Sexually SMARTER than Solomon. Luke 15:17. (Episode #288)

As we explore the Prodigal Son's ZIPPER MANAGEMENT problem, we will look to Solomon as both a good and bad example.

The good example is in Proverbs 5:15-19.  Ironically, it is written by a younger Solomon.  This definitively shows that he should have known better.  In fact, he DID know better.  It is a passage about marriage and sexual satisfaction.  I am not making this up.  It talks about breasts.  Gotta love the Bible.

The bad example is in 1 Kings 11: 1-8.  Like the prodigal son, Solomon liked foreign women.  It leads to a bit of a progression that is a tragedy of epic proportions:  "Loved foreign women...marriage(forbidden, btw)...turn away heart...Solomon CLUNG to these in love(death grip on a loser idea)...When Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart...Solomon WENT AFTER Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians...Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord."  How'd you like your sexual history to be bullet pointed in Scripture for all the world to see and hopefully learn from?

Solomon ends poorly.  However, our Knucklehead from the Prodigal Son story does NOT! 

He stops taking what is not his.  He starts this process by working and not stealing from pigs and their owner.  Yup.  He is LONGING and HUNGRY.  Welcome to the school of hard knocks.  Let's listen and admire him today.