Posted on 07/06/2021 12:25:10 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman" (Proverbs 6:24).
In earlier lessons we have talked about how this strange woman can be just a regular flesh and blood woman, and how she is seen prophetically as the Roman Catholic church as seen in Revelation 17. There is another aspect of this woman that needs to be considered.
This evil and strange woman can also represent the world that we live in. Now, look what she does. “To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.” We've talked about flattery before, but notice the Bible is telling you here that what you must watch out for is the flatterer. Now folks, that is not what the world tells you. The world tells you that you must watch out for somebody that's negative. The world tells you that you must watch out for somebody that doesn’t tell you what a wonderful person you are. It's the exact opposite message.
Folks, you can't trust somebody that's always buttering you up, you just can't. If you go to a church where somebody is always putting butter on one side and honey on the other; there's something wrong with that thing. You understand, if you are listening to somebody on the radio, or if you're reading a book that is telling you something about you, and it's all flattery, and its only purpose is to make you feel good; spiritually speaking, an evil and strange woman wrote that book. A wicked woman wrote that book, and again, I'm talking about spiritually speaking.
Henry van Dyke told this story:
“Born in the East and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the world with familiar feet and enters land after land to find its own everywhere. It comes to the palace to tell the monarch that he is a servant of the Most High and into the cottage to assure the peasant that he can be a son of God. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men ponder them as parables of life.
“It has a word of peace for the time of peril, a word of comfort for the time of calamity, a word of light for the hour of darkness. Its oracles are repeated in the assembly of the people; and its counsels, whispered in the ear of the lonely. The wicked and the proud tremble at its warnings, but to the wounded and penitent it has a. mother’s voice.
“No man is poor or desolate who has this treasure for his own. When the landscape darkens and the trembling pilgrim comes to the valley named of the shadow, he is not afraid to enter. He takes the rod and staff of Scripture in ·his hand; he says to his friend and comrade, “Good-bye; we shall meet again”; and comforted by that support, he goes toward the lonely pass as one who walks through darkness into light.”
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Proverbs 6:16-19
16¶ These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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