Pastor Joel Webbin expounds on Psalm 37, arguing that love for God precedes obedience and that worry or envy unjustly accuse Him of unreliability. He asserts evil's temporary prosperity serves divine discipline, citing Hitler and Stalin as fleeting examples, while commanding believers to reject retaliation in favor of patient trust and active goodness toward enemies. Webbin clarifies that delighting in the Lord means making God the primary desire rather than seeking material blessings, contrasting this with Calvinist views on seeking. Ultimately, he posits God delays judgment out of patience to save more souls, using the salt metaphor to describe Christians' role in preserving society until final vindication. [Automatically generated summary]
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A Righteous Way to Be Angry00:12:31
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Today's text is Psalm chapter 37, verses 1 through 7.
Again, that is Psalm chapter 37, verses 1 through 7.
Would you join me in standing for the reading of God's word?
I'll read our text for us in its entirety.
When I finish reading the text, I'll say, This is the word of the Lord, at which point I would appreciate if you would respond by saying, Thanks be to God.
One final time, our text for today is Psalm chapter 37, verses 1 through 7.
The Bible says this Fret not yourself because of evildoers, be not envious of wrongdoers, for they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
Trust in the Lord and do good, dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord.
Trust in Him, and He will act.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.
Fret not yourself over the one who prospers in His way, over the man who carries out evil devices.
This is the word of the Lord.
All right, please be seated and join me as I pray once more.
Father, I pray that you would empower me by your Spirit.
To preach your word faithfully today.
And Lord, I pray that you would empower not only me to preach expositionally, but everyone in this room to be an expositional listener of your preached word this morning.
Father, I pray that indeed through the preaching of your word, your people would arrive at a more accurate, more faithful, more biblical knowledge of who you are, of what you've done, and what it is that you require from us as a right response.
Father, we pray that this knowledge of who you are and what you've done and what you require.
Would not merely be an end in itself, but rather it would serve as the necessary means of propelling your people from knowledge to love.
That as you fill our minds with your truth, that you would fuel our hearts with love and adoration.
The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.
And so today, Lord, we diligently feast our minds on the substance of your word so that our hearts might be fueled.
With right passion, right love, right adoration, all lending ultimately towards obedience.
Your word is clear.
We love because you first loved us.
No man in and of himself chooses to love you and somehow elicits your response.
Rather, we love because you first loved us.
1 John 4, verse 19.
You have loved us in the beloved, in the Savior, in your Son, Jesus Christ.
And as you, by your Spirit, have opened our eyes, given us spiritual eyes, see your salvific love in Christ, we cannot help but respond with love for you.
But then the very next question is what do we do in love for you?
How do we display genuine love for you?
Your Son Jesus said, Those who love you obey you.
The church, in so many instances, has this completely backwards.
We teach people that if we could work hard enough to obey God, then we might be able to prove to you that we love God.
And if we love God, we might be able to elicit a response from you that you might love us.
But your word teaches precisely the opposite.
It's not that we obey to prove that we love you and that by loving you, we might receive your love for us.
Rather, it's that you first loved us.
Therefore, we cannot help but love you back.
And in love for you, we cannot help but obey.
Lord, we pray that that would be the order.
In our lives, in our hearts, that we would be so overwhelmed by your love for us, that we would so clearly see your love through Christ for us in your word, even this morning, that we would be aroused with a holy affection, a greater degree of love for you, and that as we come to love you more, we would trust you more.
And as we trust you, we would obey you.
We pray all this, ultimately, that you might be glorified in all the earth.
But we also pray this for the good of those people that you're saving across the globe, in our city, and perhaps if you would be so kind, even in this very room, especially among our children.
And we pray these things in Jesus' name.
Amen.
All right, let's dive right in.
Verse 1 of our text says this Fret not yourself because of evildoers.
See, it's permissible to grieve due to the evil that is done towards us by the wicked.
Grieved, it's permissible to be sad, it's permissible to even be depressed to a degree, perhaps for a time, so long as our grieving is righteous.
It's even permissible to be angry in some instances, assuming that in your anger you do not sin.
Ephesians chapter 4, verse 26 says, In your anger, do not sin.
It is possible to be angry in a righteous way.
Jesus was angry in his earthly ministry, he demonstrated holy anger, righteous indignation.
And we want to emulate all of Christ.
All of Christ for all of life.
There are too many Christians today that are constantly imploring the people of God to emulate Christ in certain aspects of his character.
To emulate Christ in his kindness.
To emulate Christ in his love.
To emulate Christ in his generosity.
But virtually no Christians today even attempt to emulate Christ in his anger.
One of the reasons why you and I still sin is because there are certain things that God loves that we don't love nearly enough.
But it's also because there are certain things that God hates that we don't hate nearly enough.
Our problem is misordered loves.
That's what St. Augustine said.
But it's also misordered hatred.
Now, ultimately, that's more of an indirect cause from love.
Hatred stems ultimately from love.
The things that we get angry about ultimately stem from what we love when it's being threatened or when it's utterly destroyed.
When you get angry in traffic, it's because you love convenience.
Or it could be perhaps that you love your self image.
Perhaps you're on your way to meet with someone.
And you love and esteem what you deem as a pivotal characteristic of your person that you're organized, that you're prompt, that you're responsible, and well put together.
And this is threatening, this traffic is threatening your good name.
Your reputation, your image.
And so you're angry.
I mean, really angry.
It's one thing to be annoyed, but there are times, sadly, that Christians are more angry about traffic at 5 p.m. than we are about the sex slave trade.
Why?
Because one of those things is threatening something that we love more than the other.
So, do we love the protection, the safety, the beauty of women?
Yeah.
But we really love our image and convenience, perhaps a little bit more.
That's why we're angrier over this than that.
So, anger ultimately stems from love.
And see, the reality is that in order to be completely void of anger, which is, again, what most Christians teach, that you should have no anger, to be completely void of anger is ultimately a reflection of being completely void of love.
See, the Lord, He's not absent of anger.
What does the Bible teach?
It doesn't teach that God has no anger.
And it doesn't teach that God has rash, quick anger.
It's that God has slow anger.
Meaning that God feels appropriate degrees of anger for the right things at the right time.
It's anger for the right things at the right time in the right measure.
Those are the three big aspects that you need to consider when you think of, am I right to be angry?
Remember, that's what God asked Jonah.
In the book of Jonah, when Jonah says, I'm so angry, angry enough to die.
And God asks him, Are you right to be angry?
Which is really a rhetorical question in the case of Jonah, because the answer is a resounding no.
What was Jonah angry over?
Well, in one instance, what he's angry over is a plant.
Now, I think a lot of people, perhaps in Oregon, could really connect with that.
Man, a plant died, and God killed it?
God sent a worm to kill this plant overnight?
I'm furious.
There's even, what was it?
The university, I think it was Union Seminary, Union Theological Seminary, that had a day where they brought plants in and had all the students repent to the plants.
Like, that's the biggest need right now in America.
I mean, when I think of the sins that are just completely offending God, I think of the way we've treated plants.
It's the first one that comes to mind.
So Jonah's angry about a plant.
The point is, it's not righteous.
It's not valid.
He's not vindicated in that anger.
Because the only reason he's there is because he's sitting in the wilderness on a hillside overlooking Nineveh, waiting for the fireworks, waiting for God to destroy the Ninevites.
He could have gone back home.
By this point of the story, he's already done what the Lord set him out to do.
He's already gone to the city and preached the message that God gave him.
It's time to pack it up, but he doesn't want to miss the grand finale.
Jonah's bitter.
He hates the Ninevites.
Nineveh was the capital city of Assyria, and Assyria was located at the northern region of Israel.
Jonah lived in Geth Hafur, which was one of the northernmost villages in the northern part of the kingdom of Israel, meaning Assyria was right next door.
And Assyria was one of the most violent and barbaric nations that was already ramping up its pre invasion attacks on Israel.
Which means that Jonah very likely had experienced the capture or perhaps even the brutal murder of people that he knew personally, perhaps friends, perhaps even family members.
See, people misunderstand the story of Jonah.
They think that Jonah chose to flee to Tarshish because he was afraid that the Ninevites wouldn't listen to his message, his sermon that God gave him to preach, and that they would turn on him and kill him.
That's not true.
Jonah was deciding to rebel against God and flee, not because he was afraid that Nineveh would not listen.
He was afraid that Nineveh would listen.
That's what Jonah, again, chapter 4, says.
He says, Is this not why, speaking to the Lord in prayer, is this not why I chose to flee to Tarshish?
For I knew that the Ninevites were barbaric, wouldn't listen to my message of repentance, and would turn on me and kill me.
No.
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For I knew that you are a gracious God.
Relenting from sending disaster.
This is why I rebelled against you.
This is why I deliberately chose to disobey.
Why?
Because I was afraid that this prophetic message might fail and that great harm might be done to me?
No.
Because I was afraid that it might work, that the preaching of repentance might actually be efficacious.
And I know your character, God.
You're a sucker for repentance.
You're way too merciful, way too gracious.
And even when you prophesy and pronounce judgment, if people will repent and turn to you in prayer, you will forgive them of their sin and heal their land.
And I don't want to see my enemies forgiven, I want to see them judged.
Jonah's angry, but he's angry about the wrong thing.
So he has this much anger for something that he shouldn't be angry about at all.
And then he has this much anger for a plant.
It's kind of like our anger in traffic.
I think they'd be somewhat equivalent.
We need to have the appropriate anger at the right time for the right things.
Anger for the right things at the right time in the right measure.
And all of this, in terms of anger, really is just the effect of love.
If you want to see what you love, see what you get angry about.
Our anger reveals our affection, our love.
So it's permissible when evildoers do wrong toward us to be angry at the right time, for the right things, in the right measure, and in our anger, not to sin.
It's permissible to grieve, to be mad, and to be sad.
But there's one thing that our text says is never permissible.
And that's to be afraid.
Fret not yourself because of evildoers.
Fear not.
Fear not, little children.
Don't be afraid.
The one thing that we are incapable of justifying as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ is worry.
There is no biblical, theological case to be made ever.
For worry, for fear.
Anger, in some cases, in some measure.
Grief?
In some cases.
In some measure.
But worry?
Never.
Why?
Because worry says something about God.
When we worry, we're making a statement about God.
To say it a little bit stronger, when we worry, we're making an accusation toward God, we're saying that He's not reliable.
He's not credible.
That there's something in his character that's not to be trusted.
That he can't be counted on.
And that ultimately he's a liar.
That he promises certain things but can't be trusted to deliver.
Your worry makes a statement about God, your fear is an accusation toward God.
But it's a baseless accusation.
It can't be substantiated, it can't be defended, it can't be justified.
For there has never been a single time in the history of humanity or in the history of your personal life that the Lord God has ever failed you.
Why do we doubt Him?
It's not fair.
It's not fair.
It's not fair to Him.
That he's been so faithful and so kind and so good again and again and again without ever failing us, and we still struggle to trust him.
Put yourself in his shoes for a moment.
Think of marriage or think of perhaps a close friendship.
If your spouse or your friend, you had stood up for them again and again, you had protected them, defended them.
When they were in need, you provided for them and were generous toward them.
And yet, you could constantly sense a palpable distrust emanating from them.
That they were always hesitant in their relations towards you, always reserved, always treating you and speaking towards you as though you had some kind of ill motive, some kind of angle, that you were eventually going to betray them.
Would you not be offended?
Would you not be hurt?
And so it is when it comes to our worry and how it affects God.
But verse one of our text goes on and says, Fret not yourself because of evildoers, be not envious of wrongdoers.
So there are actually two prohibitions in this first verse.
It may be appropriate to be angry, it may be appropriate to grieve.
It is never appropriate to fear, and it is never appropriate to envy.
Now, the question that I think is begged by the first verse of our text is this What is it about those who do evil, those who do wrong, that would tempt us to fear them andor to envy them?
And I'll tell you what it is.
We fear those who do evil because those who do evil may do evil towards us.
And we have seen both in scripture as we've worked our way through the Psalms, and we each see in life by way of experience that those who do evil towards us are at times successful.
Being a child of God does not produce immunity from evil, being a child of God does not make you immune.
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Or invulnerable, invincible towards the evil of the wicked.
If they set out to do you wrong, it may prove to be successful.
It may hurt, it may harm, it may seemingly destroy everything that you love and hold dear.
We are sheep, we're not titans.
We're not bears or lions or warriors or giants.
The imagery that the scripture uses to refer to the people of God again and again is sheep.
If it rains, we're in trouble.
That's how vulnerable we are.
I'm sending you out like sheep among wolves, Jesus said, to the apostles.
And we're a far cry from them.
We're weak.
We're vulnerable.
And God has sent us out in a dangerous world with enemies that surround us.
People who hate us ultimately because they hate God.
Is that not what Jesus said?
A student is not beyond his teacher.
The slave is not above the master.
If they hated me, they'll hate you.
The only way to escape persecution in this life is to look nothing like Jesus.
The world hates Jesus.
There are some who have come to love Jesus, but it's because they have twisted.
The Son of God.
They've taken Jesus and made him out to be something that he's actually not.
But the real Jesus, the biblical Jesus, is offensive to those who don't know him.
And likewise, as much as we are conformed further and further into the image of Christ, we too are offensive to those who don't know Christ.
We're like a thorn in their shoe, a pebble, constantly rubbing them the wrong way, causing irritation.
For those who have no desire to submit to the Lordship of Christ, the people of Christ are a constant nuisance.
And in many cases, if they are to see clearly, even for a moment, not only are we a nuisance, but a threat.
We were a threat to their rule, their power, their fame.
That's what Herod experienced.
He heard from the three wise men, the Magi, coming from the east, that there was a king who had just been born.
And if they had said a savior, Herod wouldn't have cared.
That's just religion.
It's just religion.
It's fine.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't interrupt or intervene or threaten what I'm doing.
But no, the one who was born is not just the Messiah, not just the Savior, not just the Son of God, but a king who threatens the kingship of all other kings.
What does politics have to do with religion?
Everything.
The most political statement that has ever been made in the history of humanity is this Jesus is Lord.
On him has been bestowed the name above all other names.
Do you know what the name above all other names is?
It's not Jesus.
Jesus comes from Yeshua, Joshua.
There are other people named Jesus.
Now, what that text actually says the name above all of the names that was bestowed upon Jesus is the name Lord.
He's the Lord, the King of all kings, the Lord of all lords.
And he is a threat to anyone who is seeking to gain their own autonomous power.
The message of Christ is a message of salvation.
It's a message of justice.
It's a message of holiness.
But it's also the message of a king who rules and reigns, who conquers.
And the only safety and joy and peace that can be found is in submission to his rule.
He's not a threat to anyone.
Who welcomes with joy his kingship.
For all those who delight in his rule and reign and majesty, the message that Christ is king, that Jesus is Lord, is what?
Good news.
But for all who desire to be the master of their own destiny, the ruler of their own fate, the message of the gospel.
Is not good news, but a terror.
And so those who do evil, they are a threat to the people of God.
They hate us because they hate Christ.
They hate who He is.
They hate what He's promised to do.
They hate what He represents.
He's the Lord.
And they want to be Lord.
And we, as ambassadors of Christ, Are going throughout all the world as we seek to fulfill the great commission of making disciples of all nations and baptizing them into the name of our triune God and teaching them to obey all of King Jesus' commands.
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We, as his ambassadors, are simply a reminder to a world that is living in a delusion of autonomous rule.
We are a constant reminder that they have a king and it's not them.
And so they may seek to do wrong.
Fret not.
Why would we be tempted to fret, to fear, to worry?
Because they're not just evildoers somewhere out there doing this abstract theoretical evil that doesn't affect anyone.
No, they're evildoers next door.
They're evildoers in your workplace, in your job, in your family who want to do evil towards you, who do evil towards you.
And you are like sheep among wolves, vulnerable.
Weak, susceptible, and their evil at times is efficacious.
It's powerful, it's effective.
That's why we're tempted to fear.
And that's why our text commands us not to fear.
But it also says not to be envious.
So, why would you be afraid?
Because evildoers want to do evil towards you.
And sometimes it works.
Why would you be tempted to be envious?
Because are there not thousands of instances that we could list and name of those who do evil?
And it actually benefits them?
That's why we're commanded not to be envious.
We're only commanded not to do the things that we might actually be tempted to do.
We're being commanded not to fear and not to be envious, not to fear, not to envy.
Why?
Because we're tempted to be afraid because they not only do evil, but they do it towards us and it works at times.
It hurts, it harms.
And we're commanded not to envy because.
Because those who do wrong, those who do evil, not only can it harm us, but it benefits them.
Do you understand?
We're tempted to envy the evil, the wicked, because their evil acts can harm us and benefit them.
Evil works.
That's my point.
That's the text point.
Evil is successful.
It is.
And we don't need to be so naive.
With such rose colored glasses, and we pretend that it's not.
It is effective.
Evil works.
It works in both regards.
It can hurt you, and it can benefit them.
It can hurt you, which is why you might fret.
And it benefits them, which is why you might envy.
And yet we're commanded not to.
Why?
So we've seen why we might be tempted to fear, and why we might be tempted to envy, and how evil works in both regards.
It's harm toward us and its benefit towards the wrongdoer.
We've seen that, but why are we commanded not to envy and not to fear?
First and foremost, because it's wrong.
It's a contradiction to the righteousness and the holiness and the character of God.
As I've already said, our worry makes an accusation against God and his character, and envy of the wicked likewise makes an accusation of God and his character.
It says that God is not being good to you.
See, to fret, the accusation it makes about the character of God is this God might not be good to me.
To envy, in many ways, is even worse because it says God is not being good to me.
He's being better to them.
He's providing more.
He's benefiting more.
He's blessing more.
And not only that, God's being better to them than He is to me.
But in the case of the evildoer, envying the evildoer, you're saying, That God, not only is He being better to them than to me, but you're also saying God's a liar because He says that blessing comes by obedience, but He lied.
Because the reality is, what I see, what my eyes witness, is that blessing comes by disobedience and rebellion.
That I'd be better off if I stopped being faithful to Christ.
That this whole Christian thing has been a joke, a lie.
That I've wasted so many years striving to be obedient to Christ, and obedience doesn't pay.
Disobedience does.
Lying pays off.
Cheating pays off.
Stealing pays off.
It's the evil that constantly get ahead in life.
See, that's the statement that your envy makes.
So, why is it wrong?
Why are we being commanded not to fear and not to envy?
Because your fear makes a statement about the character of God, an accusation, and your envy makes a statement about the character of God, an accusation.
It's wrong.
It's offensive to God.
It lies and maligns his character.
But also, not only is it wrong, we're not only commanded not to fear and not to envy because fear and envy are wrong, but because they also are bad.
What I mean by that is, They're wrong.
It is wrong to fear and envy, aka it is right not to fear and not to envy.
Well, it's not only right not to fear and not to envy, it's good not to fear and not to envy.
Because the reality is God is not a liar, and that evil does not pay, and that faithfulness and obedience do bring blessing, just not always right away.
See, verse 2 of our text tells us precisely why.
We see in exact terms why we should not fear those who do evil, even though they may do evil towards us and it may be successful, and not to envy those who do evil, even though we might be tempted to join them in their evil because it seems to benefit them.
Why?
Because at the end of the day, evil works, but only for a moment.
It's temporary.
Verse 2 says, For they will soon fade like the grass and wither.
Like the herb.
See, the reason why we should not foster fear and envy towards the wicked is because their success in this life is temporary.
Psalm chapter 37, verse 2 For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
In other words, the wicked prosper and flourish for a while, but their happiness is short lived.
Another reason we should not fear or envy the wicked is because fear and envy distract us from receiving the Lord's discipline.
Now, this is not explicit in our text.
But it is clearly a biblical principle throughout the whole of the scripture, and I believe it's implicitly in our text.
The first reason we shouldn't fear the wicked, we shouldn't envy the wicked, is because although evil works, it only works temporarily.
But not only that, that's not the only reason we shouldn't fear envy.
We also shouldn't fear envy because worry and jealousy distract.
From what the Lord may be trying to teach us in the moment.
Job chapter 12, verse 6 says this The tents of the destroyer prosper.
He's saying evil works.
The destroyer, the wrongdoer, the evildoer, his tent is overflowing with material blessing and goods.
He's prospering.
His evil is working.
And those who provoke God, not only the people of God, but they're provoking God.
Are secure.
Not only are they prosperous, they're secure, stable, and safe, whom God brings, notice this, into their power.
That last phrase is what I want you to focus on.
The destroyer, his tents prosper.
The provoker of God, he remains secure.
The destroyer and the provoker, the evildoer, the wrongdoer, bringing it back to our text, has been brought into their power by God.
So, at a higher plane, at a 30,000 foot view, in terms of the providence of God, In terms of his sovereignty over all things, including evil, those who do evil prosper, gain power, because evil works.
Also, those who gain power, prestige, wealth by doing evil, it's not just that evil at a lower plane, at a horizontal level, that evil actually works, that it proves to be successful in gaining power, prestige, and wealth, but also they find themselves often in high positions by doing evil because God in his sovereignty places them.
He places them there.
Why?
Why?
Why would God exalt the wrongdoer?
Doesn't the scripture say that God exalts the humble?
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Yeah, in the proper time.
Before a season, God promotes, God exalts the wicked.
And when I say for a season, just to be clear, as a disclaimer here, Because I don't want you to have a false hope.
I don't want you to have a false hope of relief and vindication in this life.
When I say that evil works temporarily, that temporary moment might be 50, 60, 70, 80 years.
It might be that wicked person's entire life, which is still a moment.
Why?
Because the scripture says elsewhere that our lives are but a vapor, a mist.
It's like the dew of the grass.
Not just here today and gone tomorrow, here today and gone by lunch.
But that doesn't mean that things will get better next week.
No, that just means that in the mind of God, with an eternal perspective, which we should have, God has set eternity into the minds of men, is what the scripture says.
See, so long as we're thinking eternally, it is just a moment.
This life is just a moment.
But so long as we're.
Enraptured and captivated by this life and not the life to come, evil seems as though it endures forever.
It doesn't seem temporary at all.
But when we have an eternal mindset, we recognize that even the most powerful, malicious dictators throughout human history, their terror, their reign of tyranny and terror, was just a moment.
Now it worked.
There are people who have killed millions.
Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin.
It worked.
Their evil was effective.
It killed millions.
But it ultimately, in the big scheme of things, not to minimize any suffering or pain, but in terms of time, it was a vapor.
It was a blip.
On the timeline.
Just a moment.
Here and then gone.
So we don't envy those who do evil.
We don't fear those who do evil because it's temporary.
It's just a moment.
And we are creatures made by God who will live forever.
And that's all people, both the righteous and the wicked.
In the final day, the resurrection, both the righteous and the wicked will be raised bodily.
The righteous unto salvation, the wicked unto damnation.
Every single human being is made in the image of God, given an eternal soul.
They will live forever.
This life counts forever.
And if we're living with a forever mindset, then evil is just a moment.
But if we're obsessed with this life, if we make good things idols, what does Jesus say?
If anyone loses his life for my sake, He will find it.
But if anybody is clawing to keep their life, if any man tries to keep his life, he makes an idol out of this world, this life, himself, he'll lose it.
When we make an idol of this life, we're constantly worrying.
But if we count our life as little, that's what the Apostle Paul said I counted my life as nothing significant.
As little, something expendable to be poured out.
Even now, I'm being poured out as a drink offering, he writes to Timothy.
My life is expendable, it's insignificant, it is only here, it only exists to be poured out as a drink offering that it might bring glory to God.
A person who lives like that, who thinks like that, who believes like that, has no fear and no envy.
So we do not fear the wicked, we do not envy the wicked because it's temporary.
And we must have an eternal mindset to combat that fear and envy.
But we also don't want to fear or envy the wicked because we might miss out on what the Lord is teaching us, his discipline.
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Because the evil find themselves in high positions not only because evil, at a horizontal level, in a practical sense, is successful in accumulating power and prestige and wealth, but also in a sovereign vertical perspective.
God sovereignly appoints kings and rulers and officials.
God sovereignly brings the evil into positions of power for a reason.
So that he might be further justified on that final day when he judges the wicked, and also so that he might use those who do evil in positions of power as his rod to discipline the righteous.
If the evil were insignificant, if evil never worked, if it never paid off, if those who were unbelievers, who were rebels, who were wicked in this life were the lowest of status, the most insignificant in society, they would not be positioned to afflict us.
But through affliction, we grow.
They would not be positioned, they would not possess the power, the ability.
To harm us, to hurt us.
But it is those things, when we're persecuted, when we're afflicted, it is those very things that develop character, that refine our faith, purer than gold.
The Lord uses the wicked.
Lamentations chapter 1, verses 5 says this Her foes, speaking of Judah, her foes have become the head.
Her enemies prosper because the Lord.
Not just because the enemy, no, because the Lord, through the agency of this human enemy, has afflicted Judah.
God's doing this for the multitude of her transgressions.
Her children have gone away, captives before the foe.
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When injustice is done toward you, here's a couple biblical thoughts you should have.
One, am I afraid?
And if I am, what does my fear say about God?
How does it malign his character?
Then repent of your worry and remind yourself of the goodness of God that he's never failed you, that he'll never leave you or forsake you, and ask him to set eternity into your mind.
Another question do I envy?
Do I envy this person who has, or group of people who have committed this act of injustice against me?
I see them prospering and I see myself fading.
Remind yourself again of the character of God.
Repent of your accusation that your envy is an accusation.
Against God and His character, and once more ask Him to set eternity into your mind.
But then the next question that you should ask is this Even though this person in this situation is the evildoer, committing acts of injustice against me, they may be the oppressor, but I am not innocent.
They may be the person who is clearly in this conflict the evildoer.
The person who is the actual offender, the person who is actually in the wrong.
But the one that they are offending, the one that they're seeking to harm, the one that they're committing injustice against is not innocent.
I'm not innocent.
Now, Job and even David, they say in the scripture at times, I'm blameless.
And it's a true statement.
It's not sin, it's not deceptive, it's not filled with guile when they say these things.
Job said it before the Lord I'm blameless.
Search me.
I'm blameless.
What David and Job meant in those instances, it is appropriate at times, if it's true, for Christians to use this kind of language referring to themselves blameless, innocent.
What that meant was, I am innocent in this regard.
In this situation, I'm the one who is being offended.
I'm the one who injustice is being committed against.
I did not provoke it.
I have not retaliated.
I am blameless in this situation.
It is not a claim of overall sinlessness.
Job never claimed to be without sin, period.
Job was not making a theological claim of not having a sin nature, if that makes sense.
He's simply saying that in this instance, I'm innocent.
I'm innocent.
I'm not the one at fault.
You know one expression that I hate?
It takes two to tango.
No, it doesn't.
The crucifixion of Christ proves that it doesn't.
That was quite the conflict.
Bunch of people didn't like them.
But it takes two to tango.
You know, I mean, they had a bad attitude and they were bearing false witness and did some things wrong, but Jesus probably had some sin too.
Blasphemy.
No.
Jesus was perfect and people were still mad.
So it doesn't take two to tango.
Jesus is proof of that.
You can have a conflict and actually not have sin on both sides.
Sometimes there's a conflict because one person is sinful enough for the both of you.
It may take two to tango in a sense of like two bodies, but they don't both have to be alive.
You can pick up a corpse off the floor and start to do the tango, but that doesn't mean that both parties are responsible.
There's two people dancing, but one of them is alive doing the dancing, and the other one is limp.
They haven't committed any wrong, they haven't engaged, they're not responsible, they're not contributing to the conflict.
It is possible to say, even before the Lord, with truthfulness and an upright heart, I'm blameless.
Not entirely blameless, not a sinless person, Christ alone is the sinless one, but to say, I am blameless in this situation, in this conflict, between these two parties, them and me.
And that may be true.
But in that moment, don't allow your innocence and anger and frustration or fear and envy to blind you from what the Lord might be teaching you.
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Who exalts and brings low.
And he does this not only in the case of the humble and the righteous, but in the case of all men.
There is no one in any position that the Lord has not sovereignly appointed.
And if the evil find prominence in this life and use that power and prestige to harm you, and even if you may be in this particular instance blameless before the Lord, the Lord may still be using this party, this person, As his rod to discipline you for something else.
You may not be sinful in this instance, but you are sinful, brothers and sisters.
So, what other sin may you have committed that the Lord is attempting to uproot from your heart?
What other weakness exists?
What other idolatry exists in your heart that the Lord is using this?
This offender to refine and remove.
Don't miss that opportunity.
Verses 3 and 5 of our text say this trust in the Lord and do good.
Rather than harboring fear and envy towards the wicked, the righteous are commanded to trust in the Lord and do good.
So we've been told in verse 1 what not to do.
Don't fear, don't envy.
We've been told why?
Because it's temporary.
That's the explicit reason.
And the implicit reason that I've provided is because we might distract ourselves from something the Lord is teaching us.
Now, verse 3 and 5, no longer the prohibition, but the commandment of what we should do.
Don't fear, don't envy.
What should you do?
Trust and do good.
Trust the Lord and do good, which is really just one and the same.
See, trusting the Lord is the root, and the fruit of a heart that trusts the Lord is a life that does good.
It's just like salvation.
We're not saved by works.
We're saved by faith alone.
But as the reformers taught, we're saved by faith alone, but true saving faith is never alone.
So we're saved by faith alone, but if it's real faith, it will always manifest itself, result in, be evidenced by good works.
A heart that truly trusts the Lord will be demonstrated by a life that does good.
Rather than harboring fear and envy toward the wicked, the righteous are commanded to trust the Lord and do good.
Those who truly trust in the Lord will do good as the fruit of their faith in God.
Another command that we see, now verse 5, that was verse 3.
But now in verse 5, another command for the righteous is this commit your way to the Lord and he will act.
See, it's true that the righteous will wait upon the Lord.
We talked about waiting upon the Lord in Psalm 25 that Connor preached beautifully a few weeks ago.
We talked about waiting on the Lord last Lord's day with Psalm 33.
And once more, we see the principle, the significance, the importance of waiting upon the Lord.
But this is the beauty of verse 5 commit your way to the Lord.
Wait on the Lord.
That's what's here.
And we'll see it explicitly in verse 7 where it says, Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.
But in verse 5, we're getting kind of a glimpse of what we'll see clearly in verse 7.
Committing your way to the Lord and trusting in him is to wait on the Lord and to be patient, patient for him.
And what does God promise to do in return, in response?
If you commit your way to the Lord and trust in him, which is synonymous with faith, Being still before the Lord, beginning of verse 7, and waiting patiently for Him, what happens?
Into verse 5?
He will act.
And that's such a wonderful peace giving promise.
Because the whole point, again, the theme, reading all these verses within the context that we began with, the theme is our response to the wicked.
What do we do in the midst of the wicked?
When they benefit by their evil, and when they harm us by doing evil towards us, what is our posture?
What is our attitude?
What is our response?
What actions should we emulate?
Wait.
Another way of saying that is this don't act.
When evil is done towards you, doesn't everything in you want to do something back?
Somebody accuses you, maligns you, slanders you.
Privately, with a group of people, or perhaps publicly, don't you want to give a public response?
Don't you want to record a podcast and just completely decimate the one who hurt you?
But our text says, wait.
But here's the beauty see, everything in you wants to act, but you're commanded to wait.
But in being commanded to wait, it doesn't mean that no one will act.
It means that the Lord will act on your behalf.
See, you're commanded not to act.
You want to act.
Something has been done towards you, something wrong, some kind of injustice.
You want to retaliate.
You want to act.
And God commands you to wait patiently, for He will act.
Commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him, and He will act.
That's verse 5.
So then, what should we be doing as we wait?
We looked at this last week.
We looked at a few different ways, I believe four different ways to wait upon the Lord.
How we should wait upon the Lord.
We should wait courageously, I said.
We should wait humbly.
But another way that we should wait upon the Lord is obediently.
And we saw that last week.
Week, but I want to remind you of it again because that's what's clearest in verse 5 of our text.
Commit your way to the Lord.
When the Bible says your way, when it uses that kind of language, that terminology, it's speaking of the overall manner of a person's life all their affairs, their family, their business, their actions, their dealings.
Commit your way to the Lord, which means what align your manner of life, the whole thing.
Align every aspect of your life with what?
Commit it to the Lord?
Align it with His law.
Obey.
Commit it to the Lord means commit it to what the Lord says is right.
What the Lord teaches is good.
Commit your overall manner of life in word, in speech, in thought, in heart, in conviction, in virtue, in action, in deed, in every way.
Commit your life.
Your way to the Lord.
Meaning, strive diligently by grace to be obedient.
When the wicked do evil towards you, do not act.
Wait for the Lord, he will act.
But as you wait, this is not a waiting that is defined by apathy.
See, even though we're not acting, the Lord will act.
We wait.
We don't act, we wait, he'll act.
Well, what kind of action are we supposed to not commit?
I think that what's implicitly in the text, what's being said is don't act.
You wait.
Don't act.
Let God act.
Well, the act that we're supposed to not do so that God might do it is the act of retaliation.
But we're not supposed to act in that light.
But the text does not mean that we're not supposed to act at all.
Because the beginning of verse 5 says what?
It gives us an action.
Commit your way to the Lord.
So we're supposed to be active.
My point is, it is an active waiting.
And what is the premier action in our waiting?
How do we wait?
Actively.
Actively in what regard?
Obedience.
Wait obedience.
Actively seeking to commit your life, your way to the Lord.
Galatians chapter 6, verse 7 through 10 says this Do not be deceived, God is not mocked.
Again, this has to do with God's vengeance.
Vengeance is mine, says the Lord.
It has to do with God being the one who vindicates the righteous.
Do not be deceived.
God is not mocked.
It's not just God is good and faithful to you and he won't allow injustice to be done towards you because he cares for you.
All that's true.
But it's more than that.
No, God won't let it slide because God's reputation is on the line.
It's not just about you, it's not just vindicating you, it's God vindicating himself.
When people do wrong toward you, and it is truly wrong, not just by your own standard, but by God's standard, God's reputation, God's justice, God's holiness is on the line.
And he will not be mocked.
Whatever someone sows, that he will also reap.
For the one who sows to his flesh from the flesh will reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
And let us, here it is.
So, this is the same thing that we're seeing in verse 5, right?
The beginning of verse 5, first half of the verse commit your way to the Lord, trust Him.
And so, what we're seeing in the beginning, first half of this text in Galatians chapter 6 is don't worry.
Don't worry.
Don't fret.
Be still.
Why?
Because God's reputation is on the line.
God will act.
He won't allow his character to be maligned, He won't be mocked.
He'll repay.
Vengeance is mine, says the Lord.
He'll repay.
So, wait.
And as you wait, how do you wait?
Obediently.
See verse 9.
Don't let us grow weary of doing good.
For in due season, in the same way that those who do evil, eventually that evil will be repaid by the Lord.
Likewise, for the righteous, don't grow weary in doing good, for in due season, eventually we will reap.
If, there's a condition, if we don't give up.
So then, as we have opportunity, so what kind of good?
Give us an example, Scripture, of doing good.
Here it is.
As we have opportunity, let us do good to people.
Let us do good to everyone, but especially, that is, prioritize because we're finite beings with finite resources.
We can only be so generous, we can only be so kind, and therefore we should prioritize the household of faith.
Our love for brothers and sisters in Christ comes first.
However, so long as we're taking care of the household of God, the household of faith, brothers and sisters in Christ, our local church is where we should start.
So long as we're doing that, what is another people group that we might have opportunity to do good to as we wait for God to vindicate his own name and us?
Well, we could do good to the very one who's doing evil towards us.
Romans chapter 12, verse 19 through 21 says, Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God.
For it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.
To the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him.
If he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
For by doing so, you will heap burning coals on his head.
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
That's how we wait.
We don't do good, just as a disclaimer, we don't do good to those who do evil towards us at the expense of meeting the needs of the household of faith.
But so long as we're doing our part, our responsibility to care for brothers and sisters in Christ, in a practical sense, first and foremost in our local church, and we have more opportunity, And someone has wronged us, let them be the very next person that we select to pour our kindness upon, knowing that it pleases the Lord and knowing that it will also be as burning coals upon their head.
Delight in the Lord and you'll desire what he desires.
Almost done.
Verse 4 a second commandment.
So we've seen verse 3 and verse 5.
Now let's go right in between.
A second commandment for the righteous is found in verse 4 of our text.
Delight yourself in the Lord.
We've got to deal with this verse because it's.
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Very popular and very misinterpreted.
Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
See, those who make God their delight, right?
We skipped to the second half.
He'll give you the desires of your heart.
No, but the first half is delight yourself in the Lord.
You know why the Lord doesn't always give people the desires of their heart?
Because he is not the desire of their heart.
The first half of the verse is delight yourself in the Lord.
In other words, it can be said like this.
Make God your desire, and you'll get God.
Desire God, and He'll give you Himself.
That's what the verses say.
Delight in the Lord.
Above all else, seek first the kingdom of heaven and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added unto you.
Again, it's that prioritization, the ordering of loves.
What do we love most?
Who do we love most?
If we delight ourselves first and foremost in God, not just what God gives, but the giver himself, loving him, adoring him, cherishing him, trusting him above all other things and above all other persons, then we cannot help but receive the desires of our heart because God will reward us.
With himself.
Hebrews says that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
There is no man, woman, or child who has ever truly and diligently sought for the Lord and has come up dry.
He's just, he's faithful, he's fair.
Those who seek for him by grace and with diligence will find him.
Ask, it will be given.
Knock, and the door will be opened.
Did you know those aren't scriptures to unbelievers?
People use those scriptures all the time to say that Calvinism is false.
Right?
Right here.
Knock.
So unbelievers are being committed.
Knock, and then Jesus will open the door.
So they seek him first, and then Jesus responds by welcoming them in.
Ask, and then Jesus responds by giving him.
Seek, right?
There are seekers.
People are seeking for God.
Unbelievers are seeking for God.
You seek, and if they seek hard enough or in the right ways, they'll find him.
No.
No, that's Jesus' words to his disciples.
Now, there is only one seeker.
The Puritans called him the Hound of Heaven.
And it is no man, it's God.
And he relentlessly seeks the souls of those who he has chosen.
But once you've been born again, well, now it's different.
You've been made new.
For the one who's been born again, for the regenerate, for the Christian, now we are commanded, not for our justification, not for our justification, but in our life of sanctification.
To earnestly pursue the Lord, to diligently seek Him, to knock relentlessly, like the persistent widow who goes to the unrighteous judge 10 times and bangs on his door while he's in his nightgown and his bed and says, Give me justice.
And he says, He responds by saying, Though I neither fear God nor men, he admits, I'm a wicked judge.
I'm going to give this woman what she wants so she'll leave me alone.
And how much more for those who persistently and diligently seek God and His kingdom and His righteousness will it not be granted to us?
But those who seek are those who have first been.
Sought.
That's the only seeker there is.
The only true seeker is God Himself, and the only human seekers are those who have first been sought and bought by Christ.
See, when we begin to long for what God longs for, then the desires of our heart will be met.
When we begin to think as God thinks, then the desires of our heart will be met.
Insofar as we're further and further conformed into the image of Christ, sanctified by His grace, Insofar as we, with greater and greater degree, delight ourselves not in what God provides, but God Himself, then our desire will be met.
Psalm chapter 37, verse 34 says this Wait for the Lord and keep His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land.
You will look on while the wicked are cut off.
The last thing I'm going to have to leave it here.
The last thing that I want you to see is this.
One of the desires, right?
Because it almost feels random.
Our whole text has been about the wicked and how the righteous should act, right?
How they should behave themselves in the midst of injustice.
And then you have verse 4.
And verse 4 is always stripped from its context, you know, delight in the Lord and he'll give you the desires of your heart.
But if we place it in its context, as we have this morning, the whole context is about the Christian and his temptation and the commandments of God in the midst of being wronged.
What he's desiring is that his enemies who have done him wrong would be punished.
Well, that doesn't sound Christ like.
See, if we were to skip ahead in this same chapter, verse 34, it says, Wait for the Lord.
Everything that we've been talking about so far, it picks back up in verse 34.
A lot of verses in between we don't have time to get to, but what we've looked at, verses 1 through 7, that same theme is picked back up in verse 34.
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Waiting on the Lord, keep his way, right?
That's commit your way unto the Lord, wait obediently.
And what will he do?
He'll exalt you, he'll exonerate you.
But not just that, he'll also position you in the land to look on while he cuts off the wicked.
What's the reward for waiting on the Lord and waiting obediently, committing your way to Him, trusting that He will act rather than taking vengeance into your own hands?
The benefit, the promise is twofold.
One, He'll exonerate the righteous.
Two, the righteous will get to watch Him destroy the wicked.
You get to watch, and it's a wonderful thing.
The death penalty is a biblical thing.
And you know who gets to watch when it's carried out?
The victim's family.
They get to watch.
It's biblical, it's righteous, and it pleases the Lord.
That if you have a family member who's brutally murdered, that you sit there and you watch that perpetrator lose his life.
That's Genesis chapter 9, the Noahic covenant.
If any man takes the blood of another man, his blood will be demanded of him.
Life for a life.
This isn't because God makes light of human life, but because he esteems it so highly.
It's the sanctity of life.
Human life is so precious in the sight of God.
The only just consequence for taking human life is that your life too will be taken.
And if you take the life of a loved one, that family, they get to watch your life be taken from you.
They get the satisfaction of witnessing justice, they get to experience the vindication.
Revelation chapter 6, verse 9 through 11.
It's the same principle.
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness that they had borne.
These are martyrs.
Those who had borne witness, they were missionaries, they were evangelists, but they had been slain by the world, by the enemies of God for bearing witness about God, for preaching the gospel.
And they now in heaven, now in heaven, surrounding the throne of God, they cry out with a Loud voice.
And what do they cry out for?
Oh, sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood?
Not just avenge your character.
That's part of it.
That's the biggest part of it.
Right?
The biggest cry of our heart, the biggest desire, back to verse 4, the biggest thing we should desire when people do evil towards us is that God would vindicate His own name.
Because anyone who does evil towards you, ultimately, it is an offense and an assault on God.
So the greatest desire of your heart should be first and foremost His kingdom, His righteousness, His glory, His reputation.
That God would justify, or that God would, I'm sorry, vindicate Himself by punishing those who do evil towards you.
Because ultimately, their evil towards you in the larger picture is ultimately their assault on God.
And so, the first desire of our heart is that God would vindicate Himself, but it is righteous, brothers and sisters, to also desire that God would avenge not only His name, but our blood.
If it was not righteous, then this text would be a lie.
Revelation 6 these aren't just people on earth, these are martyrs, people slain for bearing testimony to the name of Christ, people who are evangelists preaching the gospel, and they're dead.
Meaning, they're in heaven before the throne of God.
There is no sin in heaven.
There's no sin in heaven, and certainly not before the throne of God.
And yet, there's not one ounce of reservation, not an ounce of guilt or shame.
I don't know if I should desire this.
I don't know if I should voice this.
It might be sinful.
It might be wrong.
No.
With a clear conscience, clothed in the righteousness of Christ, these individuals cry out for God to avenge not only his character, but them.
Avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth.
Then they were each given a white robe.
Not only they weren't chastised, they weren't corrected.
God didn't say, Hey, hey, you forgot the 11th commandment, thou shalt be nice.
No, they're not chastised by a commandment that doesn't actually even exist in Scripture.
No, they're actually rewarded.
They cry out for vengeance.
God responds by giving them a white robe and told them to wait just a little bit longer until the full number of their fellow servants is collected.
And their brothers should be complete who were killed as they themselves had been.
The Lord is slow to anger.
And the primary reason why, the primary reason why the Lord is slow to anger is not his toleration of the wicked, but it is his love and mercy for the righteous.
The only reason the Lord tarries in bringing judgment upon the wicked is because there are more righteous who he has saved and made righteous by his grace that he wants to bring in to fellowship with himself.
That's why.
The only reason God is not acting in the way that you want Him to act as you trust and commit your way to Him and vindicating you and doing justice to those who offended you, who committed injustice towards you.
The only reason why God is seemingly taking longer than you would want Him to take is not because God tolerates those who wrong you and ultimately have maligned Him.
No, it's because God, not because He's tolerating the wicked, but because God is patient toward the righteous.
If it were not for the fact that there were still souls to be saved, that God, before the foundations of the world had been laid, had chosen and ordained in the councils of eternity to save by grace alone, through faith alone, and Christ alone, if that were not a reality, if there were not still people that God was intent on saving, then the wicked would be punished right here, right now.
That's what it means that you're the salt of the earth.
You know what salt's good for?
It's good for taking a meal that otherwise would be bland.
And distasteful, it's good for making that meal tolerable.
What do you do with a yucky meal?
You throw it in the trash or you get some Tony's.
Those are your only options, at least in my house, at least with my taste.
If a meal's not that great, I don't want to eat it unless I can doctor it up.
You're light, you're salt.
Light, you're preaching the word, it's emulating, it's going out.
You're salt.
Part of being salt is not just your effect in evangelism on unbelievers and bringing them to salvation.
No, part of being salt is you are being used by God.
To help him tolerate the wicked, this world is like a nasty meal in the sight of God.
Genesis chapter 6, the days of Noah, he looked in every intention of every heart, was constantly evil continually, and he wiped it out.
He flooded the whole world.
What is holding God back?
Yes, his covenant, yes, his bow in the sky, his promise to Noah, but one of the things that is holding God back from utterly destroying all the wicked right now, as we live and breathe.
Is that this nasty meal is sprinkled with salt?
It's like what Abraham prayed with Sodom.
If there were just 10 righteous, would you spare the city?
God says yes.
Unfortunately, in that case, Lot should have had more kids.
If he had only had eight, could have saved Sodom.
That's a joke, but kind of serious.
So, the point is this God held back his wrath.
Because, or God is holding back his wrath towards the wicked.
He won't do it indefinitely, not eternally.
But for now, he is tolerating the wicked on behalf of the righteous.
That's one of the things that you're doing as a Christian.
You're doing a great service to the unbeliever.
You're offending me.
You're bothering me with your preaching of the gospel and the way you live your life.
You're being judgmental.
Hey, listen, friend.
No, no, no, no.
Right now, I'm actively being used by God to keep him from utterly destroying you.
The Bible's clear God hates sinners.
The Bible says it.
He hates sinners.
But his love for his people is greater than his hatred of the wicked.
And for the sake of the righteous, he holds back his judgment.
But one day he will judge, and he will be right when he does.
It will be first and foremost to vindicate his name, but it will also be to avenge you.
And those who are righteous will get to look on, not with envy, not with malice, but with a holy anger.
And that anger will be satisfied, not just by God being good to you, but by God punishing those who have done evil.
In the meantime, we wait upon the Lord.
Let's pray.
Father, thank you for your words.
We pray that you would bless it to your people.
I pray, Lord, that by your grace and by your spirit, I preached your word faithfully today.
If there was any error, I pray, Lord, that it would be soon forgotten in the minds of your people, but everything that was true, that it would remain.
I pray this in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Oh, hi, I didn't see you there.
Thanks for sticking around.
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