Walking
with Wisdom: Proverbs 5-7 – Discussion Thoughts and Questions
Prov
5:1-23 Discussion Thoughts and Questions
Why do you suppose this father gives
his son such repeated and emphatic teaching about sexual immorality? Would you
say that such clear father-son instruction is needed today as much as or more
than it was in Solomon’s time? Why?
Since God created all of us with
certain desires and needs – such as hunger and thirst, for example – why is it
sinfully wrong to have relations before marriage and outside of marriage?
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What do you think about the “Me Too”
movement? What lessons should we learn from it?
Does our culture still acknowledge
that sexual sin is wrong? If so, in what circumstances and settings?
We rightly warn our girls about men
who might lead them into sin. Here in Proverbs it’s the reverse. Here a father
warns his son about women who might lead him into sin. Why is it important that
we teach our sons as diligently as we teach our daughters?
Discuss the promise of sexual immorality. Why is it so appealing? What does it
offer? Why would a person consider it? How does our culture encourage it? How
does our culture promise to eliminate its consequences?
Discuss the pattern of sexual immorality. What are the first thoughts and the
first steps that lead to it? What precedes it, so that one may predict that it
will occur unless there is intervention?
Discuss the price of sexual immorality. What does it cost? What does a person
pay as a result of it? What does he lose? What are the spiritual, emotional,
mental, and physical consequences of it?
Discuss the prevention of sexual immorality. Why is it so appealing? What does
it offer? Why would a person consider it?
How is the temptation to sexual
immorality similar to all other temptations to sin? How is it different, if at
all?
Prov
6:1-5 Discussion Thoughts and Questions
What is the meaning of putting up
(or pledging) security for a neighbor?
Why would this man’s son do that?
Why is it such a major mistake?
Why is the father so urgent in his
exhortation? Why must the son reverse his action even before he goes to sleep?
Why and how do we make rash
decisions about financial matters?
Give examples of foolish decisions
people make about money.
What wise advice would you give
young people about money?
Prov
6:6-11 Discussion Thoughts and Questions
Do you hate ants? Why? What can we
admire about them and learn from them?
Why are people lazy?
What does laziness cost?
When and why is it wrong to get a
little extra sleep?
What else does the Book of Proverbs
say about laziness?
How can a person overcome laziness?
How can we develop in our children a
strong work ethic?
Prov
6:12-15 Discussion Thoughts and Questions
Read also 16:27-30.
What is a scoundrel or a villain?
The ESV has “a worthless person, a wicked man.”
What does he seek to accomplish?
Is he successful in the long run?
How can you equip your children to
identify and avoid such a person?
Prov
6:16-19 Discussion Thoughts and Questions
What is an “abomination?”
Since “God is love,” how could there
be anything that He hates?
If God hates something, what should
our attitude toward it be?
Why does the author change “six” to
“seven?” Is this a mistake? Did he forget number seven and then add it?
What evil things can be done with
these body parts: eyes, tongue, hands, heart, and feet?
How is the heart the key to all the
other parts listed?
How does this paragraph (6:16-19)
compare with the previous one (6:15-18)?
How do people sow discord, or stir
up dissension, among their own brothers? Why?
Prov
6:20-35 Discussion Thoughts and Questions
Haven’t we read these words before,
right here in Proverbs?
Where have we read about wearing the
parents’ instruction around one’s neck, and about the benefits of doing so?
Why is repetition so important in
teaching? (Shall we say that again???)
What word pictures and even scare
tactics does Solomon use to help his son understand the costly, even deadly,
consequences of sexual sin?
Prov
7:1-5 Discussion Thoughts and Questions
This is the tenth and final lecture
found in chapters 1-9 and is the last of four lectures that describe the
adulteress (2:16-22;
5:1-23; 6:20-35; 7:1-27). Verses 6-23
serve as an example story.
How can a child “write” his parents’
teaching on “the tablet of his heart?”
How would it help this youth to
think of wisdom as his sister or intimate friend? How might association with
this “woman” (wisdom) protect him from the other (immoral) woman?
Prov
7:6-23 Discussion Thoughts and Questions
What is the value of the father
using a story (depicting an actual or imaginary series of events) to teach his
son?
How do stories teach, that lists of
rules alone do not?
Why do we still need the lists of
rules as well?
What strategies does this woman use
to entice the young man?
Where else have we read about her
persuasive words? Cf. Prov 2:16; 5:3; 6:24.
What powerful word pictures does Solomon
use involving an ox, a deer, and a bird?
Prov
7:24-27 Discussion Thoughts and Questions
This chapter’s opening paragraph
(7:1-5) and closing paragraph (7:24-27) serve as brackets for the story in
between (7:6-23).
Note his mention first of the heart
turning to her ways, then of the feet straying into her paths.
Does 7:26 suggest that this woman is
a mass murderer? Why? How?
Why would Solomon note the huge
quantity (“many victims,” “mighty throng”) of those this woman has brought down
and slain?
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