Posted on 02/04/2021 11:47:47 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins" (Proverbs 5:21-22).
You know what most people think of God. They think that God is a big ogre with a big axe and he's just waiting to whack your head off, just as soon as you mess up; or God is waiting in the heavens to punish them, and there's a degree of truth to this, we understand the Lord will come back one day in vengeance and with fire and judgment and that's very true. That is a theological fact. But, it is also true that God is not the only thing you have to worry about if you're going to do wrong; because one of the things that you have to worry about is that you will get trapped and taken in your own sins, in your own iniquities, and your own transgressions will catch up to you and you wind up trapped and bound in them. This is what it says verse 22, “His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself,” and folks, this is testified to over and over and over again.
We could look at plenty of Bible verses in this study, but we’ll only consider a few. Perhaps it will whet your appetite to go searching for a few more in your own Bible study.
“He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate" (Psalms 7:15-16). It’s just not that an unusual thing in the Bible at all, at all, at all.
Then, talking about folks that lay a snare for somebody else, “And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives" (Proverbs 1:18). They end up falling in their own pit. In verse 31 we read, “Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.” So, again, the danger is that you wind up not just being judged by God, but that you wind up being caught up and trapped in your own sins, and those sins wind up destroying you.
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