"wicked" Tagged Sermons
1. The Path of the _________________ Described (vv. 7-9a;12; 16-18).
2. The Heart of the ________________ Exposed (vv. 9b-11).
3. The _____________________ of God’s People Promised (vv. 13-15; 19).
Psalm 37 can sound, on a surface reading, like a promise of immediate prosperity for the righteous and immediate judgment for the wicked. It teaches nothing of the kind, once the whole psalm is read together rather than in isolated verses. Faith here, like everywhere else in Scripture, is already real and not yet fully vindicated.
Verses 12-20 describe how the wicked actually live and what the Lord intends to do about it, a real threat taken seriously rather than dismissed. Christ’s silence before Pilate in John 19 embodies exactly the trust these verses call for. Psalm 37 functions, in its own way, as an Old Testament Galatians, arguing for freedom against a works-based anxiety.