Proverbs 11:1 Our God is emphatically a God of justice. Wherever there is deceit in the world, wherever injury, wherever oppression, there is God's anger and loathing accompanying it. I. The false balance, which is an abomination to the Lord, where do we not see it around us? Of every rank and cla... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverbs 11:13 I. A talebearer. One celebrated nation of antiquity used to express this man's character by a very significant figure. They called a talebearer a "seedpicker." There are men in the world who live by their seed-collecting: by going about here and there, from house to house, from stree... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverbs 11:21 The one peculiar and characteristic sin of the world is this, that whereas God would have us live for the life to come, the world would make us live for this life. It takes, as the main scope of human exertion, an end which God forbids, and consequently all that it does becomes evil,... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverbs 11:25 I. The theory can be submitted to a practical test. II. All true getting is based upon true giving. III. Self-care is self-defeat. We must work for others if we would be truly blessed ourselves. Parker, _City Temple,_vol. i., p. 61. References: Proverbs 11:25. Spurgeon, _Sermons,_... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverbs 11:30 I. The true Christian is not satisfied to watch and work for his own salvation, but he remembers the souls of others also. Every soul won for Christ is a token of His favour. The success of our efforts proves that we have used the right means in the right way, so that the planting an... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverbs 11:31 I. God is impartial. He is no respecter of persons, but causing His sun to shine on the evil and the good, and His rain to fall on the just and on the unjust; and so rewarding every man according to his work, paying him for all work done, of whatever kind it may be. Some work for thi... [ Continue Reading ]