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! Sermon Pasadena February 19, 2000
The Book of Proverbs – Another Perspective
In the current Bible Study series we have been going through the Book of Proverbs.
There comes a point when it’s necessary to summarize the book.
When we began the series we noted that in the first chapter there are a number of comments about the purpose of the book.
The chapter summarizes the book in a way.
The last chapter also gives a summary, though it does it in an unusual way.
The chapter focuses on the roles of a man and a woman.
These are important verses for us as future rulers.
They define certain aspects of our ultimate responsibilities.
There is information here about what we should be doing now in everyday life.
The Book of Proverbs is “wisdom literature” – designed to give us very valuable information distilled over the centuries by others.
*Proverbs 31:1*
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The words of King Lemuel, the utterance which his mother taught him:
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The chapter opens with the words of a mother to her son.
Her advice covers three aspects:
Wayward women, alcohol, and compassionate care for those in need.
The son in this case is a ruler, who must govern in righteousness.
In that respect he is typical of all of us who are traveling down the road to positions of responsibility in the Kingdom of God.
*Revelation 5:9-10*
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9 And they sang a new song, saying:
*1 “You are worthy to take the scroll, *
*And to open its seals; *
*For You were slain, *
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And have redeemed us to God by Your blood
*Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,*
*10 And have made us kings and priests to our God; *
*And we shall reign on the earth.”*
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*Revelation 2:26*
26 “And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations—
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So it’s clear that there are high level responsibilities ahead.
Now the advice that is given to Lemuel by his mother is advice for all of us, men and women, in the sense that rulership’s responsibilities come to all of us.
*Proverbs 31:3*
*3 Do not give your strength to women, *
*Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.*
The king’s mother warned him that adultery has a debilitating effect on the mind and body.
That’s true for men and women.
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This is reminiscent of Solomon’s warnings against adultery in several places.
First he says that we should acquire wisdom:
*Proverbs 2:16-19*
*16 To deliver you from the immoral woman, *
*From the seductress who flatters with her words,*
*17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth, *
And forgets the covenant of her God.
*18 For her house leads down to death, *
*And her paths to the dead;*
*19 None who go to her return, *
*Nor do they regain the paths of life—*
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*Proverbs 5:1-14*
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*My son, pay attention to my wisdom; *
*1 Lend your ear to my understanding,*
*2 That you may preserve discretion, *
*And your lips may keep knowledge.*
*3 For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, *
*And her mouth is smoother than oil;*
*4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, *
*Sharp as a two-edged sword.*
*5 Her feet go down to death, *
*Her steps lay hold of hell.*
*6 Lest you ponder her path of life—*
*Her ways are unstable; *
*You do not know them.*
*7 Therefore hear me now, my children, *
*And do not depart from the words of my mouth.*
*8 Remove your way far from her, *
*And do not go near the door of her house,*
*9 Lest you give your honor to others, *
*And your years to the cruel one;*
*10 Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, *
*And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;*
*11 And you mourn at last, *
*When your flesh and your body are consumed,*
*12 And say: *
*“How I have hated instruction, *
*And my heart despised correction!*
*13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, *
*Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!*
*14 I was on the verge of total ruin, *
*In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”*
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*Proverbs 7:1-27*
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*My son, keep my words, *
*1 And treasure my commands within you.*
*2 Keep my commands and live, *
*And my law as the apple of your eye.*
*3 Bind them on your fingers; *
*Write them on the tablet of your heart.*
*4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” *
*And call understanding your nearest kin,*
*5 That they may keep you from the immoral woman, *
*From the seductress who flatters with her words.*
*6 For at the window of my house *
*I looked through my lattice,*
*7 And saw among the simple, *
*I perceived among the youths, *
*A young man devoid of understanding,*
*8 Passing along the street near her corner; *
*And he took the path to her house*
*9 In the twilight, in the evening, *
*In the black and dark night.*
*10 And there a woman met him, *
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