Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 112:6-9 (KJB)

In verse 6, God promises that He will forever remember the righteous. But who were the righteous in the Old Testament? Even though the Old Testament writers sometimes reported that some persons were saved by grace, they seemed to have few ideas about what that meant. To the Old Testament writers, the righteous were all humans that God creates in His image. God created them all to be good and part of that goodness was faith in Him. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27 (KJB). In order to turn to sin and evil, humans had to let the influence of evil within them cause them to deny their faith in God. They had to become proud and adopt the idea that they could create their own good lives with no more need for faith in God. Genesis 3:5; Genesis 4:1-5 (KJB).

Most humans throughout history have had their own little gods whom they thought would alleviate their sufferings and provide a better life, or non-life, for them. They have had their little gods of religion, philosophy, ideology, money, power, and pleasure. Even the atheists have their their own little god of annihilation. They believe that if physical death annuls their consciousness, then that at least will relieve their sufferings. But God will never forget His righteous nature that He puts into all humans. God's Love can never fail, and He can never lose anything He has ever created. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

A time will come when God will renew the latent faith in Him of all His righteous humans that He has created and loves. God will renew the faith in Him of all humans who become saved by grace while they are still alive in the flesh. But Christ will visit all living humans who died in their sins and whom He had to confine to the regions of death in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to their faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; John 8:21-24; John 5:28-29; Philippians 2:9-11 (KJB). God will save them from eternal death because God will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate their living natures from their eternal deaths and all their sins and evil that He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). The enemies of God and the enemies of His living humans are the same enemies. God will reestablish the inner faith of all of His living humans, and they will be glad when they see God utterly destroy theirs and God's enemies. Psalm 112:6-8; II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8 (KJB).

The righteous natures of all God's living humans will either be saved by grace or they will be saved because their good works will prove that their righteous natures can never be utterly destroyed. Isaiah 26:12; John 5:28-29 (KJB). God will save some living humans by His grace as a free gift apart from any good works because they put their faith in Christ's sacrifice for them on the cross. John 5:24; Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJB). God will save, exalt, and honor all of His living humans. Psalm 112:9 (KJB). Living humans saved by grace will enjoy a home in Heaven with God forever. John 17:24 (KJB). Living humans whom God will save from the regions of eternal death will enjoy eternal, recreated lives on God's new earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).