Instruction

Proverbs 27:25-28:4 – When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in, the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field. You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants. The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers, but a ruler with discernment and knowledge maintains order. A ruler who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no crops. Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them.

Psalm 119:53 – Indignation grips me because of the wicked, who have forsaken your law.

Ephesians 5:7 – Therefore do not be partners with them.

Application:

• ·         Israel’s rebellion often brought frequent and rapid change in leadership
• ·         Zeal for God’s law awakens righteous anger against those who reject it and brings abhorrence of all that is contrary to it, but it draws together those who honor it.
• ·         Although Christians live in normal social relationships with others, as did the Lord Jesus, they are not to participate in the sinful lifestyle of unbelievers.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV