The Beginnings of the Great Apostasy

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Proverbs 5

Proverbs 5 HCSB
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen closely to my understanding 2 so that you may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge. 3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil, 4 in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a double-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps head straight for Sheol. 6 She doesn’t consider the path of life; she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable. 7 So now, my sons, listen to me, and don’t turn away from the words of my mouth. 8 Keep your way far from her. Don’t go near the door of her house. 9 Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel; 10 strangers will drain your resources, and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house. 11 At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed, 12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction. 13 I didn’t obey my teachers or listen closely to my mentors. 14 I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community.” 15 Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well. 16 Should your springs flow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? 17 They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn— let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever. 20 Why, my son, would you be infatuated with a forbidden woman or embrace the breast of a stranger? 21 For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes, and He considers all his paths. 22 A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin. 23 He will die because there is no discipline, and be lost because of his great stupidity.

Pay Attention to Discipline (1-2)

Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Discipline)

the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour.▶ controlled behaviour resulting from such training.▶ an activity providing mental or physical training: kung fu is a discipline open to old and young.2 a branch of knowledge, especially one studied in higher education.

Training an individual to do the “right” thing, at the “right” time, with the “right” motivate, with little to no supervision.

Jay Adams - Discipline, by its very nature, requires discernment

Practice Discernment (3-6)

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition) (Discern)

1 a: to detect with the eyes 〈discerned a figure approaching through the fog〉b: to detect with senses other than vision 〈discerned a strange odor〉2: to recognize or identify as separate and distinct: DISCRIMINATE 〈discern right from wrong〉3: to come to know or recognize mentally

The principle of antithesis - (In the Bible, where antithesis is so important, discernment - the ability to distinguish God’s thoughts and God’s ways from all others - is essential)- Jay Adams

Pass-by Deception (7-8)

Deception

Believing something that is not true

If something sounds to good to be true, it probably is

Promised Disaster (9-14; 22-23)

Loss of Wealth

Baptistnews reported that the investigation of approximately 700 leaders listed for sexual immorality was roughly 1.7 million dollars. It is rising, estimations of accumulated expenses are to pass 7.3 million dollars

Loss of Health

STD’s - According to healthy people.gov over 20 million new cases of STD’s occur, with 10 million occuring between the ages of 15-24

Loss of Wisdom

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/divorce-rates-by-country

Progressive Viewpoints leading cause of divorce

Loss of Reputation

The recently released Guidepost report revealed a list of alleged abusers compiled by a former employee of the SBC Executive Committee

Loss of Freedom

Federal Bureau of Prisons claims that sexual offenses are the third highest incarcerated

“Prison Love” - Roughly 80,000 inmates every year

God’s Judicial System - Leviticus, Deuteronomy

Loss of Life

Pursue God’s design of life (15-21)

To procreate within the boundaries set forth by God for the stability of the family unit, the Congregation, and the world in which we live.

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