Posted on 06/08/2021 12:27:00 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures” (Proverbs 8:20-21).
When you look at this “in the midst of the paths of judgment,” our Christian brethren have tried to teach us that we are wrong to judge, that we are wrong to fear the Lord; and you understand that in doing so, they are disarming you for the battle that you can't win in if you are disarmed.
And so, here is wisdom and understanding leading in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment; and we've been told that we can't judge. They are telling us that if we say that adultery is wrong, that we're judging somebody, and we just can't have that. They are telling us that if we say that sodomy is wrong, we're judging somebody, and we just can't have that. And before you know it, you’re just not biblically wise; you're a fool because you can no longer discern and discriminate between what is right and wrong, because you allowed the world to take the truth from you.
Verse 21, “That I may cause those that love me [this applies to Christ but wisdom too] to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.”
Now, folks in the Old Testament had a reasonable opportunity if they were a wise and righteous man, for the Lord to bless them with possessions and material wealth and these kinds of riches. This was a principle more in the Old Testament then in the New. Nowadays if you are righteous, it doesn't guarantee you a thing. It guarantees that all that we live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, and I doubt too many of us can complain an awful lot about how we've been treated. Most of us live in better homes than we deserve and have more food to eat than we deserve and more clothes in the closet than we can wear. In fact, most of us have outgrown some of them because of the bounty that we have in the fridge.
We Americans cannot legitimately complain about substance, especially when we compare them with people of other countries. The poorest American is rich compared to the man living in some barrio in a third-world country.
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