A fool does not delight in understanding, But only in revealing his own mind. Proverbs 18:2
What can be said of someone who always wants everyone to hear what he thinks. We know that the Bible tells us in James that we should be quick to listen and slow to speak. There is a great deal of wisdom in knowing that we should stop and think about the deficiencies of our own knowledge before telling the whole world what we think or what is in our own mind and heart. This proverb tells us that a person who does not take pleasure and delight in better understanding is a fool. The fool doesn't think he needs better insight or more information. He does not search out things that would increase his intelligence 0r expand his understanding of things - especially those that involve seeing things from God's point of view. The fool thinks that he possesses enough knowledge and understanding. He is overconfident in his own intelligence and therefore thinks the best thing is for him to show his greatness and wisdom by revealing his mind to anyone who will listen. Self-satisfaction with our own wisdom is a very dangerous malady - if we don't want to look like a fool when we speak. I've heard it said that the reason God gave us two ears and only one mouth is that we should listen twice as much as we speak. The ability to learn is a blessing - and when we do not have a teachable spirit we place ourselves in a very proud and arrogant place. God will have to humble such a man. Thus, when someone always wants to be speaking and seldom wants to be listening - he will not be a wise man. When my mouth is running - my ears are usually ineffective in helping me grasp wisdom. The know-it-all and the blustery fool both have the same problem. They spend so much of their time telling everyone what is in their own mind - that they have little time left to put anything else in there. Their ideas and beliefs are seldom challeneged and refined, so there is much room for error and mistakes. It is only as we cultivate a heart that will listen to the Lord and to others that we will truly become men and women of wisdom. So next time you really don't want to listen in a conversation, but rather are itching to tell your point of view, step back for a moment and think. Am I by speaking so often letting everyone truly partake of wisdom - or instead am I proving more and more to them my utter lack thereof?
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A servant who acts wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully, And will share in the inheritance among brothers. Proverbs 17:2
When I read this proverb, I think of biblical situations of sons and servants. Sons in the Scriptures have acted shamefully. Consider Absalom who rebelled against his father and acted very shamefully. Absalom led a revolt against his father David - took over the kingdom - and subsequently had sex with 10 of David's concubines on the roof of the palace in the sight of all Israel. His shameful acts eventually led to his death on the battlefield among the trees of the forest. The books of Kings and Chronicles show again and again sons of the kings who acted with great shame and disgrace. Their kingdoms amounted to little as God had to become Israel and Judah's enemy due to their sin and rebellion against Him. Eli's sons in 1 Samuel acted disgustingly and shamefully by sleeping with women at the tent of meeting - and disdaining the sacrifices of God. These actions led to their death - and the devastation of Eli's house forever before God. Just as there are these sons who acted shamefully - there have also been servants who acted with great honor before God. Consider Abraham's servant, Eliezer, who took his son and made sure that he had a wife. This servant trusted in the Lord to provide the right bride for Issac. Elisha was a faithful servant to Elijah, washing his hands and learning from his master until the day that God allowed Elijah's mantle to fall on Elisha. God even gave to the faithful servant of Elijah a double portion of his spirit. There are a multitude of examples of faithful servants - and shameful sons. The servant who acts wisely and respectfully will eventually rule over the shameful son. A truly wise father will not give all to his son if his son is a fool. It is better to transfer wealth and influence to a godly and wise servant - than to a son who will only waste that wealth and destroy any future for a family business. That faithful servant often will share in the inheritance among all the other brothers - not because of a blood relationship - but due to a lifetime of service to the master. This proverb is primarily meant to describe the master/servant/son relationship that was prevalent in middle eastern society at that time, but there is also an important principle here for us today. In this situation the son took advantage of his relationship with the father and dishonored him. He acted shamefully and brought disgrace on his father's name and house. The servant acted wisely and respectfully and was honored for it - even to the point of sharing in the wealth of the father - and the inheritance. Thus we can learn two important lessons. Lesson #1 - Workplace wisdom! We need to learn that when we manifest a servant's heart to our employer - showing both wisdom and respect in the workplace - honor will come our way. How often have you heard of a situation where nepotism placed a son in a position of authority - only to have that son act shamefully and disgracefully on the job. In the end - a wise father will overlook this brat and place a faithful servant in charge in the end. This won't always be the case - especially when the father is negligent and overindulgent of the child. But know this . . . there are men who see the demise of their company when put into the hands of a disgraceful son - and will choose a faithful servant/worker instead. Therefore cultivate a servant's heart toward your master/employer. Honor him and respect him - giving him hard work and wise choices concerning what you do and how you do it. Work hard to make the company and your boss a success. In time you will become invaluable to the company - and possibly may be advanced over a disgraceful son in the end. Lesson #2 - Life! Cultivate a servant's heart in all that you do. In this proverb the man with the true servant's heart is honored. You will never regret developing and manifesting a servant's heart toward others. Even if you are not honored on earth or at your job, God Himself will honor you for living this way. Embrace the role of servant whenever you can. Oh, one last thing to remember as well . . . when God Himself came to this earth to accomplish His greatest work . . . He did not come as boss or as a spoiled brat who got His own way, He came as a servant. In the end - God highly exalted Him for His sacrifice, obedience, and servant's heart! That pretty much lets me know that we can expect the same from God if we embrace that same role all our days for His glory and honor. Commit your works to the LORD And your plans will be established. Proverbs 16:3
Plans . . . we all have them. Some people have detailed plans on just about everything, while others have sketchy plans at best. Where do planning and plans fit in the Christian life? How wise is it to plan and, how do you go about doing it? I doubt if every aspect of planning will be addressed by this proverb, but it is a good place to start. The actual Hebrew word that starts this proverb is "roll." When we commit our works to the Lord, what we are doing is rolling them onto Him. When I hear this word I see a picture of a man trying to roll this huge, heavy object. He is straining himself trying to get this thing rolling and keep it rolling. It is difficult work - and if he ever gets to a hill where he will have to roll it up that hill, he'll never be able to do it. That is us in our lives. We are living from day to day with things that we need to do. God calls us to walk through this life accomplishing these things - yet also calling us to get them done in a way which honors and glorifies Him. I don't know about anyone else, but for me this load is heavy. In fact, it is too heavy for me to bear and to carry. This is why I need to roll this burden and heavy load onto the Lord. What is involved in "rolling your works onto the Lord?" First we ask the Lord what kind of works we should be doing. This is accomplished by spending time in His Word and learning His heart each day we live. We learn what He wants us to be doing - and we go about doing those things to His glory. Second, we turn to Him for the strength to accomplish these works. It is a simple fact that the Christian life cannot be lived in our own strength. It is the life of Christ within us that enables us to live out God's purposes and plans. Third, we commit ourselves to this path and have no plan B. Here is a problem that often crops up in Christians. We are committed to God's plan - until it gets too difficult. When difficulties mount up and become too much for us - then we start looking for a different way - or want to modify God's way. The promise from God is that when we do this, our plans will be established. The plans of our heart need to be established by God. We can seek to establish them here on earth - but then the only promise we have is that they will last until our lives are over - or maybe a generation beyond. They will not last throughout eternity. If our plans are not established and made firm and fixed by God - we will carry nothing into eternity. We will lose it all. Living for our own plans and purposes is a dead-end lifestyle. Such a lifestyle of planning only plans for now - but does nothing for eternity. This counsel from Proverbs helps us make plans that will last - plans that God will approve - and plans that God will establish not only for now - or next week or year - but for all eternity. A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger. Proverbs 15:1
Ours is an offended society today. It seems to be a never-ending cycle in our news of someone who has said something that someone else considers offensive. The result is that the other person responds harshly to what has been said, which in turn stirs up more anger. I was listening to a radio show today and heard the host do his dead-level best to stir up as much anger as possible. Over and over again he spoke harshly against the things he was seeing commenting that our response should be anger and outrage. As I considered this proverb I began to realize that where we are going as a society is not good. It is getting to the point where we are unable to laugh at ourselves. Instead everyone just seems to be getting more and more outraged. That is why, at least for me, it was good to read this particular proverb today. This proverb begins with an assumption. Something has been said that can in some way offend - or at least cause a strong reaction in someone's mind. It speaks of a "gentle answer" which of course precludes that someone has either asked something - or said something that deserves a response. The question then hangs in the air, "How are we going to respond." What is interesting about this is that we're not being asked about content - we're being queried about the spirit of our response. A gentle answer turns away wrath. This is true when we are offended and want to offer a harsh answer to some way we've been hurt or offended. This requires wisdom. It also requires the work of God's Holy Spirit - or at least our dependence upon Him in these moments. We are at least reminded of the reward that we get when we choose to answer gently. This kind of answer turns away wrath. This word "wrath" indicates heat and rage. This is a person who is in the midst of hot displeasure or what the Bible calls, burning anger. This person is either on the edge of losing it - or - has already lost it. But a gentle, gracious answer will turn away this kind of response. How much we need this not just when we are angry and offended - but especially when someone else is this way. There are those times when someone is offended with us - and the situation can either turn more constructive - or it can get completely out of hand. If we respond to someone with harsh words - the situation is gone - but gentleness will often help the situation calm down and become far more profitable. But some don't want to answer gently. They let their anger go - and harsh words begin to flow from their mouths. Some think to answer gently is a sign of weakness. Give 'em what they've given you, or they'll walk all over you. By the way, these are also the people who frequently wind up in shouting matches - and have a long list of people who know better than to try to deal with them unless they have to. Harsh words stir up anger. The word stir is an interesting word. It means to cause something to take off, to ascend, or to go to another level. The word for anger here is "aph" and it actually describes the flaring of the nostrils. It describes someone who is angry. The Hebrews spoke of those who had a long nose which meant they were slow to wrath and anger. Someone with a short nose was someone with a quick temper. When we answer with harsh words, the person hearing us will have their anger elevated - it will go to another level - it will cause them to have a short nose, i.e. a quicker temper. I'm sure you've seen this. Someone begins an argument or voices their frustration. Rather than trying to understand, the second person just reacts - and away we go. I've watched things elevate quickly and have seen two people have their noses get shorter and shorter. Their anger grows - wrath is loosed - and soon a shouting match is the result. Here is the end of the matter. Showing restraint is a good thing! Showing a long fuse on your temper is wise. We are very wise when we choose NOT to escalate an argument with the way we speak our words. When we choose to answer gently and with wisdom, we will find God often diffusing a situation that easily could have wound up as a major blow up between us and our friend or neighbor. So choose gentleness . . . I doubt you will ever regret it! He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, But he who is devious in his ways despises Him. Proverbs 14:2
Do you fear God? There is a test that will determine whether you do or you do not fear God. This test is whether you walk in uprightness or not. To be "upright" means to be one who walks striaght in an ethical sense. It refers to the path that we choose to live in - or how we interact with others. When we walk in an upright manner we are not walking in crookedness. Of course when you speak of uprightness - you are defining this standard and this way of walking by what God says in His Word. We are warned by God in Proverbs chatper 2:13 to stay on the straight path of God's ways, and not to stray into the crooked path which would ignore God's Word and life as we want - or as the world dictates we should. When we do not choose to walk in this way - it indicates that we do not respect God. We don't think that there will be any kind of retribution for our ungodly actions and words. We simple think God does not act according to what His Word says. The second half of this proverb states things rather bluntly. The one who is devious in his ways despises God. This deviousness simply means that we do not walk in truth. We will try to do things and be deceitful and turn aside from the ways of the Lord. We are crooked and perverse - and according to this word's Hebrew definition we trust in our deviousness to get us through life. Thus we have adopted a lifestyle of doing what we think is necessary to get us what we want. When a man lives like this Scripture says that this man despises the Lord. He holds God in contempt - disdains him - and has no respect for the Lord or for His ways. It is important for us to get this. To choose deviousness indicates we hate God - and that we have no real respect for what His Word says and how it warns us against God's judgment and discipline. When we choose however to live as God desires - and choose that which is upright and true - that which is by God's design and desire - we are choosing to give God the respect and honor He deserves. A truly wise man does not despise God - He chooses to give God the glory that He deserves. From the fruit of a man's mouth he enjoys good, But the desire of the treacherous is violence. Proverbs 13:2
How we speak will often determine the level of blessing we enjoy in our lives. Now I do not speak of the way some mention words as if by our speaking we can create blessing and curse. This is the name it claim it crowd - who think merely mentioning we might be sick will insure we are because of our unbelief and our disobedience. This doctrine is just theological wind. What the proverb is teaching us is that when it comes to how we speak - what we give is often what we get. On the good side of things, the man who speaks what is good and uses his mouth to build up and love others - will in turn enjoy that same good as it comes back to him. It is interesting that the proverb states the from the fruit of a man's mouth he enjoys good things. What is the fruit of the man's mouth - that is mentioned here? It is not just the words he speaks - but what they lead to that is the focus of this passage. We speak something or say it. Where does that lead? If we speak godless, critical, unholy words, we will most definitely receive a harvest from these words. That is what the writer of Proverbs is trying to tell us. Be careful what you speak - because there is a harvest of your words that is coming. You can enjoy good from what you speak - and you can experience bad as well. There is a contrary aspect to how we speak. We read here of the desire of the treacherous man next. There are those whose mouths are filled with treachery and violence. They speak things that should not be said. Their mouths are used to injure rather than build up and encourage. Their mouths are unkind and unloving - and the end of their words is violence. How we need to see this and realize that our words and our mouths will pave a way for us. When we use them rightly our words pave the way for good things coming back to us. But when we become treacherous, deceitful, and ungodly in our speaking - it too will come back upon us - but only in the way of violence and problems. Watch how you speak. It will determine what is coming to you in the end. Speak and act as those who know that they will be judged by God for every idle word we speak. That way you know that there is a harvest of your words that is coming - and you will receive your just dues based on the words that you chose to use - whether good or evil. A good man will obtain favor from the LORD, But He will condemn a man who devises evil. Proverbs 12:2
Good and evil men . . . here we find ourselves with the biblical worldview running headlong into the worldview that sees morality as something that is relative. It is interesting to see that today we don't hear things often referred to as being good or evil. Yet that is exactly what the Scriptures speak of in today's proverb of the day. The good man is the man who is well-pleasing. There is a loaded statement if ever one was made. The question is asked - and rightfully so - pleasing to whom? Well, in this case, the well-pleasing man is the one who lives well pleasing to Jehovah. This is what is told to us in this proverb. This good man - the one who is well-pleasing - receives favor from God. Thus the one he is pleasing is God Himself. Look further into the Hebrew word "tobah" which is the word used for "good" here and you will see this clearly. The word means not just well-pleasing, but also fruitful, morally correct and proper. The idea is that good is in th eyes of God Himself - Who is the One determining the "rules" for good and evil. Ah, again we run into a wall in regard to worldview. Yes, God is the One who determines the rules - Who sets them - Who has given us His moral Law and calls us to obey and walk according to it. The man who seeks to walk according to this moral law is the one God refers to as the good man. The benefit for walking in this way is God's favor - which means pleasure, delight, acceptance. God offers to the good man His favor. Thus the good man knows that God takes pleasure in his ways - He delights in how He is living - and His lifestyle is one that God accepts. How men rebel against things like this. How can we be so arrogant as to say one lifestyle is superior to another? The world hates it when we say that a lifestyle is morally superior to others - and inversely - when a lifestyle is considered immoral. They want all lifestyles to be considered valid in their own way. What they don't understand is that in making that assertion they make it to where the only immoral lifestyle is the one that holds to any morals. In addition to this - they also place all moral judgments on shifting sands of public opinion. In effect they lower all moral choices to the level of no moral choice at all. Everything goes in their worldview - because the most immoral judgment at all is ever voicing a moral judgment. God lays the foundations for moral choices and moral judgments in this world. He does so because He is God - because He is creator - and because He is both true and just. Thus we read the second half of this proverb which says, "but He will condemn a man who devises evil." There it is again - a moral standard. God sets it - and when a man begins devising (thinking, considering, setting up) evil - God brings a moral judgment to the table. God condemns such behavior. How is evil defined? God is the One who defines it in His Word. Since He is just - He will set up what is just and good and all that does not agree with Him and what He says, is evil. Here is the crux of this proverb. The truth is that there is a moral standard in the world. God has set it. If there is no moral standard set by a being outside of this creation - then there is no moral standard. Worse that this - the actual working out of this lie is that there will be a standard - but it will be set up by men - and eventually enforced by unjust men who will have things their way. You wind up with a moral morass. Things WILL spin out of control. It is far better to have God set up what is right and wrong - and do so by a Word that He has given to reveal what that is in the world. God gives us His Law and His commandments. He does so without any respect of persons - and - in the end He alone will be the One before Whom we stand - and through Whom we will know whether we are called someone good or someone evil. When pride comes, then comes dishonor, But with the humble is wisdom. Proverbs 11:2
Prideful attitudes and actions are something to be avoided at all costs. The Bible actually has a lot to say about pride - and very little of it if any is good. Here the kind of pride we are warned against is actually presumption. It is when we presume upon the Lord thinking that we know exactly what needs to be done or said - when the fact is that we don't have a clue what God's will is. We are warned here that when this kind of presumptuous pride comes then shame and disgrace come with it. When we decide that we know better than God - or - when we just are too busy doing what we want - and forget or choose not to ask Him - we are about to face some serious shame and disgrace. God is not a fan of those who presume to know His will and don't ask Him. Take the history of Joshua and Gibeonites in Joshua 6. The men came to Joshua hiding who they were with deception. Their clothes were worn out and their provisions were hard and crusty - as if they had been on a long journey. Israel decided to believe their eyes and make a decision without asking the Lord. The end was a disaster. They actually made a covenant with one of the nations of Canaan. Here is presumptuous pride ending in a shameful and disgraceful situation. The best thing for us is to humble ourselves and admit that without the wisdom of God, we won't be able to make good godly decisions. To do otherwise is to be prideful - and be set up to make very bad decisions. The Word tells us that with the humble there is wisdom. The humble are those who act with meekness. They are not arrogant or boastful - they embrace the truth of God concerning their own fallen nature - and choose to turn to Him for direction and leadership in what they do. The humble man is filled with wisdom - he sees things from God's perspective because he seeks the Lord who can direct him. There is not presumption here - but rather a seeking, humble, and obedient heart. This wise man wants to know God's take on what he thinks he may do. As a result there is not shame and disgrace - but honor and grace poured out so that this man is truly blessed. The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish son is a grief to his mother. Proverbs 10:1
We now move to Proverbs that Solomon wrote - not so much advice from his own father and mother - but those pithy little one verse statements that we treasure from him when trying to make wise decisions. The first of these deals with how a wise and foolish son affects a family. The wise son is the one who orders his life according to God's commandments and ways. He walks through life with the Word of God foremost in his mind and choices. What is interesting here is that the Scriptures says that this son makes his father glad. The word for glad here is "samah" and it means to be glad, rejoice, be joyful, even to gloat. This is the day who wants to brag on his boy and the great choices he is making. You can see him telling everyone about his son's achievements. This is the case when a son gets a Ph.D. or when he is a football star. But what we need to note here is that the reason this father is glad is because his son is wise. That means this son may not have been the star of the team or the number one student in his class. He may not have been the doctor or the wildly successful businessman. All these things you can achieve without being wise or understanding. This definitely reminds dads what is important - and that is wisdom. If our sons become wise men who love the Lord and honor Him with their lives - we should be ecstatic! That is what is important and what really matters. Oh dads, make this your goal and the thing you strive for in rearing your sons. What a much better world this would be if we had young men who were urged toward wisdom rather than toward the normal cast of worldly achievements. The latter half of this verse is not as joyful as the first. It says that the foolish son is a grief to his mother. This is the classic word for fool used again - the one who has no idea of how to live before God in a successful, practical, godly way. He lacks any kind of real spiritual wisdom or undersanding of life. He is pretty much oblivious to the whole idea of living for God's purposes, plans, and glory. As a result, though he may be wildly successful in the eyes of men - before God he is a spiritual pygmy. The commentary on this boy is that he is a grief to his momma. This grief is a sorrow and it speaks of a feeling of great loss and loneliness. When it comes to this verse I don't have to speak from principle - I know what this looks like up close and personal. My two sons walk with the Lord today - but there was a period of about 3-4 years when they did not. I grieved and prayed during this time - desiring for my boys to turn their hearts and lives to God. But my wife was a different story. Her grieving went so much deeper than my own. She wept often and spent hours praying for her boys. It broke her heart to see them not desire to walk in God's ways. Her reaction to them was probably ten times more intense than my own. It was painful at times when I watched her grieve this way - but she was pretty much inconsolable until they had returned to living for Christ. I'm not even sure that a guy can grasp how deeply a mother grieves for her children - especially her sons. I know that this verse does not seem to be positive - and honestly it isn't. It is primarily a warning to sons to live for Christ. I think it is also a verse that warns parents of how much their children's choices will affect their own lives. But I want to offer a tinge of hope to those who have wayward sons. Embrace the grieving and allow the Lord to use it to empower your prayers. Also allow Him to use it to bring a deeper repentance and turning to Him in your own lives. That is what I watched my own sweetheart do when she walked through 3-4 pretty dark years of her life. But I also say that she would not let go until her sons were serving the Lord. I'm watching it even today as we rear our daughters. I'm committed to this process - but there is something deeper in her. For her it is life itself. She has poured her life into our kids - and to be honest there is within her a determination that they follow Christ. For that I am grateful - for I think that the way our kids follow the Lord is far more due to her prayers and tears - than it is to mine. He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself, And he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself. Proverbs 9:7
There are certain people who you just cannot correct or reprove. They will not receive it. But there is a category of folks who will not receive it and then will verbally attack instead. That is the person who is described in this verse of Proverbs. The first thing we see here is the action of the one wanting to help. I know that at times when someone offers correction and reproof we might think that they are being annoying or that they're being a nitpicker. Truth is that it is a kind and loving thing to have someone correct you when you are sinning. It is a lack of love or fear that makes us not offer loving correction when it is needed. (Just a word of caution here though - if you seem to always be offering correction - remember this - Paul offered a great deal of praise too. Proverbs tells us that we catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Paul actually started each of his letters with praise for those to whom he was writing. Therefore we need to balance correction with a healthy dose of prasie and encouragement) The one offering correction is offering a form of discipline. We are being disciplined so that we live according to how God wants us to live and how He wants us to react to life itself each day. This word also has an aspect of teaching and warning in it. Often our correction needs a touch of teaching. We may know the way to go - but remember in our society that there are many who have not had great biblical parenting and who really DON'T KNOW the teaching we do. We might want to start with gentle, loving instruction to begin the process of correction. The second word used for this correction is "to reprove." This is a pretty cool word because with it is the idea of arguing to convince someone. We are wanting to reprove - but often that means convincing someone of the truth of what we are saying - or more importantly the truth of God's Word on the matter. It has the idea also of convicting and judging an action - not in a condemning way - but rather to help soemone make a clarification as to the moral choices that they are making. Too often we see these two words - correction and reproof as negative words. We see them described in too harshly - rather than in the context of teaching, training, and offering the kind of loving instruction people need to grow spiritually. If we began to see these things in the context mentioned here - we might embrace them as a way of living and a way of encouraging one another. Now the problem arises for the one offering correction and reproof. First, they are trying to correct a scoffer. The scoffer is the one who laughs at the things of God. They mock at the commandments and morals that God puts forth. They hate God and think the purity of His ways and teachings is nothing more than unwarranted restrictions on people who are free to do as they want. Therefore they heap dishonor on the one offering the correction. They consider it a disgrace to be spoken to in this way - a sign of their incredible pride and arrogance. The reprover gets it worse - we are told he gets insults. The word here pictures someone being put on display so that they are scorned and mocked. When this happens - the result is that they are dishonored - but more than this, the words are meant to ruin, to shame, and to drop the person in the minds and thoughts of all who hear the insults. All this for trying to offer teaching and instruction from God's Word that will ultimately help this person. Here is the wisdom that you need to receive today. I don't think the Lord is wanting us to read this and decide to remove the whole correction and reproof thing from our lives. There are too many instances when the Lord had His people speak the truth even though it got them insulted for it. When you think of it - that is what happened to Jesus again and again. Yet the Lord did not have Jesus step back from the truth and tone it down when it came to speaking the truth to the world. But . . . we do need to know what we are getting into when we speak the truth. We may be insulted - we may be dishonored. It is not a high and lofty position in men's eyes to be one who speaks the truth of God. Often it is a position of shame and disgrace. You do get insults for yourself - and you are treated with contempt by this world and its inhabitants. So why should we speak the truth? Because God calls us to speak it in love. Because without it this world is doomed beyond imagination. Because when we do so - we become like our Teacher - the Lord Jesus Christ. He unswervingly spoke the truth to the glory of God. It may have cost him in the eyes of men - but it was to the everlasting praise of God and good for mankind that He did. |
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