Moment for Purity

Psalms 146: 9 … but the way of the wicked He brings to ruin…

There is a great comfort in this verse. When I see ‘wicked people’ prosper, when I see the ‘perverse’ receive glory from the world, when I see reprobates (pornographers) accumulate wealth, this verse tells me their ultimate end. God is not mocked and is no respecter of persons.

I pray for their salvation. I don’t want them to be forever separated from God. Evangelism is their only hope, that they would hear the Gospel, repent of their sins, turn from their wickedness that they may be saved. Without their repentance, without Jesus, their ‘lostness’ is certain. Their ‘ruin’ is guaranteed.

Prov 3:25 Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes;

Prov 12:12 The strong tower of the wicked comes to ruin…

Prov 21:12 The righteous observes the house of the wicked; the wicked are cast down to ruin.

Prov 2: 21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Prov 3:33 The LORD’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous.

Prov 4:19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

Prov 6:12-15 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

2 Thes 1:8,9 inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,