Our Australian society is being shaped, particularly at our universities and secular high schools, by the notion that there are two types of individuals: the oppressor and the oppressed. People are being brainwashed into thinking that if you are white, born in a Western world country, heterosexual, well-educated and middle-class, you must belong to the camp of the oppressor, but if you are poor, especially black, lesbian or transexual, you must be in the camp of the oppressed. Consequently, so this worldview goes, you cannot get a true picture of history, because history is mostly written by such Western people and have been shaped by your oppressive culture. Hence, if we’re to get further, we must “cancel the culture” that shaped us, they say. [i]
Now the Bible also speaks of two types, two categories, two classes of people. God says that there is the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman (Rev. 12), the church and the world, those who belong to God and those who belong to Satan, those who walk in the light and those who walk in darkness. In short, says Psalm 1, the two classes of people are: the righteous and the ungodly. And the consequences for which group you belong to could not be greater; they have eternal consequences.
The following brief meditation, by Rev. S deMarie, on the first verses of that Psalm illustrates this.[ii]
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READ: Ps. 1:1–6: … For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
When it comes to truly lasting happiness that extends into eternity, or a life without that prospect, there are only two kinds of people. There are the righteous, believers, who seek and find their joy in the LORD and His Word and live with and for Him, on the one hand. And there are the ungodly, those who do not love and honour God with all their heart but live their own lives, on the other hand.
Accordingly, there are only two ways for every person: the way with God that leads to eternal salvation, and the way without God that leads to eternal death. Everyone must choose. For or against God, for or against Christ. There is no middle way.
Ultimately, on the last day it will become clear for everyone what God’s judgment concerning each person is: the resurrection to eternal life with eternal glory, or the resurrection to condemnation with eternal terror (Dan. 12:2; Matt. 25:46; John 5:29). That decision is already made here on earth.
Now, that life can be difficult for the believer. It is also a narrow way (Matt. 7:13). Many trials may come upon his path, much adversity and much opposition. The believer may also doubt the future when he thinks of his own sins.
The righteous person is not sinless. Yet he makes believing choices according to God’s Word: he does not want to participate in the world as it presents itself in the media and in various forms of entertainment, where the name of God is despised.
Thus he sees the antithesis in his life that God Himself has established: the conflict between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. The believer also wants, with God’s help, to fight against his own sins. He can live only by grace.
The believer’s secret is that he knows that God knows his way. That means: God is near to him in everything. He helps him to make the right choices on the path that He leads him on. Therefore, the believer knows himself upheld and already experiences the happiness of eternal life.
[i] Philippe Jaquenod, Silent, Fragile and Isolated, Linellen Press, Oldbury, Western Australia, 2022, pp. 10-13.
[ii] Rev. S. de Marie, “Blessed”, MARCH 1, 2026 – BLESSED – Bouwen en Bewaren.