The Wicked Series

Psalm 58 The Wicked

1. The Practice of the Wicked Psalm 58:1-5

1. The Expounding of Their Practice - 1 Their -

Rhetoric - 1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness,O congregation? Ruling - 1 Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

2. The Exposing of Their Practice - 2 Their -

Heart was bad - Yea, in heart you work wickedness

Hands were bad - Ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth

3. The Explaining of Their Practice (Psalm 58:3-5) - They are -

Alienated - 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb:

Astray - 3 They go astray as soon as they be born, "All we like sheep have gone astray" (Isaiah 53:6) is Isaiah's comment on this problem.

Accusers - 3 Speaking lies - especially about God and God's people.

Angry - 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:

Adamant - 4 they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Anarchist - 5 which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. 2. The Prayer for the Wicked Psalm 58:6-8 Let Them Be

1. Disarmed - 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

2. Dissolved - 7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually:

3. Disabled - 7 when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. 4. Dispersed - 8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away 5. Destroyed - 8 like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. [aborted] birth [to] a woman,

C. The Prediction About the Wicked Psalm 58:9-11 Their Judgment 1. It's Speed of - 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns,

2. It's Source - 9 he shall take them away

3. It's Severity - 9 as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

The storm of the whirlwind - 9 as with a whirlwind,

The storm of God's wrath - 9 both living, and in his wrath.

4. It's Satisfaction - 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:

he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Their Celebration - 10 The righteous shall rejoice Their Vindication - when he seeth the vengeance: Their Jubilation - he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

5. It's Separation - Note The Reward for the Righteous -

11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:

Revelation of the Just - 11 verily he is a God Retribution for the Wicked - 11 that judgeth in the earth.

His Person - 11 verily he is a God

His Purpose - 11 verily he is a God that judgeth

His Place - 11 verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.