23 min
What Does Sin Do to Us? (Proverbs 7:18-23) Scott LaPierre Ministries
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What does sin do to us? The harlot in Proverbs 7 personifies sin. We can see how she acts toward the foolish young man to see what sin does to us.
Table of contents* Sin Lies to Us* Sin Says, “You Won’t Get Caught”* God Won't Be Mocked* When It Looked Like David Wouldn't Get Caught* Sin Makes Us More Like Animals* Sin Produces a Slow, Painful Death* Sin Hunts the Foolish* Sin Is a Baited Hook* The Way Joab Approached Abner and Amasa* Turn to God from Sin
https://youtu.be/-JeVOMo2fhY
What does sin do to us? The harlot in Proverbs 7 personifies sin. We can see how she acts toward the foolish young man to see what sin does to us.
Radio personality Paul Harvey shared about how Eskimos kill wolves:
First, the Eskimo coats a knife blade with seal blood because seals are easy to trap. He allows the blood to freeze and then adds another layer of blood and another until the blade is completely concealed by frozen blood. Next, the hunter fixes his knife in the ground with the blade up.When a wolf follows its sensitive nose to the source of the scent and discovers the bait, it licks it, tasting the fresh, frozen blood. The wolf licks the blade more vigorously until the keen edge is bare. But the wolf doesn’t notice the razor-sharp sting of the blade because his tongue is numb from the cold, nor does it recognize that its insatiable thirst is being satisfied by its own warm blood. The wolf’s carnivorous appetite just craves moreuntil the dawn finds it dead in the snow.
The account is grisly but illustrates sin's consuming, self-destructive nature. When we see people engaged in habitual sin, we can share this story with them and tell them to stop licking the knife. I looked at over ten websites to determine if Eskimoes do this because I don’t like when pastors use illustrations that aren’t true (something pastors are famous for doing). I found many websites with this story. But they were pastors’ websites or websites for sermon illustrations, so I’m not sure they can be trusted.
I think an even better illustration of sin’s destructiveness is found in Proverbs 7 with the harlot. We can swap the wolf for the foolish young man. Like the wolf, he is killed because of his desires. If you want to see just how much the foolish young man looks like an animal being hunted, notice the theme of verses 22 and 23: "an ox to the slaughter...a stag caught in a trap...a bird stuck in a snare."
Sin Lies to Us
I will pick up at verse 18 with the harlot speaking to the foolish young man:
Proverbs 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
In the same sentence, the harlot twice mentioned the word love. This is a lie: she’s known this young man for about five minu...
What does sin do to us? The harlot in Proverbs 7 personifies sin. We can see how she acts toward the foolish young man to see what sin does to us.
Table of contents* Sin Lies to Us* Sin Says, “You Won’t Get Caught”* God Won't Be Mocked* When It Looked Like David Wouldn't Get Caught* Sin Makes Us More Like Animals* Sin Produces a Slow, Painful Death* Sin Hunts the Foolish* Sin Is a Baited Hook* The Way Joab Approached Abner and Amasa* Turn to God from Sin
https://youtu.be/-JeVOMo2fhY
What does sin do to us? The harlot in Proverbs 7 personifies sin. We can see how she acts toward the foolish young man to see what sin does to us.
Radio personality Paul Harvey shared about how Eskimos kill wolves:
First, the Eskimo coats a knife blade with seal blood because seals are easy to trap. He allows the blood to freeze and then adds another layer of blood and another until the blade is completely concealed by frozen blood. Next, the hunter fixes his knife in the ground with the blade up.When a wolf follows its sensitive nose to the source of the scent and discovers the bait, it licks it, tasting the fresh, frozen blood. The wolf licks the blade more vigorously until the keen edge is bare. But the wolf doesn’t notice the razor-sharp sting of the blade because his tongue is numb from the cold, nor does it recognize that its insatiable thirst is being satisfied by its own warm blood. The wolf’s carnivorous appetite just craves moreuntil the dawn finds it dead in the snow.
The account is grisly but illustrates sin's consuming, self-destructive nature. When we see people engaged in habitual sin, we can share this story with them and tell them to stop licking the knife. I looked at over ten websites to determine if Eskimoes do this because I don’t like when pastors use illustrations that aren’t true (something pastors are famous for doing). I found many websites with this story. But they were pastors’ websites or websites for sermon illustrations, so I’m not sure they can be trusted.
I think an even better illustration of sin’s destructiveness is found in Proverbs 7 with the harlot. We can swap the wolf for the foolish young man. Like the wolf, he is killed because of his desires. If you want to see just how much the foolish young man looks like an animal being hunted, notice the theme of verses 22 and 23: "an ox to the slaughter...a stag caught in a trap...a bird stuck in a snare."
Sin Lies to Us
I will pick up at verse 18 with the harlot speaking to the foolish young man:
Proverbs 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
In the same sentence, the harlot twice mentioned the word love. This is a lie: she’s known this young man for about five minu...
23 min