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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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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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! | ||
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