Harlot And Loose Woman

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you free from obligation?

No. I'm married to the LORD, my Husband.

Isaiah 54:5 (Amplified Bible)

For your Maker is your Husband—the Lord of hosts is His name—and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth He is called.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers/unbelievers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that GOD never intended us to be out of obligation once we marry, our obligation is divided to the LORD first of all, as our Original Husband and to our spouse.

1 Corinthians 7:33-34 (Amplified Bible)

But the married man is anxious about worldly matters—how he may please his wife—

And he is drawn in diverging directions [his interests are divided and he is distracted from his devotion to God]. And the unmarried woman or girl is concerned and anxious about the matters of the Lord, how to be wholly separated and set apart in body and spirit; but the married woman has her cares [centered] in earthly affairs—how she may please her husband.

IV. TEXT:

Proverbs 23:27 (Amplified Bible)

For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a loose woman is a narrow pit.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for I have an obligation to You that is to be wholly set apart in body and spirit, and that I always please You.

1 Corinthians 7:33-34 (Amplified Bible)

But the married man is anxious about worldly matters—how he may please his wife—

And he is drawn in diverging directions [his interests are divided and he is distracted from his devotion to God]. And the unmarried woman or girl is concerned and anxious about the matters of the Lord, how to be wholly separated and set apart in body and spirit; but the married woman has her cares [centered] in earthly affairs—how she may please her husband.

VI. TITLE:

Harlot and loose woman

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Solomon

B. Chief Purpose: to give moral instruction

C. Key text: Proverbs 1:4 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

These proverbs will give insight to the simple, knowledge and discernment to the young.

D. Key thought: fear of the LORD

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Proverbs 23:27 (Amplified Bible)

For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a loose woman is a narrow pit.

Proverbs 23:27 (King James Version)

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

A. A harlot is a deep ditch

"For a harlot is a deep ditch,"

Proverbs 22:14 (Amplified Bible)

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit [for ensnaring wild animals]; he with whom the Lord is indignant and who is abhorrent to Him will fall into it.

A deep ditch is something a wise man avoids because he will be stuck on it. That's how a harlot and a loose woman should be treated.

ILLUSTRATION: Several years ago, we have crusades inside beer gardens where I preached GOD's WORDS, the men's ministry can't believed what I've done, even I can't believed it. No one will go with me, so I took my wife and son, and dressed in full battle gear with jumper covering even my arms and wore a hat (which I don't usually do) then preach GOD's WORDS, now we can't even pinpoint the places where all these beer gardens (club of the harlots) have been standing before, they were all wiped out like a lice wiped out by a narrow comb. HALLELUJAH! It was a ministry indeed, all these club houses closed down because GOD's fear was planted on their sexual workers and the hospitality girls went on all home to their provinces to get decent jobs instead of selling their own bodies for money. I was never able to document it with pictures because they don't want their pictures taken for obvious reasons. It was a glory, praise and worship offering all unto JESUS, because He did it, He did all the preaching and I did all the receiving and listening.

B. A loose woman is a narrow pit

"and a loose woman is a narrow pit"

A loose is also synonymous with "strange" according to it's Hebrew word : "nokriy" meaning foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful, outlandish.

Loose means to untie or unbind, to free from any fastening, to free from obligation. Therefore a loose woman is set from her obligation as a married woman, free from fastening from wedlock (marriage), as though she really was, thouse her husband is still alive and she's committing adultery every time she thinks she's a loose woman.

Matthew 5:32 (Amplified Bible)

But I tell you, Whoever dismisses and repudiates and divorces his wife, except on the grounds of unfaithfulness (sexual immorality), causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a woman who has been divorced commits adultery.