Psalm 34:16 “The face
of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them
from the earth.”
This is another clear,
basic, often-repeated message of Scripture. Why is it that many of God’s people
try to get around this fact? God does not tolerate evil. He does not approve or
overlook the deeds of wickedness. Although God demonstrated His
incomprehensible and gracious love for us, per Psalm 5:4-5, “while we
were yet sinners”, He is “not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither
shall evil dwell with you. The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate
all workers of iniquity”.
We are never to think that
God’s love for the world extends beyond His provision through Jesus Christ on
the cross. Those who respond to His love are “created in righteousness and true
holiness”. In John 8:24, Jesus said that those who do not accept His
atonement and do not believe His Word “shall die in your sins”.
This is why the New
Testament makes such a strong case for the change in the life of the believer.
We are new creations and are now a “new man”. We are set free from sin and free
from sin’s law in our body. Indeed, we are set at liberty not only from the
control of sin in our lives, but set free to perform the righteous works that
God has decreed that we should do. If we are God’s “chosen race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession”, we will live like
it.
Luke 6:46 “Why do
you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?”
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