What Does Sin Do to Us? (Proverbs

What does sin do to us? The harlot in Proverbs 7 personifies sin. We can see how she acts toward the foolish young man to see what sin does to us.

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00:00 What Does Sin Do?
05:27 Lesson One: Sin lies to us.
08:19 Lesson Two: Sin says, “You won’t get caught.”
20:46 Lesson Three: Sin makes us more like animals.
26:34 Lesson Four: Sin produces a slow, painful death.
30:10 Lesson Five: Sin hunts the foolish.
33:55 Lesson Six: Sin is a baited hook.

Sin Lies to Us

I will pick up at verse 18 with the harlot speaking to the foolish young man:

Proverbs 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

In the same sentence, the harlot twice mentioned the word love. This is a lie: she’s known this young man for about five minutes, yet she talks to him about love. She would’ve said the same words to any young man. She is like a prostitute or woman on the Internet who has no concern for the men she entices. But this is what sin does. Take your mind back to the fall. God said:

Genesis 2:17 Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

When the devil tempted Eve:

Genesis 3:4 The serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

The devil told Eve the exact opposite of what God said. Sin does the same with us.

Romans 7:11 Sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, DECEIVED ME and through it killed me.

Paul said sin deceived him.

Hebrews 3:13 Exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN.

We should exhort each other daily so we aren’t deceived by sin. What are some of the ways sin deceives us? What are some of the lies it tells us?

This won’t ruin your family.
This won’t hurt your friends and loved ones.
This won’t become an addiction.
You’ll be able to stop whenever you want.

Sin Says, “You Won’t Get Caught”

There is one lie in particular that sin always tells us, and it’s in verses 19 and 20:

Proverbs 7:19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; 20 he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.”

Unbelievably, right after talking to the young man about love, she talks to him about her husband, whom she’s supposed to love. All the verses we read up to this point would have led us to believe the harlot was unmarried. But now we see she was some poor man’s wife. When he went out of town, she went out to hunt. The harlot said her husband is gone, but that’s not her point. She’s trying to tell the foolish young man he won’t get caught, which is one of the main lies sin tells us.

If you think about it for a moment, there’s almost always one thing people must be convinced of before they sin, and it’s this lie the harlot was telling the foolish young man: “Nobody will know. You can get away with it.” Who would have stolen, committed adultery, lied, or gossiped if they thought they would be caught?

Proverbs 7:9 says he went out “in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.” So when we combine him going out at night with the harlot’s words, we can imagine how confident he was that nobody would know. But someone has been watching him:

Proverbs 7:6 For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, 7 and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,

The man represents God. We might be able to hide sin from everyone else, but we can’t hide it from God. That’s why we read:

Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

There are not many verses that tell us not to be deceived. There are only four, by my count. We know we are not supposed to be deceived about anything, so why would a few verses tell us not to be deceived? These verses must deal with a common area of deception. In this case, we are commonly deceived into believing two things: first, God can be mocked, and second, we can sow without reaping. So, let’s make sure we are not deceived about either of these. God won’t be mocked...

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