{"id":1543,"date":"2014-05-13T09:46:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2014-05-13T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:46:35","slug":"proverbs-chapter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs Chapter 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sin has a down side!\u00a0 As the NHHS did that mock accident to keep youth from drinking, this chapter wants to warn us against being consumed with sex outside of marriage.\u00a0 We live in an overly charged society where sex is pushed on us through commercials, the way society dresses, programs and even in our laws as same sex marriage becomes wrongly acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>A well-known theologian, Dr. Keller, made this statement; \u201cone of the biggest obstacles to repentance for revival in the church is the basic fact that almost all singles outside the church and a majority inside the church are sleeping with each other \u2013 in other words \u2013 good old-fashioned fornication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marriages break up because of sex outside of marriage.\u00a0 \u201cDrink from your own cistern\u201d is what proverbs tells us.\u00a0 Be satisfied with the wife of your youth!\u00a0 Remember it can happen to you so set up safe guards because the end will be destructive.<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t Proverbs fun and straight to the heart of the matter?\u00a0 Just one more thing, when it said the wife of your youth, just a thought\u2026people wait too long to get married.\u00a0 Paul tells us in Corinthians, it is better to marry than to burn.\u00a0 I know society think it is better to wait and maybe you will be ready for marriage and not get divorced, but we are just trading sins and destroying the faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}