Sudden Calamity, Broken With No Remedy

I. EXORDIUM:

How many times GOD will help the righteous?

Seven symbolizes completeness in the bible. Any time the righteous fall, the LORD is always there to raise him up.

Proverbs 24:16 (Amplified Bible)

For a righteous man falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers/unbelievers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show in the bible that the wicked has no future at all, one calamity is enough to destroy him with no hope of recovery.

IV. TEXT:

Proverbs 6:15 (Amplified Bible)

Therefore upon him shall the crushing weight of calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are my Help and Shield, You raised me up from all calamities.

Psalms 33:20 (Amplified Bible)

Our inner selves wait [earnestly] for the Lord; He is our Help and our Shield.

2 Timothy 4:17 (Amplified Bible)

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the [Gospel] message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was delivered out of the jaws of the lion.

VI. TITLE:

Sudden calamity, broken with no remedy

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 6:15 (Amplified Bible)

Therefore upon him shall the crushing weight of calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

Proverbs 6:15 (King James Version)

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

A. Sudden calamity will come on the wicked

"Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;"

Calamity or "ade" in Hebrew meaning: oppression, misfortune, ruin, destruction.

Suddenly or "pithom pithom" in Hebrew meaning: instantly, straightway, sudden.

Proverbs 1:27 (Amplified Bible)

When your panic comes as a storm and desolation and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

Proverbs 29:1 (Amplified Bible)

HE WHO, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed—and that without remedy.

Psalms 73:18-20 (Amplified Bible)

[After all] You do set the [wicked] in slippery places; You cast them down to ruin and destruction.

How they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors!

As a dream [which seems real] until one awakens, so, O Lord, when You arouse Yourself [to take note of the wicked], You will despise their outward show.

Isaiah 30:13 (Amplified Bible)

Therefore this iniquity and guilt will be to you like a broken section of a high wall, bulging out and ready [at some distant day] to fall, whose crash will [then] come suddenly and swiftly, in an instant.

What a horrible future the LORD has for the wicked. It's a warning, we don't have to suffer for these or experience any of these. If we will only give our lives to the LORD, it will always be fine and greater everyday for the righteous.

One calamity is enough to destroy a wicked because he has no god at all, but the righteous will have seven calamities but in each of them rises up because of the LORD's Strength in his life.

Proverbs 24:16 (Amplified Bible)

For a righteous man falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Micah 7:8 (Amplified Bible)

Rejoice not against me, O my enemy! When I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.

B. The wicked will be broken with no remedy

"suddenly shall he be broken without remedy"

The Hebrew word for suddenly was changed. Suddenly or "petha" in Hebrew meaning: a wink, a moment, quickly or unexpectedly, instant sudden. Broken or "shabar" in Hebrew meaning: to burst, broken down, bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, X quite, tear, view. Remedy or "marpe" in Hebrew meaning: curative, a medicine, a cure, deliverance, wholesome, yielding, sound.

We see the wicked here totally destroyed without any hope of recovery. But still in the wicked's heart, what will he say?

Psalms 14:1 (Amplified Bible)

To the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. THE [empty-headed] fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds; there is none that does good or right.

The wicked continues to make believe in his heart that there's no GOD, until he finally realizes it when he dies, it's totally too late, there will be no hope of recovery, because he died and expired his life in GOD's Grace.

2 Chronicles 36:16 (Amplified Bible)