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Steve Webb 0:00Man, I gotta tell you it scared me to death

Steve Webb 0:09Hi there. This is the Lifespring family Audio Bible coming to you from Riverside, California podcasting since 2004. I'm your OG God casters Steve Webb. This is Thursday. So we're going to read from one of the books of poetry today we'll read Proverbs seven. And of course, after the reading, I'll have some comments I'm calling today's episode. It'll put your eye out. The show notes page for today's episode is Lifespring media.com/s 12 V. 176. Let's begin.

Steve Webb 0:40Proverbs chapter seven.

Steve Webb 0:42My 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, right 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. Once I was looking out the window of my house, and I saw many inexperienced young men, but noticed one foolish fellow in particular, he was walking along the street near the corner where a certain woman lived. He was passing near her house in the evening after it was dark. And then she met him. She was dressed like a prostitute and was making plans. She was a bold and shameless woman who always walked the streets or stood waiting at a corner sometimes in the streets, sometimes in the marketplace. She threw her arms around, the young man kissed him, looked him straight in the eye and said, I made my offerings today and have the need from the sacrifices. So I came out looking for you. I wanted to find you and here you are. I've covered my bed with sheets of colored linen from Egypt. I've perfumed it with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come on, let's make love all night long. We'll be happy in each other's arms. My husband is in at home. He's on a long trip. He took plenty of money with him and won't be back for two weeks. So she tempted him with her charms, and he gave in to her smooth talk. Suddenly, he was going with her like an ox on the way to be slaughtered like a deer prancing into a trap where an arrow would pierce its heart. He was like a bird going into a net. He did not know that his life was in danger. Now then sons, listen to me. Pay attention to what I say. Do not let such a woman when your heart don't go wandering after her. She has been the ruin of many men and caused the death of too many to count. If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death.

Steve Webb 2:44I like what Solomon said in verse two of chapter seven. He said, be as careful to follow my teaching as you are to protect your eyes. I had a really scary experience with my eyesight a few years ago,