She caught him, she kissed him,
and with the impudent face said unto him,
impudent means brazen.
She's just brazen, she's just kind of like no shame.
Whereas the Bible says that the virtuous woman
has shame-facedness, right?
She has an impudent face, she's brazen.
I have peace offerings with me,
this day have I paid my vows,
therefore came I forth to meet thee,
diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Isn't that interesting?
So she obviously placed herself in a position
where she knew he was gonna find her
so she can catch him, kiss him, tempt him,
and it says here, I came forth to meet thee diligently
to seek thy face, the Bible says.
So what do we see here?
We see that she's pursuing this young man.
Now go to Genesis 39, if you will, Genesis chapter 39.
We're gonna look at an example of this.
Genesis chapter 39.
And I want you to notice the similarities
in the language that we just read here in Proverbs 7
in the story that we're gonna read in Genesis 39.
Because what do we see?
She caught him, she kissed him,
with an impudent face said, I have peace offerings with me,
I came forth diligently to seek thy face and found thee.
Look at Genesis 39, the story of Joseph.
Says in verse four, and Joseph found grace in his sight,
referring to Potiphar, and he served him
and made him overseer over his house
and all that he put into his hand.
And it came to pass from the time
that he had made him overseer in his house
and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed
the Egyptians' house for Joseph's sake.
So what do we see here?
You know, Joseph is in a foreign land,
he's been kidnapped, but all things work together for good.
So he ends up working for Potiphar, he was sold to Potiphar,
but God is blessing Potiphar's house because of Joseph.
And he's such an industrious person
that Potiphar just puts him in charge of everything.
You know, he's just like, look,
I got a bunch of possessions,
I just need you to be the accountant
and just know what I got and take care of my stuff.
And it says, and the blessing of the Lord
was upon all that he had in the house and in the field.
And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand
and he knew not ought he had,
saved the bread which he did eat,
and Joseph was a goodly person and well favored.
Joseph is a strappling young man.
He's industrious, he's godly, he's a hard worker,
God's hand is upon him.
I mean, this is a good young man, okay?
Very rare today, unfortunately, right?
For a young person.
It says, and it came to pass after these things
that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph
and she said, lie with me.
It's not like, hi.
She didn't say, so did you watch the game last night
or something or, you know, what's your Instagram?
You have a Facebook.
Well, what did she do?
She had an impudent face, brazen.
Just came up and said, lie with me.
Now, I might be speculating, but I'm assuming
that Potiphar probably has a beautiful wife.
I mean, the guy's a leader, right?
He probably has a beautiful wife,
she's probably an attractive woman, okay?
And so, you know, this might be tempting for Joseph, right?
I mean, he's a young man and he might be tempted with this.
Look at verse eight.
But he refused and said unto his master's wife,
behold, my master wadeth not what is with me in the house
and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand.
There is none greater in this house than I,
neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee.
He's like, look, I have free reign over everything
that your husband has, but you're the only thing
I can take, because you're his wife.
This is a young man of conviction.
This is a godly young man.
And by the way, he's like in a different country,
different nation, right?
He's like in a different part of the world,
his parents are there, you know, he understands that,
you know, the only authority really that he has is God.
And look what it says.
He says, neither hath he kept back anything from me
but thee because thou art his wife.
How then can I do this great wickedness
and sin against Potiphar?
No, sin against God.
So this shows you where his heart is.
He fears God.
He's like, I can't do this great sin and sin against God.
I gotta be sinning against God.
Because even though he's the God of Israel,
God is with me here.
And it came to pass as she spake to Joseph day by day,
what do we see in Proverbs 7?
Diligently to seek thy face.
That he hearken not unto her to lie by her
or to be with her.
So she's constantly tempting him,
constantly trying to get him to lie with her.
Verse 11, by the way, lie with her doesn't mean
like they're just gonna take a nap together or something.
Obviously there's adultery is what she's referring to, okay?
And it came to pass, verse 11,
about this time that Joseph went into the house
to do his business and there was none of the men
of the house there within.
And she caught him by his garment.
Isn't that the same terminology we see in Proverbs 7?
She caught him and kissed him and with the impudent face
said into him, et cetera, it says she caught him
by his garment saying, lie with me.
This guy's crazy, look.
And he left his garment in her hand and fled
and got him out.
This guy, you know the Bible says flee youthful us.
I mean, he took that verse seriously.
Obviously it wasn't even written by the time,
you know, in those days, but he obviously knew about it.
He fled so fast that his, you remember those cartoons?
Where someone would run so fast they would leave
like the cloud or their hat, it's all spinning or something?
That's what he did, he's just like, keep my garment.