Posted on 12/21/2022 5:48:27 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men” (Proverbs 22:24-29).
What is this saying? “A companion of fools shall be destroyed” (Proverbs 13:20). If a man runs around with an angry man, he’ll pick up his ways and soon will be an angry man also. He pick up his angry ways, and his bad character.
“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife” (Proverbs 15:18).
“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city” (Proverbs 16:32).
Ecclesiastes 7:9 says that “anger rests in the bosom of fools,” if you run around with angry people, you are a fool.
What little you have, if you are surety for another, you’ll lose what you have.
They had more brains than you do, don’t remove them. Children think that they no such much more than their parents. Don’t remove them, they are there for a purpose. The reason for the ancient landmarks were to keep the inheritances within the families and to ensure the inheritance to the future generations.
“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it” (Deuteronomy 19:14).
It was the will of God that these inheritances should continue, and every year of Jubilee, the inheritances were to be returned in full to the family.
Paul stood before mighty men and kings. Do you know who God looks for to do great things for Him? Somebody that is busy. You learn these things the older you get in life. If you want someone to do something important for you, don’t ask someone to do something that is standing around doing nothing. The reason they aren’t doing anything is because they don’t want to do anything. You read Philippians 3 and you’ll see that Paul was busy. God calls a busy man to do his work.
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Ecclesiastes 7:9 says that “anger rests in the bosom of fools,” if you run around with angry people, you are a fool.
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Worth repeating.
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