Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 37:18-24

When the Old Testament writers wrote about the upright and the righteous, they could not have meant humans saved by grace because they knew very little about salvation by grace. They could only have meant God's goodness that He puts into every human whom He creates in His image. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). For this reason, Psalm 37:18 states that God will give the upright an eternal inheritance.

God loves His entire creation including the good natures of all humans. God's Love can never fail, and therefore, He will never lose the good natures of every human He ever creates. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).

But some humans suppress their good natures, and they turn themselves over to an evil life. But they can never suppress their good natures to the extent that they can annul it. No human ever becomes wholly evil. Even the worst humans have done some good in their lives. Even sociopaths do some good, even if only by accident.

Psalm 37:20 informs that "the wicked shall perish." But that can only mean that God will destroy the evil natures of all humans that the Devil injects into the inner beings of all humans. Every human has a good and an evil nature. God's only enemies are sin, evil, and the Devil, never the good and living natures of humans. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; I John 3:8 (KJB). The second part of Psalm 37:20 describes how God will destroy His enemies. He will use His fiery wrath against evil and burn His enemies like "the fat of lambs." God will melt down all humans not saved by grace in the end of the world to separate their repentant, living natures from their evil natures so that He can give their living natures an eternal life on His new earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; I Timothy 2:4; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). God annuls the spiritual deaths in all humans who become saved by grace the moment they repent and believe in Christ. John 5:24 (KJB).

God knows exactly how to cause all of His good and living humans to repent and believe in Christ. God saves some of His living humans by His grace, and He will save the rest of His living humans on the earth and under the earth when He appears to them near the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God will never allow the Devil to utterly destroy any living human that God ever creates. For this reason, the "blessed" of the Lord will inherit the earth, and the separated, evil natures of humans that is "cursed of Him shall be cut off." Psalm 37:22 (KJB).

Even though all living humans will inevitably sin because of the influence of their evil, spiritual deaths within them, most humans choose to live good lives and hate evil. Most humans who lead good lives do not become saved by grace. But God blesses the lives of good humans, and He will always uphold them, and He will give them great rewards when they inherit His new earth. God will also save the good and living natures of all humans who lead evil lives, but they will receive few rewards when God recreates them to inherit His new earth. Revelation 22:11-12; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Psalm 37:23-24. (KJB).