Key Words in the Bible: 5. Wicked

Key Words in the Bible: 5. Wicked

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The word "wicked" occurs more than 300 times in the Bible and is one of the most important terms to be found therein. In the Bible the word "wicked" really means "bewitched" or "Under a spell." the Law of Being is perfect harmony, and that truth never changes; out man uses his free will to think wrongly, and thus he builds up false conditions around him, and then believes them to be real. They look real, and so he forgets that it was he himself who made them, and thus he bewitches himself, or throws himself under a kind of spell; and of course as long as he remains bewitched in this way he has to suffer the consequences. Nevertheless, it is only illusion, or a spell, and it can be broken by turning to God.

The only way to break such a spell is to think of God, and that is why Jesus called it the strait and narrow way. "Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?" said Paul, when he heard that some of his students had begun to believe in evil in this way.

"The wicked flee when no man pursueth." "The wicked shall be turned into hell." "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him." These are statements of what happens when we allow ourselves to be bewitched by our own thoughts into believing in any power other than God. We flee when no man pursueth--we are afraid of things without reason. We can suffer the pains of hell because "fear hath torment" --but when we turn to God, the spell is broken and harmony is restored.

Let us awaken from the spell under which the whole race lives, and know instead that God is all Power, infinite Intelligence, and boundless Love.

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Fox, Emmet (2010-0 9-07).Make Your Life Worthwhile (pg64). Harper Collins, Inc.. Kindle Edition.