Proverbs 5

CHAPTER 5Read this chapter carefully and you will find that the young man is counseled to live a pure life for the sake of his home. This is the kind of sex education that God gives. I like this education from God better than some of the things that I am hearing today, even in Christian services. God is saying that a pure life should be led for the sake of the home later on. A lot of the problems in the homes today don’t begin there. They began way back in the premarital sex life of the individual.

Proverbs 5:1

GOD’S SEX EDUCATION"My son." This is addressed to the young man again. This is wisdom bidding the young man to come to her school to learn of her. In the previous chapter the warning was against the evil man. In this chapter the warning is against the “strange woman,” literally, the stranger woman, because the woman was a stranger, one who came from outside Israel. She was generally a Gentile, and she was a prostitute. No Israelite woman was to become a prostitute.

According to the law a prostitute was to be stoned. However, as Israel got farther from God, they also sank into more and more immorality. Thus it happened that some of the Israelites did become prostitutes as is indicated in Pro_2:17, “Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.” In that case the woman is still considered a stranger, a foreigner, because she is a stranger as far as her relationship to God is concerned.

Proverbs 5:3

There was an infamous gangster in the penitentiary in Atlanta. One of the officers there told me that this man had contracted syphillis, which had not been cured and went on to cause paresis and eventually insanity. That man was a blubbering idiot before he died. The officer told me this: “This man was responsible for the ruin of many a girl. But it is interesting that he didn’t get by with that sort of thing. Some girl along the route got even with him.” God’s Word here is warning against that kind of thing.

Proverbs 5:7

What a warning is given here to this young man. This gives a true picture of the end result of venereal disease. At last there is a mourning when the flesh and the body are consumed. Here in California venereal disease has reached epidemic proportions.

Proverbs 5:12

Remember that God is not mocked. What you sow is what you shall reap. God describes here what will be the end result of such a life. I believe that our society is already reaping what it has been sowing. The gross immorality in our land stems from the lack of instruction in the Word of God. Now God tells about the relationship that should exist between husband and wife. Here we see marriage brought to a very high plane.

Proverbs 5:15

THE HOLINESS OF MARRIAGEIn other words, your offspring should be from your wife, not from a stranger.

Proverbs 5:18

These verses describe love in marriage, and the Word of God makes it very clear that physical love and sexual love in marriage are to be sanctified and brought to a very high level. There was a time when speaking of these things was taboo. They were not mentioned as though they were immoral or some sort of a dirty thing even among married folk. Do you notice how God describes physical love in marriage? God lifts it to the very highest plane. Remember that marriage was designed by God Himself and was given to the human family for the welfare and good of mankind. A part of the immorality of our day is the attempt to get rid of marriage. For the child of God the Christian home is a picture of the relationship between Christ and the church. You just cannot have a relationship higher or holier than that. That is why it is alarming to see that even Christian couples in the church are breaking up. This hasn’t happened in only one or two cases but it is happening many, many times. This ought to cause the church to get down on its knees before God and find out what is wrong. It is an indication that the Word of God is not getting through to people. It is not influencing and swaying the lives of those members of the church. “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge” (Heb_13:4). God calls marriage a wonderful relationship. It is high and holy and not to be treated as something that is unclean. But notice the other side of the picture: “but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” When I was the pastor of a certain church, a man of the congregation came to me and announced he was leaving his wife and son and was going to run off with another woman. They were all church memberswhether or not they were Christians only God knows. I was a young preacher at that time, and I really laid it on the line to him. He rose in indignation and said, “Are you trying to rob me of my salvation?” I answered, “Brother, if you have salvation, I am not trying to rob you of it. But I do want to say this to you, and I want you to remember it: If you are not God’s child, you are acting according to the way the devil’s children act. If you happen to be a child of God, one of these days God will take you to His woodshed and He will whip you within an inch of your life.

I am not sure but that He may even take your life.” The fellow just sneered, and he went ahead and married the other woman. The years have gone by, and those two are the loneliest, saddest, most frustrated, most unlovely people I know. I am confident they would both say, “If only I could go back and do it over.” Peter admonishes husbands to dwell with their wives according to knowledge “… and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered” (1Pe_3:7). This is a real test. When a husband and wife are so living before each other that they have joy and confidence and can kneel together and pray together and love together, that home represents the relationship of Christ and the church. I want to tell you, my friend, that God can and will bless such a home. Oh, how important that is!

Proverbs 5:20

This is an interesting verse. “The ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.” We need to recognize that God is seeing us all the time. God is always watching us. A man was put in a foursome for golf with three of us who were preachers. He was glad to get away from us when he found out who we were. He had ripped out an oath, and after he learned that we were preachers, he began to apologize. I said to him, “Brother, don’t pay any attention to us. We are just three men like you are. But you are speaking that way before God all the time. I don’t care whether you are on the golf course or in a bar or where you are, you are saying these things before God.” The ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah and God pondersHe wonders why we act and say what we do. I think that God must get really puzzled by some of the things we do and say.

Proverbs 5:22

God says that there is a day coming, a day of accountability, a day of retribution. A payday is on the way. Man thinks he is getting by with sin. God says that no one is getting by with a thing. Man’s own iniquities shall take him, and he will be held with the cords of his sins.