Posted on 02/29/2020 5:02:46 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes” (Proverbs 29:13).
Proverbs 22:2 is a similar passage: “The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.”
The rich and poor meet together. They meet together in death, judgment, sickness, health. We all have similar problems. And we meet together in the highways and byways. I mean, you don't know who you're rubbing shoulders with down at Kmart and Wal-Mart and those places. There are rich people that go to those places to get a bargain.
There's some things they wouldn't buy in those places, and there's some things I know that it's better to spend more money to get to get a lasting product then it is to get a cheap product that will fall apart after wearing it more than three times. I have given up on Kmart dress shirts. They just don't last. But then, what do you expect from a shirt for $12? It’s better to spend $30 and get a shirt that will last. It’s cheaper in the long run.
“The poor and the deceitful man meet together,” along life’s highways and byways, and here and there and everywhere. I’ll tell you another place where they meet together. They meet together under a tent at a healing meeting. You know what the problem is? Poor folk can't afford insurance and the doctors and nurses haven't done them any good, and probably that's the reason they're poor. They spent most of their money like the one woman in the Bible that had wasted all her substance on doctors, and got nowhere, and is none the better.
It's amazing how these healers always appeal to that class of people; poor folks. That's where they meet together: the rich faith healers and the poor sick folks.
“The LORD lighteneth both their eyes,” is a general statement. God is no respecter of persons. He gives everybody the same amount of light.
“The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John 1:7-9).
The Bible says that God lights every man that comes into this world. Every man has the same measure of light. He can know he's a sinner, he can know there's a God, he can know there's a hell. He gets the same amount of light. Now, what he does with that light will determine whether he gets the gospel.
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