Fatal attraction

The Vine Church started a new series last week entitled “Exponential”.   As a church, we are reading through Proverbs this month.  There are 31 chapters, so that will help to keep us on track.  King Solomon wrote Proverbs, and Chapter 7 deals with lust and sexual temptation.  I couldn’t help but think of the movie “Fatal Attraction”.   Michael Douglas’s character gets lured into a sexual relationship that doesn’t turn out well for him, or his family or his pet rabbit.   The consequences that he endured were natural consequences (on steroids) associated with his infidelity.   We think of the current cultural sexual explosion as being something that has developed recently, but Solomon confirms that this has been a problem for at least 1000 years, and probably much longer.   While the natural consequences for infidelity may vary from situation to situation, the separation from God that it creates is inescapable.  I am not sure if our pastor is going to focus on this subject in this series, but Andy Stanley had a great sermon series a few years ago called Guardrails.  He offers practical recommendations for how to avoid all of this.  I watched the first one again today.  I hope you will too.