THOSE WHO REPAY GOOD WITH EVIL - PART 3

Scripture: Psalms 109:1-5
Topic: Wicked men say “Thank you” for your love by becoming your adversaries.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. FOR MY LOVE THEY ARE MY ADVERSARIES: BUT I GIVE MYSELF UNTO PRAYER. AND THEY HAVE REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD, AND HATRED FOR MY LOVE.
Psalms 109:1-5

There are those who repay your love by becoming enemies. I have appointed many pastors and bishops. I have appointed, ordained and consecrated several people into the ministry. That was an act of love. It was an act where I demonstrated confidence in these people. I told the world that I believed in them and that they were good people. 

Some of these people whom I loved became my adversaries. On one occasion, one of my pastors told his friends that he was now my sworn enemy and he would live and work to destroy me. 
I also had a pastor who told his friend about some anonymous accusations that everyone was wondering about. He told him, “I am the secret enemy of the Bishop and I am the anonymous caller.” 

I was amazed that people that I had loved would be happy to repay my love by becoming my enemies. I wondered why they were happy about being called enemies and adversaries. I wondered, “Did they not learn anything whilst they were with me?” 

It is important to have the fear of the Lord and a proper respect for the word of God. Curses abound for those who repay good with evil. 

King David, the anointed psalmist, prayed down curses on those who had repaid his good with evil. David was incensed by those who had responded to his goodness by doing him harm. Read his prayers and learn to fear the sin of being ungrateful. You must never become one of those who are unthankful. 

AND THEY HAVE REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD, AND HATRED FOR MY LOVE. SET THOU A WICKED MAN OVER HIM: AND LET SATAN STAND AT HIS RIGHT HAND. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. (Psalms 109:5-13).

Credit: Excerpt from
How Can I Say Thanks
Bishop Dag Heward-Mills

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