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 Monday, March 11, 2019. Let us discuss honesty and integrity. Let us discuss pride versus humility,
-riches versus righteousness, purity versus wickedness.
+riches versus righteousness, purity versus wickedness. The book Proverbs, part of the wisdom
+literature of the Old Testament, is addressing these things. We are invited to think about it.
+We are called to wisdom!
+Discussing wisdom has some tradition in human history. Today, it is usually hidden in particular
+tasks, for example the discussion about environmental protection implicitly talks about wisdom.
+How should we as human race deal with the earth, with our environment, with animals and plants?
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 ** The humble ... **
+Let us look into the book of Proverbs, let us read about wisdom as described by Solomon,
+the son of David. There is much to learn here.
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+The biblical arguments work on two levels. First, integrity and humility has its merit in itself.
+Integrity leads to life, just because people treat each other fairly. Fairness is the basis of
+any working society. Only if you can rely on others, when you buy and sell, when you make contracts,
+when you deal with them on many social layers, only then you and others will prosper. Where ever
+false balance and injustice takes over, a society is destroyed. The basic level of argument here
+is very general.
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 ** Integrity ... **
+The second level of argument in our text includes the knowledge of the Lord. God is there, and God
+is pure. He is holy. He is full of trust, integrity and justice. Knowing the beginning and the end,
+how can any injustice survive? How can anything which lacks integrity survive? The second level
+of argument is the universal level which touches the foundation of all that exists. God, the creator,
+the eternal, is the ultimate reference for all that is.
+The bible does not hesitate to formulate clear warnings based on its knowledge of the Lord.
+"The crookedness of the treacherous destroys them". Here, it is arguing again on the first level
+we talked about. It is the crookedness itself which destroys. It is the perfidiousness itself,
+which leads to destruction! This argument is applied to several things, we need look into the text to
+take them up and to understand.
+There are many promises hidden in this text. With the humble is wisdom. The integrity of the upright
+guides them. Righteousness delivers from death. In full consequence we can even see the story of
+Christ indicated here - who is the righteous one of God, by whom death is beaten forever. There
+is freedom coming with righteousness. The captives are free, this is finally complete with Christ!
 (Roland Potthast)
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