0047BS Proverbs 7 - Bible Study

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Your Daily Battle
• 3:01 Three Battles We Fight Daily
• 5:45 The Revelation of Scripture
• 10:00 Opening Prayer for Humility
• 18:02 Proverbs 7: The Adulteress's Trap
• 27:29 The Deadly Cost of Temptation
• 29:57 Closing Prayer and Fellowship Announcement

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:29

Good morning everyone. I'm just going to get a sound check before we get going here. Pardon me, let's see my video. All right, hello, good morning and welcome to your Daily Battle, a Bible study where we fight three fights, monday through Friday. Your daily battle Bible study where we fight three fights Monday through Friday.

Speaker 1: 0:52

One we fight to get a humble and grateful heart, checking our entitlements and our pity parties at the door. We all have, we all suffer, we all struggle, we all have things that are bad in our life, but we have infinitely more blessings. We need to be grateful for them. This helps us to get us in the proper alignment with God, meaning grateful for God. Too often we come with a Christmas list wish of things for God to do us with, rub our magic genie. Good morning, my love. And that is not the proper alignment. We honor and glorify him because he is worthy, because he is worthy.

Speaker 1: 1:44

Two, we deliberately pursue a relationship with God by studying his scripture. What does he say about himself and how do we get to know him? By doing that, and that's how we get to know him. By doing that and that's how we get to know him. But we also do it through prayer. And lastly, the third battle is we go to war for one another with prayer or protection and peace. And I should add wisdom to that too. And why do I call these battles? Because everything you're going to find that everything is a battle. Getting out of bed is a battle, making the right decisions at just about any decision tree other than what I want. Even food choices can be a battle. Right, healthy versus unhealthy, you're warring with consequences and often evil itself evil of our own hearts, the self-destructiveness of our hearts, the drive for self-suicide that so many of us have by punishing and trying to destroy ourselves with our habits and our bad habits. And then making time to put God first is a battle, because all of us want to get up and want to get on our phones and check the news, we want to check social media, play our games, whatever it is. By getting up and sharing your first cup of coffee with God, you are prioritizing your life in a way that is hard to beat. It aligns your first minute of your day, your first moments of the day, with our heavenly king, and that is worth doing and that will set you up to success. And the more you're going to find you know we're in Proverbs is worth doing and that will set you up for success All right. And the more you're going to find you know we're in Proverbs, which is basically wisdom You're going to find. The more time you spend in the Bible, the better off you're going to do emotionally, spiritually, 100% and the more will be revealed to you.

Speaker 1: 4:16

In the beginning, when I started reading my bible, depending on which texts, which translation of your reading king james, or standard or legacy standard, um, a standard or legacy standard, um. There's times where it just bounces off your head, it's just not clear to you. And all of a sudden, keep reading and reading and it's like a fog is lifted. You're actually able to see what's going on in the pages, what God is revealing to you. That's what we call revealing. Once that happens to you, once you'll get it, you'll get it. I'm not saying it's a miraculous thing. It may be a miraculous thing Sometimes. It's just something in your life, your experience, which brought the proper context of the text forward to you, so that now you're like, ah, that's what they're talking about, the best example of this that I can think of for me, or one of the examples I don't know if it's the best.

Speaker 1: 5:27

But one of the examples that I had was reading through the Old Testament and you know the sacrifices of the animals and not being, you know, a hunter or anything like that time. It all just bounced off me until I became a farmer and good morning, tanya. Until I became a farmer and now I'm processing my own animals. You know, I'm processing 70 chickens in a day and what that looks like, what that looks like, that smells like, and processing large animals like hogs, bull, you know, and cows. Thinking about what that must have been like, really put it in the whole context, and then being a farmer, knowing how much it costs to raise a bull, to raise chickens, and you know again, seeing the counterintuitiveness of you know, when you're doing herd management, you're trying to keep the best bloodline for yourself because you want those genetics to be passed on. Here we're always being called to sacrifice the best of our animals. Damn, and it just really hammered home the ancient world, the true cost, like I know what a cow cost me. Now I'm having to sacrifice a bull or lamb or all these different, all the way down to grain offerings, because they were so poor the Bible built in based upon. You know, if you're wealthy you were doing a bowl. If you were poor, you might be doing a grain offering because all you can afford is some flour.

Speaker 1: 7:49

The cost of sin hit me, what it was to these people to get clean, and then I was able to contrast that with but some mistakenly think that the lack of cost to us to get right with God now you know, we just pray that that is the wrong way to think of it the supreme cost that was paid when God sacrificed his own son to do that, which is infinitely, infinity times, infinity times, infinity times, infinity, more costly than all those animals. And until I had that context, I really didn't have the teeth and I didn't understand it as much. Again, please forgive my inadequacy in explaining that stuff, but I just wanted to give an example of something as it was revealed to me when I read it over and over and over. And then, all of a sudden, the life experience compounded with the Holy Spirit, revealing to me the true context of it. So, all right, today we're going to be.

Speaker 1: 9:10

Let me pray our first prayer in. Let's get our first battle on. Let's get a humble and grateful heart aligned onto the Lord. Okay, dear Heavenly Father, king of the Universe, we thank you. We thank you for your protections through the night. Thank you for the blessing of being given another day to get it right, another day to die to self and become more like you. Lord, we thank you for all the blessings and protections that we know about and don't even know about. Thank you for all the blessings and protections that we know about and don't even know about the seven trillions upon trillions of cells in our bodies that had to work near perfect just for us to even be here.

Speaker 1: 10:04

Lord, we thank you. We thank you for your common grace, lord, and your divine. We'll start with your common grace, god. And how amazing it is. Thank you for your creation the heavens, the stars, the sun and the moon. Thank you for this earth. Thank you for everything from the tallest peak mountains, the lowest depths of the ocean and everything in between All the creatures, plant life, all of it. Lord, thank you for sunrises and sunsets. Thank you for a cool breeze, a hot day like today, or a warm fire, a cold day. Thank you for the sounds of birds in the morning, oceans or waves breaking on the shore, children's laughter. Thank you for the taste of good food, good drink. Thank you for all the people in our lives.

Speaker 1: 11:32

Lord, we ask that you would help us to be present, not distracted, and treasure every moment we have with anyone, because you may call them home at any moment. Help us to leave nothing unsaid. Most of all, we thank you for your divine grace choosing us, before the foundations of the world, to be yours, your elect God. You chose us while we were still your enemies, lord. You knitted us together in our mother's wombs. You made us exactly who we are today, everything from our taste buds to our favorite colors. You called us home to you and we thank you for that, lord. So we pray now that this time that we spend together would honor you, glorify you and honor you, and it would please you.

Speaker 1: 12:44

Well, give us the sermon today to pull your wisdom and understanding of the text. Help my inadequate self. Help somebody understand what it is you're trying to communicate. I pray all these things in Jesus' name, amen. All right, everyone. Hey, captain Caveman, good to see you Really enjoy seeing everyone. Hey, kevin K man, good to see you Really enjoy seeing you every morning. Brother, it's good to see you back. Okay, so let's get into this. All right, so we are in chapter 7.

Speaker 1: 13:38

Now, in seven chapters, solomon or someone under the Holy Spirit is believed to have been Solomon. This one here it's believed to be King Solomon, of course under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The date would be 960 to 930 BC, early reign. You're going to see, this is the last of the fatherly. My son, proverbs of the fatherly. You know, my son, um Proverbs, okay, and in seven chapters, four of them are to avoid adultery and tempting. That's not temptation of adultery. That is not by accident, okay, that is not by accident. So you know again, um, whether this you know, know, as we read this, you're gonna see it's Solomon painting an example. We don't think it's, don't think it's actually true, unless it was Solomon himself doing this and leaving as an example, which say no one recommend that or something he observed. But there's no way he didn't know what they would say unless he was really close. But what he's going to paint. And again, it's no accident when we see how much that infidelity.

Speaker 1: 15:23

Before I was a true Christian. I was guilty of this the days long. Thank God, he saved me and changed my heart. He gave me an amazing wife. Thank God, he saved me and changed my heart, amazing wife. But you know, as you see this, we encounter this every day and, yes, this here is towards adultery and this here is towards you know, know, is speaking directly to that, but it applies to all temptations and how it works, the anatomy of it, whisperings of how great it'll be, whether it's drugs or whatever addiction that you're going to talk about, this applies to that. This is just a.

Speaker 1: 16:14

Since the beginning of time, men and women have been breaking each other. Since Eve tempted Adam. Well, when Eve well, actually, I wouldn't say tempted I believe in the Garden of Eden and I've talked about this before in other studies that adam was never deceived by the, uh, by the serpent. Eve had taken and eaten and I believe he chose eve over god and that sin that he chose, um, you know, his wife over God, and, knowing that she was going to die and that she had defiled God, that he chose to be with her instead of God. That's the great sin and why we've been warring with each other since then. So let's get into this, let's get into chapter 7, and you'll see a very vivid picture painted and you can understand what's going on here.

Speaker 1: 17:22

Okay, the word's good, the adulteress is trapped. My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. Keep my commandments and live my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them to your finger, write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom you are my sister. Call understanding your intimate friend in order to keep you from the strange woman, from the foreign woman who flatters with her words. For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice and I saw, among the simple and discerned, among the sons of young men lacking a heart of wisdom Again, I'll read that and I saw, among the simple and discerned among the sons, a young man lacking a heart of wisdom, passing through the street near her corner and he strides along the way to her house in the twilight the evening of that day, in the middle of the night, in the thick of darkness, and behold, a woman comes to meet him.

Speaker 1: 18:49

So here is a man, young man, going to a married woman's house, okay, young man going to a married woman's house, okay, watching him skip along like a you know, like a child, into this trap. Behold, a woman comes to meet him, dressed as as a harlot and cunning of heart. She's dressed very revealing and tempting, not humbly. She is boisterous and rebellious. Her feet do not dwell at home, meaning that she spends all of her time away from home and doing things other than taking care of her home and tempting all those around her seeking to drag them down, stepping in the streets, stepping in the squares. Near every corner she lies in wait. So she seizes him and kisses him with a brazen face. She says to him now, here is the. We're actually mocking god. Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today. I paid my vow, so she's saying she is basically preemptively sacrificed so that she can do this. So she's right with God, which is wrong.

Speaker 1: 21:42

Therefore, I have come out to meet you, to seek your face earnestly, and I have found you. What man doesn't want to hear these things? You are desired. Women want to be desired. Men want to be respected. Men want to be desired. Men want to be respected. Men want to be desired, you know, as men, with their testosterone and their emotional well-being, you know we're not pretty like women. We just aren't. Women are beautiful, god's greatest creation In the eyes of men. Men want to be desired. They want a woman to flatter them, make them feel like they're special. All of us want that here.

Speaker 1: 22:47

I've come out to meet you. I've come to find you, seek your face, and I have found you. Not only this I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens of Egypt. I have made my bed a palace Comfortable, amazing places. But it gets better. I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon, so it smells amazing. It'll be like heaven for you. Come, let us drink our fellow's lovers until the morning. Let us delight ourselves with the pleasure of love. Okay. All that stuff every man wants to hear, wants to hear it with their very down to their very core. Okay, but it's not love. This here is passion, yes, which can be a side effect of love.

Speaker 1: 23:56

But the next line is the devastation. Well, my husband is not at home. He has gone on a journey far away. He took a bag of silver in his hand On the day of the full moon. He will come home. He's going to be gone a month. So everything up to that point right, is setting the trap.

Speaker 1: 24:22

And then there there is the truth of the matter. He's not hers, she's not his. She is another man's wife. This is now death. I've come in. I look beautiful, it looks good, smells good, tastes good, everything they're going to feast, they're going to make love all night. Which doesn't want to do that? And then, at the last, here's the consequence I'm not yours, I'm someone else's, and to do this is death, is what he should be hearing.

Speaker 1: 25:08

So it goes back to the observing, verse 11. Sorry, verse 21, I apologize. With her abundant persuasion, she entices him With her flattering lips, she drives him to herself and then, caught, he suddenly follows her as an ox, goes to slaughter, or as one in fetters to the discipline of an ignorant fool, until an arrow pierces through his liver, as a bird, hastens into a snare or a net, and he does not know that it will cost him his soul. So now, my sons, listen to me and pay attention to the words of my mom. Do not let your heart go astray in her ways. Do not wander into her pathways, for many are slain when she is cast down and numerous are all those killed by her. This isn't her first time. It won't be her last. Ways of Sheol are in her. Ways of the underworld Are in her house, descending Chambers of death.

Speaker 1: 26:37

Again, we see the clear instruction to avoid the temptation of this. Avoid even walking near her house. Don't even look at her. Catch her eyes because you might not be strong enough to deny that temptation. This is why we have buddy systems. You go out with your people to make sure that you don't. You go out with other Christians and temptation washes up on your shore. Now you have somebody with you to watch your blind spots, because you will lie and deceive yourself. Oh, I'm just going to try to help that girl find Jesus. I'm going to help that guy find Jesus. I'm going to put him on the right path when only you're going to be dragged down to hell. Highway to hell is paved with good intentions, with our own wisdom, not with God's.

Speaker 1: 28:12

So again, I can't think of a clearer example of an adequate description of a lot of temptation sin as a cobra. Paul Washer talking about that, and you've heard me talk about it in others. There's a great sermon where he's talking about walking through jungles and up pops a cobra, and when that happens, you've got a few seconds to decide. If you have a machete in your hand, to cut the head off of it and kill the sin, or turn away and run from it. You don't sit there. Talk to it. Sit there and study it. You don't sit there and do any of those things because if you do, too often we want to linger around our sin and very rarely does that ever work out well in our favor. It almost always leads to catastrophe. Go ahead and pray out. It's almost at the bottom of the hour. Go ahead and pray it out and fight our third battle.

Speaker 1: 29:11

I pray for one another. Heavenly Father, lord, I thank you. I thank you for everyone who joined me this morning and watches this now or later. Lord, I thank you for the investment we're all making in one another, investment in you. We're all making, lord, the wisest of investments. Lord, I pray that your holy text today prevents somebody from stumbling and falling into the trap of temptation, but I pray that we would now lock our shields of faith around each other and provide cover for one another, strengthen us, protect us from the temptations of this world. We now intercede on each other's behalf with protection, discernment and wisdom and peace. I pray this for this fellowship, the persecuted church, our troops overseas and our first responders at home, veterans of yesteryear, our country. I also pray for my beloved America that she would turn from her sin, hit her knees, repent and seek your face, that you would see her and heal her, so that we would once again become one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I call this fellowship to attention to put on the full armor of God, strap on the shield of faith, pick up the sword of the Spirit and boldly walk forward to join the shield wall, walking shields to the left and right as we march forward to take ground for your kingdom, your glory, mighty name. I pray all this in the mighty name of all names, in the name of Jesus, amen. All right, everyone. God bless you. I hope you have an amazing day and I will see you tomorrow.

Speaker 1: 31:36

Remember, wednesday night, 9 pm, eastern Standard Time. I'm going to start hyping. It. Today is a work council. I'll still do a Bible study tomorrow, wednesday, and then Wednesday night at 9 pm we'll do a fellowship group where you can call in if you want. Texts will converse, we'll go back and forth. I won't be reading anything. It'll just be a fellowship show where we about what we're gonna be doing at the 90 day, 90 day non 30 day, 90 day challenge. We have coming up discipling challenge come out. So I can't wait see you there and great to actually talk more back and forth. Have an amazing day. God bless you.