Posted on 03/28/2020 5:41:11 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food . . . Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich . . . The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out” (Proverbs 28:3, 6, 11).
“A sweeping rain,” a gully washer, a deluge devastates with no regard to others. The basis of a poor man oppressing another man is greed. That’s the problem in America. They have the blacks marching for the blacks, but I tell you what, the black folks will oppress their own people just as quick as anything to make personal profit. What it really gets down to is this. They're not really concerned about the improvement of black folk; they're just trying to get what they want right now and get it right now. I want when I want I. I want my rights!
“A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.” I'll tell you what. That statement reflects communism and Catholicism. They are supposedly religions and governments of the poor, and yet they stripped the poor. Within those systems, the poor strip the poor.
“Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.”
“Better is the poor,” this is one of those axioms of life. Back in 19:1 is a whole string of them. Here's another one, “Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways though he be rich.” The perfect example of this is the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19. In the end, Lazarus was better off.
“The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.”
Verse 11 is like verse 6, “The rich man is wise in his own conceit,” he thinks he's rich because of his brains. We already found out in Ecclesiastes, that God makes a man rich. God gives him riches, “but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.” What a great passage. Do you know what the poor man says? and you and I we've said this; I know I’ve said it. “After seeing what a rich man's gotta do to get that money, and what he's going to do to keep it, and what it causes a man to do sometimes,” I've looked at that thing and I said, “Thank God I'm poor!” I've searched that thing out I said I don't want any more than I’ve got, and it's more than I can handle now. I've seen what richest can do to a man, and I just as soon not be led into temptation.
See, “the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out,” he searches that rich man out and he don't want it. I would just as soon be poor and happy. I mean like a hog in mud. I’d rather be there then to be uptown with the in crowd. As a young man, I saw some of that in crowd business, and all the glitter and all the sham and the wow and the falsehood that went along with it. I don't want it; I just don't want that. I don’t want that kind of jet setting crowd. It’s just like the prodigal son. As long as you got money to buy jet fuel, you're in the jet set. You run out of fuel (cash), and you are off the jet.
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