Shalom brothers and sisters.
Today’s Bible Verse: Proverbs 24:1-2
Title: Evil Men
Verse Text: [Proverbs 24:1-2 NKJV] 1 Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them; 2 For their heart devises violence, And their lips talk of troublemaking.
Who are the evil men?
[Genesis 6:5 NKJV] 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every intent of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
What does evil continually mean? Men could conceive of nothing else. There was no empathy to their fellow man. These people have completely rejected God and only care about themselves; the exact attitude of Cain.
Bibleref.com says: “Taking the genealogies of the past chapter literally, this is especially sad. The long lifespans of Genesis 5 imply that there was an almost-unbroken line of eyewitnesses to man's earliest history, right up to the year of the flood. Mankind's sin is not the result of error or drifting or ignorance. It's the result of a deliberate rejection of God.”
Bibleref.com continues: “We haven't improved over the centuries. Our natures remain the same. When describing the Day of the Lord in Matthew 24, God's coming judgment for human sin, Jesus declares that it will be as in the days of Noah (Matthew 24:36–39). All these years later, without God's redemption and recreation, the human heart remains inclined to plan for evil continually.”
This is a very sad analysis of humanity and I think we have seen it in full force over the last few weeks in response to the coronavirus outbreak; people just don’t care about their fellow man and prove that they are godless by not doing to their neighbor as they would do to themselves.
These men of sin are short lived. They may have power for a time but it does not last therefore we should not look up to them.
Yes, man has a capacity for evil but if we let God into our lives we have a capacity for good and eventually the good will override the evil.
I hope this has been a blessing to you. May the rest of your day be blessed. Walk Torah-ly. Shalom.
Today’s Bible Verse: Proverbs 24:1-2
Title: Evil Men
Verse Text: [Proverbs 24:1-2 NKJV] 1 Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them; 2 For their heart devises violence, And their lips talk of troublemaking.
Who are the evil men?
[Genesis 6:5 NKJV] 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every intent of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
What does evil continually mean? Men could conceive of nothing else. There was no empathy to their fellow man. These people have completely rejected God and only care about themselves; the exact attitude of Cain.
Bibleref.com says: “Taking the genealogies of the past chapter literally, this is especially sad. The long lifespans of Genesis 5 imply that there was an almost-unbroken line of eyewitnesses to man's earliest history, right up to the year of the flood. Mankind's sin is not the result of error or drifting or ignorance. It's the result of a deliberate rejection of God.”
Bibleref.com continues: “We haven't improved over the centuries. Our natures remain the same. When describing the Day of the Lord in Matthew 24, God's coming judgment for human sin, Jesus declares that it will be as in the days of Noah (Matthew 24:36–39). All these years later, without God's redemption and recreation, the human heart remains inclined to plan for evil continually.”
This is a very sad analysis of humanity and I think we have seen it in full force over the last few weeks in response to the coronavirus outbreak; people just don’t care about their fellow man and prove that they are godless by not doing to their neighbor as they would do to themselves.
These men of sin are short lived. They may have power for a time but it does not last therefore we should not look up to them.
Yes, man has a capacity for evil but if we let God into our lives we have a capacity for good and eventually the good will override the evil.
I hope this has been a blessing to you. May the rest of your day be blessed. Walk Torah-ly. Shalom.
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