Posted on 11/07/2022 12:35:42 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death” (Proverbs 7:26-27 KJV).
This boy wasn’t her first victim. She is a professional and she has been at it for a very long time. We could ask, “Why doesn’t God kill her?” Because God is using her. God used the Devil. God uses her to deceive and destroy those that reject His truth. She has been around for a long, long time. Those that reject God, they come and go.
One day God will be through with her also, thank God for that. One day Satan will be thrown into the Lake of Fire and that will be the end of it. One day God will create a new heaven and a new earth, and the curse will be gone—and that will be the end of that.
But boy, until then, sin is going to run rampant.
“For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her,” so who do you think that you are? Who do I think that I am that I can defeat her?
How about Adam? He lost. How about Noah? He was defeated by alcohol. How about David? He got caught looking out his casement window.
Many mighty men have been suckered by the strange woman, or by the enticements of sin in general.
“Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death,”
This is the sad result of hating instruction. It is the result of self-love and self-indulgence. “Her house is the way to hell,” you go in, but you don’t come out the way you went in.
A. J. Gordon wrote:
“It costs much to obtain the power of the Spirit: self-surrender, humbleness toward God, the yielding up of the most precious things to God, and the faith of strong trust.
“But when we really have that power, we shall find this difference: whereas before it was hard for us to do the easiest things, now it is easy for us to do the hardest things.
“James Hervey, friend of the Wesley’s at Oxford, described the change which took place in him through his anointing by the Spirit. He said while his preaching was once like the firing of an arrow, all the speed and force thereof depending on the strength of his arm in bending the bow, now it was like firing a rifle ball, the whole force depending upon the powder back of the ball, and need only only a finger's touch to lit it off.”
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