PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

“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.

Let’s read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let’s keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread!

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Good post. And yet, sadly, this is also written:

Ecclesiastes 9:14-15 - There was a small city with few men in it and a great king came to it, surrounded it and constructed large siegeworks against it. But there was found in it a poor wise man and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Good post. And yet, sadly, this is also written:

Ecclesiastes 9:14-15 - There was a small city with few men in it and a great king came to it, surrounded it and constructed large siegeworks against it. But there was found in it a poor wise man and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Jesus Christ and His Father The God of Abraham will Judge ALL!
We are to follow with the gift of Free Will whether or not we will choose the path of Salvation God has shown us.