SERMON: Proverbs 7 (Female Sexual Sin)

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May you be blessed in the hearing of God's word, and may the Lord be with you. Now, if you're new today, you're here in a very interesting time, because not only do you have the smooth southern tones of Kendall for leading worship, but you also are in the middle of a series on sexual sin.

A series that we've been going through for about five weeks now. And a series where we've talked about what Proverbs 7 has to say. And it's a series, and today it's gonna be no different, where we don't tiptoe around the carnage that happens in the topic of lust.

In fact, we have went straight for the proverbial jugular. Because sexual sin doesn't need to be coddled, it actually needs to be executed. For if by the Spirit of God, you put to death the misdeeds of the flesh, then you will live.

Sexual sin is certainly on that list. Now, as we've done over the past several weeks in Proverbs 7, we've looked at the man who was led down to death by sexual sin, and we've viewed it as a kind of spiritual autopsy report.

We've traced every single frozen, broken artery of male compromise until we have found what the disease was that killed him, and we looked at 15 different examples of that. This week, we're gonna do the exact same work.

But instead of focusing on the men this week, we're gonna use Proverbs 7 to direct our aim towards female sexual sin, and this will be the final sermon in this little mini-series that we've been in, which is what Proverbs 7 has been talking about.

Now, again, this is an uncomfortable topic, because this is not spoken about really at all in churches. I can't remember a single sermon that I've heard on this passage, and every week when we're in the Book of Proverbs, I feel like I'm preaching the first sermon that I've ever heard on these topics.

But these are important topics, because they're killing Christians, because they're ruining and shipwrecking faith, because they're breaking up marriages. So we wanna speak about these topics in the way that the Bible does so that our people, so that you and I can have joyful Christian faith and community in that most holy and sacred community, which is marriage.

Now, I do need to give a disclaimer here, because I think it goes without saying that there's not a single woman here, unless you're living some kind of secretive and entirely hidden life that is the Proverbs 7 woman.

None of you, at least I pray to God it's true, are participating in open harlotry. I pray none of you are cheating on your husband while he's away on business. So in that sense, I pray to God that this passage doesn't apply strictly to you.

But as we'll see today, there may be tendencies in your heart. There may not be the fully grown sins of the Proverbs 7 woman, but there may be pre-born illnesses that are similar to hers. And maybe, just maybe, as we look at the feminine heart today, and again, you'll have to excuse me, in an intersectional world, I'm a man speaking about the feminine heart, so you will have to excuse me on that.

But as we say what the Bible says, I pray that it would be relatable, and I pray that we would be able to see in our hearts where we sin against God. Now, what the sermon is not going to do is I am not going to say, thou shalt not stand on the street corner and participate in harlotry.

I honestly think that's a given. So I'm going to assume that right up front. But what the sermon is going to do is it's going to look at the internal motivations that lead to female sexual ruin. And I pray that it would cause us to repent and have great joy in purity and all holiness.

So with that, will you turn with me to Proverbs chapter seven. We're going to read it one final time this week, the whole chapter, and we're going to explore what it says. This is the word of the Lord.

My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Say to wisdom, you are my sister, and call understanding your intimate friend, that they may keep you from an adulteress, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice and I saw among the naive and discerned among the youth, a man lacking sense, passing through the street near her corner.

And he takes the way to her house. In the twilight, in the evening, in the middle of the night, and in the darkness. And behold, a woman comes to meet him, dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. She is boisterous and rebellious.

Her feet do not remain at home. She is now in the streets, now in the squares, and lurks by every corner. So she seizes him and kisses him. And with a brazen face, she says to him, I was due to offer peace offerings.

Today, I have paid my vows. Therefore, I have come out to meet you, to seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you. And I have spread my couch with coverings with colored linens of Egypt. I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning. Let us delight ourself with caresses. For my husband is not home. He has gone on a long journey. He has taken a bag of money with him. At the full moon, he will come home.

With her many persuasions, she entices him. With her flattering lips, she seduces him. Suddenly, he follows her as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool, until an arrow pierces through his liver.

As a bird hastens to the snare, so he does not know that it will cost him his life. Now, therefore, my sons, listen to me and pay attention to the words of my mouth. Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways.

Do not stray into her paths, for many are the victims she has cast down, and numerous are all her slain. Her house is the way to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death. This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Let's pray.

The Word of God and the Seriousness of Sexual Sin

Lord, we thank you. Again, as I prayed earlier, that your word is so comprehensive and so kind to share with us these truths. Lord, let us look at this passage as just as God breathed as some of our favorite passages, as just as inspired by the Spirit of God, as Hebrews 12, Romans 8.

Lord, thank you for this passage. May it be a balm of encouragement. May it be a protection against ruin. And Lord God, by your Spirit, would you cause it to make us a people where this sin is not named.

It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Now, I'm gonna do this today in a sort of categorical way. For the men, I basically, with great joy, listed a bunch of Latin terms for illnesses because I thought that would be playful and I thought that it would be helpful for us men.

But today for the ladies, I'd like to just approach this in a very categorical way. And I'd like to talk about two categories of sexual sin that are exposed in this passage. Now, the first one is what I'm calling attitudinal transgenderism.

And maybe you're like, why would you call it that? Well, because this woman is not acting like a woman. She's acting like the very worst kind of man. She's acting like a man who is carnal and who sleeps around and who lusts for pleasure.

She's leaving her home and she's working in the street. She's working like a man in the world of men. And in that sense, Proverbs 7 is the perfect picture of the icon or the heroine of feminism. She embodies all the virtues of feminism.

She's a good example of what feminism dreams about, that feminism says that men can be just like women and in so doing, they've actually taught and pushed women to become more like men than actually like women.

And in that sense, feminism is not actually pro-woman in any meaningful way because it brings death to her. It brings evil upon her and all who participate in that delusion end up robbed of joy. I've said this many times and I don't even mean it as a joke, but it is funny.

You've never met a happy feminist because it withers them. It ruins their joy and it teaches them to act like the very worst kind of men, to be sexually immoral, sexually profligate, go out into the world, work, and do not at all pursue feminine beauty or feminine godliness.

When a woman is in that situation and she rejects the submission to a man in order to pursue her feminine calling, she'll either become ruled by men or she will end up behaving like men. And in that sense, this verse reveals the symptom and the disease.

She is boisterous and rebellious and her feet do not remain at home. This is one of the most jarring verses in the entire chapter because it defines this woman in terms that are usually used for wicked men.

Boisterous, rebellious, and feet that do not remain at home. Solomon doesn't say that she was momentarily angry. Solomon doesn't say that she was having a bad day. He says that her fundamental nature is boisterous and rebellious and wild and unrestrained before God.

In that sense, Solomon is not describing a feminine woman. He is describing a woman who will not restrain herself. Solomon does not begin with her adultery. He begins with her attitude. Isn't that interesting?

He doesn't begin with what her body does. He begins with what her head and her heart believe, that she's rebellious, unrestrained, unbridled, loose, wild, which are not compliments to her. And perhaps this begs the question, well, then what is a woman supposed to be?

If this woman is the anti-woman, if she's the opposite of womanhood, if she's loud and boisterous and unrestrained, and what is a woman supposed to be? Well, the scriptures tell us these things. We read one of those verses earlier from 1 Peter 3.

A woman is supposed to be gentle and quiet, and that pleases God. Look at what it says. Rather, it should be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable quality of a gentle and a quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.

This is the polar opposite of the Proverbs 7 woman, who is boisterous and wild and loud. God prizes femininity that is serene and humble. Second, she's supposed to be, a woman is supposed to be submissive to her own husband.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands. Ask to the Lord. Those aren't Kendall's words. Those are the words of the Holy Scripture. And in that sense, submission is not weakness, sisters. Submission is covenantal strength.

Submission is reflecting upon your joyful service to your husband as you enact the joyful service of the church to her bridegroom, Jesus Christ. That's why Paul says that a submission or submission in marriage and a husband being as Christ to his wife is a very picture of the gospel.

So it's not weakness, it's freedom. The third thing the scriptures teach, and these are all categories. There's hundreds of verses we could go through. But the third thing that it says is that she is to be a keeper of her home.

Titus 2, four through five says, encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure and workers at home. The words there in those passages mean what they mean.

That a woman's sanctuary is her home. A woman's garden is her home. Her feminine blessings are planted in the soil of the home where they bring life. And again, this is the exact opposite of the Proverbs seven woman whose feet do not remain at home.

And this is not a woman who is out running errands.

This is not a woman who's gone to,.

I don't even know if people do this anymore. When I was a kid, my grandma and I used to go to the post office and that was like a big field day or field trip. Her feet are not out on errands that are good and godly.

Her feet are not remaining at home because she's rejected her femininity and her calling. A woman is supposed to be respectful and reverent. Titus 2, three, there to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips, teaching what is good.

There to be clothed with strength and dignity. Proverbs 31, 25, strength and dignity are her covering and she smiles at the future. Her children rise up and call her blessed. She is to love God's design for womanhood.

First Timothy two, 11 through 12, let a woman learn quietly with entire submissiveness, but I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over man to but to remain quiet. And in that passage, Paul roots that all the way back.

To Eve.

He's saying that there is something creationally different between male and female and because God is good and God does all things that are good, we should rejoice in the goodness of the design of male and female and not like this woman who is rebellious and unrestrained and hates her own nature.

And what is the result of all of this? Again, we said that her feet do not remain at home, but her feet actually lead her and the ones who participate with her down into death. This woman has the kind of femininity that may be beautiful, that may have curves, that may be lively, but she uses her body instead of bringing life to the world, she uses it to bring death.

Now, that disease, we see it here in its most morbid form. But we have to ask ourself the question, does that disease ever have any effect on Christian women? Can we just write this woman off completely as being totally irrelevant?

We have nothing that we can see here of any application or any value, I don't think so. I think that the spirit behind this woman has actually moved into Christian homes, has infected the pews of Christian churches, and has manifested itself in women who wear the most modest clothing and quote scripture.

How does this apply to you? Well, I'm not sure, but maybe there is something inside of your heart that is still untamed and wild. There is some spirit of rebellion inside of you that acts more like a carnal man than a godly example of femininity.

Some examples of this are the woman who interrupts or talks over her husband because she needs to control the conversation because she thinks he's too Neanderthalic to say what he means. This is a woman who mocks male leadership with snide jokes about her husband's inability or laughs about things with her friends.

The seedbed of contempt is there. This is the woman who withholds intimacy, warmth, and affection because she is trying to punish him or teach him or because she's showing him who's really in charge. It's the kind of woman who corrects her husband constantly through nagging or through public shame or through treating him like he's a child that must be managed rather than honored.

This is a woman who resents his leadership but hides in a kind of Christian piety. I just want to make sure that we're being wise when in reality it's an excuse that she doesn't actually want to follow.

This is a woman who uses sarcasm and passive aggression to resist, saying fine with folded arms, I'll obey, I'll follow. Oh, listen to how I'm talking to you right now. This is a woman who sees submission as a threat to her autonomy.

She confuses strength with control and she sees yielding as a weakness rather than worship. This is a woman who makes major decisions without her husband, with the way she spends or schedules or commits and she demands his support after the fact.

This is a woman who teaches her children to question their father's authority, saying well, that's the way dad does it but I wouldn't have done it that way. It's very subtle. Again, we're not talking about the lady who's standing on the street corner who is totally consumed with rebellion but we are talking about the spirit of it and we are trying to identify the seed bed forms of it.

This is the woman who prays for him to change but not for her submission. This is the woman who treats submission as conditional. Well, I will do that if he does this or I am not doing that because he is not doing this.

In fact, ladies, the scripture doesn't say that that's conditional. The scripture say, wives submit to your own husbands. If he takes out the trash or if he treats me like I'm supposed to be treated or if or if or if or if, we do this, all of us, both male and female, we do this with the word of God.

We make conditions where conditions don't exist because the heart is deceptive and wicked above all things and we make excuses for obedience all the time. It's not just females, it's males, it's children, it's adults, it's everyone.

This is a woman who hides rebellion behind respectable language and calls it discernment, calls it boundaries, calls it being wise but deep down, it's just pridefulness and rebellion disguised in Christian knees.

Now, before you object and you say, that's not me, I'm not the Proverbs 7 woman, I would ask you to pause and to ask the spirit of God, where am I resisting your design and pretending that I'm honoring it?

Where am I being boisterous? Maybe it's not in sexual sin, maybe it's in other areas but where, what areas are there because ladies and gentlemen, there are a myriad of different sins where we have been wild and boisterous and rebellious where we could repent and humility is needed.

I think probably perhaps the most powerful effect of sin is pride. Oh, that's not me. The unexamined heart, I look at it at an inch deep and I say, that's not me, that's not me, that can't be me. Can it?

Not.

You may not be burning bras at the next GA Feminism Rally but you may be burning your witness through subtle, tiny, micro sins that you could repent of and submit to the Holy God. Again, we say humility is needed because look at what the scriptures say about woman, about the beauty of womanhood.

Wives be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord. It is a glory to submit. Listen, I love being a man and I can't even possibly fathom what it'd be like to be a woman but there are times where I'm like, man, this is a wonderful verse.

Be Christ to my wife. How can I possibly do that? She has to submit to an idiot. That's so much easier than trying to be Christ to her. Don't reject it, that's freedom, that's glory. That's when the church is glorifying her savior most fully.

That's what that looks like. That sort of praise and honor and worship. Women, you are acting out the drama of the gospel in the way that you care for your husband. It's a glorious thing. And you don't have to actually submit to a flawed man because who you're actually submitting to is the flawless Christ.

You don't have to agree with a man who gets it wrong all the time. You agree with a man who always got it right. You're agreeing with Christ. You're loving your husband. You're loving through your husband to Jesus.

And in that sense, submission is not a loss of your identity, it's part of your sanctification. It's not passivity, it's power rightly aimed. It's not inferiority, it's glory and order and rightly ordered.

What does this look like? This is a wife who supports her husband with grace and not grumbling. This is a woman who offers her feedback and correction with humility instead of hostility. This is a woman who prays for her husband in private and praises him in public.

This is a woman who seeks to strengthen him, not to steer him, to honor him, not to dishonor him, to love him like she is loving the church or like she's loving Christ. Again, toxic feminism has poisoned so much of our views of what womanhood is.

And I pray that as we look at these things, as we look at how the Bible defines womanhood, that we would see it as glorious. Proverbs 14, one says, the wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

You don't need to win the argument and lose the marriage. You don't need to have the moral high ground and watch your home sink underneath you in the trenches. Submission is not about your husband's worth.

Submission is about the worthiness of Jesus. And when you do that, when you worship your most flawless king, you build up your house. It is a grace that God gives you as you do what God has commanded you.

Your greatest weapon, ladies, in a struggling marriage is not to be a woman.

It's not to be a woman.

No, it's not.

It's not control. It's Christ-centeredness. That's the first thing, the first category. The second is a self-justifying religious tendency that creeps into the heart of womanhood, that creeps into this woman's heart, where she uses her faith to justify her for sexual sin.

Proverbs 7, 13 through 14 says, "'So she seizes him and kisses him, "'and with a brazen face she says to him, "'I was due to offer peace offerings. "'Today I have paid my vows.'". What's happening in this passage is not at first sexual sin.

What's happening first is a poisoned heart that's using her relationship with God. She's a Jew, she's a member of the covenant community, she's paying offerings at the temple, she's saying, today I've paid my vows, she's participating in the Mosaic religion, and while it's easy to just pin her for sexual sin because it's right there on the nose, underneath all of her perversion is a perverted religion, a religion that seeks to justify her behavior.

Look at what she says, she says, "'I've offered my peace offerings, I've paid my vows, "'so now I can kind of do what I want. "'I went to church, I did my devotions, "'I read my Bible reading plan, now I can do what I want.'".

Because at the heart of it, she thinks she deserves it. I've done my religious duty, and now I deserve this. And this is not repentance, this is self-justification cloaked in religious formalism. She's not sinning in spite of her faith, she's using her faith to excuse her sin.

She's dragging God's name down into her rebellion and baptizing it in her religious performance. And she's using God's altar to validate her sin. And in this sense, I know the hardest part of this passage is gonna be for us to relate to this woman.

Because she's so spoiled, and so rotten, and so broken, that it's gonna be very difficult for us to see where this lands on us. But I would ask you, do we not struggle with the same things? Do we not baptize our rebellion with religious performance?

I think the same lie is alive and well today. I've tried hard, I've been patient with him. I've carried so much of the burden of this relationship. He's put me in this situation. I've waited so long for him to grow up.

Surely God understands. What she's doing there, she's negotiating with God instead of repenting. She's saying, look at my record. Therefore, now I can do what I want. She might not be standing out on the street corner like this woman in Proverbs 7, but she is giving him attitude.

She is giving him dishonor because she thinks she's earned it through her performance. It's the same exact sin at a different level on the spectrum. But I also think that the major point in this passage is also true as well.

So I don't want to generalize this too much. This woman is using her relationship with God as a justification for sinning sexually. And the way that we often think about that, the sinning sexually part, is in the way that she goes in her wild perversions.

But ladies, there are ways to sin sexually and to use religious language as a Christian, as a follower of Christ, as someone who is raising hands in worship and every morning opening the scriptures. And here are 12 practical ways that this can happen.

How do Christian women sin sexually and justify themselves in doing it? Number one, withholding affection as a punishment. When a wife withholds affection from her husband, she's using it as a form of control because maybe he said something wrong or he didn't help enough or he failed again.

And in doing that, she shuts the door on affection to her husband and feels justified in doing so. Well, if he wouldn't have done that, he wouldn't get the cold shoulder.

We've got to be faithful to our sister.

Even though the Bible commands us, do not deprive one another unless for a season of prayer. And yet she feels justified because he's not meeting her standard. That's the first way, is withholding intimacy as a form of punishment.

The second is a twin sister to that one and it's using sex as a reward system. The second way that a Christian woman can send sexually against her husband is instead of punishing him by withholding it.

It's holding it out as a carrot for his obedience. It's earning his intimacy through performance. Did he take out the trash? Did he earn a promotion? Is it his birthday now? Let me be very clear here.

Special days are not bad. Birthday intimacy. Father's Day intimacy. Christian morning or Christmas morning intimacy ovulation day intimacy. Those are not bad and they should not be stricken from your calendar.

But my point is that my point in this is saying that it's a sin when you only reward someone for their accomplishments. When intimacy and marriage is a gift and not a wage. We treat intimacy like it's something that he has to work for instead of something that already belongs to him.

How can I say that it already belongs to him? How can I say that because Paul says that he says your body is not your own Husband your wife owns your body wife's your husband owns your body. Your body is not yours.

So in that sense you both Can be intimate with each other whenever you want and there is no such thing As using your body as a weapon for wages. Now again, there are. I want to be clear. There are times where the Bible says that it's good To withstand from sex and marriage, but it says it's only for a time.

It says it's for a season of prayer and it says that it must not be a long season because lest you be tempted. So that sin is one of using the body or using intimacy as a reward. Which is wrong. The third is that third way that a woman can send sexually against her husband is being disinterested and passive on Purpose instead of standing on the street corner.

This happens when a woman Gives her body to her husband and yet is Passive or uninvolved mentally being physically naked with him but emotionally vacant in her heart. The Song of Solomon says this in Song of Solomon 710.

I am my beloved's and his desire is for me. What that says is is that sex in marriage is supposed to be joyful. It's supposed to be responsive. It's supposed to be participatory. It's supposed to be wholehearted.

Union covenant intimacy does not look drab and dour and boring and dusty. It looks alive and well. And when this passage is saying I am my beloved's my beloved is mine. It is saying that there's a kind of mutual affection and ownership that's flowing both ways that that biblical Christ informed intimacy in marriage is not just waiting for it to get over so you can roll over and go back to sleep.

It's a God-designed joyful union. That he designed for mutual delight between husband and wife. That's the third number four cloaking sexlessness in spiritual terms. Sorry, honey, I'm fasting and the fasting is a lifelong diet.

Sorry, honey, I'm in a season of prayer at every day during a certain time. Again the Bible allows for a time. It's mutually agreed upon, but it must be temporary. So you do not fall into temptation do not use religious veneers and languages to justify this number five.

Emotional adultery is another way a woman can sin against her husband by giving her affection to another man. Through text messages their emotional bonding through mental companionship. This has happened a lot in the modern world because we have so prioritized women leaving their home.

I Was in the military. There's nothing but a culture of perversion between male-female. Dynamic because women were introduced into the military and men did not carnal men especially did not know what to do with that and.

And.

Again, I Hope that this is not happening where a woman here is flirting with someone who is not her husband or giving her affections to someone Who are not her husband or who's who's this man is living rent-free in her head.

I hope to God that that's not happening. But I bring it up because sin is so pernicious and our tendency is to hide Sin so much and I've been a pastor long enough to know that looks can be Deceiving and the way that we present ourself on the outside may not always be the same on the inside.

So I pray that if that is the case that you would repent. And Repentance does not just mean stop the inappropriate behavior. With the person that you're not married to it might actually also mean start Flirting with and being affectionate with and being passionate with your husband.

Number six mentally comparing him to other men. This is the sin of I wish he were more romantic. He's a caveman. He has no romantic bone in his body. Or comparing him to someone who is more spiritual or comparing him to someone who was more like such-and-such or more handy and could fix more things in the house instead of being a.

Nerd.

Or more masculine or more whatever. This is a kind of coveting that is disguised as Criticism on and on and on we could go comparing him to someone else some standard that he hasn't met and and because of that Now I'm going to withhold Intimacy from him because I don't like him.

I'm Disgusted with him because he doesn't meet this standard. I'll say this fantasizing about a different husband will make you despise the one that you have. Even if he's imaginary. And it will cause you to hate the one that God has given you and that is the sin of coveting number seven.

This one I want to walk on eggshells as I talk about. Number seven. Another way that you can send sexually against your husband is by neglecting yourself as a form of protest. This is of letting yourself go physically and not pursuing what the Bible says is godly beauty.

Now again, I know that this one can be more controversial, but I'm not saying that you should be consumed with your appearance. I'm not saying that I'm not saying that you should be Looking at the world standards and I'm also not saying that there is not grace in that when you've just went through Postpartum you're sick in illness your hairs up in a messy bun.

You haven't slept in nine months because babies are constantly using you for food there again. There's situations where there's grace. But that's different than this sin of a kind of intentional neglect and intentional Debeautification to ward off your husband's appetites if I just shower less and if I just take care of myself less.

Then he will not be interested in me. This is the woman who knows what her husband loves and refuses it this is the woman who knows what her husband is attracted to what blesses him and what pleases him and she just says no and Here's the thing that is really interesting she wouldn't do that at church.

She wouldn't show up with stained sweatpants and and smelly underarms. I don't think She wouldn't do that for an important meeting with a very important client, but yet why is she surprised when the most important man in her life notices when she doesn't show up for him and She doesn't adorn herself for him.

That's not just Purposeful on attraction. It's unloving and the scriptures do commend and command beauty and the pursuit of beauty. For a woman for her husband Proverbs 31 22 says she makes coverings for herself.

Her clothing is fine linen and purple. That's not vanity. That's virtue. That's woman who understands that presenting herself well is a gift to her husband. It's a joy to her husband. It's a ministry to her husband.

This is not supermodel. This is a servant of joy not to conform to any stupid and sick and disgusting societal standards, but to be a blessing to the man that God has given her and ladies. When you neglect these things You're not just withholding your beauty.

You're sending a message to the one that you're married to that. You're not worth the effort and those wounds actually hit. And maybe you're thinking that's not biblical. Telling a woman to cultivate beauty.

That's a kind of Patriarchal a kind of toxic masculinity. That's not what the Bible says, but it does and This woman in Proverbs 7 actually understands it better than 10 ,000 evangelicals. She beautifies herself.

She puts on perfume. She decorates her bed with rose petals. She puts on Egyptian cotton linen sheets. She puts a lot of effort into this and yet she's doing it for evil and She's doing it because she knows that God has designed her husband to be attracted to her beauty and She's leveraging that as sin and evil.

But just because she's using it for sin doesn't mean that it can't be used for good. Just because this woman is using it sinfully just because the pornography industry is using it Doesn't mean that it's there's not a good and right and holy way for a woman to pursue godly beauty.

Attractiveness so that her husband finds her delightful. That's a ministry. I'm not talking about find your identity in your beauty. I'm talking about use your beauty as a ministry to serve and care for your husband.

It's not only a sin to beautify yourself for the wrong man, but it's also a sin to neglect yourself for the right man. Again the psalm song of Solomon Talks about this how beautiful you are. My darling how beautiful you are.