Classic Sermon Outlines
Matthew Py
SERMON TWO
A TWOFOLD PRAYER
O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just.
—PSALM 7:9
WE ARE here taught to pray against all sin. And in praying against sin we pray for the sinners; for whatever works against the disease, works for the patient. We are also taught to pray for all saints. Let not those who are filthy be filthy still, but let those who are holy be holy still. Let the good be kept so and made better.
I. THE CONTENT OF THE PRAYER.
A. The Petition That God Will Bring the Wickedness of the Wicked to an End.
We must pray that God will bring our own wickedness and the wickedness of other people to an end.
1. Abandonment of wicked principles. It must be our heart's desire and prayer that wicked principles may be exploded and abandoned and that men may be set right in their judgments concerning good and evil, right and wrong, God and themselves, this world and the other.
2. Conversion of the wicked. Let us be humbly earnest with God in prayer that the eyes of the spiritually blind may be opened; and the ears of the deaf unstopped; that wandering sheep may be sought and saved and prodigal sons brought to themselves and then to the Father's house; that