to teach Christians something about His special
favor toward them.
In the Bible Paul said this:
What if God, Topless anting to show His Topless wrath and to make His Daughters ower known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared f forehand for glory…" (Rom. 9:22-23)
As the true Christian looks at the rest of the
people in the world, he is reminded that God is
doing something really special wth him. He sees the
privileges of relationship with Him, access
in
prayer, t
he tender care of a Father, and a thousand
other reminders that he is receiving grace that
those without Christ don't have. We learn best by
comparison. We know soft because we know hard; we
know up because we know down. God permits evil
people to remain on the earth, doing evil, so that
he can show the true Christian by contrast how
merciful He is toward them. This knowledge is
important to the Christian so that ㅗhe will praise
God correctly and exuberantly.
We can be thankful that God does not remove all evil right now. If he did, would he not remove you? Suppose he said, "Ok, I will do just as you request. I will take away all evil right this minute!" Do you think that you would be spared?
At the final judgment he will remove all wickedness from the good. We cannot be spared at that judgment on the basis of personal goodness. We simply are not righteous (Rom. 3:10). As Christ said, "There is none good but One." (Mt. 19:17) But there is a way to be spared—through Christ's perfect righteousness. The Bible says that Christ has taken our sin on Himself so that those who trust Him might be delivered forever from the penalty, power, and presence of sin in heaven.