Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 112:1-10 (KJB)

This Psalm can only be about the kind of salvation that God gives a righteous person who delights in His commandments. In the Old Testament, these commandments can only be the Ten Commandments. The righteous person cannot strictly obey the Ten Commandments, but he can love them and his God and try to live by them. I Kings 8:46 (KJB). This type of salvation cannot be by grace because that higher form of salvation happens to be solely a gift from God apart from any good works or attempts to keep the Ten Commandments. Genesis 6:8; Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJB). God saved Noah by His grace before He ever told Noah to build the Ark.

Many persons love God and delight in His Law who do not receive wealth while in this world. God wrote His Word in the eternal sense, so His promise of riches to those who love Him and His Word He will give to them in eternity. In other words, "his righteousness endureth forever" because of his good works. Psalm 112:9 (KJB).

In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will save them all from eternal death and recreate them all with new lives on His recreated earth, and He will reward them according to their good works. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). Every human cannot avoid sin, but every human also cannot avoid doing some good works in their lives that God has given them to do. Isaiah 26:12 (KJB). Christ will save all of His living humans from the regions of death, but He will use His fiery wrath against evil to burn all of their sinful and evil natures with all of their sinful and evil acts. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Psalm 36:6; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). God will reward those who loved Him and His Word in their earthly lives with honor and wealth in their new lives on His new earth. Mostly, these will be the Old Testament Jews who loved God and His Word. Psalm 112:1-3 (KJB). Those living humans who led sinful and evil lives on the former earth, and who did few good works, will have much lower positions on God's new earth.

I Corinthians 3:11-15 cannot be about salvation by grace because these verses use the phrases "any man" and "every man" which, according to I Corinthians 3:10, cannot be about living humans saved by grace. These verses relate about God's lesser form of salvation according to good works. Also, God saves these living humans from the regions of death by His fiery wrath against evil which separates their good and living natures that God created and loves from their dead and evil natures. Living humans saved by grace become saved solely by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, never by God's fiery wrath. Jesus prophesied that God will save all of His living humans in the end of the world because of their good works. John 5:28-29 (KJB). Revelation 20:5 relates that God will raise all of His repentant, living humans from the dead, and Revelation 20:11-15 relates that God will cast only their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Revelation 21:8 relates that God will cast only the totally evil natures of humans into the lake of fire. In Revelation 21:5, God promises, "Behold, I make all things new." In order to do that, God must resurrect and recreate all of His repentant, living humans confined to the regions of death. God relates in Revelation 22:11-12 that He will leave all of the "unjust" and "filthy" behind, and He will preserve all of His righteous humans and reward them according to their good works.

The last verse of Psalm 112 prophesies that the "wicked" will see the salvation of God's righteous humans and that will grieve them. They will "melt away" in the lake of fire, and all of their evil desires will "perish."