PROFITING FROM PROVERBS – 2/19/2021

PROFITING FROM PROVERBS – 2/19/2021 Posted on TOPICS: KEYWORDS: “Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge” (Proverbs 19:25). “Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware,” there are two separate persons that suffer punishment. Both the scorner and the righteous. Now, usually when you reprove the scorner, it doesn’t help him, but it will help somebody else. And then there are others that you can punish and it will help them—they will get right and they will do right, and they will try to avoid that situation again. We have a wrong understanding about punishment in America. America has the concept that punishment should be rehabilitative, and that is not necessarily what punishment is for. Punishment is meant to punish the wrongdoing. In the essence of the idea for punishment it is for doing wrong, it is to punish a man for what he did against society, or what he did against God, or what he did against some other individual. So, it is not rehabilitative, but when punishment is meted out, somebody profits.