Posted on 05/17/2022 7:10:57 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment” (Proverbs 18:4-5).
“The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters,” what a man says is very, very important and very deep because Matthews says that by a man’s words shall he be condemned, and by a man’s words he shall be justified. By a man’s own words, he can be saved forever. And by his own words he can reject salvation and be lost, forever. It is in the power of a man’s tongue to determine where he will spend his eternity.
Now, this is no little puddle or bubbling spring, these are deep waters. A man can actually seal his own fate by his own words. “The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked” (Proverbs 10:11).
“. . . and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook,” the Psalmist says of the blessed [saved] man, “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper” (Psalms 1:3). Christ said that “he that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)” (John 7:38-39).
And that is where man gets wisdom. He gets wisdom from the Holy Spirit using this Bible to teach him and guide him through life. The Bible is indeed a flowing brook of living water. This brook from the Book will never run dry! There are times when we are going through this dry, thirsty land and you opened up this Book and God gave you something to refresh the soul, like a cool, cold glass of sparkling pure mountain water.
“It is not good to accept the person of the wicked,” even though they may have good personalities, and are well dressed, but if they are wicked—they are wicked. We can consider Pontius Pilate in this. He accepted the person of the wicked. He wanted to release Jesus Christ, he really did, but because of the pressure from Herod and the pressure from the people, he accepted their persons instead of Jesus Christ he placed the righteous under judgment. He was the governor. He had the authority to do what he wanted to do—but he feared the people. He surely paid for it; he received his place in hell.
There was a time when Agrippa should have listened to Paul, rather than all of his court people. He looked around and accepted their person. Here was a man standing before him, and he knew that everything Paul was telling him was true. Paul said, “Thou knowest, Agrippa.” He told him that he knew the prophecies, that they were all true. But Agrippa didn’t have the character or the character to stand against the persons of the wicked. He is in his place in hell today.
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