Sin

God is not silent about sexual sin. He doesn’t whisper the needed truth. He doesn’t spell out the words to protect our “innocent” ears. In this section of Proverbs, God slams the hammer down with four important warnings. 

Self-counsel. It will get you into trouble every time. Left to ourselves, we can rationalize just about anything…even sin.

Let’s not become so accustomed to sin in our lives and the sin around us that we allow the music of grace to whistle through our skulls without taking our breath away.

God’s unconditional love means that I can do nothing to make him love me more; there is nothing I can do to make him love me less.

He willingly gave his life on the cross as a sacrifice for our sin. Jesus is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for us. How will you respond today to such love?

God’s wrath is turned aside from us because of Jesus’ completed work on the cross. His atoning work gives us eternal life!

God is not only our King; he alone is supreme, the “blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords.”

Jesus paid sin’s penalty in full and offers a free pardon. He breathes life into our spiritually dead souls and makes us fit for heaven. In Christ, we are made alive.

Jesus is the one way to God. He provided the only way by dying for our sin on the cross.