TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Date: September 25, 2026. Lesson 190-2026. Proverbs 29:27 - Two Paths in Conflict

Episode Date: September 25, 2026

In this edition of Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart conclude Proverbs 29 and the five-chapter collection preserved by the men of Hezekiah. Proverbs 29:27 ends with a sobering truth: “An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.” Biblical wisdom does not promise that living rightly will make us universally accepted. Sometimes the very presence of an upright life exposes compromises others would rather leave unchallenged. Yet Solomon is not giving believers permission to become combative or unpleasant. Scripture commands us to love our enemies and, as much as possible, live peaceably with everyone. The lesson is simple but difficult: walk the straight path, love people faithfully, and understand that obedience to God may still cost you the approval of others. Lesson 190-2026 Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You can partner with us by visiting MannaNation.com, calling 1-888-519-4935, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961 MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today! www.megafire.world Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves! www.AmericanReserves.com It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! www.Amazon.com/Final-Day Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! www.books.apple.com/final-day Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Welcome to Morning, My North. Welcome to morning, my new ritual, North. Your teachers, Rick Wiles and Dr. Burkla, get your Bible and notebook and get ready to here before. Good morning, all my fellow wisdom seekers. Welcome to all of my fellow lovers of the Word of God. I'm Rick Wiles, and this is Morning Man. We studied the Word of God so that we.

can shine brighter, be brighter lights and saltier witnesses for Jesus Christ. My motto is shine brightly, taste salty, and love everybody. Now, you can only do those three things by having a rich, deep knowledge and understanding of the Holy Bible. And so that's why we do this ministry five days a week to help you understand the Word of God. And Dr. Burkhard and I, Dr. Burkhardt and I, we get blessed by teaching because we have to study. And the Lord blesses us in our study of the Word. So I am delighted. I get a double blessing.

I get blessed by the Lord in studying, and then I get blessed by teaching. So it's a double blessing. Now, today is Friday, and ordinarily our topic is faith. We call it Faith Friday. however today I'm going to make an exception. And the reason is that we are at the end of chapter 29 in the book of Proverbs. Verse 27 is the last proverb to be studied in this chapter. And I would like to finish chapter 29 today on Friday and start fresh on Monday with

verses 1 and 2 in chapter 30. I guess there's enough OCD in me that I would be restless all weekend thinking about one lonely verse from chapter 29 just dangling out there all weekend waiting to be taught before we move on to chapter 30. So I'm doing this so that I'm okay over the weekend, not thinking about this one lonely verse. Well, we should be able to complete our study of the book of Proverbs. I think maybe over the next six weeks, and then we can move on to other books of the Bible. It's been a very in-depth study. I've never done a, I know, Doc, we have never done a one-year study of one book of the Bible. It's a new ground for us, and I'm sure it is for you, too.

and I deeply admire you for staying with us five days a week for a year, one book of the Bible. You'll never be the same. You'll never open up the book of Proverbs again and look at those Proverbs the way you did before you joined this class a year ago. I know it's certainly true for me. I see things in Proverbs I never saw before. And I've taught Proverbs several times, a lot with Doc. And it's just this time is a much richer, deeper understanding of Book of Proverbs. So although our Faith Friday lesson will be postponed until next Friday,

our Holy Communion Service will not be. Therefore, you are invited to join thousands of Christian saints in a worldwide virtual Holy Communion service. Now, you may call it the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist, the Holy Neal, the great Thanksgiving feast, whatever you call it, or talking about the same thing. So whatever name you give this meal, we feast by faith on the body and blood of our crucified Savior Jesus Christ, who is a lion and ruling as king in heaven and on earth in and through his victorious church. church. So to participate, you will need bread and your choice of grape juice or red wine, and you will need faith. Faith that the resurrected Christ is present in this meal. We're not eating crackers and drinking juice. We are eating the blood and flesh of the crucified Savior. We feast on Christ by faith. We don't know how this happens. It's a mystery, and I'm not going to

try to explain it because I don't think any human can't explain it. We just know that Jesus is present. This is a holy moment as we go into the Holy Communion service. Now, as always, we begin with the Lord's prayer. So I'm going to ask you wherever you are to say with me and Doc Burke, heart and all the saints were one, I'm asking you to say the Lord's prayer aloud. Don't whisper it. Say it aloud. Join us in the Lord's prayer. Our Father, which are in heaven, how will be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever. Amen. Almighty God, in your tender mercy, you gave your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, except for death upon the cross for our redemption. He offered himself and made once for all time a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. He instituted this remembrance of his passion and death, which He commanded us to continue until he comes against it. Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your Word and Holy Spirit,

these gifts of bread and wine that we may partake of His most blessed body and blood. Christ and our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed once for all on the cross. Therefore, let us keep the feast. Hallelujah. On the night that he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it. Then he gave it to his disciple, saying, Take eat.

This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting line. This is the bread of heaven. Take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for you. After supper, Jesus took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them saying,

Drink this all of you, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many, for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this and remembrance of me. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for you,

preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. Drink the cup of salvation and remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful. Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who takes away the sins of the world, and blessed are those who are invited to the Married Supper of the Lamb. This sacrament is the gift of God for the people of God.

Feed on Him by fate of Thanksgiving that Christ died for you. Heavenly Father, we thank you for feeding us with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood of Jesus Christ, your son and our Savior, and for assuring us in these holy mysteries that we are living members of the body of Christ and heirs of your eternal kingdom. And now, Father, to you, to Christ our Lord, and to the Holy Spirit, the honor and glory now and forever. Amen. Amen. As Rick mentioned at the beginning of our teaching today, we're taking a slight detour on our Faith Friday

to complete Proverbs chapter 29, the last verse of that chapter. And so I'm going to read that verse in the King James and also the Septuagint. And then we're going to dive right into our teaching today. So let's read, Proverbs chapter 29, verse 27, and it reads in the King James, An unjust man is an abomination to the just, and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. Substantuitive, slightly different. A righteous man is an abomination to an unrighteous man, and the direct way is an abomination to the sinner. And so Proverbs 2927 closes out this chapter, and it closes something considerably larger.

Now, back in Proverbs chapter 25, verse 1, we opened this collection of sayings with a note about its origin. I kind of do a little review here, if you recall. These are also the Proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah, King of Judah, copied out. And so here we are, five chapters later, this verse here is the final word of that collection,

King Hesian. Now, this series has worked through all of it, chapters 25 through 29, from the honor of kings, where we started out in Searchia, matter, to the divide stated here in this verse. And the closing verse is a single sentence of perfect symmetry. The unjust man is an abomination to the just, and the upright man is an abomination to the wicked. So they have two parties, two revolving. neither able to be at ease with the other. So it's a strange note, really, when you think about it,

to end a book or a section of practical instruction, no promise, no exhortation, no final word of encouragement, just a statement about an antipathy that will not resolve. And so our lesson today, our aim is to show our Morning Manna audience why Solomon closed here, what the verse is actually claiming and what it requires of anyone who intends to live in the world that it describes.

Rick starts out our lesson today with his examination of this final verse of chapter 29. Thank you, Doc. All right, let's read it again. An unjust man is an abomination to the just. and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. It means there's some people that can't be in the same room.

A wicked person and a righteous person basically cannot share the same room. Their spirits are going to clash. The Hebrew word is Thueva. It's the same word. for idolatry. You're talking about the word abomination. It is used of the child sacrifice. It is used of the practices that provoked the expulsion of the Canaanites from the promised land.

It's the same word that Solomon used in Proverbs 11, verse 1, that a false balance is an abomination to the Lord. To Eva, it describes not just disapproval distaste, but active revulsion, something a person recoils from rather than merely objecting to. In other words, it triggers the gag reflex. Are you ready to throw up? I can't be in the room with that person. that person is so wicked, so revolting. Now, what's fascinating here is that Solomon uses it here of people in both directions, just and unjust, righteous and wicked.

And he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. By the way, what is the way of the Lord? There's only one way. anytime you hear somebody say, well, there are many ways to God, there are many ways, many paths to God. That verse is lost, okay? There is one way to God. God has one way to live. He's not confused.

And he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. So the symmetry, symmetry is the same. It's exact. Same word reverse parties, okay? Note carefully what the verse does and does not say. It does not command the hatred of persons. Because the scriptures forbid hatred of people repeatedly throughout the Bible. And Jesus gave us the instruction to love our enemies. But it reports a condition.

Solomon is describing what is. not prescribing what ought to be felt. This is observation, and his entire book of Proverbs is full of observations that describe rather than command. The observation is this. The presence of each is intolerable to the other, and no amount of goodwill eliminates the discomfort. You can't reform a wicked person.

You can educate a wicked person to be judged. I mean, they've got to repent and be filled with the Holy Spirit. There's no other way. You can't send a wicked man or woman and a righteous man or woman to some kind of corporate education class in the workplace and say the two of you are going to learn how to like each other. It doesn't work. It just doesn't work.

It has nothing to do with social norms. This is about spirit. The reason is not personality or temperament. It is that each person, this righteous and unrighteous person, each represents to the other a standard by which he or she stands condemned. The unjust man or the unjust woman's existence is a continuous demonstration. to the righteous man and woman that what he is, what he has refused is being chosen elsewhere.

And so the upright man's existence is a continuous demonstration to the wicked that his compromises were not inevitable. In words, you made those choices along the highway of life. You don't wake up wicked. you get wickified. Is that a word, if it's not, if it's not, it shouldn't be.

Okay, you become wickified over many days and years, many decisions, many compromises make you wicked. But the wicked person, the reason that they don't like being in a root with a righteous person is that they realize they didn't have to make those compromises. They had choices. So Matthew Henry observed that this antipathy is not between the men, but between the ways.

And that each hates in the other the thing that he or she has already decided about in himself or herself. Each person has chosen the way that they're going to walk through life. and that's what sets them apart. That's right. So the theological framework, the doctrinal foundation beneath verse 27, actually concerns the incompatibility of two ways of thinking, two orientations that cannot be reconciled just by negotiation. Now, we previously examined the individual instance back in verse 10 of Proverbs 29.

If you recall that verse, the bloodthirsty hate the upright. The bloodthirsty hate the upright. And so now we're finding the conclusion of that. There, the hatred ran in one direction from the violent toward the blamels. Here, Solomon completes the picture by stating that the revulsion is mutual. Okay. We cannot love the wickedness. So Jesus himself named this process, this mechanism, if you will, the spiritual mechanism,

in John chapter 3, verse 20. And he said there in that verse, everyone that doeth evil, hateeth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Think about that. Note the reason that he gives there. The light does nothing to the evil do. it simply exists where he can see it, and it's existence exposes what he would rather not have exposed. And so that's why this conflict, this antipathy, requires no provocation.

All right, give you an example here, back in Genesis, Kane had no grievance against Abel. If you recall the story of Kane and Abel, Abel's offering was accepted. And in the New Testament, 1 John 312, it names the reason for the murder. Wasn't that he hated Abel? Because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous. That same dynamic runs throughout the whole scripture. I mean, really, the Bible is the story of that conflict between these two orientations.

Another example, you have a Joseph's brothers. They hated him before he had done anything to them. Saul, King Saul, pursued David after David, saved him, spared his life. And the Pharisees plotted against Jesus, a man who had healed on the Sabbath. They plotted against him. And so the righteous man's offense is his very existence in the presence of people who have decided otherwise. is. Now, the reverse holds equally, which is the half of the verse that most readers skip here, the righteous man also finds the unjust man and abomination. And this is not a failure of charity,

or lack of love, but a sign that his moral perception is functioning. Now, if you recall, in Psalm 139, starting at verse 21, David said, Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. I hate them with a perfect hatred. I've heard people say, I don't hate anyone. But David did. The language is uncomfortable, and we shouldn't soften it for modern day years, just to be religiously or politically correct.

So what the Bible does, scripture holds together two things that modern instinct pulls apart. A modern world wants a different path here. There's a genuine revulsion at evil and genuine love for the person practicing it. Now, Proverbs chapter 8, verse 13, if you recall, said the fear of the Lord is to hate evil. And then Jesus updates this in the sermon on the Mount, Matthew 544. He says, what? Love your enemies. both are commands from the Lord.

So the man who cannot recoil at wickedness, the person who is comfortable with wickedness, really hasn't achieved love. What he has done is he's actually, Rick, he's lost that capacity, the ability to distinguish, which really this series examined back in the last chapter, of Proverbs 285, evil men understand not judgment. And so as we do a deeper dive in this,

we can hate the evil and love our enemies, Rick. That's right. Okay, so, Doc, you pointed out in your introduction that verse 27 is the conclusion of this, a body of Proverbs that started back in Chapter 25, where the men of Hezekiah had uncovered writings of Solomon and the sayings of Solomon. And so apparently chapters 25 through 29 were missing for centuries.

And the Israelites did not have access to them. And then Hezekiah's men his scribes had brought them back to life and presented them to the people. So the question is, why did Solomon end this collection of Proverbs with this verse? I'm talking about this body of Proverbs from chapter 25 verse 1 to chapter, I think it was verse 1, was chapter 25 and then to chapter 21 and verse 27. Why did he end it here? Because we still have chapters 30 and 31. It wasn't an accidental.

Solomon had spent five chapters on practical instructions, talking about kings and honor, fools and folly and friendship and rebuke and flocks and fields and correction and discipline, and the fear of man, the judgment of the Lord. And he closes with a statement that no amount of practical wisdom will make a righteous man welcome among the wicked.

Yes. Isn't that somewhat of an odd way to close five chapters? No. It's a sobering conclusion and a very honest one. Solomon does not, in fact, throughout the whole book of Proverbs, the Book of Proverbs does not promise that wisdom produces universal approval. Nowhere does Solomon say, if you study my Proverbs, if you seek wisdom and understanding, you're going to be the most liked man or woman on earth. People are just going to love you.

That is not what he's teaching. It has promised a great deal. He's promised favor from God, favor with people, prosperity, sufficiency. He's promised a lot. But he never promised that the wicked would like you. Right. And again, Doc, I believe Solomon came to the knowledge of these proverbs through personal experience and observation.

And I think he had his share of enemies. Yes. You know, I think there are people that when they left the room, Solomon said, what is up with that guy? Why doesn't he like me? You know, what's his problem? And Solomon came to the conclusion. Our spirits clash.

He doesn't like me and I don't like him. It's actually, he doesn't like my spirit and I don't like his spirit. This is the conclusion he's come to. A person who has applied everything in Proverbs still finds himself resentive. And that person has not failed. he or she has arrived exactly where this book's final verse says he would be. Yes.

You can do it all, apply all the Proverbs, and still end up being disliked, even hated by people who are Christ haters, God haters, haters of righteousness, whose hearts are dark and evil, They can be actors. They can be hypocrites. A hypocrite is an actor.

They can put on the front, but their heart is evil. They don't like righteousness. Charles Bridges, he observed that Solomon closes this collection by removing the last illusion that a young man or woman might carry in delight. That wisdom went rightly practiced and applied would make that young man, or woman universally acceptable to everybody. And Bridges said the removal of that belief is itself an act of love. Yes.

Yeah, so the significance here, Rick, of ending at this point, and this section here becomes a lot clearer when the verse is read against the chapter's opening. So back at the beginning of the chapter in verse two, We read, when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. And then later on in the chapter in verse 16, when the wicked are multiplied, transgression increases, but the righteous shall see their fault.

You see a theme that's developing here across this chapter now. So the chapter itself has been describing, really the whole chapter, Rick, has been describing, these two parties throughout. And what verse 27 does here is it finally nails it down and it states the relationship between them in its most final, simplest, and concise form. Now, there's also a connection with drawing to how Proverbs 28 ended, our previous chapter. That chapter closed with a cycle.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves when they perish. the righteous increase. And then you have the entire chapter 29 that is actually an explanation of that final verse at 28. So chapter 28 ended with hope. The cycle turns. Chapter 29 ends with realism. The conflict does not end. So both are true. And scripture places them side by side deliberately.

Seasons of wicked ascend, eventually end. They come to a conclusion. The fundamental divide between the wicked and the righteous doesn't conclude. And the New Testament builds on this and preserves the same expectation without softening it at all. We read in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 12, yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Not some. Not in certain areas. All that will live godly at Christ Jesus. Then later on in 1 John 313,

it anticipates a surprise. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. Don't be shocked by this. Don't be surprised. John assumed believers will find it startling and instructs them not to. So Christ himself prepared his disciples for exactly this. It says in John 15, starting at verse 18,

If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. Therefore, the world hateeth you. And so when we consider this, though, there are two guardrails that are necessary here. First, not every conflict of believer experiences is this. Keep that in mind. Not every conflict you encounter is because of this. Much friction is produced by, I hate to say it, but Rick and I,

we've been around a day or two, and we've observed this among believers. A lot of this friction is produced by rudeness, poor judgment, or genuine fault on the believers part. And 1 Peter 415 explicitly excludes suffering as a busy body in other men's matters from the category. All right. If you're acting out of swords and you suffer because of it, that's not persecution. That's not a conflict with the wicked. That's because you're not in alignment with the character of God.

The second thing is this verse is not permission to be unpleasant. Okay. A believer who provokes hostility, and there's a certain group of people out there, a certain group of believers who love this, who thrive on it. And then they claim Proverbs 2927 has manufactured what the verse describes as arriving without cause.

Where Romans 1218 sets the standard, and it's something that all believers need to keep in mind if it be possible. Now, think about this. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men, not just fellow believers, not just people you like,

but to live peacefully with all men. Even the wicked, doesn't mean that we endorse their wickedness, but that we should, if it be possible, to live peaceably with it. And so that qualifier makes a real difference as much as lieth in you as much as lieth in you in other words what the

apostle paul is saying he do everything in your power to live peacefully and then you know make every effort to be living for god living the character of god living uh the character of christ and then at that point except that the outcome is not entirely within your of power because of what this particular verse describes. Rick, you have some insight from the Septuagint on this particular verse? Doc, let's review the King James in the Septuagint. King James says, an unjust man is an abomination to the just, and he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked. The Septuagin puts it this way. A righteous man is an abomination to an

an unrighteous man, and the direct way is an abomination to the center. Well, how do we explain this one? Well, the Greek Septuagint makes two changes. First, it reverses the order. The King James begins with the righteous man's revulsion at the unjust. The Septuagint begins with the unrighteous man's revulsion at the righteous. So the reordering shifts the emphasis towards the believer's experience of being disliked rather than toward his own moral reaction.

Second, and this is, I think, more significant. The Septuagint's second clause replaces a person with a path. Where the King James has the upright man as an abomination to the wicked, The Greeks of Tuagin has the direct way, the straight road, the undeviating path. That's the abomination. So the sinner's revulsion is directed not merely at the individual, but at the straight way itself, the path that this person is walking, the existence of a path that does not end. does not have detours. It's a direct path, the path that God has laid out. So what provokes

hostility is not usually the righteous man's personality. It is the straightness of his or her walk in life. So a path that curves accommodates everyone. And a path that runs directly towards its destination makes every detour visible as a detour. and the people who have taken one experienced the straight road as an accusation without it having said anything. That's, Doc, why the wicked, the unjust hate the just because they see the just are on a straight path. They're not deviating from it. They're not detoury. And the wicked person, the unrighteous person knows that they can't walk that should.

straight line. That's right. You know, it's interesting that the Septuagint uses that word for direct way, the U-Sace. It's interesting that it's the very same word that John the Baptist ministry in folks, where he says, make straight the way of the Lord. You find that in John 123. He's actually quoting Isaiah, chapter 40, verse three, make straight the way of the Lord. It's the same word there. So what is that straight way? Well, the straight way is not just a good way or a morally upright way. It's the Lord's way, Rick.

The Lord's way. So the conflict really for the wicked is not moral clarity or goodness or a hundred different other things. It's resistance to the Lord's way. And the Septuagin says that the sinner, finds that way, finds the Lord's way and abomination. They find the Lord's way and abomination.

And so this also connects to the Greek vocabulary. The Septuagin has used throughout this chapter. It called the scorner in the Greek, it called him Anonymous, lawless in verse 8. And the corrupt ruler's subject were Paranumoi. decide the law. They weren't in the law. They were walking alongside the law in verse 12. So the idea here is that the man who has stepped off the straight path, if he stepped off it, he is offended and recoils at that straight path continued resistance, Rick.

And so if we look at the King James and the Septuagint together, we get a full picture, the full account. King James names that mutual revulsion between two groups of people, two kinds of people. And the Septuagint locates the offense more precisely. Yes, the wicked hate the man of righteousness, but it's not the man who's intolerable, but the road that he refuses to leave. The straight way offends him, Rick. That's right. So, Rick, what are your thoughts here as we close out this chat?

Well, Doc, light is not the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light. And Charles Spurgeon said that the light does nothing to the darkness except exist. And this is offense enough. Spurgeon pointed out that Abel had done nothing to King, but his offering's acceptance was the entire provocation. So it's not that the righteous do anything to offend the unjust other than you exist. You're breathing.

You're lying. That's enough. That's enough to offend them because their offering isn't accepted. They're not on the path, the right path. They're not going to following the way. And you are. And that's all it takes for them to be offended. And that's why they come against you.

Well, listen, hey, we've finished another chapter. Put this one a bit, chapter 29. And on Monday, we will begin chapter 30. I think maybe by, I think we can get 30 and 31. on in the month of October. I think so. Maybe early November. We're going to be finished

the Book of Proverbs here in the next four to six weeks. It's been a journey. It's been a journey. And again, I hope all of you have been as blessed as I have been in the study of the book of Proverbs.

And I don't know. I don't know what book the Lord is going to take us to you. Still seeking him about it. I don't know where we're going to go. But I know I heard clearly last year teach the book of Proverbs, line by line. And Doc and I have been diligent, which stayed with this assignment for a year. And the Lord will give us new directions here in the coming weeks. God bless you.

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