Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people (Proverbs 14:34) expresses a foundational principle and an unchanging fact. Right doing or walking according to the Divine Rule—is the basic condition of national prosperity. A righteous administration of government and the public worship of God, gives an ascendancy to a people over those where such things prevail not. Nothing so tends to uphold the throne, elevate the mind of the masses, promote industry, sobriety and equity between man and man, as does the genuine practice of piety, the preservation of the virtues and suppression of vice, as nothing more qualifies a nation for the favor of God. Righteousness is productive of health, of population, of peace and prosperity. But every kind of sin has the contrary tendency. The prevalence of vice and impiety is a nations reproach, conduces to disunion, weakness and disgraces, and exposes any people to the wrath and vengeance of God (Thomas Scott). When sin has become a public reproach then ruin is imminent. ~ A.W. Pink
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:26:47 +0000
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