Etymology of the Word
Dispise Continued
Proverbs
15:32
Psalm 19:7-11
April
21, 2024
“He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul! (Proverbs 15:32)
7 “The law of the Lord is perfecct, converting
the soul: the testimony of the Lord is
sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the
heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of
the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether:
10
More to be desired are they
than gold, yea, than much
fine gold: sweeter also than
honey and the honeycomb. 11Moreover by
them
is thy servant warned:
and in the keeping of them is great reward.” (Psalm 19:7-11)
On March 24 - Despising the Word
of God - A Case
Study of a Nation
(with
some background) This in reference to
what it led to and in reference to where it is leading the
March 31 - Despising
the Word of God by Individuals Among the General
Populace which leads to THE DANGER OF LOSING THEIR
OWN SOULS.
April 7 - Despisers at the End which hastens the Second Coming of Jesus Christ
and the end of
the world.
Today let us look closely into the meaning of what it is to
despise God,
His Christ, His Spirit, His commandments,
His will, and His plan for the
world, foryou, me and
all mankind!
Three weeks ago we looked at the
warnings:
·
through the Prophet Isaiah, circa. 712 B. C.: (ch. 29:10-17)
·
through
the Prophet Habakkuk, circa 626 B. C.: (ch. 1:5-7,9)
I had planned to use the warning of
the Apostle Paul but didn’t get that far,
so I will pick that up today.
·
through the Apostle Paul, circa. 45 A.D: (Acts 13:37-41) 12 yrs after
the resurrection. Two weeks was Easter Sunday - we celebrated
the
resurrection,1979
years later! CY 2024)
Paul
says: Acts 13:37-41
37 But He, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known
unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through
this man is
preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by Him
all that believe are justified from all things, from which
ye could not
be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware
therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of
in
the prophets;
41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work
in
your days, a
work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man
declare it unto
you. (Habakkuk 1:5)
It is from this verse I get
the title of the lesson, re-enforced by II Timothy 3:3!
“despisers of those who are good”.
As we will see, there are other scriptures to back up the
idea.
Despiser: to look down on with disrespect or aversion;
to
regard as negligible,
worthless, or distasteful;
aversion - dislike of; hate. To turn
away from, avoid, steer clear of, keep away,
stay
away; circumvent, get around, bypass.
negligible - trivial; trifling;
insignificant; unimportant; minor; of no account
trivial - petty - inconsequential;
small
Concerning
Amos revealed God’s word to him: “Thus
saith the Lord; For three
transgressions of
punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord*,
and
have not kept His commandments,
and their lies have caused them to err,
after the which their fathers walked.” (Amos
2:4)
One
of the causes of their demise was the despising of the law of God.
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II Chronicles 36:14-21
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the
people, transgressed
very much after all the abominations of the
heathen; and polluted
the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in
15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them
by His
messengers, rising up betimes, and sending;
because He had
compassion on His people, and on His dwelling
place
16 But they
mocked the messengers of God, and despised: His words, *
and misused His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose
against His people, till there was no remedy.
17 Therefore He brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who
slew their young men with the sword in the house
of their
sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or
maiden, old
man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all
into his hand.
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great
and small, and the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king,
and of his princes; all these he brought to
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down
the wall of
Jerusalem,
and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and
destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried
he away to
reign of the
21 To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of
Jeremiah, until the
land had enjoyed her sabbaths:
for as long as she lay desolate she
kept sabbath,
to fulfil threescore and ten years.
It stands to reason, that the scriptures which were written for our
admonition** (νουθεσίαν - nouthesian - put to mind) upon whom the
ends of the world are come (I
Corinthians 10:11), that these passages
apply to our divided, despicable, dispising
situation in
NOW.
** warning; II Corinthians 4:3-4 - “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to
them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded
the
minds of them that believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the
image of God, should shine unto them.””
* ἐξουδενοῦντες
-
exoudenountes - despise;
set at naught; scorn; treat
with contempt;
without value
* contempt - scorn, disdain, disrespect
* scorn - derision -
mockery; ridicule, sneers, jeers
* disdain - consider to be
unworthy
* naught - nothing,
nothing at all, zero, zilch.
* despise - detest, hate, loathe, abhor,
abominate, execrate
* detest - all of the above line
(when you detest someone do you know what your are doing?)
* hate - all the above,
plus dislike. Can you imagine disliking
God?
* loathe - all of the above
* abhor - all of the above
* abominate - all of the above, plus dislike
* execrate - revile, denounce, decry. condemn (execration -
an angry denouncement [condemn, criticize, attack,censure]
or curse) and vilify speak or write about in an abusively disparaging
manner. To defame, run down, revile, berate, belittle.
o disparage - depreciate*,
downgrade, play down,
*
disapprove of, deplore, abhor, find unacceptable, be against
o denigrate - disparage, belittle, diminish, cast aspersions on,
o defame - libel,
slander, malign. smear
o run down
o revile - criticize, censure*, condemn, attack, rail against
* condemn, criticize, castigate, lambaste, pillory [find fault with]
o berate - reproach, [admonishment, scolding], remonstrate with
o belittle - depreciate, make light of, TO BELITTLE SOMEONE IS TO BE LITTLE
Decry - denounce, attack, damn
deplore - feelings of strong disapproval.
deplorable - a subject for grief or
regret; lamentable: wretched; very bad.
It was a
judgment from the Lord upon that evil generation that seeing
they should not see,
and hearing they should not perceive.
Isaiah 34:5-10
Zechariah 14
Of Jesus “He is
despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our faces
from Him; He
was despised and we esteemed Him not.” (Isaiah 53:3)
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