The Hated Six - God Hates Wicked Hearts and Evil Feet
Dave Riddle - 8/20/2023
Key Passage: Proverbs 6:16-19
Seven are Detestable to Him
“Detestable” = tôʿēḇâ: Something disgusting (morally), an abhorrence, especially an idol or idolatry. Often translated “an abomination”
A Heart That Plots Wicked Schemes
- “Heart” = lēḇ - inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding 
- “Wicked” = āven - to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught; nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness 
What we think is right
- Proverbs 15:12 / Most of Judges 
- The way the seems right to us is the way that leads to death. 
- We plot towards nothingness and scheme towards vanity 
- Romans 6:23 - the wages of sin is death… 
- Psalm 14:1 - …there is no one who does good. 
We plot… and then eagerly run to do evil
- Proverbs 6:18 
- What the heart plots to do, the feet are eager to carry out 
- Run = mâhar - to be liquid or flow easily 
- Proverbs 6:12-17 
- Genesis 6:5-6 - God sees the wickedness of our hearts and it breaks his heart. 
The Answer
- Christ alone. 
- Ephesians 2:8 
- We can be saved, by grace, through faith. 

