Proverbs 11:10
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
It is not a collection of abstract platitudes for personal, quiet-time meditation only. It is a divine manual for living, and not just for living in your own head or your own home, but for living in the world, in the city, in the public square. The wisdom of God has feet, and it walks down Main Street. It has a voice, and it speaks in the city gates. And according to our text today, it has a direct and observable effect on the emotional climate of an entire community. Our secular, individualistic age has trained us to think of righteousness and wickedness as intensely private matters. But the Bible knows nothing of this privatized faith. The Bible teaches that righteousness and wickedness are public realities with public consequences. They are like leaven, or like a virus; they always spread.