SEVEN ABOMINATIONS

INTRO: PROV. 6:12-19

I. HATE II. --- A PERSONAL ENEMY OR FOE --- SET AGAINST

ABOMINATION ---LOATHSOME, DISGUSTING, DETESTABLE THING ---THE PERSON OR PEOPLE ARE DESCRIBED AS SINISTER, DANGEROUS AND REPULSIVE. ---(PAPA AND BRO. GREEN) LOW-DOWNEST, STINKINEST, ROTTENEST, AWFUL THING…SO AWFUL A DOG WOULDN’T EVEN TOUCH IT. (SOMETHING LIKE JEZEBEL) HANDS, FEET, HEAD.

*ABOMINABLE ACTS ARE DESTRUCTIVE TO HARMONY AND UNITY*

III. TEXT: VSS. 16-17

I. A PROUD LOOK PROUD ---TO BE HIGH, TO RISE OR RAISE; TO PROMOTE PRESUMPTUOUSLY, HAUGHTY. ---PRIME ROOT USED ONE TIME LOOK ---FOUNTAIN/SPIRIT, EYE, CONCEIT, REGARD ---POSSIBLY A PRIME ROOT

*SINCE BOTH WOULD SEEM TO BE PRIME ROOTS, IT WOULD COVER EVERY AND ALL AREAS OF LOFTINESS AND HIGHMINDEDNESS* I. A PROUD LOOK --- HAUGHTY EYES/SPIRIT

A. PSA. 10:4 UNSAVED 1. SEND YOU TO HELL (MK. 10:14-15) “EXCEPT YE A. BECOME…” 2. STINKING THINKING (PHIL. 2:5) “LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU…” ---ALL HIS THOUGHTS ARE THAT GOD ISN’T PSA. 14:1 --I DON’T SIN--ROM. 3:10-12, 23; 1 JN. 1:8, 10 --I’M NOT THAT BAD--ISA. 64:6; JMS. 2:10 --I’M GOING MY OWN WAY--PRO. 14:12; 16:25; JN. 14:6

YOU LIFT YOURSELF UP AGAINST GOD AND YOU’RE A FOOL. PSA. 9:17 “THE WICKED SHALL BE TURNED INTO HELL…” PSA. 50:16-23

DON’T GO AGAINST GOD’S PLAN, GOD’S MAN, GOD’S PEOPLE, GOD’S PURPOSE, GOD’S MIND, GOD’S PROPHECY, GOD’S PROVISION (i.e. CHRIST) *DON’T GO AGAINST GOD*

JMS. 4:6 “GOD RESISTETH THE PROUD BUT GIVETH GRACE UNTO THE HUMBLE.”

B. LOST IN THE CHURCH --- UNSAVED DISGRUNTLED MEMBERS --- SAVED

FOLK WHO TRANSGRESS AND ARE WICKED IN THEIR PRIDE AND ARROGANCE ARE SOMEWHAT DESCRIBED IN PSA. 36 PSA. 36:1-4 1. NO FEAR OF GOD 2. THINKS HIGHLY OF HIMSELF 3. DECEITFUL 4. SEEKS OUT WRONG THOUGHTS AND MISCHIEF THINK NOBODY KNOWS ---ISA. 3:9 IT SHOWS GOD KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT ---PSA. 94:8-10 *CHURCHES THAT WANT HARMONY NEED TO FOCUS ON CHRIST AND HIS MIND* PHIL. 2:1-14

1. CONSOLATION IN CHRIST 6. HAVE THE SAME LOVE 2. COMFORT OF LOVE 7. ONE ACCORD/ONE MIND 3. FELLOWSHIP OF THE SPIRIT 8. ESTEEM OTHERS 4. BOWELS AND MERCIES 9. STRENGTHEN OTHERS 5. LIKE-MINDED 10. PROMOTE OTHERS

C. GOD’S RECOMPENSE PSA. 101:5 1. CUT OFF THE SLANDERER 2. WON’T ENDURE THE HIGH LOOK/PROUD HEART PSA. 18:25-27 3. FROWARD ---TWINING, TWISTED UP 4. BRING YOU DOWN DAN. 4:33-37 5. ABASE YOU OBADIAH 1:3 “THE PRIDE OF THINE HEART HATH DECEIVED THEE.” 6. DECEIVED LUKE 18:10-14 cf. VS. 14 7. YOU EXALT…….GOD ABASES 8. YOU HUMBLE….GOD EXALTS

1 PET. 5:6 “HUMBLE YOURSELVES THEREFORE UNDER THE MIGHTY HAND OF GOD, THAT HE MAY EXALT YOU IN DUE TIME:”

SAVED FOLK NEED TO LEARN FROM CHASTISEMENT HEB. 12:5-6, 11-15 1. YIELDS RIGHTEOUSNESS 2. STRENGTHEN EACH OTHER 3. FOLLOW PEACE 4. HAVE HARMONY

I. A PROUD LOOK

D. THE BLESSINGS OF NOT BEING PROUD MAT. 5:3, 5, 9 1. HAPPY 6. COMFORT OF LOVE 2. PEACE (PSA. 37:11) 7. FELLOWSHIP OF THE SPIRIT 3. EXALTED OF GOD 8. OF ONE ACCORD/ONE MIND 4. UNITY AND HARMONY 9. ESTEEM OTHERS 5. CONSOLATION OF CHRIST 10. GIVING STRENGTH

*WE SHOULD PRAY AS PSA. 131*

SEVEN ABOMINATIONS TEXT: PROV. 6:6-19 cf. VSS. 16-17 READ: JMS. 3:1-10

II. A LYING TONGUE

**IS AN ABOMINATION TO GOD**

A. COMMANDED NOT TO LIE 1. DEALING WITH SOCIAL ORDER -LEV. 19:11, 16 2. BEING INSTRUCTED IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD -PSA. 34:13 3. DEALING WITH NEIGHBORS -PROV. 24:28 4. DEALING WITH CHRISTIAN CONDUCT ABROAD -EPH. 4:25-32 cf. VSS. 25, 29, 31 -COL. 3:8-9

**COL. 3:10----IN HIS IMAGE** GOD DOESN’T LIE TITUS 1:2 NUM. 23:19 ROM. 3:4 “LET GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN A LIAR”

B. BASIC FACTS…TONGUE/LYING -PROV. 18:6-7 -PROV. 21:23 -PROV. 13:5

C. BE A DELIGHT…BE HONEST 1. TO THE LORD -PROV. 12:22 2. TO THOSE WITH WHOM YOU HAVE TO DO -PROV. 16:13

D. OUR PRAYER 1. DELIVERANCE -PSA. 120:2 2. DEDICATION -PROV. 8:6-9

E. MUST GIVE AN ACCOUNT -ECCL. 12:14 -MT. 12:36-37

F. CONDEMNATION 1. BE DESTROYED -PSA. 52:1-5 2. BE PUNISHED AND PERISH -PROV. 19:5, 9 3. BURN ETERNALLY, NOT ENTER GLORY -REV. 21:8, 27 4. BE WITHOUT AND SEPARATED FROM GOD -REV. 22:15

**THE MANNER OF ONE’S SPEECH IS THE EXTERNAL EXPRESSION OF THEIR CHARACTER**

PROV. 18:21 “DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE.” SEVEN ABOMINATIONS READ: PROV. 6:12-19 TEXT: PROV. 6:16-17

III. HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD

**IS AN ABOMINATION TO GOD**

A. PRAYERS NOT HEARD -ISA. 1:15 B. SEPARATED FROM GOD -ISA. 59:1-7 -HIDE HIS FACE -WILL NOT HEAR -FEET RUN TO EVIL -MAKE HASTE TO SHED BLOOD -STINKING THINKING -WASTING AND DESTRUCTION cf. ROM. 3:15-18 -DON’T KNOW PEACE (UNSAVED) -DON’T FEAR GOD C. WARNING TO SEPARATE FROM THEM -PROV. 1:8-18 1. HOW? -TRUST AND OBEY VS. 8-9 2. WHY? -LAY IN WAIT FOR BLOOD -GREEDY -WANT UNITY FOR WICKEDNESS -RUN TO DO EVIL -MAKE HASTE TO SHED BLOOD -LAY IN WAIT FOR THEIR OWN BLOOD AND LIVES

D. WORDS OF THE WICKED -PROV. 12:6

E. THEY WILL BE ABHORRED -PSA. 5:4-6

F. EXAMPLES OF -CAIN/ABEL -PRINCES/DANIEL -SIMEON/LEVI -HERODIAS/JOHN -JEZEBEL/NABOTH -PHARISEES/JESUS -HAMAN/JEWS -HEROD/JEWISH BOYS -SAUL/DAVID -PHARAOH/JEWISH BOYS -HITLER/JEWS -ABORTIONISTS/BABIES

G. KILLING GOD’S PROPHETS

**ARE WE GOING TO KILL GOD’S PROPHETS FOR SPEAKING TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS?**

1. JUDGEMENT FOR IT -2 KINGS 21:13-14 -HISTORICALLY MANASSEH SAVED -ISAIAH IN TWO (HOLLOW LOG) -JER 26 -WANTED TO KILL HIM -DID KILL URIJAH

***HOW DO WE KILL?*** HATE -IN YOUR HEART MT. 5:22 1 JN. 2:9 (UNSAVED) 1 JN. 3:15 (UNSAVED MURDERER) 1 JN. 4:20 (A LIAR)

“OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART, THE MOUTH SPEAKETH”

“AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART SO IS HE.”

SEVEN ABOMINATIONS READ: PROV. 6:16-19 TEXT: PROV. 6:16-17

IV. AN HEART THAT DEVISETH WICKED IMAGINATIONS A. DEFINITION 1. DEVISETH –2790 (PRIME ROOT) -TO PLOW, DIG UP, TO FABRICATE -TO PRACTICE SECRETLY 2. WICKED - 205 (NOT PRIME; BUT FROM UNUSED ROOT) -THINGS THAT COME TO NOUGHT, STRICTLY NOTHINGNESS, EVIL, FALSE, VAIN -UNRIGHTEOUS, UNJUST 3. IMAGINATIONS – 4284 -INTENTIONS, PLOTS, PURPOSES -THOUGHTS, PLANS B. EXAMPLES AND OUTCOMES 1. CAIN AND ABEL -GEN. 4:5-15 -CURSED 2. JACOB AND ESAU -GEN. 27:41 cf. GEN. 47:7-10 -CAUSED HATE AND TEARS -LIFE FULL OF EVIL 3. SIMEON, LEVI AND HIVITTES -GEN. 34; 49:5-7; JOSH. 19:1-9 -CURSED -DIVIDED -SCATTERED -LEVITES –NO LAND BUT HAD AN INHERITANCE -SIMEON – NO LAND; LIVED WITHIN JUDAH 4. BROTHERS AND JOSEPH -GEN. 37; 42-45 -CAUSED GREAT FEAR/MOURNING-REUBEN, JACOB -FELL DOWN AND BOWED 5. PHARAOH AND HEBREW BABIES -MOURNING -PHARAOH DROWNING

6. HAMAN AND MORDECAI, JEWS -FORCED TO HONOUR -HANGED -HOUSE TOOK FROM HIM 7. JEZEBEL AND NABOTH -DOGS ATE HER -FULFILLED BY JEHU 8. SAUL AND DAVID 9. DAVID AND URIAH 10.DAVID AND NUMBERING 11.PRINCES AND DANIEL 12.HEROD AND HEBREW BOYS 13.HERODIAS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST

C. THE HEART THAT GOES AGAINST GOD -LK. 19:28-20:47 1. PALM SUNDAY -VS. 28-40 -THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE? (HEB. 13:15) VS.41-44 -THE WEEPING OVER THE LOST --VS. 44

**ARE YOU MISSING THE TIME OF GOD’S VISITATION?** 2 THES. 2:7 2 COR. 6:2 PROV. 27:1

2. SOUGHT TO DESTROY HIM -VS. 47 a. QUESTION HIS AUTHORITY}LK. 20:1-8 b. ?AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE}LK.20:1-8 3. SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM & DECEIVE HIM -LK. 20:19-20 -TRY TO FIND FAULT W/GOD OR GOD’S PEOPLE a. ?TRIBUTE MONEY -PSA. 94:21 “THEY GATHER THEMSELVES TOGETHER AGAINST THE SOUL OF THE RIGHTEOUS, AND CONDEMN THE INNOCENT BLOOD.”

D. THEIR END IS CONDEMNATION -PROV. 11:18-19 ?20 PROV. 12:2 SEVEN ABOMINATIONS READ: PROV. 6:12-19 TEXT: PROV. 6:18b

V. FEET THAT BE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO MISCHIEF

-SWIFT: PRIME ROOT—FLOW EASILY, TO HURRY, HASTE, TO MAKE SPEED. -RUNNING: PRIME ROOT—RUSHING, TO BREAK DOWN, DIVIDING SPEEDILY. -MISCHIEF—ADVERSITY, CALAMITY, DISTRESS, EVIL EXCEEDINGLY, TROUBLE, SORROW, WICKEDNESS, WRETCHEDNESS.

**ONE WHO FLOWS EASILY IN RUSHING TO PERFORM EVIL EXCEEDINGLY**

**ONE WHO HURRIES TO BREAK DOWN WITH THE INTENT OF CAUSING TROUBLE, ADVERSITY, DISTRESS**

ABOMINATION ---LOATHSOME, DISGUSTING, DETESTABLE THING ---THE PERSON OR PEOPLE ARE DESCRIBED AS SINISTER, DANGEROUS AND REPULSIVE. ---(PAPA AND BRO. GREEN) LOW-DOWNEST, STINKINEST, ROTTENEST, AWFUL THING…SO AWFUL A DOG WOULDN’T EVEN TOUCH IT. (SOMETHING LIKE JEZEBEL) HANDS, FEET, HEAD. A. DESCRIPTION:

-ISA. 59:1-4, 7-8 -ROM. 3:10-18 1. UNRIGHTEOUS -PSA. 11:7 “FOR THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS” 2. DON’T UNDERSTAND -PROV. 16:22 “UNDERSTANDING IS A WELLSPRING OF LIFE.” 3. DON’T SEEK AFTER GOD -PSA. 69:32 “AND YOUR HEART SHALL LIVE THAT SEEK GOD.” 4. GONE OUT OF THE WAY -JN. 14:6 “I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE…” 5. UNPROFITABLE -JN. 15:8 “HEREIN IS MY FATHER GLORIFIED THAT YE BEAR MUCH FRUIT.” 6. DON’T DO GOOD -TITUS 2:14; EPH. 2:10 “FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP…” 7. MOUTH OF DECEPTION AND BITTERNESS -EPH. 4:31 “LET ALL BITTERNESS AND WRATH AND ANGER AND EVIL SPEAKING BE PUT AWAY FROM YOU…” 8. PATHS OF MISERY -PSA. 23:3 “HE LEADETH ME IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS…” 9. DON’T KNOW PEACE -ROM. 5:1 “THEREFORE BEING JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD…” 10.NO FEAR OF GOD -HEB. 12:28-29 “SERVE GOD ACCEPTABLY WITH REVERENCE AND WITH GODLY FEAR: FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.”

B. CALAMITY i.e. W/O CHRIST -REFER BACK TO DESCRIPTION

C. CAUSE. . .SIN -ROM. 10:3 “FOR THEY BEING IGNORANT OF GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS…” -PROV. 14:12 “THERE IS A WAY…” -ROM. 5:12 “WHEREFORE, AS BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD…” -ROM. 6:20-21 “FOR WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN…” -ROM. 6:23 “FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH…”

D. CURE. . .BLOOD OF CHRIST -EPH. 2:12-16 -1 PET. 2:24 -ROM. 4:6-8 -2 COR. 5:21 -ROM. 10:9-10 SEVEN ABOMINATIONS READ: PROV. 6:12-19 TEXT: PROV. 6:19

VI. A FALSE WITNESS THAT SPEAKETH LIES

**READ: NUM. 13:1-2, 21, 25, 27-28, 30-32** GOD SAID SPY OUT THE LAND WHICH I GIVE! DEUT. 1:28 “OUR BRETHREN HAVE DISCOURAGED OUR HEART,”

A. DEFINITION -FALSE: VAIN, DECEITFUL, SHAM -WITNESS: TESTIMONY -LIES: TO LIE, DECEIVE, BE IN VAIN ***A FALSE WITNESS IS ABSOLUTELY DISCOURAGING AND SOMETIMES DEADLY***

B. EXAMPLES -AGAINST NABOTH: 1 KGS. 21:9-13 --JEZEBEL TO GET THE FIELD FOR AHAB (CAUSED DEATH) -AGAINST NEHEMIAH: NEH. 6:1-14 --SANBALLAT & TOBIAH/KING NEHEMIAH (ha ha) (CAUSED DISCOURAGEMENT) -AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT: ACTS 5:1-11 --ANNANIAS & SAPPHIRA (CAUSED DEATH) -AGAINST AHAB (IN THE NAME OF THE LORD) 1 KGS. 22:20-28 --ZEDEKIAH SMOTE MICAIAH –“FROM WHENCE WENT THE…” (CAUSED DEATH) -AGAINST JESUS: MT. 26:57-66; MK. 14:53-62; LK. 23:1-7 -AGAINST STEPHEN: ACTS 6:9-15 -AGAINST PAUL: ACTS 24:1-13 -AGAINST DISCIPLES: MT. 28:11-15

C. DEMAND NOT TO BE ONE -EX. 20:16 THE COMMANDMENTS -DEUT. 5:20 REITERATING THE COVENANT COMMANDS -PROV. 24:28 “DECEIVE NOT” -EX. 23:1 “PUT NOT THINE HAND WITH THE WICKED.”

D. DESCRIPTION -PROV. 12:17 –DECEITFUL -PROV. 14:5 –UTTER LIES -PSA. 55:21 –GIVE FALSE PRESUMPTIONS -PROV. 25:18 –MASH YOU DOWN, CUT YOU UP, PIERCE YOU THROUGH.

E. DOOM -THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE -THEY SHALL NOT BE UNPUNISHED -THEY SHALL PERISH -PROV. 19:5, 9; PROV. 21:28 SEVEN ABOMINATIONS READ: PROV. 6:12-19 TEXT: PROV. 6:19

IV. VII. HE THAT SOWETH DISCORD AMONG BRETHREN ***READ: PSA. 133***

A. ABOMINATION OF SOWING DISCORD -SOWETH –PRIME ROOT –APPOINTS, CONDUCTS -DISCORD –STRIFE, QUARRELLING, CONTENTION -BRETHREN –PRIME WORD –WIDEST SENSE OF KINDRED, METAPHOR –AFFINITY OF RESEMBLANCE (WORK, HOME, SCHOOL, CHURCH, GOV’T, KINFOLK, SPORTS) **GOD WANTS UNITY**

B. EXHORTATION TO UNITY –PHIL. 2:1-11 -UNITY BRINGS –CONSOLATION, COMFORT, FELLOWSHIP, BOWELS (INWARD AFFECTIONS), MERCIES (PITY). -UNITY IS –HAVING THE SAME LOVE, BEING OF ONE ACCORD, OF ONE MIND. -UNITY OBTAINED –FOCUSING ON CHRIST VS. 1: IS THERE ANY (IN CHRIST) VS. 2: FULFILL MY JOY & SHARE IT VS. 3: DON’T LIFT YOURSELF UP/LIFT UP OTHERS VS. 4: BE INTERESTED IN OTHERS VS. 5: HAVE THE MIND OF HUMILITY & MEEKNESS VS. 7: NO MATTER HOW GREAT YOU MIGHT BE… BE A SERVANT. VS. 8: HUMBLE OURSELVES & BECOME OBEDIENT

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