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Proverbs Chapter 6 – Part 2 – Pro 6:16-19 “Take Heed to Thyself”

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Proverbs Chapter 6 – Part 2

Pro 6:16-19 “Take Heed to Thyself“

[Study Aired Dec 12, 2024]

 

The lesson for God’s elect in the proverbs we are going to read today is a spiritual message (Joh 6:63), that uses the construct of physical adultery which shouldn’t once be named amongst us (Eph 5:3), to elevate in our hearts and minds how detestable spiritual fornication and adultery is to our Father in heaven.

Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

When we read of adultery and fornication we are reading about the spiritual betrayal of God’s words, as the natural which precedes the spiritual (1Co 15:46) is used [physical adultery, fornication, covetousness] to witness in the flesh what God is telling His children to beware of in the spirit (Eph 5:5-8). When we covet the ways of this world, we are not showing love to God but rather committing spiritual fornication, or adultery (1Jn 2:15-16).

1Co 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Eph 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Eph 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Eph 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Eph 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
Eph 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:(Eph 2:1-4)

1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

The same principle is true with these “seven things that are an abomination unto him” of (Pro 6:16-19), all of which completely reside in us until Christ comes in his glory within us (Col 1:27), to destroy the man of perdition who embodies these spirits that must be destroyed by the brightness of his coming (2Th 2:8, Pro 16:4).

We don’t intentionally go around with a proud look, lying and shedding innocent blood, devising wicked imaginations, running to mischief, speaking lies, or sowing discord among the brethren, not physically at least. But what we need to ask the Lord as we examine ourselves, is how do these words apply to what is yet to be burned out of me regarding my spiritual relationship with our Father, Christ, and His body.

Only God can grant us to continue to take heed unto ourselves (Rom 2:4, Joh 6:44), watching and praying, and examining ourselves, that no root of bitterness is taking hold in our heavens (Heb 12:15-16), which roots can very quietly and deceitfully be growing without a diligent ongoing, dying daily examination of our own actions and thoughts which is what this section of the proverbs will focus on, and admonish us to do (Pro 6:20-29).

Heb 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Heb 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

The last section of this chapter that we will look at in a future study, (Pro 6:30-35), contrasts a thief with someone who commits adultery. We steal from God when we withhold our lives from him (Mal 3:8), and committing adultery represents an unfaithfulness to the words of God, demonstrating a lack of understanding of God’s word and the value of it. If we are found guilty in this life, the punishment we will receive for robbing God of his tithe that represents our lives, is that we will need to “restore sevenfold”. That complete restoration is a symbol of the wrath of God that must be poured out upon our old man of sin via the seven last plagues if we are going to enter into the temple of God (Rev 15:8).

Rev 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Pro 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Pro 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

These first six things that the LORD hates end with a seventh that is an abomination unto him. The seventh is really the end result of all that comes out of the first six, and that seventh is to sow “discord among brethren“.

1- A proudH7311 look

The proud waves of mankind’s hearts will be stayed by understanding (Job 26:12), and pride comes before destruction (Pro 16:18), so the Lord will give us an experience of evil to humble us thereby, called the pride of life (Ecc 1:13, 1Jn 2:16).

Job 26:12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

Pro 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.

It takes the knowledge of God to humble the proudH7311 look of mankind, and the first king of Israel is symbolic of our proud independent hearts that think they don’t need God to rule over the kingdom of our hearts (1Sa 9:2). King Saul in that sense is ‘another Jesus’ (Isa 4:1, 2Co 11:4), and the nation’s desire and acceptance of him in likeness of the other nations around Israel with their rulers (Deu 17:14), is symbolic of the rejection of God as our sovereign Father (1Sa 10:19) who is working all things according to the counsel of His own will, which ultimately includes Him being all in all (Eph 1:11, 1Co 15:28).

1Sa 9:2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

Deu 17:14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

1Sa 10:19 And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.

2- A lyingH8267 tongue

Lying H8267: “By implication a sham, deceit, false, vain”. These are words that sum up what God thinks of the traditions of men (Mar 7:7) that proceed forth from the mouth of the lying prophets of Babylon, which the elect are called out of (Jer 27:9-14).

Jer 27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
Jer 27:10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
Jer 27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
Jer 27:12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Jer 27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jer 27:14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

Here is the surprising and not so surprising twist from the words of a lying tongue coming out of the false prophets of Babylon. The message we read in (Jer 27:9-14) is the very same message we read in (2Th 2:3) that tells us we must go into exile, into Babylonian captivity (Heb 6:1-2), where the man of perdition within us is being set up to fall away by the grace of God in this age, if it be His will (Heb 6:3).

2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (Heb 6:3)

3- Hands that shed innocent blood

We are all guilty of the blood of Christ, so the hands “that shed innocent blood” are our own Adamic hands that must be dragged to Christ to understand this truth found in (Act 9:3-5).

Act 9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: [Christ coming into our lives]
Act 9:4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? [God knocks us to the earth to bring us to the abased position we all must start from (Jer 22:29)]
Act 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

So clearly we all shed innocent blood [the blood of Christ] without even knowing it (1Ti 1:13, 1Pe 1:13-14), and the admonition for God’s elect today is the most sobering of all admonitions regarding the shedding of innocent blood, which is what we would do if we lost our sobriety in the Lord and crucified Christ afresh (Heb 10:29, Heb 6:6, Pro 8:33, Jer 13:10).

Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified (Joh 17:17), an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Heb 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
Heb 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Pro 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Jer 13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

4- An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations

The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked above all things (Jer 17:9) and unless the Lord gives us a new heart (Eze 36:26), we will continue to devise wicked things, even unto our own destruction as was prophesied back in this verse in Genesis (Gen 6:5).

Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

5- Feet that be swift in running to mischief

Our feet belong to God, and unless they are burnished in the fire of His word (Eze 1:5-7, Rev 2:18), just as the lips of Isaiah were by the angel in (Isa 6:5-7), our walk and our talk will continue to be led by our flesh and not by Christ himself who tells us that we must endure fiery trials (1Pe 4:12, 1Pe 4:1) in order to cease from sinning (Rom 8:14-16, Rom 8:9).

Eze 1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

Rev 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; [1Jn 4:17]

Isa 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isa 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Isa 6:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

6- A false witness that speaketh lies

God’s word is not fragile in his own mouth (Psa 29:5), but in our mouths we learn that we are naturally false witnesses of those things, and speak lies until Christ enters into the picture to sanctify us (Joh 17:17) and give us the strength to bring our thoughts in line with our Father; that is what the breaking of the cedars represents in (Psa 29:5).

Psa 29:5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

Through the sanctification process we’re called unto, we become the cedars of Lebanon that represent the elect of God who, in time, will have foreheads like flint (Eze 3:9), and spiritually take on the attributes that physical cedar wood points to [The wonderful properties of Cedar – Cedar Imports Australia], which typify what God can prepare our hearts to become through the fiery trials of this life that are being orchestrated by the life of Christ in His body (2Ch 1:15, Lev 14:4, Php 2:12-13, 1Pe 4:12).

2Ch 1:15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.

Lev 14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

7- He that soweth discord among brethren

It is when we do not appreciate the singleness that is in Christ that we are one step away from sowing discord (2Co 11:3).

2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtiltyG3834, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicityG572 that is in Christ.

Above all things we are called to be unified [singleness] in Christ, which will be demonstrated by a spirit of mercy working in our hearts (Php 2:1-3), that needs to be abounding continually (2Co 11:3, Pro 6:21).

Php 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Php 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Php 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicityG3834 that is in Christ.

Pro 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

Next week Lord willing will look at the last section of Proverbs chapter six (Pro 6:20-35).

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