“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭4‬:‭23‬-‭27‬ ‭

5 STEPS TO STEER CLEAR OF SEXUAL SIN

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

HEART IS SPIRIT

HEART DIRECTS THE MIND

HEART IS WHAT GOD WANTS

Psalm‬ ‭51‬:‭10‬ ‭“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”

Psalm‬ ‭73‬:‭26‬ ‭“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”‭

Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you

EPH 4:32 “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” ‬ ‭

MATT 12:34 “You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”‭

Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

MEN ARE VISUALLY STIMULATED

1 John‬ ‭2‬:‭16‬“For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

Proverbs‬ ‭21‬:‭2‬-‭4‬ ‭“Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.”

Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure

Psalm‬ ‭119‬:‭105‬“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

‭‭ Proverbs‬ ‭2‬:‭7‬-‭11‬ ‭ “he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,”

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil

WHY WE SWERVE

PRIDE & INSECURITY

BOREDOM

SELFISHNESS

Proverbs‬ ‭2‬:‭10‬-‭15‬ “for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.”

‭‭ Proverbs‬ ‭2‬:‭20‬-‭22‬ ‭ “So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.”