Plots Against The Righteous

We do not live in a perfect world. We live in a world where both good and evil exist, and where it appears as though evil is gaining much ground over the righteous, and where Christian persecution is increasing. And this is happening in many different ways. For “the wicked” include many who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who have not bowed the knee to God in surrender to his will and purpose for our lives. So, regardless of what God’s word teaches, they chart their own course, and they go their own way.

And who are the righteous? According to the Scriptures they are all who have died with Christ to sin and who have been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. They no longer make sin their practice, but now righteousness and obedience to God are what they practice, by the grace of God, and in the power of God, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus, which is of God and not of their own flesh. God gets the glory!

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

But that does not make the righteous absolutely perfect in every respect, for we are all still clay in the hands of the Potter being molded by God into the image of his Son Jesus Christ, who is God the Son. But what divides the wicked from the righteous is that the wicked have not bowed the knee to God in surrender to his will, but they have continued to walk in sin, in disobedience to God, and to refuse to surrender their lives to the Lord. But the righteous have died to sin and are now walking in obedience to God.

Therefore, the wicked include many who profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips but whose hearts are far from God. And some of them are coming against those who God regards as the righteous. And one of the ways in which they are doing this is by teaching a false gospel message which goes against the gospel taught in the New Testament (in context), which is leading many people astray, and which is coming against the righteous and attacking them and accusing them of teaching what is false.

So, they are painting the truly righteous, in the eyes of God, as the enemy, while they are painting themselves as the truly loving and kind of the world who care about people and who do not judge people, but who accept all people right where they are, regardless of how they live. But it is not love to give you permission to keep on in your sin and to not require that you obey God with your life, for that will send you to hell. It is love to confront you in your sin, and to call you to repentance and to obedience to our Lord God.

And some of the wicked are looking for any way possible to accuse the righteous of wrongdoing, and so they attack them publicly, and they lie about them, and they twist the truth of the Scriptures to their own benefit to try to make themselves look good while they attempt to make the righteous (in the eyes of God) look bad. Or they will try to tempt the righteous to sin against God and to turn away from the Lord and to do evil, hoping that they will then have just cause to accuse the righteous of doing evil.

For many are enemies of God, in truth, by how they live, and by how they treat others, regardless of what they may profess with their lips. And their goal is to destroy the truly righteous (in the eyes of God) in any which way they can, to silence them, and to keep them from speaking the truth of God’s Word to the people, and in order to turn others against them. And so they lie, they betray, they plot evil, they deceive, and they trick others into believing their lies and into rejecting the truth and those who speak truth.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-39; Matt 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-19; John 15:1-21; John 16:33; John 17:14; Acts 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Eph 6:10-20; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]

For Our Nation

Professionally recorded in Nashville, TN
Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger
An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.


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Plots Against The Righteous
An Original Work / July 23, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love