Flatters
December 12 2022
“Flatters”
Blessings folk!
The Proverbs give much warning and instruction related to OneAnother.
Beware!
Pro 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor
spreads a net for his feet.
ESV
Pro 29:5
To flatter friends
is to lay a trap for their feet.
NLT
Such is the way of the false-flatterer.
Beware!
He is spreading forth a trap.
Sadly this is not something new…
Psa 12:1-2
To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith.
A Psalm of David.
Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone;
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
ESV
We are forewarned…
Rom 16:17-18
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught;
avoid them.
For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites,
and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
ESV
Serve the Lord.
Serve not the self.
Encourage?
Yes!
Exhort?
Yes!
Flattery with an agenda?
No.
Such is not the way of the people of the Lord.