The Road To Freedom

Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don Noble of Pure

Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy.

Tonight's message the Road to Freedom. I've decided to finish out the month of

July with a series that I'm calling The Road to Freedom. And you see,

as I was driving to the radio station today, the Lord actually changed

the message I had for today. So there must be someone out there who

needs to hear what the Lord has been speaking to me in the last hour.

I feel this message is mainly for men, but it could also be

for women, so here it is. Sometimes the wealthiest people are the ones

in the most bondage. Money can't buy joy, peace or contentment. These

people, whose hearts are empty and their lives are always looking for the next

greatest thing to fill the empty the empty hole. It's a hole that never

gets filled. Material things are just that, they are things, things that

have no eternal value. Maybe that's you. You don't even listen to this

station, You're not even a Christian, but today you turned here, and

God wants to bring freedom to your life. The Bible says sin is pleasurable

for a season, but its reward is death. What profits a man or

what profits a woman? If they gain the whole world that they have achieved

all the material success and power this world has to offer, and they lose

their own soul. Are you in danger of losing your soul? If you

are, please continue to listen. You may be a truck driver or a

salesperson who is on the road a lot, and you think it's okay to

have sex with another woman even though you're married. You know, I had

a salesman I would say this was probably I don't know, eight ten years

ago, and he told me that most men on the road every week think

nothing of committing adultery. That the majority do. It's a habit. They

have a few drinks at the bar, and the enemy of their soul sets

them up. There's a lady sitting right down the way there and she's waiting,

and before you know it, after a couple more drinks away they go

back to his room. I want you to listen carefully to me, because

I'm going to read too scripture out of the Bible. And you know,

sometimes when I read these scriptures, I think, wow, it's hard to

believe this is in the Bible. But it is so. This is Proverbs

five one through twenty three. And if you are a believer, it would

behoove you to pay attention to these scriptures as well. This is Solomon,

the writer of Proverbs, and he says, my son, pay attention to

my wisdom. Lend your ear to my understanding, that you may preserve discretion,

and your lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of an immoral woman

drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil. But in the end

she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword. Her feet

go down to death. Her steps lay hold of hell lest you ponder her

path of life. Her ways are unstable. You do not know them.

Therefore hear me now, my children, and do not depart from the words

of my mouth. Remove your way far from her, and do not go

near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others and

your years to the cruel one. Lest aliens be filled with your wealth and

your labors. Go to the house of a foreigner, and you mourn at

last when your flesh and your body are consumed. And say, how I

hated instruction and my heart despised correction. I have not obeyed the voice of

my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me. I was

on the verge of total ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation.

Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well. Should

your fountains be dispersed abroad, streams of waters, streams of water in the

streets, Let them be only your own, and not for strangers. With

you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your

youth as a loving deer and a graceful dough. Let her breasts satisfy you

at all times, and always be enraptured with her love. Or why should

you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman and be embraced in

the arms of a seductress. For the ways of man are before the eyes

of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths. His own iniquities entrap

the wicked man, and he is caught in the chords of his sin.

He shall die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly

he shall go astray. One of the most important scriptures in that whole chapter.

Chapter five of Proverbs is the ways of a man or woman are before

the eyes of the Lord. Verse twenty one. You he sees you in

bed with another woman, he sees you in bed with another man. You

can hide from your spouse for so long, but be assured you cannot hide

from God. The Bible says, there's a way that seems good to a

man, but its way is destruction. So I'm just speaking to you,

plain and simple. Come out of that bondage. Now repent, ask the

Lord to forgive you, ask him to set you free. Receive him as

your savior. If you don't know him, you could be a Christian man.

Believe it or not. There are many Christian men out there committing adultery.

Oh. I know you find it hard to believe, but trust me,

the Church is full of them. So ask the Lord to set you

free. And if you don't know Jesus, take a moment, call on

his name, Invite him into your heart, give your life to him.

He will set your feet upon the rock, and he'll turn your life around,

and you will be on the road to freedom. Let me go on

to Proverbs chapter six, verses twenty through thirty five, My son, keep

your father's command, and do not forsake the law of your mother. Bind

them continually upon your heart, Tie them around your neck. When you roam,

they will lead you, and when you sleep they will and when you

awake they will speak with you. For the commandment is a lamp, and

the law alight. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life. To keep

you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a seductress, Do

not lust after her beauty in your heart, nor let her allure you with

her eyelids. For by means of a harlot, a man is reduced to

a crust of bread, and an adulteress will prey upon his precious life.

Can a man take fire to his bosom and his clothes not be burned?

Can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be seared? So is

he who goes into his neighbor's wife, who touches her shall not be innocent.

People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he

is starving. Yet when he is found he must restore sevenfold. He may

have to give up all the substance of his house. Whoever commits adultery with

a woman lacks understanding. He who does so destroys his own soul wounds and

dishonor he will get and his reproach will not be wiped away. For jealousy

is a husband's fury. Therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

He will accept no recompense, nor will he be appeased through nor nor

will he be appeased though you give many gifts, this is very strong language,

to say the least, and Solomon's wisdom here. I mean he's saying,

look, this adulteress is going to pray on your precious life. You

know if you go in to your neighbor's wife, whoever touches her is not

going to be innocent. There is a price to pay. Stay away from

the flattering tongue of a seductress. Don't lust after the beauty in your heart.

Don't let her allure you into bed, because there's a heavy price to

pay. The scripture says here in verse thirty two, he who does so

destroys his own soul wounds and dishonor he will get. So if your wife

does find out and you don't want to lose your marriage. You have just

set yourself in a miserable situation, miserable and who knows how that outcome make.

Maybe it may not go well for you. But the point is this,

if you're especially if you're a Christian man, you need to get your

life right. You need to stop this behavior. This is sin, This

is sin. Adultery is sin. Stop it now. Boy, I'm telling

you, there has to be somebody that's listening to me, because I'm telling

you this is so strong in my spirit. There is somebody out there.

And you have been committing adultery for some time, thinking that you can get

away with it, thinking it's okay, thinking nobody sees. Nobody knows.

But God sees. He says, for the ways of man are before the

eyes of the Lord. He knows exactly what you're doing. He sees you

in bed with that person. You cannot hide from God. It is not

gonna go well for you. So if I were you, I'd repent now,

I'd ask for God's forgiveness. Now, I would do a one eighty.

Because God is merciful. If you repent, if you ask forgiveness,

he will forgive you, and he can turn your life around it. As

I said earlier, if you don't even know Jesus, you can know him

now. You can call on the name of Jesus. The Bible says,

if you call on his name, you shall be saved. Just cry out

to him and tell him. Look, I've done this horrible thing. I

have really done something bad. Please forgive me. Now. I want to

share in Proverbs seven, and I want to say this. Let me just

stop for a moment. We've got chapter five of Proverbs. We've got chapter

six of Proverbs. We've got chapter seven of Proverbs. And I'm going to

read to you out of Proverbs chapter nine. So this must be a real

problem, because Solomon writes about it in all these chapters. Must be a

big deal, must be common. So let's see what Proverbs seven, verses

six through twenty seventh say. It says, for at the window of my

house, I looked through my lattice, and I saw among the simple,

I perceived among the use a young man devoid of understanding, passing along the

street near her corner. He took the path to her house in the twilight,

in the evening, in the black and dark night, and there a

woman met him with the attire of a harlot and a crafty heart. She

was loud and rebellious. Her feet would not stay at home, and at

times she was outside, at times in the open square, lurking at every

corner. So she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face,

she said to him, I have peace offerings with me today. I

have paid my vows, so I came out to meet you diligently to seek

your face, and I have found you. I have spread my bed with

tapestry colored coverings of Egyptian linen, and I've perfumed my bed with murrh,

aloes and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until morning.

Let us delight ourselves with love. For my husband is not at home.

He has gone on a long journey. He has taken a bag of

money with him, and he will come home on the appointed day. With

her enticing speech, she caused him to yield. With her flattering lips.

She seduced him. Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to

the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stalks, till

an arrow struck his liver as a bird hastens to the snare. He did

not know it would cost his life. Now, therefore, listen to me,

my children, pay attention to the words of my mouth. Do not

let your heart turn aside to her ways. Do not stray into her paths.

For she has cast down many wounded, and all who were slain by

her were strong men. Her house is the way to hell, decend into

the chambers of death. Well, I can tell you, you know,

I almost it almost feels like I'm not reading out of the Bible. But

this is in the Bible. And if you are one of these men,

or if you are the seductress, maybe you're a woman and you're the one

seducing the man, let me tell you who. See what it says with

her flattering lips, she seduced him, and immediately immediately he went after her

as an ox goes to the slaughter. He did not know it would cost

his life. This is so serious. Pay attention to the words of my

mouth, Solomon says, And don't turn your heart aside to her way.

All listen to this. Listen carefully. All who were slain by her were

strong men. So Christian man out there listening to me. You thought you

were strong in the Lord, but you put yourself in harm's way. You

allowed yourself, you allowed yourself to be enticed. You put yourself in certain

situations that you shouldn't have. You should have guarded your heart, you should

have guarded your ways, and you should never hear me now, you should

never have been at a bar if you're a Christian man. Never. So

if you did, you just opened it wide open for the enemy to come.

She took down strong men, not weak men. Strong men. Come

on, I'm talking to somebody I know I am listen to Proverbs, chapter

nine, thirteen through eighteen. A foolish woman is clamorous. She is simple

and knows clothing. For she sits at the door of her house, on

a seat by the highest places of the city, to call to those who

pass by, who go straight on their way. Whoever is simple naive,

let him turn in here. As for him who lacks understanding, she says

to him, stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests

are in the depths of hell. So the Bible says it, I'll say

it you keep in gaging in that kind of affair, and you will go

straight to hell, Straight to hell. Don't tell me you're a Christian,

you're born again, YadA, YadA, YadA. I don't want to hear

about once saved, always saved. No, you keep on committing adultery and

there is no repentance and there's no change. You're going straight to hell.

So I want to share a wonderful story to kind of bring this all to

an end. I was a camp meeting, church camp meeting all week,

probably in church, twelve hours a day, every day, wonderful, exciting,

and I sitting next to a guy, and I love meeting new people.

And so whoever's sitting by me, if I don't know them, I

introduced myself. We start talking and I meet a man, a man who

what I would say was in his early fifties, and he was a truck

driver from Illinois. I'll call him Fred. And he told me that his

life, he'd only been saved let's say four years, maybe less, maybe

less than that, and prior to that, he said he led the most

immoral life. He said, I was a womanizer, I was a drunkard.

I did drugs, I sold drugs. He said, there wasn't any

sin that he did engage inography, I mean the whole kitten kaboodle. And

I said, well, goodness, how did you come out of that?

And interestingly, a friend invited him to church, and he realized that his

life was just spiraling down, downward down, and that, you know,

he saw himself on the road to hell. So he went to this little

church and lo and behold, it happened to be the church that his grandmother

had taken him too when he was a little boy. How about that he

got saved. He came up to the altar, got saved, and he

said radically saved. And I said, what's that mean? He said instantly,

instantly, I never drank another drop of alcohol, and never took another

drug, and never slept with another woman. WHOA wow. And so he's

married to the gal uh, the last lady that he was with. He

married beautiful lady. I met her as well. And they just bought a

church that was empty, that was on the market for ninety thousand dollars and

they got it for ten thousand dollars. They are turning it into a house

for battered women. How I tell you. Only God can do something like

that. Only God can take a life of a human being that's so messed

up. See, his wife was doing drugs and alcohol too, so she

was just as messed up as he was. But God just I mean,

he snatched these people right out of hill and he turned their life on a

dime. He set their feet on the rock, and it was amazing.

It was amazing. He told me. He started listening as he was driving

the truck across the country, and you know, he started listening to all

these preachers constantly, as all he allowed himself to listen to. He said,

I haven't how about this, he said, I haven't listened to any

music other than Christian music from the day I got saved, never listen to

anything other than Christian music. Now, this is what I call a radical

salvation. This is what I call a man committed to the cause of Christ.

I tell you, I had the most enjoyable conversation with him, and

then his wife came and sat down and I got to talk to her.

And so the point is this your life. If you are the man or

you are the woman that I've been talking about in Proverbs chapter five, chapter

six, Chapter seven, chapter nine. If you're that person, God can

turn you around that quick in an ananosecond. So I'm just encouraging you to

call on the name of the Lord. And if you're a Christian man,

please, for the sake of your wife, for the sake of your family,

repent and stop doing what you're doing. Because you are headed to hell,

my friend, and you're headed there very quickly. Your life could end

tomorrow and you would be in Hell. So I'm trying to warn you individuals.

I'm trying to warn you men. I'm trying to warn you women.

Get on the road to freedom. It is. It is a great life.

I'll tell you. If you could meet Fred and his wife, if

you could hear him tell you his testimony. Maybe I'll get him on the

radio sometime. I'm telling you it's so powerful what God can do. Amen.

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saying Shalom shalom, Peace be unto you. I'll see you next week