Proverbs 6:15 Commentary - Dr Peter Masters

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Proverbs 6:15

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In the end, something happens, and he is exposed in the district; he goes a step too far, and somebody takes measures against him, and takes him to court. Or maybe they take the law into their own hands, however wrongly and illegally, and he comes to a bad end; but regardless his place in the district is so scandalous, so shameful, that his business is broken, and he can go no further.What is all this a picture of? Well, it continues to illustrate the folly of being sucked into this world, away from Christ, away from the gospel, and Solomon uses these graphic illustrations, under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, to describe worldliness, and atheism, and godlessness. You see, the district salesman was not productive, and nor are we. If I am away from God and I am in this world just to live for what I can get, just to live off my wits, I am not productive for God. I have not got a new life and a new character. I am not bringing forth fruit to him. I am a son of Belial, just worthless, living to get the flattery and the applause, living for entertainment and recreation and leisure and pleasure. Sometimes having to lie my way out of problems, a dubious character, just living on the surface of the earth.

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And that is Solomon's picture of us, when we are on the run from God, when we are trying to make out in life without the living God. The world tries to represent it exactly the opposite way round. It says that it is religion which is outdated, it is the notion of God which is absurd, it is these things which are preposterous. ‘Do not be shackled by that, be free, indulge yourself, be fulfilled, do what you like.’ But the word of God holds it exactly the other way about. If I am away from God I have a limited cramped life, living with no future, producing nothing of spiritual value. I am completely ignorant of the deep things of life, a trivial person, lying my way through life, with unreality, and falsehood. That is the picture of the one who is away from God. Oh the mercy of God, to gather us in, and to bring us back to him.

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