Proverbs 6:20-24 — There's a woman coming down the road ahead of your son. Solomon

won't say her name yet. First, he arms him.

⛪ Preached at Pilgrim Baptist Church • Cookeville, TN • July 5, 2026.

📚 Part of our verse-by-verse series through Proverbs 6

This family integrated church sermon walks through Proverbs 6:20-24, where Solomon — writing

as a father to his son — builds a case for arming a young man with the word before ever naming the danger waiting for him. Pastor Fortunato traces how a father's commandment and a mother's law bind, lead, keep, and light a son's path — all before the "evil woman" of verse 24 is even identified. If you're raising sons and want to know how to prepare them before temptation arrives, not after, this verse-by-verse message through Proverbs 6 is for you.

Have you been keeping your faith private — believed in the back room, but quiet in public?

This message confronts that directly: "the secret Christian is the vulnerable Christian."

If you've let your walk with God become something hidden rather than worn, this sermon

speaks straight to that.

This is expository preaching in its fullest sense — Solomon's structure in Proverbs 6:20-24

unpacked triad by triad: the word leads you when you walk, keeps you when you sleep, and

talks with you when you wake, all before the "evil woman" of verse 24 is even named. Pastor

Fortunato ties this straight back to family discipleship — a father's commandment and a

mother's law working together to arm a son long before the test comes.

This sermon walks through Proverbs 6:20-24, explaining:

- Why unobeyed instruction is only information, not instruction

- The two-parent voice of Proverbs — why both father and mother are named

- "Bind them continually" — why private conviction can't stay private

- The secret Christian is the vulnerable Christian

- Why a lamp — not the sun — is exactly what God gives us for the road

- David's pattern in Psalm 3: cry out, lay down, sleep, and wake kept

- Hebrews 4:12 — why the word is "quick" and never dormant

- Why reproof and correction are the way of life, not cruelty

- Why the lamp has to come before the warning about the strange woman

⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction — A Father's Order in Proverbs 6

00:52 - Solomon Writes to His Son

05:58 - Bind It to the Heart, Tie It to the Neck

10:17 - The Secret Christian Is the Vulnerable Christian

11:58 - The Lamp, Not the Sun — Verses 22-23

16:18 - Psalm 23 — A Boy Learning to Trust the Lamp

20:01 - Psalm 143 — The Lamp Lighting Every Season

22:49 - When Thou Sleepest, It Shall Keep Thee

25:02 - Psalm 3 — David Slept Surrounded by Ten Thousand

31:01 - When Thou Awakest, It Shall Talk With Thee

35:25 - Reproofs of Instruction Are the Way of Life

46:49 - Why the Lamp Comes Before the Warning

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