Watch this. Three minutes. Then three questions below it.
Benny Rodriguez looks across the sandlot at the new kid and reaches back and brings him in. He sees the full person.
A man who has not settled his identity in Christ will use the women around him as mirrors, seeking validation or pleasure to fill what should already be full.
Every woman you look at with lust is a daughter of God being reduced to a function. That is not who you were made to be.
The Sandlot is the film at the center of this study. The scene is chosen because it captures something true about the specific challenge this study addresses. The filmmakers may not have intended a theological reading, but the truth they captured is there regardless of intention.
Job 31:1 sits inside a larger argument Paul or one of the other biblical authors is making about how the renewed life looks in practice. The verse is not a standalone principle. It is part of a sustained argument about what it looks like when a man actually believes what he says he believes on Sunday morning.
The connection between this film and this Scripture is the same one that runs through every study in this series: what a man sees in the mirror when he watches that clip is exactly the gap this Scripture addresses. The film names the problem. The Scripture names the source and the solution.