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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2019 8:03:29 GMT -6
“Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes” (Proverbs 19:10).
Delights are more than just happiness; real delight is true joy as in the next two verses. It is much deeper than simple gladness.
“I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts” (Ecclesiastes 2:8).
“How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!” (Song of Solomon 7:6).
It is extreme joy: “His delight is in the law of the Lord” (Psalm 1:1). It is joy in good things, and right things, and that kind of happiness is not interesting for a fool. He’s looking for happenings, what’s going on. Their kind of happiness depends on happenstance. If everything happens to turn to their favor, they are happy. Joy, on the other hand, does not depend on happenstance, but rather the settled peace that God is in control of everything—good or bad—and it will all work together for the good to those that love the Lord: “Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart” (Psalms 32:11).
A fool is not the kind that finds gladness in the Lord, he is glad in the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
“. . . much less for a servant to have rule over princes,” that is, it isn’t “seemly” for a servant to rule over a prince. God doesn’t believe in equal rights. God stands for the fact that some people ought to rule over other people, and not servants over princes: “And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren” (Genesis 9:25).
“But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God” (I Corinthians 11:3). It is not right, or seemly, that the children ought to rule over the parents—yet that is the way it is in many homes. Nor is it seemly that the woman should rule over the man: “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear” (I Peter 3:1-2).
And men need to be in subjection to the Lord Jesus Christ: “That the head of every man is Christ.”
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 8:56:59 GMT -6
“Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?” (Proverbs 20:6).
“Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness,” the classic biblical example of this is found in Luke 18: “The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess” (verses 11-12).
“Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah” (Psalms 39:5).
That is the way that most men are, and that is why it is so hard to get most people saved. This is also why it is easier to reach children with the Gospel, before they have had time to harden their heart toward the truth that they are sinners. People can’t be saved until they see themselves as condemned sinners, that is, they have to see themselves lost before they can be found. They have to condemn themselves before God, and then proclaim God’s goodness applied to them. “What if it doesn’t work?” What did Jesus say? “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). “Well, what if God doesn’t give me to Christ?” He will. If you have a desire to come to Christ, God has given you to His Son.
A man that will do that will be saved. He’ll say, “I’m just a hell-bound sinner, and I know that I deserve to go to hell . . .” Man! You have a candidate for heaven right there. He may not feel like one of the elect, but he is about to get chosen.
Thank God it only says “most men” and not “all men.” Eventually a man will realize from the Scriptures and from the conviction of the Holy Spirit that he isn’t any good, and he will proclaim God’s goodness and will admit that he is a sinner and only God can save him from the penalty of his sins. Then he justifies God and condemns himself as a lost sinner.
The majority, in the Bible, are always wrong: “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).
“. . . but a faithful man who can find?” A faithful man is a man that tells the truth. What does faith reveal? That man is a sinner and God is righteous. A man that believes that, knows that, and will proclaim that is a faithful man. It’s hard to find a man like that. That is why there are many on the broad road to destruction, but few that find the narrow way.
Some sobering words from the lips of Jesus Christ are: “I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). He is going to have a hard time finding even a few faithful men at the end of this present dispensation.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2019 8:23:17 GMT -6
“Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard” (Proverbs 21:13).
This man won’t listen to their pleas. There are two truths in this verse. First, if you don’t help the poor, you will wind up being poor; and secondly, when you are poor God will make sure that nobody hears you when you holler. These are general truths. This was especially true in the Old Testament where if a man did right, God blessed him materially.
Take the rich man in Luke 16. What did he do for Lazarus? He didn’t give him anything other than crumbs off the table. He stopped his ears at the cry of the poor. Was he heard when he hollered out of hell? Nope. He sure wasn’t. Reaping what you sow is the message of this verse.
Also, in Matthew 25 we find that this will apply to the end of the Tribulation as well: “Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” (Matthew 25:34-40).
Jesus told them that because they had helped others, therefore enjoy the kingdom. And because that other crowd hadn’t taken care of the poor, and hadn’t helped them out—when they cried for mercy, they got none.
And it also applies to you and me, because we helped missionaries go to the lost, the poor spiritually, God supplies our needs: “For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:16-19).
On the other hand, if we won’t listen to the call of the heathen, there is a good chance that God won’t listen to your prayer either.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2019 7:47:16 GMT -6
“The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender” (Proverbs 22:7).
This is obviously true. Here is your problem with credit. You borrow money from somebody, and they can tell you where to go, what to do, and how to do it. Or they will pull the strings on the credit. When someone goes in to borrow money, they ask him for collateral. What they really want to know is, “What does he own?” They might want to put some mortgage against what he owns. In some cases, they will. At any rate, they will repossess it if he doesn’t pay them back.
Creditors have control over the borrower. They run them, so, “the borrower is servant to the lender.” You become a slave to that lender’s money. You become a slave to J. C. Penney, Sears, and all the rest of them when you use those charge cards. If you don’t believe it, just make the minimum payment over the space of a year and see how much money you have actually given them while not even making a dent on your debt to them.
“He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want” (Proverbs 22:16).
“Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate” (Proverbs 22:22).
“The rich ruleth over the poor.” It is just a rule of life, and a temptation, for the rich to rule over the poor. Most rulers are rich. Even in a republic, such as we have. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a president that was reared in poverty or was just an average run-of-the-mill guy when he was elected. Abe Lincoln might have been born in a log cabin, but by the time he became president, he was a very wealthy lawyer. It is just generally true that most politicians are wealthy, and from wealthy families—with the right education, and the right strings pulled for them along the way.
Now, God rules over both the rich and the poor. If the rich misuse their rule, God will hold them to account over it. If the poor justify their condition as an excuse to rob and steal, God will take them to task over that. God will give the rich the rule, but they had better do it right, and the poor better obey and do it right. This is the catch. Neither one of them had better use their position to do wrong.
Lessons to learn from this verse: 1) Don’t buy on credit. 2) Discipline yourself by saving up until you have the means to buy something with cash. 3) If you do have credit make the payments on time even if you have to sacrifice to make the payments. 4) Don’t get behind, once that happens you are truly a “servant to the lender.”
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2019 8:30:05 GMT -6
“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words” (Proverbs 23:1-8 KJV).
Notice the king shows up again.
“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,” see, “Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings” (Proverbs 22:29 KJV). Previously he will stand before kings, now he is eating before kings.
Now, verses 1-8, from here on out—we started seeing it in chapter 22—we see a group of verses together on one subject. And that hasn’t been the case since we started looking at actual proverbs in chapter 10. Since chapter 10, every verse was pretty much self-contained. It said what it had to say and then you moved on to the next verse which on a different subject, but now it is starting to group passages, as with vss. 1-8.
“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,” or we could say someone in authority. What did Jesus Christ say to do if you were called to a feast? Where should you sit? In the lowest seat. He said that we should sit in the lower seat, and when they call you up it is not a result of pride, it is because you are to be honored and deserve it. He said that if we go up to the upper seats, we might not be wanted there up there, and they put you down, you’ll be humiliated in front of everybody. He said that that was not the thing to do but sit in the lower seat and when they call you up, you’ll be honored.
“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee.” Consider not only what is before thee, but also consider where you are sitting. Be humble about the whole thing. Don’t go charging into the king’s house like you own the joint. You are liable to go out the back door quick!
Now, the subjects of vss. 1-8 are food, and drink, and money, and material things. The thing is the control of appetites. One preacher says, “Don’t trust anyone 30 pounds overweight.” He explains that if a person cannot control base appetites, they cannot control spiritual appetites. That is just a base desire of life. If a man cannot control the carnal aspects of his life, there will never be very much success in his life when it comes to the spiritual. The man that said that is well-disciplined in his life. He followed the words of Paul where he wrote: “But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway” (1 Corinthians 9:27 KJV).
I think we can all agree that Paul was very successful in his ministry, and a good person to emulate. A man that has that sort of discipline can “rule over his own spirit” (Proverbs 25:28).
“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city” (Proverbs 16:32 KJV).
Men can “take a city,” like Alexander, but he couldn’t rule his own spirit—his own spirit killed him, the city didn’t kill him. Alexander basically self-destructed, and that is a horrible way to go.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2019 7:55:08 GMT -6
“Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work” (Proverbs 24:28-29).
“Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause,” this is bearing false witness.
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his a**, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's” (Exodus 20:16-17).
That is, without good cause. If the cause is the personal gain or profit, or to get revenge then God will be against you. Don’t try to get others to turn against him.
“Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.”
Who renders to man according to his works? God does! So, you are taking the place of God. In 24:12 we read, “Shall not He render to every man according to his works?” When he says, “be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips, Say not I will do to him as he had done to me,” it’s revenge! You are lying about your neighbor for personal revenge. The Christian commandment on this is in Romans 12:17-21:
“Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:17-21).
There, when a Christian, or somebody else, does you wrong; what are you to do? Well, you are not to do unto them as they have done did unto you. That is wrong. Paul tells us that we are not to recompense any man, saved or lost, evil for evil; and provide things honest in the sight of all men. You be honest, and let God take care of the dishonest. “Dearly beloved, if it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.”
When you bring vengeance yourself, you are overcome with evil. That's just good advice and good counsel, and that's hard to do. When somebody does you in, rips you off, and does you dirty; talks about you behind your back, hurts your reputation, or hurts you financially; it's hard to give that thing to God, but that is god-li-ness. What is godliness? It's god-like-ness.
Do you know what Jesus Christ did when they accused him? And they did him dirty? He committed it to God.
“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin [He didn’t do anything wrong], neither was guile found in his mouth [He didn’t lie to, trick, or deceive anybody]: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously” (I Peter 2:21-23).
He sacrificed himself, and let God take care of the judgment. That is a safe way to stay out from under judgment. If you get involved that wrath business, that judgment business, then with what judgment you meet its meted unto you again. Hard, hard words for the flesh. It doesn’t want to hear that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2019 8:47:46 GMT -6
“A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint” (Proverbs 25:18-19).
We have the false gift in verse 14 and is similar to this. A maul is a heavy hammer to bruise or lacerate, and the man really doesn't give the man what he needs, in fact he does damage to the individual. So, the heretic doesn't help anybody, but it's not a matter of him not hurting anybody, he definitely hurts somebody with his false gospel. He doesn't give them what they need, and what he does supply to them hurts them.
“A man that beareth a false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword.” This verse, verse 18 is 6+6+6. And going along verse 14, the Antichrist boasts himself, and he promises great things to the world, but he's not able to deliver. And you know what he winds up doing? The Bible talks about him breaking in pieces and devouring much flesh so when you connect 14 to 18, you have a reference of the Antichrist. His boasting is in Daniel 11:36, his promises are in Daniel 8:25—he makes big promises—you got the wind, you got the clouds, but there's no rain. But what does come of his ministry and his promises is destruction (Daniel 2:40, 7:7 and 7:13-23; and also, Jeremiah 51:23-25).
So, we have a type of the Antichrist there in verse 18, which is three sixes. It is very fitting to the Antichrist: one who boasts, one who promises, but there's no rain; just destruction. and he is said to be the hammer: “How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!” (Jeremiah 50:23).
He's called the hammer, and that's probably one reason why Russia uses the hammer and sickle. The sickle is to cut down, the hammer is to break in pieces, and that's what communism does. It does not build anything. It's a tool of destruction. It destroys everything that it gets its grimy paws on. It just devours. There's just no productivity. Under pure communism what productivity they have is just a vestige, or a small element, of capitalism left in the communistic system.
“Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.”
“Confidence in an unfaithful man,” we had a faithful messenger in verse 13, and he's like cold water in the time of harvest. Something satisfying, something enjoyable. Here we have an unfaithful man. Trusting him in painful. Confidence in an unfaithful man. A man that has no faith in God, or no real faith “in time of trouble, is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.” You’ll get hurt. A broken tooth? That hurts. A foot out of joint? That definitely hurts. Anything out of joint hurts, and when you have confidence in a man who really does not have the message of God, when the time of trouble comes, you’re going to be hurting.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 9:22:48 GMT -6
“As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the a**, and a rod for the fool's back” (Proverbs 26:2-3 KJV).
Do you know where the bird goes? It goes where God tells him to go. He doesn't go anywhere without a cause. Well, the curse doesn't come on you without a cause, see, “the curse causeless shall not come.” People say, “Why did that happen to me?” Well, you deserved it.
Now, I realize that in the case of a Christian, you are talking about a situation where it could have been the devil, but there again there is a cause for it, “all that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” So, it’s a good cause and you should have expected it. And you don’t need to ask why that happened to you—if you are living godly.
Here are passages that deal with curses in the Bible.
“How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?” (Numbers 23:8).
Deuteronomy 27:15-26 is the whole package on curses. See, a curse will not come without a cause.
Galatians 3:13, that's where Christ is made a curse for you. You are cursed because of sin. You are not going to go to hell causeless. A person goes to hell for a good cause. A curse is on him.
“A whip for the horse, a bridle for the a**, and a rod for the fool's back” (Proverbs 26:3).
The bridle is to keep the horse in line, going in the right direction. These are three things that are needed to train, discipline, punish, and direct. You want to tame a fool? Use a rod on him. “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him” (Proverbs 22:15). You want to raise a fool? Don’t use the rod on him. That’s all I can say, you want to raise up a fool? Just don't whip him.
“A whip for the horse,” that gets him to go. “. . . a bridle for the a**,” that gets him to turn, gets him to stop. Whoa! Without a bridle, that old donkey is rebellions. People need a bridle on them.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2019 8:19:36 GMT -6
“A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?” (Proverbs 27:3-4).
A fool's wrath, the wrath of a fool, like Nero. You know, it's one thing to suffer wrath from the righteous King who's doing right, but when there's no rhyme nor reason behind; it is heavy burden to bear. The wrath of a fool. Like a Prince, just doing it for fun. Nero killed the Christians just for entertainment. That’s the wrath of a fool. That's hard to bear.
It was one thing for Daniel to be thrown in the Lion’s den for breaking the law. He did break the law. I mean, it was really not right, but I tell you that that's a whole lot easier to bear that just being crucified or killed just for a sick king’s pleasure. See, the wrath of a fool that has no reason nor purpose behind it, that's a heavy burden to bear.
“Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?” there's something that is worse. You have something that is worse than a stone or sand, and that's the wrath of a fool; and you got something worse than cruelty and anger, and that's envy.
Envy is what delivered our Saviour to the cross (Matthew 27:18). That was the motive of the crucifixion, and it was the reason that Paul suffered, and the early Christian suffered much in the Book of Acts (Acts 7:9). In this verse, Steven is telling about the envy of the patriarchs in delivering Joseph. It was why Joseph got sent to Egypt. It was why Jesus Christ got crucified.
In Acts 13:45 and 17:5, Paul gets into trouble two times because of envy. That’s important there. A lot of times, we just don’t look at envy in the way God looks at it. It’s a terrible, dastardly thing. It has caused Christians more trouble than just about any other motive. Do you know what the devil said? He said, “I will exalt my throne above the stars of God” (Isaiah 14:13). He was envious of God. You get right down to it, that is the root of Satan’s rebellion, “I want what He’s got!” Of course, pride is in there, “I deserve it!” But it’s envy. “Who is able to stand before envy?”
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2019 7:33:44 GMT -6
”For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged” (Proverbs 28:2 KJV).
“For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof,” now, this is a bomb on politics right here. if you ever got this on the radio and television, they would cut you off in an instant. “For the transgression of a land,” in other words, the more wicked that a land or a country gets, “many are the Princes thereof.” Do you know what happens to bureaucracy? Everybody is on the take, and more and more of them are getting on the take. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Everybody is getting on the gravy train. The more leaders, and the more people a country has in its government, the more wicked the state. They have to have a tremendous police force and army to keep the natives from overthrowing the government, because the thing is so wicked.
“For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof,” it’s a real mess, “but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.” Then there's no hope for America. We have a bureaucracy that supports sluggards. Do you realize that over 50% of Americans are on the federal payroll? That’s astounding. Almost half of our people are living off the other half. That’s the federal government.
Do they want to get rid of the deficit? Why not just cut about half of the employees and just shave it down? Get rid of all them lobby groups and all those committees and subcommittees and all that other business and just strip it down to what we need. Well, the problem is, they say, “If we do that, then things will just get all out of control;” and that's probably true.
Our country, in the main, has become so corrupt that they have to have all those agencies to keep it in check. If they don't have OSHA then they won’t have anybody to spy on the EPA, and the other way around. Because of the wickedness of the land, you gotta have all that junk to keep it from just killing itself and destroying itself. America is in trouble. The whole problem is government credit and loans, making our deficits bigger and bigger. In the trillions now. If they need more money, they just print some more.
Josiah prolonged the kingdom, and Hezekiah prolonged the kingdom. They were both good kings. Jesus Christ will prolong the Kingdom forever, in righteousness.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2019 7:48:47 GMT -6
“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked” (Proverbs 29:11-12).
“A fool uttereth all his mind,” you ever been around a fellow like that? Any little issue you get everything he knows.
“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards,” until he’s got the whole story, until he’s got all the facts, until he’s heard both sides of the story. I mean, some people are just too open-minded.
“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards,” “I'm going to speak my mind!” says the fool, another fellow said, “Go ahead, the next minute is yours.” That's about all it takes for some people.
“If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.”
Now, that's a statement of truth. “If a ruler hearken to lies,” like some of these dictators. You know they hearken to lies, don’t we? They believe in socialism. They believe in atheism, don't they? Then there is one thing you know about their government, everybody around him is wicked. You don't have to know one of them, you will never have to see any of them, that's just a positive, truthful, infinite, infallible statement of God, that's true in every case.
“If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked,” we have seen the principle of a good king in chapter 20. This is one of those infallible statements about life. Men say, “Well, you don’t know if that's true or not.” Oh yeah it is. “A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes” (verse 8).
If you’ve got a King, or president, that judges righteously; I guarantee you, evil, wicked people won't stay in his government. He will judge them and condemn and put them in jail; but a man that loves lies, that's the kind of crowd that gathered to him: wicked and evil people.
It is also is a statement of fact that God gives the people what they deserve.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2019 7:34:16 GMT -6
“Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain” (Proverbs 30:7-9).
“Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.” A poor man will curse God for his situation and will justify his sins and go out and steal to make ends meet. That doesn't justify it, you trust God that He is going to work it out.
Now, notice he says, “Don’t make me rich or poor.” What is he implying there? He is implying that the best place to be is the middle class. Now, that is a prophecy for the last days. The prophecy in the last days is that's the group of people that are going to be missing. In the middle of the tribulation, it says about the Antichrist, “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads” (Revelation 13:16).
You look through the Book of Revelation, you'll find that expression, “rich and poor” all the way through it. In the tribulation, when Catholicism, Islam and Communism unite, they will eliminate the bourgeoisie, the middle-class people. Because the middle-class person is the person who usually works and provides for the society, and the elite don't like that because that takes wealth out of their pocket.
The elites have always tried to do away with the middle class. Why? Because when they do away with the middle class, then the poor people have to be totally and solely relying upon the rich people. That is serfdom, that's a medieval situation, and what ruined the medieval situation was the bourgeoisie: the middle-class people, who began to set up factories and products and began to supply the poor people, and the wealth began to flow to the middle class instead of the barons and the Prince up on the Hills. And that got the barons mad, so they would go down and stir up the poor people against the bourgeoisie.
They would say, “Look at all the Republicans. They are making all the money and they're only interested in their business profits, and not you.”
You go into a Catholic country; you will see an absence of middle-class people. You go to a communist country; there will be an absence of middle-class people. You only find that where there is liberty and where the word of God is preached.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2019 8:00:17 GMT -6
“To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion” (Proverbs 1:4).
Now, there are two kinds of simpletons. We only think of one, but there are two kinds. See, here it is “to give subtilty to the simple,” someone that is good. David says, “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple” (Psalm 119:130). In our passage, the word “simple” is someone that is earnest, honest and open to God. Paul speaks of the simplicity which is in Christ. He also says that “charity believeth all things.” That is simplicity, believing whatever the Bible tells you. So, it is not bad to be simple. Don’t try to make it something that it isn’t, don’t try to make a situation complex when it is not.
One thing a good pastor understands, when they try to deal with Christians and their problems, that the believer always tries to make the problems complex when the solution is almost always simply believing God’s answer to an issue and applying it. The problem usually isn’t complex, the problem most always is sin in the life. Take care of the sin and that will take care of the problem. See, that’s too simple! Folks say, “You mean that’s all there is to it?” “Yea, that’s all there is to it.”
The problem is that they think there problem is so immense and so enormous, and that they are so special—which is the real problem, they are so egocentric, their whole problem is based on them—me, me, me, I, I, I . . . we are nobody, except a hunk of flesh, worm food. Who do we think we are? One fellow said that if we want to see how important we are, we should stick our fist in a bucket of water, and when we take our fist out how big is the hole left behind in the water. They say, “You mean that is all there is to it?” “Yea, just go hit the altar, forsake that sin, get right with God and everything will be fine.”
It is nuts to spend twenty hours or more in counselling. All most people want is just a Band-Aid to put on their sore, but they don’t want to do anything about the problem. Don’t waste time with going on about it. One preacher said, “I counsel three times a week; Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday evening.” Don’t talk at them, preach to them—if they won’t get right, there is nothing you can do for them. In fact, we just worsen the problem by spending hour after hour dealing with them. They are just wanting all that attention, and you are feeding their flesh.
Proverbs is like this. It annihilates the flesh at every opportunity. The Book of Proverbs is not a lot of gospel, but it’s a whole lot of meddling.
In verse 22 we see the other group of simpletons:
“How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?” (Proverbs 1:22 KJV).
It’s the same word, “simple” but it is speaking of two different kinds of people. The people in verse 4 are those that just believe the Bible and trust that no problem is so immense that God can’t work it out. Here in verse 22 are a different bunch—they take truth lightly, they really don’t pay any attention to it. You want to take about heaven, they just don’t want to talk about religion. They say they’ll worry about that later. That is a simplicity no one should want to have anything to do with. They just want their sin, they just want to have fun, and they don’t want you bugging them.
Well, back to verse 4: “to the young man knowledge and discretion,” addressed to the young man. Learn it while you are still young! Older folks, have already seen or experienced what Lemuel is trying to warn the young people about. Some of us did not avoid the misfortunes, especially those of us that did not have the fortune to grow up in a Christian home. We did not have someone to tell us how to avoid it, and if they did, we didn’t listen.
“Discretion,” is “discernment,” it is to discriminate, to be shrewd, or to have ingenuity. It is to be keen on a matter, to be discreet. In other words, we know when to keep our mouths shut, and when to open them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2019 7:31:47 GMT -6
“Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness. Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked” (Proverbs 2:13-14 KJV).
Evidently, this evil man was in the paths of uprightness, convicted but never converted, and he chose to leave it to walk in the ways of darkness. An apostate, who was once in the right place and left it. That is one of the most dangerous men alive, a man who’s been on both sides of the fence. They know how to play everybody. Why do people like to walk in the ways of darkness? John tells us, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved” (John 3:19-20 KJV).
They rejoice to do evil. They “leave the paths of uprightness,” evidently, they feel there is no payoff on the paths of uprightness, that there is a bigger payoff in the ways of darkness. And there is in this life. There probably is. There’s probably bigger money in living wrong than in living right. But you know, money is not everything.
“Who rejoice to do evil,” they just love to do evil. We can’t understand a man like that, but weren’t many of us the same way before we were saved? That’s the fun. The fun isn’t just going out and getting drunk, the fun is in getting drunk and smashing up a car. They rejoice to do that. Some of the greatest Christians have been there before the Lord made a new creature out of them. “. . . and delight in the frowardness of the wicked,” they love it because they love themselves.
“Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths” (Proverbs 2:15 KJV). They are completely perverse.
“And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity” (Jeremiah 9:5 KJV). They wear themselves out at it. They work at it.
“Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked, Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths.” They are on the broad way; their ways are crooked (Matthew 7:13). That way is so broad, it doesn’t “look” crooked. That’s the thing about the narrow way, there isn’t any room for a bend—it’s straight all the way!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2019 9:13:20 GMT -6
“My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee” (Proverbs 3:1-2 KJV).
Now, look at that. You talk about a promise! This is not talking about medicine adding long life to you—people in America are trying to break the law—they break the law, they live like the devil, and then when they get sick from sinning, they try to use science and medicine to try to prolong their lives. Whereas if they will just live by the law and the precepts of the Bible, they will do it.
“For length of days, and long life, and peace,” medicine won’t give you any of that. Medicine will not give you any peace. Which one of the commandments promises long life? “Honour thy father and thy mother.”
This is a general truth. Can anyone think of an example of a person that might keep the law, and do everything they can to be law-abiding, and not have long life? How about a Christian martyr? A man might be found suffering for Christ, and they might cut his head off for it. There is certainly at least one religious fanatical group that is doing it now, and believe it pleases their Allah. That is the exception, but what Solomon is stating is the general rule.
Now, what the world always does to contradict the Bible, is that they’ll stick some guys picture in the newspaper, and he will be celebrating his hundredth birthday and they’ll ask him what he attributes his long life to? Of course, he’ll say “Smokin’ and Drinkin!’” Here you have one guy out of a million that smokes and drinks and lives that long, there is 999,999 that have died young. The Devil always magnifies and advertises the exception. They used that healthy guy on the billboards advertising “Marlboro Country.” Well, that isn’t “Marlboro Country.” Marlboro Country is in the throat ward or the cancer ward of a hospital. The people there breathe through tubes and speak through a portable box. That is Marlboro Country. And still, people are dying to go there.
“For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee,” this is a biblical principle. What is the principle of sin? “The wages of sin is death.” What is the transgression of the law? “Sin is the transgression of the law.” If the transgression of the law is sin, and the wages of sin is death, then it behooves you to keep the law. Not for salvation, mind you, but “for length of days, and long life, and peace.”
Look what God says about a Christian in Romans. A Christian is a peculiar individual. You cannot measure Christianity by America. America is probably the only country that has ever existed where Christianity has the liberty is has, for as long as it’s had. The problem is that we measure Christianity by our experience. America is the exception. The rule is that hundreds and thousands of people have tragically died before they even reached the age of 30 because they stood for Christ. In other countries, that is still the rule.
“But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live” (Rom 8:11-13 KJV).
“If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,” you are saved.
“Therefore, brethren,” seeing that the Spirit of God is in you, and you have the quickening power of His presence.
“we are debtors, not to the flesh,” we don’t owe nothing to the flesh . . . it is our mortal enemy.
“mortify,” put to death. A mortician is somebody that works on you after you die.
“mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live,” but the problem with that is you might live for somebody to torture you or to hand you. When a Christian starts to live right, everything is against him, even other Christians that are worldly, except God. The nice thing about the Lord is if they take you out, you just keep right on living. I believe that if a man is living for God, death is going to be a very easy passage, but if a man is not living for God, death is going to be painful, assuming you are not all doped up with Morphine.
“For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2019 8:24:44 GMT -6
“For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live” (Proverbs 4:3-4 KJV).
“Let thine heart retain my words,” you want to attain to understanding and then you want to retain it—keep it—don’t let it get away from you.
Knowledge and wisdom are kind of like a little animal that you try to keep penned up in your house, like a little bird, it just wants to fly away all the time. Our minds get lazy, when we get over 30, and you decide to go back to school. You begin to take classes, and you try to take notes and you notice that your hand just doesn’t move like you think it should. You try to write things down and you can’t keep up, and you make mistakes. You sneak a peek over at some young person and you see they have filled up a page and you are lucky if you got half-a-page of notes. You find it’s harder to remember as you get older, it’s hard to retain it all. The crazy thing is that the youth don’t want to learn when they can, and the older people want to learn—but they can’t!
“He taught me also,” the more you compare Psalms and Proverbs, the more you see that a lot of what Solomon learned, he learned from his own father—David. So many times, we don’t think about David’s relationship to Solomon, and Solomon’s wisdom. We think of Solomon back there in the book of Kings praying for wisdom and God just miraculously zaps him with wisdom. Well, we do know that God gave Solomon some miraculous wisdom, but long before Solomon ever prayed for wisdom he was being brought up by a wise man—David.
You do know that sometimes God answers our prayers before we even ask. Read through the Psalms, and David made a lot of mistakes in this life, as we all do, but he was a very wise man when it came to his relationship with God. David got a lot of physical things wrong, in the material world, he just had too big an eye for women, (something he may have also passed on to his son?) he was constantly getting into trouble with women. But his heart was right when it came to his relationship with God. Anytime David’s relationship with God was broken, he would get right back in. He was just that kind of man. We wonder why he kept messing up, well, “all flesh is as grass,” and David was no exception. David was a sinner just like anyone else, but we can learn a lot from David.
“Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways” (Proverbs 3:31 KJV). Where might he have gotten that? His daddy wrote those thoughts down a generation before Solomon ever thought of it. “Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity” (Psalms 37:1 KJV). A lot of things that Solomon writes, you can find in some seed form in the book of Psalms.
True, David is not known for his great wisdom. He was a great warrior. I don’t know if David ever lost a battle. He grew discouraged at Ziklag, but God eventually gave him the victory over that mess.
David was a great warrior. He put Joshua to shame. He was a great general. And, of course, he had some great men under him. He had those 30 or 33 mighty men. Those were some dudes to run into. Some of those guys in a snowstorm were killing a thousand men. A tough bunch of fellows, nothing like you would ever see today.
David was a wise man; God also gave David ability as the greatest warrior in the Bible.
Young people do well to pay attention to their mom and dad. Well, they make a lot of mistakes. Yes, and so will you. And they have learned to eliminate a lot of them also. You can learn from them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2019 9:34:52 GMT -6
“Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth” (Proverbs 5:16-18 KJV).
Be content with what you have and share it with folks. Don’t be stingy, don’t be envious. Give it to somebody else—let somebody else get a blessing out of what God has shown you or what God’s taught you. Share it with your children. Spend time with them. Teach them. Show them.
“Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets,” “Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days” (Ecclesiastes 11:1 KJV).
Let somebody else know about the good news. Let somebody else know about the blessings of being a Christian. Let someone else know about the blessings of answered prayer, and all those things.
And there is no better place than the internet to daily share something of what God has shown to you in your daily Bible reading and study. Share your joys!
“Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee,” these are the fountains and rivers of verse 16. There are two ways of looking at this.
(1) Physical children are a fountain, or fruit, from your life. (2) Spiritual children are the result of your faithful ministry.
When we lead others to Christ that is spreading around those living waters that Jesus Christ spoke to the woman at the well about: “Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water” (John 4:10 KJV).
“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth,” if he is talking about a wife as a fountain, then you have to go back to verse 15 and apply the whole passage to a man and a woman and what it is to stay away from extramarital relationships. In the lives of a man and his wife, he is to drink waters out of his own cistern.
“Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad” all right, then these would be children. Have fruit, let them—the fruit—be only thine own. Your own children, not someone else. Perhaps touching on divorce and remarriage here?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2019 7:41:35 GMT -6
“He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord” (Proverbs 6:13-14 KJV).
“He winketh with his eyes,” when two men are plotting against a third man, who is in their presence, they will use the wink of the eye—a nonverbal message—to say, “I’m lying to this guy.” “. . . he speaketh with his feet,” his mouth is saying one thing, but his feet tell you the truth. You can tell which way he is going by his feet “run to evil” (Proverbs 1:16, Isaiah 59:7), “their feet are swift to shed blood” (Romans 3:15). “. . . he teacheth with his fingers,” the mouth (vs. 12), the eyes, the feet, and the fingers are the tools of communication with the wicked man.
All the trouble a man will ever have in his life will come from those four things. The eyes, the mouth, the finger, and the feet.
- The feet will take you to the place where he can do wickedness. - The hands are the instrument of mischief. - The eyes are never full; they are always looking for something new—the gate for lusts. - The tongue is a world of iniquity.
“Frowardness is in his heart,” the perverseness is not only in his mouth, but in his heart. He is a purely defiled man. “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled” (Titus 1:15 KJV). This man is a serpent.
“. . .he deviseth mischief continually,” to invent or produce. Notice that in verses 12-13, that those are outward things. In verse 14, we get to the inward nature of the man. “he soweth discord,” that is to produce disagreement, to break harmony, and break covenants. He will shake hands in agreement with you but will cross his fingers behind his back—because he knows he has no intention of keeping his agreements. These men are the reason we need written contracts in America today, and not like it was back in our great-grandparent’s day when a man’s word and handshake was his bond.
Do you know what the Antichrist eventually does with Israel? He breaks his covenant with them. In fact, he breaks a covenant that he didn’t even establish. I know some believe he did, but he doesn’t. Daniel 9 says that he does form a covenant with Israel for one week—but it wasn’t he that did it—in the first half of the Tribulation he is the man of sin, but later on in the Tribulation, the Antichrist actually comes into being in his full manifestation as the son of perdition, the Antichrist, the man of sin, and the wicked one, when? When does he actually begin that time, or reign? It happens in the middle, not at the beginning. The full-fledged Satan-incarnate doesn’t take place until the middle of the Tribulation period. He only has three-and-a-half years to operate.
This man is slain in the middle of the Tribulation and his soul goes to hell, and that is when the person of Satan enters his body and assumes the role of the Antichrist. The body of the man is still there but not the soul. He has a new soul, Satan, and a new spirit, Apollyon—and that’s the one that breaks the covenant.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2019 9:50:45 GMT -6
“He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life” (Proverbs 7:22-23 KJV).
The old saying, “He’s as dumb as an ox” must have come from this verse. An ox really isn’t as dumb as some folks think, “The ox knoweth his owner” (Isaiah 1:3 KJV). Some folks don’t have the sense that an animal has.
“. . . as a fool to the correction of the stocks,” in the Puritan days when a person committed some immoral act or some other antisocial behavior, he would be put in the stocks for a time. Today we take a criminal and put him away somewhere in prison and no one sees him again until his sentence is finished. Maybe the stocks would work today, take one of these first-time offenders and stick him out in the stocks for two or three days, and let him endure the shame of public exposure—it might do him some good. If no other benefit, people entertaining the notion of doing what that fellow did might rethink their actions. Seeing another enduring a public spectacle of shame might just do the trick.
There were all kinds of unique ways to punish people back then, but now we are too civilized. Now we put two or three men in a 10x10 cubicle where the toilet is out in the open, and no one has any privacy. We pack in 2,500 prisoners in a prison that is built for 1,500. We are much more civilized today.
“He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,” is the very epitome of a fool. He could turn to the left or the right or put his body in reverse and head out of there. But he is so caught by the woman’s invisible chains that he storms straight on, figuring he’ll deal with the results later on.
“Till a dart strike through his liver,” which is the result that he didn’t plan on. That “dart” is something very different than the little object that we throw at a cork board in our den. It is a lot more deadlier. Darts are what Joab killed Absalom with: “Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak” (2 Samuel 18:14 KJV).
Solomon illustrates it further by saying, “as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.”
In Proverbs 1 we were told: “Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird” (Proverbs 1:17 KJV). For this man, the trap is not as obvious. Everything has been covered over. That is the way that sin is.
Apostate religion is that way. It looks good. There are some very beautiful churches out there, but it is just like an ornate funeral. There are flowers all around it, and the casket is most beautiful. But it is still filled with the dead. The Gospel probably hasn’t been preached in those places for decades. And people are attracted by the beauty only.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2019 9:06:16 GMT -6
“Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold” (Proverbs 8:10 KJV).
He is not saying here that we should throw our silver away, he is saying that silver and gold are not near as important as wisdom and instruction. With knowledge and instruction, a man can get saved and go to heaven. With those he might even earn a lot of silver and gold and make a fair living in this world, but those things alone will not purchase you a ticket to heaven. If a man is faithful and willing to use riches for God’s purpose—God may give him riches: “Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate” (I Timothy 6:17-18 KJV).
The problem with some Christians is that they are not “ready to distribute,” they pray for a million bucks and they don’t plan to give much of it back to God—so God isn’t going to give them much to begin with. If a Christian is on poverty level, that is probably just where they belong and where they need to be to stay humble and to stay in the will of God. We need to remember that riches can get us out of the will of God pretty quick.
“Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain” (Proverbs 30:8-9 KJV).
If you got all that money suddenly you might discover that you don’t have the character to handle it. You might schedule the first trip available to the Bahamas and not give any to the missionary that needs it to go win some souls to Christ or build a local New Testament church or to expand the work of an already established New Testament church.
There is a reason a lot of Christians are poor; they couldn’t be trusted if they were rich. We might not see them again.
“Receive my instruction,” which is a key element in folks getting saved. “For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe” (I Thessalonians 2:13 KJV).
They didn’t think it was just a good translation, they thought it was “the word of God!” In chapter 1 Paul said, “And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost” (I Thessalonians 1:6 KJV).
These people didn’t argue with it, doubt it, change it, revise it, add to it or take away from it—they received it. They didn’t try to justify their sins by fooling with it, they said, “It’s the word of God and we will believe it!”
“Receive my instruction, and not silver,” you have the ability according to I Corinthians 2:15, “He that is spiritual judgeth all things,” with the Holy Spirit of God you have the ability to receive and to understand the word of God. “knowledge rather than choice gold,” come and but the truth Isaiah 55 says, “without money and without price.” A man can’t buy real godly wisdom. There is not an unsaved man in this whole world that has enough money to offer God to get wisdom. He has to come like everybody else and get down on his knees and trust Jesus Christ—then put his nose in the book and seek for it. He needs to pray and go to church.
Folks can buy an education, but no one can buy wisdom, folks are “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (II Timothy 3:7).
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