What is the cause of most marriage break-ups today? Some would say lack of communication or falling ‘out’ of love with each other, but it appears the cause of most marriage breakups is because of adultery.
Who or what kind of person is the adulteress described here? She’s described as a prostitute. How does she invite people who want to get involved with her? Through flattery and smooth talk. Most people when they do something illegal sometimes have a conscience but she doesn’t.
What damage does adultery have on a family? It causes major damage, it causes families to break up, the kids get used as tools, and it usually ends in divorce, etc.
What was the punishment supposed to be for adultery? Nothing less than being stoned to death, Leviticus 20:10 / John 8:5.
What is the writer saying here? Basically, he’s saying that even at the end of our life it’s too late to take advice. When we desire something, it can take us and take over us, so advice is the last thing we want to hear when it’s got a grip on us, Genesis 3:6 / Genesis 4:7.
The best time to know about the dangers of going after anything harmful, not just sex with an adulteress but sex in general outside of marriage is well before the temptation comes. Prevention is better than cure.
If we know there is a danger or a temptation, we will struggle with it, we should know how to handle that danger or temptation when it comes, 1 Corinthians 10:13.
What does the writer mean when he says, ‘Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well?’ It’s a picture of faithfulness, in other words, stick to and enjoy the wife that God has given you. This was written by Solomon possibly to Rehoboam, did he take his father’s advice? Unfortunately, he didn’t listen to his father’s advice, 2 Chronicles 11:21.
When the Bible talks about water in the Old Testament that usually signified power and it was a crime to steal water from anyone else, just as it is a crime to have sex with another woman. Marriage is for life not just for Christmas!
What is sex? Sex is a gift from God for both couples to enjoy, Song of Songs 4. We must remember that we don’t make love TO anyone, we make love WITH someone, it’s a pleasure to be enjoyed by married couples.
What’s the writer saying here? He’s saying why go elsewhere for this pleasure when you can have so much pleasure with your own wife together.
The writer says that everything we do is in full view of God, even though we may go into a prostitute’s house and close the door behind us, God can see us anyway.
When a baby is born, the cord is still attached and the doctors need to cut that cord to set the baby free, but if no one cuts that cord, they would be attached to their mother for the rest of their lives.
In other words, once that sin has got a grip on us, we will be addicted to it until the day we die unless we take God’s advice and learn how to be disciplined.
"Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."