STRANGENESS

STRANGENESS

Scriptures: Proverbs 5:3-13

Topic: Strangeness

“For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!” 

Proverbs 5:3-13

Although the scripture above talks about “The Strange Woman”,  we also recognize that a man can be “strange”.  

This is a very important topic, because it is necessary for every Christian to go to Heaven with the testimony that he or she was never involved in fornication.

A condition which predisposes to fornication and adultery is “strangeness”. Strange people are those whose behaviour in a certain sense sows the seed of fornication in others.

An innocent brother or sister, or even a man of God who has otherwise lived a pure life, can easily fall prey to these strange people because they are not only in the world, but they also abound in the church, even in the charismatic church.

The Bible calls her “the strange woman”. Some people call her “the prostitute”, but I prefer to call her “the strange woman”. A lot of people have had sex, even though they never planned to do it. Some even hate the other person for making them do it.

There are some men who hate certain women, because when they looked back after the experience, they realized that there had been a master plan to get them! 

There are some ladies who lost their virginity when perhaps, they were too young to even know what was happening to them! Later on after the sex act, they realized that somebody had taken advantage of them and had slept with them! There are even some young girls who became pregnant without knowing what had happened. Some of these people’s predicament was caused by those the Bible calls “strange” people.

As Christians, we do not fight against flesh and blood. The Bible has described these strange people in graphic detail. God wants us to know who they are, and to recognize this attitude in ourselves if, perchance, we have any of this “strange” behaviour. 

Fornication is not an easy sin to deal with. Often those who get involved in fornication have a hard time overcoming it psychologically. Sometimes they are unable to ever overcome it. This therefore makes it a favourite area of attack by the devil. 

Fornication is not only present in the world, but also in the charismatic churches. A man of God said, “Out of a church of 500 people there are at least 20 ladies who are ready and willing to immediately go to bed with their pastor if he says so.” Recently, in a certain charismatic church in a city in Africa, a visiting preacher made an altar call; he asked for ladies who had come to the church with the intention of enticing and tempting the head pastor, to come forward to the altar. The response was amazing! Many ladies came and were prayed for. All these were strange women, hunting for the precious life of the pastor.

Each classification of great people; pastors, singers, businessmen, heads of states, and so on have their own kind of strange women who are attracted to them. Therefore, if God is raising you up, you must beware of these strange people.

It is my prayer that God will deliver you from the snares of strange people!

Excerpt from:

The Strange Woman

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills