Parenting by the Book
STUDY 245
Text: Proverbs 20
5 March 2006
Dear Parents,
THE THINGS THAT ARE AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD
It is wise to make a list of things that are “an abomination to the Lord” as we read the Book of Proverbs. (Keep this for your file.) We have one more stated here.
Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD,
And dishonest scales are not good.Proverbs 20:23
1. Back in old days
It is interesting to talk to children about “the old days”. History is always good for the building of bonds between parents and children.
2. Weights and scales
In the modern day supermarket, all weighing machines are digitalized. In the old days, weight and scales were used.
a) It was easy to cheat customers.
Dishonest merchants could cheat their customers easily.
b) The uneducated were the most pitiable victims.
Merchants could make use of different weights to cheat their unsuspecting customers. Often the very poor suffer terribly.
c) Diverse weight and dishonest scales.
These were all too common. Through means like that, merchants grew wealthy, but at the expense of the poor victims.
INCURRING THE DISPLEASURE OF THE LORD
The merchants may laugh up their sleeves that they have gotten away with their misdeeds. However, the warning had to be given forthrightly. Such practices were an abomination to the Lord!
REMINDERS OF THE LORD’S WORD CONCERNING SUCH DEEDS
Let us recall what the Scriptures teach concerning such ill-gotten gains.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing…
Proverbs 10:2
… the name of the wicked shall rot.
Proverbs 10:7
The wages of the wicked to sin (more and more)
Proverbs 10:16
Prayerfully,
Pastor Charlie