Sermon Notes 6/16/2024

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Street Smarts
Pastor Terry Lewis
Purity: The Bait and Switch

Proverbs 5:1-23

The Opener

Vs. 1,2: “My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.”

The Bait

Vs. 3 “For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.”

The Switch

4-8 “But in the end, she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to hell; she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house.”

(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

What is at Risk?

Reputation

9 “Keep your way far from her lest you give your honor to others.”

Wealth

10 “Keep your way far from her lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.”

Health

10 “Keep your way far from her lest at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed.”

Trust

14 “I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”

(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

How did it happen?

12-13 “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.”

The Answer

15-20 “Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?”

The Closing

21-23 “For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths. The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.”

(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)