Summary: To show that GOD is displeased when you rejoice over your enemies that will sure to fall because they don't have JESUS in their hearts. To give our clear reasons to rejoice according to the bible.

I. EXORDIUM:

Do you have enemies?

Yes.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that GOD is displeased when you rejoice over your enemies that will sure to fall because they don't have JESUS in their hearts. To give our clear reasons to rejoice according to the bible.

IV. TEXT:

Proverbs 24:17-18 (Amplified Bible)

24:17 Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles or is overthrown,

24:18 Lest the Lord see it and it be evil in His eyes and displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him [to expend it upon you, the worse offender].

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You have overthrown and crushed our enemies, we rejoice and celebrate only in You, not in our victories or defeat of our enemies.

Proverbs 12:7 (Amplified Bible)

12:7 The wicked are overthrown and are not, but the house of the [uncompromisingly] righteous shall stand.

1 Peter 4:13 (Amplified Bible)

4:13 But insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that when His glory [full of radiance and splendor] is revealed, you may also rejoice with triumph [exultantly].

VI. TITLE:

How to treat an enemy?

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Authors: Credited generally to King Solomon before his character downfall/decline.

B. Date written: from 931 to 686 B.C.

C. Purpose: To give moral instruction

D. Main Theme: Fear of the LORD

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. Don't rejoice when your enemy falls

"24:17 Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles or is overthrown, "

1 Corinthians 13:6-7 (Amplified Bible)

13:6 It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.

13:7 Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].

Obadiah 1:12 (Amplified Bible)

1:12 But you should not have gloated over your brother’s day, the day when his misfortune came and he was made a stranger; you should not have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have spoken arrogantly in the day of their distress.

Psalms 42:10 (Amplified Bible)

42:10 As with a sword [crushing] in my bones, my enemies taunt and reproach me, while they say continually to me, Where is your God?

Don't do like your enemies does to you in the first place.

Psalms 35:15 (Amplified Bible)

35:15 But in my stumbling and limping they rejoiced and gathered together [against me]; the smiters (slanderers and revilers) gathered against me, and I knew them not; they ceased not to slander and revile me.

Psalms 35:19 (Amplified Bible)

35:19 Let not those who are wrongfully my foes rejoice over me; neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without cause.

John 15:24-25 (Amplified Bible)

15:24 If I had not done (accomplished) among them the works which no one else ever did, they would not be guilty of sin. But [the fact is] now they have both seen [these works] and have hated both Me and My Father.

15:25 But [this is so] that the word written in their Law might be fulfilled, They hated Me without a cause.

Let love be your motivating factor even in your enemies.

What are some of the reasons to rejoice?

1. We rejoice in GOD's comfort

Isaiah 66:13-14 (Amplified Bible)

66:13 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

66:14 When you see this, your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like green and tender grass. And the [powerful] hand of the Lord shall be revealed and known to be with His servants, but His indignation [shown] to be against His enemies.

2. When our country is glad

Psalms 106:5 (Amplified Bible)

106:5 That I may see and share the welfare of Your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your heritage.

3. We rejoice in the LORD. We rejoice in GOD's Presence.

Zechariah 10:7 (Amplified Bible)

10:7 Then Ephraim [the ten tribes] shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall rejoice as through wine; yes, their children shall see it and rejoice; their hearts shall feel great delight and glory triumphantly in the Lord!

Philippians 4:4 (Amplified Bible)

4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him]; again I say, Rejoice!

Philippians 4:10 (Amplified Bible)

4:10 I was made very happy in the Lord that now you have revived your interest in my welfare after so long a time; you were indeed thinking of me, but you had no opportunity to show it.

Romans 5:2 (Amplified Bible)

5:2 Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God’s favor) in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.

4. We rejoice in rapture and second coming of the LORD

John 16:22 (Amplified Bible)

16:22 So for the present you are also in sorrow (in distress and depressed); but I will see you again and [then] your hearts will rejoice, and no one can take from you your joy (gladness, delight).

5. We rejoice when people hate and persecute us on the account of CHRIST

Luke 6:22-23 (Amplified Bible)

6:22 Blessed (happy—with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and to be envied) are you when people despise (hate) you, and when they exclude and excommunicate you [as disreputable] and revile and denounce you and defame and cast out and spurn your name as evil (wicked) on account of the Son of Man.

6:23 Rejoice and be glad at such a time and exult and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is rich and great and strong and intense and abundant in heaven; for even so their forefathers treated the prophets.

6. We rejoice that our name is written in heaven

Luke 10:20 (Amplified Bible)

10:20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are enrolled in heaven.

7. We rejoice in our sufferings

Romans 5:3 (Amplified Bible)

5:3 Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.

B. Don't displease the LORD

"24:18 Lest the Lord see it and it be evil in His eyes and displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him [to expend it upon you, the worse offender]."

Zechariah 1:15-16 (Amplified Bible)

1:15 And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was but a little displeased, they helped forward the affliction and disaster.

1:16 Therefore thus says the Lord: I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion (lovingkindness and mercy). My house shall be built in it, says the Lord of hosts, and a measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem [with a view to rebuilding its walls].

Lamentations 4:21-22 (Amplified Bible)

4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. But the cup [of the wine of God’s wrath] also shall pass to you; you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.

4:22 The punishment of your iniquity will be accomplished and completed, O Daughter of Zion; [the Lord] will no more carry you away or keep you in exile. But He will inspect and punish your iniquity and guilt, O Daughter of Edom; He will uncover your sins.

There's a very thin borderline between rejoicing and crying, but even our crying is not different, it is turned into rejoicing for us.

IX. CONCLUSION:

We don't rejoice if our enemies fall, but we rejoice that we are comforted because our enemies have been vanished.

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You have overthrown and crushed our enemies, we rejoice and celebrate only in You, not in our victories or defeat of our enemies.

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