Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Hello, everybody. Glad you're glad. Glad you're here. Let me stop the music. And glad you're here tonight. As we come back to Proverbs and we look at the, the. The seventh chapter of Proverbs, I get mixed up because we're in session nine, Chapter seven, and it's confusing, but having a good time, sailing along, we, we might get into a little of chapter eight tonight. I don't know. I. We'll. We'll see. I. I thought, I thought, hey, I think I can go. And then I got into chapter eight and there's so much there. So we're going to see chapter eight, Chapter seven is very interesting chapter. It's got a, a parable, a story, if you will, that speaks to the king. So we have been again looking at wisdom unveiled here and coming into the Proverbs. And we will pull up Proverbs chapter 7, and we'll be right there and ready to go and take care of, of all that. Now with that said, welcome to Bible study. Got the King James right here. We'll be using that mainly right here. We'll look at Proverbs 7. We'll use this side over here just for some cross references should we need to do so. And we will sail along. If you've been with us, you know exactly where we're going. Right here with this, my son. Proverbs, Chapter seven. Hey, you know what, Luc? No, never mind. I just remembered. This morning at men's breakfast, John gave me a pointer. How's this? Do I look official? Do I look professorial? Homemade there. It's got rightly dividing the word of truth, my son. There we go. If you've been with us, you know that there is a, a philosophy that we're taking for my son, that it's Solomon's son, Rehoboam, expanding that if you want to, into Judean kings. So this, my son, right here is very much, very literal. My son, keep my words, lay up my commandments. How many times have we seen My words, my commandments in verse two, Keep my commandments and live my law as the apple of thine eye. Now, I don't have all the passages here in front of me, but we could start in chapter one of Proverbs. And what he says over and over and over again is, Rehoboam, keep my words, lay up my commandments. He uses just a little bit different phrasing each time he goes along. My words, my commandments, keep them with me. Keep my words, lay up My commandments. Keep my commandments and live. That's what Deuteronomy 18:5 said, do this and you shall live. Keep my commandments and live. And again, I would point out that my commandments, here, I think, is the law. He had adopted it as his own, so keep it and live. And my law now, it's not Solomaic law, it's Mosaic law. That's what he was put under. That's what he was leading under. That is what he had adopted at least by the end of his life. And so he is to keep that as the apple of thine eye. We've heard that phrase before, you know, Israel being the apple of mine eye. And it is obviously, you know, one of the most sensitive parts of the body, if not the most sensitive part of the body, to say, hey, this is something that you desperately need it and you desperately want to protect it. So you are about to be the king of Israel. About to be the king of Israel. Here's what I want you to do. Keep it. Now, I mentioned that that starts in chapter one, and this happens to be the seventh time, seven times in seven chapters, we have this instruction to keep it. And very similar, those of you who've been with us all nine sessions, now that we get to the seventh chapter, I think you would agree with me. Yeah, I heard this in chapter one. I heard it in chapter two. I heard it in chapter three. I heard it in chapter four. I heard it in chapter five. I heard it in chapter six. I heard it in chapter seven. He wants to just keep on you pounding that in. Whether it's a rhetorical device or. Or a memory device or a Don't forget this. It's certainly a huge part of it. Now, in evangelicalism, and we've talked about this before, in evangelicalism, we virtually never take the book of Proverbs dispensationally. We virtually always take it as, here is wonderful advice for you, me and everybody, and we ought to read a chapter a day and just be blessed and tickled in the gizzard all the way through, and it'll be a wonderful, wonderful thing. I think again, we ought to say, wait a minute. Even if we're going to broaden out, my son, to be me and you, what is Solomon's Word, Solomon's Commandments, and Solomon's Law, and keep them and you shall live, it's got to be the Torah. I don't think it's Solomon's wisdom, as a matter of fact. And I'll be doing the book of Ecclesiastes soon. But I think we'll find in the book of Ecclesiastes written by Solomon, that Solomon never says, take what I say and do it and you will live. He's talking about Torah here. He's talking about the commands. So remember, always remember when the book of Proverbs is taught, this is very much an under the law book. And up to this point anyway, all the my son passages which shall get us up into chapter 10 or so, they are very much a Torah book for the kings. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to keep this and you will live, keep it protected. He hasn't used this phrase before. Here as the apple of thine eye, but so important. So he goes on then with the instruction, bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Again, it's not new stuff. We've seen it before. Ties into, to the law, to the instruction that is given to Jerusalem to, you know, in, in, in Deuteronomy it's bind them on thine arms, put them as the frontals on thy forehead. Put them on thy doorpost. In Deuteronomy. Here again, he has repeated things like this on a number of occasions. And you got bind them upon thy fingers. It's, it's probably the same as, you know, put a string around your finger, something to remind you, something to make you think of it. Carry this with you. Write them upon the table of thine heart. Inside, not just the tablets of stone. Say unto wisdom. Now here's where we shift just a little bit into the, the, the, the story, I guess you would say, that is about to unfold as, as the encouragement is, is still here. Now, again, it has been my contention and so far in nine sessions, I haven't found anything to say that this assumption or hypothesis should not be taken that wisdom in the book of Proverbs is Torah. Lady Wisdom is the voice of Torah. Wisdom is Torah itself. So say unto Wisdom, thou art my sister and call. Call understanding thy kinswoman. Bring these in close. It's family. Bring it into family, protect it and care for it. This is something that is going to be most important, is that Torah, you are bound to Torah. You're in a covenant relationship with Torah. You are in a blood obligation to Torah. This is who you are. Say to Wisdom or say to Torah, thou art my sister. Call understanding thy kinswoman that they your sister and your kinswoman, Wisdom. Torah may keep the. From the strange woman from the stranger which flattereth with her words. Let's, let's, let's stop and remind ourselves of something right here. Let me highlight that. There we go. Okay. We, early on, was it chapter one, maybe chapter two? @ the, @ the latest, we defined the strange woman not as just some adulterous woman, not as some loose woman, not as a foreign woman, not as a nerdy woman. But a strange woman was one who flattered. She was not froward in her speech like the, the, the evil man, not just spitting on Torah and walking away proud, but rather she gave the illusion of walking in Torah, loving Torah, loving Israel, loving the Lord. But it was all flattery. She flattereth with her words. She will say the right thing and do the wrong thing. That is the strange woman. Now we have to understand, and we don't believe in, you know, transgender here, but we have to understand that this strange woman can be a woman. This strange woman can be a man. The strange woman can be an institution. The strange woman can be an idea. The strange woman can be a religion. The strange woman can be a neighborhood. The strange woman can be a movement. The strange woman can be a denomination. If they had such a thing back then, they didn't. So the strange woman is anything that talks a good talk, but does not walk a good walk. And he especially wants to make sure that his son watches out for the strange woman because she will take him away from Torah and that will in the end be a very dangerous and a destructive thing for her. So here's the strange woman. Now again, I wanted to point this out and even highlight this because it is it, it, it helps prove our contention. We've been contending all along that's the strange woman. And here it just, it defines it. The strange woman flattereth with her words. If you need a chapter and verse about the strange woman, there it is. Proverbs, chapter 7, verse 5. So we go on at the window of my house. Now, beginning in verse six, here, verse six, down to verse 2020 through 2020 at least begins a story. Six through nine is the, the setting up of the story. The father's perspective of the story as he gives some, some observations of some things that he is going to see. You know, before we do that, I, I last week I promised some, some pictures and I didn't deliver. And here's, here's some pictures here. I've got the lady here. Torah versus lady flattery. Now she looks like just a beautiful godly woman, right in our 1940s attire. She's got her head covered, you know, she's got a nice feminine hairdo. She's wearing a dress below the knees. But she's not Lady Wisdom. Make this your sister. Watch out for this woman and what it says, if you go back in those verses, your sister, if you'll listen to her, will keep you from this woman who doesn't look really like a harlot here, does she? Yet I read the rest of the chapter. She looks like a respectable 1940s American woman. Right? Okay, but be careful with her. Now. Let's, let's, let's come back here. And he begins to give a. A journey. Solomon does. At the window of my house. Solomon sitting in his palace. And you know, I. I almost think of David here, Solomon's father, who at the window of my house looked out, saw a beautiful woman. Solomon knows this story here, what happens here. He's, he's. He's recreate. He's creating or telling a story in his mind. Maybe the story is absolutely true, maybe it's not. I don't know that that's going to make any difference here on what we do with it. But he says, at the window of my house, I looked through my casement and behold, among the simple ones. Not, not deep thinkers whistling Dixie, having a good little life just going on. Among the simple ones, I discerned among the use a young man void of understanding. You get the picture? We don't have to go through it too much. Hey, there he is. I can tell that guy, you know, maybe he's got some potential. Maybe he looks healthy, wealthy and wise, but you can tell he's. He's headed for trouble. He doesn't know he's headed for trouble, but you can just look at him and say, you are headed for trouble. Now here's the simple ones. I discerned the use among. Among the use. A young man devoid of understanding, passing through the. Near her corner. Who? Well, I'll tell you who. There she is right there near her corner. He's approaching Lady Wisdom. And he went the way to her house in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night. And behold, there met him, a woman with the attire of a harlot. Okay, I think I've got another picture for you. Here we go. Here is our simple young fellow. He's a happy dude, isn't he? Just going along, carrying on. Here she is again, Lady Flattery, as we called her. And it's in the. The dark of the night. He is just progressing along. He is moving right along and by the way, thanks to AI for my pictures here. So here he comes. Black and dark of the night, there met him a woman with the entire Baharlot. Ah, but let's not miss this again. What is she, subtle of heart? She's not gonna say, hey, I'm a harlot. Come on. In her words, her immediate actions, her demeanor, it's gonna be, would you like a cup of coffee? And he's gonna be taken in. Now it goes into. At least the King James has put this parentheses. And I think that is appropriate that it begins to speak of her and says, she is loud and stubborn. Her feet abide not in her house. Once again, watch this woman. Her feet abide not in her house. Let me say again, this is not really talking about a woman. He is giving the account that Rehoboam or any young man, they can kind of catch this. They can kind of get into this story. They can kind of picture it. They can kind of see themselves there, because most young men are simple thinkers. You know, they can kind of see them getting caught in this trap. So this is a story that captures them. But let me give the example of another famous story in the Bible that came in the same family. You remember the guy that came and said there was a man who had many sheep, and he had his. Had some guests come up, and he went over to the neighbor who had just one lamb, and he said, hey, you know, I. I need something to feed my friend. And the guy, I just have this one little lamb here. You've got all those sheep out there. And. And yet that guy takes the one little lamb and he slaughters that man's lamb. It was his pet. It was his child's best friend. He slaughters it and he puts it on the table for his guest. And you remember that the king said, away with him. Be done with him. Now take that story, Nathan and David. Take that story. Is that a story about sheep for dinner? No, it virtually has nothing to do with lambs and how many someone has and how many someone else. That is not the point of the story at all. And if that's all you get out of it, boy, have you missed the story. Right? But, but, but it. It. It almost shouts, this is not a story about a little lamb. It's a story about David and his adultery. Now here, I'm afraid, however, that when we get into this, I have not, through this series, gone back to listen to anybody else's sermons on proverbs or books on proverbs and see what they have to say. But I wouldn't be surprised if you looked up even say, Proverbs chapter 7. Sermons on Proverbs chapter 7. It would be a fun thing to do. Well, if you like to punish yourself, find some sermons on Proverbs chapter 7. See what they do here. My guess is that they handle most of it as a warning to young men getting caught up with illicit women. And as important as that lesson is, it is virtually worthless compared to the lesson that Solomon is actually giving. But you can also imagine that perhaps Rehoboam needs something, especially after the speech has gone on a long time. Needs something to catch his attention. This story will do. It talks about some of his buddies out there. I saw one of them. Simpleton went over to her house. You know that strange woman, he was just happy go lucky, moving on his way, enjoying an evening stroll, when there she was. That'll catch a young man's attention. He's doing it as an attention giver getter, as a means of telling him, you should have gone walking with your sister. If you'd have gone walking with your sister, you wouldn't ended up with that strange woman. Who's the sister? Torah. When you go out, take Torah with you. Take your sister with you. So she, the strange woman once again is subtle of heart. But once you get to know her, she's loud and stubborn. Her feet abide not in her house, her Covenant house. She's ready to move on now, is she without now in the streets and lieth wait at every corner. Boom. Over here trying to get that young man. She's over here trying to get that neighborhood. She's over here trying to get that king going about in the community. She caught him and kissed him. And with an impudent face said unto him. I should have looked up that word, impudent. Luca, do that for me in English. What does impudent mean? I. We. We should have made a cartoon of the strange woman with an impudent face. I don't know what impudent means, but I'm about to find out. So here he didn't. He didn't say, whoa, I sure would like to have a lady tonight. I'm gonna go out there and find me one. No, he really let's say in innocence, ignorance, in his ignorant bliss, just going along. But he was not being diligent. And for you know it. She caught him. She kissed him. She had an impudent face. What's in impudent? Strong, bold or hardened? Okay, I saw that woman in the bank today didn't. So she, she caught him. She reaches out, she doesn't. So again, this is, this is that. I, I don't know. Let's, let's, let's get back over here and look, look at her. Here, here, here she is. This is that, you know, nice lady down the road. But later on she kind of has an impudent face there, doesn't she? Later on she comes and once again she. Katie, bar the door. Doesn't matter. Well, you know what we talked about in the daytime. She caught him, she kissed him with an impudent face. She said unto him, notice this. I have a peace offering with me this day. I've paid my vows. It's kind of like I'll put this a little bit in modern context and you could, you could put this. I'm going to use Catholicism. You could put it in, in whatever, whatever form you want. But she's kind of out there, you know, sitting, sitting out on the porch or near her window with her rosary beads, you know, praying the rosary. I'm just here praying the rose. Oh, hello. Would you like to pray with me again? She's showing herself to be holy. This, Solomon says, this is what you got to watch out for. This is what's going to take you away from Torah is idle chatter about Torah. Empty talk. It's never really going down to the bone on this one. Here I've got my peace offerings. Today I paid my vows. I am holy, holy, holy. Therefore came I forth to meet thee. Prince, just wanted to let you know it's an all night prayer vigil at my place. Come on. Diligently to seek thy face. And I have found thee, oh, the providence of God. And then she begins to shift. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry and carved works with fine linen of Egypt. I think you can get that from the mypillow guy. Doesn't he sell fine linens of Egypt? She's beginning to pardon how blunt this is. But Solomon told the story. She's beginning to remove her religious clothing and to show that which is a bit more revealing, to entice him in. And this is the way it's going to work. Rehoboam. They're not just going to say, come over here, leave Torah. If you'll stick with your sister, your sister will recognize what's happening. Though you need to stick with your sister, your kinsman. Get your aunt in there, your mom in there, your sister in there, whatever. Make that and you'll never get into this So I have perfumed my bed with myrrhs, with aloes, with cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with loves. I don't know if there's some way in which you can take this and make it religious, you know, she says, I paid my vows. And then she. She seems to turn on the dime here. I paid my vows and I made my bed ready. But could it be that she's sort of covering up this to say, hey, I'm a good person and you're a good person, and this is all about love. There's nothing wrong with this. So it's. It's covering up the sin again. Is this just about, shall we say, infidelity? No, just about. A young man on a stroll one night who got caught up with the wrong woman is not. It's almost not even about that. Obviously there's truth there. And any, any young man can catch. Catch that and say, hey, you know, I. I better go out with my sister. But don't miss the point. Don't get away from Torah king. Now she goes on, for the goodman is not at home. He's on a long journey again. Who's the goodman? Is that her? Is that her father? Is that her husband? Is that her. Her. Her guardian? Is it. Does it go deeper and have some, Some kind of a relation? Even as Jesus told in the, what was it, Matthew, chapter 25 or so in those parables, you know, that the master of the house went away to a faraway country. Is there any connection here or is this just part of the story? I'm not sure we would get too much, especially in the proverbs, get too much in going down and trying to make typology out of it and say, you know, this is the silence of God here, or this is the 400 years of silence, or this is the, you know, whatever, whatever you want to get into. This is the. The Messiah gone unto heaven. I, I kind of think we would probably make up more things than we would bring up. So I think it's just, it's part of the setting that you need in the story. And remember, in a, A parable, this is not a literal parable, but nonetheless, in a parable, you look for one singular point, not all of the connections. Parable is not typology, so I wouldn't really be too excited about going into typology here. A goodman is not at home. He's gone on a long journey. He's taken a bag of money with him. And he will be home at the day appointed. He got plenty of money. He's not coming home. He's got business to take care of. And I know when he's coming. We got time. In other words, there's no danger here. There's no risk here. This is using the story about how a man gets caught up in. In these kind of illicit affairs to say king. Let me tell you how easy it would be to get away from your journey right here, your covenant obligations. So goes on with her mu. Oh, excuse me. With her much fair speech, she caused him to yield. With the flattering of her lips, she forced him. Now, notice, I'll even go with forced him. But how did she force him? Fair speech. How did she force him? Flattering lips. She talked him into it to the point that there was really no return again. Imagine if his sister had been out there. Come on, Rebom. It's time to go home. Dad's expecting us. We gotta get. Get. Let's get out of here. But she's. He listens to her fair speech so much. To her flattering lips, so much that in the end, he almost doesn't have a way out. I'll go with she forced him. And now he's stuck. Now she's got him where she wants him. She forced him. He goes after her straightway. Uh, now let's just. Let's hide right there. She forced him. He goeth after her straightway. It clearly is using, let's say, a man's weakness in enticing him and clearly talking about the king leaving Torah. So he goeth after her straightway. All of us, when. When it gets to verse 22. He goeth after her straight way. All of us are saying. I am shocked. I never thought the story would end this way. No, said no one. We all knew where he was going right there. He goes after her straightway. And. And we've been around the block much. We know where this is going here. As an ox goeth to the slaughter, 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 that it is not. And knoweth not that it is for his life. There you go. Very strong words in 22 and 23. Look, son, you're gonna end up there being enticed, going about, moving along here to there. And boom, before you know it, you're going to be an ox to the slaughter. Before you know it, you are going to be a fool in the stocks. Before you know it. You're going to have a dark strike through your. A dark strike through your liver as a bird hastes through the snare, knowing not what's in its life. That's where you're going to go. Keep Torah as your sister. Now, wouldn't you agree with me. Let's go back to the picture here. Wouldn't you agree with me that that is a brilliant picture? Not talking about the artwork here. I'm talking about the picture that Solomon painted where he says, keep my commandments. Keep Torah as your sister. Keep. Wisdom is the word he uses. Keep wisdom as your sister, as your kinsman, as your aunt, as your cousin, as your. As your mother, whatever your grandma. You. You. You make Torah like that. And then go on a walk with your sister because your sister sees through the flattery. Torah will see through it. Will give you wisdom to keep from being in the stocks. Made the laughing stock and made the fool. What a. A brilliant story. If you got your sister here. You know, the bird goes to the snare, knowing not it is for his life. But. But there is something again in Solomon's brilliance. There is something that we would look and say, our sisters know. Our sisters know that one is gonna get you. We men don't always know it, but, boy, our sisters know it. So he uses this brilliant story here to say, stay close to Torah. That's what you need, and that's what you've got to have. Now let's go on to verse 24. Hearken unto me. Now therefore, O ye children. Notice he changes here, the children. He's kind of shifted gears. He's finished his story. He was talking to my son, and now he talks to the children. Now we've. We've gone back, and that gets into. Is it Proverbs 2 or 3, I don't remember. That switches the gears from my son to my children. And again, same as back then. I think this broadens the audience. This gets it out into, shall we say, into the entire nation. And he speaks, or calls upon the nation a little bit to listen to him. Hearken unto me now, O ye children. Attend to the words of my mouth. Let not thine heart decline to her ways. Go not astray to her paths. So he. He wants this for the king. But as we pictured before, I kind of see it as, you know, like when you see the king out on the balcony, Buckingham palace, and his family is there with him. And, you know, the. The picture I see is he's got a message here for his son. But he knows the entire nation is watching on. And so from time to time he looks and says, hey, children, hey, nation, let me, let me say to you. And so he gives the whole word to the whole nation saying, this could happen to anybody. This is not just my son. This could happen to anybody. So let not thine heart inclined to her ways, go not astray unto her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded. Yea, many strong men have been slain by her. And I bet that, I bet Solomon very easily could have put in some personal stories here. Forget the women in his life, he had a few about leaving Torah. And other men out there could say, yeah, that's exactly right. You got it. That's, that's, that's what will happen. Look how strong it gets. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. Now, even with hell having a stronger connection or connotation today than it did in 1611, in 1611, hell was much closer to the beyond or to death, the grave, the death. I wouldn't be surprised. I didn't look in any other translations, but I wouldn't be surprised if some say, you know, her house is the way to the grave and down to the chambers. And I don't think he's saying, hey, the person who commits adultery is going to go to hell, but I do think you could say the person who doesn't obey Torah in his age, not in ours, the person who doesn't obey Torah. That's how you get to hell. That is the road to hell. And I think we can take that as literally as we would use hell today, that this subtlety of the person leading you away from Torah will get you there. Now, let's just take it as the grave for a moment, that subtly leaving Torah is going to lead you to death. You could go back to number a number of passages in Deuteronomy and you would find that, you know, choose this and you shall live. Turn away from this and you shall be cursed or you shall die. You could go back to the Book of Judges and see this cycle again over and over. Where they started out with their sister, but then they left their sister, left Torah, wandered away, turned to other gods, ended up dead. It's only when they came back to their sister, came back to Torah, that there was life for the nation again. As that generation had died, another generation came along. So this, this very much is talking about Torah, Torah life, Torah issues, and Torah problems that come along. So there you have chapter seven in this, in this, this, this story this. That is given. Now I want to go ahead and move into chapter eight. I realize your outline does not have chapter eight, and we won't go all the way through chapter eight. We'll be there next week and I'll give you the, the outline on it. There's parts of it that get down later that we. There's too much. We won't be able to get into it. But let's go ahead, because chapter seven is a little brief. Let's go ahead and move into chapter eight. And he says, doth not Wisdom cry? Doesn't Torah shout out? He. He has shifted gears. There's. There's a. There's a little bit different way. Is he still talking to my children? It's kind of a general audience, so probably so. And he says, hey, doth not Wisdom cry? Let's. Let's go ahead and connect it to the story. Young man out there walking, happy, go lucky. Here's Lady Flattery here. Off in the distance is Lady Wisdom saying, don't do it. Don't go there. Turn around, be in a different place. So what have you got here? Doth not wisdom cry? Doesn't the Torah shout out, I think you and I, who are not under the law, you and I would agree. Yeah, she cries. She cries loud. She can, she can belt it out there. Does not Wisdom cry. And understanding put forth her voice. So we got a little, a little choir here, the Torah choir. She standeth in the top of high places, by the way, of the places of the path. Now we're going to see Lady Wisdom in a number of spots here, crying out, which again, if you tie this to chapter seven, it goes to say, hey, if you would just listen, you had plenty of warnings. There is no reason to be suckered in by this woman. Wisdom cries. She standeth in the top of high places, I think. And, and Luke and I looked at this a little bit this afternoon. I think that you can't really find a good usage of high places. High places in the scripture seems to be, you know, I say this. Maybe I had to back off on it because I just thought of one we didn't look up. Isn't there like, like hines feed. He puts my feet to high places or something like that. Look that up, Luca, and see if we can find that. So maybe I'll be wrong here. But I thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I wasn't. I think the, you know, she standeth on top of high places, especially when you relate to Torah. It really is saying hey, she will even go and shout out at the places of pagan religion. You can almost hear Taurus saying, do it this way, not that way. You can almost. When you get to Romans chapter one and the Creator, you know, they worship the creation instead of the Creator. You can almost hear Taurus shout out, you know, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He's the one that made these creatures. So wisdom cries out there in the high places. I think this probably is in a negative sense, not that. And it could be. If you want to put it in a positive sense, you. You go on the top of the mountain and you shout it out where the word will get out. There might be saying that, but I think it's going to hear talk about her boldness. She will even go to the places that are worshiping anti Torah in an anti Torah way. She'll go there and she'll shout it out. We're going to get to the. To a number of. Of places here. What is, what is that? That Psalm 18:33. Okay. And would you agree with me that maybe we missed that or not before I look at it? Okay, I got a tentative. Yeah. Oh, okay, good. Give me that one here in just a moment also. So I'll. I'll give you two ways to look at this. He maketh my feet like hinds feet and seteth me upon my high places. Now, I don't think he would take that in a negative way. He said, with me upon my high places. It's going to be a positive statement that is given. So. So maybe I'll have to back out a little bit on that. Say that's a negative thing. Let's. Lucas found another one now that we got onto that. What is 1st Samuel, chapter 9, verse 12. They answered them and said, he is. Behold, he is before you. Make haste now. For he came to the day of the city. There is sacrifice of the people today in the high place. This is. Did you say Samuel? Who's the king or the person? Saul. King Saul. So they're having a sacrifice in the high place. As soon as you come to the city, you shall straightway find him. Behold, he go up to the high place to eat, for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless the sacrifice afterwards. Eat now. Therefore go ye up to him. And they went up into the city. And when they were come to the city, behold, Samuel came out against them. For to go up to the high place. Now, I assume this against them is a positive thing, or do we know yet well, okay, so Samuel is the one that goes up and, and I think Saul is in the midst now. The Lord told Samuel and Zier day before. Yeah, this is where he's finding. Saul is in the high place and Samuel's there to give a sacrifice. I think it's a, it's a, it's a positive light. So let me come back here now that we've done our research. Thanks for joining us. She standeth in the top of the high places. You can say that. That's a way of saying up where everybody can be heard. Up on the podium. You can say she goes to the pagan places of worship. Or maybe you can even say just the places of worship, a number. However you do it, it is. She's bold. She is. Good thing we're in a different dispensation because Paul would not permit her to speak. She is saying, I am getting up there and I'm going to shout out. Now that's also a good illustration. You know, Paul, a very strong keeper of the law to say Paul did not look at this as a woman. He looked at this as Torah speaking. As I said earlier, it can be a woman, it can be a man, it can be a thing, it can be a place. That's a strange woman here. This wisdom is a thing is Torah. So she standeth in the top of the high places, by the way of the places of the paths. This is the second by the way, the places of the paths. It is the, it's the busy spot. She goes to the intersection, the places of the paths. So where the people are, she shouts it. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in, at the doors. Okay, again, this was a very important place. Verse 3. A very important place. A lot of business took place there. A lot of government took place there. A lot of decisions took place there. The who's who, the elders of the city were at the gates. So she goes there and she shouts it. It. Now the idea, and I think this ties in even to, I don't know, Psalm 19:and, and, and in Romans where it says, quoted there, you know, has, has her voice been heard? Oh yeah, oh yeah. You can't, you can't cry ignorance when it comes to Lady Wisdom. She gets the word out. Torah is out there. The instruction of Torah is out there. Next week we'll even get into it might even be built into the creation itself, Torah. So in other words, they are without excuse to borrow the words from Paul here. She gets out. Now then an interesting thing happens when you hit verse, verse 4, and Solomon does something he has not done before. He says unto you, o men, he's talked to the children. He's talked to my son. He's talked to the children. This is the first time he talks to O men. Now, is that a just a reference to the children? And you know, just, oh, men, men, listen up. Or you know, is it. Is it literally the men in the congregation? I think it's defined as we continue on in the verse. So I don't take this general to the Israel congregation of the Men of Israel, because he says right here, oh man, I call and my voice is to the sons of man. Not the sons of men, but the sons of man. Now, the word sons, you probably know from some other things in Hebrew is benet been. And then when it's attached to something, bene. So ben Adam, sons of Adam. If you were to take it as a proper noun, could it be, I'm going to say, yes, let you know up front right here, Solomon does come and say, I want to talk to everyone. I've talked to Rehoboam, I've talked to the nation. I want to talk to the entire world. Now, Solomon, I had this question, or a question that led to this, anyway, the other day on Ask the Theologian this week, Solomon was the world superpower king at that point. He was, I would say he was the most powerful man in the world in his day, especially at the end of his kingdom. There was no kingdom that that really was even close in comparison. So Solomon was the Donald Trump of the world. So he says, I want to speak to everybody. I want the world to hear me. Now, that's what I think. When you've got oh men, especially here by the sons of man. Man. If it was just oh men, I couldn't take that quite as strongly. But because you've got the sons of man, the sons of Adam, that would be everybody alive in his day. He goes to say, oh, ye simple, simple men. Okay, you know, maybe you hadn't been educated, maybe you're not a brilliant thinker, but hey, I want to tell you something. Oh, ye simple. Understand Wisdom. What's wisdom? Torah. Who's he talking to? The sons of man. Wouldn't you agree with me that in the days of the dispensation of the law, all mankind had an obligation to the law? All mankind, you said, no, no, no, the law was for Israel. And we've said that a thousand times. And we've even said things like, you know, the other nations weren't under the law. I say things like, you know, the law wasn't for the Chinese, the law wasn't for the Brazilians. The law wasn't for the, the Egyptians or the Assyrians or the Babylonians. Who is the law force for Israel? Well, we really ought to tweak that a little bit. The law was given to Israel, To Israel, to whom belong the oracles of God. Paul said it was theirs. They were the keepers of the law in, in a number of ways. Not only in obedience, but also in the protection of the law. But they were always to proclaim it to the nations. And there, there always was a way for the nations to get in line with the law, even. And, and maybe I'm stretching the story a little bit, but even the story of Naaman the Assyrian, later after this, this was written, you remember, he comes down and speaks to. Is it Elisha? And Elisha, you know, tells him, hey, if I can, this is where I'm maybe as a little stretched, but I don't think too badly. He says, you need to get baptized as a Jew in the Jordan River. You got to become a Jew. That's what you got to do. You got to become a Jew. Okay? There was always a place for the outsider to come in and really a requirement for them to come in if they were outside the covenants and commonwealth of Israel. Paul says in Ephesians 2:12, they were without God and without hope. So the law was given to them. You say, now I need, I need something stronger to show that the law was given to them. Acts 17, do you remember? Is it verse 14? He thinks 30. We'll see. He's younger than I. Yeah, he's right. And the times of this ignorance. This ignorance. What times was this? This is before the law came. The times of this ignorance God winked at. But now I'm going to read this into here. But now that this ignorance is over, because we've been given the law, now God commandeth all men everywhere to repent. He commands what says right there. All men everywhere. Let's go ahead and highlight it. Got it. So take Acts 17:31. Is that what it is? 30. Acts 17:30. Apply it over here. Hey, you sons of Adam need to listen. Because the times of ignorance that God winked at are over. Simple. Understand wisdom, fools, be of an understanding heart. Understand Torah, fools, be of an understanding, understanding heart. Here still speaking to all men here. For I will speak of excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things. My mouth shall speak Truth and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are righteousness. There is nothing froward. There comes that word again or perverse in them. They are plain to him that understandeth and write. To them that find knowledge, receive my instruction. And not silver knowledge rather than choice, gold wisdom. Now let me stop right there. I think these my. Here, my instruction. This is Solomon saying, hey, all of the world needs to listen to this. Now remember, we are not under the law today, so you have to put this dispensational. All of the world in Solomon's time needs to listen up. Simple fools, whatever you are, listen. I'll speak plain to you. He says, and my words are plain to him that understandeth right to them that understand. So receive my instruction. Not silver knowledge rather than choice, gold. Wisdom is better than rubies. We know what wisdom is. The Torah is better than rubies. All things that may be desired are not compared to Torah. Now here we could pick up in verse 11 and go to Psalm 119 or another, a number of other places and talk about the wealth of Torah. Let me just. And we'll, we'll stop right here so we can pick up in verse 12 next time. But let me just say that the world would be a completely different place without Torah. Even though you and I are free from the law, that is not our obligation today. If you were to remove that from the world, from the world's history, from the world's knowledge, we would live in completely different world. Let's just say especially. And I think you could broaden this out and, and I would. But especially you could say Western civilization, that thing they won't teach anymore. Western Civ. Western civilization is the living out of Torah. The world needs to live it. Needed to live it. Solomon is calling him. He's basically saying, without God, with, without, without. Without Torah you are without hope. And without God in the world, you're left out there on yourself. And God's not winking anymore. He's calling you to repentance. So he speaks to all of the sons of men. He calls the world to Torah. Late next week we'll get into. In wisdom, I dwell with. With prudence. Excuse me. I. Wisdom, dwell with prudence. W. Begin to talk here and discuss and define itself. Torah will define itself. And we'll begin to see some of this, you know, counsel is mine. Sound and sound wisdom. I am understanding. I have strength. Yeah, you think of some of this stuff and there's a world out there that thinks you know what? I can live without Torah. I don't, I don't need that. Torah says I am understanding. I have strength. In other words, if I can put it this way, Torah says, if you don't go with me, you are dumb as a box of rocks. You hadn't got anything to go on, sucker. Follow me. I don't know if she says it quite like that, but there it is. I think if we were to go through Torah, we would find it shouts that. So next week we'll have some interesting stuff because, you know, she does go on to say, by me kings reign, by me princes rule. I love them that love me. Can you love the Torah and the Torah love you? And it goes on again. My fruit is better than gold. I lead the way of righteousness. And the Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before the works of old Torah predating creation. All that is next week. And I gotta stop here because we're out of time. And I did get farther along than your outline is tonight. So come join us next week and we'll, we'll have the, the outline there for you. And I might also say there's a book being written that I think will be pleasurable reading. It doesn't really read. I'm not writing it to read as a commentary. It's a friend and a guide to help point some of these things out so that, that will be forthcoming when we finish the study here. So thank you very much for, for joining us here in Proverbs tonight. I would love to say hello and thank you and if you don't mind putting a comment in the chat box, if you're listening live. It's always an encouragement just to see who's gathered around the great big electronic table tonight. I know there are a lot of you who don't log in or you don't have logins, or you just don't do it, that's fine as well. In exchange, you can send a million dollars. And there's of course, even more than are here that watch the program later. And we appreciate you, and I appreciate all that very much. But let me, let me say hello, see who's on tonight. And once again, let me say one of our cameras went out, so I have to glance a little bit, uh, this, uh, this direction just to, uh, get, uh, get that, uh, in there and go with that. But I'll say hi to you if you don't mind me looking off to the side here a little bit like John in West Virginia. Good to see you this evening. Alex in London. Welcome and Alex and Terry in London. Thanks for being here in the middle of the night or early in the morning. Eric in Ohio, God bless you. Good to see you. We got Jennifer in Vermont. Thank you and your family for being with us. Debbie and Darrell in Crystal Springs. Oh I asked last week about whether there was a crystal spring there originally did have Crystal Springs. I believe it's currently oh Chautauqua Lake. I bet that was named after the Chautauqua movement which is pretty big in in Mississippi back in the late 1800s. That birthed a lot of things, some good, some bad. Interesting. So the Crystal Springs got buried neatha Chautauqua Lake. Oh thanks Jennifer. I enjoyed this proverbs study so much. I appreciate that. Trinidad, Colorado. Good to see you. Our good friend Jeff, Herb and Sherry and Lafayette, Louisiana. Thank you Phil and Dream in Lexington, Kentucky. Hey those of you in that I don't know what you call that area. I'm sure not not not Midwest. What is it where the storms are Praying for all you tonight. I don't know if they're as far as Lexington, Kentucky or not but wow that's quite the flooding and the tornadoes. Amazing what happened both yesterday and today. Praying for all you'll in that storm's path. Ridgecrest, California Shirley, thank you for being here. I appreciate that. Luca, I'm glad you're here in Taos, New Mexico. Good to have him always. Isaac, good to see you from you have told me India. Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. Let me know what town you're in in India just so I can look it up and research it. Isaac, thanks for being here. If I'm not mistaken, it's Pastor Isaac, right? 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Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Lisa, thank you for being here. And we got Toby Duncan, Oklahoma, always, always online with us and we always appreciate that. And Linda in Lexington also came in late. That's, that's a negative two points there for showing up late. Linda. Oh, thank you. Randy looked up that word for it. What was it? Impudent. Impudent, marked by contemptuous or cocky boldness or disregard for others. Insolent. She's got an impudent, impudent face. We got let me see here. I don't want to miss anybody. And oh, Isaac had a question on eschatology. Send, send me your email again. Isaac. Randy. Randy White ministries.org I'll get you that link. Thank you. Is it unfortunately have to look all the way across the room at a little print. Andrea, I think Andrea, glad you're here. I don't know where you're from, Andrea, but delighted to have you. Thank you for being here. And Bowling Brook, Illinois, good to see you, Nicholas. I appreciate that. Thank you. And John in West Virginia, thanks for encouraging people to get the thumbs up there that, you know that I would say this does help. The way YouTube works is not so much how many subscribers you have, it's how many people watch, how long they watch if they give it a thumbs up, if they comment even, even in the after the broadcast goes, you know, just to say, hey, I loved it. Hey, it was great. Hey, grow some hair. You know, whatever you, you say it helps. It's like free advertising. We got Everett in show low, Arizona, good to see you. The Taos campus at the Taos Theological Seminary. Bless you. Marilyn and Roger, Wabasha, Minnesota, do appreciate you being here. And we got the hall family, Auburn, Kentucky from soggy Kentucky. Maybe a trend for a while. I'm hoping it's a trend that we've had such a dry winter. I want a wet spring. Keeps down the forest fires. Send it. Bottle it up. Send it. From Kentucky. Good to see an Auburn. Looks like Forney, Texas is soggy too. I won Deb in Arkansas. Soggy there too. I guess it's just raining everywhere, isn't it? How about that Auburn? They're considering canceling in person school tomorrow due to flooding in various areas. I'll find out in the morning. But yeah, Everett's like me in New Mexico. Most of Arizona is an extreme drought. Impudence, immodest, shameless, brazen, getting all sorts of good definition. Oh, here we have a what do you call it? Etymology. Think. Thanks, Everett. Late Middle English in the sense of immodest, indelicate from Latin impudent from in which is not pudent ashamed or modest pudere to be ashamed. Interesting. That is a good point, Chris. It's interesting how failing to follow the Torah is compared to prostitution. Yeah. Excuse me. You know, often Jose, into a lot of the prophets there is that comparison again with idolatry. So very interesting stuff. Well, again, thanks for joining us. I do look forward to tomorrow. 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Help us to remember it, put it to you, spread it to others and be an encouragement with us, not only to us but also our family and friends, friends and churches. Thank you for your blessings upon this ministry and the encouragement of these who join us on these Thursday night studies. Ask your your your greatest encouragement upon them tonight through the word we ask it in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I do appreciate you being here and we'll, we'll, we'll next week, let's see. Ah, next week I'll give you, I'll give you the cartoon. We're going to have Lady Wisdom call it. You know this actually was on the, in the portion we did. Lady Wisdom calls out, you know, the gates of the city from the high places. And she is calling out, actually I got to change this because this Hebrew is wrong but it's supposed to say I have set before you life, death, blessing and cursing. Lady Wisdom calling out to the nations and we will, will hear her call next week. 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