In Proverbs, chapter seven, verses one through twenty-seven, once more, Proverbs warns against sexual sins committed in the name of love, as in verse eighteen, emphasizing their disastrous results, as in verses twenty-five to twenty-seven, “Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.” Men and women, especially men who attend bachelor parties and indecent clubs that exploit ladies, open their ways to carnal traps set by the enemy to destroy their souls.
Sexual sins people can avoid by being firmly committed to all that God says is right and good, as in verses one to five, “My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
The theme title, “Keep My Words,” is from verse one of chapter seven. “My son, keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee.” How do many find themselves in sinful situations? They did not keep God’s Word in their hearts but another word of what they heard with their ears. Our eyes and ears are key to overcoming temptation. Failing to meditate on the Word of God with scriptures needed when problems or situations arise is the difference between passing and failing. Many read the holy book but do not keep it inside their hearts to resist temptation.