Prov 1:10-15 My son, if sinners lure you, do not be willing. (11) If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause; (12) let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit; (13) we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder; (14) cast in your lot among us, and let us have one purse. (15) My son, do not walk in the way with them! Keep back your foot from their path,
Prov 1:10-15 - We are living in the world but we should not be part of the world. Just like Y'shua stood in the boat while He preached to the people on the land, should we distance our selves from the sinners but be close enough to be relevant. If you do not keep your distance, then sinners will lure you in and before you know it, your 'old man' will arise and take over. Sin is like gravity, it is a continual force we have to oppose all the time and we have to make sure we keep our balance unless we fall.
If sinners entice or allure you in, do not consent or be willing. Entice means to enlarge you or prosper you. If sinners want to help you to be prosperous in you joining their evil scheme, do not join them, no matter how attractive it may look. Do not take part in someone's plan to make quick money because there is always a winner and always a looser; if you make quick money you gain it from someone else who in most cases, are tricked by the scheme you are using. There is no way of making a quick buck and you should earn your living from the sweat of your brow. Gen 3:19.
There are many professions today that require you to sin while you work, jobs like: prostitution, liquor store owners, drug merchants, film makers, actors & actresses (promoting violence, sex & drugs). All of the above provide a service of product that causes other people to be enslaved or sin. Some jobs require you to belong to a certain club like Freemasons, in order to be in a certain job or level of management. All of these are similar to what we find in Proverbs, do not support them, join them or be part of them in any way because the money you will make will be cursed and it will not bring you joy.
Then you get professions that require you to work on the Sabbath and the Feast days, these are not evil in it self like the ones we looked at previously, but they require you to break YHVH's Commandments regarding His days of rest. When you apply for a job you should ask if they require you to work on the Sabbath, if they do then you decline and look for another job. Most people think this is not a big deal but if you work every Saturday and Feast day you miss the input form the Father and His Word and will soon backslide and back in the world. If you compromise with one thing you will end up compromising with everything. The best way to guard your faith is to keep the Sabbath day holy and set apart for YHVH and His things so that you will get regular input to help you sto stay on the road.
Prov 1:15 - Walk not in their way and refrain your foot from their path.
Walk is the word "halak" that means; to walk, to behave, to and fro, to follow, be at the point, wander.
Your "walk" also represents all your words and your actions, that means that you have to know YHVH's Ways in order to behave in such a way that you imitate Him. Your "halachah" is everything you do, your mannerisms, your words, all your actions and habits and customs. A Disciple is someone who was required to sit under his Rabbi and learn his Walk or "halechah" so that he might learn to become like his Rabbi and later on take over when his Rabbi passed away. Y'shua ask of us to become disciples of Him, to imitate Him, to learn His "halechah" so that we might Walk in His Ways and become like Him. Do not be discipled by the world and learn their ways, imitating the people in the world.
Way is the word "derek" - to tread, bend, lead, march, way, road, distance, journey, manner, habit.
If you look at the Hebrew letters, it looks like a bridge that has a flat surface with three support pillars. "Kaf" means hand, "resh" means head or reasoning and "dalet" means door. YHVH's road or bridge is made up of your actions (hand), what you do, it is made up of your mind (head) what you think and it is about your "gates" (ears, eyes, mouth) - "door", of what you allow in and out of yourself. These are the areas that YHVH defines as "the road" you must follow and the areas where you practically apply His Word to in order to stay on His "road" / Ways. If you have these three areas under control and submitted under YHVH's suggested directives, then you will not have any issue of going astray, turning to the left or right form what He Instructed to be the "safe route" to travel in your life. YHVH's Ways give support, it is a easy flat surface to travel on, it is straight and gives support, taking out the "bumps, highs and lows" out of your life. When you follow YHVH, then He will make your paths straight. Psa 5:8, Isa 40:3, Jer 31:9, Mat 3:3, Heb 12:13. Y'shua is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Psa 5:8 Lead me, O YHVH, in Your righteousness, because of my enemies; make Your way straight before my face.
Mat 3:3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of YHVH make His paths straight."
We get directions for our life from His Word because the word Torah means Instructions as in giving someone directions to a certain place. These Instructions will lead you to the "bridges" (Ways) of YHVH that will carry you over the "ups and downs" of life, easing out all the holes and stumbling blocks in your way. To follow the ways of the world is the same as not choosing YHVH's "bridges" and you will end up in the ditch with the blind. Follow YHVH's Instructions so that He can lead you through the "Red sea " on a land bridge destroying the enemy behind you.
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