Daily Bites Of God's Word - Part 53 - Psalm 119:53

Hello and welcome back to Daily Bites of God's Word. This is Andy Cain. It's a joy to be back with you once again. Today we are looking at Psalm 119 verse 53.

It says, BURNING INDIGNATION HAS SEIZED ME BECAUSE OF THE WICKED, WHO FORSAKE YOUR LAW.

This is the proper response to sin and to sinners. There's those that you hear at all times mistakenly and being ignorant of their scriptures saying,

Well, you know, God loves everybody. He loves everybody the same.

And the whole world just lollipops and everything's great. You know, He just really wants you to try harder.

You know, He's so disappointed when you just don't quite do what He wants.

No scripture paints a different picture. In Psalm 5, it says very clearly in verse 4,

FOR YOU ARE NOT A GOD WHO DELIGHTS IN WICKEDNESS. God takes no joy and no delight in wickedness.

He is very serious about it. This is why the psalmist here says, BURNING INDIGNATION SEIZES ME BECAUSE OF THE WICKED.

We should share as much as we can in that indignation and the condemnation of sin.

Now, obviously we are not God and cannot pronounce judgment. So we are to show a level of love and concern for the sinner and for the wicked and want to evangelize them and see them come to a saving knowledge of Christ.

However, if someone shows themselves to be obstinate and they're just going to simply forsake the law of God, we are to have a righteous anger and hatred towards that behavior.

Because it says here in Psalm 5, EVIL DOES NOT SOJOURN WITH YOU. God cannot put up with wickedness and sin.

It cannot be in His presence. It's not, well, you know, He's just a tolerant God and, you know,

I know these sinners are around, but, no, He cannot sojourn with us. It says, THE BOASTFUL SHALL NOT STAND BEFORE YOUR EYES.

YOU HATE ALL WORKERS OF INIQUITY. YOU DESTROY THOSE WHO SPEAK FALSEHOOD.

THE LORD ABHORS THE MAN OF BLOODSHED AND DECEIT. You can't get much clearer than that, folks.

It's not just a matter of God's disappointment in sin. It says here very clearly, GOD HATES ALL WORKERS OF INIQUITY.

He hates those who are sinners. That's why it's said that in our unregenerate state, we are enemies of God.

We stand in opposition to Him and He hates our sin and He hates sinners.

And it's only because of His grace and mercy and the love that He chooses to put on His elect that any flesh is saved at all.

And so a righteous person is going to naturally have a burning righteous hatred of sin, first and foremost in your own body, in your own life, but also when we see those who are forsaking

God's law, who are wicked, we need to see that the same way

God does and hate it for what it is. It is sin against a righteous and holy God. Now, we are not one to take judgment out on them.

God has certain spheres of government and certain ways in which this is handled. We are not the judge and executioner.

But the hatred for sin, the righteous and burning indignation that seizes us because of the wicked should cause us to act first against our own sin, but also to call others to repentance.

Because if you do not come to repentance, you will die in your sins and be judged for that sin. So, you know, heavy, heavy words here, but true words.