HERODIAS – First Lady of Evil

Mark 6:14-29

Pastor Rick Jackson

There are some wicked women in the Bible. Not really “ladies” mind you but definitely female. Tonight we look at one of those. This is the kind of woman that ought scare you good. She’s evil and she’ll drag you down. Many proverbs have been written about this kind of woman but this one is in the New Testament.

 

I. WHAT SHE HATED -could have helped her

1. She Hated God’s Word [v. 14-19a, Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 15:10]

-WHOSO loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

-Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

2. She Hated God’s Man [v. 19b-20, Ps. 97:10, 101:3] have you noticed- when we hate sin- sinners hate us?

- Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

-I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

3. She Hated God’s Way [v. 20-22, Matthew 3:3]

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

II. WHAT SHE “HALLOWED” – what was important to her only hurt her

1. The Flesh [v. 21-23]

2. The Devil [v. 24-25, 27-29]

3. The World [v. 26]

Ephesians 2:2-3 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

 

III. WHAT SHE HAD… BUT WASTED -will haunt her for eternity

1. Opportunities to be Eternally Saved [v. 20]

2. Opportunities to be Extremely Spiritual [v. 20, Mt. 23:13]

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

3. Opportunities to Invest Seriously [v. 22-24, Mt. 13:23]

But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.