It was there all the time.
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself in the Lord.”
– Isaiah 58:13-14 NKJV
Sinners don’t need to be cheered on. “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” – Proverbs 27:6 (KJV)
God worked things out. “Do not say, ‘I will recompense evil’; wait for the Lord, and He will save you.” – Proverbs 20:22
[Psalm 33:13] “The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.”
[Matthew 11:11] Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
[2.Kings 20:3] I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Have we become comfortable with evil? “Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” – Romans 12:9