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back. This week we're digging into the scripture reading from five different days from a resource that I made called the 31 Day Resilience Reset. So it's a free resource that I made for guys that feel like they're stuck or just drifting, because the reality is that we never get anywhere by accident. We get there on purpose. And I want you guys to be the best possible versions of yourselves so you can check out the 31 Day Resilience Reset at undaunted.lif slash 31 Days.
So let's go ahead and get into the reading for day seven of the thirty-one day resilience reset, which is from Psalm twenty-four and proverbs seven. So I'll start in Psalm twenty-four, verse one. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. For he was has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Such is a generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of God, the God of Jacob. Selah.
And then we go to Proverbs seven, and so you can see a stark and direct warning against the adulteress, you know, to avoid her influence. So this is Proverbs seven starting in verse twenty one. With much seductive speech she persuades him, with her smooth talk she compels him. All at once he follows her as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast, till an arrow pierces its liver, and a bird rushes into a snare, he does not know that it will cost him his life. And now, O sons, listen to me and be attentive to the words of my mouth. Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her path. For many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
So here's the thing both Psalm twenty four and Proverbs seven are describing gates. So Psalm twenty-four, the gate that the King of Glory enters, and Proverbs seven, the gate that leads to the house of the adulteress. And here is the reality that, you know, for for most men that fall into sexual sin, it doesn't happen all at once. It's not like you look up one day to discover that you're drowning in sexual sin. It's it's not something that happens to you, it's something that you did and kept doing. It's a pernicious sin that typically moves slowly until it consumes you entirely. And you open the gate of the adulteress one decision, one action at a time. But what if we could shift our focus? What if we could turn aside to her ways to not stray into her path? What would we need to focus on to pull that off?
Let's actually go back to Psalm twenty-four, and we're gonna do verses seven through ten. Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O gates, and lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory. Sale. The man described in Proverbs 7 is entering the gates of death because he can't control his eyes nor his impulses. So we must shift our focus so that we can, you know, our focus that can easily be distracted, I guess, by the siren song of sexual sin. We must shift that to the King of Glory. You can't stand on the holy hill of God if you're crawling through the gutter. Inside of our own brain, inside of your own brain, you need to make a decision that you will no longer flirt with or hang out near sexual sin. Make the decision, stop the actions that lead to death, and lift up your heads and feast your eyes on the King of Glory. Selah.
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