WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.420 Good morning. 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:05.940 Right, we're reading from Proverbs chapter 5. 00:00:09.099 --> 00:00:12.179 My son, be attentive to my wisdom. 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:18.100 Incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion and your lips may guard knowledge. 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:23.620 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil. 00:00:24.260 --> 00:00:28.640 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 00:00:29.620 --> 00:00:33.000 Her feet go down to death, her steps follow the path to shield. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.000 She does not ponder the path of life, her ways wander, and she does not know it. 00:00:40.780 --> 00:00:45.299 And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 00:00:46.380 --> 00:00:50.380 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house. 00:00:51.420 --> 00:00:55.700 Lest you give your honour to her, and your years to us. 00:00:55.700 --> 00:00:59.500 Lest strangers fill your hands. 00:01:00.060 --> 00:01:02.660 And your labours go to the house of a foreigner. 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:07.299 And at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed. 00:01:07.420 --> 00:01:10.159 And you say, how I hated discipline. 00:01:11.020 --> 00:01:13.379 And my heart despised reproof. 00:01:13.379 --> 00:01:18.539 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, or incline my ear to my instructors. 00:01:19.500 --> 00:01:23.039 I am at the brink of utter ruin, in the assembled congregation. 00:01:24.780 --> 00:01:29.219 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 00:01:30.379 --> 00:01:34.599 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:39.399 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 00:01:40.259 --> 00:01:44.159 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth. 00:01:45.119 --> 00:01:47.640 A lovely dear, a graceful doe. 00:01:48.339 --> 00:01:51.359 Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight. 00:01:51.780 --> 00:01:54.159 Be intoxicated always in her love. 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:58.739 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman, 00:01:59.119 --> 00:02:02.319 and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:07.859 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, 00:02:08.180 --> 00:02:10.740 and he ponders all his paths. 00:02:12.099 --> 00:02:14.659 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, 00:02:15.079 --> 00:02:18.340 and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 00:02:18.340 --> 00:02:23.159 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly, 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:24.680 he is led astray. 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.199 To start with, I just want to share a picture with you 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:33.420 that I found on the internet while I was doing some research for this. 00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:35.759 Joel Ferguson's going to bring it up, 00:02:35.819 --> 00:02:40.640 and it's a picture that describes Proverbs along with some other books. 00:02:41.980 --> 00:02:44.319 Look, obviously it's not an accurate representation. 00:02:44.620 --> 00:02:45.740 It's a bit of a tongue-in-cheek. 00:02:45.740 --> 00:02:48.120 But I guess this is probably, you know, to be honest, 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:50.040 having a go at the other books about how they're all going, 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:52.520 life is meaningless, it's worthless, et cetera. 00:02:53.920 --> 00:02:57.719 I actually think in reality Proverbs should look a little bit different 00:02:57.719 --> 00:02:58.200 to this. 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.020 So I've had a crack at trying to fix up this photo for us. 00:03:02.700 --> 00:03:06.160 This is probably a little bit more what I think Proverbs should look like. 00:03:08.020 --> 00:03:11.500 But the reason I think Proverbs should look like this is because 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:15.719 that Proverbs is about a book that is about contrasting two ways 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:16.680 to live your life. 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:19.680 And as you read through the book of Proverbs, 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:22.860 you really do get this sense of, on the one hand, 00:03:22.900 --> 00:03:25.840 if you embrace wisdom, then that's good. 00:03:25.939 --> 00:03:27.159 Life will go well for you. 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:29.960 But on the other hand, if you embrace folly, 00:03:30.139 --> 00:03:32.099 then life is going to go really bad, 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:33.840 and there'll be a lot of terrible consequences. 00:03:35.539 --> 00:03:39.560 And Martin last week spoke about two paths to take in your life, 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:40.740 essentially the same thing. 00:03:40.740 --> 00:03:44.700 One is the wisdom path, the life that leads to happiness and joy, 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:49.520 and the other is folly that leads to pain and death and destruction. 00:03:51.219 --> 00:03:55.200 Another way that you would have heard it is Wilco and Marty both talked 00:03:55.200 --> 00:03:57.700 about the fact that wisdom and folly are like two women, 00:03:58.320 --> 00:04:00.100 so lady wisdom and lady folly. 00:04:00.099 --> 00:04:03.599 And up until this point, Solomon's coming, 00:04:03.799 --> 00:04:08.039 talking about the concept of wisdom, this idea of wisdom, 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:10.759 that, you know, you can get wisdom to chase after wisdom. 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:13.359 The wisdom of God is fear of the Lord. 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:18.300 But it's still these two choices that we're given in this concept. 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:23.180 Well, in today's passage, the rubber really hits the road. 00:04:24.139 --> 00:04:26.019 Solomon goes, okay, that's the concept. 00:04:26.019 --> 00:04:27.959 You've heard the concept of what wisdom is. 00:04:28.259 --> 00:04:30.039 Now let's get to the practicals. 00:04:30.779 --> 00:04:32.159 Let's talk about adultery. 00:04:33.339 --> 00:04:35.120 It's a little bit like, you know, 00:04:35.139 --> 00:04:38.279 he could have eased us into it and said, I don't know, you know, 00:04:38.379 --> 00:04:40.779 wisdom is brushing your teeth and folly is not flossing. 00:04:41.899 --> 00:04:43.099 What's an Old Testament example? 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.060 Maybe like shear your sheep in the summer and not in the winter. 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:46.539 I don't know. 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.219 But something like that to kind of get up to it. 00:04:49.259 --> 00:04:50.379 But he doesn't waste breath. 00:04:50.459 --> 00:04:51.979 He goes, okay, let's tackle adultery. 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.680 And on the one hand, he says, adultery is folly. 00:04:56.019 --> 00:04:57.899 And faithfulness is wisdom. 00:04:59.139 --> 00:05:02.659 And I've been actually super lucky with the kids talk this morning 00:05:02.659 --> 00:05:06.719 because Jen did a great job of summarising that for us. 00:05:06.919 --> 00:05:09.779 She messaged me earlier in the week and said, you know, 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:11.039 what are we going to be talking about? 00:05:11.099 --> 00:05:12.560 And I said, oh, adultery. 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:14.219 So good luck making that into a kids talk. 00:05:14.299 --> 00:05:15.359 But she's done a great job. 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:17.299 But those are the two options. 00:05:18.479 --> 00:05:21.680 Wisdom is faithfulness and folly is adultery. 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:29.420 And then instead of looking at this as two ways, two paths to go down or two women, 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:31.079 I'm going to take a slightly different approach. 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:35.540 I'm going to say that there are two ways to quench your thirst. 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:39.199 And that's the question I'm going to be asking from here is, 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:42.399 what choice will you make to quench your thirst? 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:48.359 Now, something that the chapter here has assumed when Solomon wrote this 00:05:48.359 --> 00:05:52.459 is that we should be looking for satisfaction or that we will want 00:05:52.459 --> 00:05:56.739 to look for satisfaction in relationships, in sexual relationships. 00:05:56.739 --> 00:05:57.579 It's who we are. 00:05:57.699 --> 00:05:58.919 Humans are made that way. 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:00.560 We're wired that way. 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.779 We're created for relationships with each other. 00:06:02.779 --> 00:06:07.299 We desire to be loved, to be valued at our very core, 00:06:07.479 --> 00:06:09.679 to be significant to someone else. 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:13.259 And so the question I'm going to be asking is, 00:06:13.419 --> 00:06:15.659 where will you look to have that thirst quenched? 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.959 Now, in the immediate sense, this passage presents us with two options. 00:06:24.039 --> 00:06:31.099 The first one is that we can quench our thirst through the drink of honey and oil. 00:06:31.100 --> 00:06:37.100 The honey and oil of adultery or the second option is that we can quench our thirst 00:06:37.100 --> 00:06:39.340 in the water of our marriage relationships. 00:06:42.280 --> 00:06:46.640 Now, I'm going to recognise here that I'm talking to a large group of people, 00:06:46.780 --> 00:06:49.960 probably who more than two-thirds aren't married. 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:53.360 And this passage is heavily geared towards married people. 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:56.980 So if you aren't married, then please don't tune out. 00:06:57.100 --> 00:06:59.220 Please don't turn off and go, oh, look, this isn't for me. 00:06:59.220 --> 00:07:04.160 I think the points I'm going to be making along here are going to be helpful, 00:07:04.320 --> 00:07:07.300 even if the applications aren't necessarily focused on you. 00:07:07.460 --> 00:07:12.580 So, yeah, stick with me and hopefully you'll get something out of it at the end. 00:07:14.080 --> 00:07:15.680 But let's tackle the first option. 00:07:15.740 --> 00:07:21.020 The first option to quench our thirst is the silky smooth drink of honey and oil. 00:07:22.300 --> 00:07:22.740 Adultery. 00:07:22.740 --> 00:07:26.439 And what is the answer that Solomon gives us here to that? 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:30.519 Folly, folly, absolute folly. 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:33.860 Let's take a look at verse 3. 00:07:33.939 --> 00:07:38.519 If you've got your Bible open, it's Proverbs chapter 5, verse 3. 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:42.779 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, 00:07:43.539 --> 00:07:46.180 and her speech is smooth than oil. 00:07:47.339 --> 00:07:50.439 But in the end, she is bitter as wormwood, 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:52.719 sharp as a two-edged sword. 00:07:54.039 --> 00:07:55.599 Her feet go down to death. 00:07:56.099 --> 00:07:59.620 Her steps follow the path to Sheol, to the grave, essentially. 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.299 She does not ponder the path of life. 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:06.479 Her ways wander and she does not know it. 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:10.180 See, Solomon doesn't mince words here. 00:08:10.300 --> 00:08:10.500 He says, 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:14.360 Adultery, the act of breaking your vow with your spouse 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:16.660 and sleeping with someone else who is not that person, 00:08:17.100 --> 00:08:18.340 is adultery. 00:08:18.620 --> 00:08:19.540 It's folly. 00:08:19.780 --> 00:08:21.340 It is stupidity. 00:08:23.100 --> 00:08:25.020 But that's the thing about adultery, isn't it? 00:08:25.020 --> 00:08:26.259 The attraction is there. 00:08:26.939 --> 00:08:28.379 That's the thing with adultery. 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:30.520 It's not like we can look at this drink and see, 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:32.740 you know, there's little chunks floating around in it 00:08:32.740 --> 00:08:33.779 and it smells like vomit. 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:35.420 It's not like that. 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:36.080 It's attractive. 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:36.759 It's aromatic. 00:08:37.100 --> 00:08:37.980 It smells good. 00:08:38.060 --> 00:08:38.620 It's smooth. 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:39.379 It's silky. 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:41.780 And that's, you know, 00:08:41.820 --> 00:08:43.980 the analogy of the woman that Proverbs uses here 00:08:43.980 --> 00:08:45.240 is actually very helpful. 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:48.280 The woman's lips drip with honey. 00:08:48.379 --> 00:08:49.500 It looks good. 00:08:51.460 --> 00:08:55.200 But the reality is that it is bitter as wormwood, 00:08:55.980 --> 00:08:56.960 as bitter as gall. 00:08:57.040 --> 00:08:57.860 It's disgusting. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:58.879 It's rancid. 00:08:59.420 --> 00:09:01.500 It's not smooth as it looks. 00:09:01.540 --> 00:09:02.820 It's razor sharp. 00:09:02.820 --> 00:09:07.780 You know, we think that this will quench our thirst, 00:09:07.780 --> 00:09:10.820 but it actually leaves us gasping for something else. 00:09:10.820 --> 00:09:13.540 It gets stuck in our throat and it chokes us up. 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:18.100 You see, adultery is the drink that leads to death. 00:09:18.100 --> 00:09:23.940 Now, Joel's going to play a song for us here in a second. 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:27.100 And it's a song that's based on these exact verses, actually, 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:28.659 by a Christian rapper called Lecrae. 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:32.340 Now, as soon as I say that I'm about to play Christian rap, 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:35.860 I recognise I'm alienating anyone over the age of 35 00:09:35.860 --> 00:09:38.500 and anyone under the age of 25. 00:09:38.500 --> 00:09:42.340 And I've just insulted anyone who is outside of those age ranges 00:09:42.340 --> 00:09:43.559 and does enjoy Christian rap. 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:47.620 But the point of this is try not to pay attention 00:09:47.620 --> 00:09:48.879 to the style of the music. 00:09:49.340 --> 00:09:50.320 If you like it, great. 00:09:50.419 --> 00:09:52.799 If you don't, then what I want you to do is try 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:54.039 and focus on the words. 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:56.720 There'll be slides that have the words coming up. 00:09:57.379 --> 00:09:59.120 And he does move through them pretty quick. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:03.179 But I think this really accurately portrays to us 00:10:03.179 --> 00:10:05.899 the mirage of adultery. 00:10:06.139 --> 00:10:08.500 So Joel's going to hopefully play that for us now. 00:10:09.340 --> 00:10:17.799 Kinda. 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:18.340 Cada. 00:10:20.460 --> 00:10:21.639 Br multooky. 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:22.759 Bella. 00:10:27.259 --> 00:10:28.940 Bella. 00:10:30.460 --> 00:10:31.100 Bella. 00:10:31.860 --> 00:10:34.019 Bella. 00:10:35.139 --> 00:10:37.659 Bella. 00:10:37.659 --> 00:10:42.659 Kill out, kill out 00:10:42.659 --> 00:10:46.659 I know it's gon' kill me, but I just can't let it go 00:10:46.659 --> 00:10:49.659 And the taste of appeal has got a grip upon my soul 00:10:49.659 --> 00:10:53.659 These honey dip lies mesmerize me 00:10:53.659 --> 00:10:56.659 Cry's got its crooked fingers twisting all inside me 00:10:56.659 --> 00:11:00.659 Fools walk the path I'm on, never to be seen again 00:11:00.659 --> 00:11:04.659 Sipping on seduction while we eating on some secret sins 00:11:04.659 --> 00:11:07.659 Says a whisper in my ear 00:11:07.659 --> 00:11:11.659 And I know I should be over this, but I ain't seeing clear 00:11:11.659 --> 00:11:15.659 And I ain't leaving here, unless somebody save me 00:11:15.659 --> 00:11:18.659 Walk into my grave, letting evilness enslave me 00:11:18.659 --> 00:11:22.659 Evil looks so lovely, covered in her lace of lies 00:11:22.659 --> 00:11:26.659 And a silky smooth seduction just manipulates my mind 00:11:26.659 --> 00:11:30.659 Her fabric of fabrication is fueling my fascination 00:11:30.659 --> 00:11:33.659 While I'm intoxicated, she starts her assassination 00:11:33.659 --> 00:11:37.659 Losing all my honor and my years to the merciless 00:11:37.659 --> 00:11:41.659 Giving all my life away, but I'm just so immersed in this 00:11:41.659 --> 00:11:43.659 Baby, that's a reason 00:11:43.659 --> 00:11:47.659 Yeah, you're moving hard a little bit 00:11:47.659 --> 00:11:50.659 Yeah, I'm only here for your benefit 00:11:50.659 --> 00:11:54.659 I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here 00:11:54.659 --> 00:11:57.659 Baby, that's a reason 00:11:57.659 --> 00:11:59.659 You're moving hard a little bit 00:11:59.659 --> 00:12:00.659 Yeah, I'm here, I'm here 00:12:00.659 --> 00:12:01.659 You're moving hard a little bit 00:12:01.659 --> 00:12:03.659 Yeah, I'm here 00:12:03.659 --> 00:12:05.659 Hold your eyes and let's get lost tonight 00:12:05.659 --> 00:12:07.659 Yeah, I'm here, I'm here 00:12:07.659 --> 00:12:09.659 You're moving hard, you'll see my mind 00:12:09.659 --> 00:12:10.659 Yeah, I'm here 00:12:10.659 --> 00:12:12.659 Her feet go down the drift 00:12:12.659 --> 00:12:14.659 So don't let her consume you 00:12:14.659 --> 00:12:16.659 Even though her heart is black 00:12:16.659 --> 00:12:18.659 Her exterior is beautiful 00:12:18.659 --> 00:12:20.659 She'll take your life away 00:12:20.659 --> 00:12:22.659 And strip away your joy 00:12:22.659 --> 00:12:24.659 Pretend that she don't build you up 00:12:24.659 --> 00:12:26.659 Or she just gon' destroy you 00:12:26.659 --> 00:12:28.659 My friends fell low 00:12:28.659 --> 00:12:30.659 When they were so high 00:12:30.659 --> 00:12:32.659 Got me running scared of myself 00:12:32.659 --> 00:12:35.659 No lie, and I know I'm gon' die 00:12:35.659 --> 00:12:37.659 I try a cold turkey 00:12:37.659 --> 00:12:39.659 But when I'm feeling worthy 00:12:39.659 --> 00:12:41.659 Satan's sure I'm trying to murder me 00:12:41.659 --> 00:12:43.659 I'm doing myself dirty 00:12:43.659 --> 00:12:45.659 Flirting with what's perverted 00:12:45.659 --> 00:12:46.659 I should follow the word 00:12:46.659 --> 00:12:48.659 But I guess I'd rather be murdered 00:12:48.659 --> 00:12:50.659 Excuse me, I mean martyr 00:12:50.659 --> 00:12:52.659 Cause I'm killing myself 00:12:52.659 --> 00:12:54.659 My sin conceived a baby 00:12:54.659 --> 00:12:56.659 Your name or death 00:12:56.659 --> 00:12:57.659 Breath, take it 00:12:57.659 --> 00:12:59.659 She take my breath away 00:12:59.659 --> 00:13:01.659 Replaces it with poison 00:13:01.659 --> 00:13:03.659 And I'm so swept away 00:13:03.659 --> 00:13:04.659 I need some bread today 00:13:04.659 --> 00:13:07.659 Hope I wake up before they start my wake up 00:13:07.659 --> 00:13:09.659 Somebody make me break up 00:13:09.659 --> 00:13:10.659 I'm dating her 00:13:10.659 --> 00:13:12.659 Girl, you're just a reason 00:13:12.659 --> 00:13:16.659 You're not leaving how to live it 00:13:16.659 --> 00:13:17.659 You're not 00:13:17.659 --> 00:13:20.659 I'm only here for your benefit 00:13:20.659 --> 00:13:22.659 I'm here every place 00:13:22.659 --> 00:13:24.659 I'm on a land 00:13:24.659 --> 00:13:25.659 Killer 00:13:25.659 --> 00:13:27.659 Everything just as innocent 00:13:27.659 --> 00:13:28.659 Killer 00:13:28.659 --> 00:13:31.659 You're not leaving how to live it 00:13:31.659 --> 00:13:32.659 Killer 00:13:32.659 --> 00:13:35.659 Hold your eyes and ask your life tonight 00:13:35.659 --> 00:13:37.659 Can't be a rest 00:13:37.659 --> 00:13:39.659 You're still in my life 00:13:39.659 --> 00:13:40.659 Killer 00:13:44.659 --> 00:13:46.659 How good are those words? 00:13:46.659 --> 00:13:50.659 But you can see the feeling in those words 00:13:50.659 --> 00:13:51.659 Adultery 00:13:51.659 --> 00:13:53.659 It destroys relationships 00:13:53.659 --> 00:13:55.659 It destroys marriages 00:13:55.659 --> 00:13:57.659 It destroys churches 00:13:57.659 --> 00:13:58.659 It seems so obvious 00:13:58.659 --> 00:13:59.659 Don't do it 00:13:59.659 --> 00:14:01.659 Verse 9 to 14 00:14:01.659 --> 00:14:03.659 It actually warns us of the consequences 00:14:03.659 --> 00:14:04.659 If you've got your Bible 00:14:04.659 --> 00:14:06.659 Have a look at verse 9 00:14:06.659 --> 00:14:09.659 Lest you give your honour to others 00:14:09.659 --> 00:14:11.659 And your years to the merciless 00:14:11.659 --> 00:14:14.659 Lest strangers take their fill of your strength 00:14:15.659 --> 00:14:17.659 And your labours go to the house of a foreigner 00:14:18.659 --> 00:14:19.659 And at the end of your life 00:14:19.659 --> 00:14:22.659 You groan when your flesh and body are consumed 00:14:22.659 --> 00:14:23.659 And you say 00:14:23.659 --> 00:14:25.659 How I hated discipline 00:14:25.659 --> 00:14:27.659 And my heart despised reproof 00:14:27.659 --> 00:14:30.659 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers 00:14:30.659 --> 00:14:33.659 Or incline my ear to their understanding 00:14:33.659 --> 00:14:34.659 Sorry 00:14:34.659 --> 00:14:35.659 Ear to my instructors 00:14:36.659 --> 00:14:39.659 And then verse 14 is the verse I think that totally sums it up 00:14:39.659 --> 00:14:40.659 The consequences 00:14:40.659 --> 00:14:42.659 I am at the brink of utter ruin 00:14:43.659 --> 00:14:45.659 In the assembled congregation 00:14:47.659 --> 00:14:49.659 And you see that's the warning that we're given 00:14:49.659 --> 00:14:51.659 And we know that it's bad for us 00:14:51.659 --> 00:14:54.659 But it still happens doesn't it? 00:14:54.659 --> 00:14:56.659 You know it's not just enough to say 00:14:56.659 --> 00:14:57.659 Don't commit adultery 00:14:57.659 --> 00:14:59.659 Because if that was the case 00:14:59.659 --> 00:15:01.659 No Christian would ever have an affair 00:15:02.659 --> 00:15:03.659 Either men or women 00:15:03.659 --> 00:15:04.659 Obviously this isn't 00:15:04.659 --> 00:15:05.659 It often talks about 00:15:06.659 --> 00:15:07.659 Solomon's talking to a son 00:15:07.659 --> 00:15:09.659 But it can be men or women 00:15:09.659 --> 00:15:10.659 But if it was that simple 00:15:10.659 --> 00:15:11.659 No one would ever do it 00:15:13.659 --> 00:15:14.659 You see adultery 00:15:14.659 --> 00:15:16.659 Isn't about a lack of knowledge 00:15:17.659 --> 00:15:19.659 Folly is not about coming about 00:15:19.659 --> 00:15:20.659 Because of a lack of knowledge 00:15:21.659 --> 00:15:22.659 It's not like 00:15:22.659 --> 00:15:23.659 I was trying to think of some words 00:15:24.659 --> 00:15:25.659 That you know 00:15:25.659 --> 00:15:26.659 Could go in place of folly 00:15:26.659 --> 00:15:27.659 And I started thinking about 00:15:27.659 --> 00:15:28.659 Maybe like 00:15:28.659 --> 00:15:29.659 Dumb or idiot 00:15:30.659 --> 00:15:31.659 Or that type of thing 00:15:32.659 --> 00:15:34.659 But they all kind of imply that I'm somehow 00:15:35.659 --> 00:15:36.659 Logically deficient 00:15:37.659 --> 00:15:38.659 That I just don't know enough 00:15:39.659 --> 00:15:41.659 But you know if I ask my non-Christian friends 00:15:42.659 --> 00:15:43.659 They all know that adultery is bad 00:15:44.659 --> 00:15:47.659 You know it's a consensus that cheating is not a good thing 00:15:47.659 --> 00:15:52.659 You see folly is not about knowing what is the right thing 00:15:53.659 --> 00:15:55.659 Or knowing what is the wrong thing 00:15:56.659 --> 00:15:58.659 Folly is about knowing the right thing 00:15:59.659 --> 00:16:00.659 But doing the wrong thing anyway 00:16:01.659 --> 00:16:06.659 You see adultery doesn't come because of being stupid 00:16:07.659 --> 00:16:09.659 It comes about because of a lack of discipline 00:16:10.659 --> 00:16:11.659 To act on what we know is right 00:16:11.659 --> 00:16:12.659 Verse 1 and 2 00:16:12.659 --> 00:16:16.659 When Solomon is talking to his son 00:16:17.659 --> 00:16:18.659 He says this 00:16:18.659 --> 00:16:19.659 He says 00:16:19.659 --> 00:16:21.659 My son be attentive to my wisdom 00:16:22.659 --> 00:16:23.659 Incline your ear to my understanding 00:16:24.659 --> 00:16:25.659 That you may keep discretion 00:16:26.659 --> 00:16:28.659 And your lips may guard knowledge 00:16:29.659 --> 00:16:30.659 Verse 2 00:16:31.659 --> 00:16:32.659 That you may keep discretion 00:16:33.659 --> 00:16:34.659 You know not that you'll get it 00:16:35.659 --> 00:16:36.659 And then once you've got it you'll have it forever 00:16:36.659 --> 00:16:37.659 You need to work to keep it 00:16:37.659 --> 00:16:41.659 That your lips may guard knowledge 00:16:42.659 --> 00:16:44.659 You know what does the word guard imply 00:16:45.659 --> 00:16:46.659 It implies that it can be lost 00:16:47.659 --> 00:16:48.659 It can be stolen 00:16:48.659 --> 00:16:49.659 It can be taken away 00:16:50.659 --> 00:16:51.659 Verse 7 00:16:51.659 --> 00:16:52.659 Do not depart from the words of my mouth 00:16:53.659 --> 00:16:55.659 This is something that we can walk away from 00:16:56.659 --> 00:16:57.659 We can walk away from wisdom 00:16:58.659 --> 00:17:00.659 And you know it's really ironic 00:17:01.659 --> 00:17:02.659 That the best example that we have 00:17:02.659 --> 00:17:03.659 Of someone who's done that 00:17:04.659 --> 00:17:05.659 Not just even in the Bible 00:17:05.660 --> 00:17:07.660 Probably out of everyone I can think of 00:17:08.660 --> 00:17:09.660 Is Solomon himself 00:17:10.660 --> 00:17:11.660 He had 700 wives and 300 concubines 00:17:12.660 --> 00:17:13.660 And it's kind of like you know 00:17:14.660 --> 00:17:15.660 How far could you possibly depart 00:17:16.660 --> 00:17:17.660 From what he wrote himself 00:17:18.660 --> 00:17:19.660 It's really ridiculous 00:17:20.660 --> 00:17:22.660 But it's not about staying out 00:17:23.660 --> 00:17:24.660 And not being able to resist the temptation 00:17:25.660 --> 00:17:26.660 When it's in front of you 00:17:27.660 --> 00:17:28.660 It's not about when you're in the dark room 00:17:29.660 --> 00:17:30.660 With that person 00:17:31.660 --> 00:17:32.660 Saying no to them then 00:17:32.660 --> 00:17:33.660 It's about putting in place the discipline 00:17:33.660 --> 00:17:35.660 So you never even get to that place 00:17:35.660 --> 00:17:38.660 The way to stay out of adultery 00:17:39.660 --> 00:17:40.660 Verse 8 00:17:40.660 --> 00:17:41.660 If you have a look at verse 8 00:17:42.660 --> 00:17:43.660 Keep your way far from her 00:17:44.660 --> 00:17:46.660 And do not go near the door of her house 00:17:47.660 --> 00:17:49.660 See this is saying 00:17:50.660 --> 00:17:51.660 Don't even get into the situation 00:17:52.660 --> 00:17:53.660 Put in safeguards 00:17:54.660 --> 00:17:55.660 Tell friends 00:17:55.660 --> 00:17:56.660 Get them to challenge you 00:17:56.660 --> 00:17:57.660 If you know something could be an issue 00:17:57.660 --> 00:18:00.660 If you can see something coming 00:18:01.660 --> 00:18:02.660 If in your mind you know that you're starting to get it 00:18:03.660 --> 00:18:04.660 You know too close to someone 00:18:05.660 --> 00:18:06.660 Who is not your husband or wife 00:18:07.660 --> 00:18:08.660 If you're married 00:18:09.660 --> 00:18:10.660 Then stop then 00:18:11.660 --> 00:18:13.660 Now I had a bit of a talk to my wife about this 00:18:13.660 --> 00:18:14.660 Alyssa 00:18:14.660 --> 00:18:19.660 About you know what are some of the things that you can see as warning signs for women 00:18:20.660 --> 00:18:23.660 If women if you're starting to get emotionally invested 00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:27.660 In someone who is not your husband 00:18:28.660 --> 00:18:29.660 Then cut it off there and then 00:18:30.660 --> 00:18:33.660 If you find yourself dressing to get the attention of another man 00:18:34.660 --> 00:18:36.660 Maybe you're not doing it really actively and consciously 00:18:37.660 --> 00:18:38.660 But maybe subconsciously 00:18:39.660 --> 00:18:40.660 Then get help then 00:18:40.660 --> 00:18:45.660 Don't allow it to get to the point where you become so invested that it consumes your mind 00:18:46.660 --> 00:18:49.660 You know if you're instant messaging someone 00:18:50.660 --> 00:18:52.660 Facebook, Instagram, whatever it might be 00:18:53.660 --> 00:18:54.660 And you're starting to share some intimate personal things 00:18:55.660 --> 00:18:56.660 Then get help, be disciplined 00:18:57.660 --> 00:18:58.660 Remember the wisdom in these verses 00:18:59.660 --> 00:19:01.660 His feet go down to death 00:19:02.660 --> 00:19:03.660 Don't let him consume you 00:19:04.660 --> 00:19:06.660 His heart is black but the exterior is beautiful 00:19:06.660 --> 00:19:09.660 Now married guys 00:19:10.660 --> 00:19:12.660 Unfortunately I know my own heart 00:19:13.660 --> 00:19:14.660 I didn't have to ask my wife for these ones 00:19:15.660 --> 00:19:16.660 But if you find yourself looking 00:19:17.660 --> 00:19:20.660 For the attention of a woman who is not your wife 00:19:21.660 --> 00:19:23.660 You know you're looking for ways to be around that person 00:19:24.660 --> 00:19:25.660 And your thoughts go back to her 00:19:26.660 --> 00:19:27.660 And you know you think about being around them 00:19:28.660 --> 00:19:30.660 If you try and be a little bit more funny than you normally would 00:19:31.660 --> 00:19:32.660 When you're around that person 00:19:32.660 --> 00:19:33.660 Then take action 00:19:33.660 --> 00:19:34.660 Don't let it get any further 00:19:35.660 --> 00:19:37.660 Tell someone that you trust 00:19:38.660 --> 00:19:41.660 Let them help you to be accountable 00:19:42.660 --> 00:19:43.660 Be disciplined 00:19:44.660 --> 00:19:45.660 She'll take your life away 00:19:46.660 --> 00:19:47.660 She'll strip away your joy 00:19:48.660 --> 00:19:50.660 She pretends that she's going to build you up 00:19:51.660 --> 00:19:52.660 But she's just going to destroy you 00:19:52.660 --> 00:19:53.660 Now for everyone 00:19:53.660 --> 00:19:58.660 And this isn't married specific or otherwise 00:19:59.660 --> 00:20:01.660 Don't be the one whose feet leads to death 00:20:02.660 --> 00:20:06.660 You know don't allow your relationships with married men or women 00:20:07.660 --> 00:20:08.660 To get out of hand 00:20:09.660 --> 00:20:10.660 Don't let them get to the point where they become an issue 00:20:11.660 --> 00:20:13.660 It won't quench your thirst 00:20:14.660 --> 00:20:16.660 And it has the potential to do great damage 00:20:17.660 --> 00:20:18.660 Not just to families 00:20:19.660 --> 00:20:20.660 But also to our wider church family 00:20:20.660 --> 00:20:25.660 And you know if you can see the warning signs that I've talked about 00:20:26.660 --> 00:20:27.660 Then get help 00:20:28.660 --> 00:20:29.660 Be disciplined 00:20:30.660 --> 00:20:31.660 Of course there's two sides to every story 00:20:32.660 --> 00:20:33.660 You know just because 00:20:34.660 --> 00:20:35.660 I guess they're not 00:20:36.660 --> 00:20:38.660 You know they're accountable for their own actions as well 00:20:39.660 --> 00:20:41.660 But don't be the person whose lips drip honey 00:20:42.660 --> 00:20:45.660 And whose speech is as smooth as oil tempting them to the grave 00:20:45.660 --> 00:20:46.660 Don't quench your thirst for intimate relationships 00:20:47.660 --> 00:20:49.660 Don't quench your thirst for intimate relationships 00:20:50.660 --> 00:20:54.660 With the silky smooth lure of adultery 00:20:55.660 --> 00:20:59.660 Proverbs says folly, folly, folly 00:21:00.660 --> 00:21:05.660 Now the second choice presented here to quench our thirst 00:21:05.660 --> 00:21:10.660 Is the pure life giving water of finding pleasure in your spouse 00:21:11.660 --> 00:21:14.660 Wisdom says proverbs 00:21:15.660 --> 00:21:17.660 Now verse 15 00:21:18.660 --> 00:21:19.660 Look at verse 15 00:21:20.660 --> 00:21:21.660 Drink water from your own system 00:21:22.660 --> 00:21:23.660 Flowing water from your own well 00:21:24.660 --> 00:21:26.660 Should your springs be scattered abroad 00:21:27.660 --> 00:21:28.660 Streams of water in the streets 00:21:28.660 --> 00:21:32.660 Let them be for yourself alone and not for strangers with you 00:21:33.660 --> 00:21:37.660 Let your fountain be blessed and rejoice in the wife of your youth 00:21:38.660 --> 00:21:40.660 A lovely dear, a graceful doe 00:21:41.660 --> 00:21:44.660 Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight 00:21:45.660 --> 00:21:47.660 Being intoxicated always in her love 00:21:48.660 --> 00:21:50.660 See what a contrast this is to folly of adultery 00:21:51.660 --> 00:21:53.660 Now you might have noticed Jen pointed this out as well 00:21:53.660 --> 00:21:56.660 There's a lot of references to water in this passage 00:21:57.660 --> 00:21:58.660 Water from a cistern 00:21:59.660 --> 00:22:01.660 Water from a well, springs, streams, fountains 00:22:02.660 --> 00:22:04.660 They're all picture words for sex essentially 00:22:05.660 --> 00:22:09.660 But this is how we can properly quench our thirst 00:22:10.660 --> 00:22:12.660 For our desire for intimate relationships 00:22:13.660 --> 00:22:15.660 It's life giving water 00:22:16.660 --> 00:22:17.660 It's the opposite of adultery 00:22:18.660 --> 00:22:19.660 It's remaining faithful 00:22:19.660 --> 00:22:21.660 This passage says 00:22:22.660 --> 00:22:23.660 Rejoice in your wife or husband 00:22:24.660 --> 00:22:25.660 Take delight in them 00:22:26.660 --> 00:22:28.660 Again, you know, again Solomon's talking to both men and women 00:22:29.660 --> 00:22:30.660 It's not gender specific 00:22:31.660 --> 00:22:32.660 But be intoxicated with their love 00:22:33.660 --> 00:22:34.660 Be filled with delight 00:22:35.660 --> 00:22:36.660 Rejoice in them 00:22:37.660 --> 00:22:38.660 Verse 20 00:22:39.660 --> 00:22:41.660 Why should you be intoxicated my son with a forbidden woman 00:22:42.660 --> 00:22:44.660 And embrace the bosom of an adulteress 00:22:45.660 --> 00:22:47.660 You see Solomon here says 00:22:47.660 --> 00:22:51.660 Faithfulness is the real thirst quencher 00:22:54.660 --> 00:22:55.660 And just like avoiding adultery 00:22:56.660 --> 00:22:57.660 Remaining out of 00:22:58.660 --> 00:22:59.660 Remaining faithful requires discipline 00:23:00.660 --> 00:23:02.660 See just like folly is not about knowledge alone 00:23:03.660 --> 00:23:05.660 Wisdom is not just intelligence 00:23:06.660 --> 00:23:08.660 It's not just knowing the right thing 00:23:09.660 --> 00:23:11.660 Wisdom is knowing the right thing 00:23:12.660 --> 00:23:14.660 And then acting on it 00:23:14.660 --> 00:23:17.660 You see marriages require work 00:23:18.660 --> 00:23:19.660 They require investment 00:23:20.660 --> 00:23:22.660 A strong marriage requires discipline 00:23:23.660 --> 00:23:24.660 Verse 16 00:23:25.660 --> 00:23:28.660 Should your springs be scattered abroad 00:23:29.660 --> 00:23:30.660 Streams of water in the streets 00:23:31.660 --> 00:23:32.660 Let them be for yourself alone 00:23:33.660 --> 00:23:34.660 And not for strangers with you 00:23:35.660 --> 00:23:37.660 You see in our marriages 00:23:37.660 --> 00:23:40.660 We need to be working on actively finding delight in our relationships 00:23:41.660 --> 00:23:42.660 Because we can lose them 00:23:43.660 --> 00:23:44.660 That's what those verses are saying 00:23:45.660 --> 00:23:46.660 They can go to someone else 00:23:47.660 --> 00:23:48.660 You see, unlike adultery 00:23:49.660 --> 00:23:51.660 Where it requires our discipline to stay out of adultery 00:23:52.660 --> 00:23:56.660 Our marriages require us to have discipline to stay in them 00:23:57.660 --> 00:23:58.660 To keep them healthy 00:23:58.660 --> 00:24:05.660 You see, we should be focusing on what actually quenches our thirst for intimate relationships 00:24:06.660 --> 00:24:07.660 Married relationships 00:24:08.660 --> 00:24:14.660 And in fact, having a healthy married relationship is one of the best antidotes for adultery in the first place 00:24:14.660 --> 00:24:22.660 So if you're married, don't accept a bad relationship, a bad marriage as the norm 00:24:23.660 --> 00:24:27.660 If you're unhappy and you feel distant in your marriage, then don't accept it as okay 00:24:28.660 --> 00:24:34.660 Make sure you get back to the delight that you once had rejoice in the spouse of your youth 00:24:34.660 --> 00:24:40.660 If you have a healthy married relationship, then take delight in your partner 00:24:41.660 --> 00:24:42.660 Be excited by them, rejoice in them 00:24:43.660 --> 00:24:46.660 Be intoxicated by them at every opportunity 00:24:49.660 --> 00:24:51.660 Proverbs says quench your thirst in your marriage 00:24:52.660 --> 00:24:55.660 Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom 00:24:59.660 --> 00:25:02.660 Now I want you to imagine for a second that I stopped the talk here 00:25:02.660 --> 00:25:04.660 If I said thanks for coming, that's the end 00:25:05.660 --> 00:25:07.660 You know, I've given you probably 10 minutes back 00:25:08.660 --> 00:25:09.660 So you might be happy about that 00:25:09.660 --> 00:25:11.660 But what would the takeaway be if I stopped the talk here? 00:25:12.660 --> 00:25:13.660 It would probably be something like this 00:25:14.660 --> 00:25:17.660 The moral of the story is adultery is bad and marriage is good 00:25:20.660 --> 00:25:23.660 You know, and I can guarantee that if we looked back on this talk 00:25:24.660 --> 00:25:25.660 Let's say we went away for a month and you look back on this talk 00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:28.660 You'd go, really? 00:25:29.660 --> 00:25:30.660 Is that really it? 00:25:30.660 --> 00:25:32.660 You know, if I'm married 00:25:33.660 --> 00:25:37.660 Like I love my partner, but is that really the height of satisfaction? 00:25:38.660 --> 00:25:42.660 You know, I love them and I rejoice in them and I delight in them 00:25:43.660 --> 00:25:44.660 But they let me down all the time 00:25:45.660 --> 00:25:46.660 It's hard work 00:25:47.660 --> 00:25:48.660 Is that really going to forever quench my thirst? 00:25:48.660 --> 00:25:57.660 And if you aren't married, remember I said at the start that this is a passage focused mainly for married people 00:25:58.660 --> 00:26:00.660 Then what have I told you so far? 00:26:01.660 --> 00:26:03.660 Essentially that you need to get married 00:26:04.660 --> 00:26:06.660 Because otherwise you can't quench your thirst for feeling loved 00:26:07.660 --> 00:26:09.660 For being significant to someone else to feel known 00:26:10.660 --> 00:26:12.660 If you're not married, then you can't have that met 00:26:13.660 --> 00:26:16.660 You see, we cannot stop here 00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:22.660 Because the ultimate answer to quench my thirst for relationships 00:26:23.660 --> 00:26:25.660 Can't be found in earthly relationships 00:26:26.660 --> 00:26:27.660 Married or otherwise 00:26:28.660 --> 00:26:31.660 Our partners can't deliver eternal satisfaction 00:26:32.660 --> 00:26:33.660 You just have to ask my wife 00:26:33.660 --> 00:26:34.660 I know she loves me 00:26:34.660 --> 00:26:41.660 But you know, I struggle to love her properly for a few hours, let alone for eternity 00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:45.660 I'm never going to be able to fulfill her need for love and satisfaction 00:26:47.660 --> 00:26:49.660 You know, if Alyssa thought that that was going to be the case 00:26:50.660 --> 00:26:52.660 Then she would be bitterly, bitterly disappointed 00:26:52.660 --> 00:26:58.660 You see, eternal wisdom, eternal satisfaction comes from having our thirst 00:26:59.660 --> 00:27:03.660 For love and significance quenched by God through Jesus Christ 00:27:04.660 --> 00:27:07.660 John chapter 4 00:27:08.660 --> 00:27:09.660 I don't know if you remember this story 00:27:10.660 --> 00:27:11.660 But basically, Jesus is at a well 00:27:12.660 --> 00:27:13.660 And he meets a Samaritan woman 00:27:13.660 --> 00:27:16.660 And the background is Jews and Samaritans hate each other basically 00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:17.660 They don't like to talk 00:27:18.660 --> 00:27:19.660 They definitely don't eat together 00:27:20.660 --> 00:27:22.660 And Jesus asks this woman for a drink from the well 00:27:23.660 --> 00:27:24.660 And the woman basically says 00:27:25.660 --> 00:27:27.660 You hate us, why are you asking me this? 00:27:28.660 --> 00:27:29.660 Verse 10 00:27:30.660 --> 00:27:31.660 In John chapter 4 00:27:32.660 --> 00:27:33.660 Jesus answers her by saying this 00:27:33.660 --> 00:27:36.660 If you knew the gift of God 00:27:37.660 --> 00:27:38.660 And who it is that is saying to you 00:27:39.660 --> 00:27:40.660 Give me a drink 00:27:41.660 --> 00:27:43.660 You would have asked him and he would have given you living water 00:27:44.660 --> 00:27:45.660 The woman said to him 00:27:46.660 --> 00:27:48.660 Sir, you have nothing to draw water with 00:27:49.660 --> 00:27:50.660 And the well is deep 00:27:51.660 --> 00:27:52.660 Where do you get that living water? 00:27:53.660 --> 00:27:55.660 Are you greater than our father Jacob? 00:27:56.660 --> 00:27:58.660 He gave us the well and drank from it himself 00:27:59.660 --> 00:28:00.660 As did his sons and his livestock 00:28:00.660 --> 00:28:03.660 And in verse 13 00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:05.660 Jesus said to her 00:28:06.660 --> 00:28:07.660 Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again 00:28:08.660 --> 00:28:11.660 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him 00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:13.660 Will never be thirsty again 00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:18.660 The water that I give him will become in him a spring of water 00:28:19.660 --> 00:28:20.660 Welling up to eternal life 00:28:21.660 --> 00:28:26.660 You see, only Jesus really eternally quenches our thirst 00:28:26.660 --> 00:28:31.660 He is the only one who can give us eternal significance 00:28:32.660 --> 00:28:36.660 You see, our marriages are great and they are good things 00:28:37.660 --> 00:28:43.660 But they can't eternally quench our thirst for really perfectly being known and loved 00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:46.660 You know, not that we don't try though, right? 00:28:47.660 --> 00:28:52.660 Because we are very good at looking at everywhere except for God for that satisfaction 00:28:52.660 --> 00:28:56.660 If we had to find ourselves in this Proverbs 00:28:57.660 --> 00:29:00.660 Book, verse that we've just read, chapter 5 00:29:01.660 --> 00:29:02.660 You know, we would be the adulterous woman 00:29:03.660 --> 00:29:06.660 We have a loving, caring, devoted partner in God 00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:11.660 Who time and time again shows faithfulness to us in every way 00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:14.660 He's patient, he's slow to anger, he's abounding in love 00:29:15.660 --> 00:29:17.660 But what do we do? 00:29:17.660 --> 00:29:20.660 We constantly turn to other things to satisfy us 00:29:21.660 --> 00:29:23.660 Things that cannot possibly satisfy us 00:29:24.660 --> 00:29:25.660 But we try anyway 00:29:27.660 --> 00:29:31.660 On Friday, in youth group, I help run the youth group 00:29:32.660 --> 00:29:33.660 We watched The Prince of Egypt 00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:35.660 I don't know if you've seen it 00:29:35.660 --> 00:29:37.660 It's basically the Exodus story, it's a cartoon 00:29:38.660 --> 00:29:40.660 It's got some banger songs, if you like Hans Zimmer, check it out 00:29:41.660 --> 00:29:42.660 The soundtrack's very good 00:29:42.660 --> 00:29:44.660 But the thing that's really good about this 00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:47.660 Is that it really shows God's power 00:29:48.660 --> 00:29:49.660 You really get that sense of awe in this movie 00:29:50.660 --> 00:29:51.660 And his love for his people 00:29:52.660 --> 00:29:53.660 You know, they're suffering in Egypt 00:29:54.660 --> 00:29:55.660 And he does everything to save them 00:29:56.660 --> 00:29:57.660 He sends fire from heaven 00:29:58.660 --> 00:29:59.660 He sends all the plagues, he gets Moses to come along 00:30:00.660 --> 00:30:04.660 And basically, the last scene of this movie 00:30:05.660 --> 00:30:06.660 Is this shot here that Joel's got up 00:30:07.660 --> 00:30:09.660 And it's Moses coming down from the mountains 00:30:09.660 --> 00:30:10.660 So he saves them, they're out of Egypt 00:30:11.660 --> 00:30:12.660 They've gone across the lake 00:30:13.660 --> 00:30:15.660 And he's on Mount Sinai 00:30:16.660 --> 00:30:17.660 He's met with Jesus, sorry, God 00:30:18.660 --> 00:30:19.660 God's given him the Ten Commandments 00:30:20.660 --> 00:30:21.660 Well, Jesus, God, same thing, I guess 00:30:22.660 --> 00:30:23.660 But he's given them the Ten Commandments 00:30:24.660 --> 00:30:25.660 And he's coming down the hill 00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:27.660 And he's got this big swelling Hans Zimmer music behind him 00:30:28.660 --> 00:30:30.660 And he gets to this point where he looks out over the valley 00:30:31.660 --> 00:30:32.660 At the Israelites 00:30:33.660 --> 00:30:34.660 And this is literally the last shot of the movie 00:30:35.660 --> 00:30:36.660 It stops there 00:30:36.660 --> 00:30:40.660 But it's a very convenient time to finish the movie, isn't it? 00:30:41.660 --> 00:30:46.660 Because if we played even one more scene on 00:30:47.660 --> 00:30:50.660 It would completely ruin the premise of what the whole movie is 00:30:51.660 --> 00:30:52.660 Is that the Israelites are victims 00:30:53.660 --> 00:30:54.660 And that they need saving 00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:56.660 And that they've been treated terribly 00:30:57.660 --> 00:30:58.660 Because what happens in Exodus 32 00:30:59.660 --> 00:31:01.660 As Moses is coming down the mountain 00:31:01.660 --> 00:31:06.660 He sees that the Israelites have immediately committed adultery against God 00:31:07.660 --> 00:31:09.660 They've made two golden calves 00:31:10.660 --> 00:31:11.660 Idols 00:31:12.660 --> 00:31:13.660 To worship instead of God 00:31:14.660 --> 00:31:16.660 At the very first opportunity 00:31:17.660 --> 00:31:19.660 Whilst God is in the literal process 00:31:20.660 --> 00:31:21.660 Of making a covenant commitment 00:31:22.660 --> 00:31:23.660 To them 00:31:24.660 --> 00:31:25.660 They have turned their backs on him 00:31:26.660 --> 00:31:27.660 And gone after something else 00:31:27.660 --> 00:31:28.660 But that's not just them, is it? 00:31:28.660 --> 00:31:32.660 We're exactly the same 00:31:33.660 --> 00:31:36.660 You see, we're happy to drink the honey and oil 00:31:37.660 --> 00:31:38.660 And taste the gall 00:31:39.660 --> 00:31:40.660 When we can even see that it's gall that we're drinking 00:31:41.660 --> 00:31:42.660 We keep drinking 00:31:43.660 --> 00:31:45.660 We continually in every aspect of our lives 00:31:46.660 --> 00:31:47.660 Chase after other things 00:31:48.660 --> 00:31:49.660 To quench our thirst 00:31:50.660 --> 00:31:51.660 Instead of God 00:31:52.660 --> 00:31:53.660 Now I'm not going to go into detail here 00:31:54.660 --> 00:31:55.660 About what those things are 00:31:55.660 --> 00:31:56.660 We don't know what they are in our lives 00:31:56.660 --> 00:31:58.660 But our great God 00:31:59.660 --> 00:32:01.660 With every right to leave us 00:32:02.660 --> 00:32:04.660 With probably you would argue 00:32:05.660 --> 00:32:06.660 Every cause to not want us back 00:32:07.660 --> 00:32:09.660 Chased after the people that he created 00:32:10.660 --> 00:32:12.660 Even though we constantly 00:32:13.660 --> 00:32:14.660 Over and over and over 00:32:15.660 --> 00:32:16.660 Every single time 00:32:17.660 --> 00:32:18.660 Turning our backs on him 00:32:19.660 --> 00:32:20.660 He chased after us 00:32:21.660 --> 00:32:22.660 Adultery at every turn from our angle 00:32:22.660 --> 00:32:23.660 And on his 00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:24.660 And on his he gave up everything 00:32:24.660 --> 00:32:25.660 To have us back 00:32:25.660 --> 00:32:28.660 To remove our unfaithfulness 00:32:29.660 --> 00:32:30.660 Our rebellion 00:32:30.660 --> 00:32:31.660 Our adultery 00:32:32.660 --> 00:32:35.660 You see, he is faithful to us 00:32:36.660 --> 00:32:38.660 We find eternal satisfaction in him 00:32:39.660 --> 00:32:41.660 And God knows that that is the only way 00:32:42.660 --> 00:32:43.660 That we can find it, is through him 00:32:44.660 --> 00:32:45.660 We can't find it anywhere else 00:32:46.660 --> 00:32:47.660 God gave us Jesus 00:32:47.660 --> 00:32:48.660 To die 00:32:49.660 --> 00:32:50.660 To bring us back 00:32:50.660 --> 00:32:51.660 To bring us back from our 00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:53.660 Our rebellion and adultery 00:32:54.660 --> 00:32:55.660 And then to rise again 00:32:55.660 --> 00:32:56.660 To prove that the punishment 00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:57.660 Had been taken 00:32:58.660 --> 00:33:00.660 And as Jesus says in John 4 00:33:01.660 --> 00:33:02.660 Whoever drinks the water I give them 00:33:02.660 --> 00:33:03.660 Will never thirst 00:33:04.660 --> 00:33:05.660 Indeed the water I give them 00:33:06.660 --> 00:33:07.660 Will become in them 00:33:08.660 --> 00:33:09.660 A spring of water 00:33:09.660 --> 00:33:10.660 Welling up to eternal life 00:33:11.660 --> 00:33:12.660 You see, that's the story here 00:33:12.660 --> 00:33:13.660 It's a faithful God 00:33:13.660 --> 00:33:14.660 Taking the punishment 00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:15.660 For an adulterous people 00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:18.660 Through no action of ours 00:33:19.660 --> 00:33:21.660 God eternally gives us the opportunity 00:33:22.660 --> 00:33:23.660 To have our thirst quenched 00:33:24.660 --> 00:33:25.660 With the relationship with him 00:33:28.660 --> 00:33:29.660 He has been faithful to us 00:33:30.660 --> 00:33:33.660 It's why Solomon says 00:33:34.660 --> 00:33:35.660 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge 00:33:36.660 --> 00:33:38.660 The only way to have our thirst quenched 00:33:39.660 --> 00:33:41.660 Is a relationship with Jesus 00:33:42.660 --> 00:33:44.660 To trust in his death and resurrection 00:33:45.660 --> 00:33:50.660 To trust that his actions mean that we can have a relationship with our faithful God 00:33:52.660 --> 00:33:54.660 So where do we go to quench our thirst? 00:33:55.660 --> 00:33:58.660 Ultimately, the only place 00:33:59.660 --> 00:34:01.660 Is in God through Jesus Christ 00:34:02.660 --> 00:34:04.660 Let's pray 00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:11.659 Dear God, thanks for the wisdom that we see in Proverbs chapter 5 00:34:11.659 --> 00:34:12.659 Thank you so much 00:34:13.659 --> 00:34:20.659 Thank you so much that you have given us married men and women partners to share our lives with 00:34:21.659 --> 00:34:26.659 Thanks that you've warned us against adultery and the folly that can be found there 00:34:27.659 --> 00:34:33.659 But God, I guess I pray that ultimately you would help us to look for the only place we can really find satisfaction 00:34:33.659 --> 00:34:34.659 And that is in your son Jesus 00:34:35.659 --> 00:34:36.659 And that is in your son Jesus 00:34:37.659 --> 00:34:39.659 Thank you for his death and resurrection 00:34:40.659 --> 00:34:41.659 That even though we at every turn 00:34:42.659 --> 00:34:43.659 Don't look to you 00:34:44.659 --> 00:34:45.659 You chase after us 00:34:46.659 --> 00:34:48.659 Please pray that you would help us as we go on our lives to 00:34:49.659 --> 00:34:51.659 Remember the importance of this 00:34:52.659 --> 00:34:53.659 That Jesus is everything 00:34:53.659 --> 00:34:55.659 It's the only way we can have our thirst quenched 00:34:56.659 --> 00:34:57.659 Amen