Keeping your Balance
A false balance is abomination
to the Lord:
but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs
11:1
R.F.V.
Pleasing God requires:
having the right pursuits
in the right amount and
scheduled in the right place
Relative to God’s Absolute
Standards
When you are “Balanced” your
judgment is sound
If you are off balance – you have
impaired judgment
The very ones you are called to
Love
People
Jesus’ Life is a Picture of
Balance
People tried to Unbalance Jesus
 Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to
Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works
you do. No one who wants to become a public figure
acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show
yourself to the world.” For even his own brothers
did not believe in him.
 Therefore Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here;
for you any time will do.

John 7:3-5
People get us out of
Balance
I teach people how to treat me by
what I will allow.
Wicked People
 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou
not.
 If they say, “Come with us, let us lay wait for
blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent
without cause: We shall find all precious
substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one
purse.”

Proverbs 12:6
“Strange” Women of Proverbs
 2:16 - To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the
stranger which flatters with her words
 5:3 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and
her mouth is smoother than oil:
 5:20 - And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange
woman … ?
 6:24 - To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the
tongue of a strange woman.
 7:5 - That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the
stranger which flattereth with her words.
Penalty
 But her end is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword. Her
feet go down to death

Proverbs 5:4-5
Negative People
 The tongue has the power of life and
death, and those who love it will eat its
fruit.

Proverbs 18:21
Who Throws you off Balance
 And saying, Where is the promise of his
coming? for since the fathers fell asleep,
all things continue as they were from the
beginning of the creation.

2 Peter 3:4
Self-Righteous People
 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased
with goods, and have need of nothing; and
knowest not that thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Revelation 3:17
Unbelieving People
 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said,
Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well
able to overcome it.
 But the men that went up with him said, We be not
able to go up against the people; for they are stronger
than we.
 And they brought up an evil report of the land

Numbers 13:30-32
Poisoned by Unbelief
 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and
cried; and the people wept that night.
 And all the children of Israel murmured against
Moses and against Aaron: and the whole
congregation said unto them, “Would God that we
had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had
died in this wilderness!”

Numbers 14:1-2
Charles Spurgeon
“Put your foot down where you mean
to stand, and let no man move you
from the right.
“Learn to say, "No," and it will be of
more use to you than to be able to read
Latin.”