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Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine
is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
John 17:15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You
should keep them from the evil one.
John 7:7, “They hate Me because I say their deeds are evil.”
1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from every form of evil.
Matthew 7:11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things
to those who ask Him!
Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving
and being deceived.
Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
John 17:15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You
should keep them from the evil one.
1 Corinthians 10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common
to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what
you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you
may be able to bear it.
I) EVIL IS REAL.
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
1) Lord deliver us from evil that can reside in our own society.
2) Lord deliver us from evil that can reside in our own homes.
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put
away from you, with all malice.
3) Lord deliver us from evil that can reside in our own schools.
4) Lord deliver us from evil that resides in our own government.
Isaiah 13:18 “… And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will
not spare children.”
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
Isaiah 1:15 (NLT) When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. though
you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the
blood of innocent victims.
5) Lord deliver us from evil that resides in our own justice system.
Genesis 4:9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said,
“I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Why do people do evil?
Because it gives them pleasure.
Because it gives them power.
Because they think that the evil they are doing is righteous or good or necessary.
Because they are indifferent to the suffering of others.
II) EVIL IS PERSONAL.
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
Matthew 7:11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things
to those who ask Him!
Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon
as they are born, speaking lies.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
Title “Where Evil Grows”
And it never shows
The place where evil grows
Evil grows in the dark
Where the sun, it never shines
Evil grows in cracks and holes
And lives in people’s minds
Evil grew, it’s part of you
And now it seems to be
That everytime I look at you
Evil grows in me
Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
John 7:7, “They hate Me because I say their deeds are evil.”
III. THE ULTIMATE EVIL IS UNBELIEF.
Hebrews 3:12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief in departing from the living God;
John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not
believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God.
IV. DIVINE DELIVERANCE FROM EVIL.
Luke 11:4 (KJV) ” … but deliver us from evil.
Luke 11:4 (NKJV) “… but deliver us from the evil one.”
1) We are admitting that the EVIL ONE exists,
2) We are declaring that the EVIL ONE is in conflict with us as God’s children,
3) We are confessing that God is our deliverer from the EVIL ONE.
4) We are proclaiming the Lord wants us to take our stand against the EVIL ONE.
Psalm 22:4 Our fathers trusted in You: They trusted, and You delivered them.
Psalm 22:5 They cried to You, and were delivered: They trusted in You, and
were not ashamed.
Romans 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,…”
Colossians 1:13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed
us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.
