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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2020 16:19:33 GMT -6
Fables vs. “The Faith” - Part 1
Dr. Greg Estep presents facts that overthrow the fables perpetrated on the minds of men that the modern versions are "just as good, if not better, than the archaic, hopelessly outdated King James Bible." He shows that we have a Bible that can be trusted by showing the silly arguments that they put forth to prove their points. Comparing Bibles side-by-side, he shows that any notion that they claim of using less-archaic, easier-to-understand english words is an utter lie.
This 2-part study will increase your faith in the Book that God claims to have elevated even above his name: "for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name" (Psalm 126). If God's Word is no good, than God's reputation is no better. A faulty Bible only proves God to be a liar for saying that He would preserve His word unto all generations. And we know from Titus that God cannot lie.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2020 5:38:43 GMT -6
“Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man” (Proverbs 8:1-4).
“Doth not wisdom cry?” Well, yes, she does; and if you can make any application at all from the Bible you would draw that God is very much for street preaching, that God is very much for public witnessing and public testimony. It's one of the oddities of our day that it seems like it just escapes the notice of even people that reportedly read the Bible. One of the things about preaching, that you have to be careful of, even though you're a Christian, that you are one of the ones that wind up being offended by it.
Many of us have had the experience of standing on a street corner and hearing somebody else start preaching. We're there with him to help him, and then when they start out you kind of flinch because you know what is happening out there as they preach. It's a biblical fact that most preaching is offensive. There's a certain thing about it, and one of the things that you can’t avoid however, is the fact that it is a biblical mandate. It is one of the commonest things that I don't understand how people can't see; and this is one of them. We are commanded to preach the gospel to every creature, right? It isn’t difficult to prove to you about the biblical nature of soul-winning and witnessing, and the necessity of it. But the one thing that does need to be said it that it is not just the job of a paid ministerial staff. It is everyone’s responsibility.
I will say that I would hate to be a Bible-believing Christian, and wind up going to a good Bible-preaching church and then wind up dying (or being raptured) and going to heaven and having never set foot on the street with the purpose of witnessing to others. I would hate for that to be the case with me. If you can't go all the time, at least it should be a relatively regular thing for you.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 7:05:12 GMT -6
With as much of the Book of Proverbs a prophetic examination of the Person and Work of our Lord Jesus Christ, should it be found strange that one of the most well-known words of invitation often uttered by God seeking lost sinners should be used? I refer, of course, to the word, “Come!”
TODAY’S VERSE:
“Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled” (Proverbs 9:5).
“And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation” (Genesis 7:1). This first invitation was only heeded by eight people, while the rest of humanity chose to reject it and perish.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18). God’s great invitation to man; though he be drenched in blood and entrenched in a life of sin to be washed, purified, and made whiter than the freshly fallen snow.
Our verse before us today speaks of eating bread and wine. We have another verse that speaks to the very same invitation.
“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price” (Isaiah 55:1).
This is the great invitation to come and dine freely at the Master’s table where grace is bestowed liberally and without cost—the exact price of salvation. How is it possible for God to offer so rich a gift and expect no payment from man? Because the price has been paid by Himself and the payment was “God’s blood”: “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood” (Acts 20:28).
Due to our limited space, we’ll look at one more example of the word “come,” one which is surely the best known of all and is still an open invitation to you, if you are not sure that you have a home in heaven and sins forgiven—the invitation is open to you and to “whosoever will come.”
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30).
By the way, another use of the word “come,” is found in the phrase “it came to pass.” Bless God, this reminds us that in the midst of turmoil and trials, these things shall pass. One day, happily, we’ll be able to look back on these things and know how they were used of God to make us stronger, if indeed we remember them at all in our new heavenly home.
“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2020 7:51:24 GMT -6
“The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish” (Proverbs 10:27-28 KJV).
“The fear of the LORD prolongeth days,” this is just an Old Testament promise to keep you out of trouble. You fear God, you’ll stay out of trouble, do right and it will prolong your days.
“. . . but the years of the wicked shall be shortened,” is a general truth. Every once in a while you’ll see something in the paper or on the news about some guy that is 110-years-old and attributes his longevity to the fact that he smokes every day and drinks a bottle of whiskey. They tell you about this guy but they ignore the 10,000 that die at 50 of a heart attack or lung cancer from smoking or cirrhosis of the liver from drinking. One guy does it like that and the Devil sets him up as an example. Well, it is not the example, it is the exception. Unfortunately, the simpleton will see that and think, “Well, if he can do it, so can I!” He’ll be dead in his prime.
“The hope of the righteous shall be gladness,” now, for you and I our hope is found in Colossians: “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27 KJV).
“The hope of the righteous shall be gladness,” we may not be “glad” in this world, but we will be more than glad in the next life. This world is referred to in Scripture as a “vale of Baca” (or “tears,” “Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee” (Psalms 84:6-12 KJV).
“The hope of the righteous shall be gladness,” what we are hoping for, what we are expecting. Now notice how the King James Bible defines the word “hope” in the passage: “The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish,” hope is not something that you think might come to pass—maybe it will come or maybe it won’t—hope is what you “expect” to come. The church has a “blessed hope,” which is a solid expectation of some future event. The Christ has a “hope of eternal life” which is a solid expectation, not some wishy-washy maybe, maybe not thing.
“. . . but the expectation of the wicked shall perish,” do you know what he is expecting? He is thinking that his crooked ways will profit him down the road—but they will all perish. He is not going to beat the system, judgment will come. What will come is the thing that he fears, and not what he bargained for. He might be hoping for purgatory, but what he is going to get is hell. He is hoping for some temporary punishment, but it is going to be eternal.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2020 7:00:07 GMT -6
“When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom” (Proverbs 11:2).
It says, “Only by pride cometh contention,” and the idea is not that you can't be right because if you line up with the Lord you are right; but somewhere along the way in lining up with the Lord it's going to cost you something in humility; because in order to be right with God there's going to be some humiliating factors to it. But in Proverbs chapter 13:10, “Only by pride cometh contention,” so where you see contention doesn't mean that each one of the parties is 100% proud, but there is pride involved. And if there was no pride, there would be no contention.
I’ve learned that there's some things just not worth fighting over. and we need to know what ground to bleed over, and the fact of the matter is that there's a lot of times things come down, and somebody says something I don't appreciate or whatever, and it's not a cowardly thing to back away and not allow contention. It’s not worth arguing over everything that you could argue over. What’s the saying? “I don't have to attend every fight I'm invited to or every argument I'm invited to. That’s true! And “only by pride cometh contention.”
“When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom,” what that verse tells you is that if you're truly wise, you're not truly proud. Do you know anybody in the Bible that was truly lowly? “I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls” (Matthew 11:29). The Lord Jesus Christ. If there was anybody didn't need to be lowly, it was Jesus Christ. “In him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” He knows everything, He is all powerful, He's omniscient, He is omnipresent. You know what? He could be “proud” if He wanted, but he was lowly. And we need to be also.
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Post by Murph on Nov 15, 2020 12:11:54 GMT -6
One of the most endearing references to a wife and mother in the home is that she is “the Holy Spirit of the family.” Whether for good or for bad, every woman determines the spirit and the atmosphere of any place where she is present.
TODAY’S VERSE:
“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones” (Proverbs 12:4).
“And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:21-24). Notice, woman was not taken from man's head to lord over him, nor from his heel to be crushed by him, but this magnificent creation of Omnipotence was taken from man's rib, near his heart, so she could be loved and protected by him. She can make her home like a garden of Eden, or she can curse the home. She can bless her husband as Sarah did Abraham, calling him “Lord,” or she can by her actions and attitudes resemble the wife of Job whose best advice for him was to “curse God and die.”
“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband,” it is her place to make her husband a king and she takes her place as his queen.
“. . . but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones,” in the verses from Genesis quoted earlier, God intended that the man and the woman be one flesh. She completes her husband, when she is walking side-by-side with her man. When that changes and she becomes critical of him, it as if a cancer has struck the home. Husband and wife confess your sins before God and plead the blood of Christ. Restore your relationship to Him and your fellowship with one another will be healed. Blinders are placed on a yoked team so that they can look forward and plow straight. Put your eyes upon Jesus, and not one another, so that you can focus on the goal of His purpose for your lives, and you’ll not bite and devour one another. God put you together, Satan would tear you apart. "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder" (Matthew 19:6).
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Post by Murph on Nov 15, 2020 12:13:49 GMT -6
11-13-2020
“Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase” (Proverbs 13:11).
“Vanity” is a carnal motive, a carnal reasons—fleshly desire. A useless thing, like a “vanity” table where you sit for hours and keep making yourself up while you are falling apart. That is vanity. Vanity is combing the har that isn’t there, just folding it over the top of our heads.
We are here talking about wealth gotten by worldly means and not godly means shall be diminished. This shows us that a Christian that has become rich by the right means has no reason to be condemned. There is no reason that we should look upon a rich Christian as someone that is out of the will of God—yet some people do. They think, “What worldly thing did you do? In what way did you compromise your beliefs, to get all that wealth?” Look, God has given some people riches—and it is just zealously to think we can judge them without knowing the circumstances, and frankly, it’s really none of our business. The general truth is that God doesn’t give most people riches—and thank God that He doesn’t—riches generally ruin a person. Christ said, “How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!” (Mark 10:23). It’s hard for a rich man to get over his riches.
“but he that gathereth by labour shall increase,” he’ll appreciate it—take care of it. It is still true, “easy come, easy go,” but a living earned through sweat and labor is appreciated and not squandered. These folks learn to live under their means. When money comes hard, folks are wise about their investments, folks think twice about where they put their money. They don’t just throw their money away.
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Post by Murph on Nov 15, 2020 12:15:46 GMT -6
11-14-2020
“A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies” (Proverbs 14:25). We have a faithful witness in 14:5 and a true witness here in verse 25. “A true witness delivereth souls,” “he that winneth souls is wise.” A true witness will tell people what they need to hear. He’ll tell them that they are going to hell if they don’t receive Jesus Christ. An untrue witness will tell them that it really doesn’t matter what they believe as all roads are leading to the same end. Those that are saved thank God that they met a true witness who told them the truth.
A Jehovah’s Witness won’t do that. He’ll try to get you into his Kingdom Hall and get you to do what he does to maybe hopefully go where he is maybe hopefully gong to go. Or at least you’ll be in God’s memory somewhere since only 144,000 of them are going to heaven and there are millions of them. Where is the “delivery” in that? “A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies,” you don’t need to believe on Jesus. All you need to do is get baptized. All you need to do is get the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues. All you need to do is keep the Ten Commandments (good luck with that!) All you need to do is this, or that. A true witness will tell you that you need to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. “A true witness delivereth souls.” What is the real difference between true Christianity and everything else? Are you delivered? You ask most every person in some churches, “Are you delivered?” “Well, I sure hope so.” You ask someone is some other church, “Are you delivered?” He’ll say, “I don’t know. We don’t know until we die.” This is not the answer you are going to get from a Bible-believer. They know so: “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God” (I John 5:13).
“A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies,” he is deceitful, he is full of deceit. What does Paul say about this? “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved” (II Thessalonians 2:10). The ability to deceive and to be deceived comes from the unrighteousness that is in a person’s heart. With all deceivableness—that is the ability to deceive not only themselves but others—of unrighteousness—which comes from a sinful life and a sinful heart—not only are they deceived by unrighteousness but God deceived them: “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” (II Thessalonians 2:11). That is a double blindness. That man is blinded not only by his own sin, but he is also blinded by God.
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Post by Murph on Nov 15, 2020 12:17:37 GMT -6
11-15-2020
“Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly” (Proverbs 15:21).
“Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom,” how clear can it be. No better verse captures the essence of this verse that is found in Romans 1.
“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (Romans 1:32).
A country or a people get so wicked that not only do they enjoy their wickedness but take pleasure in others that do the same have reached the depth of debauchery. In America today, we are dealing with a country that is filled with homosexuals and perverts, that know what they are doing is wrong, but they still have a sick pleasure in in—and they are recruiting children everywhere they can get their hands on them. That is the only way they can perpetuate their existence—certainly not by procreation—but by recruitment. “. . . but a man of understanding walketh uprightly,” we have already seen that “to depart from evil is understanding” (Job 28:28). A man that does right is a man that tries to live right, walketh uprightly. A man of understanding understands God, he understands sin, and he understands judgment so he tries to do right and to walk right.
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Post by Murph on Nov 16, 2020 8:47:59 GMT -6
“A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good” (Proverbs 16:29).
Notice, it would appear, that the ungodly and the forward man turns out to be the violent man. A man gets hatred down in the heart, and pretty soon it is going to show up in the flesh and in actions. It is just a reflection of the attitude. We hear about people that go through their life and never lose their temper, but maybe once or twice in their life, and when they finally do get angry they burn down the house and kill everyone in it. Some people can control it up to a point, but some guys are so perverse and ungodly, what is hidden deep down in heart will come out in a rage.
“A violent man enticeth his neighbour,” that is the same word in James 1:14 in dealing with temptation. “. . . and leadeth him into the way that is not good,” the Devil did that to Eve. In Genesis 3, notice that when the Devil presented this enticement to Eve, and tempted her, he first planted the seed of doubt into her mind, she defended God: “And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die” (Genesis 3:2-3).
At the beginning of the thing, she is on God’s side. The Devil continues to build doubt in her mind, “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:4-5).
Here is the real enticement: “Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” In essence the Devil was telling her, “What you need is something that will make you a better person that will help you deal with the problems and issues of life. I don’t mean to speak against God or anything, but it looks like to me like God is trying to holding you back a little bit, and He doesn’t want you to get all that you really deserve to get.” Now, as she gets to really thinking about this, suddenly she sees the tree differently than she ever saw it before. Look at verse six: “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat” (Genesis 3:6).
The reason she had never taken and eaten from that tree before then was that she never saw the tree in that way, but now Satan had enticed her, and she did. As she began to debate the issue, and she began to see the good in the issue, her mind was changed “into the way that is not good.”
In our own lives, how often do we do something we would never dream of doing after we have had time to think about it awhile and look for positive reasons why it might be a good thing to do. We are being enticed “into a way that is not good.”
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2020 19:24:54 GMT -6
Thanks for your help Murph! Internet finally fixed . . .
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Post by Murph on Nov 16, 2020 20:03:44 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2020 9:43:54 GMT -6
“A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue . . . Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers” (Proverbs 17:4).
“A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips,” a wicked doer is a man that is wrong in his heart, always looking for shortcuts, and always looking for a fast buck. A fellow once said, “The only people you can con in life are crooked people.” We constantly get mail telling us how we won a trip to such-and-such place where our beautiful new home is awaiting us, all we need to do is send this much money. And then there are the emails from some guy in Nigeria that wants us to help him get 10 million dollars out of the his country which he will share with us, but we need to send Him so much money to show that we are sincere. Well, if we get taken, we were willing to defraud his country. They would not send those things out there if there were not a few suckers that will fall for their scam.
“A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips,” people that gamble, they listen to the lies of the signs. Win $1,000,000, all you have to do is spend $20 for this scratch off ticket and you’ll be lucky beyond your wildest dreams! The most anybody ever “wins” from those things is the price they paid for the ticket and they usually have to buy ten tickets before they get that much. Gambling does not profit; it is just another tax to the state that people are gladly paying for nothing.
“. . . and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue,” the problem is that it takes one to know one, and if you run around with them you will give ear to them, and you’ll be one of them.
“Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.”
“Children's children are the crown of old men,” these are grandchildren and there is more in this passage then we could ever cover. Suffice it to say that if you really want to know how successful you were as a parent, wait until your children have children. Usually, we are able to bend that twig of a young life after our own desires, but if there is no real sound and solid character there, it will show up in the next generation. Having children is so much more than having someone that you can command to go get you a beer out of the refrigerator.
“Children's children are the crown of old men,” if the old men have done it right, done it God’s way, not only will his kids come out all right, but his grandchildren will come out all right. “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).
“. . . and the glory of children are their fathers,” a father truly glories when his children are doing well. It is only natural that a son would want to follow in the path of their father, if the father is worth following. When they are, the son does. When they are not, the child does not . . . it is that simple. This doesn’t guarantee that there won’t be a bad egg when a child is a young fool and allows himself to be influenced by the crowd—but generally when the father is fair and loving, the child gravitates toward him. That is just one of the rewards of speech.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2020 8:18:05 GMT -6
There are times when we are going through this dry, thirsty land and you opened up this Book and God gave you something to refresh the soul, like a cool, cold glass of sparkling pure mountain water.
TODAY’S VERSE:
“The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook” (Proverbs 18:4).
“The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters,” what a man says is very, very important and very deep because Matthews says that by a man’s words shall he be condemned, and by a man’s words he shall be justified. By a man’s own words, he can be saved forever. And by his own words he can reject salvation and be lost, forever. It is in the power of a man’s tongue to determine where he will spend his eternity.
Now, this is no little puddle or bubbling spring, these are deep waters. A man can actually seal his own fate by his own words. “The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked” (Proverbs 10:11).
“. . . and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook,” the Psalmist says of the blessed [saved] man, “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper” (Psalms 1:3). Christ said that “he that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)” (John 7:38-39).
And that is where man gets wisdom. He gets wisdom from the Holy Spirit using this Bible to teach him and guide him through life. The Bible is indeed a flowing brook of living water. This brook from the Book will never run dry!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2020 8:38:57 GMT -6
“Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again” (Proverbs 19:18-19).
“Chasten thy son while there is hope,” if you wait until they become a teenager, you might as well forget it. Anyone that has raised kids knows that there is a certain point when the child leaves childhood and develops into a pre-adult which is accompanies with a hardened heart and a developed personality. The twig that was bent has now grown pretty much into a crooked tree. The time to straighten out the trunk was when it was still flexible.
“Chasten thy son while there is hope,” notice that this really isn’t a suggestion. It is a command straight from God to do it or else. This does not mean that a child left to itself cannot later come to Christ and become a new creature, but that saved man will not be what he could have been if he had learned to control his passions and develop his character while still in his formative years.
“. . . and let not thy soul spare for his crying,” anyone that has raised children knows what this means. A kid can cloud up and rain in seconds flat when he sees that you are about to utilize the board of education upon his seat of wisdom. Kids are expert at knowing how to tug at the sympathies of mom and dad. Even though it is hard, you have to pretend that your heart is not breaking as you inflict a certain degree of pain upon their behinds to correct them. The child will actually appreciate the fact that his parents are in control and have set good boundaries for them, even though they have to go through the ritual of seeking pity. They don’t probably know it, but they will end up being disappointed in the long run if you let the tail wag the family dog.
You don’t want to allow yourself to appear to be so hard that you seem to be mean and cruel, but again if the punishment is fair and they’ve been warned, don’t miss that God-given opportunity to direct your child in the right way that he should go. Your grandkids will even be grateful in the long run. By sparing them, you are really hurting them more.
When a child begins to start manipulating you, at the age of 6 months to a year, then you can start to manipulate it. Don’t wait until their character is formed before you begin to help God form it for good. If you wait until they reach the terrible twos, it’s too late. You already have a monster on your hands. That’s the difference between the kid that has a tantrum in the aisle of a store and starts ripping things down off the shelf and the kid that stands there and watches him.
“A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.”
Great wrath is just uncontrollable. Some wrath is expected in the right time and under the right circumstances, but this is a man that flies off the handle in a destructive way at the least provocation. This guy can’t control it. You deliver him once, and he is right back at it exploding again and in trouble again. This may well be the man that was once a child that was not chastened while there was still hope, as in verse 18. It is better off just to let this man suffer the consequences of blowing his temper and see if society can’t correct his foolishness.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2020 9:14:43 GMT -6
“Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness” (Proverbs 20:20).
This lamp is explained later in this same chapter of Proverbs: “The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly” (Proverbs 20:27). It is always good to remember that the Bible is its own best interpreter. Scripture explains Scripture. Often the definition of a word will be found in the same verse, or somewhere in the immediate context. Not always, but usually. Sometimes the definition of a word is given in one Book even though the word is used in another Book.
What is this lamp? It is his life. The Old Testament often uses the words “spirit” and “life” interchangeably. They essentially both speak of the same thing. In the New Testament, the spirit never dies though the body will at some point. In the Old Testament, when God takes that spirit, the man dies.
To curse one’s parents was a direct violation of the commandments of God: “For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him” (Leviticus 20:9). And it was a commandment, that apparently, God took very seriously.
In Genesis 9:6, God instituted capital punishment (the death penalty) before the Law was ever established. It was continued, and restated, in the Law in Exodus 21:17: “And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death” (Exodus 21:17). Later in Acts 25:11 Paul states his approval for the death penalty: “For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar” (Acts 25:11). Again, in Romans 13 he states that the rulers bear not the sword in vain.
Capital punishment has never been done away with, and God expects a country to perform it in order to protect its citizenry, and when they don’t the land is polluted and will eventually cast out the people. We are given the handwriting on the wall for America. Eventually, our enemies will be given this land, and Americans will be driven off captive, if the Lord should tarry His return.
The Pharisees had come up with a custom, or a tradition, to get around God’s law toward their parents. There is always some religious system set up to bypass God’s perfect truth and will. “For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition” (Matthew 15:4-6).
They had come up with a system where they could bring gifts to the Temple and it would allow them to get by with cursing their parents. They learned how to reinterpret the Bible, much like the Bible scholars of today have done in order to get around a Bible as final authority, making themselves the authority over what it says.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2020 8:42:00 GMT -6
“Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts . . . The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death” (Proverbs 21:2 KJV).
Men are keen at justifying themselves, but the Lord is constantly weighing that heart. He weighs it in His mind and compares the circumstances with the decision you made. He knows why you did what you did, and accordingly, He gives you what you need or deserve. Even when man’s ways obviously do not please God, the man is so proud that his ways are right in his own eyes.
“All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits” (Proverbs 16:2).
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12, 16:25).
“Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?” (Proverbs 20:6).
“The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.”
We see here someone who is hasty—they want riches so bad that they are willing to lie to get them. They haven’t thought the situation out, see “The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness.” The diligent man knows it is better to wait and not be hasty, to do it right so that there will be a judgment of God or of man to take it away from him.
“The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death,” in other words, “all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death” (Revelation 21:8). A man is simply seeking death by cutting corners and lying to get what he wants.
Sadly, even saved people spend a large part of their time lying to get what they want. We are so often so prone just to justify our actions, to justify our desires and lusts, and it ends up in tragedy of their part, and even in the lives of others.
The reason it is called a vanity is because God is going to judge it: “But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition” (I Timothy 6:9). A vanity is an empty possession. They are willing to lie to get it, and the end result is death.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2020 8:41:28 GMT -6
If you have to cheat and become a thief, and a robber, and a mean man, and a miser man and a wicked man to get riches and you lose your reputation and your character to get it—you would be better off to keep your good name.
TODAY’S VERSE:
“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold” (Proverbs 22:1 KJV).
You know what you can do with a good name? You can get a good job. If you have a good, honest name, and a name that is reputable and has character behind it, I guarantee you, there was a time in this country that you could borrow any amount of money on that name. Now I realize that our society has degraded to the point where bankers can’t trust folks with any name, because they can’t trust people any more.
“A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth” (Ecclesiastes 7:1 KJV). That is looking at it from a purely pessimistic viewpoint. I’m sure after you have tried everything that Solomon had tried and found it to be what he found it to be, you’d probably figure it’s better to be dead than to be alive.
The only thing that keeps some folks alive is the hope that things will get better. The problem is that things won’t get better—they’ll only get worse—the older you get, you fall apart, the world falls apart, and folks around you fall apart. It just isn’t going to get any better, unless you are saved, and you are on your way to heaven. But Ecclesiastes is not written from any but an earthly view of everything under the sun, not above it.
“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,” and there are some good names . . .
“And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed” (1Ki 1:47 KJV).
God did that, if Solomon had done all that he should have done, his name would have been greater still.
“She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her” (Mar 14:8-9 KJV).
This is the woman that broke the alabaster box and poured the ointment of spikenard, anointing the Lord, He said she would never be forgotten—she had a good name.
Jesus is a good name, “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins” (Mat 1:21 KJV). We believe on His name, we are born again through His name, there is peace and power in His name. There is righteousness by His name, “. . . there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Act 4:12 KJV). Jesus had a great name, even though He didn’t have great riches.
In a material sense, Jesus had nothing while He was down here. He was born in a barn, had no pillow to lay his head, and he died with one coat. He was a poor man with a rich name!
“. . . and loving favour rather than silver and gold,” it’s better off to have people favour you and love you than to have all the money in the world. Money can’t buy love, it can pretty much only buy lust.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2020 8:31:59 GMT -6
Good children bring great joy to their parents.
TODAY’S VERSE:
“My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine” (Proverbs 23:15).
“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother” (Proverbs 10:1).
“The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice” (Proverbs 23:24-25).
“Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance” (Proverbs 29:3).
Solomon is here telling his son, “If your heart is wise, my heart will be glad.” How it ought to be the desire of every child to please his parents. In America, in order to have a proud father, a child needs to hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to win the state championship. In America, we have our priorities askew. Fathers do tend to live their lives through their children. If the dad desired to be an athlete, an athletic son would do him proud. Unless the dad desires to please God, a wise son can be a disappointment. If a man loves the Lord with all his being, it breaks his heart to see his son reject those godly, biblical principles.
The Bible believer senses throughout the verse the voice of God the Father speaking to him as a father speaks to a child.
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12).
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father” (Romans 8:14-15).
What pleases our Father in heaven? Well, as the father of two young girls once upon a time, it pleased me when after they were hurt while playing, they would come to me to find comfort and to allay their fears. That meant that they trusted me and knew that I had the “daddy power” to make it all better. We fall also. When we fail to live up to this standard of life that God has set before us—it pleases our heavenly Father that we come to Him for forgiveness and to have our fellowship restored. It shows that we trust Him and know that He has the ability to restore us and set us back up on our feet. If our hearts are trusting towards Him, His heart will be glad.
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