"For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of...his brother Philips' wife." (Matthew 14:3)
John the Baptizer was a prophet. He told the king that he was living in sin, and was finally turned over to the executioner for it. More true prophets end this way than not. Unrighteousness is the enemy of Truth. Our text is a classic example of hearing the truth and even loving the truth-- one Gospel account says of the John/Herod relationship that Herod "heard him gladly"-- yet he "bound him, and put him in prison."
Why did this happen? John was a man of God. Herod was a man of unrighteousness. No matter how you may try, the two just do not mix. The Bible teaches that "everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."
Father, in Jesus' Name, help me to recognize what attracts me. Amen.
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