{"id":2148,"date":"2017-09-13T07:31:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2017-09-13T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:31:50","slug":"finding-moral-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2017\/finding-moral-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Moral Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/behavior-god-abhors\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/habitation_of_the_just.jpg\" alt=\"He blesseth the habitation of the just (Proverbs 6:33)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/habitation_of_the_just.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/habitation_of_the_just-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/habitation_of_the_just-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/habitation_of_the_just-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/habitation_of_the_just-668x501.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I posted some thoughts from Proverbs 5:15-18 &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2017\/drink-from-your-own-cistern\/\" title=\"Drink from Your Own Cistern! | Panting Hart\">Drink from Your Own Cistern!<\/a> Now I pass along some notes on <strong>Proverbs 6:23-25<\/strong>&#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"verse\">&#8220;For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life&#8221;<\/em> (Proverbs 6:23).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Torah (the Law of the Pentateuch) is light.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>In this verse, <em>law<\/em> translates the Hebrew word <em>torah<\/em>, which is always translated that way in the KJV.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><em>torah<\/em> = H8451 = &#8220;a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>&#8220;y la ense\u00f1anza es luz&#8221;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;and the teaching is light&#8221; (notice that the article <em>the<\/em> shows <em>teaching<\/em> as a noun, not a verb)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>&#8220;Y camino de vida las reprensiones que te instruyen&#8221;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;And way of life the reproofs that instruct you&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Not all reproof instructs &#8212; but I believe that God always instructs us with His reproofs, even though we humans often refuse to be instructed, even by God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Satan and the world tell us something entirely contrary to this verse.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>They picture divine and godly reproof and restraint as repression and oppression.<\/li>\n<li>They paint commandments, laws, and correction as negative and counter-productive.<\/li>\n<li>They take what is light and portray it as darkness.<\/li>\n<li>And to complicate matters for us, our own flesh agrees with Satan and the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>How we need God&#8217;s Spirit to so revive us and renew us that we see His commandments and teachings for the light they are!<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>His rules are instructive of His character and our best interests.<\/li>\n<li>His instructions are to illuminate and deliver us into safe travel through life.<\/li>\n<li>His reproofs are for life and vitality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><em class=\"verse\">&#8220;Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path&#8221;<\/em> (Psalm 119:105).<\/li>\n<li>Now let&#8217;s see one of the moral and spiritual benefits of embracing God&#8217;s teachings and commandments&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em class=\"verse\">&#8220;To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman&#8221;<\/em> (Proverbs 6:24).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God&#8217;s instructions and rules guard us from moral evil and immoral people.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>His commandments and teachings guard us from the seductive enticements of that evil and those people.<\/li>\n<li>I believe that to be the literal meaning of this verse, but&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Remember Proverbs presents divine wisdom as a pure, holy woman &#8212; so we can also &#8220;spiritualize&#8221; this verse and think of the strange woman as the personification of worldly wisdom.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>God&#8217;s instructions and teachings, His commandments and rules, keep us and guard us from the seductive enticements and smooth reasonableness of that wisdom which is earthly, sensual, devilish (James 3:15).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em class=\"verse\">&#8220;Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids&#8221;<\/em> (Proverbs 6:25).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;No codicies su hermosura en tu coraz\u00f3n, Ni ella te prenda con sus ojos.&#8221;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Do not covet her beauty in your heart, Nor let her seize you with her eyes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Now we see that &#8220;staying on the straight and narrow&#8221; isn&#8217;t a passive thing.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>We must choose not to indulge and nourish the desire for the undeniable beauty and attractiveness of that which does not belong to us &#8212; be it a person or a philosophy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Remember the entrancing, entrapping effect of moral and spiritual evil!<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>So don&#8217;t gaze upon it.<\/li>\n<li>And don&#8217;t &#8220;lock eyes&#8221; with it.<\/li>\n<li>Even if you think you are strong enough. And maybe <em>because<\/em> you think you are strong enough. Listen&#8230;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><em class=\"verse\">&#8220;With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him&#8221;<\/em> (Proverbs 7:21).<\/li>\n<li><em class=\"verse\">&#8220;Yea, many strong men have been slain by her&#8221;<\/em> (Proverbs 7:26).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll close with this &#8220;random&#8221; truth:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center; font-size:110%; font-family:georgia,'times new roman',serif; color:darkgreen; margin-top:-.5em\">\nOnly God&#8217;s Spirit<br \/>\ncan give us<br \/>\nHis thoughts and perspectives<br \/>\nabout<br \/>\nHis thoughts and perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>Embrace the wisdom from above to avoid (or slip out of) the embrace of evil&#8217;s wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe tomorrow I&#8217;ll comment on Proverbs 6:26-35. (But it&#8217;s hard to think that I have the time to spare for this.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"lectura\" style=\"width:250px\">Reading:<\/p>\n<h3>Proverbs 6:23-25<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 6:23-25 &#8212; What God offers; what I must do.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,105,99,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-2148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-live-right","8":"tag-purity","9":"tag-relationships","10":"tag-seek-wisdom","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-yE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}