INTRODUCTION:  Can you name Bible men who fell because of sexual immorality?

DISCUSSION

I. THE NEXT PLEA OF THE PARENT (5:1,2).
 
    A. You really need to pay attention to this (5:1).
    B. It is for your own good (5:2; see Deuteronomy 10:13).

II. THE POWER OF MALE-FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS (5:3-21).

    A. There is a “bad part of town” (5:3-6).
         1. She has tremendous drawing power (5:3).
         2. There is nothing good in the results (5:4-6).
    B. There are reasons to hear me (5:7-14).
         1. Listen!  Don’t go near there (5:7,8).
         2. You will give up— (5:9-14).
             a. Honor (5:9).
             b. Years (5:9).
             c. Wealth (5:10).
             d. Labor (5:10).
             e. Health (5:11).
             f. Self-esteem (5:12).
             g. Heritage (5:13).
             h. Fellowship (5:14).
    C. There is one true way (5:15-20).
         1. A powerful illustration (5:15-17).
         2. The application: the rapture of married love (5:18-20).
    D. There is a third party (5:21).
         1. His name is Jehovah.
         2. He watches all paths of all people.

III. THE EVERLASTING RULE: SOWING AND REAPING (5:22,23).
 
    A. The negative side: sow sin—and your sin catches you (5:22).
    B. What you are REALLY doing is folly—no matter what anyone else
         calls it (5:23).

CONCLUSION

     A. How many famous people today have been unfaithful in the realm of
          sexual immorality?
     B. God has a plan for human sexuality.  Within that plan, people have 
          certain rights.  When we  exercise those rights, we have obligations. 
          In any case, there are real dangers.  Both men  and women have
          power in this realm—and we are accountable for what we think, say,
          and  do.
 
 

1. We are to bow our ears to what (v. 1)?
 

2. What is discretion (v. 2)?
 

3. What of the lips of a strange woman (v. 3)?
 

4. What will happen if we listen to these words (v. 4)?
 

5. To where does the strange woman lead (v. 5)?
 

6. What will happen to our honor and years if we waste our time in the
    house of a stranger (vv.  8-10)?
 

7. Will we mourn at the last if we allow our bodies to be wasted ins sinful
    living (vv. 12-14)?
 

8. What does it mean to drink waters out of our own cistern (vv. 15,16)?
 

9. With whom should we rejoice (vv. 18,19)?
 

10. Who sees and knows all our goings (vv. 20,21)?
 

11. Whose iniquities shall take the wicked person (v. 22)?
 

12. What kind of cords hold the wicked (v. 22)?
 

13. The lack of proper instruction will cause one to do what (v. 23)?

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