Posted on 09/29/2020 6:04:04 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it … If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest” (Proverbs 29:7, 9).
“The righteous considered the cause of the poor,” he considers it. He considers that some poor people have really had a tough run. It's not a matter of them not working, or not wanting to work, as a matter that they would if they could, but it's just a bad scene, a bad situation, bad circumstances like devastation of a country, or just a bad time.
“The righteous considered the cause of the poor,” why? The guy is poor. Some folks in America are poor because they deserve it, and they just won't work.
“. . . but the wicked regardeth not to know it.” He doesn’t do anything about it, he doesn’t even want to know anything about it. I guess that's why when they send you these tear-jerking letters; and they are. They always got some little kid starving to death on the front of it. Now, if the person is righteous, you consider the cause of that little child. Even her mommy and daddy has done wrong, it's a shame that the kid has to go through that. But there again, God knows what he's doing. God doesn't make any mistakes, but that kind of thing just grabs your heart. It really does tug at your heart. It really does almost make you want to send $25. Except that about $24.00 of that money is going into somebody’s pocket. They call it, ahem, overhead expenses.
“If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.”
What he is saying is, don't argue with a fool. You're a bigger fool if you argue with one. Now, the doctrinal application is in Titus chapter 3.
“But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself” (Titus 3:9-11).
His problem isn’t his heresies, his problems are his personal sins, you’ll have a hard time getting to that. You won’t be able to straighten him out on his heresy until they get him straightened out on his personal problems. His personal sin with God, so you just wasting your time to contend with a foolish man.
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