Jude 1:4
“For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” Jude 1:4
Tagged “ungodly”
“When they lie, they speak their native language.”
This means that when rulers are ungodly, we should expect them to be like their father, the devil, who is the father of liars (John 8:44). When they lie, they speak their native language. Bitterness and cursing are under their tongue, but of course never at the press conference.
Douglas Wilson
“Forbear Threatening”
Forbear Threatening
We have already consider one word for threatening (apeileo), and we now come to another closely related one (apeile). As before, threatening is something the ungodly do. . . . We can see the sinful frame of mind that Saul of Tarsus was in as he engaged in his attack on the fledgling Christian church. ‘And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem’ (Acts 9:1–2). . . God’s people ought not to function with threats really at all.
Douglas Wilson
Psalm 36
Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart;
There is no fear of God before his eyes.For it flatters him in his own eyes
Concerning the discovery of his iniquity and the hatred of it.The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;He does not despise evil.
Your lovingkindness, O LORD, extends to the heavens,