Weekly Scripture 5-10-2026

Answer:

This comes from Malachi

__:__Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

*This is increasingly the outlook of mankind in our day and time. People that are doing evil act as if they are doing good and they even have the audacity to be proud of it knowing they did it in the sight of the Lord, and they are happy with their evil. They seem to think that since no judgment has come upon them from God instantly, then what they are doing must be just fine with Him. Mankind will stop at no lengths to try to justify their actions against what God says is right and excuses abound for evil behavior on mankind's part. It seems to be the case that mankind always turns to a ritual or some form of religion to try to satisfy or justify himself before Almighty God because they are unwilling to repent and turn to Him. I think God was telling these people in this day that their religion and ritual was making Him tired...and that their ritual was actually of no value to Him because it was not true worship. When I look at our society today and see the likeness in the attitude of people today to these people, maybe that is the reason why church attendance has been declining in recent years. Maybe people have become tired of church because their hearts are not true and right toward Almighty God, and they were only going through a ritual. Do you think possibly that since those people made God tired with their religiosity that we make Him tired with ours?

Weekly Scripture 5-3-2026

Answer: Proverbs 29:9-12

This comes from Proverbs.

__:__-__ If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest. The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul. A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

*There is just no end to the amount of arguing that you can do with a foolish person, and it normally ends in anger and ridicule. Most of the time people that argue with the wisdom of wise people; that is people that actually listen to God, are actually filled with hate toward the people that they argue with, and you will notice that the term upright has been used in one of the verses. They hate the way of the upright because the “wise and upright person” has chosen wisdom over the things of the world which lead to destruction. In the last verse listed above you find a leader that actually listens to the lies that are spoken by the people around them. A leader such as this has chosen people that will tell lies to protect them, and tell lies to flatter them. The end result is that they surround themselves with babbling liars that have no moral direction or sense of right versus wrong. The liars that they surround themselves with, when the time comes will say or do anything to protect their own skin and they will forget the lies and fake loyalty they had toward the wicked ruler that listened to their flattery in the first place. You can take it to the bank, because it happens everyday of the week in all kinds of places and settings on this earth.