What Is A Wicked Man?

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you a wicked person?

Before yes, but now I'm GOD's Righteousness and established in His Righteousness.

Romans 3:23 (Amplified Bible)

Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (Amplified Bible)

For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].

Isaiah 54:14 (Amplified Bible)

You shall establish yourself in righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God’s will and order): you shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers/unbelievers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show in the bible how GOD sees a wicked man.

IV. TEXT:

Proverbs 6:12 (Amplified Bible)

A worthless person, a wicked man, is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are my Righteousness and I'm established in the Righteousness of GOD because of You.

VI. TITLE:

What is a wicked man?

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 6:12 (Amplified Bible)

A worthless person, a wicked man, is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth.

Proverbs 6:12 (King James Version)

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

A. A wicked man is a worthless person

"A worthless person, a wicked man,"

Worthless, naughty or "belyaal" in Hebrew means:

1. without profit, worthlessness

2. destruction

3. Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men)

Wicked or "aven" in Hebrew meaning:

1. to pant

2. to exert oneself

3. to come to naught (nothing)

4. strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity

5. specifically an idol: - affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners (-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain

James 1:21 (Amplified Bible)

So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls.

We are all wicked or nothing in GOD's sight before without GOD, now GOD made us kings and princes in His sight.

John 15:5 (Amplified Bible)

I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.

1 Peter 2:9 (Amplified Bible)

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God’s] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

A wicked person is someone who has not known GOD or rejecting the knowledge of the LORD JESUS in his life. A wicked person is a person who masters in the art of nothingness.

Proverbs 11:6 (Amplified Bible)

The righteousness of the upright [their rectitude in every area and relation] shall deliver them, but the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity and greedy desire.

Proverbs 17:4 (Amplified Bible)

An evildoer gives heed to wicked lips; and a liar listens to a mischievous tongue.

Jeremiah 24:2 (Amplified Bible)

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

B. A wicked man carries a perverse mouth

"is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth

James 3:6 (Amplified Bible)

And the tongue is a fire. [The tongue is a] world of wickedness set among our members, contaminating and depraving the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of birth (the cycle of man’s nature), being itself ignited by hell (Gehenna).

Titus 1:10-11 (Amplified Bible)

For there are many disorderly and unruly men who are idle (vain, empty) and misleading talkers and self-deceivers and deceivers of others. [This is true] especially of those of the circumcision party [who have come over from Judaism].

Their mouths must be stopped, for they are mentally distressing and subverting whole families by teaching what they ought not to teach, for the purpose of getting base advantage and disreputable gain.

1 Timothy 5:13 (Amplified Bible)

Moreover, as they go about from house to house, they learn to be idlers, and not only idlers, but gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not say and talking of things they should not mention.