Posted on 12/07/2020 4:48:18 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house” (Proverbs 7:10-11 KJV).
TODAY’S VERSE:
“And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house” (Proverbs 7:10-11 KJV).
This is one of the sad things about our American culture. It might just be that some of these young ladies need to sit down with their brother or your dad and just kind of ask them about life and see if they can’t enlighten you a little bit. Some of these young women are no better off than the young man who is a simpleton walking up and down the wrong street. It’s a terrible thing indeed when two simpletons of the opposite sex meet, one looking for a harlot and the other dressing like one. It’s got the recipe for disaster.
The sad reality is that most Americans learn about sex in the back alley. Men complain that they can’t find a good girl, but they refuse to go to the places where they might find one, like a good, sound Bible-believing New Testament church. But, if they don’t get cleaned up spiritually and morally, they are not going to find a good, wise girl there either. Girls with high moral standards are not interested in the first fool that comes along.
“. . . and subtil of heart,” someone else is subtil. “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made” (Genesis 3:1 KJV). Rightly does our Lord tell the lost crowd that “they are of their father the devil.” Like father, like son; or like father, like daughter. She is subtil, she is full of subtilty, like the woman in Revelation, the harlot.
She is “loud, and stubborn,” very boisterous, outgoing, stubborn, which 1 Samuel says is “worse than the sin of witchcraft.” “. . . her feet abide not in her house,” she’s a busybody, not faithful, an infidel. She is unfaithful to her husband, if she is married, and she is unfaithful to her God.
Ladies, Peter gives the Bible definition of a godly woman:
“Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement” (I Peter 3:1-6).
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