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I 1. Prostitution is a sinful way of life and violates God's standards.

I Proverbs 23:27-28 For a prostitute is a deep pit and a wayward

wife is a narrow well. Like a bandit she lies in wait, and multiplies
the unfaithful among men.

I 1 Corinthians 6:15-17 Do you not know that your bodies are

members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ
and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he
I who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For
it is said, "The two will become one flesh." But he who unites
himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
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Many references in the Book of Proverbs

I 2. Confession and repentance are the first steps to freedom.

Proverbs 28:13 He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but

I whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Romans 6:6 For we know that our old self was crucified with
him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should
I no longer be slaves to sin.

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Psalm 141:4 Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take

part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of
their delicacies.

3. Change in lifestyle and right relationship with God anchors

freedom.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new

creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
Romans 6: 19 I put this in human terms because you are weak in
your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body
in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now
offer them in-slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
Galatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A
man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful
nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows
to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
4. God's work and evidence of change in the life of one prostitute:
Rahab's background: Joshua 2:1-21

Joshua 6:22-25 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out
the land, "Go into the prostitute's house and bring her out and all
who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her." So the
young men who had done the spying went in and brought out
Rahab, her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged
to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place
outside the camp ofIsrael. Then they burned the whole city and
everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of
bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD's house. But Joshua
spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged
to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho-
and she lives among the Israelites to this day.
Hebrews 11:31 By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she
welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.

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