Proverbs 5 - Immorality

 

Proverbs 5 - Immorality

 

Morality and marital faithfulness can never be tossed aside without paying the price. An illicit life robs its people of honor and years. Family fidelity satisfies best.

 

“Immoral woman” was referred to as idolaters who were outside the covenant, Israelites who once walked with God but turned aside to worship other gods, and those who were unfaithful to their spouse. Each speak of betrayal and forsaking a covenant.

 

To hate instruction, despise correction, and ignore the voice of teaching makes a person susceptible to choices full of remorse. Falling prey to lust inevitably leads to the ruin of a person’s reputation with the assembly and congregation.

 

In a world that has commercialized sex and turned adultery into entertainment, this warning is desperately needed. Few people believe that there are tragic consequences to sexual sin, but Solomon names some of them.

 

What begins as something “sweet” gradually turns into something bitter. What is “life” becomes death; and the end is hell. You lose honor, years of life, wealth, and joy and what you think is freedom is really the worst kind of bondage. The physical consequences alone ought to make a person want to obey God.

 

Sex in marriage should be like drinking refreshing water from a clean fountain, while illicit sex is like drinking at a sewer. The Hebrew word “enraptured means “intoxicated”. When husband wand wife loves each other as God wants them to, the water turns into wine!

 

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