2224AFC061722 – Shattering Evil
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Matthew 5:6 – 6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
OR
6 Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied! Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, in truth and love. Aloha nui loa, ʻŌmea! Have you guessed yet how this series of posts started and when it will end? Me too! However, I am having fun getting there. And I am just delighted that you’re going there, too. Raise you hand if you know the theme of this coming Sunday’s Mass. Yep, it’s Corpus Christi time again! We actually give it as more traditional syntax by defining it as The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Today we will be putting together a very large string of Scripture about evil, and by the time we reach the concluding remarks, we will – I hope – better understand the astonishing POWER of the Eucharist. I’ll be using the New Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition), but each link will give you access to at least two other versions of the same passage.
We know tha Jesus willingly sacrificed his life once for all and by doing so he completely wiped out the wages of our sins. (See 1845AFC110918 – Once is Enough) He destroyed evil, conquered death, and restored us to the innocence we had before that old snake messed us up.
“Oh, yeah? Well, look around buddy. There is a TON of evil and death out there every day, brought to us every evening on the News so we can see what the real sinners are up to.” Yes, we are seeing the effects of that tsunami of evil discussed here many times over the years, and it is terrifying! Is this the “End Time?” Or are we blessed and fortunate enough to be just experiencing the “birth pangs” of the Tribulation? (See Matthew 24:1-8)
God gave us Jesus’ willing sacrifice to counter Satan whose designation is Death. Because of Jesus, to put it in the Borg parlance, “You cannot be assimilated. Resistance is highly effective.” We can shatter evil, but first we have to know what God does about it, and then what we can do. Here is a (sort of intimidating) table to follow. In the right-most column are links I hope will spark your curiosity.
TABLE:
| 2224Order |
TEXT |
SITE ONLY |
| Deuteronomy |
Deuteronomy 17:2-7 – 2 If there is found among you, in one of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, and transgresses his covenant 3 by going to serve other gods and worshiping them—whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden— 4 and if it is reported to you or you hear of it, and you make a thorough inquiry, and the charge is proved true that such an abhorrent thing has occurred in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or that woman who has committed this crime and you shall stone the man or woman to death. 6 On the evidence of two or three witnesses the death sentence shall be executed; a person must not be put to death on the evidence of only one witness. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first raised against the person to execute the death penalty, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. |
|
| 1 Kings |
|
1 Kings 21:25 The most evil King |
| Job |
|
Job 4:8 Reap and Sow |
| Psalms |
Psalm 35:6-8 – 6 Let their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.7 For without cause they hid their net for me;
without cause they dug a pit for my life.
8 Let ruin come on them unawares.
And let the net that they hid ensnare them;
let them fall in it—to their ruinPsalm 57:6 – 6 They set a net for my steps;
my soul was bowed down.
They dug a pit in my path,
but they have fallen into it themselves. SelahPsalm 34:21 – 21 Evil brings death to the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.Psalm 109:7-8 – 7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty;
let his prayer be counted as sin.
8 May his days be few;
may another seize his position. |
Psalm 34:21 Evil brings death
|
| Proverbs |
Proverbs 16:27 – 27 Scoundrels concoct evil,
and their speech is like a scorching fireProverbs 14:22 – 22 Do they not err that plan evil?
Those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.Proverbs 28:5 – 5 The evil do not understand justice,
but those who seek the Lord understand it completely. |
Proverbs 17:15
Proverbs 11:21
Proverbs 10:16
Proverbs 5:20
You’ll get yours
|
| Isaiah |
Isaiah 46:4 – 4 even to your old age I am He,
even when you turn gray I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
I will carry and will save. Isaiah 25:1 – 1 O Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you, I will praise your name;
for you have done wonderful things,
plans formed of old, faithful and sure. Isaiah 49:9 – 9 saying to the prisoners, “Come out,”
to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.”
They shall feed along the ways,
on all the bare heights shall be their pasture;Isaiah 47:13 – 13 You are wearied with your many consultations;
let those who study the heavens
stand up and save you,
those who gaze at the stars,
and at each new moon predict
what shall befall you.
Isaiah 65:1-2 – 1 I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask,
to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that did not call on my name.
2 I held out my hands all day long
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices
Isaiah 57:1-5 – 1 The righteous perish,
and no one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away,
while no one understands.
For the righteous are taken away from calamity,
2 and they enter into peace;
those who walk uprightly
will rest on their couches.On the other hand, the end of the evildoer is well-known
3 But as for you, come here,
you children of a sorceress,
you offspring of an adulterer and a whore.
4 Whom are you mocking?
Against whom do you open your mouth wide
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
the offspring of deceit—
5 you that burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree;
you that slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
Isaiah 29:17-21 – 17 Shall not Lebanon in a very little while
become a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?
18 On that day the deaf shall hear
the words of a scroll,
and out of their gloom and darkness
the eyes of the blind shall see.
19 The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord,
and the neediest people shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the tyrant shall be no more,
and the scoffer shall cease to be;
all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—
21 those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit,
who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate,
and without grounds deny justice to the one in the right.
Isaiah 32:6 – 6 For fools speak folly,
and their minds plot iniquity:
to practice ungodliness,
to utter error concerning the Lord,
to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
Isaiah 3:11 – 11 Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are,
for what their hands have done shall be done to them.
Isaiah 13:11 – 1 I will punish the world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant,
and lay low the insolence of tyrants. |
|
| Jeremiah |
|
Jeremiah 13:23
It ain’t easy! |
| Matthew |
|
Matthew 25:41
Exit stage left
Matthew 16:27
and get it all |
| Mark |
|
Mark 16:16
Repent and believe |
| Luke |
Luke 12:5 – 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! |
|
| Romans |
Romans 1:24-28 – 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
Romans 13:1-4 – 1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you wish to have no fear of the authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive its approval; 4 for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for the authority does not bear the sword in vain! It is the servant of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer. |
|
| 1 Corinthians |
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 – 9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, *idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. * consensual sexual intercourse between a man and especially a single woman who are not married to each other; “shacking up,” “hooking up; ” just living together”
|
|
| Colossians |
Colossians 3:2 – 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, |
|
| 1 Peter |
1 Peter 3:8-12 – 8 Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 9 Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse; but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing. 10 For
“Those who desire life
and desire to see good days,
let them keep their tongues from evil
and their lips from speaking deceit;
11 let them turn away from evil and do good;
let them seek peace and pursue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
(Based on Psalms 34:12-16) |
|
That should give a good idea of what God thinks about evil, what he will do about it, and what we can do to shatter it. Our communion is with God in and through Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:4 says 4 Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature. Evil cannot overcome that Divine Fellowship if we shatter evil everywhere and every time we find it. We must “hunger and thirst for righteousness” above all else. That’s God’s APP and we gotta stick to it!
Whatever, whenever, wherever, whoever, however, if ever, forever —
at your service, Belovéd!
Please pray with us here at Share-a-Prayer.
Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture passages are from the New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Aloha Friday Messages by Charles O. Todd, III is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
2224AFC061722 – Shattering Evil
Read it online here, please. And please – when you visit there – use one of the social media links at the bottom of the page to share this post. Thank you! And remember, we now have a READER VIEW available, so share this link or this email often. Do you know someone who enjoys Bible study, or who might like to read this? Ask them to email us or to subscribe on our blog-site.
Matthew 5:6 – 6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
OR
6 Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied! Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, in truth and love. Aloha nui loa, ʻŌmea! Have you guessed yet how this series of posts started and when it will end? Me too! However, I am having fun getting there. And I am just delighted that you’re going there, too. Raise you hand if you know the theme of this coming Sunday’s Mass. Yep, it’s Corpus Christi time again! We actually give it as more traditional syntax by defining it as The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Today we will be putting together a very large string of Scripture about evil, and by the time we reach the concluding remarks, we will – I hope – better understand the astonishing POWER of the Eucharist. I’ll be using the New Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition), but each link will give you access to at least two other versions of the same passage.
We know tha Jesus willingly sacrificed his life once for all and by doing so he completely wiped out the wages of our sins. (See 1845AFC110918 – Once is Enough) He destroyed evil, conquered death, and restored us to the innocence we had before that old snake messed us up.
“Oh, yeah? Well, look around buddy. There is a TON of evil and death out there every day, brought to us every evening on the News so we can see what the real sinners are up to.” Yes, we are seeing the effects of that tsunami of evil discussed here many times over the years, and it is terrifying! Is this the “End Time?” Or are we blessed and fortunate enough to be just experiencing the “birth pangs” of the Tribulation? (See Matthew 24:1-8)
God gave us Jesus’ willing sacrifice to counter Satan whose designation is Death. Because of Jesus, to put it in the Borg parlance, “You cannot be assimilated. Resistance is highly effective.” We can shatter evil, but first we have to know what God does about it, and then what we can do. Here is a (sort of intimidating) table to follow. In the right-most column are links I hope will spark your curiosity.
TABLE:
| 2224Order |
TEXT |
SITE ONLY |
| Deuteronomy |
Deuteronomy 17:2-7 – 2 If there is found among you, in one of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, and transgresses his covenant 3 by going to serve other gods and worshiping them—whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden— 4 and if it is reported to you or you hear of it, and you make a thorough inquiry, and the charge is proved true that such an abhorrent thing has occurred in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or that woman who has committed this crime and you shall stone the man or woman to death. 6 On the evidence of two or three witnesses the death sentence shall be executed; a person must not be put to death on the evidence of only one witness. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first raised against the person to execute the death penalty, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. |
|
| 1 Kings |
|
1 Kings 21:25 The most evil King |
| Job |
|
Job 4:8 Reap and Sow |
| Psalms |
Psalm 35:6-8 – 6 Let their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.7 For without cause they hid their net for me;
without cause they dug a pit for my life.
8 Let ruin come on them unawares.
And let the net that they hid ensnare them;
let them fall in it—to their ruinPsalm 57:6 – 6 They set a net for my steps;
my soul was bowed down.
They dug a pit in my path,
but they have fallen into it themselves. SelahPsalm 34:21 – 21 Evil brings death to the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.Psalm 109:7-8 – 7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty;
let his prayer be counted as sin.
8 May his days be few;
may another seize his position. |
Psalm 34:21 Evil brings death
|
| Proverbs |
Proverbs 16:27 – 27 Scoundrels concoct evil,
and their speech is like a scorching fireProverbs 14:22 – 22 Do they not err that plan evil?
Those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.Proverbs 28:5 – 5 The evil do not understand justice,
but those who seek the Lord understand it completely. |
Proverbs 17:15
Proverbs 11:21
Proverbs 10:16
Proverbs 5:20
You’ll get yours
|
| Isaiah |
Isaiah 46:4 – 4 even to your old age I am He,
even when you turn gray I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
I will carry and will save. Isaiah 25:1 – 1 O Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you, I will praise your name;
for you have done wonderful things,
plans formed of old, faithful and sure. Isaiah 49:9 – 9 saying to the prisoners, “Come out,”
to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.”
They shall feed along the ways,
on all the bare heights shall be their pasture;Isaiah 47:13 – 13 You are wearied with your many consultations;
let those who study the heavens
stand up and save you,
those who gaze at the stars,
and at each new moon predict
what shall befall you.
Isaiah 65:1-2 – 1 I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask,
to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that did not call on my name.
2 I held out my hands all day long
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices
Isaiah 57:1-5 – 1 The righteous perish,
and no one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away,
while no one understands.
For the righteous are taken away from calamity,
2 and they enter into peace;
those who walk uprightly
will rest on their couches.On the other hand, the end of the evildoer is well-known
3 But as for you, come here,
you children of a sorceress,
you offspring of an adulterer and a whore.
4 Whom are you mocking?
Against whom do you open your mouth wide
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
the offspring of deceit—
5 you that burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree;
you that slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
Isaiah 29:17-21 – 17 Shall not Lebanon in a very little while
become a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?
18 On that day the deaf shall hear
the words of a scroll,
and out of their gloom and darkness
the eyes of the blind shall see.
19 The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord,
and the neediest people shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the tyrant shall be no more,
and the scoffer shall cease to be;
all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—
21 those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit,
who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate,
and without grounds deny justice to the one in the right.
Isaiah 32:6 – 6 For fools speak folly,
and their minds plot iniquity:
to practice ungodliness,
to utter error concerning the Lord,
to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
Isaiah 3:11 – 11 Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are,
for what their hands have done shall be done to them.
Isaiah 13:11 – 1 I will punish the world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant,
and lay low the insolence of tyrants. |
|
| Jeremiah |
|
Jeremiah 13:23
It ain’t easy! |
| Matthew |
|
Matthew 25:41
Exit stage left
Matthew 16:27
and get it all |
| Mark |
|
Mark 16:16
Repent and believe |
| Luke |
Luke 12:5 – 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! |
|
| Romans |
Romans 1:24-28 – 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
Romans 13:1-4 – 1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you wish to have no fear of the authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive its approval; 4 for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for the authority does not bear the sword in vain! It is the servant of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer. |
|
| 1 Corinthians |
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 – 9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, *idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. * consensual sexual intercourse between a man and especially a single woman who are not married to each other; “shacking up,” “hooking up; ” just living together”
|
|
| Colossians |
Colossians 3:2 – 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, |
|
| 1 Peter |
1 Peter 3:8-12 – 8 Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 9 Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse; but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing. 10 For
“Those who desire life
and desire to see good days,
let them keep their tongues from evil
and their lips from speaking deceit;
11 let them turn away from evil and do good;
let them seek peace and pursue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
(Based on Psalms 34:12-16) |
|
That should give a good idea of what God thinks about evil, what he will do about it, and what we can do to shatter it. Our communion is with God in and through Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:4 says 4 Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature. Evil cannot overcome that Divine Fellowship if we shatter evil everywhere and every time we find it. We must “hunger and thirst for righteousness” above all else. That’s God’s APP and we gotta stick to it!
Whatever, whenever, wherever, whoever, however, if ever, forever —
at your service, Belovéd!
Please pray with us here at Share-a-Prayer.
Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture passages are from the New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Aloha Friday Messages by Charles O. Todd, III is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
About Chick Todd
American Roman Catholic reared as a "Baptiterian" in Denver Colorado. Now living on Kauaʻi. USAF Vet. Married for over 50 years. Scripture study has been my passion ever since my first "Bible talk" at age 6 in VBS.
