Posted on 11/23/2021 10:01:16 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief” (Proverbs 24:16).
It is one thing for a just man, and an entirely different thing for the wicked man. The wicked is something different. He falls off into mischief.
Elymus was accused by Paul of being “filled with mischief.” He was trying to thwart Sergius Paulus the deputy, so that he would die and go to Hell. That’s a bad road to go down, that road of mischievousness. That wicked man goes down the road to where he is so gone that he is now effecting other people getting saved. He is not a “just man” that has fallen, but a wicked man that has fallen off into mischief and you are ruining something for someone else.
Paul gives us another example in 1 Thessalonians:
“For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost” (2:13-16).
There is simply no good end for any man that would stand in the way of another man getting saved. As we reflect on this, consider how many liberal preachers and Romanist “fathers” and cult-following “bishops” that are preaching another gospel, of whom Paul tells us in Galatians that they are “accursed.” Perhaps our Lord was speaking of this crowd when he said: “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones” (Luke 17:2).
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