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Title: The Gospel of the World
Author: Marion Clark
Text: Proverbs 7:1-5, 21-27
Introduction
"How do your parents feel about you getting married?" The young couple for whom I was giving pre-marital counseling looked at each other and blushed. Their parents wished that they would live together before getting married. That is when it dawned on me. The Sexual Revolution was over. The no-rules side had won.
Our last two Sundays we have considered the "fear of the Lord" worldview upon which Proverbs is based. There is a Creator-God who watches and watches over his creatures. There is another worldview which runs counter to The-Fear-of-the-Lord. It is the worldview represented in our text by the "forbidden woman." (A worldview is the way we make sense of the world.)
Text
My son, keep my words
and treasure up my commandments with you;
2 keep my commandments and live;
keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
3 bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister,"
and call insight your intimate friend,
5 to keep you from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words.
Again, the teacher of Proverbs impresses upon the young man to value wisdom. All the various phrases and metaphors reinforce the principle that the proverbs will benefit the one who holds wisdom dearly.
Verse 5 introduces the subject at hand, namely, the seductive temptation that the young man will encounter from the "forbidden woman," the adulteress. She has come up before this chapter. She first appears in 2:16-19, all of chapter 5, and the second half of chapter 6. The young man should be on guard for the married woman who engages in adultery. He should avoid the temptations of the prostitute, as noted elsewhere.
And yet, such resistance is easier said than done.
With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with her smooth talk she compels him.
22 All a ...
Author: Marion Clark
Text: Proverbs 7:1-5, 21-27
Introduction
"How do your parents feel about you getting married?" The young couple for whom I was giving pre-marital counseling looked at each other and blushed. Their parents wished that they would live together before getting married. That is when it dawned on me. The Sexual Revolution was over. The no-rules side had won.
Our last two Sundays we have considered the "fear of the Lord" worldview upon which Proverbs is based. There is a Creator-God who watches and watches over his creatures. There is another worldview which runs counter to The-Fear-of-the-Lord. It is the worldview represented in our text by the "forbidden woman." (A worldview is the way we make sense of the world.)
Text
My son, keep my words
and treasure up my commandments with you;
2 keep my commandments and live;
keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
3 bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister,"
and call insight your intimate friend,
5 to keep you from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words.
Again, the teacher of Proverbs impresses upon the young man to value wisdom. All the various phrases and metaphors reinforce the principle that the proverbs will benefit the one who holds wisdom dearly.
Verse 5 introduces the subject at hand, namely, the seductive temptation that the young man will encounter from the "forbidden woman," the adulteress. She has come up before this chapter. She first appears in 2:16-19, all of chapter 5, and the second half of chapter 6. The young man should be on guard for the married woman who engages in adultery. He should avoid the temptations of the prostitute, as noted elsewhere.
And yet, such resistance is easier said than done.
With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with her smooth talk she compels him.
22 All a ...
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