Proverbs 17:19 When God Says...I Say, AMEN!

When God says...

“He who loves transgression loves strife, And he who exalts his gate seeks destruction.” (Proverbs 17:19 NKJV)

Here's another warning against arrogance and godlessness, specially those who reject the saving grace of Jesus. Self-exaltation ends in humiliation like those magicians who opposed Moses (Moses was a Christ-like foreshadow) at the court of Pharaoh in Egypt. Like the destruction of those rebellious Israelites who coaxed Aaron into worship of the golden calf (Exodus 32). And, like those who challenged God's authority through Moses (Numbers 16). Apostle Paul referred them as Jannes and Jambres in his letter to Timothy.

Without the Lordship of Christ, there is only life of sinfulness and tumult, like the kind of environment in these days. The days we are in, is what Apostle Paul warned in his letter to Timothy. It is written: “You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that! They are the kind who work their way into people’s homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. (Such women are forever following new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth.) These teachers oppose the truth just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses. They have depraved minds and a counterfeit faith. But they won’t get away with this for long. Someday everyone will recognize what fools they are, just as with Jannes and Jambres.” (2 Timothy 3:1-9 NLT)

All those who challenged Moses were swallowed in the gate of destruction, as it is written: "So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly." (Numbers 16:33 ESV)

And I say, AMEN!

Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries

(When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.)

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