Albert Barnes

Don't, don't make companions with those who are wicked people.

[coughing] I like what Albert, Albert Barnes in his commentary writes about, about this verse.

[clears throat] He says, "It is always true that such contact," evil communications corrupt good manners, "has a pernicious effect on the mind and the heart." He says, "It is done," listen up, "number one, by their direct effort to corrupt the opinions and to lead others into sin." So that's true.

Sometimes you have people who are actively trying to corrupt you and trying to influence you.

It can't change your future outcome.

Albert Barnes, he says it very succinctly.

The utmost anxiety will not prolong the length of life one hour beyond the time appointed for death.

Family, there is nothing that we can do to lengthen our day.

So John Gill was very open about, to the sons of God being a reference to stars.

Albert Barnes notes that some have thought that the stars literally are referred to, and that they seem to unite in a chorus of praise when another world was added to their number.

Jameson Fawcett Brown says the stars are figuratively said to sing God's praises, as in Psalms 19, 1 and 148, 3, and then treats them as symbols of the angels.

And so the morning stars, that's in reference to the planets.

So it has the idea of the sin standing around us, or the easily encompassing sin.

Albert Barnes describes it this way, it properly means standing well around and hence denotes what is near or at hand or readily occurring.

And he says Tyndale, famous Bible translator, expressed it this way, the sin that hangeth on us.

The sin that hangeth on us.

You can't be part of a church and remain the same.

I love what Albert Barnes says.

He says, there's no danger that Christians will ever be excited to love each other too much or to perform too many good works.

So if anything we should be known for is that that church is just full of love.

But they were taking the present day view.

So there was a popular commentary set that people would buy when I was a new Christian by a guy by the name of Albert Barnes, and he was a 19th century, uh, writer.

And for instance, he took the trumpet judgments of the Revelation, and he said, "Well, that, that was the, that was the, uh, French Revolution, and the only thing we got left is, uh, the bowl judgments to come." Okay, that's the, uh, present day view.

And then there's the futurist view, which I think is what is the proper view, and that was held for the first almost 400 years of church history.

It places emphasis upon sensual beauty and lust after that beauty as opposed to godliness and righteousness.

Albert Barnes said they chose their wives not for the godliness of their lives but Now, physical beauty and attraction is created by God and has its appropriate place within the marriage context.

We're not saying it's a sin to be beautiful or to be fair, but if physical beauty is the fixation and the focus of a society, that can very quickly turn into a terrible form of corruption.

Just make sure this morning, young people, that your reason for marrying that prospective spouse goes deeper than just the outward attractiveness of the individual.