Text: “Then shall He (the
Lord) say also unto them on the left hand (unsaved, reprobates), Depart from
Me, ye CURSED, into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels.”
Matthew 25:41.
Good
morning, powerfully armed Christian! A
careful study of God’s Word – Old Testament and New – clearly reveals the
God-given fact that we who are genuinely redeemed by the shedding of Christ’s
sinless Blood at Calvary, are granted powerful Spiritual weapons with which to
wage war with Satan and his vile, rebellious agents, both spiritual and
temporal. Too many today, in this
increasingly apostate and Spiritually toothless 21st Century church,
have no idea of the powerful Spiritual weapons the Lord has placed at our
disposal to enable us to ‘confound’ the enemies of the Gospel, never mind
willing to use them in the Cause of Christ Crucified. Fact.
It
is time, beloved in Christ; it is time to unwrap our powerful Spiritual armoury
and unleash God’s power upon those who would even dare to hinder and persecute
those of us for whom Christ suffered, bled, and died. Awake, and Christ shall give thee light!
Verse
4. “Let them be confounded and put to
shame that seek after my soul. There is nothing malicious here; the slandered man simply craves for
justice, and the petition is natural and justifiable. Guided by God’s good Spirit, the Psalmist
foretells the everlasting confusion of all the haters of the righteous (Made
righteous in Christ). Shameful
disappointments shall be the portion of the enemies of the Gospel, nor would
the most tender-hearted Christian have it otherwise; viewing sinners as men, we
love them and seek their good, but regarding them as enemies of God, we cannot
think of them with anything but detestation and loyal desire for the confusion
of their devices.
“No loyal subject can wish well to
rebels. Squeamish sentimentality may
object to the strong language here used, but in their hearts all good men wish
confusion to mischief-makers.” (C.H.
Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 170)
Christianity
today seems, in many cases, to have slumped down into a cozy, lovey-dovey
sentimentalism that is devoid of the Spiritual teeth necessary to engage in any
serious contention for ‘…the faith once delivered unto the saints…’ (Jude 3)
“For
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against Spiritual
wickedness in high places. Wherefore
take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the
evil day…” (Ephesians 6:12-13)
The
power to call down God’s Divine curses against His enemies and, therefore, ours
– is a powerful weapon indeed. However,
not all professing Christians are willing to even think of employing such a
devastating Spiritual weapon – and thus, the church declines and is found
reeling about in a politically correct confusion of its own. Sad.
“Verses
4, 8, & 26. How are we to account for
such prayers for vengeance? We find them
chiefly in four Psalms – the seventh,
thirty-fifth, sixty-ninth, and one-hundred and ninth, and the
imprecations (curses) in these form a terrible climax. In the last, no less than thirty anathemas
(curses) have been counted. Are these
the mere outbursts of passionate and unsanctified feeling or are they the
legitimate expression of a righteous indignation? An unobstructed fastidiousness, it is well
known, has made many persons recoil from reading these Psalms at all.” (J.J. Stewart Perowne 1868)
If
our KJV Bibles are indeed, ‘God-breathed’, Spiritually inspired as Paul,
inspired by God the Spirit, teaches us they are – then ‘the Imprecatory Psalms’ mentioned above, are also the inspired
Word of God, and as such are God’s Authority to us for our use.
“All
Scripture (Old Testament and New) is given by inspiration of God (breath of
God), and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness: that the man/woman of God may be perfect (mature
in teaching), thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
The
souls of those placed on ‘the left hand’ by our Lord Christ in our text for
today are the souls of the reprobate (those ‘passed over by God reference
Eternal Salvation); these are the enemies of God and of us, ‘His people’ who
are elected to Salvation from before the foundation of the world. Therefore, the Lord Jesus is declaring the
fact that those on ‘the left hand’ on His judgement day are in fact, left under
God’s curse declared back in Eden’s Garden; and as such are the Eternal enemies
of Christ and ‘His people’. They are
Eternally cursed of God, and as such have been, shall always be, and are,
Eternally lost. What an Eternally sad
and devastating position to be in!
Divine
Curses In Psalm 35. Confusion (verse 4); Blown Away, as dust before the wind (verse 5); hounded
by God’s angels (verse 5); Unstable,
set in slippery darkness, and persecuted by God’s Holy angels (verse 6); Doomed, thrust into sudden destruction,
caught up in God’s net of retribution (verses 7 & 8)
Imprecatory
curses are not prayed lightly by Christians.
They are prayed against tyrants who, ‘without cause’, persecute,
slander, hinder and harm Christ’s children.
Verse
7. “For without cause…without cause… Twice does David assert in one verse that his adversaries plotted against
him without cause. Net-making and pit-digging requires time and
labour, and both of these the wicked will expend cheerfully. Men set traps and catch their own
fingers. They throw up stones, and they
fall upon their own heads. How often
Satan outwits himself and burns his fingers with his own coals!” (C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 171)
Thought: “Maxentious built a false bridge to drown
Constantine but was drowned himself.
Henry the Third of France was stabbed in the very same chamber where he
had helped to contrive the cruel massacre of the French Protestants.” (Thomas
Brooks 1608-1680) Anti-Christians,
beware God’s wrath!
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