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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2019 8:09:41 GMT -6
“A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city” (Proverbs 9:13-14 KJV).
Solomon now switches to the other woman who has her house and her invitation. The invitation is for any to come in and see what she has to offer. The good woman who has a good house on a good foundations (pillars) offers bread and wine—it’s good. It produces long life, understanding, and wisdom. It departs from evil and is blessed of God. At the other end of the spectrum where this foolish woman waits, is totally the opposite. The number 13 is the number of rebellion in the Bible.
“A foolish woman is clamorous,” loud, noisy. So, if you want to know if a woman is wise or a fool, by their fruits ye shall know them. Always spouting off, can’t shut up, can’t listen to anybody, knows it all. She’s got an answer for every question, and a remedy for everything that goes wrong. And yet her life is steeped in problems of her own that she can’t solve.
“. . . she is simple, and knoweth nothing,” this simplicity here is nothing more than stupidity. She knows nothing at all. “Knowledge” in Greek is “gnosis” from where we get our word, “agnostic” from, or “no knowledge.” Well, that describes this woman. When someone professes to be an agnostic, they are admitting that they are stupid—self-professing stupidity. Really what it is, is “premeditated stupidity.” Peter tells us that they are “willingly ignorant.”
“. . . she is simple, and knoweth nothing,” if a woman is to know anything, she is to get it from her husband. “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church” (I Corinthians 14:34-35 KJV). She is to learn from her husband and her pastor—the men that God has put over her.
Now, here is why she is stupid:
“For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,” Paul writes: “Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits” (Romans 12:16 KJV).
The foolish woman is a woman that likes to sit in the high places. She likes to sit up there with all the other rich fools.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2019 8:16:36 GMT -6
“Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding" (Proverbs 10:12-13).
“Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins,” Most divorces are caused by unresolved strife in the home. It's hard for the Devil to split up a home where the love is strong. Where love overlooks the deficiencies of another.
You know, that is exactly what Jesus did. “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:6-8 KJV). He loved the unlovely. And what did that do in us? “We love him, because he first loved us” (I John 4:19 KJV).
If we want our spouse to love us more, love them more. And love them even more when they are unlovely. And show it. Women, unlike men, believe that love is much more than the words, “I love you,” they need time and attention.
Buy her something she doesn’t need. Men are so stinking pragmatic. A woman with a closet full of dresses can always find room for one more. That’s how you build love, even though there is imperfections, and faults. “love covereth all sins.”
“In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found,” an obvious truth. If a man understands what is right and what is wrong, and the important things of life; you will find wisdom in what he says.
“. . . but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding,” this is chastening, especially for a child: “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him” (Proverbs 22:15 KJV).
The rod is the only way that you can give somebody wisdom that lacks understanding, it is the only way you can get him to do right. They will not receive instruction through talking, so you have to get rough with them. That is the main issue with little children. You can’t take a two-year-old, or a three-year-old and say, “Now, look, the stove will burn you if you touch it, and you understand of course the difference between 1st degree, 2nd degree, and 3rd degree burns do you not? With 1st degree burns redness appears, and with 2nd degree boils will be apparent—that kid doesn’t understand that—whump! Don’t touch that! He understands. Or he will understand even better right after he touches it. Far better to warn him forcefully then to rush him to the E.R. with 3rd degree burns.
Until the kid is old enough to have understanding, help him out. Keep him out of trouble. Some stupid parents expect their kids to have the responsibilities or abilities that he doesn’t have. He doesn’t have understanding. If he did, he would be an adult. And you wouldn’t have to be feeding him, he’d be out earning a living for himself. So, don’t expect him to know right from wrong, or up from down—at this point he will only understand the rod of correction. And he’ll appreciate it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 9:14:17 GMT -6
“Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish” (Proverbs 12:1).
Now, it looks like this verse is kind of split down the middle, and maybe one part doesn't have a lot to do with the other; but that's not true. It says, “Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge.” The Bible says that in the latter days people should “run to and fro, and knowledge will be increased (Daniel 12:4),” and people are education crazy. There is an element of learning involved with all that, but it says, “Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge.” Did you ever wonder? For all the knowledge folks get, for all the money people spend to go get their degrees, just what are they worth? The fact is a man can spend an awful lot of money to get a degree that gets you no job whatsoever.
Folks have a chance to come to church and learn about the Lord. Do you ever wonder why folks are not a little hungrier for that sort of thing?
“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine” (II Timothy 4:2).
The secret is probably in this verse. Notice that it says, “preach the word.” What is the first thing folks say to us today? They say, “Don't preach to me!” Well, preaching, by definition, is intrusive. If you study the word, “preaching,” you'll find that there is an element of thrust to it, and sometimes a little meddling; but there is an intrusive factor to preaching and witnessing. It's an adamant thing, so folks say, “Don't preach to me.”
Well, Paul says, “preach the word,” so we know we're on good ground with all the things that it does, but notice it continues and says “preach the word . . . for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.” The fact is, sometimes you have to preach to somebody whether they like it or not, “for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.” And if you don't preach, witness, or correct them, they'll never hear. It becomes truer and truer that you may well be the only Bible that any man will ever read . . . or hear.
There is a time to back off, and we should all be good ambassadors of Christ; and all those things, but you can't deny what the Bible says. it goes on to say, “for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.”
Now, why will they not endure sound doctrine? Why do they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears? Why do they seek after counselors to tell them basically what they want to hear? Why? Well in Proverbs 12:1, I think really the secret is here. It says, “Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge,” and that looks fairly mundane. It doesn't seem like there's a sharp edge on that part of it, “Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge,” if you're instructed you get knowledge. But notice the rest of it, “but he that hateth reproof is brutish,” and what the last half of that verse does is shines an awful lot of light on the first half of that verse.
What you need to see there is that the reproof goes with the instruction. In fact, there's not an awful lot of instruction that comes without reproof, biblically speaking.
“Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life” (Proverbs 4:13).
There are some things that are indelibly connected in the word of God all the time, and these are the two things. Instruction is your life. What goes with instruction?
“For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life” (Proverbs 6:23).
This verse says that instruction is our life; and then it says that the reproofs of instruction are the way of life, in other words, as far as instruction goes there is a lot of character lacking in folks, and the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, and a lot of sound doctrine comes from preaching and teaching that instructs, but there's an intimate part of that instruction — and that is reproof.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2019 8:35:33 GMT -6
“Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed” (Proverbs 13:21).
“Evil pursueth sinners,” God brings evil upon a sinner, over and over again, in the Bible.
“Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23).
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:7-8).
Moses’ interceded for the children of Israel in light of this truth: “Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people” (Exodus 32:12).
God would have destroyed Israel for making that golden calf, but Moses stood between God’s wrath and the people’s ignorance—just as Jesus Christ stands between the Law demanding judgment on the sinner and the angry God that invoked it. Jesus Christ beseeches the guilty, offending sinner to find solace and forgiveness through Him and then stands as a shield between God’s wrath. Being unable to see our sin, that wrath is appeased, and God is pleased to call us His redeemed children.
We need always recall that the Book of Proverbs is written primarily to Old Testament men dealing with the Old Testament Law and Old Testament promises and our interpretation of the Book must always bear that in mind. However, in an eternal sense it has application to the believer of any age so that the promises have a ring of truth unto all generations and all saved people.
“. . . but to the righteous good shall be repayed,” in the Old Testament, if a man did right God blessed him, his home, his home, his wealth, his land, etc. God sent blessings, while He withheld blessings from those that were not righteous.
“. . . but to the righteous good shall be repayed,” in the New Testament, much is said of the Christian’s rewards at the judgment seat of Jesus Christ. The amazing truth is that it is God which “worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13) so that the desire to live for and to serve God originates from Him, but then He rewards us as though it were our idea from the beginning. We serve a wonderful God!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2019 8:29:55 GMT -6
“A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge”” (Proverbs 14:16, 18).
“A wise man feareth,” he fears the consequences of bad choices, “and departeth from evil.” Here is the understanding that Job 28:28 [“And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding”] is referring to. This is the absolutely best motive for life, just be afraid of the consequences of our actions. Realize once and for all that you and I will reap what we sow. Where do we possibly get off thinking that we will not?
Too often we justify our sins and kid ourselves by saying that we won’t reap for this one, but yes, we will. It is an inevitable law.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption” (Galatians 6:7-8).
Only a fool believes this will not happen.
“. . . but the fool rageth, and is confident,” the fool exclaims, “This is my life and I will do what I want!” Let it be noted that while the fool in Proverbs is generally speaking of the lost man that refuses to submit to God’s authority—it does not preclude believers from acting the fool. There is nothing sadder in this world than a Bible-believing fool. He knows what he ought to be doing, but he makes the choice to sin against the light. The confidence of the fool is misguided, “You got your religion—I’ve got mine!”
People are all the time building on the sand, and one day their confidence will melt like ice on a hot day. It might stand for a while, but God knows how to bring him down.
“The simple inherit folly,” connect this to verse 15 where he believes everything he hears. This is the fellow that the conmen call a mark. He is an easy pushover. You always wonder about these goofy ads that you see in magazines and wonder who are dumb enough to go for them. Well, here he is. You know that there are plenty of them because people have to pay for those ads for some wonder product that will do anything and everything.
“. . . but the prudent are crowned with knowledge,” the careful fellow. He is not soon angry, he doesn’t rush in, he’s not a man of wicked devices—but wants to do right. He is “crowned with knowledge,” he is rewarded for his patience. The man that lives for the Lord, God will show him some things.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 8:13:03 GMT -6
“Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?” (Proverbs 15:11).
“Hell and destruction are before the LORD,” being one and the same, it is a soul being destroyed forever. When you see the word “and” in a construction like this, it can mean some additional information, generally it implies more details about the same subject. In other words, “the man was tall and thin.” It is giving two different descriptions concerning the same man. The place of torment and the place of the final end of the sinner is hell and it is destruction. The soul is destroyed forever.
In the New Testament, where the Greek word for “and” is “kai,” also means “even.” Both words mean the same thing. Sometimes you’ll run across the expression, “God and Jesus Christ.” All it is saying is, “God even Jesus Christ.” They are both the same. It is just additional information about the same subject.
“Hell and destruction are before the LORD,” again, here is the omnipresence of the Lord.
If hell and destruction are before the Lord, “. . . how much more then the hearts of the children of men?” This is a passage that ought to be shown to every lost man, that God knows his heart as well as God knows who are in hell being destroyed.
“For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:14).
This is a verse to be given to a sinner that is unconcerned about or doesn’t think that salvation is a thing that he needs right now. You want to let him know that God knows everything that he is doing. The Bible says that men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. The reason that men don’t want to get saved is because they are doing something wrong. The best thing is to let them know that God knows it, and that God sees it, and that they will be held accountable for it.
“To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God” (Romans 2:7-11). “But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds” (Romans 2:5-6).
An impenitent heart is a heart that refuses to repent. The thing we need to see here is that God knows everything about us, and if it isn’t forgiven, or taken care of in this life, you will reap it in the next life. “In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel” (Romans 2:16).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 8:13:52 GMT -6
“When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him” (Proverbs 16:7).
When a man’s ways—the way he lives—his spiritual life, the spiritual life of his family, his personal life with God, his church life, his work life; just because a man goes to church that doesn’t mean that down on the job you are living like a Christian. This verse is talking about the ways of a man, all the ways he lives, and in every area of his life. A Christian can get along with anybody and anybody can get along with him.
The Devil likes to attack a Christian through all the areas of his life. If he gets into church and that is going right, he attacks their family altar. When they get that repaired, it seems like he and his wife are on the outs. That gets straightened out, and then the kids are rebelling. That finally gets straightened out and then some problem arises between him and one of the members of the church. You can’t have everything working like it ought all the time, but we work at it constantly.
God doesn’t look on the outer appearance, God looks on the heart. As long as you recognize that there is something wrong and you are working on it, God accepts it for what you are trying. You won’t always get it right, but God knows when it’s real—or a show. Even Paul admitted that he had not attained, but he strove on: “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:12-14).
After thirty years of Christian ministry, and after writing thirteen epistles in the Bible he hadn’t attained, I don’t suppose that you and I will do any better—but don’t ever quit trying! Therein lies the victory, don’t quit trying.
Here is David, the king of Israel and man after God’s own heart, and he blew it with Bathsheba. Well, David had something that most Christians don’t have—the guts to go on. It took humility to admit it and guts to go on, but he did it. That is why David was a man after God’s own heart.
The reason that Paul was at peace with his enemies is that he didn’t get mad at Festus, he didn’t get mad at Agrippa, he didn’t get mad at the jailer in Philippi. If he had got mad at the jailer, he would never have been able to led him to Christ.
“When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him,” we can even lead our enemies to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and then they won’t be our enemies anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2019 10:04:55 GMT -6
“A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend. He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction” (Proverbs 17:18-19).
That is shaking hands on a deal. Proverbs covers this topic back in 6:1-5. This is that business of guaranteeing someone else’s debts or loans. God doesn’t think much of that. Be careful about loaning people money. If somebody you know closely gets into a bad way, you pray for them and maybe help them out a little bit with some cash—but give it to them—don’t loan it. If you loan it to them and they don’t pay you back, it is something the Devil can use to eat you alive with. But if you give them some money without any expectation of getting it back and the Devil loses. Later on, they may have an occasion to give you some money if you run into some bad times, but don’t borrow from them.
The business of being surety, that is, standing good for a person’s loan—God is flat against it.
“My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth” (Proverbs 6:1-2).
If you want to lose a friend, either go into business with them, or loan them some money.
“A man void of understanding,” he just doesn’t realize the consequences of his action. Christians can be funny about these things. They will pay their bills, but they don’t always see the necessity of paying their fellow Christians back. They will pay everybody but you, because deep down they must feel that you wanted to help them, so you don’t need the money. Of course, this is not true all the time, but generally, it does happen. Just avoid it all together and you’ll all be better off.
If you love trouble, then love sin—because you’ll find it. “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 3:23). “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23), and you’ll reap what you sow. Strife and sin just go together.
“. . . and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction,” what this is here is openly displaying your private wealth. Hezekiah does this in Isaiah 39. He invited the Babylonian emissary to take a tour through the land and showed them all of Israel’s wealth, and took them inside of the temple and showed them all the gold and precious stones that it consisted of. Babylon later sacked the land and carried all those treasures back to their own land.
Sometimes Christians will get a new house and fill it up with new expensive furniture and then invite other Christians over for “fellowship.” Actually, they are either keeping up with the Jones and want to show the Jones’ that they have bested them, or they just want to gloat over some in the church that don’t have what they have. Just be careful with that business. They don’t really want to “fellowship,” they just want to “exalt what is in their gate.”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2019 7:17:19 GMT -6
“The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility” (Proverbs 18:11-12).
Now, we are better off with the strong tower of verse 10, then to have the rich man’s strong city of this verse. A whole lot of rich men died and went to hell in the New Testament that had a strong city, but not a single man ever went to hell that was safely in that strong tower.
“The rich man's wealth is his strong city,” his wealth is what the rich man trusts in and depends upon. “. . . and as an high wall in his own conceit,” conceit is what a man imagines is the worth of his own opinion. His opinion is, “My money will get me through any problem.” The problem is that it won’t. It won’t get you through death, it won’t get you through the judgment, it won’t buy good health or prevent disease. Trouble and disease will come whether you have money or not.
The rich farmer in Luke 12 did not fare well in the end, despite all his riches. Neither did it help the rich man in Luke 16, or the rich young ruler in Matthew 19. Wealth was meaningless to them. All the money in the world would not purchase a single drop of water in hell. Jesus said that it was very hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
“The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,” but it is also his destruction. The great passage on wealth in the New Testament is found in First Timothy 6:9-15. Many people suppose that gain is godliness, but they forget that what they came in this world with—nothing—is what they will go out with. They don’t seem to care that they are going to leave it all behind them. You’ll never see a U-Haul trailer hitched to the back of a hearse. Paul said that better than to be rich in money, we should be rich in good works and be ready to distribute what God has given to you.
“Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,” haughty is proud. “. . . and before honour is humility.” Both of these traits are found in some characters in the Bible. Can you think of a man that was haughty, and then he was humbled? Ahab was haughty and then he was humbled, by Elijah. Nebuchadnezzar was a most haughty king as he surveilled all that he had built for his great honor, until living out with the grass-chewing beasts changed his attitude. Peter was very haughty, until he looked into the face of Jesus Whom he had betrayed—and then the tears flowed.
The thief on the cross railed against Christ, and then he got to thinking about it and the Holy Spirit worked on him to the point where he ended up beseeching Christ that He might remember him when He entered His kingdom. He was a proud thief until he became a penitent sinner. It was he realized his own guilt and that he was deserving of his fate, while Jesus was an innocent man that did not deserve to die. Then he realized that Jesus Christ was much more than just a man: “But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss” (Luke 23:40-41).
“Before destruction the heart of man is haughty [thinking he can handle the situation], and before honour is humility.” The principle is Matthew 23:12, “Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2019 8:54:14 GMT -6
“The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD” (Proverbs 19:3).
“The foolishness of man perverteth his way,” that is messing around and not concentrating on the important things of life. We need to go to the New Testament before we find Jesus Christ showing that a thing doesn’t have to be actually done in order to call it sin. Anger at a brother without a cause is counted by God as murder and looking at a woman with thoughts of lust is considered as the act of adultery. But here we have an Old Testament example of mere thoughts being sin: “The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men” (Proverbs 24:9). The bar is set very low for a fool to be condemned.
A fool does nothing worthy, they profit nothing, and they gain nothing for you as an individual. They do not build character, they do not build morals, they do not strengthen righteousness—they only know foolishness, and their way is perverted. Fools walk in the wrong way, and it is all because of their foolish beginnings that no one corrected, if possible. Not all fools allow themselves to be redirected in their folly. How can a fool be straightened out? It starts in their early days of life.
“Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him” (Proverbs 22:15).
A child does not do things necessarily the right way, or the wrong way. They do things their own way. There is a certain degree of conformity that needs to be instilled in that child. This does not mean that you punish the poor guy for writing with his left hand, instead of his right because that is the way he was born. I’m left-handed, and I went to parochial school—enough said? When they are young, establish for them a right way and drill it into them over and over and over and he will conform to that right way. The foolishness will be driven from him, and after a certain period of time, he will be able to do it on his own.
Kids may have a good heart and are obedient to an extent, but I don’t think anyone has ever found a spiritual kid. There are a lot of selfish, me-first, and me-only children out there. If you plant a sapling tree out in your yard, you have to make sure that it doesn’t lean but that it grows straight. You will often use a stake and a guy rope and gradually tighten it to pull the leaning tree upright. The Word of God and loving discipline are the guide wires for the young child.
It is too late to wait until they are 14, 15, 16 years old because by then you have an adult-sized young person with the mind of a child, and if they are crooked there is little you can do with them at that point. Only God can truly form character, but He shares the task with loving parents that assist in the nurturing process.
Otherwise “his heart fretteth against the LORD,” or he is agitated at God. They say, “God expects this, but I don’t know how to do it!” That is because as a child no one gave him to tools to live right and now they are confused, and anxious.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 8:01:26 GMT -6
“A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes” (Proverbs 20:8).
Here are the verses on judgment in the Bible. These deal with some things that will take place at the judgment, what God will do at the judgment, and who will be at the judgment. These are the things about God judging secrets, and every secret thing, the Great White Throne judgment, and some of the characteristics of it.
“Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart” (Psalms 44:21).
“O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there” (Psalms 139:1-8). This is the passage that says that God knows everything about you.
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment” (Matthew 12:36).
“He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day” (John 12:48).
“And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:11-15).
“For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:14).
“Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance” (Psalms 90:8).
“Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead” (Acts 17:31). God is going to judge man by that Man, Jesus Christ. They are not going to be judged according to the standard of man, but according to the perfect standard of Christ Himself.
“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). There isn’t going to be any second chance.
“He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it” (Psalms 10:11).
“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment” (II Peter 2:4).
“There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves” (Job 34:22).
If God were to call you to preach, try to say something in every message you preach about judgment. People need to hear that they are responsible and accountable for their actions. God does not forget any of them, and He will bring them to judgment if they are not dealt with and they are not right with God. If we don’t judge them in this life, God will judge them in the next.
The judgment seat of Christ is not for judging sin. It is for judging works of the Christian after they are saved. Obviously, if a man is a worldly Christian or one that is indulging in sin, then he is not going to have a lot of works to be judged. We might also consider works as fruit, and there will be no fruit to inspect. Therefore, in that sense, the Christian will suffer loss.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2019 7:47:43 GMT -6
“A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath. It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity” (Proverbs 21:14-15).
“A gift in secret pacifieth anger,” speaking of how to handle trouble with somebody else. Solomon touched on this theme in 15:1, “A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Here, if someone is upset with you or you got in bad with somebody, one way to handle it is with a gift in secret.
Paul lays out for us the biblical way for a Christian to handle this sort of situation: “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).
They are not to continue the strife by words and actions that stir up trouble, but rather with gifts, remember that vengeance belongs to the Lord: “Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth” (Proverbs 26:20).
“and a reward in the bosom strong wrath,” >>>
“It is joy to the just to do judgment,” it is just the opposite of verse 10 where it says, “The soul of the wicked desireth evil.” When a man is right with God, there is a desire to do right, and the fruit of it is “joy.” There is a joy in doing and being right. This is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance” (Galatians 5:22, 23).
There is no joy to the unjust for dong right, they don’t enjoy doing that at all. Why? Because it is always accompanied with the feeling, “But, is it enough.” You see, the problem with folks trying to earn their own way into heaven by trying to be good is the perpetual question of “How much is enough?” Anyway, whenever they do something right, they are soon to do something wrong which will erase the right they did, and they just never know how the balance sheet is leaning. There is just no joy for the unjust, only trepidation.
You tell the average man in America that you always pay your taxes and never try to cheat on them, and they look at you funny. The cashier at the store almost goes into shock when you hand her a dollar and say she gave you too much change. Actually, some cashiers have been known to give someone that says they are Christian too much change just to see what they will do. Yes, the lost are watching and taking notes. “It is joy to the just to do judgment.”
“. . . but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity,” they get what they sow.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2019 8:04:28 GMT -6
“Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them. Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men" (Proverbs 22:22-29).
“Rob not the poor, because he is poor,” don’t take advantage of a person just because he can be taken advantage of. “. . . neither oppress the afflicted in the gate,” why? “For the Lord will plead their cause.”
Do you know what an atheist does? He does away with judgment when he does away with God. In doing this he can take anybody for anything he wants, and not even think twice about it. He doesn’t believe he will be required to answer for it, so it doesn’t bother him when he does it. He can do it without a conscience.
The thing about it is, that there is a God, and that guy is going to have to give an account for what he does, whether he believes it or not. They may be able to do without judgment in their minds, but they are not going to do it in reality.
“For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.” God has a system of taking care of the poor. What man has done is to set up their own system, not to take care of the poor, but to rob the poor. You ask the poor how much they are getting, and how much the government is getting and what they are doing with it.
“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.”
What is this saying? “A companion of fools shall be destroyed” (Proverbs 13:20). If a man runs around with an angry man, he’ll pick up his ways and soon will be an angry man also. He pick up his angry ways, and his bad character.
“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife” (Proverbs 15:18).
“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).
Ecclesiastes 7:9 says that “anger rests in the bosom of fools,” if you run around with angry people you are a fool.
“Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?”
What little you have, if you are surety for another, you’ll lose what you have.
“Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set” (Proverbs 22:28).
They had more brains than you do, don’t remove them. Children think that they no such much more than their parents. Don’t remove them, they are there for a purpose. The reason for the ancient landmarks were to keep the inheritances within the families and to ensure the inheritance to the future generations.
“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it” (Deuteronomy 19:14).
It was the will of God that these inheritances should continue, and every year of Jubilee, the inheritances were to be returned in full to the family.
“Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.”
Paul stood before mighty men and kings. Do you know who God looks for to do great things for Him? Somebody that is busy. You learn these things the older you get in life. If you want someone to do something important for you, don’t ask someone to do something that is standing around doing nothing. The reason they aren’t doing anything is because they don’t want to do anything. You read Philippians 3 and you’ll see that Paul was busy. God calls a busy man to do his work.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 8:12:46 GMT -6
“Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats” (Proverbs 23:6).
“Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,” this is a type of the Antichrist: “Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened” (Zechariah 11:17).
Have you ever seen a man with an evil eye? He has that wild 40-mile stare. You need to be careful with a fellow like that. It seems like there are some people that you can look at and you just know that they are crawling with demons. Best to put some distance between yourself and that guy.
In the verse from Zechariah, the Antichrist has lost his right eye, so his left eye is the evil eye.
“. . . neither desire thou his dainty meats,” the heart devises evil, that is where he gets his evil eye. How can you tell that a man is all fouled up on the inside? Jesus gave us the answer: “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:22-23).
The single eye is interested in one thing, the right things. If the eye be single, it is interested in pleasing God, and setting its sight on heavenly things. It’s single, one thing, living for the Lord. “But if thine eye be evil,” there is the evil eye, “thy whole body shall be full of darkness,” they eye reflects the darkness that is in the heart and that wickedness controls the thoughts and actions of the man. So, out of the man comes perverse sayings and a forward look.
“. . . neither desire thou his dainty meats,” Paul expounds on this thought on watching who we eat with: “But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat” (I Corinthians 5:11).
Jesus said that the first thing that comes out of an evil heart are evil thoughts: “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies” (Matthew 15:19). After evil thoughts follow the sins listed. It all begins from the heart.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2019 7:52:55 GMT -6
“Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out” (Proverbs 24:19-20).
Half of America would go into a panic if a professed Communist/Socialist were to be elected president of the United States. Well, so what? Paul lived under Nero—and the early church for its first century served God under the thumb of some very vicious Caesars.
Nero took Christians and stuck them on poles and made them into human torches to light the Amphitheatre for night games. That’s a pretty wicked ruler, yet we never read one time where Paul had anything negative to say about Nero.
When you study church history you very seldom find a situation like we are in right now. You cannot judge 2,000 years of Christianity by America. We have it soft with our Constitutional form of government which guarantees the right to worship God however way our conscience dictates. Now, I know this is slowly changing to anyone but Bible-believers, but for now we are still enjoying liberty to worship and to build churches.
If a Communist were to be elected president, is God going to fall off the throne? Is the Bible going to quit being true and perfect? Will we lose our Final Authority? Right now, we are struggling in the political correctness run amok, and it is considered a hate crime to place any person under mental anguish. Do you know what that is in biblical terms? Conviction. You make someone feel bad because of his sinful condition before God, and you are going to jail. We have freedoms today, but the tide is shifting.
“Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.”
“The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,” as Solomon wrote in 20:27. When God judges the wicked, and that man would not yield to God, and the reins of his heart will not be controlled by God—God puts out the light in that man. Pharaoh’s light went out long before he ever died in the Red Sea. God saw that Pharaoh was not going to yield. God knew him and He knew his heart and knew that he was a lost cause. When a man totally rejects the truth of God, the truth of God, and the revelation of God—God cuts him off—even though he may not die physically for years, but the candle is put out. In every situation from that day on, the sinner’s heart only grows harder and harder and harder.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2019 9:06:46 GMT -6
“As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters” (Proverbs 25:13).
“As,” another “as.” He will take a known truth, to present a truth that might not be so clear, in order to clarify it. He is using a simile.
Notice that the man is a servant. He is to carry the gospel and we supposed to be out in the harvest fields. He said that “the harvest truly is plenteous,” and “as the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger.” We are to carry a message. We are ambassadors for Jesus Christ. We have the message of peace. We have the ministry of reconciliation as Paul tells us in second Corinthians chapter 5:18-19.
A cold drink of water in the heat of August; now look at that thing, “as the cold of snow in the time of harvest.” Where in the world would you get snow in the time of harvest? The only place you can get it is out of the refrigerator. You couldn’t get ice that way in the days that this was written—you’d have to go up on top of the mountain to the snow caps—by the time you got back down to the field it would have melted. Today it is possible with electricity. If it would have been possible, that would have been a tremendous blessing—right in the midst of the harvest to get a cold drink of water. You realize that up to about the last fifty years, that would have been impossible. You just drank lukewarm water, or you found you a spring that was deep and coming up out of ground, or a well where you could get cold well water. That wasn’t always possible in the harvest time.
It's all about the gospel! Verse 13 is about a faithful messenger, such as a witness, a preacher, a Christian brother who comforts. It is like First Thessalonians 4:18 where we are told to “comfort one another with these words.”
Now there are two kinds of witnesses. You will find them in Second Samuel 18:19-32, Cushi and Ahimaaz: the two runners that run back to tell David about the battle, where they're fighting against Absalom and his armies that have taken over Jerusalem. And Joab and his men, and and men of David have gone out to fight. Of course, David is back at wherever he was, I don't think he was in Jerusalem at that time, and he was waiting on word from the battle as to what happened, and he was especially concerned about the boy Absalom, who had revolted against him.
Well, Ahimaaz ran to tell David, but he did not know the full message, and he did not have the real information that the King wanted. He went ahead and outran Cushi and got there before him. When the King asked him how the battle went, he said that it was going good, and he had no good news about the boy he had no good news.
There's a lot of Jehovah Witnesses and Mormons going up and down the road just like that. You see, they have no good news. They really can't tell the person what they really want and needs to know, but the faithful messenger may not get there as quick as the heretic, but you know you are better late than never. Some people are in a haste to get their heresy spread around which doesn't help anybody.
“As cold waters of snow,” like ice water, “in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger,” so is the refrain in verse 25: “As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country” (Proverbs 25:25). Well, the far country is heaven (Luke 19:12). The good news is, of course, the gospel (Romans 10:15). And when a guy is lost and on his way to hell, you know it’s hot in hell? Do you know what the first thing the guy in hell says? “Get me some water!” Well, you need to get the water before you go to hell! The everlasting water, the living water (John 4).
The Gospel satisfies forever.
Matthew 5:6 says that those that “hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled.” There again, I say that what the Christian is to do is to make Christianity so appealing to a sinner that they become thirsty for the kind of things that the Christian has.
The best gift you can give to another this Christmas day is the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2019 6:53:40 GMT -6
“The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross . . . Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him” (Proverbs 26:22-23, 27).
“The words of a talebearer are as wounds,” they’ll wound you. Wounds of the soul, and spirit, and they go deep down into the belly.
“The words of a talebearer are as wounds,” it would be better if they just walked up to you and hit you because the pain of words can last a lot longer. I wish sometimes they just walk up and hit me and then that’ll be the end of it, but that isn’t the end of it when it gets to gossiping. It just goes on and on and on and then two years later somebody walks up and says, “Hey, I heard this about you.”
“The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.” That’s down to the inside of a man, to his spirit and his soul.
Dross is the scum of the silver. That’s what has been scraped off the top, it is the impurities of the silver. And burning lips and a wicked heart are like that. They’re ugly. They are ugly in their reason, for they come out of the wicked heart. That’s the reason that they do it. They are wicked. They are saying things for self-gain or revenge. They are ugly in their rhetoric, burning lips. As words that burn, words that produce wounds as in verse 22, as coals, as throwing wood on the fire in verse 20. And they are ugly in their result, dross. It just brings about scum. It brings about ugliness. It doesn't produce anything good.
“Whose diggeth a pit,” that’s the action, “shall fall therein,” that’s the reaction.
“. . . and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him,” that is cause and effect. That is sowing and reaping.
You see, just like verse 26, it'll be shown before the whole congregation. “There's a God in heaven that revealeth secrets.” You try to hide something—that’s the end of Ecclesiastes. You just can't hide nothing from God, and a man is a fool think he can. He is a fool that thinks he can hide hatred, and bitterness, and revenge.
Solomon says, “God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:14). He will reveal it. He will make it known. And a man digs a pit with deceit and deception to capture somebody else God will reveal him and send him into his own pit. Haman hung on his own gallows, a perfect example.
“. . . he that ruleth a stone, it will return upon him.” I don’t know if anybody ever had that happen to them in the Bible like that, but that sure is a fitting thing. It kind of sounds like a guy trying to move a landmark or barrier and it returned on him.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2019 9:24:07 GMT -6
“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens” (Proverbs 27:23-27).
Verses 23 to 27 go together. “Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds,” in the physical sense, that's just good farming; and being a good herdsman, being a good shepherd.
“Be diligent to know the state of thy flocks,” don’t let them just roam around the hills and everything. You need to always know what's going on. Wolves are out there and looking to do great harm. In other words, be a good shepherd who knows what the state of his flocks are. Make sure they have food, fodder, and everything they need, and protection.
“. . . and look well to thy herds,” why? Verse 24, “for riches are not for ever.” If wolves get in there and get them, you’ll be without the flocks and herds. “Riches are not for ever, and doth the crown endure to every generation?” In other words, here today gone tomorrow, chicken today, feathers tomorrow. The sheep run off, and you won't have the reward, you won't have the necessity of steady employment.
“The hay appeareth and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.” Get the stuff together while it's there, so that there is fodder, for the hay and everything needful for the animals while you can. You see that farmer out there cutting that hay and bailing it and binding it up; he’s getting prepared for the time when there will be no hay on the mountainside or the hillside, or down in the valley, so he can feed his flocks in the winter, So that his animals will be in a good state in the hard times.
“The lambs are for thy clothing,” you reap what you sow here; “and the goats are the price of a field,” you sell those he-goats down at the stock yards you make enough money to help you buy more land to raise more animals to make more money to buy more land. So, it's a growing thing. You want to take care of those lambs and goats.
“And thou shalt have goat's milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance of thy maidens.” Personal necessities not just profit and growth.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2019 8:25:55 GMT -6
“Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father . . . Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession” (Proverbs 28:7, 10).
The Book of Proverbs has already covered passages on running around the wrong people.
“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed” (Proverbs 13:20).
“Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh” (Proverbs 23:20).
“Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance” (Proverbs 29:3).
If you ever teach your kids one thing, teach them to pick their friends carefully. It is funny how kids always seem to gravitate to bad kids. I guess that's because of the sin nature, and they want to rebel, and they want to have their freedom, and all that. Just continue to pound it into them to have good friends, quality friends. “A companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
I guess maybe the one thing you can do is to make a kid write that about 1000 times: “A companion of fools shall be destroyed!” I guarantee they’ll not forget that until the day he drops. That way, every time he gets around a bunch of fools, God will whisper that into his ears; “A companion of fools shall be destroyed,” “A companion of fools shall be destroyed,” “A companion of fools shall be destroyed!” It’ll be pretty hard for a kid to have any fun around a bunch of fools with that running through his head.
That's one way you teach character. You use mottos you just keep them up. The world calls this “brainwashing,” but I believe it is washing brains with biblical truths. You just burn that business into their heart and into their minds so that God can use that when they need it.
“Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray,” In the Old Testament, of course; a man could go astray (in Ezekiel 18) and lose his righteousness, and the man that caused that would fall into his own pit. This is just sowing and reaping. One thing you need to see here is when one man causes another man, a good man, to go astray he; the one that caused it, will fall into his own pit. Sometimes, God will use men and nations to judge a sinning nation, yet God will still bring judgment on the nation that he used.
In the case of Israel, God would use Syria, or Assyria, or Babylon to judge the nation. He would use them and then turn around and destroy them. God will do that sometimes. Sometimes He will use men to test us, and if that testing gets us to fail, God will still judge that fellow for are doing wrong, even though we went along with it.
God isn’t going to force a man against his will to do anything they don’t want to do. If God wants to test, He’ll find somebody around to do it. He didn’t have to look very far to get somebody to kill his Son. There were plenty of people that were willing to do it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2019 9:25:02 GMT -6
“Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath” (Proverbs 29:8).
“Scornful men,” there’s that scornful guy, we haven’t seen him for a while. In fact, he hasn't showed up in this section till now. The scorner is that guy that looks down his nose at what's right. He looks down his nose at God, like Pharaoh. Who is God! What Bible? What do you mean? Church! That is the scorner. He ridicules anything that is good, and right, and makes fun of it.
“Scornful men bring a city into a snare,” scornful men have brought our country into trillions of dollars of debt by overspending, through giving away the store in order to buy votes. For decades, that is all the Democrats have known how to do is spend money and raise taxes. That's not to say that the Republicans have any corner on righteousness, but that’s just been the way of the Democrats since Roosevelt, they’ve just had that platform of raising taxes and spending money. New York has one of the biggest welfare programs in America, but it got to the point where it became a snare and a trap, and they got into trouble.
Scornful men, men that won't take advice, men that won't accept reason will bring a city into a snare.
“. . . but wise men turn away wrath,” why does wrath come? Sin. Wise men turn away wrath by doing right. That’s prudence! That is looking and seeing things ahead and realizing that one day you going to reap. The scorner says, “Oh well! we can handle it. We're not going to reap. We can figure this thing out.” That’s a scorner, he looks down his nose at reaping and sowing.
I don't know a whole lot about economics, but one thing I do know about it. I've watched prices on things for a long time and I've noticed that the law of supply and demand pretty well governs what things are in the sense of price. Now, you have had a system in America for the last 5-6 decades that's tried every way under God's heaven to deny that. I've seen them put it in the newspapers, and I've seen them talk about on the radio. This idiot they've been following from England; Keynes from Cambridge, England. That rascal couldn't find the door of the restroom.
That guy doesn't know anything, and his whole principle is that that's not what controls economy in business, that is, supply and demand. I guarantee it does. It may it may not do it in every case, but I say that's the general rule of business. When the supply goes down and demand goes up, price goes up and when supply goes up and demand goes, you need to lower your prices. So, he says that best way to get out of debt is to go into debt, massive debt. The Democrats just love that bird. Men like that scorn, and they scorn plain old practical common sense.
Haven't you just marveled at how stupid some of our bureaucrats are? I mean they look down their nose at plain common simple sense. Some old guy living up in the mountains, making his own living for 60-70 years and making a buck to get by and feed his kids, and he knows how to make a profit and he knows you can’t spend more than you make. He knows what determines price and that sort of thing.
The church has that problem. Paul said it in First Corinthians 6. The church sometimes gets so wise in its conceit that it can't figure out simple problems and Paul talked about it. He says first, “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?” (verse 2). He said, “Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life?” (verse 3). He said, “If you have things to judge of things pertaining to this life, set them the judge who are the least esteemed in the church.” Just get the poorest guy, the dumbest guy, and he'll probably figure it out.
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