Welcome to Wisdom Today with Bill Kelley. Today we will be going over Proverb 7. I will then make the comment that Proverb 5 spends most of the proverb on the Perils of Adultery and Proverb 7 spends most of the proverb on the Crafty Harlot. There is a reason why King Solomon spent so much time on this topic - it is because it is so easy to fall into this trap. God's original plan was always for a man and a woman to meet - to fall in love, to commit themselves to each other, and to make a commitment to each other in a covenant relationship called "marriage." That was always God's plan. In verses 22 and 23 it says: Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, Till an arrow struck his liver. As a bird hastens to the snare, He did not know it would cost his life. I then go into the story found in John, Chapter 8, verses 2-11 of the woman caught in adultery. I will read the entire passage and go over three thoughts: 1. They interrupted the proceedings (the Feast of Tabernacles had just ended the night before, and there were still many people in town who had yet to return to their villages). They brought this woman in and wanted to make a spectacle of her. 2. They tested him: if He said not to stone her, he would be going against Jewish law; if He said to stone her, He would have been going against Roman law (which prohibited Jewish people from carrying out their own executions - they thought they had Him between a "rock and a hard place" and yet His answer totally confounded them. They (all the men who came accusing her) one by one dropped their stones and withdrew from the synagogue. 3. Jesus did NOT condone her. He did not approve of what she had done, but was perfectly clear and told her NOT to do it again.
