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“The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will” Part 2

(Pro 21:6-10)

[Study Aired November 13, 2025]

 

Pro 21:6  The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Pro 21:7  The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
Pro 21:8  The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
Pro 21:9  It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Pro 21:10  The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

Having the mind of Christ (1Co 2:14-16), is what it takes to have the “king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD”, and with that spirit within us as our hope of glory (Col 1:27), we will be “as the rivers of water: [that] he turneth it whithersoever he will.”(Php 2:12-13, Rom 8:14-16).

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God [“as the rivers of water: [that] he turneth it whithersoever he will.”], they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;(1Jn 4:17) but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.(Heb 5:7, Eph 5:30, 1Jn 4:3)
Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

What an immeasurably great blessing to know that God has called us to be confident in the reality that we are His little remnant (Rom 11:5, Php 1:6, Heb 10:35), being given the power to see both sides of the pillar in the wilderness of our deceitful and desperately wicked hearts (Jer 17:9-10), whose wretched condition (Rom 7:24-25) can only be overcome through Christ (Exo 14:20).

Rom 11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Php 1:6  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Heb 10:35  Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? [the heart needs to be conquered by Christ in order to hold fast to our crown of life (Rom 8:38-39, Rev 3:11, how? Mat 10:16)]
Jer 17:10  I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Exo 14:20  And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

Now we know that each of these proverbs, the light and dark side of their sayings, must be understood to be within us starting with the wicked side that is revealed in God’s time and exposed by the brightness of his coming into our heavens (Mat 4:4, Pro 16:4, 2Th 2:3-7).

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. [the Word Exo 14:20, Isa 45:7]

Pro 21:6  The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Pro 21:6  The riches you get by dishonesty soon disappear, but not before they lead you into the jaws of death. (GNB)

These “treasures” spoken of in this first proverb represent the word of God that we misappropriate in our vain flesh that wraps the word of God around the idol of our hearts (Eze 14:4). We unknowingly are seeking death, by simply going in the natural way of man (Pro 14:12), as the vanity of our flesh compels us to ask amiss and act unrighteously (Jas 4:2-6), “a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro”, as opposed to being as the “king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD as the rivers of water: [that] he turneth it whithersoever he will.”

Eze 14:4  Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity [“mystery of iniquity”] before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

Jas 4:1  From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Jas 4:2  Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Jas 4:3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

(“a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro” and our lack of faith causes our vain flesh to dominate our heavens when asking something of God, causing us to waver “like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed” Jas 1:5-6)

Jas 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Jas 4:5  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Jas 4:6  But he giveth more grace.[More grace is what breaks the sinful cycle of lust and envy Rom 5:20, Tit 2:11-12] Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.[It is God’s favour, his grace that teaches us to forsake ungodliness and worldly lust, and He prepares our hearts so that we humbly receive that correction]

In the New Testament, this proverb was explained by Jesus as follows (Luk 12:13-21):

Luk 12:13  And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
Luk 12:14  And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
Luk 12:15  And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Luk 12:16  And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Luk 12:17  And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
Luk 12:18  And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Luk 12:19  And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luk 12:20  But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
Luk 12:21  So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

We are called to do otherwise (Joh 6:27):

Joh 6:27  Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Pro 21:7  The robberyH7701 of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

If we judge ourselves we won’t be judged (1Co 11:31-32, Isa 26:9), however we rob both God and ourselves when we don’t present our bodies a living sacrifice unto Him to be judged, which is our reasonable serviceG2999 “Latreia” service rendered for hire (Amo 3:10, Mal 3:8-9, Rom 12:1).

Robbery H7701 “Shod” – BDB: havoc, violence, destruction, devastation, ruin

Amo 3:10  For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robberyH7701 in their palaces.

Mal 3:8  Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Mal 3:9  Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

If God is working with us in this age His chastening grace is going to abound so that we don’t neglect so great a salvation and continue to believe unto salvation (1Ti 4:13-16, Heb 3:14-15, Heb 10:29-31).

1Ti 4:13  Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
1Ti 4:14  Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
1Ti 4:15  Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
1Ti 4:16  Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.(Joh 8:31-32)

Heb 3:14  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; (Php 1:6, Heb 10:35)
Heb 3:15  While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

Heb 10:29  Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Heb 10:30  For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
Heb 10:31  It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

God has promised all mankind that “The robbery of the wicked” that “shall destroy them” will one day be repented of, and a new heart and mind will be given to all of His creation (Eze 36:26-33).

Eze 36:26  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27  And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Eze 36:28  And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Eze 36:29  I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
Eze 36:30  And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
Eze 36:31  Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations
Eze 36:32  Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
Eze 36:33  Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

Pro 21:8  The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

It is God alone who can give us that pure heart, so that our work is “right”H3477 [straight, righteous, just], being His workmanship that is not made with man’s hands (Eph 2:10, Psa 127:1).

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Psa 127:1  A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Being froward and strange is the natural default for all flesh that is cut off from God, going in a way that seems right in our owns minds, but God declares our actions to be “frowardH2019 and strangeH2054”(Mat 17:17).

Mat 17:17  Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

“Froward” H2019 hăphakpak haf-ak-pak’
By reduplication from H2015; very perverse: – froward.
Total KJV occurrences: 1

“Strange” H2054 vâzâr vaw-zawr’
Presumed to be from an unused root meaning to bear guilt; crime: –  X strange.
Total KJV occurrences: 1

Pro 21:9  It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

To be raised in heavenly places, “the housetop” (Eph 2:6), and labouring to enter into Christ our “corner” stone and rest (1Pe 2:6, Heb 4:11), is why it is “better to dwell in a corner of the housetop”. This proverb is twice mentioned in this book (Pro 21:9, Pro 25:24) as a witness to us that the “house” is speaking of Christ dwelling ‘in the temple that we are’, as our hope of glory (Col 1:27).

The “brawling woman in a wideH2267 house” represents Babylon whose paths of destruction are wide, as opposed to the narrow way that leads to life (Mat 7:13-15). The way to avoid this house of spiritual harlotry is by keeping God’s commandments (Pro 7:1-12).

“Wide” H2267  Cheber
BDB: 1) association, company, band 2)shared, association, society 3) a magician, charmer, spell
Strong’s: From H2266; a society; also a spell: – + charmer (-ing) company enchantment X wide.
Total KJV occurrences: 7 — charmer, charming, company, enchantments(2), wide(2)

Mat 7:13  Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Mat 7:14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Mat 7:15  Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Pro 7:1  My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Pro 7:2  Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Pro 7:3  Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Pro 7:4  Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Pro 7:5  That they may keep thee from the strange woman,(false prophets – ravening wolves) from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Pro 7:6  For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Pro 7:7  And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Pro 7:8  Passing through the street near her corner;[negative corner another Jesus] and he went the way to her house,
Pro 7:9  In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
Pro 7:10  And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Pro 7:11  (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Pro 7:12  Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

Pro 7:21  With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Pro 7:22  He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Pro 7:23  Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.(Pro 30:20, 2Pe 2:19)

Pro 21:10  The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

Pro 21:10 The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour. (BBE)

God admonishes us to “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;”(Heb 12:15, Mat 6:12).

Mat 6:12  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

This proverb therefore is speaking to our deceitful and desperately wicked heart (Jer 17:9) that needs to be diligently watched over as we learn to keep under ourselves and die daily in order to “Follow peace with all men, and holiness” (1Co 15:31, 1Co 9:27).

1Co 15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

1Co 9:27  But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. [Php 3:13-14]

If we are not striving to capture our thoughts and bring them into subjection unto Christ (2Co 10:5-6), we will end up not “kissing the son” (Psa 2:11-12), and will not show “favour” to our neighbour, or our enemies who are to be beloved to us (Rom 11:26-28), as the other fold (Joh 10:16) that Christ commands us to love (Mat 5:44-45).

2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2Co 10:6  And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.[‘within’, primarily]

Psa 2:11  Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Psa 2:12  Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. (to the praise of His glory Eph 1:12)

Mat 5:44  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Mat 5:45  That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.[Mat 5:47]

This verse in (Deu 15:9) sums up the point and admonition of (Pro 21:10) perfectly:

Deu 15:9  Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother,[Rom 11:25] and thou givest him nought;[Mat 5:47-48] and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Mat 5:47  And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Mat 5:48  Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

If God is working with us, we are going to be aware of our need to die daily, and keep under ourselves, and the need to be chastened and scourged as his children who are being received, and obeying the commandment to love our neighbour as ourselves (Heb 12:5-15).

Heb 12:5  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Heb 12:8  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Heb 12:9  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Heb 12:10  For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Heb 12:11  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Heb 12:12  Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Heb 12:13  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Heb 12:14  [How it is healed:] Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: [the fruit of the aforementioned chastening of (Heb 12:5-11) revealed in (Heb 12:12-15)]
Heb 12:15  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

The trial of our faith is what is keeping us under His wing (Luk 13:34), and so we must not despise or grow weary of His correction that manifests the trial of our faith that is precious unto God [precious in God’s sight is the dying daily death we are called unto Psa 116:15, 1Co 15:31], as he makes His strength perfect through our weakness (2Co 12:9, Act 14:22). These are all the necessary circumstances that will be found in the lives of God’s children because, “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will”.

Luk 13:34  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! [Joh 10:26, Luk 12:32]

2Co 12:9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Lord help us to “most gladly” receive the much tribulation which we must go through to inherit the kingdom of God.

 

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“Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge” Part III
(“A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth”)

(Pro 12:14-21)

Pro 12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of [his] mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.
Pro 12:15 The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise.
Pro 12:16 A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent [man] covereth shame.
Pro 12:17 [He that] speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Pro 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Pro 12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue [is] but for a moment.
Pro 12:20 Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.
Pro 12:21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

This second to last section of proverbs chapter twelve that we’ll look at is primarily focused on the subject of the fruit of our mouth, and how we are to rule over our lips. God’s people are a peculiar and zealous people in this world who are warning, through our actions and witnessing with God’s fear within us (1Pe 3:15-16), that the world around us is going to fall (Babylon has fallen Rev 18:2), and that we need to strive towards ‘saving ourselves from this untoward generation’ (Act 2:39-40).

1Pe 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
1Pe 3:16 Having a good conscience;(1Jn 3:20) that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

It takes God’s cleansing of our temples (Heb 9:23, Rom 2:4) to know that Babylon is falling within us, as the life of Christ increases within us and we decrease (Joh 3:30, 2Co 6:17, Eph 1:6). We all miss it at first but the temple spoken of in (Joh 2:19) does not just represent modern day Christianity that is not torn down, rather Christ is speaking of His own body which is the church that must be torn down and rebuilt in three days, by coming out of her (Joh 2:19, Mat 12:40). This is another witness of how Babylon within us must fall, and a new creation be formed through Christ “To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved” (Joh 2:19, 2Co 5:17, Rev 21:5).

If God is working with us in this life we are going to see Babylon falling within us through the chastening and scourging process that we’ve been called unto that will in time bring us to be able to bring our tongue under control, and when our thoughts are under control our tongue will be as well (2Co 10:5-6, Jas 3:8).

2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2Co 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

Jas 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Babylon will be busily trimming their lamps at the end of this age as God’s elect will also be (Mat 25:4-5), and iniquity will abound that can only be overcome by the faith of Christ, or extra oil He has promised those who have been predestined to endure unto the end (Mat 24:13). We know we are unprofitable servants having done that which “was our duty to do” (Luk 17:10) because God wrote those actions in our books, “both to will and to do of his good pleasure” which is to give us the kingdom of God that is now within us (Luk 18:8, Php 2:12-13)

Mat 25:4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Mat 25:5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Mat 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

God’s elect will be given the ability to wholeheartedly acknowledge the unprofitableness of our flesh and how only Christ can bring us to be scarcely saved (1Pe 4:18, Eph 2:8) vis-a-vis the extra oil that the body of Christ will be granted, making them prepared for those ‘end of age’ moments. If we think otherwise, the man of perdition will be right back on the throne of our hearts telling us surely we were the ones willing and doing the trimming of our own lamps (Rev 19:7-8, Php 2:12-13).

Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.(Luk 5:35, Act 17:11)
Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.

If we truly are given to love God’s instruction and love God’s knowledge, our diligence will be directed in a path of Godly fear that will have us being about our Father’s business in this life, speaking his words, and doing his works (Eph 2:10), as we lose our life (Mat 10:38-39) in order to build up the body of Christ, the church which is likened unto the ark that Noah built to the saving of his household (Heb 11:7).

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Mat 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Heb 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

With these verses as a backdrop to our study let’s look at the hope that we have today, if Christ is judging us as our hope of glory within (Col 1:27).

Pro 12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of [his] mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

It takes God’s reproach in our lives to purify our lips, and what He is reproaching is our iniquity (Isa 6:7).

Isa 6:7 And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

If we are blessed to have this experience of judgement in this life we will know that “the recompence of a man’s hand” that is rendered unto us has nothing to do with us, but rather what God does within us through Christ both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Php 2:12-13).

The “fruit” of God judging His elect in this age is being discussed in type and shadow in these verses (Heb 11:26-27).

Heb 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
Heb 11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Pro 12:15 The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise.

By God’s estimation a self-righteous man is a fool. A fool in his heart has said there is no God (Psa 14:1), and the believer may say, well that’s not me, but in reality that is you when you deny God as being the one who is doing the works within you, to which we have nothing to boast about (Rom 3:27, Eph 2:8).

Rom 3:27 Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:

A fool is self-righteous and has no need to “hearkeneth unto [the] counsel” of the “wise“. We are told several times throughout scripture, being warned and admonished to heed such counsel, because we simply do not by nature (Pro 19:20, Pro 24:5-6).

Pro 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Pro 24:5 A wise man [is] strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Pro 24:6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.

Pro 12:16 A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent [man] covereth shame.

The prudent man is the brother who mercifully covers the shame of his weaker younger brother who can’t help at this immature stage in his walk to openly or “presently” make known his foolishness that is manifested in wrath that demonstrates he has no control at this point over the entirety of his spirit (Pro 16:32).

Pro 16:32 [He that] is slow to anger [is] better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

But God is merciful who not only bears our iniquity but also gives us the opportunity in due time to bear the iniquity of others in love. Notice how Joseph’s brothers acknowledge that they are the ones who brought this evil upon themselves (Gen 42:21), not yet acknowledging what Joseph is going to say to them in regard to God’s sovereignty (Gen 45:5).

Gen 42:21 And they said one to another, We [are] verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Gen 45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

Pro 12:17 [He that] speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

This proverb seems pretty self evident regarding speaking truth that is not possible without Christ in us, who is the truth (Joh 14:6). So too, we can speak the truth as a false witness with a deceitful heart, because speaking the truth in love or in righteousness is only made possible by the righteousness of Christ being shed abroad in our hearts by which we are saved (Rom 5:5, Rom 8:28). Christ, in other words, is our righteousness (1Co 1:30) and only Christ can be Christ! (1Jn 2:20, Mat 13:16)

Rom 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, [Rom 5:5] to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.

1Co 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus [Col 1:27], who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

Pro 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.

If we look throughout history, it is the basest of men that God has used to demonstrate this spirit of speaking words that pierce like a sword, “There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword“. In that sense, this is the negative example of the two edged sword that witnesses against our flesh, but “the tongue of the wise [is] health“. We pierce the heart of others at first, leaving Mary who represents the true bride of Christ pierced in her heart for the revelation of her son’s plight that we are all guilty of (Luk 2:35).

Luk 2:35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed […”but the tongue of the wise [is] health“].

It takes God bringing us to acknowledge our own personal part in piercing Christ (Zec 12:10) and killing him, in order for us to then be able to have a tongue that is wise and able to bring the health of God’s word to others, “but the tongue of the wise [is] health“. God is dragging us to the tree of life (Joh 6:44) for that very purpose, to fulfill our joy as we “retaineth her” (Rev 1:3), so our earth and heaven can be founded and established through Christ (Pro 3:18-19, Mat 16:18, Mat 6:10).

Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for [his] only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.

Pro 3:18 She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.
Pro 3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Mat 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.

With that establishing of our hearts and minds, we can then care for our brothers and sisters both now and in the age to come, with encouraging words and admonitions of Truth that brings the healing we all need, “being oppressed of the devil” (Mal 4:2, Mat 9:35, Act 10:38, Rev 22:2).

Pro 12:18 There is talk that is like stabbings of a sword, Yet the tongue of the wise is healing.” (CLV)

Mal 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Mat 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Act 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Rev 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations.

Pro 12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue [is] but for a moment.

The lying tongue, unknowingly to the world, is within themselves, in Babylon (Pro 30:20), as it was with us in our former conversation (Eph 2:2-4). We didn’t believe we were wrong in our convictions of ‘truth’ at that time, but at God’s appointed time we came to learn of His eternal purpose for his children that involved our being strengthened, settled and established, “The lip of truth shall be established for ever” (Mat 16:18) in Christ (1Pe 5:10-11).

1Pe 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].
1Pe 5:11 To him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Pro 12:20 Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.

It is our own deceitful and wicked hearts (Jer 17:9) that wants us to stop examining ourselves and stop being introspective. However, as we die daily by keeping under ourselves, God will lead us unto repentance by His holy spirit so we can gain victory over sin in our life through Christ our hope of glory within (Rom 2:4, Eph 2:13-15).

Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];
Eph 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;

We become the fool spoken of in (Pro 26:12) when we stop seeing the need for the body of Christ in our lives and the safety that is found in a multitude of counsellors (Pro 11:14, Pro 24:6, Pro 20:18-19).

Pro 26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.

Pro 11:14 Where no counsel [is], the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.

Pro 24:6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.

Pro 20:18 [Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Pro 20:19 He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

Conversely, our peace and joy in this life comes when the understanding of His salvation is restored unto us (Psa 51:12-15), and in this we greatly rejoice, “but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy“, knowing that we serve a merciful God in heaven who, in time, will save all of His children, each man in his own order.

Psa 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psa 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Psa 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit.
Psa 51:13 [Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Psa 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Psa 51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

Pro 12:21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

Our former conversation in this world (Eph 2:1-3) was “filled with mischief“, and being the sinning machines we were made to be, it came to us naturally. The result of that mischievous spirit is that evil would happen to us, and if the Lord is working with us in this life He will deliver us from that spirit so that “There shall no evil happen to the just“. That means that the evil which wants to overtake us as it used to, will not be able to do so through Christ, through whom we are more than conquerors (Rom 8:35-39).

Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Through Christ we can now have dominion over sin as we go onto perfection on the third day as God’s little remnant that have been separated from the world, and for this very purpose of demonstrating the power of God that takes the weak of the world and brings them to love knowledge and love instruction, which will be the fruit of the mouth of God’s ‘kind of first fruits’ (Rom 9:27, Rom 11:5, Jas 1:18).

Rom 9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

Rom 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

We’re not perfected, but we are going onto perfection (Php 3:14, Luk 13:32), we are not sinless, but we are sinning less, and confessing our faults, and knowing that the Lord is cleansing us through this great process we’ve been incredibly blessed (Heb 9:23, 1Pe 4:17-18) to be partakers of, for the rest of the world (1Jn 1:8, Rom 7:24-25, Oba 1:21).

Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Oba 1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.

 

 

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Proverbs Chapter 6 – Part 2

Pro 6:16-19 “Take Heed to Thyself“

[Study Aired Dec 12, 2024]

 

The lesson for God’s elect in the proverbs we are going to read today is a spiritual message (Joh 6:63), that uses the construct of physical adultery which shouldn’t once be named amongst us (Eph 5:3), to elevate in our hearts and minds how detestable spiritual fornication and adultery is to our Father in heaven.

Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

When we read of adultery and fornication we are reading about the spiritual betrayal of God’s words, as the natural which precedes the spiritual (1Co 15:46) is used [physical adultery, fornication, covetousness] to witness in the flesh what God is telling His children to beware of in the spirit (Eph 5:5-8). When we covet the ways of this world, we are not showing love to God but rather committing spiritual fornication, or adultery (1Jn 2:15-16).

1Co 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Eph 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Eph 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Eph 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Eph 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
Eph 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:(Eph 2:1-4)

1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

The same principle is true with these “seven things that are an abomination unto him” of (Pro 6:16-19), all of which completely reside in us until Christ comes in his glory within us (Col 1:27), to destroy the man of perdition who embodies these spirits that must be destroyed by the brightness of his coming (2Th 2:8, Pro 16:4).

We don’t intentionally go around with a proud look, lying and shedding innocent blood, devising wicked imaginations, running to mischief, speaking lies, or sowing discord among the brethren, not physically at least. But what we need to ask the Lord as we examine ourselves, is how do these words apply to what is yet to be burned out of me regarding my spiritual relationship with our Father, Christ, and His body.

Only God can grant us to continue to take heed unto ourselves (Rom 2:4, Joh 6:44), watching and praying, and examining ourselves, that no root of bitterness is taking hold in our heavens (Heb 12:15-16), which roots can very quietly and deceitfully be growing without a diligent ongoing, dying daily examination of our own actions and thoughts which is what this section of the proverbs will focus on, and admonish us to do (Pro 6:20-29).

Heb 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Heb 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

The last section of this chapter that we will look at in a future study, (Pro 6:30-35), contrasts a thief with someone who commits adultery. We steal from God when we withhold our lives from him (Mal 3:8), and committing adultery represents an unfaithfulness to the words of God, demonstrating a lack of understanding of God’s word and the value of it. If we are found guilty in this life, the punishment we will receive for robbing God of his tithe that represents our lives, is that we will need to “restore sevenfold”. That complete restoration is a symbol of the wrath of God that must be poured out upon our old man of sin via the seven last plagues if we are going to enter into the temple of God (Rev 15:8).

Rev 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Pro 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Pro 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

These first six things that the LORD hates end with a seventh that is an abomination unto him. The seventh is really the end result of all that comes out of the first six, and that seventh is to sow “discord among brethren“.

1- A proudH7311 look

The proud waves of mankind’s hearts will be stayed by understanding (Job 26:12), and pride comes before destruction (Pro 16:18), so the Lord will give us an experience of evil to humble us thereby, called the pride of life (Ecc 1:13, 1Jn 2:16).

Job 26:12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

Pro 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.

It takes the knowledge of God to humble the proudH7311 look of mankind, and the first king of Israel is symbolic of our proud independent hearts that think they don’t need God to rule over the kingdom of our hearts (1Sa 9:2). King Saul in that sense is ‘another Jesus’ (Isa 4:1, 2Co 11:4), and the nation’s desire and acceptance of him in likeness of the other nations around Israel with their rulers (Deu 17:14), is symbolic of the rejection of God as our sovereign Father (1Sa 10:19) who is working all things according to the counsel of His own will, which ultimately includes Him being all in all (Eph 1:11, 1Co 15:28).

1Sa 9:2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

Deu 17:14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

1Sa 10:19 And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.

2- A lyingH8267 tongue

Lying H8267: “By implication a sham, deceit, false, vain”. These are words that sum up what God thinks of the traditions of men (Mar 7:7) that proceed forth from the mouth of the lying prophets of Babylon, which the elect are called out of (Jer 27:9-14).

Jer 27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
Jer 27:10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
Jer 27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
Jer 27:12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Jer 27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jer 27:14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

Here is the surprising and not so surprising twist from the words of a lying tongue coming out of the false prophets of Babylon. The message we read in (Jer 27:9-14) is the very same message we read in (2Th 2:3) that tells us we must go into exile, into Babylonian captivity (Heb 6:1-2), where the man of perdition within us is being set up to fall away by the grace of God in this age, if it be His will (Heb 6:3).

2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (Heb 6:3)

3- Hands that shed innocent blood

We are all guilty of the blood of Christ, so the hands “that shed innocent blood” are our own Adamic hands that must be dragged to Christ to understand this truth found in (Act 9:3-5).

Act 9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: [Christ coming into our lives]
Act 9:4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? [God knocks us to the earth to bring us to the abased position we all must start from (Jer 22:29)]
Act 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

So clearly we all shed innocent blood [the blood of Christ] without even knowing it (1Ti 1:13, 1Pe 1:13-14), and the admonition for God’s elect today is the most sobering of all admonitions regarding the shedding of innocent blood, which is what we would do if we lost our sobriety in the Lord and crucified Christ afresh (Heb 10:29, Heb 6:6, Pro 8:33, Jer 13:10).

Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified (Joh 17:17), an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Heb 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
Heb 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Pro 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Jer 13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

4- An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations

The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked above all things (Jer 17:9) and unless the Lord gives us a new heart (Eze 36:26), we will continue to devise wicked things, even unto our own destruction as was prophesied back in this verse in Genesis (Gen 6:5).

Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

5- Feet that be swift in running to mischief

Our feet belong to God, and unless they are burnished in the fire of His word (Eze 1:5-7, Rev 2:18), just as the lips of Isaiah were by the angel in (Isa 6:5-7), our walk and our talk will continue to be led by our flesh and not by Christ himself who tells us that we must endure fiery trials (1Pe 4:12, 1Pe 4:1) in order to cease from sinning (Rom 8:14-16, Rom 8:9).

Eze 1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

Rev 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; [1Jn 4:17]

Isa 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isa 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Isa 6:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

6- A false witness that speaketh lies

God’s word is not fragile in his own mouth (Psa 29:5), but in our mouths we learn that we are naturally false witnesses of those things, and speak lies until Christ enters into the picture to sanctify us (Joh 17:17) and give us the strength to bring our thoughts in line with our Father; that is what the breaking of the cedars represents in (Psa 29:5).

Psa 29:5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

Through the sanctification process we’re called unto, we become the cedars of Lebanon that represent the elect of God who, in time, will have foreheads like flint (Eze 3:9), and spiritually take on the attributes that physical cedar wood points to [The wonderful properties of Cedar – Cedar Imports Australia], which typify what God can prepare our hearts to become through the fiery trials of this life that are being orchestrated by the life of Christ in His body (2Ch 1:15, Lev 14:4, Php 2:12-13, 1Pe 4:12).

2Ch 1:15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.

Lev 14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

7- He that soweth discord among brethren

It is when we do not appreciate the singleness that is in Christ that we are one step away from sowing discord (2Co 11:3).

2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtiltyG3834, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicityG572 that is in Christ.

Above all things we are called to be unified [singleness] in Christ, which will be demonstrated by a spirit of mercy working in our hearts (Php 2:1-3), that needs to be abounding continually (2Co 11:3, Pro 6:21).

Php 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Php 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Php 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicityG3834 that is in Christ.

Pro 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

Next week Lord willing will look at the last section of Proverbs chapter six (Pro 6:20-35).

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