Proverbs 7
McGeeCHAPTER 7This chapter continues the subject of chapter 6. The whole thought is to beware of a woman with easy morals.
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Now having said that, he is going to get right down to cases.
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He takes an illustration out of life.
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This young man is taking a walk on the wrong street.
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Notice that she is religious! She leads him to believe that she is right with God"I have peace offerings with me …I payed my vows."
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In other words, I’ve been looking for you all my life, and at last I have found you!
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She assures him that the man of the house is out of town and won’t be back until a certain day.
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What a picture this is! Now he gives the warning
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This warning is to be taken literally, and there is also a spiritual application for you and me today. The Scriptures have a great deal to say about spiritual adultery. God called it that when His people left Him and went after idols. They were snared by idolatry, and they were brought into subjection. They departed from the living and true God. They were to be joined to Him, but they had separated from Him. They were actually playing the harlot; they were being unfaithful and untrue to Him. That is spiritual adultery. Today we have many cults and “isms” and all types of false religions around us. Here in Southern California we are larded with this type of thing on every hand. For example, one says, “You don’t need any longer to follow Christ as you are following Him. You don’t need to trust Him alone as your Savior. What you need to do is join our group and do certain things.” You would be amazed at the letters that come to me. Some time ago I was teaching Galatians, and at that time I made the statement again and again, “Faith plus nothing equals salvation.” I emphasized that you must be absolutely, utterly cast upon Jesus Christ as your Savior. Oh my, did I get the letters! A great many people wrote some very ugly things. Among other things they wrote, “You said that the Mosaic Law is something that we should get rid of.” I did not say anything of the kind. What I said was that the Law cannot save you. The Law was never given to save. The Law is good, but there is something wrong with us, and only Christ can save us. When we turn from our own efforts, from our own works and turn to Him, we can be saved. Then there were others who wrote to tell me how wrong I was. “You should have said it is necessary to be baptized in a certain way.” Others said, “You should have told them to join a certain group.” Others said I should have taught that we must all keep the Mosaic Laweven if a person trusts in Christ he still must keep the Law. May I answer this by saying that the believer is joined to Christ. Christ has said we are to keep His commandments if we love Him, and His commandments are not grievous. We are to love one another. We are to be filled with the spirit of God. We are to witness to the world. Those are His commandments today. We are joined to a living Christ; we live on a higher plane. The fruit of the Spirit should be evident in our hearts and lives. Today there is that flattering “ism” and that flattering cult, made up like a woman of the street. She is flattering and she is calling men and women. This old gal is busy today. She knocks at your door and hands out tracts. She meets you everywhere. She is a prostituteshe wants to take you away from Christ. She wants to bring you into her system. Oh, my friend, that spiritual prostitute is out on your street today; she even comes into your home by way of radio and television, trying to lure you. We are told that to follow her is like an ox going to slaughter. It is like a fool going to the correction of the stocks. Oh, that we might not settle for anything less than the person of Jesus Christ! In my judgment this is the finest picture we have of cults, “isms,” and all false religions. Like the prostitute, they are all dressed upattractive, alluring, offering something to man that will actually destroy him and send him down to hell, and take him away from Jesus Christ, the lover of our souls.