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Puddle Water Vs. Pure Living Water
"Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?" - Matthew Henry
In Proverbs 5:14, King Solomon related the words of a very regretful young man when he wrote - "I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly."
In other words, he was saying that - in the church - he found himself on the verge of total ruin. He was facing a public scandal for sin. He was in a vice like a whirlpool. He had an unclean heart full of wanton thoughts and desires and had eyes full of adultery.
How can this be? The Church should be the place where the Presence and Power of God resides. It should be the place where people come for deliverance and not find themselves in whirlpools of evil passions.
Yet, we are all aware that Satan has gotten a foothold into many congregations through the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and, resultantly, adultery and broken marriages have been the result. Sad to say, there have been many accounts where the Pastor of the Church has committed this horrible sin and has reaped the awful consequences of ruin and public shame.
But then again, there have been two instances in the past where two Pastors got caught in the sin of adultery, forsook their wives, within one week married the other woman, and continued in the ministry as though nothing ever happened. In fact, one of the Pastors is reported as being a Father to several children in his congregation - the children all being from different women. Then afterwards, while preaching on "Christian Television," he is reported as saying that others should not look upon his character - but on the gifts that are in operation in his ministry - for mighty works are being done through him - such as the blind receiving their sight again.
Never mind the fact that the Lord Jesus warned us that - "Ye shall know them by their fruits..."(Matthew 7:16).
If ever there was a day and an hour when we as Christians needed Wisdom, Discretion, and Holy Ghost Discernment, it is today.
Solomon cries out to all men who are susceptible to the temptation of the indulgence of their flesh -
Proverbs 5:1-2 - "My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge."
Proverbs 5:7-8 - "Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house."
Actually what he was saying is this -
Pay attention, give ear, or attend to my words. Derive Godly Wisdom from my own experience. Incline your ear unto me.
"Regard discretion" - Act wisely. In order to do so, observe, preserve, and get discernment and discretion so that you may successfully resist all temptation to sexual sin.
"Thy lips may keep knowledge" - Speak wisely. Guard and keep the knowledge of the Word of God in your heart so that you may answer every temptation to sin.
"Hear me now."
"Depart not from the words of my mouth."
Get away from the slightest tendency to sin. Avoid even the very appearance of it.
If you don't adhere to the warnings of Solomon, then this will be your regrettable account -
Proverbs 5:11-13, 23 - "And thou mourn at the last...And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me...He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray."
You cannot afford to neglect the warnings given here by Solomon. You must not hate discipline, instruction, or reproof. You must submit yourself wholeheartedly or consent to the Godly instruction given here in the Word of God. If you don't, you will "go astray" and eventually die in your sins - having refused instruction and all calls for disciplined living.
Preachers cannot preach hard enough - warning against this terrible Sin of Adultery and its awful consequences.
Read some of the thought-provoking statements that Matthew Henry recorded in his Commentary on this Chapter in Proverbs -
"Those that are entangled in this sin should be reminded that there is but a step between them and hell, and that they are ready to drop into it."
"That we ought to have a very great dread and detestation of the sin. We must fear it as we would a place infested with the plague; we must loathe it as the odour of carrion, that we will not come near. Then we are likely to preserve our purity when we conceive a rooted antipathy to all fleshly lusts."
"That we ought to be jealous over ourselves with a godly jealousy, and not to be so confident of the strength of our own resolutions as to venture upon the brink of sin, with a promise to ourselves that hitherto we will come and no further."
"Those that live in this sin promise themselves impunity, but they deceive themselves; their sin will find them out..."
Your lips are called upon to "keep knowledge"(Proverbs 5:2). In other words, you must hide the Truth in your heart, speak it, and then live it out before others.
On the other hand, the adulterous woman - the "strange woman" - the loose, immoral seductress - flatters, allures, and speaks fair - using enticing promises which are treacherous and deceitful. Her mouth is said to be "smoother than oil." Her lips "drop as an honeycomb" (Proverbs 5:3). It is the droppings of the honey from a honeycomb that are the sweetest of all. Her words are so delectable - yet extremely deadly.
Proverbs 5:4 tells us that "her end is bitter as wormwood." Wormwood is a very poisonous herb. She speaks words that are so sweet and flattering, but in the end she is as deadly as the poison of wormwood.
Is it any wonder that Solomon warns - "Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house" (Proverbs 5:8)?
Proverbs 5:5 continues to describe her - "Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell."
This woman is a tool of Satan to cause every man of God to fall from his excellency and eventually end up in Hell fire. When Solomon mentioned her "feet" and her "steps," he was referring to her manner or course of life which leads to death and Hell.
However, so that you would not easily detect her wrongdoings, her "ways are moveable"(Proverbs 5:6). You can never figure them out. They are unstable and unsteady. She uses varied form of enticements, allurements, and disguises so that she will not be readily discovered in her wicked work.
Solomon strongly admonishes all "sons" to pay strict attention to his warnings - "Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed" (Proverbs 5:9-11).
Adultery always leads to slavery, poverty, disease, and shame.
When you give your "honour unto others," you are actually giving away your strength, wealth, dignity, and reputation. Your "wealth" also depicts your strength or vigor, and your "labours" represent your wealth or hard labor over the years to get to the place where you now are.
All will be lost through one moment of sinful indulgence. You will "mourn." This mourning represents that which is of the most excessive kind. You will groan and roar in pain. Your body very likely can become infested with a sexually transmitted disease and your soul be ensnared, entrapped, and caught in bondage to lust - "His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins"(Proverbs 5:22).
This sin - like all other sins - is open before God. He sees it all - public or private. His eye is constantly on you - carefully weighing all of your actions on the balance of His righteous judgments - "For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He pondereth all his goings"(Proverbs 5:21).
God gives to a man a wife to satisfy his physical desires and to give him blessed refreshment and contentment. She is likened unto "a cistern," "a well," and "a fountain" - "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well...Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth..let her breasts satisfy thee at all times..."(Proverbs 5:15,18,19).
She is also depicted as being beautiful, attractive, tender, and gentle as the "loving hind"(deer) and the "pleasant roe"(mountain goat) - "Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe..."(Proverbs 5:19).
Solomon then asks all married men - "And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?"(Proverbs 5:20).
Proverbs 5:19 tells you that you are to be "ravished always" with the love of your wife, not the lust of the "strange woman." That word "ravished" means to be intoxicated or fully satisfied. The love of your wife is to fill you to overflowing so that there is no need for any other loves. Her love brings you great joy. The lust of the "strange woman" can only offer you bitterness and great sorrow in the end. Your wife is a fountain of life unto you; the immoral woman is a pit of disease, death, destruction, and damnation for you.
Read again Matthew Henry's comment, quoted at the beginning of this message - "Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?"
You have a choice today. You heard the warnings - given to you by God through King Solomon.
You can settle for puddle-water which is stolen, forbidden, poisonous, and deadly. Or you can be "ravished" and fully satisfied with that which God approves of and blesses - the life-giving and fulfilling fountain of your wife's love.
We cannot afford to be ignorant of Satan's devices. He has place in the Church today. He is operating through the "strange woman" - the immoral and loose seductress.
You can be wise to Satan's diabolical schemes by adhering to Solomon's warning today, or you can be stupid by totally ignoring this message.
Hear the Word of the Lord to you -
"My son, attend unto My wisdom... Lest..."
Connie Giordano -walkingintruth
"Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?" - Matthew Henry
In Proverbs 5:14, King Solomon related the words of a very regretful young man when he wrote - "I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly."
In other words, he was saying that - in the church - he found himself on the verge of total ruin. He was facing a public scandal for sin. He was in a vice like a whirlpool. He had an unclean heart full of wanton thoughts and desires and had eyes full of adultery.
How can this be? The Church should be the place where the Presence and Power of God resides. It should be the place where people come for deliverance and not find themselves in whirlpools of evil passions.
Yet, we are all aware that Satan has gotten a foothold into many congregations through the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and, resultantly, adultery and broken marriages have been the result. Sad to say, there have been many accounts where the Pastor of the Church has committed this horrible sin and has reaped the awful consequences of ruin and public shame.
But then again, there have been two instances in the past where two Pastors got caught in the sin of adultery, forsook their wives, within one week married the other woman, and continued in the ministry as though nothing ever happened. In fact, one of the Pastors is reported as being a Father to several children in his congregation - the children all being from different women. Then afterwards, while preaching on "Christian Television," he is reported as saying that others should not look upon his character - but on the gifts that are in operation in his ministry - for mighty works are being done through him - such as the blind receiving their sight again.
Never mind the fact that the Lord Jesus warned us that - "Ye shall know them by their fruits..."(Matthew 7:16).
If ever there was a day and an hour when we as Christians needed Wisdom, Discretion, and Holy Ghost Discernment, it is today.
Solomon cries out to all men who are susceptible to the temptation of the indulgence of their flesh -
Proverbs 5:1-2 - "My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge."
Proverbs 5:7-8 - "Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house."
Actually what he was saying is this -
Pay attention, give ear, or attend to my words. Derive Godly Wisdom from my own experience. Incline your ear unto me.
"Regard discretion" - Act wisely. In order to do so, observe, preserve, and get discernment and discretion so that you may successfully resist all temptation to sexual sin.
"Thy lips may keep knowledge" - Speak wisely. Guard and keep the knowledge of the Word of God in your heart so that you may answer every temptation to sin.
"Hear me now."
"Depart not from the words of my mouth."
Get away from the slightest tendency to sin. Avoid even the very appearance of it.
If you don't adhere to the warnings of Solomon, then this will be your regrettable account -
Proverbs 5:11-13, 23 - "And thou mourn at the last...And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me...He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray."
You cannot afford to neglect the warnings given here by Solomon. You must not hate discipline, instruction, or reproof. You must submit yourself wholeheartedly or consent to the Godly instruction given here in the Word of God. If you don't, you will "go astray" and eventually die in your sins - having refused instruction and all calls for disciplined living.
Preachers cannot preach hard enough - warning against this terrible Sin of Adultery and its awful consequences.
Read some of the thought-provoking statements that Matthew Henry recorded in his Commentary on this Chapter in Proverbs -
"Those that are entangled in this sin should be reminded that there is but a step between them and hell, and that they are ready to drop into it."
"That we ought to have a very great dread and detestation of the sin. We must fear it as we would a place infested with the plague; we must loathe it as the odour of carrion, that we will not come near. Then we are likely to preserve our purity when we conceive a rooted antipathy to all fleshly lusts."
"That we ought to be jealous over ourselves with a godly jealousy, and not to be so confident of the strength of our own resolutions as to venture upon the brink of sin, with a promise to ourselves that hitherto we will come and no further."
"Those that live in this sin promise themselves impunity, but they deceive themselves; their sin will find them out..."
Your lips are called upon to "keep knowledge"(Proverbs 5:2). In other words, you must hide the Truth in your heart, speak it, and then live it out before others.
On the other hand, the adulterous woman - the "strange woman" - the loose, immoral seductress - flatters, allures, and speaks fair - using enticing promises which are treacherous and deceitful. Her mouth is said to be "smoother than oil." Her lips "drop as an honeycomb" (Proverbs 5:3). It is the droppings of the honey from a honeycomb that are the sweetest of all. Her words are so delectable - yet extremely deadly.
Proverbs 5:4 tells us that "her end is bitter as wormwood." Wormwood is a very poisonous herb. She speaks words that are so sweet and flattering, but in the end she is as deadly as the poison of wormwood.
Is it any wonder that Solomon warns - "Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house" (Proverbs 5:8)?
Proverbs 5:5 continues to describe her - "Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell."
This woman is a tool of Satan to cause every man of God to fall from his excellency and eventually end up in Hell fire. When Solomon mentioned her "feet" and her "steps," he was referring to her manner or course of life which leads to death and Hell.
However, so that you would not easily detect her wrongdoings, her "ways are moveable"(Proverbs 5:6). You can never figure them out. They are unstable and unsteady. She uses varied form of enticements, allurements, and disguises so that she will not be readily discovered in her wicked work.
Solomon strongly admonishes all "sons" to pay strict attention to his warnings - "Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed" (Proverbs 5:9-11).
Adultery always leads to slavery, poverty, disease, and shame.
When you give your "honour unto others," you are actually giving away your strength, wealth, dignity, and reputation. Your "wealth" also depicts your strength or vigor, and your "labours" represent your wealth or hard labor over the years to get to the place where you now are.
All will be lost through one moment of sinful indulgence. You will "mourn." This mourning represents that which is of the most excessive kind. You will groan and roar in pain. Your body very likely can become infested with a sexually transmitted disease and your soul be ensnared, entrapped, and caught in bondage to lust - "His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins"(Proverbs 5:22).
This sin - like all other sins - is open before God. He sees it all - public or private. His eye is constantly on you - carefully weighing all of your actions on the balance of His righteous judgments - "For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He pondereth all his goings"(Proverbs 5:21).
God gives to a man a wife to satisfy his physical desires and to give him blessed refreshment and contentment. She is likened unto "a cistern," "a well," and "a fountain" - "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well...Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth..let her breasts satisfy thee at all times..."(Proverbs 5:15,18,19).
She is also depicted as being beautiful, attractive, tender, and gentle as the "loving hind"(deer) and the "pleasant roe"(mountain goat) - "Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe..."(Proverbs 5:19).
Solomon then asks all married men - "And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?"(Proverbs 5:20).
Proverbs 5:19 tells you that you are to be "ravished always" with the love of your wife, not the lust of the "strange woman." That word "ravished" means to be intoxicated or fully satisfied. The love of your wife is to fill you to overflowing so that there is no need for any other loves. Her love brings you great joy. The lust of the "strange woman" can only offer you bitterness and great sorrow in the end. Your wife is a fountain of life unto you; the immoral woman is a pit of disease, death, destruction, and damnation for you.
Read again Matthew Henry's comment, quoted at the beginning of this message - "Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?"
You have a choice today. You heard the warnings - given to you by God through King Solomon.
You can settle for puddle-water which is stolen, forbidden, poisonous, and deadly. Or you can be "ravished" and fully satisfied with that which God approves of and blesses - the life-giving and fulfilling fountain of your wife's love.
We cannot afford to be ignorant of Satan's devices. He has place in the Church today. He is operating through the "strange woman" - the immoral and loose seductress.
You can be wise to Satan's diabolical schemes by adhering to Solomon's warning today, or you can be stupid by totally ignoring this message.
Hear the Word of the Lord to you -
"My son, attend unto My wisdom... Lest..."
Connie Giordano -walkingintruth
