108.
What is wickedness? and what is righteousness?
Answer:
That is wicked which God forbids: and that is righteous
which God commands -- whatever it is.
Proofs:
What
thing soever I command you, observe to do it:
thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from
it. (Deut. 12:32).
And
Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in
burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying
the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better
than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of
rams. (1 Sam. 15:22).
Whosoever
committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for
sin is the transgression of the law. (1 John 3:4).
For
as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made
righteous. (Rom. 5:19).

109.
Since God had said, "Thou shalt not kill",
was it not wicked for Israel to kill the Canaanites?
Answer: No; because God
commanded Israel to kill the Canaanites. There
is a time to kill and a time to keep alive. God
knows the one time and the other, and when He
commands, man has nothing to do but obey. God
can do as He pleases. None can call Him in question.
Proofs:
And
when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before
thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy
them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor
shew mercy unto them: (Deut. 7:2).
Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no
more stiffnecked. (Deut. 10:16).
To
every thing there is a season, and a time to every
purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and
a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to
pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill,
and a time to heal; a time to break down, and
a time to build up; (Ecc. 3:1-3).
(When
the Lord commands -- see 1 Sam. 15:3, 9, 23, 33)
Cursed
be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully,
and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from
blood. (Jer. 48:10).
And
all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as
nothing: and he doeth according to his will in
the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants
of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say
unto him, What doest thou? (Dan. 4:35).
Whatsoever
the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in
earth, in the seas, and all deep places. (Psa.
135:6).
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