📖 Proverbs 5:1–5 • Lies don't come in ugly packages. Nobody falls for something that looks like a trap — you fall for something that looks like a gift. Solomon knew that. He wrote it down so his son wouldn't have to learn it the hard way.

⛪ Preached at Pilgrim Baptist Church • Cookeville, TN • April 26, 2026.

📚 Part of our verse-by-verse expository series through Proverbs

Solomon isn't lecturing from a textbook in Proverbs 5. He's a father warning a son from hard-won, tested wisdom — and he repeats it deliberately, because the enemy never stops and the warnings can't stop either. This message is for fathers and sons sitting together, for young men who think they're tougher than they are, and for anyone who needs to understand why sin never advertises the ending.

The strange woman comes in smooth. Her words drop like honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword — and her feet go down to death.

This expository sermon walks through Proverbs 5:1–5 and connects:

• Why repetition in Proverbs is not weakness — Philippians 3 and 2 Peter 1 on why we need to hear the same warnings again

• "Bow thine ear" — the posture of deliberate, active listening that discretion requires

• The itching ear vs. the dull ear — 2 Timothy 4 and Acts 28 on what fills the wrong ears

• Why discretion is trained, not instinctive — and why kept lips are your first line of defense

• The strange woman drops, she doesn't pitch — why seduction never feels calculated

• Song of Solomon 4:11 — the counterfeit always mirrors the real thing

• Wormwood — sin markets itself as sweet but always exits bitter, including 30+ STDs with no earthly cure

• James 1:14 — desire, deception, conception, death — Solomon says it in two words: honey, wormwood

• Hebrews 4:12 — the two-edged sword that describes her destruction will itself be judged by a sharper sword

• Her feet go down to death — the imagination outlasts the opportunity

• Isaiah 55:7 — the door is always open and there is always a way back

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