, our chest. We go, in my heart, I know this. So this is saying, would you take fire to your heart? Not talking about the organ that's pumping blood. It's talking about the seat of your will, your home base,

where you exist. It's where you exist, the real you. Not the physical outside shell. It's the real you. Obviously the fire also represents internal corruption, a burning desire. This fire is gonna burn you from the inside. And it speaks of the futility of attempting to contain the fire. Once it's been deliberately

embraced. Hey, this is a fire. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie.

I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I don't know how that happened. It just happened. No, it didn't just happen. There was a point where the fire erupted and it was uncontrollable. The passions burned. Okay. But there was a lot of sparks to get to that place. That's what we're talking about here. Don't let this take place in your heart

because once the flame starts, you can't put out the fire. And his clothes not be burned. So the whole sentence, can a man take fire to his bosom, his chest, and his clothes not be burned. So now we're talking about the inescapable, visible consequences of playing with danger. If you took a torch, a burning torch and put it up to your chest, guess what? Your clothes are gonna catch on fire. The very first thing that's gonna burst into flames

will be your clothing. Burst into flames will be your clothing. What do the clothes represent? The external you. The heart is the internal you. The clothing represents the external you. Everything that people know about you. Your outer garments, this is what this represents.

Your clothing, your outer you is gonna catch on fire. Yes. Yes. So the damage is not confined to just the internal, spiritual, emotional, mental realm, but it extends outwardly. The fire just gets out of control. We get to verse 28. Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned? So now we have a second question, second rhetorical question that only has one logical answer. Can you walk on hot coals and your feet not be scorched?

The question is forcing the student to confront the undeniable, painful reality of deliberately stepping into a situation that they know will have extreme pain. Right. And both of these, both in verse 27 and 28, they go to an extreme. Can you grab fire and hold it to you and not be burned? Can you walk on hot coals and your feet not be burned? It's ridiculous that you would take fire to your chest. It's ridiculous that you would walk on hot coal. So Solomon is using the extreme on this. It's so ridiculous. And yet you're drawing away. And yet, you're drawing away. Why are these ridiculous extreme examples used? What's the purpose of it? In order to show just how ridiculous it is

to embrace sin in any form at all. You will, there will be a burning. There will be repercussions from holding on to sin. One way or another, it may not be immediate, but it's going to come. There's going to be a price to be paid, and you need to look at grabbing on to sin, whether it's sexual sin, pride, ambition, whatever it is, you have to look at it as being just as ridiculous as grabbing fire or walking through a fire. You wouldn't do those things. Don't grab on to the sin.

Don't seek it. Don't go near it. You're absolutely right. So the clothing, would you put a fire up to your chest? Your clothes are gonna catch on fire, okay? Again, speaking about your outer appearance, what others see about you, it's gonna be burned, it's gonna catch on fire, okay? Now, it talks about coals hot coals would you step on hot coals so what is the metaphor here so the the hot coals signify intense pain and suffering.

Two, look how it says, can one go upon hot coals? To go upon hot coals depicts a deliberate, intently foolish act to place yourself in a situation of extreme destructive heat and inevitable pain. Right. And to contrast verse 27 with 28, in, you're carrying it, you're holding it close to you. In verse 28 here, this is a pathway of life. You're walking along this. You're choosing this path. It's not enough that you were carrying it. Now, it's where you walk. So, it's a lifestyle, Rick. It's more than just an occasional, well, I grabbed some fire.

No, you're walking on this. You're walking through this now. You're making deliberate steps to walk on hot coals. But you didn't start out on hot coals. Right. The message here is you have been taking small steps over time that eventually led you to a place that you convinced yourself. I see that in my path are burning hot coals, but I got to continue walk on them. And I, I'm convinced I won't get hurt. Okay. Because I liked this path that I'm on.

But see, you started the path long ago. Okay. Yes. It didn't start out with hot coals. Nobody would continue if it started out with hot coals. Okay. I'm going to walk on them. ago, okay? Yes. It didn't start out with hot coals. Nobody would continue if it started out with hot coals. But you've been on the path taking small steps. Then the hot coals

appear. If the hot coals appeared at the very beginning, you turn and go the other way. Yes. Because you've been on the path incrementally step by step by step. When you get to the hot coals, you turn your brain off. I know that they're they're red hot. I can see them. It looks like charcoal in a barbecue pit. Yeah, I can walk on it. I'll do it fast. I'll get across it and keep going. So the question is saying, would you do this? Do you really think you could walk on hot coals and your feet not be burned? So to go upon the hot

coals says you chose a deliberate path. You got to the hot coals and you said, I'm not turning around. I'm going to keep going and I'm going to convince myself this is not going to hurt my feet. And so we get to the second part of the verse and his feet not be burned. Would you go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned? So. Doc, you were you were hitting on this a few minutes ago, what this means. The feet represent your path in life. That's what this represents. You travel on your feet.

So the feet symbolizes our path, our progress, our mobility, our ability to walk through life. Do you think you can walk on the hot coals of sin and not damage the feet that carry you through life. That's the meaning of this sentence. The burning is the physical pain, the injury, the scars, the ability to continue moving forward. That's all represented here in these words,

and his feet not be burned. Okay, so the burning of the feet leaves a reminder, there are scars, it leaves a reminder, their scars, it leaves a reminder. How did you get those scars? I stepped on hot coals. Why did you do that? I wasn't thinking, say that's, what do we say when we do these things in life?

I don't know what I was thinking. So, it cripples your walk, it impedes your walk, it leaves scars. The scripture is telling us, if you play with these fires, there's going to be damage, okay? The Lord can show great mercy and grace to us, depending on where we're at in life with our relationship with him, but still his principles are in place. And then it gets to verse 29. So, he that goeth into his neighbor's wife, who soever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Yes. Now this, see this now takes it to another level. The so connects verse 29 to verses 27, 28. What's in 27, 28? Do you think you can take fire to your chest, to your clothing and not be burned? Do you think you can walk on coals with your feet and your feet not be burned?

So, now we get to verse 29. So, he that goeth into his neighbor's wife. So, this is identifying adultery as the destructive act in this verse, because it's the neighbors, not the neighbor's girlfriend, not the neighbor's daughter, not the neighbor's sister. It's the neighbor's wife. So, he that go into his neighbor's wife implies that the purpose of going in to her home when the husband's sorry. Was for one purpose. There's no other purpose. You didn't.

Go over to get a slice of apple pie. Okay. Even though that might be the. External. Excuse used. I just went over. She asked me if I wanted an apple pie and that's saying, I know we were in bed. You don't know, the glances have been going over the fence row for months or years. This doesn't just happen.

The old saying takes two to tango, yes, attempt her and attempt it. Right. The old saying takes two to tango. Yes, attempt her and attempt it. Okay. They both have to be playing this game. So, this is now presented as an assault on the husband. Yes. Okay. on the husband. Yes.

And we get to the second part here. Whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. So this scripture saying, before you get to the act of intercourse, just the fact that you're touching, right? And I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. Before you get to the act of intercourse. Just the fact that you're touching. Right. You're not innocent.

See, this is now take this takes it to another level. Doesn't it? So. It's saying that the touching of somebody's wife was for the purpose of doing something sinful. Yes, so doing something more than touching. Yes, the ultimate goal was to do something more than touching.

So the touching, God saying this is not innocent Is it I I I hope People are are getting uh the deeper meaning of these scriptures That he's saying, uh, i'm not even going to keep touching someone. Yeah, you don't even flirt with sin. Right. And why?

Is God an old prude? He's just a mean old, no, he's saying you're going to get hurt. Everybody in this scenario is going to get hurt. Everybody's going to get hurt everybody's going to get hurt that's what he's saying everybody's going he's saying I've seen this repeated over thousands of years and I'm telling you 100% of the time everybody gets hurt yes that's that's it that's the reason God says don't do this. People are going to get hurt. It's, it's the, it's the damage to everybody that God's

trying to stop. That's what he's trying to stop. He's trying to stop you and others from being hurt and hurting. As he says, I've seen this over thousands of years, millions and millions of times. I've seen this happen. Percent of the time, everybody got hurt. And then they're coming to God saying, help me. And then they're coming to God saying, help me. All right, so he put it in the rules. Here are the things, don't do these things if you don't wanna get burned. Anything else you wanna add, Doc?

No, I get to thinking of different excuses. I've heard people that they've, you know, if they found themselves in a compromising sexual situation, they, maybe they didn't follow through with the full act or anything. But I remember the interview that Jimmy Carter did with Playboy back when I was still in high school. They asked if he'd ever committed adultery, said he had in his heart. And so that's where it begins. It begins in the heart.

And then you have some other, you know, I'm not going to name any names, but you've had some high profile ministers over the past couple years that have said, know, I'm not going to name any names, but you've had some high profile ministers over the past couple of years that have said, well, I've committed spiritual adultery, or I've committed adultery in my heart. But you never hear about the damage party, the innocent party and all that. And in this case, in the proverb here is the husband, he's the innocent party, He's the one that's been sinned against, not only by the adulterer, but by his wife as well. And the picture is, of course,

God. Anytime we flirt with sin, not just embrace it, but anytime we even flirt with it, embrace it, but anytime we even flirt with it, we're actually betraying God, betraying the Lord. He's the innocent party in this. He is the one being wronged. And I guess, you know, when you really stop and just consider it, you know, you wouldn't want to enter into any kind of sin, and yet we find ourselves drawn away by our own lust, as the book of James says. So we always have to be on guard. We have to be constantly on guard because the greatest of men have succumbed to various temptations. We see the story of David, of course.

David's a prominent story there. You know, not only was he an adulterer, technically he wasn't, technically he did not commit adultery, but, but in, you know, but he was, he was an adulterer and a murderer. And so it begins with being drawn away of your own lust. David was drawn away of his own lust. What was he doing? He was up in his palace looking out over the city when he should have been out at war, should have been leading his troops in war.

Instead he was in the city. And in the city you could see everything going on across the whole town, including Bathsheba's place. And there's a lot of people that give Bathsheba a pass, but I don't give her a pass either. She knew that King David could see her. She wasn't raped. She wasn't a willing party to everything that happened in that relationship. And so, like you said earlier, there's it takes two to tango. And so, but sin once it's conceived, sometimes literally conceived, creates the problem so i agree hey i want to comment marcy you made a comment marcy said satan told eve to touch it and she didn't uh and and she seen it didn't kill her okay then she went further actually satan didn't tell Eve to touch the forbidden fruit.

Eve said Satan told her. It's really important to get that. Yeah, Eve said that God said don't even touch it. Yes. But God never said that. Right. She completely misconstrued what God said. Oh, I said Satan's, I meant,

Eve said that God told her, don't eat the fruit, don't even touch it. But that's not what God said. He said not to eat it. Yes. She added something to the word of God. There's the lesson. There is the lesson.

She added a phrase to the word of God. Right. And that's found, by the way, folks, in Genesis 3.3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest she die. But God never said anything about not touching it." She added that. So the danger here is, and we don't know about Eve, this. Did she, with her own ears, here God give the commandment or did God give the commandment to Adam and he correctly

gave it to Eve and Somebody changed it or somebody didn't hear it right. Right. That's the danger in adding something to the Word of God that's not there. Right. And Adam was right there, by the way way he wasn't off hiding behind another tree somewhere he was right there he could have corrected Eve he could have said you know what God really didn't say that he said don't eat of it but no he didn't correct her what he ended up doing is she turned around and gave the fruit to Adam who was right there. So Tony, Tony, would that be the first sin? That's the first sin among humans. But the first sin was Satan's Lucifer's pride in heaven. That's the first sin.

Sin began in heaven. Think about that. Sin began in heaven. Think about that. Sin began in heaven, but the first sin on earth was this sin in the garden regarding the fruit. Okay. All right, class. Great lesson today. And remember, this doesn't just apply to sexual immorality. Although this message probably needs to be driven home today, you know, because we're such a sexualized culture and society and everything. It probably is that message there is probably just as important today as it's ever been, but it goes deeper than that, of course. It goes into that spirit of idolatry and rebellion that we are drawn away from. Satan takes advantage of our lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life in our own lives.

He knows where to draw us away from, but at the same time, we have a helper in the Holy Spirit to help us to resist these temptations when they come along. We're not hopeless. We're not helpless in this. We have a helper. And so keep that in mind as well. You know, this passage here is a very severe warning, and we need severe warnings. We need we need signs that say watch for falling rocks or we need signs that say wild bears in area. Why do we have these signs to warn us and to help us to make decisions to avoid those circumstances where we find ourselves in tragedy.

Trish, God did say not to touch the fruit. He didn't say anything about touching the fruit. He said nothing about touching the fruit. He said not to eat it. Right. Eve is the one who said, God Said not to eat it. Right. Eve is the one who said, God said, don't touch it. She added it. So anyhow, final comments for today. So at work, that flirtatious co-worker that flashes you a smile or a wink today, says something to you, flirtatious.

If you're at lunch and you look across the lunchroom and somebody's winking at you, if you're at the traffic light and the driver in the car beside you is smiling at you, what are you going to say? No, thank you. I'm not interested in being burned. All right. Because they're offering you fire.

Just keep that in mind. Yes. It starts with the eyes. That's what we've learned in Proverbs. It starts with the eyes. That's what we've learned in Proverbs. It starts with the eyes. The temptation is conveyed through the eyes. That's where it begins. So that flirter at work or at lunch, wherever,

is conveying temptation with his or her eyes. That's where it begins. And your eyes are the the gate to your soul. So you're you know, if you start receiving those glances that it you know, it's like, oh wow, somebody's paying attention to me. All right. Look, this is the beginning of Satan working his way. He's got all the time. Take his time. Okay. Yes. Okay, he'll take his time. So just think about that. All

right. Gotta go. See you. Love you. God bless you.