Posted on 03/07/2020 6:28:26 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner" (Proverbs 7:11-12).
This woman is “loud and stubborn; and her feet abide not in her house,” she's not taking care of business where she ought to be taking care of business. “Her feet abide not in her house,” when? Verse 9, “in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night.” She doesn't need to be then. Where is she? She is out on the street, it says there. So, she's known as a streetwalker.
Verse 11, “She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house. Now she is without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.” She’s not out there for no reason at all. She knows exactly what she's doing. She's out there. She's lying in wait. There are folks that lie in wait: “The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them" (Proverbs 12:6).
We see this type of woman in Matthew. She leavens three loaves with her leaven. We could apply that as the three branches of Christendom, and they are all leavened with her doctrine. Do you know what those three loaves are? The Roman Catholic church, the Greek Orthodox church, and the Protestant church.
By the way, did you know that Baptists are not protestants? Bible believers are not Protestants. We didn't come from the Protestant church which came from the Catholic Church.
But that Roman Catholic leaven is throughout those other three lumps of bread, and that woman in Matthew goes out there and she lies in wait with her words as we read in Proverbs 12:6 above. He’s killing people, “. . . but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.” Millions have been rescued out of utter darkness by a believer with a copy of the word of God.
Paul warned us that these people would exist throughout the church age: “That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive" (Ephesians 4:14).
That is a good sentiment to have. Don't be a big baby anymore. Don’t be somebody that every time somebody comes the door and says something contrary to your beliefs, it shakes your faith to pieces. It's normal enough for a while, but there needs to come a time that Jehovah's witness can't shake you. These cultists, whatever they call themselves, have squirrelly, goofy, unbiblical doctrine anyway.
Notice, “that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.”
That’s what a lot of doctrine is, folks; if you're not careful, depending on who's wielding it. Much of it is nothing more than just lying in wait: laying an ambush of words and doctrine to corner you and get you to fall for it and get you trapped in something. The prosperity gospel gets people hopelessly trapped in a loop of things where they just keep going around and round like a gerbil in a cage, and if they're not careful they never break it. If you've ever gone to a Mormon Bible study, or a Jehovah’s witness Bible study, or a Roman Catholic Bible study, or a charismatic Bible study they go around in circles. They use a sequence of 10 to 20 verses and if you try to get him out of that cycle and show them something else that's not in their cycle they just about freak out or they don't acknowledge it at all because it's outside their cycle.
No, what God wants are men that know where they stand.
“That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works" (2 Timothy 3:17).
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