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Proverbs 30:10
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He now speaks of the great need of cleansing, otherwise God must judge us and send us from him forever. He uses a string of illustrations to make this point.The idea of this verse is that I am as guilty as the person I am accusing. Do not go accusing others to their masters if you have done the same thing, or worse, for how can you think that your own sins will not be brought to light? That servant whom you accuse is accountable to his master, but you also have a Master in heaven you are accountable to, for the master of all men and women is the Lord and he hates hypocrisy. In the parable Christ represents the master as initially forgiving his servant his debt, but on hearing that that servant has refused to forgive a much smaller debt owed to him by another servant, he reverses his decision. The Lord sees everything and nothing escapes his notice. Do we imagine that he will accept our charges against others and not charge us also for doing the same thing? God is not like a fallible human judge who only has partial knowledge. He sees all and every case must come before him for he does not delegate the final judgment to a lesser court. Our hypocrisy increases our guilt above the original fault, because the hypocrite is a perverter of justice. He wants to blind the judge when it comes to his own behaviour.In the compressed language of the proverb the servant who we have accused knows something about us, some evil that we had done. Now he is no longer prepared to keep quiet about it, and by accusing him we have unleashed an avalanche against ourselves. That servant will go straight to the master and make a counter charge against us, and we will be found guilty.
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We ought rather to be concerned about our own sins before we say anything about the sins of others. We will not be judged for the sins of others but for our own sins. We cannot repent on behalf of others but we can repent only for our own sins. Let us hurry to do that before God’s patience with us is exhausted, for once he decides to prosecute us, nothing else will matter to us. Comparative righteousness is a trick of the devil. He gets us to compare ourselves with another who we count more evil than ourselves. God, however, will judge us not by comparing us with others, but by comparing us with himself. An honest approach to God sets aside every other consideration apart from our own great need of forgiveness.
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