Proverbs 23                                                      Book of Proverbs    

Proverbs 23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

• This chapter is on personal character
• When = forasmuch as
• Taking the acts for granted.
• The second person is continued down to verse 24
• Verse 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
• Consider = discern
• What = or, who

2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

• And put = Then thou wilt put
• Appetite = soul
• If you angry him, you're in big trouble

3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

• Dainties = dainty meals
• Deceitful meat = meat that deceives
• It's not wise to make a ruler angry, at his table
• Psalms 141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
  5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
• Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
  35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
  36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

• Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Use God's wisdom
• What happen to Lot: Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
  11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
  12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
  13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
• Jeremiah advice: Jeremiah 45:5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

• If you're setting you're mind only on riches, trouble going to find you
• This is the reason why "it gone". "no wisdom"

6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

• Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
  23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

• Heart = mind or soul
• He does want to share, he's jealous, he thinks only about himself
• Don't have a friendship with a jealous man

8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

• Job 20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
  16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
  17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

• Daniel 11:27 And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
• Don't listen to a fool, if you do..  you're bigger fool then he is
• 1 Corinthians 7  About marriage
• 1 Corinthians 7:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
  14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
  15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
  16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
  17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
• Divorced is not the unforgivable sin, Ask God forgivingness
• God doesn't want His children to be beaten, or live with someone that tries to control them.
• Bible study hour: Husbands Love your wife, as you love yourself

10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

• Deut 19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
• People don't know who they are any more, men have removed the lankmark.
• E-book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt. Why did God said, Roman 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Because he didn't care about his birthright. He sold it. God knew the soul He put in Esau.
• There were 13 tribes of Israel. The nation Israel is only part Judah
• God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them. He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep) (Lev. 26: 28-46).
• The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776

11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

• Redeemer = The Lord
• The Lord will help you
• God doesn't like for someone to take advanced of the needy, poor, the disabled people

12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

• Your heart = mind
•  Apply thine heart unto instruction = Means to work at it, study God's word for words of knowledge
• James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

• Beatest = never correct a child in angry
• If you correct your children, he going to do thinks that right
• Don't wait until your child turns 16 years old and try to correct a child.

14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

• Deliver = rescue
• Hell = Hades

15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

• God loves those that study His word, and try to do things right
• John 21:5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
  6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.

16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

• Eph 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.

• Don't envy sinners, why?
• Please God, and He will bless you
• Don't be jealous if a theft has more than you, for God's going to take care of the theft His way
• A theft won't keep things long, for he doesn't have the wisdom to keep it
• Most will be on the left side of heaven, (Luke 16) Gulf in heaven

18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

• Romons 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
  22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
  23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

• Do things God's way, the ways that keeps you out of trouble

20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

• Wine bibbers = gallon = drinkers to excess

21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

• He'll lose his family and home at the end
• They are spirits of the botte

22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

• If you think your parents done you wrong, Love your parents for giving you life

23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

• Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
  27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
  28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

• Most mother's will find good in her child

26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

• Heart = for attention
• Study God's word, Let God guide you

27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

• Don't get into other religious beliefs, that will lead you away from God's ways
• Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
  15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

• Don't get into Satan's ways..
• Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
• Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

• A person that drinks strong drink, etc.. brings all this on himself.
• You can't talk to a drunk
• Satan's spirits are in a bottle
• You take a weak person, give him a drink, he thinks he can beat up anyone in the room

30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

• Mixed wine = all other drugs = This will take your life
• Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
• Thy sorceries = drug dealers, false teachers
• Thy Sorceries: NT:5332 a druggist ("pharmacist") or poisoner, Medication, sorcery, witchcraft.  = Drug Dealers
• Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
• Whoremongers NT:4097 (from the base of NT:4008); to traffic (by travelling), dispose of as merchandise or into slavery.
• 1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
  7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
  8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
  10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• Verse 29, is your answer

31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

• His colour = its sparkle

32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

• Ecclesiastes10:8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
• Jeremiah 8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

• Strange = apostate
• Why you're drinking, you're weak
• Don't start Taking to other religious beliefs

34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

• Top of a mast = drunk = danger
• Exodus 15:8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
• Midst =  in Hebrew "heart"
• Top = basket: the look-out basket or cradle

35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

• A drunk will wake up and not know what happen the night before.
• Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
• God said, to drink a little wine for a nervous stomach, not a gallon
• 1 Tim 5:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
• Felt = knew

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

 

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25