Points for Married Men from Proverbs 5 for Sexual Purity

1. Listen to God's words and do them. Read your Bible and live what it says. (5:1, 7)

2. Know God is watching you. They eyes of the Lord watch your every action and your every thought. Knowing God's "eyes" are on you keeps your eyes from wandering. (5:21)

3. Be satisfied with your wife's breasts . Eyeing other women's breasts kills satisfaction in your spouse. Taking pleasure in your spouse kills the desire for lust and adultery. (5:19)

4. Stay away from the temptress. Don't "go near" her or where she lives. Flee emotional affiars with other women. Don't click-to pornographic web-sites. Be faithful in the small things. (5:8)

5. Recognize that the allure of a women that is not your wife is like a mousetrap. The cheese looks good: those luscious lips drip honey, but the mouth tastes of wormwood and poison. Adultery and lust is attractive, it appears to be sweet and satisfying, and offers the fulfillment of fantasy, yet in reality is death. (5:3-4).

6. Know that physical adultery and lustful addiction is suicide and murder. It will kill you, and it will kill your family, your friends, your time, your relationships, your mind, your ministry, and your emotions. (5:4-5)

7. Pursue Jesus more than purity. Pursuing purity often turns into another law that you make for yourself. Instead cultivate affection for Jesus, and a longing to see God. As Jesus makes clear, it is the "pure in heart that see God" (Mt. 5:8). (Yes, I cheated that's not from Proverbs 5, but from Jesus who embodies the wisdom that Proverbs speaks). A passion for God squelches impurity more than a passion for purity produces purity. You don't need to make another vow, make a new law, or go to another conference. You need to repent, and pursue Jesus.