Posted on 04/06/2021 10:29:26 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart" (Proverbs 7:9-10).
“. . . and behold, there met him a woman,” we are going to be met by somebody along the way. You don't go chasing down sin and lasso it, tie it up, and engage it. Sometimes if you go down a certain path, you'll wind up being met by it. The funny thing about it that you want and need to be on the right path. When people of Israel did the right thing, the Bible says that the Lord met them there at the Tabernacle. They would show up there and He would be there in that pillar of fire and His presence would be there and He would meet with them there. There are many places like that in scriptures.
In this case; this kid is on the wrong track. He is unwise and there met him a woman, and this woman was a particular kind of woman and you could tell what kind of woman she was by the way she was dressed. She had what? She had the attire of a harlot. These days we see people all the time in the attire of a harlot. Why are you dressed like that? They say, “Well, all that matters is what's inside a person.” Yeah, and “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh,” and “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,” and more likely than not the reason you're dressed like that is because something on the inside is wrong and it eats its way out. If you could just understand that the outside does matter.
You know you can be a Pharisees about it. There are a lot of Pharisees in this world; but at the same time you understand that the reason some folks have gone there is because they see a degradation in the way things are, and the way things are going, and they are trying to put a stop to it. They trying to put the brakes on, and in putting the brakes on, they make these arcane rules and then hold people to rules and then they become Pharisees and they become legalists and all those things. It becomes a matter of letter and not of spirit.
Don’t lose sight of the fact that the outside does matter, and you know if you want to scream and pitch a fit and fuss and everything; you can stick as many holes in your ear and your tongue, and your nose and Lord knows what else’s that you want to. But if you're going to go witnessing or whatever, then put some of that away because what you're saying is something definite to those people out there.
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