First of all, we found out before that wisdom gives us the knowledge of right and wrong, so this will extend to people. wisdom will help us tell the difference between an evil man, and a good man. There really is a divide from Christians and non Christians, it's all or nothing really. So, there is the divide between the evil man, and the good man. As Christians, i'm not saying we're good, we're no better than non Christians. But this passage is telling us that wisdom will help keep us away from evil people, and stop us from being lost ourselves.
The first verse explains how wisdom can keep us from the wicked people, who words are bad. Words that are bad does extend to a number of different things such as:
- gossiping
- lying
- swearing
- backstabbing
- hypocrisy
- criticizing
- belittling others
- and etcOkay so first off, there's the clear distinction that words that are bad, belong to evil people, and that Christians should not be saying words like this.
The people who speak like this, who are evil, also don't do what is right, and the do what is evil. Okay so in NKJC it talks of people who leave the Christian faith, and then go onto being a non Christian. It is really sad when someone backslides. It poses many questions, like were they ever really Christians, and were they really the elect? Will they get into heaven for once believing in Jesus? I'm sorry but I can't answer these but God can. But even though you can have a strong faith, you are either moving forward in faith, or backsliding, there's never a happy medium where you can do nothing and stay in the same state of faith. So although it's easy to say that you personally will never backslide from not being a Christian (because I can never ever really see how my life can be without Christ) we can be lesser Christians and less strong in our faith. I think it's the saddest thing when people backslide, just because they knew Christianity, and they knew the amazing benefits and truths of it, but decided to go against. In comparison, an atheist may not know all the amazing things of our faith, and this is why they aren't Christians. Makes it 10x harder to help convert a backslider, because they have their arguments against Christianity all sorted out, while some atheists just aren't Christians because they haven't been brought up that way.
the next part, says that the evil people enjoy doing wrong, and they are happy to be sinning, what they do is wrong, and they are dishonest. These people have the ideologies of the world, of immediate gratification, to do things just to please themselves, and that life has to be "fun" all the time. To some extent they may not even see what they are doing as sinning, just because it is a natural thing to do in this very sinful world. we have to be so careful to not be influenced by these people, to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus and to have our hearts fixed on eternity, not in this world.
so wisdom helps us to recognize all of this, and help us stay away. and yeeees, we shouldn't be influenced by these people at all, because it will be compromising our beliefs, but we should still try help these people see how amazing Jesus is :)
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