Big Idea: God offers us a full life in an empty world. Ecclesiastes 7:25–26 25 I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness. 26 And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters… 1 Kings 11:1, 3 1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women… 3 He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines… Sexual immorality is anything outside of how God, The Creator, designed sex, sexuality, intimacy, marriage, and love to operate. Genesis 2:18–24; Genesis 1:28; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Corinthians 6:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Proverbs 14:12 12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. Pursuing and fulfilling sexual desires will not satisfy your soul. We put love on a pedestal but God put it on a cross. In Jesus we find eternal satisfaction for our soul! Application 1. Ultimate victory is found in Jesus. Mark 1:15; Romans 10:9, 13 2. God’s Word must set the standard. John 17:17 3. We overcome through applying God’s Word. 1 Corinthians 6:18; Hebrews 13:4; Romans 12:2, 1 Corinthians 10:13 4. Purity can start today. 1 John 1:9 5. We must engage the world with the Gospel. 1 Peter 3:15 Next Week’s Text: Ecclesiastes 8:14-9:12