Posted on 01/05/2021 3:20:54 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly" (Proverbs 5:11-14).
Have you ever really thought about what that means? “I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.” The Bible says that the plowing of the wicked is sin and the sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, so there are people that go to church regularly that lies to them all the time. It’s not a church where they get any truth, there's no light in it, and they are surrounded by Devils and demons and falsehood and false light, and so on. They are sitting there in the middle of a congregation of people who, in words, are worshipping God’s Son, but in the end that sacrifice is an abomination to the Lord. He doesn't hear the prayer of that wickedness. And so, they are “in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.”
They go to church and sin. They go to church and are an abomination to the Lord. They go to church and have fellowship with devils. Isn’t that something? And then after a lifetime of faithful service to that religious organization, and then they die and go to a Christless hell for an eternity of suffering. And for that eternity they will mourn: “How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!”
A more frightening scenario I can not possibly think of.
“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well" (Proverbs 5:15).
The preceding was a bit heavy, so I’ll end this one on a bit of a lighter note.
If you follow this passage on down a little bit you can see that this is an admonition to a husband with regard to his wife and so on, but there's another application: “Drink waters out of thine own cistern.” Did you notice how socialistic God is? You see? God is not for private ownership at all, is He? In order to drink water out of your own cistern, you're supposed to have your own cistern. You’re supposed to have your own stuff. “Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.” This is speaking of private ownership.
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