BIBLICAL VIEW | LAWLESSNESS (3)

1. Introduction

Proverbs 29:16 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁶ When the wicked are in authority, sin flourishes, but the godly will live to see their downfall.

2. Sodom...

Genesis 18:20 New Living Translation (NLT)

²⁰ So the Lord told Abraham, “I have heard a great outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, because their sin is so flagrant.
 
a) Cities of the plain...

"So the Lord told Abraham, “I have heard a great outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, because their sin is so flagrant."

b) This is the other side to the coin, which states in...

Proverbs 29:2 New Living Translation (NLT)

² When the godly are in authority, the people rejoice.
    But when the wicked are in power, they groan.

 

c) As much as men and women prefer sin to holiness as individuals, however, collectively they rejoice when the righteous are in power, and morn when evil is in high places of authority.

3. Why?

a) Even the most vile amongst us enjoy the comfort of protection to their person and property when the righteous flourish.

b) Combination emboldens in sin...the more parts, the merrier. As each particle or person is corrupt, the mass ferments itself with evil.

c) The crowd mentality takes off, and the mass are encouraged to do what individuals alone would never do...

d) That's why criminal activity is more intense in larger cities compared with small rural towns and villages.

e) Individually, the crimes are the same evil, but not the fermenting, or boiling that comes where masses gather together in great numbers to do evil.