Posted on 01/27/2022 10:56:49 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged” (Proverbs 28:1-2).
Do you want to know why some people don’t witness? Right there is the whole problem. Their life really isn’t right with God, “the righteous are bold as a lion,” the more in fellowship a man gets with God, the bolder and the braver he gets, and the more assurance he has, the less fear he has.
What about the wicked? They “flee when no man pursueth.” We say, “That guy is afraid of his shadow.” There are some examples in the Bible of people that fled though no man was after them. Just scared of nothing, because of their sin.
1. Joseph’s brethren (Genesis 50:15).
2. The Assyrians (2 Kin 7:6-7). God scared them to death from the noise in the trees. They said, “Uh oh, the Jews have hired somebody to fight against them. They were not pursued, yet they fled. They were so wicked. And when that thing happened, their guilty conscience convicted them of that wickedness—and they imagined God’s judgment—which they deserved.
3. The Jews in dispersion will do this. God basically told them that when He sends them out of the land, they will be scared to death at anything (Leviticus 26:36). Even after World War II was over, in Europe, if someone knocked on the door of a Jew at night—they would be terrified. Because of their rebellion against God, He told them that they would stay scared. There was the time of the Inquisition, as retold in Larkin’s book, The History of the Jew, from the late 19th century and since. He has no God, he has no hope, he has no protection, he has no comfort
“. . . but the righteous are bold as a lion,” like Jesus. In Revelation, we read that He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah (Rev 5:5). They said about the disciples that they were bold, because they had been with Jesus (Ac 4:13). The thing we need to see here is that wickedness produces cowardness, and righteousness produces bravery. The one thing that limits Christians from witnessing is sin in their life.
“For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof,” now, this is a bomb on politics right here. if you ever got this on the radio and television, they would cut you off in an instant. “For the transgression of a land,” in other words, the more wicked that a land or a country gets, “many are the Princes thereof.” Do you know what happens to bureaucracy? Everybody is on the take, and more and more of them are getting on the take. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Everybody is getting on the gravy train. The more leaders, and the more people a country has in its government, the more wicked the state. They have to have a tremendous police force and army to keep the natives from overthrowing the government, because the thing is so wicked.
“For the transgression of land many are the princes thereof,” it’s a real mess, “but by a man of understanding and knowledge the the state thereof shall be prolonged.” Then there's no hope for America. We have a bureaucracy that supports sluggards. Do you realize that over 50% of Americans are on the federal payroll? That’s astounding. Almost half of our people are living off the other half. That’s the federal government.
Do they want to get rid of the deficit? Why not just cut about half of the employees and just shave it down? Get rid of all them lobby groups and all those committees and subcommittees and all that other business and just strip it down to what we need. Well, the problem is, they say, “If we do that, then things will just get all out of control; and that's probably true.
Our country, in the main, has become so corrupt that they have to have all those agencies to keep it in check. If they don't have OSHA then they won’t have anybody to spy on the EPA, and the other way around. Because of the wickedness of the land, you gotta have all that junk to keep it from just killing itself and destroying itself. America is in trouble. The whole problem is government credit and loans, making our deficits bigger and bigger. In the trillions now. If they need more money, they just print some more.
Josiah prolonged the kingdom, and Hezekiah prolonged the kingdom. They were both good kings. Jesus Christ will prolong the Kingdom forever, in righteousness.
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