You don't conquer lust, you FLE from it! Proverbs 7 | A Proverb A Day Challenge

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, you guys, welcome back to the Amani Talks podcast.
You're here with your host Amani on the podcast where
we discuss our Christian based topics and deepening our relationship
with the Lord. And of course we are continuing on
in Are a Proverb a Day series? You guys, we
are on day seven, so we've been doing this for
a whole week, and besides July fourth, when I had

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that hiccup the next day, we have been recording every
single day and I just love that for us. I
love that we were like, Okay, we're gonna do this
series together and we're actually doing it, Like are you
kidding me? And you know what's crazy. I actually have
not really minded having to get up like early in
the morning to do this, which is crazy because I
like my sleep. I need my eight hours. Okay, I

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cannot function when it comes to my beauty rest on
anything less than like seven or eight hours. But I
have been up doing this and I've been like, yeah,
like let's get up and do our little proverb but day.
So I hope you guys have been enjoying it. If
you have been here since day one, drop a little
comment in the comments. Okay, So for anyone that is
new here, we are doing a Proverb day challenge. We

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are on Proverb seven today, and what we do is
read through the whole chapter. We highlight a key verse
that resonates with us and a portion of the chapter
that we really like. I also encourage people to drop
their key versus their portion of scripture that they really
like in the comments. And yeah, we just kind of
talk about it. We just kind of apply it to
our life. Take some practical wisdom for the day, some application,

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and we start off our day with a word, a
quick word. All right, So let's get into the reading.
My son, keep my words and treasure my commands within you.
Keep my commands and live and my law as the
apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers, write
them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom,
you are my sister, and call understanding your nearest kN

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that you may keep you, that they may keep you
from the moral woman, from the seductress who flatters with
her words. For at the window of my house, I
look through my lattice and saw among the simple I
perceived among the youths a young man devoid of understanding,
passing along the street near her corner, and he took
the path to her house, and the twilight in the evening,

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in the black and dark night, and there was a
woman met him with the attire of a harlot and
a crafty heart. She was loud and rebellious. Her feet
would not stay at home at times. She was outside
at times in the open square, lurking at every corner.
So she caught him and kissed him. With an impudent face.
She said to him, I have peace offerings with me today.

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I have paid my vows. So I came out to
meet you diligently to seek your face, and I have
found you. I have spread my bed with tapestry colored
coverings of Egyptian linen. I have perfumed my bed with
myrrh aloes and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill
of love until morning. Let us delight ourselves with love.
For my husband is not at home. He has gone

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on a long journey. He has taken a bag of
money with him, and he will come home on the
appointed day. With her enticing speech, she caused him to yield.
With her flattering lips. She seduced him. Immediately he went
after her as an ox goes to the slaughter, or
as a fool, to the correction of the stalks, till
an arrow struck his liver. As a bird hastens to

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the snare, he did not know it would cost his life. Now, therefore,
listen to me, my children, pay attention to the words
of my mouth. Do not let your heart turn aside
to her ways. Do not stray into her paths, for
she has cast down many wounded, and all who were
slain by her were strong men. Her house is the
way to hell, descending to the chambers of death. So

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that's chapter seven. And we talked in the last episode
a little about how five, six, and seven all deal
with adultery, which is very funny coming from Solomon, the
famous womanizer, the famous guy with seven hundred plus wives,
and we all know that that ended up being to
his detriment. So he's warning against it. He is really

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commanding men. He talked about in chapter six, you know,
stay with the wife of your youth, or maybe that
was chapter five. So he's dedicated a few chapters to
warning men against falling into the trap of adultery being
with a woman that is not your wife. All her
roads lead to destruction. You will end up regretting it.
The key verse for me, I think is verse twenty six,

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for she has cast down many wounded, and all who
were slain by her were strong men. I like how
Solomon emphasizes that they were strong men. Sometimes when we're
dealing with sin, we tend to think only the weak
Christians fall for certain sin. Oh that couldn't be me,
That's what we say sometimes, Right, that's our attitude when
we find out that someone's been cheating on their wife.

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What that can never be me? When we find out
that someone has been stealing from the church treasury, like,
oh my gosh, Like that can never be me. We
tend to think of ourselves as strong when we refrain
from certain sins. Certain public sin and adultery is more
of a public sin, right. It involves multiple people. You
can easily get caught. It's easily something that can have
you out here looking crazy. It's easy to get proofd

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for it. You like, nine times out of ten, you
always get caught. You know. It's just one of those
things that it's very easy to prove that, oh, someone
is living a sinful lifestyle. You know. We tend to
look at people like why can't you just be stronger
stay away from that sin? But Solomon is saying even
strong men fall to this, So we should never have
a puffed up sense of self when we feel like

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we have conquered a certain sin. I see a lot
of people making videos about Oh, I felt like I
conquered lust, and then I fell to it. But here's
the thing with specifically, when it comes to lust, and
I think adultery falls into that category, that's a sin
that specifically the Bible tells us to flee from. It
does not tell us to fight against it. It does
not tell us that we can overcome it, that we're strong.

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It says to flee from sexual immorality. First Corinthians six
point eighteen says, flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a
man does is outside the body, but he who commit
sexual immorality sins against his own body. Lust is one
of those sins that we as humans, I think we
will always struggle with unless we make up our minds
to intentionally flee from it. I, as a single woman,

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have made up my mind that I'm not just going
to avoid sex. I'm going to avoid anything that leads
up to the sex. I'm gonna make up my mind
that have very strong barriers with men so that I
don't even get caught up. Because we talked a little
bit in a previous episode about it's very rarely that
when you're walking in darkness that it is one thing
that led you to stumble. It's a culmination of things.

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You know, It's one thing, then another, then another. It's
a snowball effect. Sin is very commonly a snowball effect.
It doesn't just start with you doing one thing and
then oh here I go again. You know it. You
are led by your own temptations and then that leads
you to sin. So when I think about applying this
to my own life, about how Solomon is saying strong

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men fall for this, I have to understand I am
not going to be bigger than the program. I am
not going to be better than the other humans that
have lived centuries and centuries and centuries before me. I
can't think that I'm better just because I've been, you know,
without sex for a couple of years and I'm like, Okay, yeah,
I'm good, I'm good. I need to be overly aggressive

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against my sin. And if you are not being overly
aggressive with your sin, and the way that you have
certain boundaries, certain things that you will just not do
because you don't even want that first step of temptation
to occur. When you have a mindset like that, when
your mind is made up in that way, then that's
a form of you fleeing. Don't just flee from the sin,

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flee from the temptation, because that's where sin starts. James
one fourteen through fifteen says, but each one is tempted
when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin,
and sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
So it's not just you falling into sin. You first
had that desire. That desire brought some temptation. That temptation,

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you know, aroused the sin. So it's a little bit
of a process when it comes to sin. And just
like James said in that scripture, when it says that
you know your sin when full grown leads to death,
Solomon says the same thing verse twenty seven, the last
verse of chapter seven, Her house is the way to hell,
descending to the chambers of death. Women can also learn

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a lot from this because it seems to me like
the theme overall is just not falling to sexual temptation,
not falling to any kind of adultery, not falling to
any kind of sexual immorality, which is so prevalent in
our world. I mean, it's everywhere that you look. Every
TV show, every song, every clothing advertisement, every ig post,

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it has some kind of sexual enticing nature. Right now,
the popular thing is the show Love Island. I've never
watched Love Island because I think that the dating shows
are just kind of cringey. The shows that I have
watch that I enjoy are like Married at First Sight
or Love is Blind when the goal is actually marriage,
and even those shows can get really bad. Like I'm

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just kind of like, man, these shows are horrible sometimes.
But just the flat out dating shows when you can
obviously see it's just sex on the table, I've never
really enjoyed those. But especially I've heard that this season.
I've seen people talking about it on TikTok. They say
that this season is like especially like freaked out. They're like, nah,
like Love Island has always been sexual, but this season

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is crazy so and that just goes to show that
sin never decreases. It always increases. And while Love Island
has always been a sexually tempting show, they have spin
offs like Temptation Island, you know, all that kind of stuff.
It only gets worse from here, you know, like it
never go it never draws back, it always explodes, It

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always gets worse and worse. And now they're saying, man,
this season is like really bad. Even I don't want
to watch this season. For a lot of people, instead
of getting their daily dose of wisdom, they're getting their
daily dose of lust. They're getting their daily dose of
affirming that sex before marriage is okay, it's fun, there
is no harm in it, there is no danger in it.

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You have sex before marriage, you can be on TV.
Who doesn't want to be on TV? But when we
set our minds against lust, against sexual immorality, when we
have these strong boundaries, things that we will not do
under any circumstances, things that we will not bend on,
that's where wisdom and understanding comes in. And we all
know that Proverbs is the book of wisdom. It's trying

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to get you to storage your life well, lead your
life well. It has a lot of warnings, a lot
of exhortations, a lot of encouragement, a lot of things
that you can do, you should do, a lot of
promises when it comes to what you should be doing
as a Christian. And I think when it comes to
chapters like Chapter seven that really just talks about sexual
immorality and adultery, you have to appreciate it because today's

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world is so full of it. It's just so full
of it. It's like as no one can say learned
about their health. I think that alone would be a deterrent.
When we see the std and HIV cases rising, when
we see articles talking about how Houston is like an
HIV epidemic right now, it's like and you still out

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here having like you know, but there's no judgment. It's
just kind of like, man, get your mind right for real,
Like get your daily dose of wisdom from the Bible.
Stop looking for at the TV, stop looking at other people,
stop looking at social media when it comes to you
trying to build your life the right way, because everything
else outside of the Bible, when it comes to us

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learning how we should be stewarting our lives just leads
to sin, which leads to death. Everything else. So that
was proverb seven on our Seventh Day of a proverb
a day challenge. I hope you guys have learned something
and enjoyed it. I will see you guys tomorrow for
chapter eight. And yeah, have a great start to your week.
Be productive, and I'll see you guys later. Bye.