Episode Transcript
All right, if you take God's precious word tonight and turn to Proverbs chapter 9.
Oh, how precious. Oh, how precious. I wish there was a way y'all could put that on the big screen.
Maybe, maybe next week. I just got sent a photo of Hannah hugging me on the television.
I will never throw that away. I think I may print that one out and hang it on the wall. I'm serious.
That's absolutely precious.
I love you, Anna.
All right.
So, my goodness, that's special.
Wow.
So, Proverbs 9, God willing, will be expounding verses 13 through 18.
"And man, have we got a good one tonight."
The title of the message is "The Other Woman."
And Anna and I thought that maybe that's how come people didn't come to church tonight,
because it was hitting a little too close to home, the other woman.
But that's not the woman we're talking about. We're not talking about some other woman in a marital affair or anything like that.
But the woman we're talking about actually is much more devious than that.
I believe Proverbs chapter 9
has been my most favorite study of the book of Proverbs so far.
I've been greatly enriched by learning about wisdom building her house,
which is Jesus building his church
taught in the Old Testament.
Through the preaching of the Gospel, Solomon said,
"The church invites all hungry people to come eat
of Jesus' bread and wine and flesh that he, being wisdom,
offers in his house."
This perfectly corresponds to what Jesus told us
in the New Testament when he said in John 6 that his flesh
is meat indeed and his blood is drink indeed.
Because if we take the gospel truth, if we partake of that, believing that, we have partaken
of the table that wisdom is set for us.
And now if we'll look back tonight in Proverbs chapter 9 verse 1, I have to remind you about
the woman who's building the house in the first part of this chapter.
Because amazingly as we get toward the end of this chapter and close this chapter out
tonight, well see there's actually two women building two different houses.
It's fantastic.
In Proverbs 9 verse 1 the Bible says, "Wisdom hath builded her house; she hath hewn out
seven pillars; she hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished
her table.
She hath sent forth her maidens.
She cryeth upon the highest places of the city.
Who so is simple?
Let him turn in, Heather.
As for him that wanteth understanding, she said to him, Come, eat of my bread and drink
of the wine which I have mingled.
That's the gospel covenant standing at the highest places of the city, reaching out to
the people of this world, inviting them to come in to the gospel house to partake of
Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
We the church of Jesus Christ are wisdom's house.
We are the maidens that go out and preach that gospel.
And the gospel of Jesus Christ is wisdom's food, which she furnishes on the table of
God's grace for hungry people to partake of.
I've heard people object to the usefulness of Jesus' church before.
They'll argue that because there are so many different kinds of churches and everybody's
preaching one way to go to heaven over here and they're preaching a different way to go
to heaven out here, well then the Bible's opened all kinds of interpretations and however
someone interpret it, since they interpret it differently, then why go to any church
at all?
I mean, no church can have exclusive claim to the truth since so many other people have
different interpretations.
And that's a lie.
Let me remind you tonight that when Jesus built his church, he built his church in the
middle of the most religious place on earth, Jerusalem.
He built it in the middle of Jerusalem where the temple was, where the priests were, where
the scribes and the Pharisees were, where Roman and Greek mythology was at its height.
Paganism and Judaism were all centered right there in Jerusalem.
And that's where Jesus said, "I'm going to build my church."
Now let me argue, the Judaizers, the people who were the experts in the temple,
they had the same Bible that Jesus taught from, the Old Testament that Jesus quoted from.
Bible, but they twisted its scriptures. Jesus built his church and he told his disciples
to go into all the world and to preach the gospel to every creature. Jesus' apostles
never told the church that the scriptures were open for interpretation. Jesus' apostles
never did that. They told the people the truth and then they condemned the lies that were
being spread by all the false teachers.
Here's a kingdom truth free tonight.
If the religions of this world were teaching the truth when Jesus came, and there were
a lot of religions.
Remember when the Apostle Paul went out and they had an altar in this one particular city,
they had an altar for every God they could think of.
And just in case there was one they missed, they had one for that God.
We're talking about a very religious time when Jesus came.
And if the religions of this world were teaching the truth when Jesus came, Jesus would have
never had to build his church.
The fact that Jesus said, "I will build my church in the midst of all that religiosity."
And then sent his messengers from the church out with the message of God is proof that
the other religious institutions didn't have the message God wanted people to hear.
The fact that Jesus apostles had to constantly warn the churches of the false teachers that
we're sneaking into the church is proof that there is a world wide conspiratorial power
that seeks to replace, corrupt, and overthrow the dissemination of God's truth to the world.
Here's another kingdom truth for you tonight.
Because the Spirit of Christ has built His church, so the Spirit of Antichrist has built
His church.
You hear that?
For everything God does, there is a counter-action to that.
There is a trinity, there is an unholy trinity.
There is a church, there is the world's church versus Jesus' church.
So the spirit of Antichrist has built his church.
Wisdom has built her house and foolishness has built her house.
Look with me now in verse 13 and 14.
Watch this now.
We've already learned that wisdom has built her house.
But now look in verse 13, "A foolish woman is clamorous; she is simple and knoweth nothing,
for she sitteth at the door of her house."
This is the other woman.
This is the false church.
This in fact is the same harlot that we see in the book of Revelation.
Just better organized when we get to the book of Revelation.
It's the foolishness house.
It is the anti-church built by the spirit of anti-Christ, as this is the Christian church
built by the spirit of Jesus Christ.
I'm so glad I belong to the house that Wisdom built, because it's founded upon the Lord
Jesus Christ.
It's established by God's Word forever, but Solomon is warning us here tonight about the
spirit of Antichrist. There are two women in Proverbs chapter 9, the wise woman in her
house and the foolish woman in her house. And both of these women are bidding guests
to come inside their house. Selma said the foolish woman is clamorous. She is simple
And she knows nothing.
Clamorous means she's a loud-mouthed woman.
Being simple means she doesn't know anything.
She doesn't know what she's talking about.
She's ignorant and she's easily deceived.
So there are three characteristics of the false religious institution.
The people who headed up are simple-minded, spiritually ignorant, and surprisingly loud.
Simple-minded, spiritually ignorant, and surprisingly loud.
They're very dogmatic about what they teach them, though everything they teach is wrong.
They are loud, they're ignorant, they're deceived, they act like they're superior in knowledge,
But in reality they're full of a bunch of hot air.
These are the people teaching evolution as if it was a fact.
They're very loud about it, very boisterous about it, and they're quick to condemn anyone
as ignorant who challenges what they teach when in fact they're the ones that are ignorant
and easily deceived.
These are the people insisting to us that men can have babies.
These are the people telling us that we cannot be saved by grace through faith in Christ
alone, that we have to do our part as well.
As the church of Jesus Christ, we have an urgency to preach the gospel to all the world
so that God's kingdom mission may be fulfilled.
of the true church in Proverbs chapter 9 verse 3 if you look there, "She hath sent forth
her maidens."
Now that's Jesus, that's the gospel covenant, sending forth the members of the church.
She has sent forth her maidens, she cryeth that through her maidens upon the highest
places of the city.
You see that in verse 3?
She has sent, this is the wise woman, has sent forth her maidens, she cryeth upon the
highest places of the city.
That's the wise woman.
Likewise the church of Antichrist also has an urgency to preach her false religions to
all the world so that the anti-Christian mission may be fulfilled, which is to replace, corrupt,
and overthrow God's kingdom.
As wisdom cries through her maintenance upon the highest place of the city, so the wisdom
Wisdom sits, look now in verse 14, "Wisdom sits on a seat in the highest places of the
city."
You see that?
Just like the wise woman going to the highest place of the city, the foolish woman also
goes to the highest places of the city.
It's like you have truth over here standing up on a mountaintop preaching to a crowd trying
to convince them to get into the ark before the flood comes and over here on the same
mountain you have someone else preaching to the same crowd trying to convince them not
to go in.
That's what's really happening spiritually in this world.
That's what we're dealing with right now.
She is on a seat in the highest place in the city, verse 15, to call passengers who go
right on their ways.
Both the wise woman and the foolish woman cry from the high places of the world, inviting
the same people to come into their houses.
It's a competition.
Which house are they going to go in?
Which religious philosophy, even if it's the religion of non-religion, which is a religion
in itself, which religious ideology are they going to subscribe to?
It's a competition.
There's a battle that's being waged right now over the souls that God created.
It's real.
And the false religions of this world are the proof that that battle exists.
Why?
Why do Mormons send out their young people on this mission, was it for two years I think
they do?
They come into the tower where I work all the time.
All the time trying to witness to people.
Why is it that they're sending out missionaries going door to door and knocking and everything,
trying to get their message of the Mormon religion out?
Why is it that the atheists have conspired so cleverly and successfully to spread their
news that there is no God to our children in the educational institutions.
What do they have an urgency?
What do the Mormons have an urgency?
Why are they going out trying to spread their false beliefs?
Because they have a kingdom agenda, just like we do.
That's why Jesus said, "I'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it."
Why did he say the gates of hell shall not prevail against it?
How does one thing prevail against another unless there is a war going on?
The gates of hell, which the death, the power of death is waging a war against the message
of eternal life.
The message of life is the message of Christ.
The lies that lead to death is the message of antichrist.
And the devil doesn't care what religion you buy into as long as you don't eat at the table
that wisdom has set, which is the gospel.
He doesn't care.
But that's why we have all these different religions in this world that are trying to
spread their religions around because there is a true battle.
And the gates of hell will not prevail against the church.
We will win.
We are the building that Jesus built.
Our building started with Abel and Seth and Noah and Abraham and Moses and David and Solomon,
the one that we're reading from tonight and so many others.
The unbelievers, the scoffers, they're the building that Satan has built.
with Adam and Cain and Nimrod and all the other unbelievers that come after them.
They are the house that foolishness is built and is built on sand.
Ours is the house that wisdom has built and is built on the rock.
Jesus Christ.
You remember Jesus saying, "There is a wise man that built a house and there's a foolish
man that built a house."
Same thing we're looking at here.
One's built on sand.
What happens with the sand?
It gets washed away.
One's built on a rock.
What happens to that?
It remains.
Their house is bigger than ours.
You count up all the people and all these other false religions right now in the church
of Jesus Christ is very, very minute in comparison.
Their house is much bigger.
But their house is not founded on a rock.
going to be washed away when the rock comes. Until Jesus comes again, the Church of Antichrist
is going to continue preaching its lies, and we'll continue preaching Jesus Christ and
Him crucified. When Satan tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, that was the foolish
woman inviting our first parents to come into her house to eat of her table.
Listen to the message of the foolish woman, the false church.
She cries, look down in verse 16.
The foolish woman cries, listen to her gospel.
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither.
Does that sound familiar to y'all?
It's remarkably familiar because it is a counterfeit gospel.
I want you to compare what the foolish woman, what the false church cries, verse 16, "Who
so is simple?
Let him turn in hither."
Now compare this to what the wise woman preaches in verse 4.
Look in verse 4.
She also says, "Who so is simple?
Let him turn in hither."
The same message, folks.
Two different houses.
Two different women.
The same message in a sense that it's promising the same result to the same people.
Making the same claim.
Both women have different messages in the sense of content, but they're both making
the same offer.
Who's so simple?
Let them come in here.
They both, the Christian and the anti-Christian institutions, offer people a place to belong
to, come on in here, you'll have a place to belong to. They offer them a system of belief
that they can take shelter in. Tammy and I were watching a video the other night. In
fact, Brother Cliff and I were speaking outside just a moment ago. It's becoming very, very
popular right now with people to live in travel trailers. For some people to live in their
house as they call it nomadic living. And it's becoming very popular in the United States
because of inflation. And Tammy and I were watching an interview of a man who's been
living in whether a travel trailer or his car or a boat or however he's done it. He's
been doing it for the past 40 years. Not living in a house for the past 40 years. He's currently
living in a travel trailer on public land, government on land.
And the man interviewing the nomad was a seasoned nomad himself, and both of these men were
highly intelligent.
And during the interview, one of the things that came up was the need for nomads to have
a sense of purpose.
I mean, because once you check out of life, once you don't have a job anymore and you
You're just living in a trailer and you're taking it easy and it's the good life.
You all relax.
You don't have to go to work and bills are paid and you get your social security check
or whatever.
However, you're paying your $500, $600 a month.
This man he was interviewing, he lived off $500 a month.
They thought that, "Hey, this is just really real.
This is the life.
We relax every day and don't worry about anything."
But they admitted there was a sense of purpose, what is now the meaning of life, if I do nothing
at all, if I don't contribute to society.
And they struggled with that purpose.
And the man who was interviewing, he has taken on the philosophies of the Native Americans.
You know, the people who worship the earth and thank salmon are spiritually sacred and
all that other stuff.
They're godless.
It's part of the anti-Christian church, the false church, the church that the foolish
woman is built because it denies God, it denies redemption by Jesus Christ.
And so in their mind, everything's okay, this is the house they went into.
They were talking about the elephant in the room when you're single and you're living
in a travel trailer and you're out in the woods living like a nomad.
What happens when you get old?
I don't know about y'all.
I think about when I get old.
Who's going to take care of me?
Will I have enough to go to a nursing home?
Will I be able to, you know, everyone should be thinking ahead about end of life care.
I think all reasonable people do.
Well, these nomads do too.
In both of them, stated very plainly, very unashamedly, that both of their plans are
to commit suicide when they realize that they're no longer able to care for themselves.
They checked out of this world and have checked out of all responsibility to life, and that
will just be their last time to check out again and skip out on responsibility in life.
They're just going to commit and they talk very openly about it.
But see in their minds by embracing the philosophies of the ancient religions of America, the
Native American religions, they see life like a lot of other people.
It's we're all just part of the earth, you see.
Anne's not a unique individual to be loved and cherished.
Her soul's not eternal.
That's not true.
She is just something the earth burped up.
There will be another young lady take her place.
When she dies, it just completes the cycle of life.
We've heard of that, right?
There is no cycle of life.
No one can replace that woman.
No one can replace Hannah that was giving me a hug.
She's unique.
She's special.
Here's what the gospel gives us.
The gospel gives you the truth, that wonderful truth that you are individually loved.
You are cherished by your creator as an individual.
Not as something the earth just coughed up and now you'll go back to dirt and kill yourself
when you get bad news and somehow they have entered into foolishness house and by going
to the house they take refuge in that house.
That's what you do in a house.
You get food and you get shelter in a house.
And foolishness has built a house for every person in this world.
Atheism, which is part of this Native American stuff too.
They may have great spirits or whatever out there, but it all comes back to the fact that
we don't have to answer to someone in the end, and we are not special to somebody now.
We're no different than the animals.
We're all just in this cycle of life, going back to the dirt and something new coming
back out of the dirt.
It's pathetically sad.
But you see how that's the house they've gone into and that's what they're taking
comfort in.
The wise woman is trying to shake them loose and get them to come into her house and realize,
"Man, your house is built on sand. That's not going to hold water."
"It is appointed a man wants to die, and after this the judgment."
So, their hope is to engage one day in the cycle of life on earth by dying and being replaced by somebody else.
That's what the foolish woman gave them. That's what they have eaten at her house.
Look back in your text now in the latter part of verse 16.
"And as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him..."
Now here's where the content of the message gets very different from ours.
"Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
Do you see here the woman builds her house just like the wise woman does?
The woman bids the passers-by to come into her house just like the wise woman does.
And the foolish woman also offers her people something to eat and drink just like the wise woman does.
Why?
Again, if there's a Christ, the devil's going to have an antichrist.
If there's a trinity, the devil's going to have an antitrenity.
We have a gospel, now we have an anti-gospel.
What does the wise woman offer?
Her beast or slain?
She has bread, she has mingled wine,
and that's what she offers.
Here, the food offering is very, very different.
The food offering in fact is described more by the adjectives than it is the food itself
Stolen waters
Secret bread
Stolen waters
Secret bread
The stolen water and the secret bread is speaking about the false doctrines that are contrary to the word of God
Those are stolen waters that secret bread mark this down in your Bible Deuteronomy chapter 27 verse 15
Outside of the stolen waters there in your margin Deuteronomy 27 15
listen to what God said cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image an
Abomination to the Lord the work of the hands of the craftsmen and put it in a
secret
place and all the people shall answer and say
Amen. Deuteronomy chapter 13 verse 6 through 9. Deuteronomy chapter 13 verse 6 through 9.
"If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend,
which is as thy own soul," in other words someone very, very close to you, "enticed thee secretly, saying,
"Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, namely
of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far from thee,
from the one end of the earth, even unto the other end of the earth."
You see now how the breaded and secret, the stolen waters, these are doctrines of religions
that are offered by the false church anywhere in the world,
other than the truth that God has given us
through Moses and the prophets.
He says, "Thou shalt not consent unto him,
"nor hearken unto him, neither shall thine eye
"pity unto him, neither shalt thou spare,
"neither shalt thou conceal him,
"but thou shalt surely kill him,
"thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death,
"and afterwards the people," I'm sorry,
the hand of all the people. Stolen waters, secret bread. The secret bread is very obvious.
Come, let's go do this over here. This is something that we really need to partake of
over here. We'll do it on the Q and T. When Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. They were eating secret bread. They were drinking stolen waters, which
the serpent advertised as being sweeter than what God had to offer. The foolish woman says,
Come drink my stolen waters because they're sweet.
What's stolen waters?
If Tammy and I get inside this car out here, this white car out here when we leave, well,
except for Rick's car, if we get in the white Hyundai, that's not a stolen car.
Why?
We have the title to that car.
We have the right to take that car home.
Now if we get into the other white car sitting next to it, the Cadillac, which is Hollywood
Ricks up there in Glendis, we do not have a title of that car.
If we run off with that car, that is not our car, that is a stolen car.
Why?
It does not belong to us.
It's not our car to take home.
And Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden.
They were tempted to partake of stolen waters because the fruit of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil was not theirs to partake of.
God says thou shall not eat of it.
It doesn't belong to you.
It's not yours.
Do you remember what the fruit did for Adam and Eve?
It gave them the knowledge of good and evil.
Do you know who else had the knowledge of good and evil?
God did. God said, "Behold, the man has become as one of us to know good and evil." That
was a knowledge that belonged to God alone. It did not belong to man. And man said, "That
belongs to God. If I eat it, I'll be like God." In fact, that's what the serpent said.
Serpent was telling the truth on that part. Just told a lie that he wouldn't die. And
They said, "Let's take it."
She saw the tree was good for food.
It was pleasant to the eyes.
What was that?
It was stolen waters, and the temptation was, "Ooh, won't that be so sweet if you get what
doesn't belong to you?"
The temptation of other religions, false religions around the world, when you're raised up, it's
like, "Man, boy, if we were to get that over there, there's this attractiveness to it, and
doctrine that is not ours to partake of. God has given us one thing to believe
and follow. That's His Word. That's the truth. The devil gives us other
things to follow that's not God's Word, that's not the truth, and it's not ours
to partake of because we've only been given one way. Jesus said, "I am the way,
the truth, the life. No man comes with the Father but by me." God only gave one way
And that is everybody's way to partake of and anything outside of Christ is stolen water that
advertises to be sweet, but after you drink it, it's going to turn bitter and you'll die.
The foolish woman doesn't tell that part. She just says, "Oh, this stolen water, it's sweet.
"And bread eaten in secret? Oh, it's pleasant."
Man, you'll like this religion. It lets you do a lot of things like the policemen up in Dallas.
They say, "Well, I'm this religion here because they let us drink. I like to drink."
And it'll give you whatever you ask for.
The fruit was stolen waters because it was not Adam and the Eaves to eat,
though it promised to quench their thirst for knowledge.
was eaten in secret. What did Adam and Eve go do after they ate it? They wouldn't
hid themselves from the presence of the Lord. Just like people are hiding from
God today. The false church advertises sweet refreshment to those who are
willing to subscribe to its godless teachings. It offers exciting
fulfillment to those who will feast on her lives. But he, look now in verse 18,
"but he that is the person entering that foolish house, the person partaking of
that false doctrine knoweth not that the dead are there and that her guests are in the depths
of hell. They go into that shelter just like those nomads. We're going to subscribe to
what the Native Americans believe just like the atheists. We're going to say there is
no God. We're going to go into that house and they take shelter in that house and they
They feast in that house and it fills their belly and to them it's sweet to think that
I can live how I want to and I don't have a God to answer to and I'm going to be okay
because that's what my philosophy, that's what my religion teaches me and even though
it teaches them the sweetness of that secret bread and that stolen water, they do not know
Know the truth that the people in that house are dead while they live.
How thankful I am that I've entered the house of life rather than the house of death.
Jesus said the way to hell is a broad way.
The foolish woman offers her guests the religion of their choice because the devil doesn't
care what lie you take to hell with you.
So long as you go to hell.
The wise woman offers her guests the truth because God is not willing that any should
perish but that all should come to repentance.
This is an inside glimpse in the book of Proverbs at the invisible battle that's being waged
between the Son of God in His Spirit and His Church,
in the devil, the Spirit of Antichrist,
in His godless world.
It's very real.
And I thank God one day,
the waters of God's judgment are going to wash that house away.
And the only things standing
are going to be those souls that built their faith on Jesus Christ
in the cross where He died.
Father, we thank you so much for your precious Word. God,
I look in this book in Proverbs chapter 9, God,
it's like putting glasses on, it's like
having scales come off our eyes and we're able to
glimpse into the unseen,
into the spiritual world of
of this battle, one woman seeking to prevail over the other.
And I thank you, Lord, that the wise woman at her house will always stand.
The gates of hell shall not prevail against the saints of God and the Christ in whom we
believe.
In His precious name we pray. Amen.
