{"id":2146,"date":"2017-09-12T08:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2017-09-13T08:13:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:13:35","slug":"drink-from-your-own-cistern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2017\/drink-from-your-own-cistern\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink from Your Own Cistern!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/safeguarding-moral-purity\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-the-flattery.jpg\" alt=\"To keep thee from the flattery of the tongue of the strange... (Proverbs 6:24)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-the-flattery.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-the-flattery-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-the-flattery-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-the-flattery-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-the-flattery-668x501.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m teaching our congregation&#8217;s men&#8217;s Sunday School class this month. The first part of this Sunday&#8217;s lesson is based on <strong>Proverbs 5:15-18<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve pasted in below the rough first draft of my verse-by-verse observations. (The stuff in Spanish is from the Reina-Valera 1960 version of the Bible. Beneath any such usage you will find my translation to English.)<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"verse\">&#8220;Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well&#8221;<\/em> (Proverbs 5:15).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take only that which is yours.<\/li>\n<li>Do not drink in sights and experiences which are not yours &#8212; not &#8220;out there,&#8221; not in your house, not on your digital device, not &#8220;in here&#8221; (tap head).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"verse\">&#8220;Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets&#8221;<\/em> (Proverbs 5:16).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I do not know what to do with this verse, because the meaning changes when I switch to my other language. It becomes a question!<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;\u00bfSe derramar\u00e1n tus fuentes por las calles, Y tus corrientes de aguas por las plazas?&#8221;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Shall your fountains be poured out through the streets, And your currents of waters through the public parks?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t take your sexuality into the public domain.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t make a public display of your sexual vigor, drive, or need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Picture having a treasured supply of pure water, reserved for a special purpose. What would compel you to waste it?<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t do that with your sexual vigor, drive, or need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em class=\"verse\">&#8220;Let them be only thine own, and not strangers&#8217; with thee&#8221;<\/em> (Proverbs 5:17).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A stranger here is not just someone you don&#8217;t know.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s anyone you don&#8217;t have a right to know sexually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Do not share or display your sexual vigor, drive, or need with anyone who has no right to it.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Guard your own purity.<\/li>\n<li>Guard another&#8217;s purity as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em class=\"verse\">&#8220;Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth&#8221;<\/em> (Proverbs 5:18).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A blessed fountain is a treasured fountain, an honored fountain.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>God gave you your sexual vigor, drive, and need as an honored treasure.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Value it that way; treat it way.<\/li>\n<li>Do that, and you will find genuine pleasure and joy in life.<\/li>\n<li>Do not hold your sexual vigor, drive, or need in such low regard that you expend it in a wasteful, unholy manner with someone who is not your own sexually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Find your joy and pleasure in your own spouse.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep your spouse as the object of your sexuality, but not as a mere sex object.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>And if you don&#8217;t have a spouse, well, that facet of this subject is beyond the scope of my focus here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Guys, if the girl isn&#8217;t your wife, keep your hands off. Gals, if the fellow isn&#8217;t your husband, keep your hands off. (And his as well!) Kissing, holding, handling, hugging, fondling, cuddling&#8230; (Read the rest here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/defraud-not\/\" title=\"Defraud Not | Panting Hart\">Defraud Not<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>A few years back I wrote this for the Sunday School lesson for October 4, 2009: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/clp\/youth\/5-409.html\" title=\"Safeguarding Moral Purity | Anabaptists\">Safeguarding Moral Purity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Our congregation uses the Sunday School material produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clpcle.com\">Christian Light Publications<\/a>. 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