Posted on 10/18/2022 12:00:11 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men” (Proverbs 18:16).
“A man's gift maketh room for him,” if you have money, you can get into places.
A man’s gift will get you into heaven: “The gift of God is eternal life” (Romans 6:23). It will make room for you up there, where you’ll have an inheritance that is preserved and prepared for you: “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you” (I Peter 1:4).
Then, a man’s gift make room in heaven. “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:2-3). I like mansions, I don’t care for the new Bibles that call them rooms.
“. . . and bringeth him before great men,” spiritually, I could care less about some great names if they rejected the Lord Jesus Christ, but I’m thinking of great men that not only were great historically, but also great in the kingdom of God. We are going to meet men like Charles Spurgeon, and D. L. Moody, and others who being dead yet speaketh through their preserved words. Every once in while you read a question, like, “What person in history do you wish you could meet, either living or dead.” I don’t wish, I know! I’m going to look upon the face of the greatest Man that ever lived when I behold my Saviour face-to-face in glory. And it is all because of the gift of God which is eternal life.
Carnally, of course, this is speaking of bribes that can get you before big politicians and big businessmen.
Jesus told his disciples in Matthew: “But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you” (Matthew 10:17-20).
Those disciples had gifts, they had been given power by God, and they had a message so because of that, you’ll be brought before kings. God said of Paul the same things: “He is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel” (Acts 9:15).
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