Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                 Psalm 119:119 (KJB)

This verse reveals how God deals with sin and evil. God regards sin, evil, and the Devil to be enemies of His creation, particularly of His living humans that He creates in His image. Genesis 1:27 (KJB). The Devil became able to inject spiritual death into every human because all humans inherit a weak free will from Adam. Genesis 2:16-17; Romans 5:12 (KJB). All humans born into the world, except for innocent children who die, eventually sin because their weak free will makes sin unavoidable. As soon as humans sin, the Devil injects spiritual death into them. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). It is the "seed" of the Devil. Sin causes spiritual death, and spiritual death, in turn, causes sin and evil. In this sense, all humans are copies of Adam because all humans, except for innocent children who die, become predetermined to disobedience. Eve was an example of an innocent child until she gave the forbidden fruit to Adam. Adam, who fully knew what he was doing, became an example of the weakness of human free will that causes sin. I Timothy 2:13-14 (KJB).

God loves every living human whom He creates, and His Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). By injecting spiritual death into every human who sins, the Devil's goal is to cause at least one living human to become so overpowered by evil that he becomes totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. Job 2:5; Job 2:9 (KJB). If God ever casts any of His living humans into an eternal lake of fire, they would become totally evil, and He could no longer love them. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). God will cast only separated, dead humans into the lake of fire. If the Devil could ever cause just one human to become totally evil, then he would prove that God's Love cannot be Almighty which would give the Devil a means to finally murder God. John 8:44 (KJB). God gave the Devil his chance when all the sins and evil of humanity nailed Jesus to the cross. Acts 4:23-28; I John 2:2 (KJB). But Jesus rose from the dead victorious over all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. These are the enemies of God and all of His living humans. I Corinthians 15:20-28; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB).

The Devil even failed with the one person with whom he was most likely to succeed. Judas Iscariot suffered remorse after his betrayal of Jesus. Remorse can only come from the good nature of humans that God creates. Matthew 27:1-5 (KJB). Although Judas Iscariot refused to repent and killed himself to keep from repentance, Christ will cause even him, and all others confined to the regions of death, to repent and return to faith in Him when He visits them in the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Jesus demonstrated this fact when He called Judas Iscariot His friend when Judas came to arrest Him. Matthew 26:50 (KJB). Since Jesus laid down His life for all of His friends, meaning all of His living humans whom He creates, then Christ will save even Judas Iscariot in the end of the world although with a lesser form of salvation than that of grace. John 15:13 (KJB).

Psalm 119:119 teaches that God will get rid of all evil "like dross." The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized that God will use His fiery wrath against evil to melt down every human not saved by grace in order to separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save their good natures and utterly destroy their evil natures. Genesis 8:20-21; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:5 (KJB). In Matthew 15:13, Jesus taught that His Father will root up all that He did not plant, meaning spiritual death, and He will save all that He has planted, meaning His living humans that He creates and can never lose. In Jesus' explanation of His parable of the tares and wheat, the tares and wheat are reaped at the same time, but the wheat is saved and the tares are burned. Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). John the Baptist taught that Jesus will save by His grace those humans whom He baptizes with the Holy Spirit, but He will save the rest of humanity with His fiery wrath against evil. Christ will "throughly purge His floor," which can only mean that He will thoroughly cleanse His creation of all evil. Christ will save the "wheat," and He will burn the "chaff." The wheat and the chaff are inside every human. Matthew 3:10-12 (KJB). Ezekiel prophesied that God will melt down "the house of Israel" to separate the silver from the dross. Ezekiel 22:17-22 (KJB). God will extend that same mercy to all living humans confined to the regions of death in the end of the world. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 21:1-5; Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB).