The Christians who are unrestrained

“Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law” (Proverbs 29:18).

                At the time of Prophet Ezekiel, the Israelites did “the action of a bold-faced harlot” in the eyes of God (Ezek. 16:30).  They believed in the splendor that God bestowed on them, and trusted in their beauty, they played the harlot because of their fame (vv. 14-15).  They took some of their clothes, made for themselves high places of various colors and played the harlot on them (v. 16).  They made idols and committed adultery with the material blessings that God gave them (v. 17).  They played the harlot with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; they played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.  They also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this they were not satisfied (vv. 28-29).  These were the actions of the bold-faced harlot in the eyes of the Lord God (v. 30).  Aren’t we Christians now doing the same actions of the bold-faced harlot like the Israelites at the time of Prophet Ezekiel?

At the time of Exodus, the Israelites were out of control (Exod. 32:25).  When they saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain Sinai, the Israelites assembled about Aaron and asked him to make a god who would go before them (v. 1).  So they made a molten calf and worshiped it (v. 8).  In Moses' view, the Israelites were out of control (v. 25).  The reason is because Aaron had them get out of control (v. 25).  God promised Moses that “'I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth” (Deut. 18:18).  And God told him that that prophet would speak to the Israelites all that God would command him (v. 18).  But the problem was a false prophet.  The false prophet spoke in the name of God which God had not commanded him to speak, or in the name of other gods (v. 20).  And the Israelites could know the false prophet if the thing that he spoke in the name of the Lord didn’t come about or come true (v. 22).  Aren’t there still many false prophets and false pastors around us who speak in the name of the Lord that doesn’t come about or come true?

The Bible Proverbs 14:16 says, “A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, But a fool is arrogant and careless.”  Although the wise Christians leave evil by fearing God, the foolish Christians are haughty and careless.  The foolish Christians refuse to be restrained by God's law because they don’t fear God (29:18).  But the wise Christians keeps their soul by keeping God's law and refraining from their careless conduct (19:16).  The Bible says that such Christians are blessed (29:18).  Are you a foolish Christian?  Or are you a wise Christian?  Are you a Christian who is unrestrained or a blessed Christian who keeps God's law?