Psalm 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law? I. WHAT IS THE THRONE OF INIQUITY? Any government that upholds and protects wrong-doing, or that does not protect the people from the workers of iniquity, is a throne of iniquity. It frames mischief into law: — 1. When it protects that which is morally wrong by legal enactments, and enables men to defend their bad conduct by saying, "I have a government licence." 2. When it patronizes that which is evil by using it as a source of revenue. II. SUCH A THRONE HAS NO FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD. 1. Because God's throne, God's government, is upright, righteous. 2. He never makes a law to protect that which is wrong, nor to regulate evil. 3. He condemns, denounces, and prohibits all evil, both in the person and the state. He has no fellowship with the workers of iniquity. III. APPLY THIS TO THE LIQUOR-TRAFFIC. 1. The manufacture, importation, exportation, transportation, and traffic in intoxicating liquors, for drinking purposes, is a great wrong. 2. Those who pass enactments to regulate or protect such an evil frame mischief into law. 3. To vote for such laws, or to suffer them to exist if we can prevent it, is to sustain "the throne of iniquity." 4. Licence laws do not make the liquor-traffic right, but they do make those who enact them accomplices in the crime of the liquor-seller. (D. C. Babcock.). Parallel Verses KJV: Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?WEB: Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute? |
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