Since roofs were open like patios, a small arbor or enclosure in the corner of a flat roof was a very inconvenient place to live (see verse 19). It really doesn’t matter how small the house is, if there is love there but you cannot get a house big enough to be happy in, if there is continual fighting. If our only place of rest is a battleground, then we are constantly in turmoil. We discussed in an earlier lesson how our homes need to be a place of rest and a refuge from the problems of the world. Proverbs 21:9 “ better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.” “The way of man” means the way of the worldly man. The pure in heart does what he believes would be right in God’s sight. We see that the evil man is crooked and perverse. ![]() Proverbs 21:8 “The way of man froward and strange: but the pure, his work right.” So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence it takes away the life of its possessors.” Proverbs 1:18-19 “But they lie in wait for their own blood ” “They ambush their own lives. They have no intention of doing what is right (just). Little does he know that the one he is destroying is himself. Here again, we see the robber wanting something that does not belong to him. Proverbs 21:7 “The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them because they refuse to do judgment.” All of this is caused by thinking too highly of self and feeling that the world owes you something. Whether they are seeking death or not, that is what they will get by living treacherous or deceitful lives. When a lying tongue is coupled with cheating, we see a terrible sin. We have been talking all through Proverbs about how bad a lying tongue is. Proverbs 21:6 “The getting of treasures by a lying tongue a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.” People who do not consistently work and try to have something wind up with nothing but want. This is speaking of a diligent worker who thinks constantly of working toward having plenty. Proverbs 21:5 “The thoughts of the diligent only to plenteousness but of every one hasty only to want.” They show 3 major defects in the way this gain is acquired: Verses 5-7 address the evils of ill-gotten gain. “Lamp” is used as a symbol for the eyes, which conveys their pride. This plowing of the wicked translates to “Lamp” of the wicked. This is speaking of a conceited person so filled up with self that their heart is even stayed on themselves. Proverbs 21:4 “A high look, and a proud heart, the plowing of the wicked, sin.” It was very important to keep the sacrifices until Jesus became the perfect Lamb sacrifice and did away with all sin, for all time, to those who would accept Him. God wants us to love Him so much that we will do justly and judge righteously: not from being compelled to do so, but because we love Him. Proverbs 21:3 “To do justice and judgment more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.”Įxternal acts of worship, though according to biblical prescription, are repulsive to God when the heart of the worshiper is wicked. It is either desperately wicked, or it is pure. The heart is the center of our being, and actually controls what we are. This, as we have said before, tends toward pleasing the flesh which is sin. The evil the Israelites were guilty of over and over was doing what was right in their own sight. While man can be self-deceived, God determines his true motives. This is speaking of a false security that man has. ![]() Proverbs 21:2 “Every way of a man right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.” The rivers flow because God ordained it.Ĭolossians 1:16-17 “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:” “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” The Lord Jesus is King of all kings and Lord of all Lords. ![]() For sure, kings and rulers are ruled over by the Lord. Sometimes, God just places a thought in their head and rules them that way. No one is so great (not even a king), that he is not under the rule of the Lord. Just as the Lord through Moses ruled over the Pharaoh in Egypt and finally caused Pharaoh to let the people go. Note the examples of the divine hand of God in the cases of Artaxerxes (Ez. The Lord sovereignly controls political powers. The Lord is the one, in the final analysis, who will be King. Proverbs 21:1 “The king’s heart in the hand of the LORD, the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.”
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