In Proverbs, chapter sixteen, verse four, everything will meet its proper end, and those who do evil will suffer the just punishment of God, as in verse five, “The passage stresses that God will deal justly with the wicked; He does not create or encourage wickedness.
“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man,” as in James one, verse thirteen.
First of all, the devil tempts, and God only tests, and He does not test people with evil; the enemy does. No person who sins can escape guilt by blaming God. God may test us to strengthen our faith, but never with the intent of leading us to sin. The nature of God demonstrates that He cannot be a source of temptation.
We are all susceptible to Satan’s temptations, essentially because of the sinful nature within us and its evil desires and inclinations, as in Matthew fifteen, verse nineteen, “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” If evil desire is not resisted and purged by the help of the Holy Spirit, it leads to sin and then to spiritual death.
The wicked for the day of evil, which is the theme title, begins with the heart. Jesus states in Mark seven, verse twenty, “And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.” In this passage, “defileth” means being defiled spiritually because of the sins that come from the heart. Therefore, an impure heart will corrupt one’s thoughts, feelings, words, and actions. “For evildoers shall be cut off,” as in Psalm thirty-seven, verse five. “The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming,” in verse thirteen.