Well, come with me to Isaiah
57 this morning. Isaiah 57. I've called this God's
unaided work of grace. In the days in which we live,
and not just these, but down history, it's always tempting
for true believers to despair with humanity that we see all
around us. And no more so than in the days
in which we live. There's turmoil everywhere. especially at the moment in this
country, in the world of politics, there's absolute turmoil. And
I don't think we've ever before seen, through social media and
other places, such venom and hatred being spoken, being put
out all of the time, all around. There seems to be none of the
calm courtesy that used to mark many years ago. I know there
always were problems and issues of evil going on, but on the
scale that it is today, it is just so vile, it really is. the politicians standing down
because of how vile the whole thing has become. It's tempting
to despair with humanity, to look at humanity in despair,
and as we look at it we see that the truth of the gospel is such
a rare thing. the truth of the gospel, true
faith, the faith of God's elect. Jesus himself said, when the
Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? The implication
being it will be a very, very rare thing. The truth of the
gospel is so rare. How are we to understand the
days in which we live? This rarity of the truth of the
gospel, many see it as the Church being deficient in its response
to the Great Commission. We haven't gone out and evangelized
the world as effectively as we should have done. So let's use
all sorts of methods to try and make our evangelization of the
world more effective. But this is not what the Word
of God teaches. What does the Word of God teach
us? It should always be the case that it's to the law and to the
testimony that we look for our doctrine, for our truth, for
our understanding of the way things are. And here in this
chapter of Isaiah 57, what I want to draw out today is two things.
First of all, the hopeless case of flesh. The hopeless case of
humanity as it is in its natural state. but then set against that
the certain accomplishment of grace. What God has said He will
do, and if He has said He will do it, He will accomplish it.
The certain accomplishment of grace. Let us look, first of
all then, at the hopeless case of flesh. We read the chapter
just earlier on. We read the chapter which spoke
a lot about God's condemnation. of religious falsehood, and idolatry,
and hypocrisy, and making their own righteousness, and him saying,
none of it, in the end, shall profit you. It won't do you any
good. It won't do you any good at all. You know, just like Paul
said, of those that drift away from the true gospel, with their
works and all sorts of other things that they add, he said,
Christ will profit you nothing. Let's have a look about this
hopeless case, as it is with the flesh. How do you get right
with God? How are you right with God? Well
look, verse 15 defines it for us, what's needed. This is our
God speaking. This is our God, the One who
is high and lofty, that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy. This is the God who has made
us, the God who upholds all things. He says, I dwell in the high
and holy place, God dwells in the high and holy place, with
Him also. that is of a contrite and humble
spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the
heart of the contrite ones. God dwells with those that are
of a contrite and a humble spirit. Is that you? Is that me? Is that any of us? Can you find
anyone who qualifies? Think about it, be honest with
yourself. You, me, contrite and humble spirit, is that us? Is
that us? Some might fool themselves that
they are, but they're not, really. No. God looked to see if there
were any. God has always looked to see
if there are any. Right back in the days of Noah,
in Genesis chapter 6, and in verse 5, it says, God saw, when
he looked, that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually. No, nobody contrite and of a
humble spirit that God would want to dwell with. No, none
whatsoever. Wickedness. Thoughts of his heart
only evil continually. In Psalm 14, we read this in
verses 2 and 3. The Lord looked down from heaven
upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand
and seek God. And what does he say? What does
he conclude? God who sees everything concludes this, they are all
gone aside. They are all together become
filthy. There is none that doeth good.
No, not one. Oh, come on, he's missing, he's
missing. There's some very good people in the earth. I mean,
what about all the people that the Catholic Church has made
into saints? Now they were good people, weren't they? Not according
to God. There is none. There is none
that doeth good. No, not one. You see, many who
claim to believe the Bible hold out hope for fallen man. They
say he's not completely, as the Bible describes man, dead in
trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2, verse 1, dead in
trespasses and sins is the natural state of man. not sick, not wounded,
a valley of dry bones, a valley of long dead bones. That's how
the Bible describes man in his fleshly state. And those who
don't believe that, and they don't believe that man is completely
fallen and completely dead in trespasses and sins, they hold
out some hope that there's a little glimmer of good in man, that
if you appeal to it, and you use the tactics of business selling,
you will be able to persuade him to believe God. And if he
believes God, well, there was enough scope in the death of
Christ to save anybody. Will they only believe it? This
is fundamental error. and they will be able to enter
into God's kingdom. But look, God's word is very
clear. After saying, those who are of a humble and contrite
spirit, God says in verse 16 of Isaiah 57, He says, I will
not contend forever, I will not try to persuade them forever,
I will not argue with them forever, neither will I always be angry,
for the spirit of them that he's speaking to, the spirit of the
people, the wayward people that he's speaking to, the spirit
should fail before me, and the souls of them which I have made,
they'll be crushed by my judgment, is what God is saying. He says,
look, for the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth. What
is wrong with man? Lord, tell us what is wrong with
man. Tell us in what way man in his natural state is utterly
a hopeless case. The iniquity of his covetousness. It doesn't just mean, covetousness
doesn't just mean going after material things and wealth and
riches. It's a complete obsession. with this world, with the things
of this world, with the philosophies of this world, with the fashions
of this world. You know, fashion isn't just
the clothes you wear, it's the ideas that circulate. The fashions
of today, in general use in society, are completely different to the
fashions that they were 30 or 40 years ago. They're completely
different. This obsession with the world
is what causes God anger, the iniquity of his covetousness,
this longing after this fallen world, and its sinfulness, and
its rebellion against the living God. He was angry with it, and
God brings judgment down. I smote him. He says, I hid myself
from them. God hid himself. I was angry. And despite all of this contending,
and being angry, and smiting, and bringing judgments, and telling
him I'm angry, and no doubt setting up preachers to proclaim the
justice and righteousness of God and his condemnation of sin,
look what it says at the end of verse 17, about mankind in
general. He went on frowardly. in the
way of his heart. He went on in absolute determination
to continue in sin and rebellion against God. Seeing as the Jews
of old said, we will not have this man, the Lord Jesus Christ,
to reign over us. We will not have him to reign
over us. So then, as it was in the days
of Noah, Genesis 6 verse 3, the Lord said, My spirit shall not
always strive with man. He said, I will not contend forever,
in verse 16 of Isaiah 57, I will not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh. I'm not going to strive forever,
I'm not going to strive forever with him. The spirit of man would
be crushed by God's justice. It will be crushed by God's justice,
left to itself. It is the iniquity of his covetousness
that angers God, the seeking after the flesh and the things
of Antichrist's kingdom. So he hides himself. You know,
the natural man says, well, I can't see any evidence of God. God
says, I hide myself. And God contends with man, with
his law. He lays down his law, says, do
this and live. Don't do this and you shall surely
die. And he sends prophets to the generations and preachers.
But it seems, apparently, to no avail. In terms of pleading
with the flesh, flesh is a lost cause, and it's to no avail.
And he was angry, but the anger doesn't frighten the natural
man. The natural man continues headlong to hell in his sin and
rebellion against God. You see, appealing to flesh,
and to what you might think is a glimmer of good that's in every
man, which there isn't if you believe the scripture, that will
never achieve reformation to God. Appealing to the flesh,
appealing to the good, the spiritual life that might be in man, which
isn't really there, will never achieve reformation to God. It
won't achieve justifying righteousness. What's justifying righteousness?
It's the righteousness that says we are just before God, that
the law of God has no cause to cry against us. The law of God
has no case to bring against us, because in the Lord Jesus
Christ we're justified, but it's not through anything that we
do in the flesh. and likewise with sanctifying righteousness,
that nothing that we do in the flesh achieves any of that. No.
Not in religious service either. You know, at the end of the previous
chapter, chapter 56, God talks about those who were the preachers
of the day being blind watchmen and dumb dogs and greedy dogs
which never have enough. He then goes on in verses 3 down
to verse 13 of chapter 57 to talk about the hypocrisy of falsehood
in religion that they were all hiding behind in this society
of Israel in those days. No, truly, the flesh in its natural
godless state without the truth of God is hopelessly, eternally
lost. It is indeed beyond recovery. It's beyond the salvation of
itself. I remember once seeing a documentary
about attempts to climb the north face of the Eiger in the Alps,
and if you've ever been there you'll know that is a fearsome
chunk of rock, that really is, it faces north so it never sees
the sun, which is in the sky in the south, it never sees it,
so it's always a sheet of cold, hard, grey, black rock with ice
and snow stuck to it. And they used to try to climb
it, and they'd already drilled a tunnel for the railway. This
is many years ago, best part of a hundred years ago, up through
the mountain, and there was a doorway. Out of that thing, and if you
take the train up there now, you can even go and look out
of that doorway, look out of the, there's a great big panoramic
window there. And I remember seeing the case of one man who'd
been doing well, and he slipped. And he was tied to the rock with
the proper equipment, but he fell to the end of his rope in
the freezing cold. And he was just too far from
that window, from that door, for anybody to be able to rescue
him. They couldn't hold anything out to him to rescue him. He
had no strength in himself, nothing whatsoever with which to pull
himself back up that rope. He was utterly incapable of saving
himself. And that to me is a little bit
of a picture of what the flesh is like in and of his self. But
God knows this about man. God says, I'm not going to contend
forever. He has determined what he will do. God has determined
what he will do. Look at verse 18. I have seen
his ways, and look at this, right out of, I will get him to reform. No, God says, I will heal him. I have seen his ways, and I will
heal him. this fallen man. I will lead
him also, and restore comforts unto him, and to his mourners.
I will heal him, and lead him, and restore him. Is that not
speaking of absolute sovereign grace? When the case of flesh,
the man in his natural state, you and me as we naturally are,
utterly incapable of saving ourselves. God giving up on trying to contend
with us regarding His law and His justice and those He sends
to preach the truth to us. Giving up on all of that, but
God says, I will heal him. I will do a work of sovereign
grace. I will heal him and lead him
and restore comforts unto him. I will heal him. Just as it is
in Romans 9 verse 16, so then, It is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. It's of God. This work of sovereign
grace is of God. And so let's move on to the second
point, which is the certain accomplishment of grace. The certain accomplishment
of grace. What the best intentions and
efforts of flesh can never do in reconciling a sinner to God,
God accomplishes. God does it by His grace. Look at verse 18 then, I will
heal him, I will lead him, I will restore comforts to him and his
mourners. How does he heal, lead and restore
comfort? Move on to the next verse, verse
19. I create the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace to him that is far
off and to him that is near, saith the Lord, and I will heal
him. How does he do it? By an act
of creation. I create the fruit of the lips. The fruit of the lips. What does
he mean when he talks about the fruit of the lips? You know,
trees produce fruits. We have a variety of trees in
this garden, and according to their types, they produce fruit. Fruit comes of them according
to their type. The plum tree produces plums.
The pear tree produces pears. The raspberries produce raspberries,
and so on. It's the fruit of the lips. God
creates the fruit of the lips. Like a fruit tree, He creates. God creates. Not the flesh. God
creates that which grows out of the lips of the one in whom
He does this work of creation. And all of this is of God's free
and sovereign grace. None of it is of man's work.
It is God who creates a new heart. He puts a new heart within. He
creates a new heart within. This is why ye must be born again,
said Jesus to Nicodemus. Why must you be born again? Because
you must be born again. Without the new man of the Spirit
of God, the new birth within, the life of the flesh, there
is no spiritual life. There is no eternal life. There
cannot be. The natural man does not see,
does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They're foolishness
to him. Neither can he know them. Why?
Because they're spiritually discerned. Well, go off to a college and
get your spiritual discernment. You can't. You don't get spiritual
discernment from a college or from flesh and blood. As God
said through Paul many times, I conferred not with flesh and
blood. As he said to Peter, when he said, you are the Christ,
the Son of the Living God, he said, blessed are you, favoured
by God are you, Peter, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood
hasn't taught you this. You didn't go to a theological
college to learn this. You didn't get it from copying
what other people have done. No, it was my Father in Heaven
who revealed this to you. How did he do it? He sent his
spirit. He created a new man within.
He opened your eyes. He gave you enlightenment. Proverbs
16 verse 23 says this, The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth
and addeth learning to his lips. the heart of the wise. What is
it to have the heart of the wise? It's to have this new heart,
this new man of the Spirit of God. Why is it the heart of the
wise? Because in Christ, dwells all
the fullness of God. In Christ dwells all the treasures
of God's wisdom and knowledge. Christ is made of God unto his
people, wisdom from God and right, true wisdom, true wisdom, spiritual
wisdom, spiritual light, true wisdom and righteousness and
sanctification and redemption. And this heart of this new man
created within the believer by the Spirit of God teaches his
mouth and adds learning to his lips. I create the fruit of the
lips. So that the Psalmist cries out
in Psalm 19 and verse 14, let the words of my mouth, this is
his prayer, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and
my Redeemer. How can the words of the mouth
and the meditation of the heart be acceptable under the strict
justice and judgment of God? They can be so if they come from
that new man which is created by the Spirit of God. This creation
of the new man which produces the fruit of the lips is as creation
in the beginning, as creation in the creation of the new man.
We read in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 6, for it is God
who commanded the light to shine in the darkness, when in the
beginning God said, let there be light, and there was light.
It said it's that same act of creation. God, who commanded
the light to shine in the darkness of creation at the beginning,
has shined in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God, where? Only where? In the face of Jesus
Christ, and nowhere else, for He alone is the way, the truth,
and the life, and no man comes to the Father other than by Him,
the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord Jesus Christ, why
is He the all-important One, the only important One, because
it's only in Him that the true God is manifested to the needy
soul in His grace. Because it's only in the Lord
Jesus Christ that the things that the needy soul needs are
satisfied. What do we need? We need the
satisfaction of justice. because of sin. We need the satisfaction
of the law of God. And Christ, in his death as a
substitute for his people, has satisfied the justice of God.
Who shall lay any charge to God's elect? Christ has died. Yeah,
he's risen again. In satisfying justice, the Lord
Jesus Christ has given us what we need. He has not only given
us that justifying righteousness, but He has imputed the righteousness
of God to His people by making us the righteousness of God in
Him. Has He created that new man in
you? This is what we need to examine
ourselves concerning. Has he created that new man of
the Spirit of God in you? If he has, he has created his
own fruit. What is his fruit? It says, the
fruit of the lips. Let's think for a few moments
about what this fruit of the lips might be. What is this fruit
of the lips that he's talking about, that God creates when
he comes and when someone is, to use that old expression, when
somebody is converted, turned round from their sinful progress
to hell to serve the living God, when he is converted, what is
the fruit of the lips that God creates within? First of all,
I would suggest that it is confession of sin. That's the thing that
he creates. That's a fruit that only the
Spirit of God truly... You can be sorry, you can be
remorseful for things that you've done, you can think, I wish I
hadn't done that because it leaves me in a bad light, but only the
work of the Spirit of God brings about true repentance. As we read in the Acts of the
Apostles, they praised God, the apostles, because The evidence
was that God had granted unto the Gentiles repentance. That
repentance is not something that you work up in yourself, it is
the gift of God. God creates the fruit of the
lips and he creates confession of sin. True confession before
God. I'm not talking about confession
before a priest or anything like that. I'm not talking about a
sort of an Alcoholics Anonymous gathering where we all bear our
souls to one another. I'm talking about true confession
of sin before God. Heartfelt confession. Confession
that senses something of the holiness and purity of God. That
He dwells in unapproachable light. And is conscious, as we look
at Him, of the sin of self. The sin of the nature, the fleshly
nature as it is. The separation caused by iniquity. If you turn over a page, To Isaiah
59 and verse 2, he says, your iniquities, your sin, have separated
between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from
you, that He will not hear. That's separation caused by iniquity. That comes by the Spirit of God
to be revealed to us as a great gulf that can never, of ourselves
or our own efforts, be bridged. And the fruit that God creates
is first a revulsion at sin. Whereas we've gone on happily
in sin without any feeling, God creates the fruit of the lips
which is first a revulsion at sin, knowing what I really am,
feeling it, wanting to be rid of it. Oh, how you read the testimonies. I recommend them to you. People
of a couple of hundred years ago writing their biographies
and the great feeling of conviction of sin that they had. I think
in these days in which we live we're so distracted by social
media and broadcast media and busyness on every side that there
is so little time as there used to be to really be alone with
our thoughts and with the Spirit of God speaking to us concerning
this thing called sin and bringing us confession of it. So that
like that Pharisee, like that publican that Jesus pointed out
at the temple wall in his little parable. He said there was a
Pharisee boasting as to how good he'd been before God, and next
to him was the despised publican, the sinner, the corrupt person.
And his cry was just this, God be merciful to me, a sinner. You know that with this confession,
this confession of sin, this fruit of the lips, which is the
confession of sin, With that comes, to the penitent heart,
this promise from God. In 1 John 1 and verse 9, if we
confess our sins, If we confess our sins, He, God, is faithful
and just. He doesn't sweep in under the
carpet. He's just in forgiving the sins of His people. He is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. How is He just in forgiving the
sins of His people? because the debt for those sins,
the penalty due to those sins, has been paid in the place of
his people by the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary
when his body was broken and his blood was shed. And the justice
of God which cries the soul that sins, it shall die, that justice
of God was satisfied. And that justice of God says
it is enough. There is no need for any more.
It is finished. It is finished. He heals us by
Christ's atonement. I will create the fruit of his
lips. I will heal him. He heals us from our disease
like leprosy of sin. Again and again in the scriptures,
leprosy is a picture of the disease of sin that is in the soul of
the natural man. And he heals us. by Christ's
atonement, the atonement that He has made, that He has accomplished,
the at-one-ment that He has made, by taking the sin of His people
and paying its penalty, and rising again to newness of life and
His people in Him. So first of all then, confession
of sin. The fruit of the lips, confession
of sin. Secondly, I would suggest that
that which God creates as the fruit of the lips is a spirit
of humility, selflessness, and of grace. He creates that. He creates a spirit of humility
and grace where there wasn't one before, grace in thought,
in word and in deed. Oh, we sin all the time. If we
say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us, for we are still in this flesh. Lord, I believe. Help
thou the unbelief of this flesh that I still reside in. But God,
by His creating power of the new man within, creates the fruit
of the lips, and of that is the spirit of humility. Blessed are
the poor in spirit, says Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. Blessed,
favoured of God. It is because of God coming to
them and creating the fruit of the lips that they are poor in
spirit. Blessed are the meek, not puffed
up with their own self. Blessed are these who are selfless
in the kingdom of God, who produce the fruit of the Spirit. I create
the fruit of the lips, but you know what that is, it's the fruit
of God's Spirit. And Paul tells us in Galatians
5, 22 and 23, what the fruit of the Spirit is. He contrasts
it with the works of the flesh. There's the work of the flesh,
that which the old man does, all those things of sin which
are so rampant in our day, and against that he sets the fruit
of the Spirit, which the Spirit of God produces. as an apple
tree produces apples, so the one in whom is the new man of
the Spirit of God produces the fruit of love, of joy, of peace,
of long-suffering, of gentleness, of goodness, of faith, of meekness,
of temperance. Against such there is no law. It's the fruit of the Spirit.
I create the fruit of the lips. He produces a confession of sin,
a spirit of humility. Thirdly, this fruit of the lips
that God creates within is prayer. He produces a spirit of prayer.
Now, religious folks say their prayers. They say prayers. Let us say a prayer. I'll say
a little prayer for you. But where God's spirit does a
work of creation, God puts a true spirit of prayer within. Zechariah
12 verse 10, I will pour upon the house of David and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication. True prayer comes from where?
True prayer comes from God. He creates the fruit of the lips. David, the sweet psalmist of
Israel, says in 1 Chronicles 17 verse 25, he says, thy servant,
meaning himself, has found in his heart, not created in his
heart, he has found in his heart to pray before thee. Who put
it in his heart to pray before God? Answer, God himself. For God creates the fruit of
the lips. He creates a desire to commune
with the living God. Have you ever felt this, what
the psalmist said in Psalm 63 verse 1, O God, thou art my God,
early will I seek thee, my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh
longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is.
God puts that there. This is the fruit of the lips.
He heals his backslidings. He heals his sin and iniquity. He creates the fruit of the lips,
and He puts a spirit of prayer within. Has He done that in you?
And fourthly, and no doubt there are many more, but fourthly,
He puts there the fruit of the lips, which is a spirit of praise
and of thanksgiving. You see, religious folk, just
as religious folks say their prayers, religious folk go to
church. And they go to church out of
duty, out of a feeling of duty. They fear loss if they don't
go. They fear punishment if they
don't go. They fear the loss of reward
in heaven if they don't go, because they think the things they do
add to the work of Christ, to give them rewards in heaven.
No. The sinner whom God has healed,
has created in him, the fruit of the lips which is praise.
He's led to praise God. True praise comes from the heart.
It's not a duty, it's a delight. True praise comes from the heart.
A realization of grace in the accomplishment of salvation draws
from the heart of the true believer real praise. I will praise you,
I will praise you my God, I will seek you, I will praise you,
I will give thanksgiving to you for all your grace and goodness
to me. It draws forth, it must draw
forth praise and thanksgiving. The flesh, however religious
it might be, is unable to do any of these things. It's only
the work of the Spirit of God. It's only the creation of the
Spirit of God within. This is it. This is the key thing.
It's the revelation that must come from God. We cannot work
these things up. We cannot go to college to get
better at them. We cannot read books to get better
at them, though reading books can often be as hearing true
preaching from God, and in that it's a blessed thing. But flesh
in and of itself can do nothing. Nothing, unless God does it. You know, the new man is not
born of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God. It's of God. It's His sovereign
grace that does these things. And look what it says, I create
the fruit of the lips, there's just four of them, confession
of sin, a spirit of humility, of prayer, and of praise. He
creates those things within, and He promises with it peace. Peace. To him that is far off,
and to him that is near. With the new creation, God promises
peace. He promises double peace and
healing of the leprosy of sin. And he says it is for those who
are far off and those who are near. What's the significance
of that? He doesn't say those halfway
between. He says those who are far off and those who are near. Does this describe you in relation
to God? You're either conscious, as you
are at times if you're a true believer, that you are far from
Him. Are you not? There are times
when you think, I'm far from God. You're like the prodigal.
I know I'm away from my true home. I must go home to my Father.
I'm conscious that I'm far from Him. Or, you have times of great
blessing. When the door of heaven seems
wide open to your prayers and meditations, you feel all the
blessings of knowing Him closely, far from Him or near to Him. In unbelievers, in those in whom
there is no creating work of God, they have neither a sense
of distance nor of nearness, or of nearness. And at times
in the believer, because of the unbelief of the flesh, you might
say that that also applies there as well. But if there is a new
man who believes, despite the unbelief of the flesh, there
is a sense of either, at times, being far from God and wanting
to be near, or of being near God because we're conscious of
all of the blessings of peace with God. What does Christ say
to those who are conscious of being far away from him? What
does Christ say to them? He says, come. Come unto me,
all you who labor and are heavy laden. Come unto me, you who
feel far away from God. Come unto me. Why? Why come unto
Christ? Can't you do this for yourself?
Can't you go to anybody else? Come unto me, for I and he alone
will give you rest. There's nobody else who can give
you rest. There is nobody else who has
satisfied the justice of God in the place of His people. Nobody
else is able to give that Sabbath of rest. I will give you Sabbath,
says the Lord Jesus Christ. I will give you peace for your
souls. My burden, my yoke is easy, my
burden is light. Come to Me. Those who feel like
they're far off, come to Me. How is it with you? Has God created
the fruit of the lips? Has He shown you peace in His
grace? Will you seek Him while He may
be found? Will you? There it is! And if
free grace, why not for me? I don't see anything to keep
you away, do you? Will you seek Him while He may be found? Will
you call upon Him while He is near? Or will you go on with
the wicked? What is it to be wicked? It's
to disbelieve God. That's it. You say, well, don't
the wicked do this, that and the other? The key thing that
the wicked do is they disbelieve God. Will you not heed the warning? Look at it. But the wicked are
like the troubled sea. when it cannot rest, whose waters
cast up mire and dirt. In other words, no peace, no
peace. Oh, look what it says. There
is no peace, saith my God to the wicked. Amen.