Failure and Success this week

Reading Proverbs 5-7, we read

Proverbs 5:1-23 MEV
My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding, [2] that you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge. [3] For the lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil. [4] But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. [5] Her feet go down to death, her steps take hold of Sheol. [6] She does not ponder the path of life; her ways are unstable, and she does not know it. [7] Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. [8] Remove your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, [9] lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel; [10] lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors go to the house of a stranger; [11] and you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed, [12] and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof! [13] And I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me! [14] I was almost in utter ruin in the midst of the congregation and assembly.” [15] Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well. [16] Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets? [17] Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you. [18] Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. [19] Let her be as the loving deer and pleasant doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and always be enraptured with her love. [20] Why should you, my son, be intoxicated by an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a seductress? [21] For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He ponders all his goings. [22] His own iniquities entrap the wicked himself, and he is snared in the cords of his sins. [23] He will die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.

and

Proverbs 6:20-35 MEV
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother. [21] Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck. [22] When you go, they will lead you; when you sleep, they will keep you; and when you awake, they will speak with you. [23] For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life, [24] to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a seductress. [25] Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, nor let her allure you with her eyelids. [26] For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread, and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life. [27] Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? [28] Can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? [29] So he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; whoever touches her will not be innocent. [30] Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry. [31] But if he is found, he will restore sevenfold; he will give all the substance of his house. [32] But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul. [33] A wound and dishonor will he get, and his reproach will not be wiped away. [34] For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. [35] He will not regard any ransom, nor will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

In Proverbs, we see the stupid man and the serpent women. We play the stupid man when we go to the seductress for works for the self/devil/her own pleasure (hence her own sex addiction, hence her worshipping of the male body and her own body, Romans 1:).

Now, let's introduce a good and godly man, even we know there is only Jesus, however, all scripture is good for training in righteousness,

Joseph #1 in the Old Testament.

Genesis 39:9-10 MEV
There is none greater in this house than I. He has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” [10] She spoke to Joseph every day, but he did not listen to her about lying with her or being with her.

what can we learn from Joseph? A foreign man living in his bosses house and his bosses wife is approaching Joseph for sex?

Listen to Joseph's response...

"How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"

today's world, I imagine many perverted men fantasize about sleeping with their bosses wife or mistresses but NOT this man, NOT Joseph. I imagine Joseph praying for his future wife, praying for a close relationship with the Lord, depending on the Lord, always, and Joseph kept his mind, and consequently his body in holy self-control. We see it very clearly here.

Joseph was not fantasizing about his wife.

Joseph thought a "new" thought

Joseph thought a "real" thought

Joseph thought a "holy" thought

"How can I do this greatwickedness (sleep with his bosses wife aka sex outside of marraige aka lust aka adultery aka worship her instread of worship God aka worship my own self more than God"

What a great evil wickedness....to pray for God's will, then to Just "give in" as "she" wanted. Who is "she"? The sedecutress or more realisticly, a women, trapped in her own sick mind, a slave to her own sins, forcing her "religion" down "others" throat, in toxic, malicious, hatred, to God to self-gratify, her own sick and perverted heart.

Sounds a lot to me, like the "snake in the garden"

"if you eat this fruit, you be wise"

"If you eat this fruit, you will know good and evil and be like god"

Eve, deceived, thought God was not important and the devil was 'MORE' important, to listen to, and obey, She took it,

fast forward tho this women now.

Eve (in a different form) also attracted to the forbidden fruit (Joseph), and the devil whispering to her "take him, he is handsome, and looks good, and your husband is not home"

those are not simply "intrusive thoughts"

those are not simply "my own horny feelings"

those are not simply "flesh"

THAT is Satan and THAT is his kingdom and THAT is his demons, the in human lying spirits, still "haunting" our minds with perversion (anything outside of God's marriage plan)

THAT is who we are dealing with.

The immoral women, needs Jesus Christ,  we need to recognize they (porn actor/actresses) are lost souls, hell-bound,

Now, let's introduce what Jesus taught

In John 8, Jesus told the women caught in the act of adultery, "Women, where are you accusers?" and she replied "no one Lord" and Jesus said "Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more"

THAT is grace.

Jesus DID NOT even once think anything about condemning her, but mercy, forgetting her sins, not holding them against her, in order that she would see the Lord's grace in her life, so that she would turn away from her sins, and trust in the Lord, (trust, obey, follow, commit to, lean on, love).

That is how Jesus dealt with sexually immoral women.

So we are to pray for their souls, for God to bless them with repentance, and not entertain any evil thoughts with them. They are lost and they don't know it. It will be that they die and wake up in hell, so why should I follow them, it would be worst for us, who know this , yet, persist in this sin.

2 Peter 2:20-22 MEV
For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. [21] For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them. [22] But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog returns to his own vomit,” and “the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mud.”

Now where does "grace" fit in?

Romans 2:4 MEV
Do you despise the riches of His goodness, tolerance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

and

Titus 2:11-15 MEV
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, [12] teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, righteously, and in godliness in this present world, [13] as we await the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, [14] who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for Himself a special people, zealous of good works. [15] Teach these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

I ask myself, "Do I really know and understand God and His grace to me?"

If I did cherish the love of God,

If I thought much of Jesus and His sacrifice for me

If I made a decision in the past, actively now, and will resolve to continue to make a decision to actively choose Christ.....

If I knew how much God crushed His Own Son, Jesus, for MY sin, in MY place, because He loved ME and YOU and THEM.

then that will all lead me back to God

then will cause me to cry out to Him

Psalm 51:17 MEV
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Luke 11:13 MEV
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

Then it makes total sense, now being reconciled with God. It would be our "reasonable service"

Romans 12:1-2 MEV
I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service of worship. [2] Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

and also knowing what Jesus warned us in Revelations 2 and 3 about 5 of the 7 churches caught in different sins, and specifically mentioning "sexual immorality"

Revelation 2:14-16 MEV
“But I have a few things against you: You have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. [15] So you also have those who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. [16] Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will war against them with the sword of My mouth.

Revelation 2:20-23 MEV
“But I have a few things against you: You permit that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols. [21] I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, but she did not repent. [22] Look! I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. [23] I will put her children to death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the hearts and minds. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Revelation 3:4 MEV
“You have a few names even in Sardis who have not soiled their garments. They shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.

Revelation 3:19-22 MEV
“Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be zealous and repent. [20] Listen! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me. [21] “To him who overcomes will I grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. [22] He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

and also knowing there are false teachers (Jude 3) who turn the grace of God into a license to sin

Jude 1:4 MEV
For there are some men who secretly crept in, who were marked long ago for this condemnation. They are ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 6:1-2,11-14 MEV
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may increase? [2] God forbid! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? [11] Likewise, you also consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. [12] Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. [13] Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but yield yourselves to God, as those who are alive from the dead, and your bodies to God as instruments of righteousness. [14] For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but under grace.

it make it even more important to kill this evil old man, old sinful heart, old sick thoughts

God please help us. Please help us to love You, to love others and love our enemies. May Your Will be done. In Jesus' name. Amen.