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We're going on tour this fall. We're bringing the live podcast show to four new cities. We're coming to Nashville, San Diego, Chicago, and Birmingham, Alabama. If you've ever wanted to see the live podcast in person, go to jesusinthestreet.org tour and get your tickets. It's going to be a powerful night of worship and the word that God is storing in my heart is going to be different and unique to each city we go to. So come out jesusinthestreet.org tour, get your tickets and we'll see you in Nashville City, San Diego, Chicago and Birmingham this fall. What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce and today we are on Proverbs, chapter 6 out of 31 for the Proverbs series in the month of July. Guys, if you want to follow along, track your reading progress, track that you're listening, break down the whole book of Proverbs with us, go to jesusinthestreet.orgproverbs and download the free PDF. Today, Solomon is writing about two things in Proverbs, chapter 6, basic warnings, basic nuggets of wisdom on warnings to you and I and to his son Rehoboam, and he's going to talk about sexual immorality once again in the back half of this, let's dive into it. Verses 1 and 2 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you're snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, hasten and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber. Save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. So Solomon is giving a warning to his son, but both you and me, about the debts you have to a stranger or friend. He says promising to pay the debts of another person is putting yourself in a trap. It's putting yourself in a trap. He says, don't make a pledge up for a stranger. You see, because a lot of these promises are made with our mouth, but they affect the wallet. And so he's saying, be careful and warning against making pledges on paying other people's debts, right? Because it's going to hurt your wallet. And you make a promise with your mouth, it affects and afflicts the wallet. When you make promises with your mouth about these things and Then he says, get yourself out of this hopeless promise. He says, don't sleep, don't wait any longer, go do it now. Go take care of that business because you gave him your word. Go take care of it and don't do it again is what he's saying. Verse 6 Go to the ant, O sluggard, consider her ways and be wise without having any chief officer or ruler. She prepares her bread in the summer and gathers her food and harvest. How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? Solomon is speaking in verses six through eight wisdom to the sluggard so that they would learn hard working ways of an ant. Solomon saying, hey look, look at an ant, look at how hard it works. It doesn't have anyone bossing him around, it doesn't have anyone telling him what to do, it just does it. It is wise and worthy and we should look at an ant's hard work and try to imitate it in our own lives. Someone says, you want to know what hard work looks like? Look at one of the smallest insects ever. Look at an ant, look at how it works. Because we like to think, oh, we do something. We like to be puff and puff up our chest and go, oh, look at me, look at me. And Solomon says, you want to know what wisdom and hard work looks like? Look at the ant, look at the ant. Imitated is what he says. Ethics of discipline and diligence are found in the life of an ant. And ant works hard. When hard work needs to be done, it doesn't wait. Procrastination is a sin too. Says look at there. And then verses 9 through 11 he says, how long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like a robber and want like an armed men man. Solomon says, hey, if you're lazy, you better be held accountable for your laziness. Give me an account for your laziness. Tom is saying, the one that loves to sleep loves escapism. A lot of us say, well I've got problems, this, that and the other. We don't try to run from our problems. We don't try to numb it with food, we just try to sleep it off. I'm going to sleep my problems. Sleeping away your problems is actually escapism because you're not taking responsibility for it. Solomon's saying, take responsibility for your actions, own up to it and lead to change because procrastination will lead to poverty and it doesn't hold back its fury. Your procrastination will not only lead to poverty, but it brings irresistible fury with it. So he says, be held accountable for your laziness and do something about it. Take responsibility for your actions and do something about it. Verses 12 through 15 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger with perverted heart, desires evil continually sowing discord. Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly. In a moment he will be broken beyond healing. Solomon in three verses just broke down the destiny of a wicked man. He says, worthless wicked man. Sinful characteristics often go hand in hand with the lazy man. Meaning oftentimes laziness could be a sign that someone is falling for wickedness and worthlessness. Laziness is a fruit that someone is submitting themselves to the wickedness and the temptations of the world. Jesus, be careful from that Crooked speech actually implies that perverse man is dishonest. Crooked speech implies that someone is perverse and dishonest and be warned against it. And God knows how to put a crooked man in his place because he says what calamity will come upon him suddenly in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. Verses 16 through 19 these are the seven things that God hates right here. Verse 16 these are 16 that the Lord hates. Seven that are abomination to him. Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. Romans 6:13 Romans 6:13 says, Present our members to God for the works of righteousness, not for the works of the devil. To present your members to God for works of righteousness. The haughty eyes and a lying tongue, and a heart devices wicked plans. These things are actually things that are oftentimes found in many people's human behavior. But these things are things that God hates. And the result of these six abominations is what someone that sows discord. The seventh thing that God hates. So be careful. Verse 16 sorry, sorry, not verse 16. Verse 20 my son, keep your Father's commandment and forsake not your mother's teaching. Bind them on your heart. Always tie them around your neck. When you walk they will lead you when you lie down they will watch over you, and when you awake they they will talk with you. The word of God is alive and active. The word of God is a timeless piece of literature that has been impacting generations in the past. It is currently impacting this generation and will continue to impact this generation. This false progressive Christianity is saying that the Bible has to adapt to society because society is changing. No, no, no, no, no. The Bible is alive and active and it is a timeless piece of literature that is God breathed inspired scripture that impacts generations and does not have to adapt to society. Rather, society should adapt to the word and character of God. It is awake and Solomon's about to give warnings against adultery. For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. Do not desire her beauty in your heart and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes. Don't let her seduce you. For the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread. But a married woman hunts down a precious life. The prostitute, the adulterous woman. Sexual immorality promises excitement, pleasure and attention, but falls short every time. Don't do it. But the married life hunts down A married woman hunts down a precious life, endures till the end. Love is a choice. Sexual immorality doesn't care about the hard things you go through. Sexual immorality doesn't care about you as a human being with a soul. Sexual immorality wants to quench a feeling, and then as the feeling is quenched, it wants nothing to do with you and dumps you on the street corner. Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not to be burned? Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? Solomon is saying, when you mess with sexual immorality, you're playing with fire. Be careful. Verse 29. So is he who goes into his neighbor's wife. None who touches her will go unpunished. Adultery will be punished. This is what he's saying. Don't be an adulterer, don't do sexual immorality. Verse 30 People don't despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he's hungry. But if he's caught, he will pay sevenfold. He will give all the goods of his house. He who commits adultery lacks sense. He who does it destroys himself. What is Solomon saying here? Saying people often excuse a thief when he is stealing for a necessity. But if he's caught, he he will pay for his actions. Sexual immorality is not only a sin against God, but it's a sin against your own body and you're going to pay for it whether you get caught or not. That's what makes sexual immorality so different is that when you commit sexual immorality against yourself that you're actually going to pay for it whether people know about the sexual immorality you're committing or not, because you're crushing your soul he will get wounds and dishonor and his disgrace will not be wiped away. This is what the man will be feeling and will the wounds that he will take for jealousy makes a man furious and he will not spare when he takes revenge. Verse 20 Verse 35 to end it he will accept no compensation he will refuse though you multiply gifts if there could be a thesis statement for Proverbs chapter 6, it would be verse 6 go to the ant, O Sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise. Look at both the hard working nature of the ant when it comes to circumstances in life, but also look at the discipline and self control of the ant when it comes to sexual immorality. As I pray. Proverbs 6 was encouraging to you guys. I love you guys and see you guys tomorrow for Proverbs chapter 7. Guys, thank you so much for watching and listening to this episode. If you guys like it, subscribe to us on YouTube, follow us on Spotify, Instagram and Tick Tock. Bless you guys and see you guys next week. For the next episode.