Wisdom Helps Us Avoid Disaster
Proverbs 5-7
A "disaster" is a sudden calamity, an unfortunate event we witness in our lives.
A disaster can come suddenly in our lives and many times it will break us and we will see no way out.
Pro 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
It is in our best interest to not be the cause of our own disaster!
Sin will always lead to disaster!
The best way to avoid a disaster in our lives is to attend to the wisdom of the Lord!
The only way to overcome a disastrous life is to attend to the wisdom of the Lord!
*****Pro 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Pro 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
That word "attend" means to "prick up your ears" or "pay attention to what is said".
When God says to listen to His advice, then that advice must be very important!
We already know that wisdom is the proper use of knowledge.
Wisdom is as much about discernment and choices, as it is righteousness.
God has given us all the freedom to choose and no one teaches us the right way to choose better than Joshua.
Jos 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: "but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD".
When we choose right, we have a better chance of avoiding the disasters of life!
When we choose the Lord Jesus Christ to be our Savior, we have chosen the best of God's wisdom and knowledge!
Col 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Col 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Christ Jesus!
When we have chosen Christ Jesus, then we can have the ability in regard to discretion.
To regard is to establish in our minds the things that are important and things that are in our best interest and disregard all evil thoughts!
When our lips keep knowledge then we are able to speak of things worthy to be known by others!
We are not all chosen to be preachers, but we are all chosen to be messengers of God and to witness for the Lord Jesus Christ.
2Co 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
As ambassadors for Christ our lips should also keep the knowledge of salvation!
Mal 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
But the lips of those foreign to Christ, will always bring disaster!
*****Pro 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Pro 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
The strange woman appears some 10 times in the Book of Proverbs.
It seems she is a foreign woman but the emphasis is on the fact that she has not been taught the Word of God,
She is also called the "foolish woman" and is in "typology" foolish as compared to wisdom!
In reality an adulteress is someone who does not regard family bonds or relationships to be important.
Those "lips" will speak words more enticing than a dripping honeycomb, in other words, she will flatter you with her conversation!
Flattering words are words of enticement and their intent is to cause us to sin!
Those words "smoother than oil" also describe treachery, especially the treachery of a false friend.
Wormwood is a plant with a bitter and nauseous taste and can be considered "poison" in reality and in meaning.
The thought behind the "two-edged sword" is a cutting that cuts much more than a sword with a single edge!
To fall into the trap of this adulteress, will leave you with self-condemnation, anger, anguish of heart, and destructive judgement.
*****Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Pro 5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Just a an adulteress will lead to destruction of at least two families, false religion will lead those that follow it down to death and hell!
Pro 2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Pro 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Pro 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
She will lead her victims to ruin!
To be led by false religion, is to ignore the wisdom of God!
Just as the adulteress offers the man the luxury of sensual joy without responsibility and commitment, so do the words of all false religion!
Her ways are movable, you will never know where she really stands on the issues of life.
Those who do not trust in the Lord, believe that life is just a game in which the rules are constantly changing and nothing spoils a good game more than those that take life to seriously!
God does not take all the fun out of life, God does certainly teach us to avoid destruction!
It is the intent of these Proverbs is to teach us to look ahead to see where our actions will take us before we fall into sins traps.
Sexual sin will most always lead to destruction of the body, the destruction of the family, and the destruction of the soul.
The world thinks they can violate God's Laws and avoid the consequences of sin but violating God's Laws can only lead to death and destruction!
We must have a clear understanding of the Word of God!
*****Pro 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Children includes both male and females.
The male child of God is not to partake of the adulteress and the female child of God is not to become an adulteress!
These things can only take place by keeping the Word of God!
Heb 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
The only workable method to avoid sin is to steer clear of it!
*****Pro 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
When we trust in the Lord we trust in the promises that He has made, knowing that Christ has never broken a promise.
Temptation also includes hopeful promises, other wise, people could never be caught in the Devil's snares.
These are promises that are never kept.
Sin has no mercy but God is full of mercy and grace!
Removing our way means, to remove this thing from the thoughts of our mind, from the conversations of our lips and most important the path that we take!
We already know that the "fear of the Lord" is the beginning of wisdom, but "the fear of the Lord" is to also hate evil!
Pro 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
This includes, evil thoughts, evil words, evil actions, evil company, evil worship, and all evil doctrine!
We must call sin what it is, Sin Is Death, and this death is the eternal separation from God!
We must avoid it, we must remove our way from it and we certainly must not come close to sins door.
This is where we were at, before we knew the Lord!
What will happen if we do?
*****Pro 5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Pro 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Pro 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Pro 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Pro 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
There are reasons we should strive to avoid sin while we are still young.
That word honor as used here, is not as much about reputation as it is about extending our years of tender youth.
Sometimes while we are still young, we do not realize how valuable those years are. Most of us who have aged will always say to the young to stay that way as long as possible.
This means to avoid the harlot and avoid lose morals and to avoid sin.
To just give those years away by some ever regretful sin to someone who is determined to end your days of innocence, will always bring bad memories and most of the time will completely change your outlook on life.
This is a cruel world we live in, stay innocent as long as you can because this world has no love for it's youth!
Most of our youth have very few riches or wealth except for their innocence and energy, and to give these things up before they have reached a more mature age, will only make them slaves to their mistakes.
A life of impurity will only transfer innocence and energy into the hands of those who have no real concern for them.
Very few of us look back on our lives without realizing our foolishness in the days of our youth that have caused us so many problems as we have grown older.
Many of the reasons we suffer as we grow old are because of the things we did while we were young!
Most all of us will say, "if I had just listened to my parents or even my grandparents my life could have been so much better".
In fact many of our youth today end their lives while they are still so young because they see no remedy for the mistakes they have already made so early in life.
They will say "if I had only listened to those who were trying to teach me the truth"!
*****Pro 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
We should all have a clear understanding of the truth!
God in His "grace" will forgive us of our sins but God in His "truth" will still see that we reap what we have sown!
We can confess our sin, even be disciplined, and forgiven, but the innocence and the energy of our youth cannot ever be restored!
Far better it is to save ourselves until we can find that true love of our life and that is first to be the Lord Jesus Christ!
*****Pro 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Pro 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Pro 5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Pro 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Pro 5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
A cistern is a natural place that contains clean water. Running water represents clean, refreshing water.
When we are hot and thirsty, a drink of refreshing cool water is very satisfying.
When we have saved ourselves till we have met that true love, we will find that we can also find that special one to be satisfying refreshment sexually and affectionately!
Sexual sin is like drinking water from a sewer.
We can drink from the water of life, "The Lord Jesus Christ" or we can drink of the polluted water of this world.
Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Verses 16 and 17 describe the children that come from a committed marriage.
The committed marriage is like the banks of a deep running river that keep the river from becoming a swamp!
A premarital affair or an adulteress affair, is like shallow water that is easily polluted as a marsh.
The fruit that comes from a committed marriage is children that can go forth to do public good and not illegitimate children who suffer for the lack of a real family!
We should always remember the first unit to receive the blessing of God was the family!
By being true to your own wife you can be sure your children are your own and not that of some stranger.
God's intended purpose was for one man to wed one woman and that bond remain until the death of one or both.
Not multiple wives as both David and Solomon had and we know both had tragedy in their families!
Not a homosexual union which goes against the Word of God and is called an abomination!
Let the wife of your youth also be the mother of all your children!
There is rarely an animal as graceful and as loving as the doe to her young and those "breast" are the imagery of affectionate love for that husband!
These things are not the same for the adulterer.
*****Pro 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Pro 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Because of all the advantages of the secure marriage, why would anyone give that up for a few moments of pleasure?
To forsake your spouse is to forsake the Word of God!
The truth is, if Christ Jesus be my fountain of living water, and He has given Himself to the church for eternity, why should I be so foolish to throw it all away for sin that will only give pleasure for a season?
Remember the strange woman is in typology one of your own culture who rejects the Word of God.
The stranger is in typology someone from another culture that not only rejects the Word of God but actually worship false gods!
Verse 21 assures us all that we have a "Judge" who sees all things that go on in His created world!
Secrecy is the hope of the wicked!
As sinners we always try to hide our sin.
BUT, Nothing escapes the the watchful eyes of God!
God says: Num 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and "be sure your sin will find you out".
In most all cases God will allow our sin to be our punishment!
When we are so foolish to ignore the Word of God, and to ignore His watching eyes, God will allow our sin to trap us in it's clutches.
It is only repentance that can begin to mend that transgression!
The most important fact we should realize when we are a child of God, is that when we veer from the path of God, we will live in misery until we return to the right path.
God smiles on goodness but God's wrath is seen in evil!
Pro 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
*****Pro 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
If we would just realize that God knows everything about each of us, and everything we do and not only that, but everything we even think to do, will help us in the choices we make!
It will allow us to have a closer relationship.
It will make us think twice before we openly commit sin.
It will certainly increase our desire to repent.
It will be our strength in our daily walk!
There is nothing in this world as deceptive as sin!
Sin will always bring the judgment of God!
Only God can cut the cords of sin and that only by the Lord Jesus Christ!
Sin can never exhaust itself! Continual sin involves continual penalty!
No sin is acceptable to God!
We are to hate sin but not the sinner!
Sin brings death!
Death being the eternal separation from a Loving God!
*****Pro 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
It is a fact that we are all born into sin and are all ignorant of the things of God!
It is in our best interest to learn of Christ Jesus as early as we can.
God's says: Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Satan totally understands this also and he will use all of his methods to destroy our children.
We all need a time to rest but Satan never rest, he is always on the job and his job is death!
Satan uses every method he can to hinder the Word of God from reaching our youth!
The truth is, they will die without instruction!
The truth is, they will go astray and never return to the Lord and perish in their sin!
Children are apt to catch everything they hear and for this reason the entire world goes after them to lead them astray.
The truth is, children will never live as Christians unless they know the fundamentals of Jesus Christ.
This is the failure of the "Body of Christ" and our youth will surely be rejected of God, if we do not reach them!
To deny the Creator of our world is to believe that you are a product of chance and not part of God's plan!
If you by chance believe in a Supreme Being of any sort, then why deny the Scriptures that He has provided for us all?
God says: Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
We must remember that God hates sin and all those that reject the Lord will die without any remedy to help them!
*****Pro 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Pro 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Pro 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
God sees sin as an object of disgust, a detestable act, as pollution, as an abomination!
Pride is actually self-ignorance!
A lie is anything that is not true!
Those that shed innocent blood are heartless!
There are some hearts so bad that they are always inventing some new evil thing to accomplish. (ISIS and terrorists are perfect examples)
Those that have a greed to do mischief are eager to do so!
Slander is among the greatest of the social curses because it robs us of our reputation.
And false gossip destroys friendship, when God wants us all to live in love and in one accord.
All these things begin in the heart and God says: Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Only God can look into our hearts to see what we really are!
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
The truth is we must keep the royal commandments of King Jesus to have life.
*****Pro 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Pro 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
To "lay up" is to hide God's Word in our hearts so it can never be lost!
Life does not exist in it's own right!
True life is never spoken of as having been made!
True life exists only through Jesus Christ!
True life can only "be given" by the Lord Jesus Christ!
Joh 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Joh 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
Joh 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing "ye might have life through his name".
There is no other means to have real life without the Lord Jesus Christ!
Life comes by faith and faith by the Lord Jesus Christ!
I would rather be an apple in the eye of God, than the richest man in this world!
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Proverbs 5-7
A "disaster" is a sudden calamity, an unfortunate event we witness in our lives.
A disaster can come suddenly in our lives and many times it will break us and we will see no way out.
Pro 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
It is in our best interest to not be the cause of our own disaster!
Sin will always lead to disaster!
The best way to avoid a disaster in our lives is to attend to the wisdom of the Lord!
The only way to overcome a disastrous life is to attend to the wisdom of the Lord!
*****Pro 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Pro 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
That word "attend" means to "prick up your ears" or "pay attention to what is said".
When God says to listen to His advice, then that advice must be very important!
We already know that wisdom is the proper use of knowledge.
Wisdom is as much about discernment and choices, as it is righteousness.
God has given us all the freedom to choose and no one teaches us the right way to choose better than Joshua.
Jos 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: "but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD".
When we choose right, we have a better chance of avoiding the disasters of life!
When we choose the Lord Jesus Christ to be our Savior, we have chosen the best of God's wisdom and knowledge!
Col 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Col 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Christ Jesus!
When we have chosen Christ Jesus, then we can have the ability in regard to discretion.
To regard is to establish in our minds the things that are important and things that are in our best interest and disregard all evil thoughts!
When our lips keep knowledge then we are able to speak of things worthy to be known by others!
We are not all chosen to be preachers, but we are all chosen to be messengers of God and to witness for the Lord Jesus Christ.
2Co 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
As ambassadors for Christ our lips should also keep the knowledge of salvation!
Mal 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
But the lips of those foreign to Christ, will always bring disaster!
*****Pro 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Pro 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
The strange woman appears some 10 times in the Book of Proverbs.
It seems she is a foreign woman but the emphasis is on the fact that she has not been taught the Word of God,
She is also called the "foolish woman" and is in "typology" foolish as compared to wisdom!
In reality an adulteress is someone who does not regard family bonds or relationships to be important.
Those "lips" will speak words more enticing than a dripping honeycomb, in other words, she will flatter you with her conversation!
Flattering words are words of enticement and their intent is to cause us to sin!
Those words "smoother than oil" also describe treachery, especially the treachery of a false friend.
Wormwood is a plant with a bitter and nauseous taste and can be considered "poison" in reality and in meaning.
The thought behind the "two-edged sword" is a cutting that cuts much more than a sword with a single edge!
To fall into the trap of this adulteress, will leave you with self-condemnation, anger, anguish of heart, and destructive judgement.
*****Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Pro 5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Just a an adulteress will lead to destruction of at least two families, false religion will lead those that follow it down to death and hell!
Pro 2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Pro 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Pro 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
She will lead her victims to ruin!
To be led by false religion, is to ignore the wisdom of God!
Just as the adulteress offers the man the luxury of sensual joy without responsibility and commitment, so do the words of all false religion!
Her ways are movable, you will never know where she really stands on the issues of life.
Those who do not trust in the Lord, believe that life is just a game in which the rules are constantly changing and nothing spoils a good game more than those that take life to seriously!
God does not take all the fun out of life, God does certainly teach us to avoid destruction!
It is the intent of these Proverbs is to teach us to look ahead to see where our actions will take us before we fall into sins traps.
Sexual sin will most always lead to destruction of the body, the destruction of the family, and the destruction of the soul.
The world thinks they can violate God's Laws and avoid the consequences of sin but violating God's Laws can only lead to death and destruction!
We must have a clear understanding of the Word of God!
*****Pro 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Children includes both male and females.
The male child of God is not to partake of the adulteress and the female child of God is not to become an adulteress!
These things can only take place by keeping the Word of God!
Heb 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
The only workable method to avoid sin is to steer clear of it!
*****Pro 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
When we trust in the Lord we trust in the promises that He has made, knowing that Christ has never broken a promise.
Temptation also includes hopeful promises, other wise, people could never be caught in the Devil's snares.
These are promises that are never kept.
Sin has no mercy but God is full of mercy and grace!
Removing our way means, to remove this thing from the thoughts of our mind, from the conversations of our lips and most important the path that we take!
We already know that the "fear of the Lord" is the beginning of wisdom, but "the fear of the Lord" is to also hate evil!
Pro 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
This includes, evil thoughts, evil words, evil actions, evil company, evil worship, and all evil doctrine!
We must call sin what it is, Sin Is Death, and this death is the eternal separation from God!
We must avoid it, we must remove our way from it and we certainly must not come close to sins door.
This is where we were at, before we knew the Lord!
What will happen if we do?
*****Pro 5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Pro 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Pro 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Pro 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Pro 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
There are reasons we should strive to avoid sin while we are still young.
That word honor as used here, is not as much about reputation as it is about extending our years of tender youth.
Sometimes while we are still young, we do not realize how valuable those years are. Most of us who have aged will always say to the young to stay that way as long as possible.
This means to avoid the harlot and avoid lose morals and to avoid sin.
To just give those years away by some ever regretful sin to someone who is determined to end your days of innocence, will always bring bad memories and most of the time will completely change your outlook on life.
This is a cruel world we live in, stay innocent as long as you can because this world has no love for it's youth!
Most of our youth have very few riches or wealth except for their innocence and energy, and to give these things up before they have reached a more mature age, will only make them slaves to their mistakes.
A life of impurity will only transfer innocence and energy into the hands of those who have no real concern for them.
Very few of us look back on our lives without realizing our foolishness in the days of our youth that have caused us so many problems as we have grown older.
Many of the reasons we suffer as we grow old are because of the things we did while we were young!
Most all of us will say, "if I had just listened to my parents or even my grandparents my life could have been so much better".
In fact many of our youth today end their lives while they are still so young because they see no remedy for the mistakes they have already made so early in life.
They will say "if I had only listened to those who were trying to teach me the truth"!
*****Pro 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
We should all have a clear understanding of the truth!
God in His "grace" will forgive us of our sins but God in His "truth" will still see that we reap what we have sown!
We can confess our sin, even be disciplined, and forgiven, but the innocence and the energy of our youth cannot ever be restored!
Far better it is to save ourselves until we can find that true love of our life and that is first to be the Lord Jesus Christ!
*****Pro 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Pro 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Pro 5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Pro 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Pro 5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
A cistern is a natural place that contains clean water. Running water represents clean, refreshing water.
When we are hot and thirsty, a drink of refreshing cool water is very satisfying.
When we have saved ourselves till we have met that true love, we will find that we can also find that special one to be satisfying refreshment sexually and affectionately!
Sexual sin is like drinking water from a sewer.
We can drink from the water of life, "The Lord Jesus Christ" or we can drink of the polluted water of this world.
Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Verses 16 and 17 describe the children that come from a committed marriage.
The committed marriage is like the banks of a deep running river that keep the river from becoming a swamp!
A premarital affair or an adulteress affair, is like shallow water that is easily polluted as a marsh.
The fruit that comes from a committed marriage is children that can go forth to do public good and not illegitimate children who suffer for the lack of a real family!
We should always remember the first unit to receive the blessing of God was the family!
By being true to your own wife you can be sure your children are your own and not that of some stranger.
God's intended purpose was for one man to wed one woman and that bond remain until the death of one or both.
Not multiple wives as both David and Solomon had and we know both had tragedy in their families!
Not a homosexual union which goes against the Word of God and is called an abomination!
Let the wife of your youth also be the mother of all your children!
There is rarely an animal as graceful and as loving as the doe to her young and those "breast" are the imagery of affectionate love for that husband!
These things are not the same for the adulterer.
*****Pro 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Pro 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Because of all the advantages of the secure marriage, why would anyone give that up for a few moments of pleasure?
To forsake your spouse is to forsake the Word of God!
The truth is, if Christ Jesus be my fountain of living water, and He has given Himself to the church for eternity, why should I be so foolish to throw it all away for sin that will only give pleasure for a season?
Remember the strange woman is in typology one of your own culture who rejects the Word of God.
The stranger is in typology someone from another culture that not only rejects the Word of God but actually worship false gods!
Verse 21 assures us all that we have a "Judge" who sees all things that go on in His created world!
Secrecy is the hope of the wicked!
As sinners we always try to hide our sin.
BUT, Nothing escapes the the watchful eyes of God!
God says: Num 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and "be sure your sin will find you out".
In most all cases God will allow our sin to be our punishment!
When we are so foolish to ignore the Word of God, and to ignore His watching eyes, God will allow our sin to trap us in it's clutches.
It is only repentance that can begin to mend that transgression!
The most important fact we should realize when we are a child of God, is that when we veer from the path of God, we will live in misery until we return to the right path.
God smiles on goodness but God's wrath is seen in evil!
Pro 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
*****Pro 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
If we would just realize that God knows everything about each of us, and everything we do and not only that, but everything we even think to do, will help us in the choices we make!
It will allow us to have a closer relationship.
It will make us think twice before we openly commit sin.
It will certainly increase our desire to repent.
It will be our strength in our daily walk!
There is nothing in this world as deceptive as sin!
Sin will always bring the judgment of God!
Only God can cut the cords of sin and that only by the Lord Jesus Christ!
Sin can never exhaust itself! Continual sin involves continual penalty!
No sin is acceptable to God!
We are to hate sin but not the sinner!
Sin brings death!
Death being the eternal separation from a Loving God!
*****Pro 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
It is a fact that we are all born into sin and are all ignorant of the things of God!
It is in our best interest to learn of Christ Jesus as early as we can.
God's says: Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Satan totally understands this also and he will use all of his methods to destroy our children.
We all need a time to rest but Satan never rest, he is always on the job and his job is death!
Satan uses every method he can to hinder the Word of God from reaching our youth!
The truth is, they will die without instruction!
The truth is, they will go astray and never return to the Lord and perish in their sin!
Children are apt to catch everything they hear and for this reason the entire world goes after them to lead them astray.
The truth is, children will never live as Christians unless they know the fundamentals of Jesus Christ.
This is the failure of the "Body of Christ" and our youth will surely be rejected of God, if we do not reach them!
To deny the Creator of our world is to believe that you are a product of chance and not part of God's plan!
If you by chance believe in a Supreme Being of any sort, then why deny the Scriptures that He has provided for us all?
God says: Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
We must remember that God hates sin and all those that reject the Lord will die without any remedy to help them!
*****Pro 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Pro 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Pro 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
God sees sin as an object of disgust, a detestable act, as pollution, as an abomination!
Pride is actually self-ignorance!
A lie is anything that is not true!
Those that shed innocent blood are heartless!
There are some hearts so bad that they are always inventing some new evil thing to accomplish. (ISIS and terrorists are perfect examples)
Those that have a greed to do mischief are eager to do so!
Slander is among the greatest of the social curses because it robs us of our reputation.
And false gossip destroys friendship, when God wants us all to live in love and in one accord.
All these things begin in the heart and God says: Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Only God can look into our hearts to see what we really are!
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
The truth is we must keep the royal commandments of King Jesus to have life.
*****Pro 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Pro 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
To "lay up" is to hide God's Word in our hearts so it can never be lost!
Life does not exist in it's own right!
True life is never spoken of as having been made!
True life exists only through Jesus Christ!
True life can only "be given" by the Lord Jesus Christ!
Joh 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Joh 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
Joh 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing "ye might have life through his name".
There is no other means to have real life without the Lord Jesus Christ!
Life comes by faith and faith by the Lord Jesus Christ!
I would rather be an apple in the eye of God, than the richest man in this world!
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