All the Workers of Wickedness

“The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’

They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;

There is no one who does good.

The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men

To see if there are any who understand,

Who seek after God.

They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt;

There is no one who does good, not even one.” (Psalms 14:1-3 NASB’95)

Who are the fools? They are people who are deceived, who are being misled, who are being tricked and hoodwinked into believing in and living the lies rather than believing in and living the truth of God’s Word. So they are the selfish, the unwise, the reckless, the self-indulgent, the hypocritical, the idolatrous, and the adulterous who are workers of evil rather than being workers of good. They deny God, not just by their words, but by their deeds.

And they are not just those who say, “There is no God.” They are many who profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, who believe their sins are forgiven, and that they are on their way to heaven, guaranteed, but regardless of how they treat God/Jesus, and regardless of how they live. So, although they may not verbalize, “There is no God,” they act as though God does not exist, and that his word is not truth, by their sinful lifestyles.

And then there are those who say that they believe in God, and that they believe in Jesus, but they deny that Jesus is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit, not of man, so while he lived on the earth he was both fully human and fully God, and he was not born with a sin nature because he was not conceived of man, but of God. And Jesus always existed with God.

[John 1:1-36; John 8:24,58; John 10:30-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 9:5; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8-9; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 1:1]

 

So the description here of the foolish is a description of all who deny the rule of God in their hearts and lives, whether or not they verbalize belief in God. And because they deny God by their lifestyles, they are those who are corrupt, who commit abominable deeds, who do not do the good that God requires of us, who are lacking completely in understanding of who God is, and who have turned aside to chase after the desires of their flesh, instead.

This is the condition of all people who have not yet trusted in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of their lives, who have not surrendered their lives to the Lord, to do his will, who have not yet died with Christ to sin, and who are not walking in obedience to his commands, even if they verbalize faith in God, in Jesus Christ. And when we are born into this world, we are born with sin natures, in the image of Adam, unable in ourselves to be right with God.

“Do all the workers of wickedness not know,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread,

And do not call upon the Lord?

There they are in great dread,

For God is with the righteous generation.

You would put to shame the counsel of the afflicted,

But the Lord is his refuge.” (Psalms 14:4-6 NASB’95)

And here we see a distinction between the workers of wickedness and the people of God. Now I know this is under the Old Covenant, and so the people of God were all those descended physically from Abraham and Sarah, who were the Jews. But under the New Covenant they are Jew and Gentile by genuine faith in Jesus who have died with him to sin, and for whom obedience to God is their practice. But this does not make them perfect.

But, in New Testament terms, those who are truly of God, by faith in Jesus Christ, are those who have died with Christ to sin, who are putting sin to death in their lives, by the Spirit, in practice, and for whom obedience to God and to his commands are what they practice (their lifestyles). And those who make sin, and not obedience to God, their practice, they are not in relationship with God, and they will not inherit eternal life with God.

And many of them will, indeed, “eat up” God’s people as they eat bread, for God’s people today are only those who are followers of Jesus Christ who are walking in obedience to the Lord, and not in sin, as their life practice. And, as followers of Christ, we are guaranteed that we will be treated as Jesus was treated, if we are following in his footsteps and we are speaking the truth of the gospel to the people, and if we are refuting Satan’s lies.

But God is with the righteous, not with those who live wickedly and who ignore him and his commandments, and who live in sin, and who walk in disobedience to our Lord’s commands. For it is those who practice righteousness who are righteous in the eyes of the Lord, who obey the Lord, who walk in his ways, and who no longer make sin their practice. But all who give lip service to God, but not in truth, will not have eternal life with God.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

When life’s toils are ended,

And parting days have come,

Sin no more shall tempt me,

Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,

If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,

Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

In life’s darkest hours, Father,

When life’s troubles come,

Keep my feet from wand’ring,

Lest from Thee I roam,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

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All the Workers of Wickedness

An Original Work / April 1, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love