Proverbs 7:1-27 is the deceptive seduction of an immoral harlot doing whatever it takes to trap a lustful pray, as a deadly spider spins a web to catch whatever touches it, but this is the world’s lust that James 4:1-10 and 1 John 2:15-17 says, causes God and us to become enemies; thus, all sin separates God and people, and sin is a deadly spiritual and physical virus from Hell.
Proverbs 7:1-27 (NLT)—1 Follow my advice, my son; always treasure my commands. 2 Obey my commands and live! Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes. 3 Tie them on your fingers as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. 4 Love wisdom like a sister; make insight a beloved member of your family. 5 Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman, from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman. 6 While I was at the window of my house, looking through the curtain, 7 I saw some naive young men, and one who lacked common sense. 8 He was crossing the street near the house of an immoral woman, strolling down the path by her house. 9 It was at twilight, in the evening, as deep darkness fell. 10 The woman approached him, seductively dressed and sly of heart.
11 She was the brash, rebellious type, never content to stay at home. 12 She is often in the streets and markets, soliciting at every corner. 13 She threw her arms around him, kissed him, and with a brazen look she said, 14 “I have just made my peace offerings and fulfilled my vows. 15 You are the one I was looking for! I came out to find you, and here you are! 16 My bed is spread with beautiful blankets, with colored sheets of Egyptian linen. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning. Let us enjoy each other’s caresses, 19 for my husband is not home. He is away on a long trip. 20 He took a wallet full of money and will not return until later this month.” 21 So she seduced him with her pretty speech and enticed him with her flattery.
22 He followed her at once, like an ox going to the slaughter. He was like a stag caught in a trap, 23 waiting for an arrow to pierce his heart. He was like a bird flying into a snare, little knowing it would cost him his life. 24 So listen to me, my sons, and pay attention to my words. 25 Do not let your hearts lustfully go toward her. Do not wander down her wayward path. 26 For she has been the ruin of many; many men have been her victims. 27 Her house is the road to the grave. Her bedroom is the gate to death.
James 4:1-10 (NLT)—1 What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Do they not come from the evil, lustful desires at war within you? 2 You want what you do not have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you cannot get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it. 3 And even when you ask, you do not get it because your motives are wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure. 4 You adulterers! Do you not realize friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. 5 What do you think the Scriptures mean when they say the spirit God has placed within us is filled with envy? 6 But He gives us even more grace to stand against such evil desires. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but favors the humble.” 7 So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. 9 Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep repentance. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up in honor.
1 John 2:15-17 (NLT)—15 Do not love this world or the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 16 For the world offers only a craving (lusting) for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father but are from this world. 17 And this world is fading away, along with everything people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
Throughout Scripture, the world system lusts for control of people—man against man, family member against family member, nation against nation, all from the lust to control others—and now we are facing “a pandemic of planned satanic fear”, for the purpose of government control, so “WHO can be the one-world-government”, formed to control the entire world, the way Revelation 14 and 15 describe the “one-world-government and one-world-dictator” in destructive control, but remember Christ destroys everything satanic, “like a stone cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands, that smashes all man-made governments”.
Make sure your true love-relationship is with Christ and not with the world.
Jim Nabors
