Posted on 06/06/2022 11:27:11 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed” (Proverbs 7:18-20 KJV).
Solace is a word for “easing grief,” or for relaxing after a long hard day of work. Get home and turn on the tube to relax. Who really thinks they are relaxing while they are watching TV? Every show builds to a climax, and uses a certain amount of suspense and tension to get there. Eleven o’clock comes around and then what? The NEWS and all of it’s violence.
Sin can be relaxing, for a season—but guilt never is. Guilt will ride you up until the day you die, unless you take care of it God’s way. Man’s way is to drink it away, or commit more sin to cover the old, It might work for an hour or two, but the aftereffect of guilt is longlasting.
One of the tragic situations in America is that folks have mistaken love for lust.
“For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey,” sin always tries to make itself look easy, “but the way of the transgressor is hard.” It don’t matter how easy the Devil makes sin look easy, it isn’t going to turn out that way. The one thing to remember about the Devil is that he is a liar, and the father of lies.
“He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed,” now, perhaps the good man is that same good man spoken of in the parables. The good man in some of the parables is the Lord Jesus Christ. So, if the woman here is a type, or a picture of the apostate church; wooing the world, that is exactly what the worldly church does. Nowhere does the Bible tell a Bible-believing Christian to hook up with apostates for any purpose. Forget your ministerial alliances. They are allied with the world, not the Lord. We are not to be “unequally yoked together with unbelievers” (II Corinthians 6:14).
Most of those people are heretics, and the Apostle Paul told us that if they don’t teach it like we teach it, “Mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them” (Romans 16:17). Those preachers will spend a month teaching on the Blood of Christ and then spend a week teaching you can lose your salvation. Well, if a man can lose it, the Blood of Christ can’t save him. Have no fellowship with the apostate churches. “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed” (Proverbs 13:20 KJV).
That is surely the most popular enticement to sin. Nobody is around, so we can surely get away it. We won’t get caught! God sees it, the Devil sees it, and the people involved see it.
Dr. Bob Jones Sr. said:
“The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.”
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Great post,as always thank you for posting Gods word Pilgrim!
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