RIGHTEOUSNESS VS WICKEDNESS

​RIGHTEOUSNESS VS WICKEDNESS; GOOD VS EVIL
 
Have we ever seen such a contract of good and evil before in our lifetime? So many crazy things are happening. Interesting, if you switch one letter in these two words, look what happens:
Good= God, Evil= Devil.
 
We can hardly believe the insanity we are seeing and hearing across our nation. It is becoming so clear who is for righteousness and who is for wickedness. Who in their right mind, would defund the very ones who protect them? We are witnessing a godless generation. What we are experiencing is truly a picture of the wicked and evil men and women’s hearts being revealed.
 
It reminds me of the parable of the wheat and the tares:

Matthew 13:24-30 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”
 
We can see the wheat and the tares; hearts are being revealed!
 
In fact, it is a contract between righteousness and wickedness. The godless have no check on what they do; they are without God. Without Christ means a people without God. We used to live like that and Paul reminds us:
 
Ephesians 2:12  that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
 
We are used to reading scriptures about the wicked; we have read them many times over the years. But now they have taken on a new meaning. We now can see what wickedness looks like; we are now seeing how the godless act. Murder, stealing, lying, looting, sexual perversion, idolatry, yelling obscenities, etc. We have come to a place where we are literally seeing and experiencing wickedness. It’s almost like Pandora’s box is opened up; the hordes (demons) from hell have been released.
 
THE RIGHTEOUS VS THE WICKED:
Take a look with me at what God has to say concerning the righteous and the wicked:

Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan.
 
Psalm 32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; but he who trusts in the Lord, mercy shall surround him.
 
Psalm 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
 
Psalm 37:7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.
 
Psalm 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.
 
Psalm 37:28 For the Lord loves justice, and does not forsake His saints; they are preserved forever, but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalm 37:40 And the Lord shall help them and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in Him.
 
Psalm 64:2 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the rebellion of the workers of iniquity.
 
Psalm 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
 
Psalm 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy; free them from the hand of the wicked.
 
Psalm 91:8 Only with your eyes shall you look, and see the reward of the wicked.
 
Psalm 91:10 You who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
 
Psalm 141:9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
 
WHAT THEY SOW THEY WILL REAP:
I believe that the evildoers, the wicked who are perpetrating evil will reap what they are sowing. We have several examples of this in scripture. Look at the fate of the wicked; it is not good.
 
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
 
Psalm 37:1 Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
 
Psalm 37:20 But the wicked shall perish; and the enemies of the Lord, like the splendor of the meadows, shall vanish. Into smoke they shall vanish away.
 
Psalm 37:34 Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
 
Psalm 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.
 
Psalm 101:8 Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.
 
Psalm 145:20 The Lord preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
 
Psalm 104:35 May sinners be consumed from the earth, and the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!
 
Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
 
Psalm 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
 
WICKEDNESS COMES BACK ON THEM:
The Scriptures also paint a picture of the destruction of the evil ones coming back on them.
 
Esther 7:9-10  Now Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, “Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king’s behalf, is standing at the house of Haman.” Then the king said, “Hang him on it!” 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.

Psalm 1:6 For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Psalm 5:6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; The Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Psalm 7:14-16 Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity; Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood. 15 He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch which he made.
16 His trouble shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.

Psalm 9:15 The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.

Psalm 10:2 The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
 
Psalm 27:2 When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies and foes, they stumbled and fell.
 
Psalm 28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors; give them according to the work of their hands; render to them what they deserve.

Psalm 94:23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; The Lord our God shall cut them off.
 
Psalm 109:17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

Psalm 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape safely.

"Lord, we pray for the wicked folks in our land. May they repent of their sin! But Lord if they do not repent, please remove them from our government. May we have godly men and women in our government!"