0046BS Proverbs 6 - Bible Study

We fight three battles daily: cultivating a humble and grateful heart, pursuing a relationship with God through scripture and prayer, and supporting one another through protective intercession.

• Getting aligned with God requires checking our complaints and cultivating gratitude
• The Bible warns strongly against co-signing loans and becoming entangled in debt
• We should learn diligence from the ant, who works without supervision or external motivation
• God hates seven things: pride, lying, violence, wicked planning, rushing to evil, false testimony, and creating division
• Christians should be mindful of their speech, avoiding perverse and undisciplined language
• Adultery destroys communities and families by violating trust between neighbors
• Walking in a biblical worldview means applying scripture to every area of life

Put on the full armor of God, strap on the shield of faith, pick up the sword of the spirit. Join each other in the shield wall, locking shields to the left and right as we march forward to take ground for God's kingdom and glory.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Three Daily Battles Introduction
• 5:53 Warnings About Debt and Co-signing
• 9:01 Learn from the Ant's Diligence
• 11:50 Seven Things God Hates
• 18:15 Warnings Against Adultery
• 25:27 Final Prayer and Shield Wall

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:29

Good morning everyone and welcome to your daily Bible study. I'm just going to go ahead and get a sound check as soon as I come up live here, so bear with me, come on. All right, here we go. All right, we're live, good to go, all right. Welcome to your daily battle Bible study.

Speaker 1: 1:05

This is where we fight three battles, monday through Friday. One fight to get a humble and grateful heart aligned onto the Lord. Through Friday One fight to get a humble and grateful heart aligned onto the Lord, checking all of our complaining, all of our gripes, all of our whining and getting grateful for all the blessings in our lives and humbly coming before the Lord. Two, we deliberately pursue a relationship with our Creator through the study of his holy scripture and through prayer. And then, three, we fight for one another with prayer of protection and intercession. So I'm glad you're here. I hope you had an amazing weekend.

Speaker 1: 1:46

As you guys know that, we are on the book of Proverbs Proverbs and we are on Proverbs 6 today. So good morning, my love. It's good to see you. I'm going to pull up the text and we oh, let me pray it in Heavenly Father. Lord, thank you.

Speaker 1: 2:05

We thank you for your protections and your blessings. Lord, we thank you for the opportunity to serve you for another day, a chance to get it right and to give our hearts to you, our minds to you, our souls to you, lord. Lord, we pray that today is the day that we die more to self and become more like your son, jesus. Lord, we thank you for the trillions of cells in our bodies that had to work near perfectly just for us to wake up today. We thank you for your protection throughout the night, protection of us and our family, our nation. Lord, we thank you for your common grace, your creation. Lord. We thank you for your common grace, your creation, the heavens and the stars, the sun and the moon. We thank you for this earth, everything from the tallest peak to the deepest ocean and everything in between, the animals, the wondrous animals, and the beautiful and amazing flora plants. While we thank you for sunrises and sunsets, thank you for the smell of fresh morning rain in the ocean, thank you for cool breeze on a hot day, a warm fire, those cold days in the winter, I'll be thank you for the taste of good food Drink. We also thank you for touch of a loved one and thank you for all the relationships in our life or to help us to always be present with those around us and to never take any minute for granted, to leave nothing unsaid, but those that we love we also. We also thank you for the great abundance that we have here in America and the responsibility that we have, those who have been given much. Much is expected. The nation needs to step up and lead everyone back to you. Lord, I also thank you for your divine grace for choosing us before the foundations of the world and writing our name into the book, for sending your son, jesus, to die for us so that we could be reconciled unto you. Lord, I pray that this time would please you, would glorify you, honor you, and then it would bring us closer to you. I pray all these things in Jesus' name. Amen, all right. Battle number one Brandy Hipp. Good morning to you. Battle number one out of the way.

Speaker 1: 5:13

Let's go ahead and get in the Bible to our Bibles, proverbs 6 and I'm going to warn you guys, the language is a little archaic. I didn't want to jump around In different translations, so I'll try to help you make sense Some of the more archaic words. Again, I'm out of the LSB today, as I usually am. I sometimes go to the ESV. If you're going to own one Bible, I recommend it be the ESV study Bible. It is phenomenal. Okay, bring up.

Speaker 1: 5:59

So, my son, if you have become a guarantor of your neighbor, okay. So this means that if you've co-signed for your neighbor co-sign would be the more modern term for that have struck your hands in a pledge for a stranger. Same thing If you have been snared with the words of your mouth, meaning you have done something you shouldn't have, by doing this, have been caught in the words of your mouth. Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go humble yourself and badger your neighbor. They're saying go, do whatever it takes. Go knock on the door, go plead with them. Give them no rest to get out of this, give no sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids. Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand and like a bird from the hand of the foaler. Okay. So, again, what we're talking about here is, if you co-sign with someone, do everything you can to get out of it.

Speaker 1: 7:04

The Bible does not look kindly upon debt. It knows that debt becomes the slave master and that the slave master will own you. The deeper you go into debt, the more out of control it becomes. It becomes your all-consuming thing and you can't focus on the things that God wants you to focus on. We all need to make sacrifices and again it's going to talk about this multiple places in the Bible to try to get out of as much debt as you can, to be debt free. So now let's go on to some more divine wisdom, verse 6.

Speaker 1: 7:46

Go to the aunt O sluggard. Basically, you lazy person, observe her ways and be wise. Which, having no chief officer or ruler, okay. Which basically means that when you're sitting there and you're watching ants go by, no one's directing traffic there. They're all just great workers and they're just a great example of everyone doing their part Prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provisions in the harvest. How long will you lie down, o sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest. Okay, your poverty will come in like a vagabond and you're wanting like an armed man? All right, that's like. Basically, your poverty will come in like kick in your door and overpower you. You know those are still threats today and they happen all across the country. But back in ancient times, before alarm systems and 911 calls and you know cell phones and modern response systems, you know people coming in to rob you in the middle of the night and overpower you was a very real threat, way more than is so today, um, and that your poverty will come upon you like that. So, picking up in verse 12, vile person, a wicked man, is the one who walks with a perverse mouth. Okay, um, christians are. You'll notice something depending on how long you've been around Christians, you'll see that mature Christians cost far less than the population.

Speaker 1: 9:46

If, when I am around my old friends from the neighborhood in Boston, every other word of theirs is a swear word, now, I wish I didn't swear at all, but I'm a flawed man and when I get angry and I get passionate, it still comes out of me and I pray to dear Lord Jesus that he takes that from me and helps me deal with that and I become what? Disciplined. It's a lack of discipline. It's also a lack of vocabulary. I listen to my friends and I love them and they're intelligent. They become so lazy in their speech that every other word is a cuss word for filler, because they can't think of any more power, a more powerful or eloquent way to say anything. They fill it with swear words, which just makes them sound stupid. I'm not you guys know me, I'm not a guy who uses excessively long, complex words. Just to say what I try to use Effective communication language, not too complex, not too basic. And last night I preached a sermon where I think I went too basic in my language, where I felt like I was spoon-feeding, almost, you know, like oatmeal, instead of cutting up some steak for people. So I'm going to dial it back up.

Speaker 1: 11:19

But again, you know, a perverse mouth. What comes out of your mouth? Your mouth is one of the most dangerous and your tongue is one of the most dangerous things for your salvation. Okay, so let's go back to this. Pick the inverse thing Winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his figures. Who is perverse in his heart, continually devises evil. Who is perverse and his heart continually devises evil. Who spreads contentions. Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly, instantly, he will be broken and there will be no healing. Okay, again, this is someone who divides people, spreads contentions.

Speaker 1: 12:08

Who's the strife creator? So we go down to 16, verse 16. There are six things which Yahweh hates, even seven which are an abomination to him Haughty eyes. So these are proud eyes. These are eyes that make you think you're better than what you are. These are things that make you think you're better than what you are. These are things God hates. If you are doing these things, stop, turn to the Lord, repent. Okay, so here we are. Haughty eyes, proud, arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked thoughts, feet that hasten to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies and one who spreads strife among the brothers. Now, all those are obviously so evil, haughty eyes. People might not think so, but that shows a disproportionate, immediate lack or improper alignment with god, coming to him proud and arrogant when you are bacteria under his feet, you know, um, and the one who's been strife among the brothers.

Speaker 1: 13:28

We see so much of this today in social media, with clickbait posts, and men who I really admire a lot of their teachings fall short on this. You know they'll say, hey, we're speaking truth or doing things, but I see them do it with things that are not salvation-based. Mark Driscoll is notorious for this, for doing clickbaits, where he'll come up there and he'll talk about cessationists and he'll say something extremely inflammatory and other things. And I think Mark Driscoll's got a lot of things that he's really good on, particularly with masculinity and living today and a lot of different things. And then there's other things where I think he's off. But one of the worst things he does is commit strife among brothers, which I've been guilty of and I've got to constantly check myself.

Speaker 1: 14:18

This is just needlessly division amongst us, to where my rule now is if you walk out a biblical worldview, which basically means you apply the Bible to your whole life and you're trying to apply the Bible to your whole life, I can work with you. I can work with you on things. I can be in fellowship with you and we are good to go. Okay, you may like see some things different. You may disagree with what God's doing behind the curtain or how salvation works, or what worship should look like, what food you can drink or what you can't, or what you can't drink or all these other things. I am willing to go to war with you and fight alongside you, because many of those things, as long as it's not a salvation issue, as long as it's not a salvation issue. So the other things, how fancy you want to dress a church, you know how you want your service to run, it doesn't really matter to me, okay, all I care is that you love, you know that you love God with all your heart. You're trying to do what he says. That's what matters. So, anyways, so, anyways, um.

Speaker 1: 17:13

So this last one is the longest one and, um, and I think, sometimes one of the hardest ones, and it's this, my son observe the commandment of your father and do not abandon the law of your mother. Bind them continually on your heart, tie them around your neck. When you walk about, they will lead you. When you sleep, they will keep watch over you. When you awake they will speak to you, for the commandment is a lamp and the law is the light and reproof for discipline by the way of life. So here, that's all in preparation, to say that keep the laws of God, commandments right. And here, what is pretty long you know preface about, and it's here it is in verse 24. To keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman. Do not desire her beauty in your heart, nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

Speaker 1: 18:18

This line here for an account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread. Basically means I've checked different translations and the one that makes the most sense out of this grab that you can hire a hooker for a loaf of bread. Okay, so a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread. So you are reduced to whatever it is that it costs a loaf of bread. When you lower yourself to be with a prostitute and an adulterous hunts for a precious life, can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? No, you can't have a fire in your lap and not be burned. Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? So is the one who goes into his neighbor's wife, whoever touches her, will not go unpunished. We're called to love our neighbor, and here we're talking about someone who sleeps with his neighbor's wife or has sex with his neighbor's wife or goes into his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not go unpunished.

Speaker 1: 19:29

Men do not despise a thief if he steals. Men do not despise a thief if he steals to fill himself when he is hungry. So basically what he's saying. We're saying there in verse 30, men do not despise a thief if he steals to fill himself when he's hungry. If you're hungry, there's no excuse to steal from somebody. So if you're horny there's no reason to go sleep with your neighbor's wife. But when he is found he must pay sevenfold. So whatever you steal, you must pay back sevenfold. If you steal $100, you're going to give back $700. He must give all the substance of his house.

Speaker 1: 20:09

The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking a heart of wisdom. He who would destroy his soul does it. He who would destroy his soul does it Again. Archaic language, but you get it. Wounds and disgrace, he will find. Language, but you get it. Wounds and disgrace he will find. And his reproach will not be blotted out, for jealousy enrages a man and he will not spare. In the day of vengeance. He will not accept any ransom. He will not be willing, though you give many bribes, talking about the punishment coming for someone who sleeps with someone's wife and of course, the other way around, right.

Speaker 1: 20:58

So again, the bible takes infidelity very seriously and nothing you know today, although that people talk about there being scarcity of upsharing here. You know a scarcity of women where you look at social media and you see what people are saying out there is that, particularly with these secular women, that all these secular women want men who are over six foot, not six foot, tall, isn't good enough anymore. You got to be six foot two, you know, you got to be ripped, you got to make, you know, and you got to make $250,000 minimum or a million dollars, whatever. So what you have is .00, zero, like zero, one percent of the population, and this is what every woman who is like a five on a scale of one to ten thinks that they're going to get, which, of course, they're not going to get. So what happens is you have a bunch of men at the top, or the small percentage who have the choice of a lot of women who, or the small percentage who have the choice of the lot women who, and then those men are not going to commit to somebody less than a point zero, zero, zero, zero. One woman, which is basically almost none of those girls, and so they're saying that there's a disparity in the availability. Brandy, have a good day of women for men

Speaker 1: 22:41

today. But I think it's always been this way, for the most part Because you got to remember people back in the day had to walk everywhere or ride somewhere. So unless you lived in a city or a population center, you weren't really exposed to a lot of women, which is why a lot of arranged marriages happened, because you didn't see a lot of women depending on where you lived. And if you didn't see a lot of women, your neighbor having. Think of this again no police, no 911, no nothing. You're out there a farmer in a hut, working a land with your wife, and you've got neighbors around you who see your wife know you're going off to market, and off to market to sell your harvest or go do work isn't a daily or an hourly thing, it sometimes is a week or a month

Speaker 1: 23:35

thing. So you can see how this would destroy community, how this still destroys community and destroys family with the adultery. So that's why God tells us to love our neighbor. He also says love your brother in his newest commandment, but love your neighbor because that's where freedoms collide. My freedom to do what I want on my property collides with your freedom that you want to do on your property. You're like well, that's easy, jay. No, it's not. My freedom to want to shoot on my property collides with your freedom of wanting to have peace and quiet. That's the easiest one I can think of. All right, so again, I hope this was valuable to you and that this helps

Speaker 1: 24:25

you. So let's go ahead and close it out and pray for one another. Heavenly Father, lord, we thank each other. Thank you for the men and women who are participating in this Bible study. Lord, we thank you for all that we have. Lord, I pray that each and every one here will have discernment, understand the text today, despite my inaccuracy to explain it. Your Holy Spirit would reveal to them your infinite wisdom. Lord, I pray that this Bible study show would reach people that need it and I would use it to hold them closer to

Speaker 1: 25:06

you. Lord, I pray a prayer of protection, peace over this fellowship, over the persecuted church, our troops overseas, our first responders at home and our veterans of yesteryear. I pray for our beloved America. I pray that she would turn from her sin, hit her knees, repent and seek your face, and that you would see her and heal her, so that we could once again become one nation under God. Indivisible Liberty, justice for all. Now I call this fellowship to put on the full armor of God, strap on the shield of faith, pick up the sword of the spirit. Join each other in the shield wall, locking shields to the left and right. As we march forward to take ground for your kingdom, your glory. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. All right, everyone. God bless you. I will see you tomorrow. Bye.