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Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter today Audio Bible. I'm John Stangey,
Speaker 1: and today we're in Proverbs chapter seven, and we'll be
Speaker 1: reading from the New American Standard Bible. My son, keep
Speaker 1: my words and treasure my commandments within you. Keep my
Speaker 1: commandments and live and my teaching as the apple of
Speaker 1: your eye. Bind them on your fingers, write them on
Speaker 1: the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom you are
Speaker 1: my sister, and call understanding your intimate friend, that they
Speaker 1: may keep you from an adulteress, from the foreigner who
Speaker 1: flatters with her words. For at the window of my house,
Speaker 1: I looked out through my lattice when I saw among
Speaker 1: the naive, and discerned among the youths a young man
Speaker 1: lacking sense, passing through the street near her corner. And
Speaker 1: he takes the way to her house in the twilight,
Speaker 1: in the evening, in the middle of the night, and
Speaker 1: in the darkness, and behold a woman comes to meet him,
Speaker 1: dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. She is
Speaker 1: boisterous and rebellious. Her feet do not remain at home.
Speaker 1: She is now in the streets, now in the squares,
Speaker 1: and lurks by every corner. So she seizes him and
Speaker 1: kisses him, and with a brazen face, she says to him,
Speaker 1: I was due to offer peace offerings. Today I have
Speaker 1: paid my vows. Therefore I have come out to meet you,
Speaker 1: to seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.
Speaker 1: I have spread my couch with cover rings, with colored
Speaker 1: linens of Egypt. I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh
Speaker 1: aloes and cinnamon. Come, let us drink our fill of
Speaker 1: love until morning. Let us delight ourselves with caresses. For
Speaker 1: my husband is not at home. He has gone on
Speaker 1: a long journey. He has taken a bag of money
Speaker 1: with him. At the full moon, he will come home
Speaker 1: with her many persuasions. She entices him with her flattering lips.
Speaker 1: She seduces him. Suddenly he follows her as an ox
Speaker 1: goes to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to
Speaker 1: the discipline of a fool, until an arrow pierces through
Speaker 1: his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. So
Speaker 1: he does not know that it will cost him his life. Now, therefore,
Speaker 1: my sons, listen to me and pay attention to the
Speaker 1: words of my mouth. Do not let your heart turn
Speaker 1: aside to her ways. Do not stray into her paths.
Speaker 1: For many are the victims she has cast down, and
Speaker 1: numerous are all her slain. Her house is the way
Speaker 1: to shield descending to the chambers of death. Let's pray, Lord,
Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, and we thank you
Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at it
Speaker 1: together today. And Lord, as we look at this portion
Speaker 1: of scripture, you caution us to be careful not to
Speaker 1: slip into adultery, to not be taken by flattery, to
Speaker 1: not find ourselves with our guard down in such a
Speaker 1: way that we forget that sexual intimacy is to be
Speaker 1: reserved strictly for marriage. Again, Lord, we're reminded in your
Speaker 1: word that marriage is a picture of the love of
Speaker 1: your son Jesus Christ for his bride the Church. So Lord,
Speaker 1: we pray that that would be something we would be
Speaker 1: mindful of as well, and that we would use our
Speaker 1: marriages to bring glory to your name. We love you, Lord.
Speaker 1: We're grateful for your presence with us, and we're grateful
Speaker 1: for the wisdom that we receive through your word, we
Speaker 1: pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.