Proverbs 30:12 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJ) There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
There was a generation prior to this proverb that embodied the truth in this saying. There have been many generations since to do likewise.
Resist the temptation to use this verse as a means of attacking those living today that embody the truth in it. Doing so makes this a political argument because the laws of men have been changed to allow that which God would deem unholy to be legal.
Since we are Kingdom dwellers, meaning the Lord of our lives dwells within us, then we must accept that our frail human bodies live in a world that is ruled by the prince of the power of the air. Satan has not yet been chained up and the keys to death removed from him.
Once we take spiritual matters into our own hands and react out of emotional disgust for what we see being done in the world, we have given into the temptation of Satan. Placing spiritual matters in his court pulls us out of Kingdom living and into the court of popular opinion. We will win no one to Christ by arguing in that court.
John 12:30-32 English Standard Version
30 Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not mine. 31 Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
We have been drawn to Christ and there is no place for Satan here in our hearts. God protects us here but when we enter into the realm of politics, we are playing Satan’s game. We have succumbed to his temptation.
Obey the law of love that dwells in our hearts, keep Satan at bay.