Christian Family Services Ministry

9-27-2016 – A Word to the Wise: Thus, immorality leads to emotional and erratic behavior, which perverts one’s sense of reason and often disrupts the life of the family. Thus, the sins are visited not only on the offender.

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9-26-2016 – A Word to the Wise: This is why Solomon in Proverbs 4:25 says: “Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.” Again he warns in Proverbs 6:25 “… do not let her capture you with her eyelashes.” The eyes play the most important role in the initial invitation. It is the eyes that reveal the sad state of the soul. Literally, the eyes are darkened. There is no other way to describe this phenomenon. The eyes no longer “sparkle”; they lose their ability to reflect light.

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9-24-2016 – A Word to the Wise: The immoral person’s eyes are constantly looking for some new object to lust after. The object is scanned for dress, which indicates tendencies toward immorality and rebellion, and then an open invitation is transmitted to the other person for sex through the eyes.

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9-22-2016 – A Word to the Wise: What is this darkening process? Normally, when we speak of light and darkness, it implies something about the eyes. Have you ever looked closely at the eyes of an immoral person? Let me tell you what I see.

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9-20-2016 – A Word to the Wise: Paul also addresses the spiritual problems resulting from immoral behavior. One of the results found in Romans 1:21 is “their senseless minds were darkened.” It is this phrase that I find intriguing. Paul says two things about their spiritual state. They are senseless, a notion Solomon affirms, and then Paul speaks of the darkening process.

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9-19-2016 – A Word to the Wise: The need to flee from home or seduce the spouse also to engage in inappropriate or immoral behavior is certainly among the results when reason is perverted.

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9-16-2016 – A Word to the Wise: These people find it difficult to be at home with family members. Part is of course their guilt, but more often it is just discomfort at being around moral people. Frequently, the unfaithful spouses will encourage their mates to engage in risky behavior or to dress in sexually alluring clothes, or will seduce them into immoral relationships with others.

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9-14-2016 – A Word to the Wise: Even as I sit here writing, I see in my mind’s eye several families who have spouses that never seemed to be at home. Working with these families, it became apparent that the spouse was engaged in extramarital affairs.

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9-13-2016 – A Word to the Wise: After they are introduced to immorality, teenagers find themselves uncomfortable with their parents and moral friends. They pull away by finding fault, criticizing and starting arguments so they can get away. It is easy to know when the immoral behavior stops; the child returns to the family.

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9-10-2016 – A Word to the Wise: What parent of a wayward teenager has not experienced first-hand the child’s provocation in arguments, which then result in aberrant behavior? Many have seen these hysterical temper tantrums and not recognized them for what they were, attempts to draw away from the family to join friends in sinful behavior

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