Posted on 02/24/2021 3:08:01 PM PST by OneVike
This is why Jesus forgave those who persecuted him and crucified Him while on the cross. It is the example we must follow, we cannot take hate with us to the grave, because we will lose what God offers through His son.
God grieves the loss of every Human who ends up in Hell, how can we be so callous as to think that we are above it all. If Jesus did it, then we MUST also do it. This means praying that those who persecute us will come to salvation.
If evil people fall get busted for their evil deeds, we must step back and allow God to do His punishment. If we hoot and holler and have a party because they got busted, then that makes us no different than they are. Understand this, you must also not jump for joy in your heart, because God will see how you react in your heart.
Maybe it explains why so many high profile evil men keep getting away with evil in the World. Instead of praying for justice with a heart that has compassion, we are like the guy twisting a knife in their back.
I turn my attention and prayers instead to the truly innocent people who are hurt by evil people.
What prayer do you say for people who are corrupt (like the you-know-whos?
Is it wrong to feel gladness when justice is served?
I do not rejoice in their falling.
I rejoice in their failing.
Following the point of this thread, I would say that it would be OK to feel relief that the evil had passed. It would also be OK to express thankfulness to God that he had delivered relief. However, one should not gloat over the downfall of the individuals who are brought to justice.
It would also be fine to lament over the evil that had transpired. "Lament" is a genre of the Bible that is not taught well to the Church, but it has a prominent place in Scripture. We are to bring our troubles before God.
BTW: Thanks for this thread, OneVike. This needed to be said.
I’ll be happy and rejoicing just the same. That makes me a sinner. And this is exactly the sort of thing that made me really need a redeemer. So I got one!
There is no problem with feeling good that evil fails. Just don’t hate the people. Difficult, because I struggle with it like everyone. We want to give them the good old fashion treatment we feel they deserve.
Yet Christ is our example, and thus He wanted evil to fail, but He did not relish when humans did, thus He asked His Father to forgive them.
For crimes committed their must be human punishment, but not beyond measure, and don’t start partying. Leave it to God, pray for them, and go one with your business.
It is a horrible thing to hear when an evil person has died and their fate is sealed. I pray for our leaders and rulers to accept our God and His Salvation. Judgement is a sobering thought for we who know Christ Jesus for we know He judges all men. The thing that is important is that we who are in Christ will not be judged as other men who have not Christ in them.
No, don't allow yourself to hate. Say no to it lest its fires from hell burn out your soul and you become like the evil..
Psalm 137: 7-8-9
7 Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
I’m afraid that when a Hitler or a Stalin or a Hillary bites it I’m gonna have to feel a very satisfying sense of relief. Maybe I’ll say a few Hail Marys later. But right then it’s pass the Jack.
Nope
There are plenty of examples in Psalms, Proverbs, Galatians, Revelations that are contradictory....
When Sandam died, I was happy for the world that his evil ended and his vile acts avenged...
Hard to rejoice over someone going to hell. Eternity is a long long long time. Horrifying, really...
We should not pray that they should be physically harmed, but IMHO it is ok to pray that the wicked should be stripped of their power. Then again, some of them (Kerry?) should be charged with treason and spend the rest of their life in prison if not worse.
If God does not take joy in the loss of one, what gives you the idea He thinks it is OK for you to do so?
Feel relief the evil is ended, but not for the soul going to hell.
A mother will cry and feel pain in her heart if a son or daughter goes to prison, or the death chamber, even if she knows in her heart they deserved it.
God feels that way when any of us go to hell. We are all His creation, and He takes no pleasure is condemning a child of His to hell.
Why should you?
Speaking of going to hell. He went to his grave as an unrepentant sinner.
Sad, because he was one great artist.
He would have been a great singer for God, if only he did not find the joys of the flesh in this World so alluring.
Thank you.
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