Worldly Prosperity
Homilist
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness…


I. A COMMUNITY REALISING WORLDLY PROSPERITY. Worldly prosperity sometimes comes to a man —

1. Irrespective of his efforts.

2. By his honest efforts.

3. By his dishonest efforts.

II. A COMMUNITY ABUSING WORLDLY PROSPERITY.

1. In sympathy they withdrew from God.

2. In life they disregarded God.

(1)  A great wrong.

(2)  A common wrong.

(Homilist.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

WEB: But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.




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