Posted on 06/27/2022 6:29:09 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession. The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out” (Proverbs 28:10-11).
This is the man that causes the righteous to go astray. In the Old Testament, of course; a man could go astray in Ezekiel 18 and lose his righteousness, and the man that caused that would fall into his own pit. This is just sowing and reaping. One thing you need to see here is when one man causes another man, a good man, to go astray he; the one that caused it, will fall into his own pit. Sometimes, God will use men and nations to judge a sinning nation, yet God will still bring judgment on the nation that he used.
In the case of Israel, God would use Syria, or Assyria, or Babylon to judge the nation. He would use them and then turn around and destroy them. God will do that sometimes. Sometimes He will use men to test us, and if that testing gets us to fail, God will still judge that fellow for are doing wrong, even though we went along with it.
God isn’t going to force a man against his will to do anything they don’t want to do. If God wants to test, He’ll find somebody around to do it. He didn’t have to look very far to get somebody to kill his Son. There were plenty of people that were willing to do it.
Verse 11 is like verse 6, “The rich man is wise in his own conceit,” he thinks he's rich because of his brains. We already found out in Ecclesiastes, that God makes a man rich. God gives him riches, “but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.” What a great passage. Do you know what the poor man says? and you and I we've said this; I know I’ve said it. “After seeing what a rich man's gotta do to get that money, and what he's going to do to keep it, and what it causes a man to do sometimes,” I've looked at that thing and I said, “Thank God I'm poor!” I've searched that thing out I said I don't want anymore than I’ve got, and it's more than I can handle now. I've seen what richest can do to a man, and I just as soon not be led into temptation.
See, “the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out,” he searches that rich man out and he don't want it. I would just as soon be poor and happy. I mean like a hog in mud. I’d rather be there then to be uptown with the in crowd. As a young man, I saw some of that in crowd business, and all the and all the sham and the wow and the falsehood that went along with it. I don't want it; I just don't want that. I don’t want that kind of jet setting crowd. It’s just like the prodigal son. As long as you got money to buy jet fuel, you're in the jet set. You run out of fuel (cash), and you are off the jet.
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