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Today we read a proverb that points to some of the pitfalls of immorality. This verse is describing an unsaved individual. When someone does not have Jesus to pay for their sins; then their own sins will condemn them because they have no Saviour. When an individual has no Saviour; they cannot hide their sins:
"But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out. Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth. And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead: But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith." (Numbers 32:23-27).
Sin is transgression against the LORD and that is why His grace and forgiveness is needed. Otherwise we are in contempt against the Creator of us and the universe. Fortunately God gave His people a remedy for their sins and that is salvation by and through the faith of Christ alone. In Psalm 9 we read:
"Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah." (Psalm 9:11-20).
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