Welcome to the Family Altar Daily Devotional Guide of The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria

DATE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH, 2025
TOPIC: BEWARE OF SEDUCTION
BIBLE PASSAGE: NUMBERS 25:1-5

Key Verse: “While Israel was staying in shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women” – Numbers 25:1.

When Balak failed to achieve the defeat of Israel through sorcery or means of mantic curse, Balaam advised that seduction of the men of Israel should be employed (Num. 31:16). Sexual relationship with the Moabite women led the men of Israel to break faith with God and they began to worship Baal.

How did this happen? The Bible says in Numbers 25:2 that the women of Moab called the people of Israel to the sacrifices of their gods where they ate and then bowed down to the gods of Moab. This led to Israel’s involvement in sexual immorality and a breach of covenant with the Lord. This was a foretaste of the people’s ruin in the unfolding of their history.

Seduction refers to the action of persuading or tricking someone into doing something by making it attractive. It means enticing someone to sexual intercourse. Notice the gradual process of luring the men of Israel, first, with a flirtatious relationship leading to worship of the Moabite gods which of course ended in sexual immorality.

The devil has not changed that strategy even today. Believers must be careful about certain relationships even with the same sex that could seduce them unto iniquity. Remember that all that glitters is not gold.

Every dint of worldly seduction has behind it the aim of leading the child of God into sin and drawing the anger of God. It is always knowingly or unknowingly orchestrated by the agencies of the devil itching to keep one in continuous enmity with God.

ACTION:
Beware of flirtatious relationships that can lead you into sexual sins.

PRAYER:
Help me, Lord, to remain pure in thy sight and overcome any seductive spirits from the enemy.