Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                           Proverbs 16:4 (KJB) finish

One of the thoughts of evil humans is that all humans have their price. They believe every human will sell out their honesty for the right price. Satan certainly has that idea. Satan would have known that his temptation of Jesus would be useless if he thought that Jesus had an Almighty Righteousness that could never be shaken. Satan knew that Jesus possessed free will, and knowing that free will has a weakness, Satan believed he could cause Jesus to sin if he could just tempt Jesus in the right way. But Jesus relied on God's Word to pass His test of faith. The Devil then "departed from Him for a season," which meant he would return to tempt Jesus again as He hung on the cross. Luke 4:1-13 (KJB).

Jesus led an absolutely sinless life while He was on the earth which made Him the perfect sacrifice to take away all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans by suffering it all in their place on His cross. II Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 2:9-18 (KJB). Hell could not hold the innocent Spirit of Jesus and the grave could not hold the perfect body of Jesus, and so He rose from the dead victorious over all sins, evil, spiritual deaths, and the Devil. The Bible shows that God always wins complete victories, never partial ones. Acts 2:25-31; John 12:31-32; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB).

God plans to restore all of His living humans whom He creates and loves to faith in Him as their Savior despite the weakness that they have in their free wills. God will cause all of His living humans to freely choose to return to faith in His Son's sacrifice for them. God will forever save those living humans who return to faith in His Son while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24 (KJB). They will be saved by His grace. God will save all of His other living humans whom He had to confine to the regions of death; that is, Hell, when they died in their sins. Christ will appear to them in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will also appear to all humans alive on the earth, and He will save them in the same way. Christ will resurrect and recreate all of these living humans with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). All God requires of any human for their salvation is faith in His power to take away their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). Repentance is a part of faith. Physical death cannot bar the Almighty Power of God's Love. John 11:25; Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).

Jesus Himself taught that God will save all of His living and righteous humans. Jesus taught that in the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate the "tares" from the "wheat." The "tares" and the "wheat" represent the evil and the good inside every human. God sows the wheat, and the Devil sows the tares. God will cast the separated, evil natures of all humans confined to the regions of death into the lake of fire, and He will save their repentant, righteous natures alive. Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Jesus taught that "Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." This fact can only mean that God will eradicate all that the Devil has planted, such as spiritual death, and He will save all that He has planted, such as the righteous natures of all His living humans. Matthew 15:13 (KJB). Jesus taught that He would judge only the Devil and all of his evil works on the cross, not any of His living humans. John 12:31-32; John 12:47 (KJB). Jesus taught that in the end of the world, He will raise from the dead all of His good humans, and He will condemn all their spiritual deaths to the lake of fire. John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Jesus taught that all dead humans who believe in Him, He will resurrect back to life. John 11:25; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

No matter how evil any human may become, they nevertheless retain a subdued righteous nature that God created and His Love can never lose. Genesis 1:27; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Jesus even called Judas Iscariot His "friend" when Judas came with a mob to arrest Him. Matthew 26:50 (KJB). Jesus sacrificed Himself to save all of His friends. John 15:13 (KJB).

God outwitted the Devil. The very free will that the Devil thought would be weak enough to cause the destruction of humanity and eventually of God Himself, God used to cause all of fallen humanity to return to faith in Him of their own free will so that He could save them all, some by His grace and all others with a lesser form of salvation. I Corinthians 1:25; I Corinthians 15:42-43; II Corinthians 12:9-10; II Corinthians 13:4; I Corinthians 1:27; Romans 11:33 (KJB). Even the weakness in God's creation happens to be far more powerful than all of the evil works of the Devil. I John 3:8 (KJB). The Infinite and Almighty Power of God can and will bring all evil to a finite condition. God will certainly take great pleasure when He purges all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from all of His creation. Revelation 4:11 (KJB).