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2015 J. Neely
Psalm 37:9
9 For evildoers [ra`a`] shall be cut
off [karath]: but those that wait [qavah] upon the LORD [Y@hovah],
they shall inherit [yarash] the earth ['erets]. KJV-Interlinear
9
For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall
inherit the land. ESV
Most people are passive, when it
comes to their spiritual life. They do
not commit themselves to a daily study, and therefore never learn the truth of
what is expected of them. That means,
they miss out on the many opportunities and blessings that are available to
them. They ignore Gods mandates, and/or
they pretend that what God expects does not apply to them, and/or they presume,
wrongly, that whatever it is that they do, is what God wants.
This is one form of being an evil
doer, as it applies to Christians, that ignore their responsibilities and
obligations of the Christian life.
As for non-christians, or
unbelievers as they are often times called, then the path of disobedience, is
more clear. They have not believed in
Christ and therefore are not Christian, and therefore do not have a
relationship with God.
The Bible typically refers to them
as enemies of God, aliens, foreigners, strangers, out-casts, heathen, and other
similar terms.
All of these terms, refer to people
who ignore Christ, and therefore ignore truth.
And when you ignore truth, then you operate on untruth, or the lies and
distortions of the world. And in that
case, you can adopt anything you want to believe and make it into your truth.
That makes life convenient, but it
is a convenience that is delusional and detached from reality.
And the unfortunate thing is, that
you will never discover your error until you die and leave this world. Then you discover that the realities of life
go far beyond this physical world.
There is a God and a devil and a
battle for supremacy over creation. And
to go through life pretending that you know of these things, but ignoring them
as you focus on the immediate world around you, then presuming that everyone
else is delusional about God and spiritual things, while you firmly believe
that you are the wise one in a world where you define your own destiny, and
that anything beyond this life is whatever you want to believe.
And so we have the mixture of
beliefs in this world. All of which will
never be clear until the end of ones life.
Then the realities of life will hit
home and the retributions that await true ignorance, will become a harsh
reality. One that will last forever.
So, we have evil doers, who are
Christian, but dysfunctional. And we
have evil doers that are not Christian.
Those who refuse to believe in
Christ will have the harsher reality as they will face the Lake of Fire,
forever.
Whatever their beliefs in
philosophy or other religions, or in the dignity of man, or in their right to
take or do as they choose and so forth, will cease. The reality of Gods justice will show itself
and their culpability in evil, will be made clear, and they will lose horribly,
forever. Their time on this earth is
short, and they will be given every chance to come around to truth, but there
decisions will be their conviction, their successes if any, will be temporary
at best.
As for Christians who talk a lot
and do nothing, then their loss will be in the loss of reward. Most people think of reward as monetary and
nothing more, but look around. In this
world there are innumerable examples of rewards or blessings that people have.
Many are extremely talented. Many
have great abilities. Many have great
intellectual, or artistic, or musical, or physical attributes. The list of capabilities or abilities that
people have, by whatever means, would probably be a mile long.
The Bible speaks of crowns and
cities and production and so forth in parables, describing rewards and
blessings, but those only describe huge categories of blessings. And to receive any one blessing would be
phenomenal because it will last for all of eternity. To receive none, would be a huge loss, many
times over.
To have infinity promised to you
and then turn your back on it, is a fools decision and a major loss beyond
calculation.
So, evil doers, lose, while those
who comply with Gods plan and directives and process, win.
The unfortunate thing is, that too
many will read that line and agree with it, and then continue doing nothing. They see and hear, but never see and never
hear. They never follow through and
commit themselves to a daily study, so they never learn.
They will just set themselves up
for great disappointment and it will be their own fault.
Don’t be the fool. Don’t be that person who will lose.
Dedicate yourself to a daily study
through instruction, and be confident of success, as God defines it, not as you
think it should be.
