I. EXORDIUM:
Are you insulted?
Yes, most of the time for the gospel. Well the insults fall on JESUS, and I'm so much blessed that I can bless those who insulted me. And you know what they are insulted more.
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers/unbelievers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that GOD rewards evil for the wicked who will never love GOD'S house.
IV. TEXT:
Proverbs 17:13 (Amplified Bible)
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for all abuses, reproaches and insults fall on You and Your super-abundant blessing fall on me.
Romans 15:3 (Amplified Bible)
For Christ did not please Himself [gave no thought to His own interests]; but, as it is written, The reproaches and abuses of those who reproached and abused you fell on Me.
VI. TITLE:
Evil will not depart from wickeds house
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Solomon
B. Chief Purpose: to give moral instruction
C. Key text: Proverbs 1:4 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
These proverbs will give insight to the simple, knowledge and discernment to the young.
D. Key thought: fear of the LORD
VIII. MAIN BODY:
Proverbs 17:13 (Amplified Bible)
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Proverbs 17:13 (King James Version)
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
A. Those who reward evil for good
"Whoever rewards evil for good,"
Psalms 109:4-5 (Amplified Bible)
In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I resort to prayer.
And they have rewarded and laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Jeremiah 18:20 (Amplified Bible)
Shall evil be recompensed for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. [Earnestly] remember that I stood before You to speak good for them, to turn away Your anger from them.
Our ultimate Example and Model is the LORD JESUS who was rejected by His people after all the GOOD things the LORD JESUS had done for them. The LORD JESUS through the Messianic Psalm of the King and Prophet David said:
Psalms 35:12 (Amplified Bible)
They reward me evil for good to my personal bereavement.
This destroys the heart of GOD much more severe than what the nails and thorns did to JESUS.
We as CHRISTian believers have an infinitely higher standards than unbelievers, it's because even when evil is done to us, the LORD JESUS commanded us to not pay them with evil but with good.
Romans 12:17 (Amplified Bible)
Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is honest and proper and noble [aiming to be above reproach] in the sight of everyone.
Proverbs 20:22 (Amplified Bible)
Do not say, I will repay evil; wait [expectantly] for the Lord, and He will rescue you.
Romans 12:17-19 (Amplified Bible)
Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is honest and proper and noble [aiming to be above reproach] in the sight of everyone.
If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave the way open for [God’s] wrath; for it is written, Vengeance is Mine, I will repay (requite), says the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 5:15 (Amplified Bible)
See that none of you repays another with evil for evil, but always aim to show kindness and seek to do good to one another and to everybody.
1 Peter 3:9 (Amplified Bible)
Never return evil for evil or insult for insult (scolding, tongue-lashing, berating), but on the contrary blessing [praying for their welfare, happiness, and protection, and truly pitying and loving them]. For know that to this you have been called, that you may yourselves inherit a blessing [from God—that you may obtain a blessing as heirs, bringing welfare and happiness and protection].
Even if we are insulted, we should bless them.
Psalms 69:9 (Amplified Bible)
For zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches and insults of those who reproach and insult You have fallen upon me.
Romans 15:3 (Amplified Bible)
For Christ did not please Himself [gave no thought to His own interests]; but, as it is written, The reproaches and abuses of those who reproached and abused you fell on Me.
John 2:17 (Amplified Bible)
And His disciples remembered that it is written [in the Holy Scriptures], Zeal (the fervor of love) for Your house will eat Me up. [I will be consumed with jealousy for the honor of Your house.]
Be like JESUS, love your enemies, pray for them, and bless them.
Matthew 5:44 (Amplified Bible)
But I tell you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Luke 6:27 (Amplified Bible)
But I say to you who are listening now to Me: [in order to heed, make it a practice to] love your enemies, treat well (do good to, act nobly toward) those who detest you and pursue you with hatred,
Luke 6:35-37 (Amplified Bible)
But love your enemies and be kind and do good [doing favors so that someone derives benefit from them] and lend, expecting and hoping for nothing in return but considering nothing as lost and despairing of no one; and then your recompense (your reward) will be great (rich, strong, intense, and abundant), and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind and charitable and good to the ungrateful and the selfish and wicked.
So be merciful (sympathetic, tender, responsive, and compassionate) even as your Father is [all these].
Judge not [neither pronouncing judgment nor subjecting to censure], and you will not be judged; do not condemn and pronounce guilty, and you will not be condemned and pronounced guilty; acquit and forgive and release (give up resentment, let it drop), and you will be acquitted and forgiven and released.
There's a wicked world out there and we are not to partake their wickedness but we must be different from them, pleasing our FATHER and not our ownselves.
B. Evil shall not depart from their house
"evil shall not depart from his house"
Psalms 109:4-13 (Amplified Bible)
In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I resort to prayer.
And they have rewarded and laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Set a wicked man over him [as a judge], and let [a malicious] accuser stand at his right hand.
When [the wicked] is judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer [for leniency] be turned into a sin.
Let his days be few; and let another take his office and charge.
Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continual vagabonds [as was Cain] and beg; let them seek their bread and be driven far from their ruined homes.
Let the creditor and extortioner seize all that he has; and let strangers (barbarians and foreigners) plunder the fruits of his labor.
Let there be none to extend or continue mercy and kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their names be blotted out.
The only most powerful thing we can do is to pray so that GOD will change our hearts and remove all hatreds so we can love the unloveable.
IX. CONCLUSION:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for all abuses, reproaches and insults fall on You and Your super-abundant blessing fall on me.
