Identifying wickedness in its many forms is easy. People in the church and the prophetic point it out to us daily. I just received a prophetic word from Australia telling me how America is doomed due to her wickedness. If identifying wickedness changed anything we would be the most transformed people in the world. Christians are great at identifying wickedness, because for them to get saved they had to admit they were wicked, then say a prayer, come down to an altar and live happily every after. Is this where we learned to be experts in wickedness and how evil nations, people and cities are?

Every time the Bible speaks about wickedness it is not to state the obvious, it is to identity the solution. Proverbs is filled with a contrast as to what wickedness looks like and what righteousness looks like. The demarcation is there so we can know where we are and repent or continue to build. Our identity in Christ is declared as the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Yet many believe they are dirty rotten sinners. Who you believe you are is what you will speak about others and places around you.

Reading Psalm 129 this morning it says, “The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.” Immediately the Holy Spirit says, righteousness is what what cuts the cords of wickedness. Cords are strings and when I read that, I saw the wicked as puppets with strings being cut so they can no longer perform their wicked acts that are harming themselves and others. Friends, no one is born wicked, they are programmed that way and God, who is righteous is cutting the strings of their wickedness.

Hollywood is having its wicked strings cut and actors are getting baptized in water, ordained into the ministry, preaching about Jesus Christ. Can you see the strings of wickedness being cut by the righteous God? I can and I rejoice. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, so instead of talking about all the wickedness we see and hear, what if we cut the strings of wickedness off of people, industries and nations? I got my scissors of the spirit and I am cutting their strings, for righteousness is exalting the nation.