Outside Influence
The Two Ways • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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4 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—
As we said last Wednesday evening, the next 8 chapters will be an outflow of this text.
8 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
9 for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;
12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
13 we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;
14 throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”—
15 my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,
16 for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird,
18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.
19 Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.
Why does the writer exhort the youth to consider both the father and mother’s exhortations? vs. 8-9
2. How can the enticement of gain or prominence tempt one to pull away from God?vs. 10-18
3. How does this passage compare to Psalm 1:1?
1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
4. How might someone experience the temporal consequences of greed?
5. Consider vs. 19, what warning flows forth from this verse? What is unjust gain?
