July 28, 2024

Prayer: Jew vs Gentile Pt 1

Prayer: Jew vs Gentile Pt 1

We consider how the covenants with Israel impacts prayer

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We consider how the covenants with Israel impacts prayer

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All right, Psalm eighty three. Now, the original goals this

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morning was to go back to eschatology and work on

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the Dividic Covenant for the first hour. But as I

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continue to think about Psaw eighty three, then I decided, well,

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we got we gotta do some more work here, and

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we're gonna We're gonna add some things to this and

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hopefully we'll be beneficial. We took a little detour on

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Ssaw eighty three because we ran into a problem. All right,

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So before we do any review of Psaw eighty three

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is just remind ourselves and Saw eighty three, there are

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I think two or three verses that we can really

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identify that clearly this is uh out there praying is

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going on. Right. We see this first of all in

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verse one Ssaw eighty three, Verse one, do not keep silent,

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Oh God, do not hold your peace, and do not

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be still, Oh God. Right, clearly the psawmist is crying

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out to God, and clearly that is implying not only

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do they feel like God that has not been present,

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God is not doing anything, but they're obviously asking God

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to do what To not be silent, to not hold

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your peace, and not be still to be involved, to

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engage to do something. Can we all? Ever, when I

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think hopefully we can agree with that, right, he goes

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on and the psalmist goes on to say, in verse nine,

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deal with them, right, And the dealing with them is

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dealing with these enemies who have consulted together and have

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formed a confederacy against Israel. Correct. And then verse thirteen, Oh,

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my God, make them like the whirling dust. So in

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all these verses we can clearly see Asaf, who's composed

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this psalm, is crying out to God for God to

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do what, to be involved, and to do something correct. Okay,

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so we know therefore this would meet the basic qualifications

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of a prayer. We know this is formed as a lamit,

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but there's clearly praying going on, asking God to do something.

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And I pointed out that anyone reading this should immediately

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be kind of confused by the prayer. I know nobody

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in churches think this way, but everyone should be bothered.

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And what should immediately come to our mind or should

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bother us or questions should form in our mind about

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this prayer? If you remember correctly, I said, well, this

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would be individuals praying to a God whom they cannot see,

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and that God whom they are praying to, at the

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bare minimum, knew these circumstances you're praying about was going

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to happen and did absolutely nothing to prevent them. At

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the very most, you are praying to a God whom

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you cannot see, who not only allowed the events to occur,

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who not only did nothing to prevent the events from occurring,

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but actually decreed them, and in his providence, is guiding

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and directing them. And if that is the case, then

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what question would you ask, what then are you praying for? Right?

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What are you praying for If you're praying to the

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very God who allowed it, if you're praying to the

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very God who decreed it, then by praying it would

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make no sense to them pray to that God to

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do what, to change it, or to intervene in it.

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Says he's the one allowing it, or depending on your theology,

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even decreeing it. It would seem like you would be

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actually going against the very will of God whom you

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are praying to. Now, once you ever point that out,

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Christians get very defensive, they get very bothered. And this

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to me demonstrates I've stated this so many times, not

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only in our praying, but in so many aspects of Christianity.

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Our Christianity and our praying is typically driven more by

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our our emotions, our feelings, our own personal ideas than

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it is our theology. Theology tends to be what by definition,

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it tends to be theoretical, right. In other words, we

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come to church, you sit in a pew, you learn

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theological concepts right, and everyone will do what I typically,

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I mean, unless they disagree with the theological concept. They

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will say amen to it, right. But then we walk

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right out the door, and before we even get home,

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we typically will demonstrate in our talking, thinking, desire, feeling,

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emotion that we in many cases live contrary to the theology

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which we claim right. And nobody likes to hear that,

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but it's just true, because it's very difficult not to

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allow all those things that make us up as people

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to be consistent with our theology. And I'm not even

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talking about like you know, oh well the Bible says

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be holy and we're not holy. I'm not even talking

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from a sin perspective. I'm just saying our thinking just

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like this in prayer, if we truly believe God decrees

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everything that comes to pass and he's guiding it from

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our providence. Then why are we praying for God to

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do something opposite of what is happening? That makes no

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sense from a theological perspective. And if you remember last time,

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I asked Ai to write a prayer and Ai was

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able to write a prayer consistent with the theology. And

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I kept arguing, and I kept asking the question, why

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could Ai write a prayer that's so consistent with the

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theology because there's no emotion involved? Right, all Ai has

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to do is like, here's the theology. Okay, what prayer

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would be consistent with this theology? And it could do

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it perfectly because there's no emotions involved. And that's that's

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a good thing, because it stands as a shark, a

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sharp contrast to what us which very contradictory of it.

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So I kept thinking about this whole subject, So you know,

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what do we do? What do we do? So remember

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last week we spent a lot of time looking at

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how different philological perspectives should approach prayer. Right, does everybody

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remember this? All? Right? So we talked about the reformed

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calvinistic perspective and the reform Calvinistic perspective, How should that

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perspective approach prayer. Yeah, prayer is not a means to

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do what. In the reformed perspective, it's not asking God

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to change anything. Prayer. The purpose of prayer is for

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you to align yourself with what his will, to submit

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to his will, to acknowledge his will, not to change it. Now.

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You know, people who hold to some form of reform theology,

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listen to how they pray, they do not pray consistent

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with their theology, not anywhere close. I know too many

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people are reformed who when they ask for prayer requests,

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they want God to actually change. And I'm like, come,

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that's not reformed. That's not reformed in any way shape

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perform Okay, And as remember, John Calvin taught that prayer

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is a way for believers to submit to God's will

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and find solace in his sovereignty. And the reformed perspective,

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prayer serves primarily as a means for believers to align

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themselves with the sovereign will of God. Calvinists believe that

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God's will is immutable and that his plan is perfect

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and comprehensive. Therefore, prayer is not seen as a way

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to change God's mind or alter his plans. You're not

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trying to change his mind. You're not trying to alter

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his plan. You're simply submitting to it. And I think

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many people who hold to reform view they don't. I

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don't know if they even think of it that way, right,

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I mean, because I know they don't. So we had

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a great discussion about that. The second view was what

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there are many in perspect In this view, basically, prayer

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is seen to do what to seek God's intervention, guidance

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and comfort in the midst of suffering. The only problem

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with the Armenian prayer is it becomes it has its

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own struggles, does it not? What are some of the

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issues with the Armenian approach? Right, Well, if you believe

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in free will, then why would you have God intervene?

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Because by intervening, he's by inevitably going to do what.

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He's changing something. Right, If someone's trying to do this

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and I'm asking God to intervene, then he's going after

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their free will. It just like if you can't change

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anything without altering everything. Right, And not only that, if

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God's if God is all worried about man's free will,

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his intervention is almost impossible because it's going to alter

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free will. And not only that, this begins to open

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up questions. We'll wait a minute, so is God decreeing it?

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Or is he not decreeing it he? Or is he

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not sovereign? And then this begins to create a whole

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host of issues. And Arminianism, not always, but logically tends

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to lead to wear open theism almost inevitably, not always,

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but because some people can hold a philological position that

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doesn't really make sense because they rarely take it to

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its logical conclusion. But open theism and open theism God

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doesn't know. And we talked, and we talked all about that.

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We also talked about middle knowledge and a little bit

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of that, and that didn't really help. So we went

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through all of them, did we not? Okay? Now, by

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going through all of them, we were still We ended

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last week by looking at all of that, but we

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didn't really resolve a problem. So when I got ready

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to start thinking about the dividic Covenant and about some

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of that, for the first hour, I just like, well,

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we didn't really resolve the problem. So go back to

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Psalm eighty three and look again at the verses that

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speak about basically praying. We have at least three, right,

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We have the first one correct, The second one is

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what verse six? I believe nine? Okay? And the other

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one is what thirteen? Right? So those three verses, when

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it comes how how would you define their praying? And

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those three verses? How would you define the prayer? There?

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It's clearly seeming to ask what it's specific, but it

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seeming to be asking for intervention? Right, It's not just

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submitting to God's will. It's asking God to what alter

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and change something? And for God to alter and change something,

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would he be respecting the free will of the nations

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who know he would be going against them? In fact,

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it's asking God to defy their will, to stop their will,

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to prevent their will from happening. So immediately we're like, well,

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wait a minute, how does this prayer fail into these

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different theologies? And I will argue it doesn't really fit in,

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does it? So then what do we do with it?

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Anybody got to answer, I don't know if you have

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an answer. I think I have an answer. Now I'm

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gonna present my answer, you know how, I'm gonna present

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it more as a hypothesis. Right, None of those theologies.

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Does it doesn't fit the reformed perspective? Does it? In

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some ways it doesn't really fit the our many in

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perspective because you're going to violate someone's will? Are you

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not open theism? I guess it could kind of go

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with open theism. God didn't know this was going to happen. God,

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like you know, I guess you could kind of go

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with that direct. In other words, it's it has a

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specific way of thinking, and put it this way, saw

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many three would definitely go against the reform perspective. Would

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we agree? Definitely? Okay, So what do we do with

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Saw eighty three? So I'm going to put forth a

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hypotheses and you can tell me whether you agree or disagree. Right,

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So here's what I was thinking when we consider prayer

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and light of the Old Testament, where Psaw eighty three

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is found, Right, there is one major thing that I

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think governs and guides the way people prayed in the

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Old Testament. What do you think that major thing is

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that governs and guides the way many people prayed in

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the Old Testament? No, Now, I started this morning by

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saying we were going to return back to our study

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on eschatology and look at what the dividic covenant. Right,

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So that was my that was that was your hint

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way before we got to the actual question. God's covenant

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or covenans was to me, I think the answer about

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how they prayed in the Old Testament because God made

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very specific promises in the covenants to whom Israel. All

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the prayers we read in the Old Testament that are

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prayers with people who believe in the True God, are

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prayers given by whom Jews who are connected to, obviously Israel,

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whom God made specific promises too. Right, So if God

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makes to think about this, if God makes a covenant

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with you and gives you, say fifteen specific promises, then

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it would be perfectly within God's sovereign will for you

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then to in your prayer ask God to do what

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he has already promised for you to do. Would you

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be going against his will? No? Would you be going

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against his providence? No? You would be simply reminding God

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of his promise, of his providence. And then you would say, God,

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now do what you have said you would do. That

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is radically different than for us. So we're going to

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explore that concept. All right. Now, this again, what we're doing.

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I'm sorry, no other churches are going to be doing

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what we're about to do because I'm about to blow

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up the whole concept of prayer in a radical, radical

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way here. Okay, but that's okay, that's when there's no

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one left. You can do this, Okay, that's one of

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the good things. In any other church, I'd get fired

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before i even got done with this sermon. And you

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think I'm joking. You would not be allowed to do this.

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I've worrity, you know. Can you imagine me saying what

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I've said about prayer in any other church? Come on,

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you know what I'd be done. People would get up upset,

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that would walk out. I'd be so finished. But which

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makes me mad because Christianity never seems to be a

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world where you're allowed to think you're just It's a

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world where you're just totally to conform to whichever team

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you're on, and I can't. That's why I'll never fit

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in in the world of Christianity, because I hate that

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we have to be able to think right and any

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thinking person is like, oh wait a minute, you want

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me to pray to the God who allowed this to happen,

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did nothing to stop it, who decrete it and guided it?

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And now you want me to pray to that God

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to change it. Do you not see the contradiction in

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your own work? But you can't point that out because

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people will get mad, people will get offended. I think

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we have to acknowledge the problem and then see you

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see if we can find an answer. And I think

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maybe we're stumbling upon something. So I started doing some

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work and here's some things that I put down. The

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way the Jews prayed in the Old Testament is indeed

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closely related to the fact that God made specific covenants

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with Israel. That is my hypothesis. The way the Jews

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pray in the Old Testament is closely related to the

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fact that God made specific covenants with Israel. Everybody got that,

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so immediately, what would that tell us? I cannot go

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to the Old Testament and take the way they prayed

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as an example or model for me because they are

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relying on specific premises not made to us. That this

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becomes now you see, remember when we talked in Eschatology

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that you know there's a major divide within christiandom, right,

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there's those in Christendom who takes the church and Israel,

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and Israel basically has been replaced by the Church. Okay,

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and I reject that outright. If you keep the Church

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in Israel distinct, then this becomes really easy to follow. Right,

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Wait a minute, they pray in a way which I

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cannot pray because they're relying on covenant and promises that

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I cannot claim because those promises are not for us. Amen.

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Jews prayed in the Old Testament, and the way they

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prayed is related closely related to the fact that God

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made specific covenants with Israel. Please note I use the

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plural covenants because there were multiple covenants, were they not?

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These covenants shaped their understanding of God, the relationship with Him,

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and the nature of their prayers. Can we agree with that?

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So all we need to do then when in a

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sense we need to look at the covenants, which, now

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see this is gonna this is kind of cool because

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now we're bringing back all of our study we just

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have been doing on the covenants, right, and on our

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study on eschatology. Remember we looked at the Abrahamic Covenant.

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Not only that, this brings even back in when we

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use the Schofield study Bible, and we looked at the dispensations.

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And remember we looked at the covenants. So this is

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adding layer upon layer of what we've already studied. Okay,

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this is the way I love to do things. Is

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previous study only lays the foundation for more study, and

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then we build and build upon it. Now, what we

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need to do is we need to understand the covenants,

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try to understand the specific promises, and then do what

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whenever you read a prayer in the Old Testament, you

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look to see how that prayer is directly related to

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what the covenants. And then you're like, well, clearly they

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could pray that way because that's not them going against

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God's will, that's them literally praying for God's will that

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he himself promised. Then we don't have any issue, do we. Now?

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The only problem is we would have an issue because

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we can't pray that way, so we would have to

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look so then what could we pray for? That becomes

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a little bit more complicated, right, okay, and what we'll

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get into that. All right, So let's look at this.

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The first everyone knows the first Covenant, right, what's the

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first covenant? Okay, Well, we could go, well, let's okay,

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just to do that one. I was immediately going to

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go to the Abrahamic but we could go to the

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one made with Noah. Okay, well we could go with

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that one. Okay, that's in Genesis. What where would be

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the Noah Covenant if we're going to go with Noah? Yeah,

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if we're gonna go with that one, I didn't have.

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I wouldn't even thinking that when I'm glad someone mentioned it.

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That's why I like you guys participating, because see, I

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would have just completely ignored that one. When we think

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of the covenant he made with Noah, what are the

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specific elements of it? If you're at eleven, you're way

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past Noah? Right, Yes, the tower eleven is the tower? Right?

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Doesn't he make the covenant when they come off the arc,

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which would be what eight? I think this? I think

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it's eight. I'm just going for memory. I could be wrong, alright,

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Oh chapter nine? Okay, So I was wrong? Okay? With

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specific promises does he make in chapter nine? See if

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you can find it. The primary part of the covenant

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is what again? Okay? So the primary part of that

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covenant is never going to flood the world again, and

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the rainbow is a sign of that covenant, right, so

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according to that covenant. In fact, that covenant kind of

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goes beyond just Noah, right. In fact, it says it's

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made with what I think you just read it, all

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of mankind.

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So if it starts raining, right, if it starts raining

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and raining and raining and raining, my prayer could be like, Lord,

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don't let it flood the earth according to your will.

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And we know it won't. So in some ways we

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don't even need to pray here, I don't even pray

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for God not to But if I've prayed, God, don't

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allow this to flood the world, I'm praying perfectly in

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accordance with what his will. Because the covenant and that

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one could go beyond just Israel, can we agree, all right?

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So so but you see how that would work. Now,

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on one end, I don't need to pray because God's

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was said it wouldn't do it, so I don't even

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need to pray. But if I wanted to pray, if

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I prayed, Hey, God, it's raining and it's raining, and

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it's training and it's raining, don't let this flood the

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world according to your will? Then that's perfectly acceptable because

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it's it's clearly a prayer in accordance with God's sovereign will.

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Or I could say I could pray this way, Lord,

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I thank you did, even though it's flooding here. I

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know you're not going to flood the world because you

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made the promise in Genesis chapter nine. Right, Does that

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make sense? You see how the prayer would be in

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accordance with that. I cannot pray what. I can't pray

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God don't flood here because there's no promise that he

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won't flood here. I could ask God to intervene and

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stop said flood. But then when now we're right back

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to what his sovereignty, his immutable will, his decree and

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his providence right agreed, Because I mean, they are Christians

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out there who claim, you know that, hey, there's a hurricane.

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They can go out there and I rebuke this hurricane

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in the name of Jesus. And it doesn't work. It

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doesn't work, right, It doesn't work because they try to

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claim they have the same authority of Jesus, and that

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just gets ridiculous. And that's usually in the charismatic world.

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it not? Because how many times do we hear of

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a storm that hits that will kill these people, and

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these people may be a living three blocks away, their

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lives are completely spared. That makes no sense to me, right,

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I mean, we're standing in a building where a tornado

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rip the roof off this building. None of the other

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churches around here were judged. Now, some people in their

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superstition will say, well, your church is cursed by God. Right,

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that's how some people would look at it. Okay, but

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why I mean, I ultimately it turned into a good thing.

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But the point is is that's just the way it works.

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Right now, you have to accept God's will in it.

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But according to that covenant, you could see how praying

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would work. Right now, we'll go ahead and go to

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the next covenant, the one I was going for, which

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is the Abrahamic. I think this is the big one.

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no covenant seems to be for everyone on earth. The

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Abrahamic Covenant now becomes very focused on whom Israel. Okay,

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this is where I think the rest of the praying

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of the Old Testament's going to come into pl right,

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where is the Abrahamic Covenant found we have in Genesis twelve,

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Genesis fifteen, in Genesis seventeen, or all elements where it

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stated kind of restated, kind of maybe expanded a little bit. Right.

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Remember we went into great detail about the Abrahamic Covenant. Right.

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We broke all the parts down of the Abrahamic Covenant.

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Does everybody remember that? In fact, I can go back

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to our Yeah, I'm not going to go back to

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every element of it. I mean I could break them

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all down here. All the promises. Remember, we had personal

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promises to Abraham, we had universal promises, and we had

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national promises. Right, everybody remember that? Okay, But some of

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the major issues here was some of the promises of

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the Abrahamic Covenant was land. We remember, we cannot forget that, right,

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Descendants and blessings, correct, all right? And then and it

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established Israel as God's chosen people. So anytime Israel was

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facing difficulty, they could ask God to intervene on the

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basis of what we are God's chosen people. God, you

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said you would bless us. You said that a great

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nation would arise from us from Abraham. That we are

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that nation. So if God is going to bring you up.

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Then you can pray prayers of protection, of preservation, of

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provision because God made specific promises to them, And you

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can pray that God will defeat your enemies because Israel

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cannot be ultimately defeated, because ultimately they will end up

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where and a land which God had promised them. Do

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you see how greatly that would impact the praying. I

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think SAW eighty three is very much related to that.

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We'll look at it in greater detail, all right. Can

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everybody see that? Because immediately the Abrahamic Covenant established them

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as a special people, different from all the other nations,

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with specific promises, so they can pray in a way

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that I cannot necessarily pray because some of those promises.

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Let's make this very clear, with the Abrahamic Covenant, many

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of those promises are not just spiritual, they are what

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material practical. Yes, because this is why we made a

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major distinction here. He's talking about physical land, a physical nation.

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So everybody, if you make it a spiritual nation, and

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if you make the land spiritual, then you turn into

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all the promises of spiritual well, that would mean they're

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praying too. In many cases, they're praying as what very

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materialistic and physical? Is it not? Well, that would destroy

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their praying as being in accordance with God's will. But

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if it's real land and real physical blessing, then they

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can pray that and be in accordance with God's will.

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You see why all of this is You see when

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you start changing just a part of it? Do you

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see how your theology then destroys everything. When I had

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arguments with people here over this subject, it drove me

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crazy because I'm like, how are you going to destroy

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these promises to Israel and turn Israel to a spiritual Israel?

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You are doing unspeakable damage to your hermoneutics. But I

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couldn't get people to listen to me, and it just

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but you can see what would happen right at this

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is a physical nation with physical promises, then the prayers

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can be about physical things and still be in accordance

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with God's will. Well, so that's very important. Right, So

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there's the Abrahamic Covenant. How about the Mosaic Covenant? All right?

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We have Exodus nineteen to twenty four. Exodus nineteen to

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twenty four, These promises lay out a lot of what

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blessings for obedience, things about the law, and it defines

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the relationship between God and Israel, emphasizing obedience and worship.

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So the praying could go something like this, Lord, you promised,

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if we do this, you will do this. And many

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of those promises God gives Israel and accordance to their

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obedience or disobedience are what kind of promises? Again, they're

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very physical and materialistic, right, What does he promise them

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in many of these issues. Go to Lake is it

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Deuteronomy twenty eight eight and following. Remember we talked about

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this in great detail. Sometimes this is not just the

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Sometimes this is called the Land Covenant or sometimes the

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I think usually Land Covenant's the typical title. There's a

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couple other titles, but go to like starting in Deuteronomy

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twenty eight. Okay, we could go all the way back

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to twenty six. All right, look at chapter twenty eight,

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verse one. Now it shall come to pass if you

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diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to

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observe carefully all his commandments, which I command you today,

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that the Lord your God will set you high above

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all nations of the earth, and all these blessings shall

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come upon you and overtake you because you obey the

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voice of the Lord. You're ready for all these blessings.

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Tell me if these are spiritual or physical? First one, okay, well,

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what is it? Verse three? You should be blessed in

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the city, blessed in the country. Next, the fruit of

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your body, the produce of your ground, the increase of

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your herds, the increase of your cattle, the offspring of

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your flocks. Blessed shall your basket and your kneading bowl.

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Blessed shall be when you come in, blessed shall be

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when you go out. The Lord will cause your enemies

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who rise against you to be everybody see that verse seven,

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and want everyone to say it out loud, defeated before

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your face. They shall come out against you one way

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and flee before you seven ways. Now you see where

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even the prayer of Psaw eighty three sounds very in

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accordance to what these blessings. Does everyone see that you

482
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can't make these blessed thing spiritual, make them about the church.

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This has nothing to do with the church. Does everyone

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understand that these promises have nothing to do with you.

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You cannot claim them, you cannot pray them. They have

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nothing to do with you. What does this have to

487
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do with the nation of Israel? So then what what

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can they What would your prayer sound like according to

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these promises? Right? Yeah, I'm saying if in the Old

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Testament that you when you read their prayers, do they

491
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not pray for provision? Do they not pray for provision?

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Do they not pray for protection? Do they do they

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not pray for the defeat of their enemies? And all

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of it's based off what covenant promises God gave to them.

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So are they then going against God's will? No? Are

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they going against God's eternal decree? No? Are they going

497
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against his providence? No? What for the Israelite? What is

498
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the difficulty for them? For the Israelite? What is the

499
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difficulty for them when they face circumstances? So this is

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how we remember how we've been talked to in Psaw

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eighty three that saw MATI three is a good example

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of people who believe in a God and whom they

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cannot see while living in the midst of circumstances which

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they can see, which calls in a question the existence

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of the God whom they cannot see. For the Jew,

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it would be written different for the Jew. You're believing

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in a God in whom you cannot see, living in

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circumstances that seem to call into question the very promises

509
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the God whom you cannot see made to you. So

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now all you have to do in your prayer is

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what God we need you to do? Now, what you

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said you would do. Then, Oh, there's promises galore made

513
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to Israel. Oh that's why you have to keep Israel

514
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in the church. Absolutely distinct. I cannot tell I will.

515
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I think I will go so far to say that

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the minute you bring in the Church and Israel and

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combine them, your entire hermeneutical system is ridiculous, foolish, idiotic, dumb,

518
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and a waste the time, you've destroyed everything. And I

519
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know that that will offend every reform person in every Presbyterian,

520
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But I don't care. It doesn't make any sense. The

521
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minute I keep them separate, what can I do? Hey,

522
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you see how they're praying, Well, somebody say, well, that

523
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:46.800
doesn't sound like that they're trusting in the sovereignty of God.

524
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That doesn't you know, it does, because they are literally

525
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praying in accordance with the exact promises made by God

526
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to whom to them We can't claim those promises any way,

527
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shape or form. Can we no way? Because if we could,

528
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we would have a lot of questions about, well, why

529
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doesn't God do what he said he would do? But

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for Israel? Now, Israel sometimes face that same dilemma, but

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we have clear examples where they pray and then God

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steps in and what dramatic ways the entire Book of Judges.

533
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Do we not see it over and over and over.

534
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They do horrible things, do they not? They repent, they

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cry out to God, and then God steps in and

536
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does all of these kinds of things. He defeats their

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enemies in supernatural ways. They have blessing, do they not?

538
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Then their crops grow, they have peace, they have provision.

539
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And we see that cycle played out over and that

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00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:50.719
cycle simply demonstrates what exactly what God said would in

541
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Deuteronomy twenty eight, twenty nine and thirty. Does everybody understand that?

542
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That's why go to Joshua. Oh, I'm getting ready to

543
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tick off the whole world. Okay, I already did this

544
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on the podcast and it did not go overwhelm. All right,

545
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Joshua chapter one, we even sing it here. Joshua one,

546
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tell me when you're there, you should be able to

547
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sing it. This book of the law shall not depart

548
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from your mouth. This book of the law would refer

549
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to what the Mosaic law. You could argue the first

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five books the pentitook right, but definitely that would include Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,

551
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and Deuteronomy. Oh, now, look at what says. This book

552
00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:52.039
of the law shall not depart from your mouth. But

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you shall meditate in it day and night, that you

554
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may observe to do according to all that is written therein.

555
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For then you will make your way prosperous, and then

556
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:03.559
you will have good success, ladies and gentlemen. That is

557
00:37:03.599 --> 00:37:10.960
a promise directly to whom Israel based off what Deuteronomy

558
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twenty eight. Everyone takes it and makes it about us. No,

559
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that's for them, Hey, you take and it's all based

560
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on them doing what obeying everything in the law. Now

561
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:32.079
we know what happens. Do they obey it? No? You

562
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:38.159
know why? No one can. They can't. We can't. So

563
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then how do we get good success? Not in our

564
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obedience of the law, but in Christ obeying the law.

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And our good success is not good success carried out

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in a materialistic way, which is the success that's being

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promised for them. Our success would be spiritually because we're

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in Christ. But everyone takes this and says, hey, this

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is the way Church has handled Joshua is insane. You

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cannot read Joshua one to eight and remove it from

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Deuteronomy twenty eight. That literally is what this is based

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off of. Who is Joshua talking to Look at verse two, Moses,

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my servant is Dad. This is God speaking. Now. Therefore,

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a rise go over the Jordan, you and all this

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people to the land which I am giving to them,

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the children of Israel, every place at the sole of

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your foot will tread upon I have given you. This

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is a promise to Israel. I am so sick and

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tired of pastors not even understanding. And this is reading comprehension.

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You don't need seminary, you don't need theological education. You

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just need to learn how to read well. When we

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read the Mosaic promises, we can see why Israel can

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pray in a way radically different than the way we

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can pray. And the way they pray is not in

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contradiction to anything because they are praying. You could even

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go so far to say their prayer is not only

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consistent with God's eternal decree and providence, but we know

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that the reason it's in accordance with God's eternal decree

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and providence is because God revealed that decree in providence

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directly to whom Israel they're praying, and accordance to God's

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revealed will. We can't run back there and claim that, right.

592
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So the first covenant is the Abrahamic Covenant. The second

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is the Mosaic Covenant, and I expended it to what

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some would call the land Covenant to Deuteronomy. Right. The

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third one the Dividic Covenant Second Samuel chapter seven, Second

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Samuel chapter seven, which we've been working on in our

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study on eschatology. We need to go go back to

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what are the promises and the Davidic Covenant. What are

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some of the promises in the Davidic Covenant, A perpetual

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dynasty through davidict David's lenage, Right, everybody got that, and

601
00:40:25.199 --> 00:40:30.000
it points to the future Messiah and God's eternal kingdom. Right.

602
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So this is so their praying here, we'd have to

603
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deal with who's the king, what the king will do?

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And a look towards a future king, and many of

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those promises of that king points to the millennial kingdom.

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Many would say, all right, so once again there's the DAVIDI,

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and we could get into more. Now. The next one

608
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is where things get really confusing. What's the next Covenant?

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We got the Abrahamic, We've got the Mosaic, We've got

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the Dividic. Oh, we got the New This is where

611
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things get all convoluted and confused, does it not? What

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are the two major passages that speak of the New Covenant?

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No Ezekiel and no. Ask Jeremiah, right, Jeremiah, everybody knows

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Jeremiah thirty one to what thirty one? Verses thirty one

615
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to thirty four. And then where is it in Ezekiel?

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See if you can find where it is in Ezekiel?

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Because the Ezequel one is probably more important in some

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ways than the Jeremiah one because the language used.

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See if you can find the one in Ezekiel Ezquel

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thirty six. All right, okay, so go to Ezequel.

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Thirty six first, because the Jeremiah one we're much more

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familiar with. Now when you get to the Ezekiel one,

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Ezequel thirty six, I got to get there. I apologize

624
00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:26.320
I wasn't turning. Then I'm like, well, I'd better go

625
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to this one. I like you how to do most

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of the work when I can, but this one we

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may have to do some work together here thirty six.

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All right, what verse do we think we should start in? Well,

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we could in some ways, we could go all the

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way back to verse one, right, just so that we

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get some basic concepts here, just so that you can

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00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:03.079
see this. All right, look at verse one, and you son,

633
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a man prophesied to the mountains of Israel, and say, Oh,

634
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mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord, Thus

635
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says the Lord God. Because the enemy has said of you, Aha,

636
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the ancient heights have become our possessions. Therefore prophesy and say,

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thus says the Lord God, because they made you desolate

638
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and swallowed you up on every side, so that you

639
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became the possession of the rest of the nations, and

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you are taken up by the lips of talkers and

641
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slandered by the people. Therefore, O, mountains of Israel, hear

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00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:31.480
the word of the Lord, your God, Thus says the

643
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Lord God. To the mountains, to the hills, to the rivers,

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to the valleys, the desolate waste in the cities have

645
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become forsaken, which became a plunder and a mockery to

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the rest of the nations all around. Therefore, thus says

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the Lord God. Surely I have spoken and my burning

648
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jealousy against the rest of the nations, and against all

649
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edom who gave my land to themselves as a possession

650
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with wholeheartedly joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder it.

651
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Open country. Therefore prophesied concerning the land of Israel, and

652
00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:03.599
say to the mountains of the hills, the rivers of

653
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the valleys, Thus says the Lord God. Behold, I have

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spoken in my jealousy and my fury, because you have

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borne the shame of the nations. Therefore, thus says the

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Lord God, I have raised my hand in an oath

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that surely the nations that are around you shall bear

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their own shame. But you owe mountain of Israel, you

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shall become shoot. You shall shoot forth your branches and

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yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they are

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about to come now immediately. This is a promise, ultimately,

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for what the renewal and the restoration of Israel. This

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has nothing to do with America. This has nothing to

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do with the Church. This is with the nation of Israel.

665
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Are there not specific promises? As you go in here? Right?

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I will multiply men upon you. All the houses of

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Israel and the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruins rebuilt.

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I will multiply upon you. Men and beasts. They shall

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increase and bear. I will make your inhabitants in you.

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And then you're beginning. Does he not go through all

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of this stuff? My people Israel? They shall take possession

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of you and shall be their inheritance. No more shall

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you bereave them of children? That says the Lord God.

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Because they say, does he not go through all? I mean?

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Isn't there not like countless things being promised in here? Yes? Okay,

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you see I don't even know. I mean, we could

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just make a list of all the things here right,

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see how far? Okay? Look at verse twenty five. Then

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I will sprinkle clean water on you. Who's the you?

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Is that you? Is that the church? This is Israel?

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And you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from

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all filthiness and from all your idol. Now stop right there,

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immediately we know we're reading something that's this is not

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Make this make it very clear. This is not what

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being described here. Is not an imputed righteousness. This is

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not describing a positional standing. What is this describing? Very

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practical righteousness. He's going to remove all your idols. That

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is not some imputed that's an actual, practical, played out

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righteousness in real time. All idolatry is going to be gone.

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Do you see that? What versus that? That's twenty five

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I will give you a ladies and gentlemen, that is

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not you, That is not you, that is not you.

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Nor I would lose my job, and almost every church,

694
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I would lose my job right there. I'd be done.

695
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But I will not back down on that. I will

696
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not back down. That has nothing to do with you.

697
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That is dealing with Israel. They're going to get a

698
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new heart. This is not a positional standing. This is

699
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a practical reality. And what is the result of this

700
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:25.159
new heart? Y'all keep reading? What is the result of

701
00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:34.480
this new heart? What happens my spirit in you? Yeah,

702
00:47:34.760 --> 00:47:36.840
what's going to happen as a result of this new heart?

703
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.880
They're gonna be obedient perfectly? Does it seem to describe

704
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it's gonna be an end perfect obedience. No, keep reading

705
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:48.679
and tell me how perfect it sounds. You're gonna live

706
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in the land. This is honor complete transformation. If you

707
00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:07.639
don't believe me, you can take the sermons two point

708
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zero app today where there are millions of sermons, and

709
00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:13.480
you can just start looking up every random sermon you

710
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:17.079
can find on this passage in Ezekiel. Every single one

711
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of them will preach it to be about whom us

712
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and that this is what happens to you in salvation.

713
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You can call your friends, you know, family, you know

714
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who goes to church, ask them about this passage. They

715
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will apply it to themselves and they will say, this

716
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.800
is what happened in their salvation. They are liars. They

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are absolute life. That did not happen to them in salvation.

718
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If it did, they should be what perfect? No, And

719
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so guess what now, when you have this kind of promise,

720
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what can Israel pray for this to happen? Now? When

721
00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:02.480
do we think this is going to happen? Because what

722
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will be the key to knowing when this happens? When

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Israel is back where in the land and God is

724
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:13.000
dwelling in the midst of them, has that happened no,

725
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so when would this be occurring in the millennial kingdom.

726
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That's the only place to put it. They're praying, then,

727
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:28.719
can sound really really, really really different. But Christians want

728
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:32.960
to make this about us. That's real and COMPREHENSI mean,

729
00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:35.679
there's no question this is about Israel, is it not.

730
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We started reading in verse one, and you, son of Man,

731
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prophesite to the mountains of thirty six one Israel and say,

732
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mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God.

733
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How many times is Israel mentioned in that passage over

734
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and over and over and over again. And we have

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the adas to walk to that passage and kick Israel

736
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out and insert ourselves. That is arrogance, that's narcissism. That

737
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is I blame the public schools. And obviously kids who

738
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are homeschooled and go to Christian schools can't read them

739
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passage any better. Pastors who go to seminary can't read

740
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it any better. This is basic reading comprehension. I would

741
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love to take a class full of people who've never

742
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read the Bible, who've never been influenced by theology, hand

743
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:33.960
them Ezekiel thirty six and say tell me who this

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is about? Any person who can read would tell me

745
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that's about whom. They wouldn't say, that's the church. Nobody,

746
00:50:41.519 --> 00:50:44.079
any the original recipients wouldn't say, oh, this is this

747
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is not for us. This is the church that's ridiculous,

748
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has nothing to do with us. I know, oh, man,

749
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I would get fired from every church in America, but

750
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I don't care. I don't like if getting fired from

751
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:04.360
Christianity is reading comprehension that I don't belong in Christianity.

752
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And I will give you a new heart and put

753
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a new spirit with you. I will take the heart

754
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of stone out of your flesh and give you give

755
00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:14.519
you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit

756
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within you and cause you to walk in my statues,

757
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and you will keep my judgments and do them. This

758
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is not a positional righteousness. This is a full blown,

759
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what complete transformation, which is what preachers do and say

760
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is what happens to you at salvation. And you know

761
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what that leads to. You have to either live pretending

762
00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:44.119
that you're better than you are, or you end up

763
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like Martin Luther and you start slowly losing your mind.

764
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That's why that's why Luther was going crazy. I don't

765
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know why every Christian doesn't go crazy. Luther went crazy

766
00:51:56.280 --> 00:51:58.800
because he was like, well, wait a minute, what is

767
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wrong with me? I go to confession, I confess, I

768
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walk out, and what do I do? I said? And

769
00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:08.719
I go back, and the priests were like, dude, give

770
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it up. You're taking it too serious. I will say,

771
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:16.039
all the friends you know who go to church, they

772
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don't take it serious, because if they took it seriously'd

773
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be like, wait a minute. I have a new heart

774
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and I'm supposed to walk in his I don't love

775
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God with all my heart body. Remember Luther's famous quote,

776
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love God? Sometimes I hate God. You're not supposed to

777
00:52:33.800 --> 00:52:38.000
say that, Luther. You say that around religious people and

778
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:41.079
tell me what happens. Hey, so, how are you doing

779
00:52:41.159 --> 00:52:43.840
right now in your Christal life? I hate God. You're

780
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not a believer because MacArthur said so, because I hold

781
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the lordship. Well, you know, I don't care what MacArthur

782
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said because he's not God. You're not allowed to say that,

783
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are you. No, you can't go against the pope a product.

784
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But I'm not going to bow to the pope of Protestantism,

785
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just like I don't bow to the Pope of the

786
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Roman Catholic Church, because the text of scripture here is

787
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promising something that none of us have ever experienced it.

788
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We experience it positionally, Israel will experience it practically. So

789
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therefore their praying can sound very, very different than ours. Correct?

790
00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:42.559
What else does he go on to say, here, we're

791
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gonna run out of time. Yeah, we're out of time.

792
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You will keep my judgments, please and do them. Just

793
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note everything in verse twenty seven. That's not like some

794
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partial obedience you'll slowly start getting better. That describes an immediate,

795
00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:04.199
total transformation that happens what instantaneously? This is not progressive sanctification,

796
00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:07.199
none of that. All of that is ridiculous. This is

797
00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:12.480
total practical transformation. Then, and please, how do I know

798
00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:15.079
what's going How do I know what the key spine

799
00:54:15.159 --> 00:54:17.960
is for this? If I can't tell how they're acting,

800
00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:20.000
what do I know is the key sign when this

801
00:54:20.039 --> 00:54:22.039
is going to happen? What's the very next word in

802
00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:28.679
verse twenty eight. Then you shall dwell in the land

803
00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:30.480
that I gave to your father's, and you shall be

804
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my people, and I will be your God. I will

805
00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:35.239
deliver you from all uncleanliness. Will I will call for

806
00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:38.559
the grain and multiply it and bring no famine upon you.

807
00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:41.320
I will multiply the fruit of your trees, the increase

808
00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:43.960
of your fills, so that you need never again bear

809
00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:48.679
the reproach of famine among the nations. Then you will

810
00:54:48.679 --> 00:54:51.400
remember your evil ways? Or how do I know what

811
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to look for when they are dwelling in the land.

812
00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:01.559
That's the key phrase there, right, Well, did that happen

813
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:04.679
to them when they came out of Babylonian captivity? No,

814
00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:09.519
it did not. The Norths never came out of Assyrian captivity,

815
00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:14.719
So then this has never occurred. How dare we, though,

816
00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:18.840
go and say, Israel, you're done. This is us, it's

817
00:55:18.880 --> 00:55:23.719
not us. That's not describing us. That means this has

818
00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:28.079
never been fulfilled. So Israel they can pray in a

819
00:55:28.119 --> 00:55:32.639
way that I can't pray that because for me, that's

820
00:55:32.679 --> 00:55:35.760
not going to happen on earth. That's what if I'm

821
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:39.440
going to take that, that would describe me in my glorification.

822
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But here we don't have a promise of transformation practically.

823
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We have a promise of transformation positionally. Does that make sense?

824
00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:57.000
So this would greatly impact the way they pray. I

825
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.519
couldn't pray anything like this, I can only pray and

826
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:04.679
God and my glorification, all of that, I will be

827
00:56:04.679 --> 00:56:10.559
completely transformed, because what will happen in my glorification, I

828
00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:15.079
will no longer have a sinful nature. Right, it's completely removed.

829
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:19.039
Does that make sense? All right, We're gonna have to

830
00:56:19.079 --> 00:56:21.920
stop there. But you see where we're going with this.

831
00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:27.440
I'm trying to demonstrate that based off what God gave them,

832
00:56:27.719 --> 00:56:31.199
they're praying could sound so different than us. You know

833
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:34.280
how we pray. We pray like we're Old Testament Jews

834
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:43.199
and we're not, so then how should we pray? Well,

835
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:45.519
we'll go through more through this, but we'll stop for now.

836
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:48.920
Lor God, we come before you, Lord. We asked forgiveness

837
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for how we have prayed as your nation of Israel

838
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:56.719
when we are not, and how we've claimed promises that

839
00:56:56.760 --> 00:56:59.440
are not for us, and how we've placed a burden

840
00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:04.760
on people to live as described here in Ezekiel, which

841
00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:08.039
they cannot live like that because that has not occurred.

842
00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:10.559
Forgive us for all the abuse we've done to your

843
00:57:10.559 --> 00:57:13.360
word and the undue pressure that we have placed on

844
00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:16.400
people that has led to great emotional distress. And we

845
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asked this in Jesus name, and God's people said