1. “LET NOT THINE HEART DECLINE TO HER WAYS” Proverbs 7:25
DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY?
ADDRESS: 4
“LET NOT THINE HEART DECLINE TO HER WAYS”
Proverbs 7:25
Make a quick review of where we have come from and where we are going.
Most people have a feel for the need to get up, while still tired.
Again most people will know how the mind and the alarm clock must prevail in this battle.
HYMN: 1

2. DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY?
“I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” Luke 13:3

3. DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY?
“The FEAR of Yahweh is the Beginning of Knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Prov 1:7
Make a quick review of where we have come from and where we are going.
Most people have a feel for the need to get up, while still tired.
Again most people will know how the mind and the alarm clock must prevail in this battle.

4. DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY?
“My Son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.”
Prov 1:8
Make a quick review of where we have come from and where we are going.
Most people have a feel for the need to get up, while still tired.
Again most people will know how the mind and the alarm clock must prevail in this battle.

5. DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY?
“They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way ...” Prov 1:31
Make a quick review of where we have come from and where we are going.
Most people have a feel for the need to get up, while still tired.
Again most people will know how the mind and the alarm clock must prevail in this battle.

6. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
BACKGROUND:
King Josiah was born when his father was sixteen years old. Josiah was but sixteen years old when his son Jehoahaz was born.
2Chron
Meaningful sexual activity can take place before the Age of Responsibility.

7. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
BACKGROUND:
King Josiah was born when his father was sixteen years old. Josiah was but sixteen years old when his son Jehoahaz was born.
2Chron
It is the Duty of Parents to attempt to protect their children during that disruptive period of life.

8. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
BACKGROUND:
King Josiah was born when his father was sixteen years old. Josiah was but sixteen years old when his son Jehoahaz was born.
2Chron
It is the Obligation of children to Obey their parents and submit to the Wisdom of their rules.

9. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
PRINCIPLES INVOLVED:
“For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.” Proverbs 6:26
No one should underestimate the power of an evil woman.

10. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
PRINCIPLES INVOLVED:
“But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.” Prov 6:32
Sin may well be forgiven, but consequences of sin linger for our mortal life.

11. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
PRINCIPLES INVOLVED:
“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
Proverbs 14:12
These matters sometimes have very simple beginnings.

12. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
PRINCIPLES INVOLVED:
“Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Do people really think that God does not notice?

13. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
PRINCIPLES INVOLVED:
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.” Cor 6:9-10
Don’t be Deceived!

14. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
PRINCIPLES INVOLVED:
“And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God Cor 6:11
Thank the Almighty for Forgiveness!

15. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,”
Proverbs 7:6-7
Why is he void of understanding?
Do his parents know where he is?
What is he doing in this section of town?
Did he ask God to lead him not into temptation?
Is he flirting with Evil?

16. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:”
Proverbs 7:8-9
What is he up to at this time of night?

17. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.”
Proverbs 7:10
What is the attire of an harlot?
When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face. Gen 38:15

18. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.”
Proverbs 7:11-12
Her personality is overbearing.
She knows she has power over men and she plies her trade.

19. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.”
Proverbs 7:13-14
He was stunned by her approach to him.
This was an opportunity to escape.

20. THE LIGHT IS RED
STOP
NOW!

21. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.”
Proverbs 7:15
Did she really intend to meet him?
Or was that part of the anesthetic to make him compliant?
Her approach was professional without a hitch.

22. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.”
Proverbs 7:16-17
She further prepares to achieve her objectives.
Lust, … Enticement, … exactly where his imagination is quite prepared to go.

23. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.”
Proverbs 7:18
Realizing that this was not a joke his resistance is paralyzed.
This is pure lust.
This is an example of extreme selfishness.

24. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.”
Proverbs 7:19-20
A little more anesthetic to dull any sense of fear.
Likely, a lie, but just what the flesh wants to hear.

25. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.”
Proverbs 7:21
She forced him.
He yielded.
He is under her power.
Let those who imagine they could escape take heed.

26. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Proverbs 7:22-23
His life will be permanently damaged by this ‘chance’ encounter.
He will never be able to forget it.
Under the same circumstances, he will be an easier victim the second time.

27. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.”
Proverbs 7:24-25
This graphic description in the Word of God is designed to make us walk in the way of wisdom.
Don’t be naïve concerning the mind of the world.
FLEE youthful lusts.

28. LET NOT THY WAYS DECLINE TO HER WAYS
“For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.”
Proverbs 7:26-27
After the destruction of that young man, she goes back to the hunt for another.
DO YOU WANT THAT KIND OF FUTURE?

29. THE REMEDY – THE BLESSED WAY
“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.”
Prov 5:18-19

30. THE REMEDY – THE BLESSED WAY
“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:” 1 Thess 4:3-5

31. THE REMEDY – THE BLESSED WAY
“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
1 Cor 7:2
TAKE HEED!

32. “In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.”
DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY?
ADDRESS: 5
“In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.”
Prov. 3:6
Friday 31st Dec, 8:00pm
HYMN: 58