The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand. Sermons
I. THE PLACE OF THOUGHT IN MAN. This is one of the greatest importance, for it is the deepest of all; it is at the very foundation. 1. Conduct rests on character. It is often said that conduct is the greater part of life; it is certainly that part which is most conspicuous, and therefore most influential. But it is superficial; it rests on character; it depends on the principles which are within the soul. It is these which determine a man's position in the kingdom of God. 2. Character is determined by our prevalent and established feeling; by what we have learned to love, by what we have come to hate. As a man thinketh in his heart, as he feels in his soul, so is he; it is our final and fixed attachments and repulsions that decide our character. 3. Feeling springs from thought. As we think, we feel. By the thoughts admitted to our minds and entertained there are determined our loves and our hatreds. Life, therefore, is ultimately built on thought. What are we thinking? - this is the vital question. Now, the thoughts of the righteous, the upright, the good, the true man, are right, or just. II. THE JUST THOUGHTS OF THE GOOD. A good man's thoughts are such as are: 1. Just to himself. He owes it to himself to thick only those thoughts which are pure and true. If he harbours those which are impure and untrue, he is doing himself deadly injury, he is inflicting on his spirit, on himself, a fatal wound. This he has no right to do; he is bound, in justice to himself, to guard the gate of his mind against these - to admit only those which are true and pure. 2. Just to his neighbours. He owes it to them to think thoughts that are honest and charitable. We wrong our brethren, in truth and fact if not in appearance, when we think of them that which is not fair toward them. Every really righteous man will therefore banish thoughts which are not thoroughly honest, and also those which are uncharitable; for to be uncharitable is to be essentially and most materially unjust. 3. Just to God. We owe to our Divine Creator and Redeemer all thoughts which are (1) reverent, leading us to piety and devotion; (2) grateful, leading us to thankful praise; (3) submissive, leading us to the one decisive, all-inclusive act of self-surrender, and to daily and hourly obedience to his holy will; (4) trustful, leading us to a calm assurance that all is well with us, and that the darkness or the twilight will pass into the perfect day. - C.
But the house of the righteous shall stand. I. In the first place, the CIRCUMSTANCE OF BELONGING TO THE HOUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS, IS A GREAT SECURITY THAT THE EARLY PRINCIPLES WHICH SO COMMONLY DECIDE THE CHARACTER OF THE MAN, HAVE BEEN THE SUBJECTS OF A JUDICIOUS AND ANXIOUS ATTENTION. The child of such a house cannot have been left to collect from the chance companions of after-life those important truths upon the knowledge of which so much depends.II. It is a second advantage belonging to the house of the righteous THAT THE COMPANIONS AND EXAMPLES FURNISHED BY IT ARE LIKELY TO HAVE A POWERFUL INFLUENCE IN DEEPENING EVERY GOOD IMPRESSION, and recommending every valuable lesson received in it. III. It is another privilege belonging to an early education in the house of the righteous THAT VIRTUE IS THERE SEEN FROM THE FIRST IN ITS OWN LOVELY FORM, AND ITS INFLUENCE FELT TO BE FULL OF CALM AND LASTING ENJOYMENT. IV. Another of these advantages is THE ADDITIONAL MOTIVE FELT IN SUCH A CONNECTION TO RESPECTABLE CONDUCT — to conduct which may recommend us to the continued regard of the numerous and friendly witnesses who, with anxious interest, are watching our progress. (J. G. Robberds.) People SolomonPlaces JerusalemTopics Evil-doers, Firm, Overthrow, Overthrown, Overturned, Righteous, Stand, Standeth, Stands, Upright, WickedOutline 1. Whoever loves discipline loves knowledgeDictionary of Bible Themes Proverbs 12:7 5339 home Library The Many-Sided Contrast of Wisdom and Folly'Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. 2. A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. 3. A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. 4. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. 5. The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. 6. The words of the wicked are to lie … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture April the Twenty-Second Speech as a Symptom of Health To Pastors and Teachers Of Having Confidence in God when Evil Words are Cast at Us The Ninth Commandment The Authority and Utility of the Scriptures "But Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God, and his Righteousness, and all These Things Shall be Added unto You. " Proverbs Links Proverbs 12:7 NIVProverbs 12:7 NLT Proverbs 12:7 ESV Proverbs 12:7 NASB Proverbs 12:7 KJV Proverbs 12:7 Bible Apps Proverbs 12:7 Parallel Proverbs 12:7 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 12:7 Chinese Bible Proverbs 12:7 French Bible Proverbs 12:7 German Bible Proverbs 12:7 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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