Sin - Salvation - Proverbs — Milton Green

See, folks, listen. We learn to say we're saved. Saved from what? We learn to say, well, I repent of my sins. What is sin? Don't even know what sin is. Sin's when I go to a beer joint. I'm a homosexual.

We learn to say these words in a religious language and don't even know what they mean. Sin is breaking the commandments of God's law. That's what sin is. And that's the reason it can't be explained and defined what sin is.

Sin, Holiness, and the Collapse of Theology

Because it tears down all the theology. When you start defining what holiness and righteousness and what the powers and unions are working in, what sin is, it messes up all the theology. And it's better to change the word of God than it is to something that's captured your heart.

Like doctrines that do not conform you to godliness. Honey, there's over 400 teachings and doctrines in this country. I hope you... And we sit around asleep and don't realize that somebody's got to be wrong.

Superficial Sermons and Pastoral Entertainment

And then what's happening today is the grace of God's moving in. People have been taught all their life to be bored by the word of God. Hear a little sermonette for Christianettes. The clock strikes 12 and the dead arise.

You know the powers of darkness start... Look here. The powers of darkness start attacking you. They'll sit there over 20 minutes. Give me two scriptures and tell me some nice stories, pastor. And then a pastor entertains you because he wants to be an idol in your heart.

He pulls out good things and tell you how righteous you are and you're stiff-necked, stubborn, and hellish rebellion. While hell and demons are eating you up while you sit in a pew. Let's just see how...

The Adulterous Path in Proverbs 5

Can you hold all these places? Turn with me to Proverbs. I'm going to show it to you as we come to it right there. And when God says look at it, we're going to look at it. I'll tell you what. You can just let Galatians go, but you keep holding on to Matthew 5 and Deuteronomy 6.

We're going to Proverbs here in a minute. I want you to turn to Proverbs 5. All right, now let's just see there. We're in Proverbs 5, okay? Here we go. For the lips of a what? Now, let's just stop here just a minute.

Let me just have you to understand what adulterous is. Just start and look at me up here. Adulterous is someone that comes into a form of godliness. And over here, they bless God. And they go over here, and they curse their neighbor.

They still walk out the nature and character of Satan. If you're led by the Spirit of God, you're going to overcome it. See, when you practice these things, it proves you're not being led by the Spirit of God, or you'd put it to death.

And number two, it proves you're not walking in peace. Amen? You don't have peace. So then there's what it says. This wisdom, not that which comes from above. For you come here and bless God. I love you, God.

And then come over here in anger and unforgiveness and resentment and criticism and everything towards your neighbor. Amen? Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now, see, that's the way we've been taught to walk.

James 4 verse 4 said that you are adulterous. Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? If you wish to be a friend of the world, in other words, you're going to carry on with their gossip and unforgiveness and slander.

You're going to speak these curses like, hey, you make yourself a friend of the world. You are the enemy of God. You whore. You harlot. You're adulterous. You're not the bride of Christ. That's right.

This word, this wisdom doesn't come from above, but it's worldly. It's the way the world walks and talks. It's fleshly. It's the spirit of God you love. The spirit of God puts you to death. It's fleshly, natural.

And it's all your listening and being led by the mnemonic. You're still listening to these demons of unforgiveness, hatred, and criticism. You're not taking every thought captive to the beat of sedition.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? Said you are adulterous. Now, that's the ones who lead you in the form of godliness, and they deny the power of God. How do you deny the power of God? You're born again through the word of God.

Amen? That's right. The word of God warms your heart. Amen? So you have a pure heart and fulfill God's law through Christ. Amen? There's no other way to do it. Now, let's just look there, and let's look at this adultery as proper as that.

Proverbs 5 and the Smooth Speech of False Religion

My son, give attention to my wisdom. You know what wisdom is? Jesus is our wisdom. The word is wisdom. Isn't that right? Incline your ear to my understanding that you may observe discretion, and your lips may reserve knowledge.

For the lips, that's the mouth of adulterous, whore, harlot church. They drip honey. And smoother as oil is their speech, because they'll lead you in fleshly achievements, and boast in you, and tell you how great and sweet you are in your stiff-necked, stubborn rebellion.

But in the end, she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, because they lead you into the flesh, and to walk into the flesh is death. Her steps lay hold of shield.

She does not ponder the path of life. Her ways are unstable, and she doesn't even know it. Is that the way it is today, folks? They're walking the walk of death, and don't even know it. Being burned up and destroyed by the powers of darkness, just like a moth eating away at rottenness, and don't even know it.

Guarding Against the Distorted Gospel

Now then, my sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house. It's a distorted gospel. And if you do go there and become a part of it, lest you give your vigors to others, and your years to who?

I can't hear you. Wonder who that cruel one is. That's the powers of darkness. When you go in and walk with a harlot right there, who's obeying to God, see, that's another gospel and another Jesus. And you give your years to a cruel one because adulterous leads you after the things that breaks God's law, and the powers of darkness, that cruel one can come in and destroy you.

Sickness, disease. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Torment and hell. It's what we've been living in. Now, verse 10. Lest strangers be filled with your strength. That's them. They steal your strength.

And your hard-earned goods go to the house of an alien. And you groan at your latter-in. See, your days are not prolonged. Are you hearing what I'm saying? You're wiped off the face of the earth when your flesh and your body are consumed.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? And you have to admit, you're going to have to say in your heart, you're going to have to say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart has spurned what? Proof. See, look here.

The adulterous, listen to me, folks. Look at me. The adulterous shows you a way in. She shows you a way to heaven where you don't have to take up your cross. She uses all the Bible, but she leaves out the parts.

It's discipline and reproof. You don't have to take up your cross. You don't have to die. They show you another way into heaven. That's adulterous. Jesus said anyone that loves his life is going to lose it.

But whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel, he's the one that's going to save it. You have to give up selfish ambition. The harlot tells you not to do that. So that's the reason the form of God has had lovers of self, lovers of money, pride, unholy, ungodly, disobedient to parents and all the things that breaks God's law.

And then you say, when your flesh and your body is consumed, you're going to have to admit and say, I have hated instruction. And my heart is spurned with reproof and discipline. Verse 14, I was almost an utter ruin.

Right in the middle of the assembly and the congregation. You see it? This is where we find ourselves. Look at verse 21. For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord. And he watches all his paths.

His own iniquities are going to capture, will capture the wicked. In other words, you know the righteous, look at me, folks. The righteous judgment of God by your standard of measure is going to be measured.

When you walk in that stuff, you get captured. When you obey God, he's got a hedge around you and you walk in peace. Because when you walk in God's way, you're walking in love. When you walk in a harlot's way, you're walking double-minded.

The double-minded person will receive nothing from God. It's the most amazing thing, folks. There's a hole in your Bible right here. And I want to tell you something, beloved. I don't care where you come from, the Lord will show it to you.

You quit, get your eyes and heart off of men. Now, that doesn't mean that we don't have authority and everything, spiritual authority. But you're going to recognize authority. You don't submit to a man just because he goes by the name of evangelist or pastor or teacher and everything.

He's someone that's walking and going the way of the word. Amen? That's how you submit. Now, and his own liturgy will capture the wicked, verse 22, and he'll be held with the cords of his sin. Are you seeing how that happens?

Jesus Christ as Wisdom in Proverbs 8

That's the law of God. He will die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly, he will go astray. Let's look at chapter 8. Here's Jesus. Jesus is wisdom in here. Do you know Jesus is wisdom?

Okay. Verse 34, chapter 8, 34. Blessed is a man who listens to me and watch daily at my gates. He's waiting at my doorpost. In other words, he's listening for the Lord. Folks, when you get your mind on the Lord, he's always got something good to say.

Verse 35, for he who finds me, Jesus says, finds life. And he obtains favor or blessings from the Lord. But he who sins against me, if you sin against the Lord, what does it say happens to you? You injure yourself because you break the commandments of God's law, righteous judgment, and then a hedge comes down, the fire and stuckness move in, and then you get wounded.

Is that what your Bible says? And those who hate me, what do they do? Love death. In other words, the ones who do not obey the commandments of God through Christ hate death. I mean, they love death instead of life.

Is that true? Now, look what Jesus says right here. Wisdom, that's Jesus, verse 1, chapter 9, verse 1. Has built her house. She has hewn out her seven pillars. She's prepared her food. Where it puts prepared her food, put the word there.

She has mixed her wine. The wine is a teaching that you drink. We take a teaching, you drink it by taking it to heart. She has also set her table. That's Jesus has set his table. Now, we've got the word teaching and the table is covenant.

She has sent out her maidens. That's the body of Christ. Now, we've got the word teaching covenant and the body of Christ, Jesus. And what these maidens, this body of Christ does, she calls from the top of the heights of the city.

Whoever's naive, let him turn in here. He who lacks understanding, spiritual understanding, she says, in other words, turn in here. Jesus says, come eat of my food, the word of God. Come drink of the wine, my teaching I've mixed.

Forsake your folly, eliminate the nature and character of Satan and live. Repent and proceed in the way of wisdom of God, which is a way of understanding. See, you're walking out of the wisdom of the world, you're getting destroyed.

Correction, Wisdom, and the Fear of the Lord

Verse 7, he said, he who corrects a scoffer, a scoffer is someone who loves the character and nature of Satan. He gets dishonor for himself. And he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself. Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he'll hate you.

You reprove somebody that walks out of the flesh, and they'll turn around and hit back. But you reprove now a wise man and he'll love you. You know why? A wise man knows he doesn't want any strongholds in his life.

And see, let me tell you something, folks. I've got a lot more discernment about you than I have about myself. I need other parts of the body of Christ to help discern some things I'm blind to in my own life.

Amen? But we do it in a loving way to come and help one another. We don't condemn one another. We're not showing somebody a speck. You've got to remember your own logs. Amen? Give instruction to a wise man and he'll be wiser.

Teach a righteous man and he'll increase in learning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Now, folks, are we understanding what the fear of God is? And we didn't understand it before because we just sleep.

Is that correct? And the knowledge of Jesus is what? The Holy One is understanding. For by me your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you. In other words, you won't be destroyed by the curse.

The Woman of Folly and the Depths of Hell

Amen? Now, verse 13, the woman of folly. There she is. That's the adulteress, is boisterous. She is naive and knows nothing, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. She sits at the doorway of her house.

That's a harlot church. On the seat by the high places. That's the corner towers of the city. Calling to those who pass by, who are making their path straight, who are trying to walk with God. They say, whoever is naive, come in here.

If you need understanding, come in here. And to him who lacks understanding, she says, stolen water is sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. You know, you can just pick and choose to it. Verse 18, but this man does not know that the who are there.

The dead are sitting in that house right there, folks. Are you all seeing this? The dead are sitting there. And her guests are in the depths of hell, healed. Does this make this thing a little serious, folks?

Huh? Back up to 7. Verse 1. My son, keep my words and treasure my what? You better treasure my commandments within you. Keep my commandments in what? Is that what we've been talking about? Keep my commandments and live.

And my teaching is the apple of your eye. Verse 5, 3. Verse 5. That they may keep you from who? You have to stay away from adulterers. Lawlessness and righteousness cannot walk together. And it will keep you from the adulterers, from the foreigners, or if that's the word, to flatterers with the words.

They both walk and talk the same way. See, when people have pride and selfish ambition, they flatter you for the sake of gaining advantage. They don't know in their deceived heart they think they're helping God out.

Are you hearing what I'm saying?