Posted on 07/01/2021 11:02:54 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous" (Proverbs 2:20).
There are three points under verses 10 and 11 where wisdom and knowledge, discretion and understanding lead you to deliver you from the evil man of verse 12 and the strange woman of verses 16, “That thou mayest walk in the way of good men.” In general, and I know we can add other points and stuff to this; but you really boil it all down to if your Bible reading, and if your Christianity and if your knowing the Saviour leads you to dump evil men and strange women and walk in the way of good men, you've come a lot farther than most Christians will ever go.
“That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,” now, you are going to say, “There is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Romans 3:12), and you would be correct.
There is none that does good in the respect that “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,” and there is nobody that can earn their way to heaven. This is understood, but there are good men in the Bible. There are good men in the Bible, and when you read a verse that says there's none good, no, not one; it's not saying that there isn’t men that you ought to emulate and follow.
“A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn" (Proverbs 12:2).
A. C. Dixon wrote, in “The Glories of the Cross”
“If you reject Christ on the cross, you force God to express His justice, righteousness and holiness in your condemnation. If you accept Christ on the cross, you give God the opportunity of expressing all His attributes, including His love and compassion and mercy, in your salvation for time and eternity.”
So likewise when Jesus writes the word forgiven across our account in the ledger of Heaven, we are released from condemnation.
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