Posted on 05/29/2022 12:34:10 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it” (Proverbs 29:6-7).
“In the transgression of an evil man,” now this is a spiritual law. “In the transgression of an evil man,” when an evil man commits a transgression; there is a snare. There is something that grabs a hold of him.
“. . . but the righteous doth sing and rejoice,” why? They have liberty. There is no snare in doing right. There is no trap in doing right, no hook in doing right. There is rejoicing in doing right.
Now, the snare of sin is thrills and pleasures for a season. Then it is a habit. Then total bondage. Then inevitable reaping. Other verses that show this are:
“His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins” (Proverbs 5:22).
“The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness” (Proverbs 11:5-6).
Other passages of note are Job 18:5-14 and I Timothy 6:9. There are snares, traps to those that would be rich; usually by illegal means. Riches will just get you nothing but trouble.
“In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare,” now, they never see that. Well, you don't show the fish the hook. Isn’t one of the tricks to fishing is to hide that hook from the fish? I mean fish are dumb, but they ain't that dumb. Go back to chapter one, where one of those great verses in Proverbs is found in verse 17, “Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.”
Now, there's that net from flattery. If that bird knows what flattery does, you are spreading the net in vain. He's not going to take it.
“The righteous considered the cause of the poor,” he considers it. He considers that some poor people have really had a tough. It's not a matter of them not working, or not wanting to work, as a matter that they would if they could, but it's just a bad scene, a bad situation, bad circumstances like devastation of a country, or just a bad time.
“The righteous considered the cause of the poor,” why? The guy is poor. Some folks in America are poor because they deserve it, and they just won't work.
“. . . but the wicked regardeth not to know it.” He doesn’t do anything about it, he doesn’t even want to know anything about it. I guess that's why when they send you these tear-jerking letters; and they are. They always got some little kid starving to death on the front of it. Now, if the person is righteous, you consider the cause of that little child. Even her mommy and daddy has done wrong, it's a shame that the kid has to go through that. But there again, God knows what he's doing. God doesn't make any mistakes, but that kind of thing just grabs your heart. It really does tug at your heart. It really does almost make you want to send $25. Except that about $24.00 of that money is going into somebody’s pocket. They call it, ahem, overhead expenses.
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The wicked pretends to know the cause of the poor to get votes and commits even more evil.
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