Sue J Love
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“Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases to be,
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaks great things;
Who have said, ‘With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?’
‘Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,’ says the Lord; ‘I will set him in the safety for which he longs.’” (Psalms 12:1-5 NASB1995)
This was a Psalm of David, so God’s words to David here are not necessarily God’s words to us, unless we have this promise from the Lord in the New Testament. But the New Testament does speak much on this subject of the godly and the ungodly, and of the wicked and the righteous, and of the faithful and the unfaithful, and of liars and truth tellers, and of evildoers who conquer, and of the afflicted who are persecuted by the evildoers.
Now I know that evil has existed ever since the angel Lucifer rebelled against God, because he wanted to be like God, i.e. he wanted to have the power and authority of God, even above God and his authority, so not to be like him in heart, mind, and character. And so God cast him out of his heaven, along with a third of the angels who also rebelled against God. This is my understanding based upon the following few Bible verses:
[Isaiah 14:12-15; Luke 10:18; Revelation 9:1; Revelation 12:3-17]
And we have all been born into sin ever since the first man Adam sinned against God by disobeying God’s command to him and to his wife Eve. Now we are all born with sin natures, in the image of Adam, the first man God created, and the first man to sin against God. And we cannot be made righteous nor be approved by God unless we, by faith in Christ, die with him to sin and now walk with him in obedience to his commands in holy living.
[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 3:9-26; Romans 5:12-19; Romans 6:1-23; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22,42-49; Ephesians 2:8-10]
So, when we speak of evil people in this world today, who are godless, it isn’t as though this is a new thing. But the Scriptures do teach us that in these last days before the return of Christ that evil will increase, and I believe we are seeing that in our day and time. And I believe we are drawing much closer to this rule of the beast (of Revelation 13) who has been conquering nations and people and Christians, I believe for some time now.
For what I believe we are seeing today is more of an acceptance and a tolerance of evil, even within “the church” (or what is falsely called “church”). And the gospel is widely being diluted and altered to appease human flesh and to facilitate “Christians” continuing in deliberate and habitual sin, only now without conscience. For the goal is to attract the world to their gatherings, so they do not want to offend the world with the truth.
So, we have a whole lot of professers of faith in Jesus Christ whose lives have not drastically changed course, but who are still living in sin, still doing what their flesh dictates, and still deliberately and habitually sinning against the Lord while people are telling them not to feel guilty but to just “claim who you are in Christ.” But we are not “in Christ” unless we die with him to sin and we now walk by faith according to his commands in holy living.
But since we now live in a day and time when sin addiction is being coddled and tolerated and even approved, in some cases, even by “the church,” and the gospel is being diluted, in order to not teach death to sin and obedience to God as part of faith which saves, and when sinners are being encouraged to not feel guilty for their sin, it does appear that “the godly ceases to be,” and that “the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.”
Lies are easily tolerated today, because of this big push to say to people what makes them feel good, not necessarily what is for their good. So they flatter one another, and yes, with double hearts, because they are wanting the acceptance of other humans, and for other humans to like them, rather than to speak truth to the people that they need to hear, being willing to be hated and persecuted, instead. So Christianity is on a massive decline.
We may have a lot of people giving lip service to the Lord, but so many of them now are believing a diluted and altered gospel message which does not require of them death to sin and walks of obedience to the Lord. Or else they just make these optional. But God doesn’t make them optional. His word teaches that we must die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord, and that if we do not, in practice, we will not inherit eternal life with God.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
And so we have David’s prayer here that God would cut off all the flattering lips of those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”
And God’s answer back to David was that he would arise, and he would set the godly, who are being afflicted by the evildoers, “in the safety for which he longs.” And God may promise any of us that, too, but the New Testament promises us much persecution, and that many of us will be martyred for our walks of faith. But then we will be with our Lord in the safety for which we long, which is being with our Lord for eternity, and no longer suffering.
What a Day That Will Be
By Jim Hill
There is coming a day,
When no heart aches shall come,
No more clouds in the sky,
No more tears to dim the eye,
All is peace forever more,
On that happy golden shore,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
There'll be no sorrow there,
No more burdens to bear,
No more sickness, no pain,
No more parting over there;
And forever I will be,
With the One who died for me,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
What a day that will be,
When my Jesus I shall see,
And I look upon His face,
The One who saved me by His grace;
When He takes me by the hand,
And leads me through the Promised Land,
What a day, glorious day that will be
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In the Safety for Which he Longs
An Original Work / February 22, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaks great things;
Who have said, ‘With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?’
‘Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,’ says the Lord; ‘I will set him in the safety for which he longs.’” (Psalms 12:1-5 NASB1995)
This was a Psalm of David, so God’s words to David here are not necessarily God’s words to us, unless we have this promise from the Lord in the New Testament. But the New Testament does speak much on this subject of the godly and the ungodly, and of the wicked and the righteous, and of the faithful and the unfaithful, and of liars and truth tellers, and of evildoers who conquer, and of the afflicted who are persecuted by the evildoers.
Now I know that evil has existed ever since the angel Lucifer rebelled against God, because he wanted to be like God, i.e. he wanted to have the power and authority of God, even above God and his authority, so not to be like him in heart, mind, and character. And so God cast him out of his heaven, along with a third of the angels who also rebelled against God. This is my understanding based upon the following few Bible verses:
[Isaiah 14:12-15; Luke 10:18; Revelation 9:1; Revelation 12:3-17]
And we have all been born into sin ever since the first man Adam sinned against God by disobeying God’s command to him and to his wife Eve. Now we are all born with sin natures, in the image of Adam, the first man God created, and the first man to sin against God. And we cannot be made righteous nor be approved by God unless we, by faith in Christ, die with him to sin and now walk with him in obedience to his commands in holy living.
[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 3:9-26; Romans 5:12-19; Romans 6:1-23; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22,42-49; Ephesians 2:8-10]
So, when we speak of evil people in this world today, who are godless, it isn’t as though this is a new thing. But the Scriptures do teach us that in these last days before the return of Christ that evil will increase, and I believe we are seeing that in our day and time. And I believe we are drawing much closer to this rule of the beast (of Revelation 13) who has been conquering nations and people and Christians, I believe for some time now.
For what I believe we are seeing today is more of an acceptance and a tolerance of evil, even within “the church” (or what is falsely called “church”). And the gospel is widely being diluted and altered to appease human flesh and to facilitate “Christians” continuing in deliberate and habitual sin, only now without conscience. For the goal is to attract the world to their gatherings, so they do not want to offend the world with the truth.
So, we have a whole lot of professers of faith in Jesus Christ whose lives have not drastically changed course, but who are still living in sin, still doing what their flesh dictates, and still deliberately and habitually sinning against the Lord while people are telling them not to feel guilty but to just “claim who you are in Christ.” But we are not “in Christ” unless we die with him to sin and we now walk by faith according to his commands in holy living.
But since we now live in a day and time when sin addiction is being coddled and tolerated and even approved, in some cases, even by “the church,” and the gospel is being diluted, in order to not teach death to sin and obedience to God as part of faith which saves, and when sinners are being encouraged to not feel guilty for their sin, it does appear that “the godly ceases to be,” and that “the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.”
Lies are easily tolerated today, because of this big push to say to people what makes them feel good, not necessarily what is for their good. So they flatter one another, and yes, with double hearts, because they are wanting the acceptance of other humans, and for other humans to like them, rather than to speak truth to the people that they need to hear, being willing to be hated and persecuted, instead. So Christianity is on a massive decline.
We may have a lot of people giving lip service to the Lord, but so many of them now are believing a diluted and altered gospel message which does not require of them death to sin and walks of obedience to the Lord. Or else they just make these optional. But God doesn’t make them optional. His word teaches that we must die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord, and that if we do not, in practice, we will not inherit eternal life with God.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
And so we have David’s prayer here that God would cut off all the flattering lips of those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”
And God’s answer back to David was that he would arise, and he would set the godly, who are being afflicted by the evildoers, “in the safety for which he longs.” And God may promise any of us that, too, but the New Testament promises us much persecution, and that many of us will be martyred for our walks of faith. But then we will be with our Lord in the safety for which we long, which is being with our Lord for eternity, and no longer suffering.
What a Day That Will Be
By Jim Hill
There is coming a day,
When no heart aches shall come,
No more clouds in the sky,
No more tears to dim the eye,
All is peace forever more,
On that happy golden shore,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
There'll be no sorrow there,
No more burdens to bear,
No more sickness, no pain,
No more parting over there;
And forever I will be,
With the One who died for me,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
What a day that will be,
When my Jesus I shall see,
And I look upon His face,
The One who saved me by His grace;
When He takes me by the hand,
And leads me through the Promised Land,
What a day, glorious day that will be
Caution: This link may contain ads
In the Safety for Which he Longs
An Original Work / February 22, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
