Moments with my First Love [UNDER REVISION]

MOMENT 87: Prostitute's Perfume

Warning and reminder:

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
-Proverbs 7:24-27

Prostitute
- a person who engages oneself to sexual intercourse woth someone who is a complete stranger for money
- someone who with attract a person to give in

The prostitute will do everything just for you be attracted and to fall into sin!

2 facts about us sinner:
1. It is easy to commit sin if you are a cold Christian.

"It was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.

Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing there warming himself. So they asked him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?”
He denied it, saying, “I am not.”
-John 18:18;25

- It was easy for Peter to deny Christ because his faith was COLD.

- It is somewhat like us, when we are a cold Christian, we sin! And when we sin, we deny Christ.

2. It is easy to be worldly if you are not satisfied with God.

And he said, "There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me mthe share of property that is coming to me.' And he divided nhis property between them.

Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
-Luke 15:11-13

-The younger son had everything with his father but he chose to leave. Obviously, he was not satisfied living with his father. He wanted to live on his own and the earthly possessions that has limits.

Who is prostitute in this world?
SATAN.
And he instically uses perfume!

Be careful because there are things that you thought is good for you, it seems good in our smell, but it will just bring you to destruction.

"And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light." -2 Corinthians 11:14

How does the protitute move?
Please read carefully:

From the window of my house,
    I once happened to see
    some foolish young men.
It was late in the evening,
    sometime after dark.
One of these young men
    turned the corner
    and was walking by the house
    of an unfaithful wife.
She was dressed fancy
like a woman of the street
    with only one thing in mind.
She was one of those women
who are loud and restless
    and never stay at home,
     who walk street after street,
    waiting to trap a man.

She grabbed him and kissed him,
    and with no sense of shame,
    she said:
“I had to offer a sacrifice,
“I had to offer a sacrifice,
    and there is enough meat
    left over for a feast.
So I came looking for you,
    and here you are!
The sheets on my bed
    are bright-colored cloth
    from Egypt.
And I have covered it
with perfume
    made of myrrh,
    aloes, and cinnamon.

“Let’s go there
    and make love all night.
     My husband is traveling,
    and he’s far away.
He took a lot of money along,
    and he won’t be back home
    before the middle
    of the month.”

And so, she tricked him
    with all of her sweet talk
    and her flattery.
Right away he followed her
    like an ox on the way
    to be slaughtered,
or like a fool on the way
to be punished
     and killed with arrows.
He was no more than a bird
    rushing into a trap,
    without knowing
    it would cost him his life.
   
-Proverbs 7:6-23

In verse 8 says, it was late in the night, sometime after dark..

At the darkest point of your life, Satan will tempt you with his perfume to sin!

When you are at the lowest and darkest point of your life, temptation arises!

To do: Keep blending with the light!

"This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all."  -1 John 1:5

In verse 9 of Proverbs 7 says, one of the young men turned to the corner and was walking by the house of an unfaithful wife.

Sin starts in this way: small looks... just a peek... just a quick try...

But if you know that it will not do to you any good, don't ever lay a single attention to it!

As the song goes by, Maliit na butas lumalaki, konting kusot dumarami...

To do: Conquer the temptations by resisting!

"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." -James 4:7

This is our responsibility:

My child, remember what I say and never forget what I tell you to do.

Do what I say, and you will live. Be as careful to follow my teaching as you are to protect your eyes.

Keep my teaching with you all the time; write it on your heart.

Treat wisdom as your sister, and insight as your closest friend.

They will keep you away from other men's wives, from women with seductive words.
-Proverbs 7:1-5

If Satan is the prostitute.. God is the police! He will protect you, save you and He will catch the one who wants to cause you sin.

Fight for your purity!
Fight for righteousness!
Fight for your salvation!
Don't ever give satan a chance!

Shalom!
Glory be all to God! :)