The Right Way

A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life · Jun 17, 2026 · 7m

A once-successful man plunged into gambling, then into theft first from his company, then from his own wife in the vain hope that a “lucky break” would undo his mounting sins, proving again the folly Scripture condemns: “Let us do evil, that good may come.” His life illustrated the truth that a bad business cannot have a good ending, and yet such moral confusion is now praised as “realistic” even in the church. The only redeeming element came from his godly wife, who, refusing the illusion that prison time “paid his debt,” embraced God’s law of restitution. She worked, sacrificed her…