TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - July 17, 2025 - Proverbs 6:30-35 - The Price of Passion

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

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Good morning everybody welcome to morning manna we are just delighted that you're here with us wherever you are in the world Whatever time of day it is and whatever platform you're using we gather in real time at 8 a.m 8 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday at faith and values. That's where you find us in real time. Thousands of people watch or listen later in the day, and that's wonderful, but we actually have a real class. Humans, we gather from all over the world, virtually online at 8 a.m., Monday through Friday, faithandvalues.com, and we would love to have you in the classroom. So we're working our way to the end of chapter

6. Today is verses 30 through 35. This will be the conclusion of chapter 6. We move tomorrow as Faith Friday, and then Monday, we will start chapter seven. So let's pray. Almighty God, our precious Father in heaven, Father, thank you for this beautiful day. Thank you for life. And thank you for feeding us with your word. Come Holy Spirit and feed your sons and daughters now

with the precious word of God. In the name of Jesus, amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. God bless you and everyone that's here today. And we've got some folks from all over the world here. We've got Germany, Switzerland, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Brazil. Our friends in Japan have been asking for prayer for the upcoming elections, and so we'll keep that in mind as well. We are looking at Proverbs chapter 6 today, picking back up on verse 30. We're continuing our journey in Proverbs. Great study that we're having.

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Let's look at Proverbs 6, starting at verse 30 today. Read along with me, if you will. Men do not despise a thief if he's steal to satisfy his soul when he's hungry. But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold. He shall give all the substance of his house. But whoso committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh understanding. He that doeth it, distorts his own soul.

A wound and dishonor shall he get and his reproach shall not be wiped away. For jealousy is the rage of a man. Therefore, he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though thou giveest many gifts." God bless the reading of his word today. Amen. I have a feeling, Doc, yesterday, a lot of men and women who are flirters at work probably had a bad day. It's like something's not working today. The morning man of class was saying, no, I'm not looking in your eyes.

The sin starts with the gaze in the eyes, okay? Right. That's where it begins. That's the beginning of it, okay? It's not sin at that point, but that's where it starts, okay? And I think a lot of people probably, after yesterday's lesson, said, I get it. I see what's happening okay people who are

flirting with you using their eyes trying to entice you you're just sport to them no offense they want you to think you're really important you're craving attention you need the attention. They're searching for the people who need attention. But what they're looking for is easy prey. They're looking for takedown. And once you get that in your mind, you realize, OK, there are people out here in the world

who are playing not only cruel games, but dangerous games. Because they're playing, they're playing Russian roulette with their soul, with your souls, with the souls of other people. So it's, you know, I think our, our class is forewarned now to be on the lookout. So, you know, we're watching out for the flirters, we're watching out for the fools, we're watching out for the liars, we're watching out for the foward mouth, we're watching out for the strange woman, somebody outside the covenant.

That's what we've learned so far in the first six chapters of Proverbs. These are the stereotypes. These are the types of people that the Lord is saying, be aware that they exist and be on alert when they come into your life right all right because nothing good comes from it no matter what they promise yes Brian spoilers of souls that's precisely what they're doing to defile your soul. That's their mission that they're on. Their soul is already spoiled, defiled, and so they are obsessed with finding somebody else that they can defile and pass the misery on to others.

So we're learning wisdom and now we're looking at verses 6, chapter 6, Proverbs 6, verses 30 through 35. I'll start with 30. Men do not despise a thief if he is still to satisfy his soul when he is hungry. So we'll break it up into several parts. Men do not despise a thief. So this indicates a common human reaction worldwide, Where generally society extends a degree of leniency in judgment when somebody steals as we're going to see in this verse, steals because he's hungry, his family's hungry. Now, let me get this very, make this very clear. What I'm saying here does not mean that the act of theft is condoned.

Right. Not what it means. It means that the perpetrator is viewed with less contempt than other kinds of offenders. You could have- the person who is the victim of the crime. The victim is viewed with less contempt than other kinds of offenders.

That is strictly from a human point of view. We are talking about the human point of view. You have two thieves. One who robs a store selling computers, TV sets, appliances, they're going in to haul things out to sell. Then you have another thief that robs a grocery store at night and hauls away food to feed his family. What this is saying is, generally worldwide society gives some leniency to the thief

who took food for his family. Even though it's not right, it's against the law, there are victims, but there's some leniency that is shown the thief. That's the message here. So the absence of, it says, men do not despise. The absence of despise implies that there is a measure of human empathy or pity once the circumstances of the theft are known and understood. Again, all sins are serious, but human society has distinctions in how they should be judged because they view the motive behind the acts. I want to go back to chapter 5, verse 21, Proverbs 5, 21, For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondreth all his goings. Remember this one? It's only been what? A week or so ago?

Pondereth means examines. For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders, he examines all his goings. What did we learn about that? That the hebrew word that's translated as pondereth means that god weighs every action with precision That nothing escapes his evaluation He ponders when I think of somebody pondering, you know, I see somebody leaning back holding their chin, looking up in the air, thinking, thinking, I'm pondering, I'm watching, I'm looking at this, and I'm thinking, I haven't arrived at a judgment yet. I'm pondering this. If somebody's in this pose, it means I'm taking this all in and I'm thinking it about it. I'm processing it I've not arrived at a judgment

So God watches the ways of men and women he ponders all their goings. Yes So it shows us So it shows us God's active engagement with human actions, where he balances mercy and justice in his response to sin. Amen. He still deals with the sin, but he deals with it in a different way than he would another sin committed by somebody else. Does he show favoritism? No.

He's pondering and he's looking at the circumstances, the motivations. Why did this person do this? What drove this person to this act? I don't want to get into a discussion about suicide. It's a very heavy, deep, emotional topic. Suicide is self-murder. But I would say that probably in all cases, at least the vast majority, the suicide victim was driven to that act of desperation

by somebody else, by somebody else, who drove that person to the point of absolute despair, hopelessness, thinking there's no way out, the only way out is to die. God ponders all this. And let me tell you, in those kinds of circumstances, the person who drove the other person to suicide

is going to be judged a lot harsher than the one who committed suicide Because That person was cruel and without mercy and Revengeable and and did things that made that person think The only way to get out of this pain is to kill myself So God sees these things.

He sees the hopelessness of the person who went to the act of suicide, but he sees the revengeful mean-spirited heart of the person who drove that person into despair. This is what this is saying. It doesn't say, you know, there's no, there are no repercussions for stealing. No, that's not what it's saying. Right. It's not a situational ethics kind of thing. Right. So it says people don't despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry. Now, wait a minute.

If you were hungry, wouldn't you wanna satisfy your stomach? I'm gonna get a drink of coffee. Why you think about that? I had not thought about that before. If he steal to satisfy his soul, I had not thought about it. Let's think about this now, Doc. It doesn't say he stole to satisfy his stomach's hunger, but to satisfy his soul. To satisfy his soul when he is hungry. Okay, so now this segment

is clarifying the specific dire motivation behind the theft. That it is driven by an existential need for survival instead of just a malicious intent or greed. You don't break into somebody's house because you say, I looked through the window and I saw roast turkey on the table. And I'm lusting for that. That's not why you would break into a house and steal food.

I saw him carrying a bag of tacos into his house. I want those tacos. People don't do that kind of stuff. Okay, the condition of if he steals to satisfy his soul points to the desperate nature nature of this theft. The depth of the hunger. This hunger in this person has now gone beyond their physical body. It's for survival. His very soul, his soul is starving now. His soul is starving now. His soul starving for survival. So it's not just a fleeting desire for a cheeseburger, a craving for chocolate cake. Right. But this is a- Staying alive. Staying alive. Got you. Okay. His entire soul- That makes sense. But this is a Staining a lot of staying alive staying alive

Yes His entire soul is at risk Everything He's at a point of Total poverty And that person's Very soul Is crying out for relief.

Relief from the poverty, relief from the oppression, relief from the hopelessness of not having a way to buy food. Let me tell you something, folks. God forbid that any of us are alive and we see a breakdown of society. You know, I'm talking about anything from a second Great Depression or the most dystopian scenario would be an EMP attack. Former CIA Director Woolsey told me years ago that the CIA estimated that 90% of the American people would be dead in one year after an EMP attack, not from the blast. The blast doesn't kill anybody. They will die from hunger, from lack of medical care, from frostbite.

And the majority of those deaths will occur in the first month. Yes. If you wanna see people desperate for food, you just tell them there is no food and there won't be any food ever. You'll see people go insane. So this is what this is talking about is somebody that's in a state of desperation. His very soul is crying out not just for food but for relief from the poverty that has produced us hunger. The theft is the most basic instinct for survival.

It's an act to alleviate immediate extreme suffering. It's an act of desperation where the individual is driven by the need that overrides his or her moral compass, his or her morality. They say, I forget morality, I've gotta eat. I've got children that are crying for food. That's what this is talking about. So we get to, well, the third segment, when he is hungry.

Okay, so this is explicitly defining the dire situation that causes society to mitigate its condemnation of the theft. Yes. Where a judge and jury would go, well, this person was starving. We're not going to put him in prison. They'll come up with another judgment, one that's not as severe. So the desperation of the situation is emphasized.

And this is telling us that society generally worldwide tends to view a thief with a degree of pity. Then we get to verse 31. But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold. He shall give all the substance of his house. This takes a different turn now. But if he be found, okay? So you get up in the morning and your pantry is empty, all the food in your house is gone.

You have no idea who took it, okay? Somebody came and robbed your house of food last night. But if later in the day, you find the thief, if he be found, all right, if somebody comes to your house and said, hey, look, I saw somebody going through your window, and I could recognize that person. See, now if he be found. Okay. So it's telling you that the situation is going to change if the thief is found.

You could say that this is saying that there is an inevitability, that there's going to be a discovery of the theft, regardless of the thief's motive. So, Doc, that says he shall then restore. Right. Sevenfold. Now this is where a lot of Christians get the sevenfold principle of restoration, that if Satan steals from you, you command the devil bring it back sevenfold, seven times. If they steal, if Satan takes $10,000 from you, then you have the right to demand Satan brings back 70,000. So the command, he shall restore sevenfold indicates an exceptionally high punitive restitution for the theft.

Now, wait a minute. We just said society tends to show leniency to a thief who steals because he's hungry or his children are hungry. Now it says he shall restore. What's the difference? This is now talking about the law. Right. This is talking about the law. Okay. You know, I guess maybe in the first case, you could have someone say to the person who was robbed. Hey, I think I know who did it. You know, that family down there on the other side of the railroad tracks, the ones that really, really poor. I think he did it. You know that family down there on the other side of the railroad tracks, the ones that really, really poor, I think he did it. And the victims just says, forget about it. Let's just let it go. Let's just let it go. I'm not going to send the police over there.

But this is now the law. The law has found the person. has found the person. The police just happened to see this person unloading boxes of food and saw that there was a report of a theft of food. See, now the law has come into place. Why sevenfold? Well, what's the meaning of seven in the Bible? Completion full. So it's saying that there will be a complete full exhaustive repayment beyond market value. And this comes from the Mosaic Law. I mean, remember, we're in the Old Testament right now, Book of Proverbs. So the law says the thief must pay a heavy price. Society's mercy is saying, we're willing to let this go with less punishment.

But the law says, no, there has to be severe punishment. The third part of this verse is, he shall give all the substance of his house. So this is the thief that stole because he didn't have food. And his punishment is that he has to give everything in his house. So again, this is the law, the law is demanding this. So again, this is the law. The law is demanding this. The law is saying, no, everything has to be taken away.

He has to, there has to be a severe restitution for the theft. Right. So doc, here's the question. As Solomon was writing the Proverbs, or maybe dictating the Proverbs to a scribe, that's probably how it was done. Solomon's giving out these Proverbs, and there's a scribe there who's writing down everything that he says. So he gets to chapter 6 and verse 30, and he starts talking about stealing food Did did Solomon like get sidetracked Did he hey write this down, you know, I was talking about

You know last and don't read lost and strange women and hookers and But I just got this thought I don't want to lose this thought. Right now I just want to talk about stealing food. Is that why he did this? Why is this scripture in this chapter about stealing food? Because it's not about stealing food. It's about betrayal or stealing, you know, things that don't belong to you, taking things that don't belong to you. There's a price for sin. Yes, and another reason, Doc, another reason doc and

This is really important that we all understand this so that we are not We don't fall prey to these temptations. Okay What Solomon is saying is? You know, I I you know remember he's the king. He was the law. He was in charge of law and order in his kingdom. What he's saying here is, you know, I can go easier on a man who stole because he's

starving or his family's starving. He was his he committed a crime but I understand what motivated him to commit the crime. It's not justified, it's not right, he took something that belonged to somebody else, it's not right, but I understand why he was driven to this act of desperation. I get it. I understand. I'm not going to lock this man up for 10 years. I can understand a king thinking like that, okay? But now he comes back in verse 32. verse 32, he gets back on the topic of sexual sins. And what the message is, is you can't make this same kind of plea. Right.

Okay. If you take somebody else's spouse, it's not that you're starving for food, it's not that you're in a state of desperation, you did something out of lust. So you can't use the food thief excuse. Right. That's why it's in here. So you get to verse 32. But who, starts with but, but who so committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh understanding,

he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. Remember the food thief stole because his soul was hungry. He's saying I'm dying on the inside. I'm so poor. I'm poverty stricken. I have to have, you know, the lack of food was the physical manifestation of his state of poverty But what was hurting his soul was the poverty? Yes Because Just because if he stole enough food to eat one meal, what was he gonna do the next day? He's still in a state of poverty

What he was saying is somebody get me out of this mess that I'm in. But the adulterer doesn't have the luxury of this excuse. The adulterer is saying, I did it because I wanted to. The adulterer is saying, I did it because I wanted to. See, that's why the scripture about the food theft is in here. So there's a stark assessment of the perpetrator's foolishness. But, it starts with but. It's introduced with the word but. So the word but. So the word

foolishness. But it starts with but it's introduced with the word but I say this the word but comes right after talking about the food thief. So the word but.

So the word but. These two. to these two immoral acts. Saying the word but, B-U-T, says you can't put these together. They're two separate items here. If we look at the stealing, the thief there, even with justified motives, there's restitution that's in place. He has to restore it seven times. When it comes to

sins like adultery, they destroy the soul. Whereas he was stealing for his soul, adultery destroys his soul. And so the implication here in verse 32 is that there is a lack of understanding about the moral implications of some sins. All sins are wrong, but some sins are destructive to the soul. So the food thief, his soul was perishing. Not just his body, he's down to skin and bones. He's not eating, but his very soul was perishing

because of the poverty. And he committed a wrong act to save his soul. I say save it, I don't mean salvation. He was thinking, my soul is perishing. I have to do something to prevent my soul from expiring. I'm almost out of energy. My life is being drained out of me. He did something wrong for the right reason.

The wrong act for the right reason, right motivation. The motivation was to save his soul from perishing, but it was the wrong act, the wrong way. In this case, the person who takes another person's spouse from another person is not doing this to save their soul, but they end up, if they don't repent, losing their soul. Right. And there's no pathway of restitution either. Whereas with the thief, there was a pathway of restitution. He had to pay it seven times. But there is no restitution in the law for committing adultery. restitution in the law for committing adultery. That's right Doc. So it says, segment two, but that he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. Okay. So there's a severe consequence for adulterous acts that are never repented of.

Severe, OK? A perennial adulter, someone that just goes through life committing adultery, OK? They're actually committing soul suicide, slowly, and it'll catch up with them someday. This is talking about long-term, okay, a mindset that says I take what I want. And you know, I was talking yesterday about there are people

that are looking for victims. It's a sport. It's just a sport. So, destroy his own soul. Again, without repentance, that person will be separated from God. That person will be separated from God That person will be separated from the good things of life There will be a price that will that will be

Extracted from that person So there's there's damage to the person's very essence, to his inner being, his soul. And then we get to verse 33, a wound and dishonor shall he get, and his reproach shall not be wiped away. That's talking about the man who commits adultery or the person that commits adultery. Yes, the person, the man or woman who commits adultery. Yes. Okay.

Again, this is unrepentant sin. refers to a physical injury that might come from a jealous husband with a 45 beyond physical harm. The wound also includes emotional, psychological, spiritual scars that are etched into this person's life. that are etched into this person's life. I'm thinking, Doc, a man who worked for my son, Jeremy, for several years. He came to know Jeremy through the Conquer series on pornography addiction, and he had an extreme addiction to pornography,

which also fed his adulterous lifestyle. And I'm not going to give all the details of it, but this he was. This will tell you how serious this stuff gets. This is a real story. It's a true story. He was in literally in bed with a married woman. And her husband came home unexpectedly. And when the husband came into the bedroom and saw what was taking place, he withdrew his firearm, his hand handgun and started shooting. The man

escaped and wasn't wounded. A wife died. That's a real story. That that was this man's wake up call that the way he was living That that was this man's wake-up call that the way he was living Was extremely wrong and ended up costing a woman her life And she was wounded Now he was wounded emotionally psychologically And the rest of his life he has to think about what I did, got that woman shot. These things happen.

These things happen when you are playing these games. So the wound is the tangible, painful consequence. the person's soul. And that's what we're going to do. We're going to play these games. So the wound is the tangible painful consequence. Okay. There's

some. It's like an immediate self-inflicted wound. That begins the process of destroying that person's soul. If they do not repent, I will tell you this man that I was telling you about, he obviously did repent, gave his life to Christ, and turned his life around. But his partner in adultery died. And the husband went to prison. You see, there were two victims. Now, I forgot to tell you that part,

that the wife died from the gunshot wounds, but the husband who shot his wife went to prison. who shot his wife went to prison. Satan never tells you these things upfront. No. He never says, hey, let me tell you about what happened yesterday in such and such a house. Okay. He's just always painting the picture at this,

hey, this is fun, go ahead and do it. You'll be the first person to get away with it says and dishonor shall he get that's the second part okay so you you once you've you've done something like this, you've gotta live with the consequences of it. Right. There's no way to get around it. And his reproach shall not be wiped away. It just means you've been marked, it's there.

You can tell people, I repent it. You can live a good life, but there will be people who will know you did it. The reproach will be there for those who know what you did. Like Doc said, there's no restitution here. Like the thief had to pay back seven times. Well, in this case, what are you gonna do? Bring back seven wives?

I mean, what's the restitution? Right, there is no restitution. So, and his reproach shall not be wiped away. I can say four words that explain this segment of the verse. God forgives, people don't. Yes. All right. That's all you need to know.

God forgives, people don't. God forgets, people don't. God forgets, people don't. If the guilty party repents, God forgives and forgets. People forget that God forgets. They want to remind God of what somebody else did, but God, when He forgives, He forgets. But people generally don't forgive, and a lot of the people who do forgive don't forget. Right, and then there's also the idea of justice, at least human justice is concerned. I mean, you know, think about, I'm not excusing anything, but think about how society would basically break down if we forgave everybody of everything

they ever did. Right? So understand it from a human point of view. If we forgave everyone for the adultery they committed, the damage they did, the, I'm speaking only from a human point of view, not from God's. Or any sin that they committed, we say, well, we forgive you. That almost says that that sin didn't matter at all, that there's no price for sin, that there's no justice at all. But there has to be some price to be paid for sin. I'm speaking strictly from a human

point of view. When someone commits adultery, they've broken in human terms a human covenant, but there and there should be repercussions for that. But if the person repents, if the person repents and seeks forgiveness, then biblically all are required to forgive. Right. Okay, a general amnesty for a global forgiveness day, that's a great idea, Doc. I actually like that idea. Let's everybody just forgive everybody. Let's just start over. That would be refreshing. But you can't do it every day.

You just get one day to do it. Proverbs 6.34, for jealousy is the rage of a man, therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. So in this case, and this can be male or female, A jealous husband, jealous wife. There are a lot of people who have been shot to death by a wife. This is gender specific. What it's saying is, it starts with the word for, so this links verse 34 to verse 33, for, for jealousy is the rage of a man. And so it's talking about indignation, the jealousy, the possessiveness, the anger, and it's intense, it's consuming, it's uncontrollable fury that can lead to

another crime, another sin, like murder. There are a lot of people in prison for murdering the person who committed adultery in their home. Prisons have a lot of jealous husbands and wives locked up. And you know the judge and jury can't say well this wife was angry and she shot her husband while he was sleeping. We got to let her go. You can't do that, okay? Because she committed a sin, okay? Or the husband did, one or the other. But the Scripture is saying that jealousy is the rage of this man or woman.

And the jealousy is the rage of this man or woman. It's rage. It's uncontrollable anger. Okay. And what the scripture is saying is you better be prepared for it. Right. You better get ready. Therefore, he will not spare. You won't be able to talk any sense into it because he goes into the rage.

It goes from he loses control of his senses, his mind, goes over into a state of rage, almost temporary insanity, loses control of his ability to be reasonable, to think things through. Okay. But the fury is uncontrollable, leaves no room for compassion or reason. It's just, it's got one objective. Revenge. It's got one objective, revenge. Yes. Revenge. Okay. That's what it is.

It's an act that has provoked anger, that invites revenge to be appeased. So we get to the third part, in the day of vengeance. In the day of vengeance, that's the day the husband kills the other man or the wife kills the other woman or her husband. That's the day in the day of vengeance. That's the day the offended spouse puts a butcher knife in the other person's chest. That's the day one spouse puts poison in the other spouse's food. It's the day of vengeance.

They've lost control of their ability to think, to reason, they're just driven by rage. Are those acts right? No, they're wrong. What the Scripture is telling us is this is what these sins stir up. Right. From a human point of view, the wronged husband would be justified in this, from a human point of view. And so, because if the law didn't rectify the situation, then he would feel compelled to take it into his own hands to take care of it. So that his honor and dishonor have been violated. But the law doesn't do anything. I'm talking about the law enforcement today. Does it do

anything about it? Law enforcement. I'm speaking about the, you know, the mosaic law. The mosaic law said, Adultery, you got the death penalty. Yeah. So if the community didn't do it, you couldn't blame the guy for taking matters into his own hands and taking care of it himself. So from a human point of view, I'm not looking at it from God's point of view. But back in those days, Doc, they ordinarily only stoned the woman to death. It's like somehow the act of adultery was done with one person. And so the female was the one that got stoned to death. As we saw in the case with Jesus writing in the sand. They said, we've caught this woman.

And Jesus bends down with his fingers, starts writing in the same. We don't know what he wrote. And noticing that passage there too, it says in the very act of adultery, we caught her in the very act of adultery. That meant that there was somebody else there. Well, there are at least two other people there. That's right. Because one was with a woman committing adultery.

Unless she was having adultery. Yeah, she was having adultery with herself. No, there was somebody else there. But they didn't catch him, right? And there was somebody else watching. And there was somebody else watching. Think about that. Wow. I hadn't thought about that, Doc.

That's what I thought. They knew. They knew. They knew. The other guy was probably standing there in the crowd picking up the rocks to throw at the woman. And Jesus knew it. Maybe what he wrote in the sand was the name of the person.

Levi, you were the one he's writing in the sand, you know. But that shows you the double standard of human reasoning. And then verse 35, he will not regard any ransom. This is the offended husband. Or the offended wife, he will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though thou give us many gifts. Make it very short. You won't be able to buy this person off. You can give monetary payments, compensation, give you truck, whatever, not going to appease this person. They're furious. And they're not going to stop being furious until they get revenge. So that's the message here, OK?

Is that you're playing with fire. Right. And yet there's other message there, too, that the wronged man here also can be God. That God's going to seek justice for idolatry. That's really, you know, this whole chapter is really about, you know, spiritual adultery,

also known as idolatry. And so we've finished up this chapter 6 here with, imagine you have violated your covenant with God by committing adultery with someone else. Understand that the wrong person, in this case God, will seek justice, will seek a payment for that adultery that's been committed, that idolatry that's been committed. So it's a much bigger story than, hey, a thief does this and adulterers do this. It has a much broader, bigger meaning.

It's the violation of the covenant with God that is the bigger story here. Put it in context. Look at the effort underway to prevent the publication of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Right. So it's obvious that there are powerful people that don't want those documents publicized because of the repercussions. And, you know, the fact that it was involving children makes it really a serious crime.

serious a serious crime. Okay. So, Chapter 6 has been an interesting chapter, Doc. Yes. It's got more meaning than I ever saw before. Yeah, on the surface, if you just read it, Chapter 6, if you just read it as just general life wisdom, there's some very practical, you know, life wisdom throughout all of chapter 6, but there is a deeper thread that runs all the way from verse 1 all the way to verse 35, and that is the violation of the covenant with God. God takes that covenant relationship with him very, very seriously, and he illustrates this in several different ways throughout all of chapter 6. So even though, I've seen, and you remember back when you used to have Christian bookstores,

you'd have a whole bookshelf full of devotionals based on proverbs, right? A practical wisdom, business principles from proverbs. Proverbs for the husband, proverbs for the wife, whatever it might be. You had a whole shelf of books on that. But what they have generally dwell on is just the practical day today, don't do this, oh, this is a bad idea, this is bad wisdom.

But you very often miss the real message that the Father Himself is trying to get across here is that He takes this covenant with you very seriously, and he looks at any violation of that as adultery, and that there's a price to pay for that. That's how serious he takes this. This is a serious covenant for God. It's not a throwaway covenant for him, although a lot of people seem to treat it that way. So that's the power of chapter 6 here, in my opinion. Yes. I mean, he often referred to Israel as a adulterous wife and Judah as her treacherous sister.

Yes. Right? Treacherous. I mean, do word study on treacherous. I mean, do word study on treacherous. But it was, as Doc said, it was about God saying, I view Israel and Judah as the same as you would view an adulterous wife. And you know, so that he was accusing the Jews, the Israelites, of committing spiritual adultery against him. So there's a lesson for today that goes far beyond sexuality. How many people are committing spiritual adultery against God?

They have idols in their life. You know, they have things that they will not give up. It might be their anger. Anger can be an idol. I talk about the narcissist, especially malignant narcissists. I'll tell you one of the traits of a malignant narcissist is how mean they are Mean to their victim the one that they Those who are on the bad list a hit list, okay, because a narcissist will have two lists One list of people they're nice to and then another list The short list and these are the people they're nice to and then another list, the short list, and these are the people they're out to get. Okay, right. And so the

narcissist is mean, just mean-spirited. What drives the meanness? Revenge. At the heart of their meanness is This burning Compulsion to get revenge on that person that person one of these people on the list anyone on their short list Has angered the narcissist and they're going to get revenge. That's right. Okay, they're gonna make that person hurt They're going to they're gonna go after that person inflict damage pain emotional pain, okay, so that That revenge is an idol Okay, and God says you are you're committing adultery against me with this idol revenge

He won't let go of it it's it's it's destroying your soul let go of it it's it's a it's see it's it's adultery at another level because you won't let go of the revenge so you got to take these scriptures a lot deeper you know to milk everything out of it and get get the full benefit. And I don't think we've even done it, Doc. It's, you know, if we come back a year from now, we're gonna go, we didn't see that last year.

Oh, I know, I'm looking at my notes from last time that we taught in Proverbs here, and we didn't even go that far with the Father's covenant. And so, but that's why it's important for us to study the Word, reflect on the Word, and then come back to the Word later. Because it's not that the Word changes, but that the Word changes us, transforms us. And so when we come back, we've come back with, all right, I've experienced the scripture, but now I see that there's more to it than I ever imagined before.

Yes. I just noticed Marcy knows about flying monkeys. Narcissists have their own squad of flying monkeys. Yeah, they have their own zoo. Yeah, the flying monkeys that surround the narcissist are the people that have been brainwashed by the narcissist to carry out the attacks against the victim. Those are the flying monkeys. OK, we're getting into another lesson.

Yes. We got to go. Thank you so much. Enjoyed having you here today. Tomorrow is Faith Friday. And then on, we're still in the book of Daniel. So I'll be back in Daniel tomorrow. And then on Monday, we will start Proverbs chapter 7.

Right. Just a reminder to folks that tomorrow we also have the Lord's Supper. And so we do that every Friday. So those of you who are new, who haven't been with us for a while, on Fridays at the end of the lesson, we share communion together. And so we encourage you to have bread and either red wine or grape juice prepared prior to us gathering live at the eight o'clock hour. And at

the end of that hour, we will after our lesson, we will celebrate the Lord's table. And so we encourage you toe join us for that. Who may participate? We generally say those who made a confession of faith in Jesus Christ been baptized in water according to scripture. And so we leave it at that and let your conscience guide you as far as your participation is concerned. But we encourage you to participate. So that's tomorrow as well. And also our online prayer meetings, I'm going to ask that we change to another night instead of Thursday. Susan and I have a commitment on Thursday nights. Then I also have, I need to put together Faith Friday.

There's just a lot of pressure on Thursdays, too many things at one time on Thursdays. Let's pick out another evening. Okay. I'll let everyone know next week kind of what we're thinking about as far as day of the week is concerned. Okay, alright. Everybody enjoy the day. Alright, God bless everyone. Take the word with you today. Love you. We'll see you tomorrow on Faith Friday here on Morning Manor.