Friday, April 12, 2013

Keep away from the adultery

Proverbs 7:1-27
Keep the commands of the Lord and you will live ; guard wisdom as the apple of your eye.
Keep away from the adulteress from the wayward wife with her seductive妖媚.
Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths. Many are the victims she has brought down' her slain are a mighty throng. Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.
The teacher describes a young man falling for a married woman's shameless seduction.
Wisdom in Proverbs and Job:
In the book of Proverbs we encounter wisdom in two ways.
1) Through the many proverbs and instructions of the book, we learn that it is a quality that we should strive to acquire. The experience of many generations has been passed down in the pages of proverbs and distilled into pithy sayings that represent truth about human nature and relationships.
2) We find Wisdom personified as a woman. We find her in the streets calling out to youths to follow her paths of goodness and righteousness and we also find her described as an essential part of God's creative and ordering role from the beginning, created by God and yet alongside him at creation, participating in the event.
Why?
Prostitutes and adultery are the stray and highway to grave, proverbs warning us keep in mind, away from their seductive words. Essential problem is our heart have to keep away from it.
How many heroes and church leaders fall into this pit and tear down his honor.
To judge by the number of warnings in Proverbs this was common enough.
Even Solomon, for all his wisdom, was as weak as any at this point - and in the end his foreign wives led him to worship other gods.
How?
Remember do not fall into the stray of adultery and keep my heart as apple of eye, walking on the way of the Lord.
Many pastor and ministers and elder are fail in this weakness.



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