Just who are the
wicked, do you know?
They are closer to
home than you dare think!
Psalm 50
16 But unto the
wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou
shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou
hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18 When thou sawest
a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with
adulterers.
19 Thou givest thy
mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit
20 Thou sittest and
speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
21 These things hast
thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an
one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine
eyes.
22 Now consider
this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to
deliver.
The wicked are God's
people:
- those who declare
God's statutes...
- those who take
God's covenant in their mouth...
- those who hate
God's instruction...
- those cast God's
words behind them...
- those who consent
to unrighteousness, and do evil...
- those who forget
their God...
God expects His
people to love His instruction, not those dead in trespasses and sin.
God
expects His people to embrace His words, not those in their native state of
sin and death.
God's people are
under the obligation to love His instruction and embrace His words.
