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Deliver Us from the Evil One
(Mt6:13)
God is good (Ps107:1).
He purges the evil and judges them with His righteousness (Dt17:7, 12; Is11:4), and
Saves those who turn to Him "from the hands of the wicked" (Jer15:21).
Faith is acknowledging Him and
The life according to this faith is about putting effort to be saved from the hands of the evil one.
While the world rewards those who do "good" by being tolerant and all-accepting,
The Bible clearly indicates "good" as rejecting and punishing the evil.
"The evil one" is the object of God's punishment such as
The devil, demons, the wicked, bad company etc and
The unbelieving heart, wicked desires and the like are to be purged.
Deceived by the devil,
Adam, the ancestor of all men, sinned by taking the forbidden fruit as
He denied God and wanted to be like Him (Ge3:4-6).
The devil was the fallen angel who attempted to be like God and
Became the origin of sin, the evil one (Is14:12-15), because of which
He was cast down to Hades, bounded in everlasting chains for judgment on the great day (Jude1:6).
This was all according to God's plan for the devil's self-destruction (1Jn3:8) since
God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone (Jas1:13).
Although he was deceived by the evil one and murdered his brother,
Cain pleaded to God to be saved (1Jn3:12; Ge4:13);
While others were going about their lives,
Noah and his family built an ark according to God's word and
They were saved from the flood (Ge6:5-8; Mt24:37-38);
Lot was distressed in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds of the people and
By overlying the word he and his family were saved (Ge18:23-33; 19:15-16, 29; 2Pe2:6-8).
Despite of hundreds of years of living as ungodly people,
Once God delivered the Israelites through Moses they became God's holy people (Ex3:10, 19:6).
But almost all of the adults who left Egypt fell and died in the wilderness for
God instructed them to purge evil among them (Dt22:21-24) for
They had sinful, unbelieving hearts and had turned away from the living God (He3:12-19).
In spite of it all, however, the sanctuary where the name Jehovah was placed
Reminded them for generations that it was the Lord God who rescued them from the wicked.
Yeshua said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days" (Jn2:19), because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,
He would destroy the evil one, the prince of the world (Jn12:31), and
Do good by rescuing the souls of men (Jn12:47).
As He died, He said, "It is finished" (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Fulfilled the righteousness by laying down His life according to the Father's command,
and revealed that the Father alone is good (Jn10:11, 18; Rm5:18-19);
2) Judged the origin of evil, the devil, with His righteousness (Jn8:44; 1Jn 3:8); and
3) Took upon Himself the sin of the wicked to deliver them from the hands of the evil one, the
devil (Jer15:21; Mt20:28, 21:38; He2:15).
After His resurrection and ascension,
Yeshua received the authority to judge good and evil (2Co5:10)
The Holy Spirit whom He sent
Comes to those who believed in the name Yeshua and are justified (Rm10:10), and
Helps them to be delivered from the hands of the wicked world and the evil one.
The man of the Spirit is he who flees from
The atheists (Ps53:1), the sinful, unbelieving heart (He3:12), and
Those who do not have hope in resurrection (1Co15:32-33).
Therefore, he prays and
Puts every effort to put to death whatever belongs to his earthly nature (Eph5:1-7; Col3:5)
In order to not be found as the wicked to be thrown into the fiery furnace (Mt13:49),
But rather as the good and the righteous and
Enter heaven where the righteous dwells (2Pe3:13),
O Lord,
Help us not envy the prosperity of the wicked (Ps73:12),
Not "walk in the counsel of the wicked" (Ps1:1), and
Not love the world or anything in it (1Jn2:15-17)!
Help us cling on to Your word and prayer, and
Flee from the evil one.
Deliver us all from the wicked world! Amen.