Isaiah 30:15
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says:
“In repentance and rest is your salvation,
What is Salvation? That's a very good question. We hear this word used quite often but most of us never understood it. In Hebrew Yeshuah means salvation. Which means deliverance, rescue, preservation, safety and welfare.
Psalm 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked,
for they do not seek your statutes.
Exodus 15:2
The Lord is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.
Many Biblical names have salvation in them.
Isaiah in Hebrew is Yeshayahu ישעיה and it means Salvation of God.
Joshua in Hebrew is Yeshua שוע or Yehoshua and it means the Lord is salvation.
Jesus is derived from Joshua and it means to save.
Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
The Bible gives us a path to our salvation and a messenger to teach us and guide us along the way. When we mess up he even sends us a savior to help us find our way back.
Exodus 23:20-21
“See, I am sending a messenger ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.
Everything is in place. We have a biblical law that promises to guide us to a peaceful life. A law to protect our family from coveting, which leads to debt. A law that protects our children by teaching them to respect their parents, a law that protect our marriages against infidelity, and a law that protects us from oppressing each other. And we have the fear of the Lord to keep us all on the right path. However the world wants to control us, it needs us to covet so it can increase its sales and donations. The god of the world is money, and it sees the biblical law as enemy number one. To keep us from obeying the law it first must take away our fear. So it puts a few stumbling blocks in our path. One called Evolution, and another called bad religion. We become blind to our sin; the breaking of the moral law. When this happens, according to scripture, we are considered "dead in our sin". We are spiritually blind to what has happened to us, we are walking in darkness. Controlled by pride, envy and greed, we choose a life of stress and worry. Were in the dark and we now need a savior to open our eyes, to show us the light.
Proverbs 14:30
A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:5
The Lord detests all the proud of heart.
Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.
In order to understand what happened, we need to get to the root cause. The Bible teaches us how salvation was first lost through deception, in the story of Adam and Eve. This is not a story about eating apples, another stumbling block by the world. Adam and Eve already had salvation, they had each other, they had food, they had love, they had protection, and they both trusted in the same law. They were like-minded; there was nothing to quarrel about. But evil (the snake) desired to rule them, so they were deceived to believe they would be better off if they had more knowledge. In order to deceive them, the snake first had to convince them that they couldn't trust the Lord. He did this through slandering, telling them that the Lord was withholding something good from them. He used the weakness of their pride to lead them to believe they could be as wise as God.
Genesis 3:1-6
He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
The woman saw that the tree had fruit that was good to eat, nice to look at, and desirable for making someone wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband.
Here we see the first example of the Law being broken.
Leviticus 19:16
You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people
Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret,
I will put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,
I will not tolerate.
-Psalm 101:5
Lesson #1: Don't be fooled by someone who slanders someone behind their back. Evil (Satan), looking to control the woman for his own gain, to get her off the Lord's path, convinced her that the Lord was using his Law (rules) to hold her back.
He did this without the Lord being there to expain how his Law was there for her protection and the death he spoke of was a spiritual death, not a physical death.
A death that would lead her on a path to suffering, instead of a path that would lead to peace and love. Eve ate the fruit, and she suffered and hurt others in the process.
So whenever you hear someone talking about someone behind their back, block your ears because they are trying to deceive and control you.
Otherwise they would invite the other party and have an open discussion. We see this happening on a large scale with discrimination. Groups organized to separate us by religion, race, and even gender speak to their members in secret, without the other party present.
People who do these things want to control you and separate you into their group without allowing you to hear another opinion.
Next, evil temps her to eat his fruit (his ways) by taking away her fear, the fear of the Lord telling her she will die. So in order to lead you off the path we see a second lesson.
Leviticus 19:14
Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the Lord.
Lesson #2: Don't be fooled by someone who tells you not to fear the Lord. After wiring up the brain and understanding the power fear has to protect us from accepting new "rewards" and to stop our old habits from leading us into sin,
I have an incredible delight in the fear of the Lord. See our habits are stored in our cerebellum (see Brain Maps) and the control of our limbs from the cerebellum to the
motor cortex flow through the Thalamus Ventral lateral nucleus (VL). In order to inhibit your spontaneous habits, fear from the Amygdala signals the Sub-Thalamic nucleus which
inhibits the signals from the cerebellum. Also fear from the Amygdala turns off your trust circuit and blocks the learning of new rewards and the storing of new memories, by preventing the release of the neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. (I talk about this more later in "The Servant").
Oh what a wonderfully engineered system the Lord has designed. We need this fear to stay on the path.
We need to teach our children "the Law" while they are younger and trust us, before they become rebellious. Once "the world" turns our children against us, we can no longer teach them; it's too late. Now
we will have to wait till they are older and have suffered from their ways,
before we can lead them back.
James 4:4
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
The second part of this law, don't curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, does not mean don't swear at someone who can't hear or trip someone who can't see. It means don't lead someone who never heard the Law into a cursed lifestyle and don't prevent someone who doesn't understand the law from finding the real truth. Don't you see how intelligent these words are? It took me over three years to finally understand this because my priest put a stumbling block before me. But the Lord moved the obstacles out of my way so I could finally see what I was tripping over. Many priests are good at doing both of these things in order to control people for their own profit. So be careful who you trust and know the law yourself, then you can find a good pastor or priest. So what did all this worldly knowledge get Adam and Eve? It appears nothing but a cursed life full of pain and suffering. Much like the lives many are leading today.
Genesis 3:16-17
And to the man he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.
The Lord promised us that if we follow his law, we will live a blessed life. And he also warned us they if we don't follow the law, and do it "our way", we will be cursed. So of those curses included sickness, poverty and confusion of the mind (ADHD, BiPolar, etc). Here is a list of some of the curses. (see curses)
Psalm 119
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 27:26
“Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.”
James 1:25
But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
Deuteronomy 11:26-28
Today I’m giving you the choice of a blessing or a curse. You’ll be blessed if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I’m giving you today. You’ll be cursed if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God, if you turn from
the way I’m commanding you to live today.
See, those who want to control us, to profit from us, to hide salvation from us, need put stumbling blocks in front of us to prevent us from finding the Lord's path. They need to teach us that we don't have to fear the Lord first, in order to control us. Search your Bible App for "Fear the Lord" or "Fear God" and you will get over 80 matches. They do this by saying that, the Lord is a loving God, or don't follow the Old Testament, it's outdated. They even go as far as to claim that Christ is the Lord who came down in a human body so we believe that the Lord is like Christ. It's a trap and by understanding how the brain works, we can now see it. Even Christ himself feared the Lord to the point of sacrificing his own body on the cross and openly claimed he was doing the will of his Father in heaven.
Matthew 10:28
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One (God) who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Acts 9:31
So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
Even Jesus' mother Mary knew to fear him.
Luke 1:47,50,54
And Mary said,
“My soul magnifies the Lord,
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
His mercy is for those who fear him
from generation to generation.
He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy.
Psalm 140:5
The arrogant have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path.
Isaiah 11:2-4
There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and might,
the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see,
or decide disputes by what his ears hear,
but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
But the Lord wanted to test us because he knew that our stubborness will prevent us from being happy in his ways, unless we suffered first doing it "our way". He gave us a path back to his way of peaceful living, and a path back to everlasting life, and a book to show us the way. Not just an easy, more peaceful life of love, family and friends, but also an everlasting life beyond this earth.
Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”
So there it is. If only we knew where to find this "Tree of Life" that we might never die. That we might not worry about our physical death which often consumes our life.
Do you believe there is a way back to this promise of everlasting life?
Well a few years ago I would have said I'm not really sure. But now after 6 years of wiring up the brain, as an aerospace engineer, I believe that it's not only possible, it's probable.
Let's think about this. Just ten years ago would you have believed that all your data on your cell phone including pictures, videos, messages, etc, could be backed up in "THE CLOUD" wirelessly and if you dropped your phone
in the toilet and it "DIED", you could get another and download all your "Stuff" back from the cloud like nothing ever happened. Heck, just 30 years ago if you told me that someday
I would be able to call someone from my car, I would have thought you were crazy. But now that I know our brain has the wiring of over 34,500 i7 processors and the wiring is so advanced that it can process
live vision to detect faces and facial expressions and such (see Brain Maps). This blows away our understanding of electronics and yet we can back things up in the cloud. So maybe
we should start putting more of our focus on searching for this "tree of life" and get our data backed up.
Let's start with the misconceptions first. Many Christians believe that it's OK to sin because their priest tells them Christ died for our sins. Now on the surface, that may sound right.
But what is our sin anyway? We didn't even know that sin was the breaking of the Law because the Law has been hidden from us, we are blind in our sin.
1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet
Well you might think nobody is perfect, and you might have heard it said that "we are born sinners". Again, by removing the fear of the Lord, we have been deceived and led right into sin. Because we are blind to the law, we don't realize that our "sin" is causing great harm to other, especially our children. For instance, did you know that favoring one child over another is sinning? I have suffered a great deal in my childhood because my father favored me, my own sister hated me. Then I read about the story of Joseph and understand what happened. And there it is in the Law, don't show favoritism. If only my father knew this, he went to church every Sunday, but the Priest hid the law from him, and his children suffered.
James 2:8-11
If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right.
But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.”
If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
Then do you think it's OK for you to gossip, slander, covet, steal, commit adultry, quarrel, hold a grudge, seek revenge, etc, not only do you hurt others, you hurt yourself in the process? Christ makes it clear that if we continue to sin, we are "DEAD", that is why the Lord sent us a messenger, to show us that we are sinning, teach us the Law that was being hidden by priests, and lead us back on the right path through repentance.
Luke 9:60
Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
Mark 1:4
And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For Godly sorrow brings repentance (teshuva) that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Romans 2:4-5 Do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
Luke 24:44-47
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
The Bible is very clear what baptism is for, washing away your sins and getting back to the Law. But yet some religions still baptize infants who haven't even sinned yet and can't repent. What's worse is that you don't think about getting baptised when you are older because you think you've done it already. So, if you go to church, don't repent, don't follow the Law and do things "your way", then Christ says you are part of the "World" and you don't know him.
Matthew 7:19-23
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!
That is the message Christ came to tell. In the last section (The Servant) we speak about repentance. Now that we have finally come to fear the Lord and repent, we need to get ourselves on the "right" path that leads to everlasting life. This will be our salvation, finding this path. That is why the Lord said he will "move the obstacles out of the way of my people" and create a "way in the Wilderness" . In the Adam and Eve story, the Lord gave then a chance to repent before they lost their salvation, but they made exchuses for their sin.
Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Because of their pride, they blamed their sin on someone else. Otherwise they would have overcome the sin right there. They were cursed because they didn't repent. And when know what happened next, their oldest son Cain killed Able. They passed their sin on to the next generation.
Numbers 14:18
The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’
Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’
Proverbs 4:20-22
My son, pay attention to what I say;
turn your ear to my words.
Do not let them out of your sight,
keep them within your heart;
for they are life to those who find them
and health to one’s whole body.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
and the one who is wise saves lives.
So here we see in Proverbs that a righteous person produces FRUIT and with that fruit he can save someone's life. So we finally begin to understand that the
tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil are not actual trees that produce fruit we eat in our stomach. They are a type of fruit we eat and digest
in our mind. These spiritual fruits become seeds that grow in our mind, wiring our neurons to create our reward system and control our behavior. You need to get the right
advice from a wise person otherwise your "REWARDS" might really be a punishment. Search the Bible for the word "Fruit" and learn to understand what it really means.
So a "good" tree produces "good fruit" and an "evil tree" produces "bad fruit". So then what does the tree of the knowledge of "good" and "evil" produce?
Deception of course. Why? Because both types of fruit are on the tree. You think you are eating good fruit but it turns out that you were deceived and
it was actually "bad" advice which led decisions that ended up ruining your life. For example, you may believe getting advanced degrees is a good thing. But it could lead you
into debt, causing you to work your life away to make the money to pay back your loans. Then all this work you put into your job takes so much of your time that it causes you to
not find a spouse and get married. If you do find someone you destroy the relationship because you have no time for them or your job stress drives them away from you.
Now one day when you are older and lonely, your time to have children has passed you by, your childless and unloved, your going to look back and say did I eat from
the tree of life or from the tree of good and evil? One thing is for sure, the ones who deceive us, do it for pride and profits. They are not your servants.
Ephesians 2:1-5 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
And so the Lord sends his messengers (servants) to us, to teach us how sin is controlling us and how to recognize sin by knowing the Law, then how the Lord is merciful and will accept us back if we repent. Noah, Job, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, Elijah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Jesus were all considered servants of the Lord because they followed the Law. They are all part of the tree of life because they have passed on their wisdom to the next generation and even recorded it in a book for us. Where would mankind be without the Bible? The same book the Forefathers of America used for guidance and the understanding of moral law and justice. And a servant does't look to make a profit off of you. The servant doesn't say, "I'll cure you for $5,000, what kind of insurance do you have"? That is why he is a servant, otherwise he would be serving himself. Once we know the Law we have the advice that will lead us to a happy, healthy life and even everlasting life. We can all get together well without quarreling as a family and a community because we "believe" in the same laws. We follow them "faithfully". We have strong "faith" that these laws will lead to our peace and everlasting life. When you finally understand this and get yourself back on the right path, you are no longer worried about death, your "Stuff" is backed up in the cloud, you are no longer anxious about everything and you will finally have peace. This is finally your salvation and it feels great!
So Jesus, "the teacher", sums our path to salvation up in just these two commandments.
Matthew 22:36-39 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.
This comes from the Laws in Leviticus. This is a great law but the full law was not written by Matthew or Luke and I feel stongly that, with all the brain research, it is the most crucial part to end our bitterness and suffering and move forward to a life of peace. The Law tells us "do not seek revenge or bear a grudge".
Leviticus 19:10
“‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
If you have read about Joseph in the Bible and all the suffering his brothers put him through including mocking, throwing him in a well and even selling him into salvery. If Joseph didn't hold a grudge against his brothers, then all of us can certainly forgive too. Because of his suffering, Joseph would later end up in a position to save his people from starvation.
Genesis 50:15-20
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?”
So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died:
‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said. But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
Imagine how great you would feel if you can accomplish this. This is the brain-bible connection right here because if we can truly forgive from our heart, and not let our PRIDE control us, we actually change our brain circuits. The old circuits leading to our stress like getting back at someone, or the old memory of the past hurts are causing circuits to fire. And these circuits are connected directly from our recognition circuits in our perirhinal cortex to our orbital fontal lobe. So just looking at the person you have a grudge against, fires these circuits in milliseconds. Circuits that lead to the amygdala, then to your hypothalamus, raising our blood pressure and causing our stress. We must forgive, otherwise we are breaking the LAW!
Psalm 18:25-27
With the merciful you show yourself merciful;
with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;
with the purified you show yourself pure;
and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
For you save a humble people,
but the haughty eyes (arrogant) you bring down.
The Lord tells us that if we follow his commands, then he is our God. So in a very clear way, he is telling us that our god are the one(s) that we follow.
Jeremiah 7:23
but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you.
Ezekiel 11:19-20
I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
So let's do a quick test to find out who is currently your god.
Question 1: Would you quarrel with and curse your boss who pays you, your parents, or even your spouse?
If your answer is that would never quarrel with your boss but you do curse your parents or your spouse, then your god is MONEY.
If you love making money, and you fear losing your job, then you have already proven to yourself that fear can easily control your behavior.
Now if you love the Lord, just think of what you can control if you fear him.
Your salvation will come when you fear the Lord and repent.
And when you read and memorize the Law of the Lord (see The Law) including the Ten
Commandments, and the other various decrees and Laws. Once this Law becomes
your reward, many will see a big change in your peace and well being.
Be sure to read and study the Law.
Peace be with you,
Adon
Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?
Isaiah 63:7-8
I will tell of the kindnesses of the Lord,
the deeds for which he is to be praised,
according to all the Lord has done for us—
yes, the many good things
he has done for Israel,
according to his compassion and many kindnesses.
He said, “Surely they are my people,
children who will be true to me”;
and so he became their Savior.
Psalm 37 (NIV)
1 Do not fret because of those who are evil
or be envious of those who do wrong;
2 for like the grass they will soon wither,
like green plants they will soon die away.
3 Trust in the Lord and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
4 Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this:
6 He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
your vindication like the noonday sun.
7 Be still before the Lord
and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret—it leads only to evil.
9 For those who are evil will be destroyed,
but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.
10 A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look for them, they will not be found.
11 But the meek will inherit the land
and enjoy peace and prosperity.
12 The wicked plot against the righteous
and gnash their teeth at them;
13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for he knows their day is coming.
14 The wicked draw the sword
and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy,
to slay those whose ways are upright.
15 But their swords will pierce their own hearts,
and their bows will be broken.
16 Better the little that the righteous have
than the wealth of many wicked;
17 for the power of the wicked will be broken,
but the Lord upholds the righteous.
18 The blameless spend their days under the Lord’s care,
and their inheritance will endure forever.
19 In times of disaster they will not wither;
in days of famine they will enjoy plenty.
20 But the wicked will perish:
Though the Lord’s enemies are like the flowers of the field,
they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.
21 The wicked borrow and do not repay,
but the righteous give generously;
22 those the Lord blesses will inherit the land,
but those he curses will be destroyed.
23 The Lord makes firm the steps
of the one who delights in him;
24 though he may stumble, he will not fall,
for the Lord upholds him with his hand.
25 I was young and now I am old,
yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken
or their children begging bread.
26 They are always generous and lend freely;
their children will be a blessing.
27 Turn from evil and do good;
then you will dwell in the land forever.
28 For the Lord loves the just
and will not forsake his faithful ones.
Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed;
the offspring of the wicked will perish.
29 The righteous will inherit the land
and dwell in it forever.
30 The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom,
and their tongues speak what is just.
31 The law of their God is in their hearts;
their feet do not slip.
32 The wicked lie in wait for the righteous,
intent on putting them to death;
33 but the Lord will not leave them in the power of the wicked
or let them be condemned when brought to trial.
34 Hope in the Lord and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land;
when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.
35 I have seen a wicked and ruthless man
flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,
36 but he soon passed away and was no more;
though I looked for him, he could not be found.
37 Consider the blameless, observe the upright;
a future awaits those who seek peace.
38 But all sinners will be destroyed;
there will be no future for the wicked.
39 The salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord;
he is their stronghold in time of trouble.
40 The Lord helps them and delivers them;
he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.
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