“O Lord, God of vengeance,
God of vengeance, shine forth!
2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth,
Render recompense to the proud.
3 How long shall the wicked, O Lord,
How long shall the wicked exult?
4 They pour forth words, they speak arrogantly;
All who do wickedness vaunt themselves.
5 They crush Your people, O Lord,
And afflict Your heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger
And murder the orphans.
7 They have said, ‘The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob pay heed.’” (Psalm 94:1-7 NASB1995)
There are many truly wicked people on the earth, for whom sinful actions and behaviors are their practice. They are the proud, the disdainful, the morally corrupt, the thieves, the liars, the adulterers, the malicious, etc. Many are they who are in positions of power and control over other people, who take advantage of other people’s trust for their own personal gain. For they are the manipulative and the charmers, who deceive the naïve.
They are abusers and users, the addicted, and adulterers who abuse those entrusted to them. Many of them are in positions of authority over others and they use their positions of authority to abuse those trusted to their care. So some of them are parents or grandparents, spouses, teachers, pastors of church congregations, elders and deacons within the church, heads of businesses, or supervisors over workers, and/or they are heads of nations.
And many of them are able to get away with their mistreatment of others because of their positions of power and rule over other people, and/or because they are wealthy, and/or because they give a lot of money to the church and/or to other charitable organizations. So the powerful, but guilty, often go unpunished while the weak, the vulnerable, and/or the innocent continue to be taken advantage of, while the church is largely asleep.
Many are they who are able to get away with their wickedness for generation after generation, because few people, it seems, are willing to confront evil, to call it what it is, and to address it biblically. And now we live in a generation where evil is being pampered, where it is being given other names other than “sin,” and where not many are being taught that they must abandon their sinful practices to now obey God, in practice.
So, the weak and the vulnerable, the widows and the orphans, go on being taken advantage of and misused and abused because we live in a culture which honors the wicked, the adulterers, the liars, and the manipulators, and which gives them permission to keep on living in their sins. And they call that “grace.” But the grace of God, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives, while we wait for the return of Christ Jesus.
So, this is a cry to God, for him to judge the earth, for him to judge the wicked who exult themselves and who take advantage of others. And this is also a cry to God for him to rescue his people from those who use and abuse. And his people are all who have trusted in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of their lives, who are walking in the ways of the Lord, and not in sinful passions and desires. Many are they who are being persecuted.
[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 7:13-14; Matthew 10:16-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 17:14; Romans 5:3-5; Philippians 3:7-11; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; 2 Timothy 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5; James 1:2-4; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; Hebrews 12:3-12; 1 John 3:13; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]
And so we need to know here that “the gospel” message, which is gaining the most popularity in the USA, and perhaps in other nations, is not the gospel taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles. For they taught that, by faith in Jesus Christ, we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in walks of surrender and in obedience to him and to his commands. For all who continue in deliberate and habitual sin, no matter what they profess with their lips, will not inherit eternal life with God.
Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]
Seven Woes
Based off Matthew 23
An Original Work / May 31, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Woe to you, teachers of the law;
Hypocrites, you keep men from God.
You refuse to obey the truth,
Nor will you permit others to.
You travel o’er land and sea
To win a single convert to you.
When he becomes one
You make him twice as much
A “son of hell” as you are.
Woe to you, blind guides of mankind.
You distort the words of your God.
By your practices you declare
Your oaths mean nothing, though you swear.
You give a tenth of your spices,
But you neglect justice, mercy.
When you focus your
Time and talents on
What is external, you miss out.
Woe to you, who appear so clean,
When inside you are crass and mean.
You work hard to look so upright,
While you hide all your sins inside.
You deceive yourselves when you think
You would not have done what others
Did to God’s messengers
And prophets of old,
For you will do much the same.
You’re to blame.
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Recompense To The Proud
An Original Work / August 23, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
