But The Wicked Are..

[Sue J Love]

The Repentant

Who are the repentant, according to the New Testament Scriptures? Biblical repentance is a change of heart and mind leading to a change of attitude and behavior. You were going one direction. Now you have turned, and you are going the opposite direction, away from sin and to God and to obedience to His commands. It is a lot like making a U-turn on a road. You were going west, but now you are going east. You are now heading in the opposite direction of what you were heading, only from a spiritual perspective.

And repentance is indeed required by God for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God. Without repentance we do not have forgiveness of sins. If we do not deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to His commands, as a matter of life practice, we do not know God, we are not saved from our sins, and we do not have eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips profess. This does not mean we must be absolutely perfect (1 John 2:1-2), but that lack of perfection is no excuse for deliberate sin.

[Matthew 3:8; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 11:20-21; Matthew 12:41; Matthew 21:28-31; Mark 1:15; Mark 6:12; Luke 5:32; Luke 9:23-26; Luke 13:3,5; Luke 15:2-8; Luke 24:47; Acts 3:19-20; Acts 5:30-31; Acts 8:22; Acts 11:17-18; Acts 17:29-31; Acts 19:18-20; Acts 20:21; Acts 26:18-20; Romans 2:4; Romans 6:1-23; 2 Corinthians 7:8-10; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Ephesians 4:17-32; 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 2 Timothy 2:24-26; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 1:5-10; Revelation 2:5,16; Revelation 3:3,19]

The Wicked Are..

Isaiah 57:20-21 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

20But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea,
for it cannot be still,
and its waves churn up mire and muck.
21“There is no peace,” says my God,
“for the wicked.”

The picture that the Lord is giving me this morning of the wicked is not just those who make no professions of faith in Jesus Christ, but they are all who have not repented of (turned from) their sins, but who are still following a sinful course of behavior, still deliberately and habitually sinning against God and against others as a matter of life practice, who are not obeying God in daily practice. They are the unwise, foolish, reckless, and the self-indulgent who habitually abandon what is right and who chase after what is sinful.

They are like a storm-tossed sea, which cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck. In other words, these are those who are continually wandering, drifting, who are spiritually lazy and asleep, who are corrupt, vile, immoral, dishonest, crooked, perverted, and the sexually immoral. They are those who act foolishly, unwise, recklessly, selfishly, and irresponsibly as a matter of practice, for they are still living according to the flesh. Rather than submitting to God, they surrender to their flesh over and again.

There is no peace for the wicked, says God. For one cannot continue on a sinful course, repeating the same sins over again, foolishly looking only to (or primarily to) self and to self-pleasure, and then be at peace with God. You cannot habitually “churn up mire and muck” (moral filth) and be at peace with God. For Jesus Christ gave His life up for us on that cross to put our sins to death with Him so that, by faith in Him, we will deny self, die to sin, and obey God in lifestyle. There is no peace for those who practice sin.

But The Wicked Are..
An Original Work / August 14, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Broken Cord

An Original Work / August 29, 2018
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior
And your testimony is separate from Him.
Your words not matching your actions today.
Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.
Live what you testify in truth always.

Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,
For you profess one thing, but other you do.
Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.
Not living in truth to what you confess.
Lying about it puts you in a mess.

Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.
Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.
Your heart is not given to your Lord God.
Because of how you live, you are a fraud.
Turn from your sin and give your life to God.

 

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#	Description	Scripture
1	Those who reject God and refuse to seek Him	Psalm 10:4 — “The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.”
2	Those who deny God in their hearts	Psalm 14:1 — “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”
3	Those who deliberately practice sin	1 John 3:4 — “Sin is the transgression of the law.”
4	Those who refuse to do good	Psalm 36:3 — “The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.”
5	Those who love evil rather than righteousness	John 3:19-20 — People loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.
6	Those who do evil and hate the light because they don't want their deeds exposed	John 3:20 — “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”
7	Those who are proud and arrogant before God	Psalm 10:2-4 — The wicked are characterized by pride and boasting, and they do not seek God.
8	Those who oppress the poor and vulnerable	Psalm 10:8-10 — The wicked lie in wait to prey upon the helpless and poor.
9	Those who shed innocent blood	Proverbs 6:16-19 — God specifically lists “hands that shed innocent blood” among things He hates.
10	Those who lie and deceive	Psalm 34:13 — “Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.” See also Proverbs 12:22.
11	Those who bear false witness	Exodus 20:16 — “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”
12	Those who steal	Exodus 20:15 — “Thou shalt not steal.”
13	Those who commit adultery and sexual immorality	Exodus 20:14 — “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” See also 1 Corinthians 6:9-10.
14	Those who worship idols or other gods instead of the LORD	Exodus 20:3-5 — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
15	Those who practice witchcraft, sorcery, divination, or occult practices	Deuteronomy 18:10-12 — These practices are explicitly condemned by God.
16	Those who hate their brother	1 John 2:9 — “He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.”
17	Those who refuse to forgive and show mercy	Matthew 6:15 — “But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
18	Those who deliberately cause others to sin	Matthew 18:6-7 — Jesus gives an extremely serious warning against causing others to stumble.
19	Those who exploit or cheat others for financial gain	Amos 8:4-6 — God condemns those who exploit the poor and manipulate dishonest scales and prices.
20	Those who judge others hypocritically while refusing to repent themselves	Matthew 7:1-5; Romans 2:1-3
21	Those who are religious outwardly but deliberately practice lawlessness	Matthew 7:21-23 — Jesus says some will call Him “Lord” but will be rejected because they “work iniquity.”
22	Those who profess to know God but deny Him by their actions	Titus 1:16 — “They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him.”
23	Those who deliberately continue in sin after knowing the truth	Hebrews 10:26-27 — “If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth...”
24	Those who refuse to repent when God calls them to repentance	Revelation 9:20-21 — Despite God's judgments, people “repented not” of their murders, sorceries, sexual immorality, and thefts.
25	Those characterized by the works of the flesh	Galatians 5:19-21 — Paul lists sexual immorality, idolatry, hatred, jealousy, fits of anger, selfish ambition, drunkenness, and similar things.
26	Those who are lovers of themselves rather than lovers of God	2 Timothy 3:1-5 — Paul describes people who are proud, disobedient, unholy, brutal, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
27	Those who persecute righteous people because they hate righteousness	John 15:18-20 — Jesus says the world would hate His followers because it hated Him first.
28	Those who love money and allow it to control them	1 Timothy 6:9-10 — The love of money can lead people into temptation and many destructive desires.
29	Those who refuse to obey God's commands	1 John 5:3 — “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.” See also 2 Thessalonians 1:8.
30	Those who reject Christ	John 3:36 — “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”

Atheists and LGB+ by definition and at minimal are some of the worst of the wicked.
Learn to discern who is too far gone and those who are not.