Posted on 08/14/2022 12:33:37 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish” (Proverbs 14:11).
“The house of the wicked shall be overthrown,” don’t envy the wicked. If they are getting by now, and they are obtaining what they want through wickedness—it is just transitory—sooner or later, the axe is going to fall. Sometimes we think that all the bad is coming our way and it seems like the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, but don’t worry—God will work it all out in the end. “The house of the wicked shall be overthrown,” the wages of sin is still death. That is a principle—it is all going to come down. Things that are built on sand are going to come crashing down.
“. . . but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish,” our bodies are said to be a tabernacle in Second Corinthians 5:1. You can apply this verse that that. If you live upright you will reap it, and if you live wrong, you’ll reap it. This is just an axiom of life. Worldly Americans just don’t see this.
There was once a cartoon in U. S. News and World Report, making fun of the Russians. The Russians had said that they did not want their athletes to come over here because they would not be protected and there would be things here that they did not want them to see. The cartoon was a picture of a Russian athlete walking past a movie billboard, and there was something filthy on the poster. Just behind the athlete was a Russian official with his hands shielding the eyes of the athlete so that he would not see that picture. The cartoon was making fun of that. Well, that was an instance where the Russians got it right. That is nothing to make fun of. The point behind the cartoonist was that you can go ahead and look at that—it won’t hurt anybody. Americans look at that kind of stuff on their TV’s and movies and they wonder why their hearts are as black as coal pit.
Jesus Christ said to be careful of our eyes: “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:22-23).
“. . . if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light,”
That singleness of the eye is keeping our eye on the right things, keeping it on the Lord, and good things—singleness, one thing—in other words, one purpose. I am looking unto Jesus Christ. I am determined that I am going to live right. We have one purpose and that purpose is directed toward that one purpose—to walk in the light of the Lord.
“But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness,”
When a man’s body and his mind is full of darkness, he can’t see right, he can’t think right, he can’t judge right—he’s reprobate. In that word is the word, “probate.” What do they do in probate court? To probate a matter is to make judicial decisions based on the law and truth. Well, a “re”-probate is someone that cannot make a decision. They are so twisted that when something is really wrong they see it as right, and when something is wrong they consider it to be good.
“The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.”
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