So in this sixth Proverbs, there are actually several different topics. So it’s very difficult to cover this as a whole or to find an underlying theme. The underlying message is one of wisdom and knowledge and discretion, but that goes without saying; hence the title\u00a0Proverbs<\/em>. So it may be somewhat futile to speak again of wisdom in general. The aim is to get through the Proverbs, so a verse by verse is not desirable. We’ll have to take one topic or passage and expound on that. And Proverbs 6 is really jammed pack! The ant? The sluggard? The seven abominations? Fire in the bosom? Hot coals on the feet? Adultery? Jealousy? We can’t do them all at one time.<\/p>\n You know I have read this so fast in times past, I always understood that poverty shall come as one that\u00a0travaileth.<\/em> So I always got this picture of poverty coming swiftly and painfully. But it helps to slow down and read carefully. It’s not\u00a0travaileth;<\/em> it’s\u00a0travelleth<\/em>; one that is travelling. The writer is comparing the coming of poverty to the steps of a traveler. Alot of commentaries speak of how this is likened to how someone on a journey speeds to his destination as they approach it; in which case\u00a0travaileth<\/em> actually does make some sense, I guess. But I really don’t see where they get that from. I think the warning is quite the opposite. It’s not suddenly, it’s little by little.<\/p>\n You say Do you have bible for that?<\/em> Sure. The previous verse.\u00a0Yet<\/i>\u00a0a little<\/strong> sleep, a little<\/strong> slumber, a little<\/strong> folding of the hands to sleep. It’s little by little that poverty comes. It’s step by step. You get there one step at a time. This reminds me of the Israelites at the edge of the promised land; where they were turned back to wander in the wilderness for forty years. They didn’t just suddenly disobey God. They didn’t just all of a sudden decide to not go God’s way. The bible says (Numbers 14:22,23)\u00a0Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;\u00a0Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers…\u00a0<\/strong>It was ten times, not once. It was little by little.<\/p>\n (Galatians 6:7)\u00a0Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.\u00a0<\/strong>Some sow one seed at a time. Some broadcast. But everything that is reaped was sown at some point. An empty pocket book is tough, but the poverty of the soul is far worst. (Matthew 16:26)\u00a0For 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?\u00a0<\/strong>A sinner is far from God because he’s walked far from God one step at a time; little by little; step by step.<\/p>\n Want<\/em> is a noun. It is the lack of something desired; something needed. So it speaks to us not just of a lack. That would be simply poverty, I suppose. But it also speaks to us of desire, defeat, and the destitute; not just the need, but the needy; not the the deficiency, but the deficient.\u00a0Want<\/em> is a condition; a felt and suffered malady. And an\u00a0armed man<\/em> is strong and unstoppable. Once again, this speaks not of speed. But this speaks to us of strength and power. A great motivator can\u00a0want<\/em> be. It can compel a man to steal, to murder, to sell oneself.\u00a0Want<\/em>, as an armed man, can\u00a0consume and overrun you.<\/p>\n Now, that expression\u00a0armed man<\/em> throughout the bible is used to describe a\u00a0shielded\u00a0<\/em>man. So we’re talking about something that is not easily moved; not easily thwarted. So the warning is that when\u00a0want<\/em> comes, you won’t be able to stop it.\u00a0I can handle it. I can handle it.<\/em> No you can’t handle it. Now obviously this sounds like advice in a physical sense. But you have to reconcile all this with the words of Jesus (Matthew 6:25)\u00a0Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?<\/strong> Jesus’ advice is not for the physical, but for the spiritual. For he instead says (Matthew 6:33)\u00a0But seek ye first the kingdom of God.<\/strong><\/p>\n So I find it more appropriate to find spiritual application. In other words, don’t be lazy about spiritual things.\u00a0Yet<\/i>\u00a0a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep…\u00a0<\/strong>talks to us about spiritual matters. It’s the little<\/em> things that will take you away from God. They take you away one step at a time. And then one day you’ll find yourself without; in want<\/em>, lacking what you now see is most desirable, but you’ll be powerless against it. (1 Thessalonians 5:4-8)\u00a0But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.\u00a0Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.\u00a0Therefore let us not sleep, as\u00a0do<\/i>\u00a0others; but let us watch and be sober. 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An armed man…<\/h2>\n