Read this chapter carefully and you will find that the young man is counseled to live a pure life for the sake of his home. This is the kind of sex education that God gives. I like this education from God better than some of the things that I am hearing today, even in Christian services. God is saying that a pure life should be led for the sake of the home later on. A lot of the problems in the homes today don’t begin there. They began way back in the premarital sex life of the individual.
5:1-14 – God’s sex Education
5:1-2 – This is wisdom bidding the young man to come to her school to learn of her. In this chapter the warning is against the “strange woman,” literally the stranger woman, because the woman was a stranger, one who came from outside Israel. She was generally a Gentile, and she was a prostitute. No Israelite woman was to become a prostitute. According to the law a prostitute was to be stoned. However, as Israel got farther from God, they also sank into more and more immorality.
5:3-6 – God’s Word here is warning against that kind of thing.
5:7-11 – What a warning is given here to this young man. This gives a true picture of the end result of venereal disease. At last there is mourning when the flesh and the body are consumed.
5:12-14 – Remember that God is not mocked. What you sow is what you shall reap. God describes here what will be the end result of such a life. I believe that our society is already reaping what it has been sowing. The gross immorality in our land stems from the lack of instruction in the Word of God.
Now God tells about the relationship that should exist between husband and wife. Here we see marriage brought to a very high plane.