July 28, 2024

Prayer: Jew vs Gentile Pt 2

Prayer: Jew vs Gentile Pt 2

We continue our look at how the covenants with Israel impacts prayer.

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We continue our look at how the covenants with Israel impacts prayer.

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All right, back to some eighty three, at least have

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that ready to go. All right, here is kind of

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where we are for those who weren't here for the

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first hour. All right, we've been working at SSAW eighty three,

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and we came to the realization, or at least I

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pointed it out that psaw Maty three should make everyone

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feel somewhat uncomfortable and struggle with a fact that no

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one ever likes to talk about. The In Psaal eighty three,

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there's at least three passages three verses there that clearly

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indicates that the Psalmist is writing a prayer, at least

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to some level. We could call it a lament, but

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he's writing a prayer asking God to intervene and to

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change and to help them with their circumstances and the

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circumstances they are facing at the time the salm was written,

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as a confederacy of nations is coming against them to

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wipe them off the face of the earth. The Psalmist

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is asking God to not only intervene, but to do

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what destroy their enemies. All right, that's a direct intervention,

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a direction, and actually go against the will of the

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people who are coming to destroy them, So they're asking

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God not to respect the free will of the nations

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coming against them. Right. But the most important thing I

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wanted us to realize is this is a prayer to

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a God and whom they cannot see. And they're praying

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to the very God who, at the bare minimum knew

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this was going to happen and allowed it. And at

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the very most, they're praying to the God who decrete

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it and is goiding and directing it through there his providence.

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So this raises the question and what are they praying for? Correct?

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This brought in the whole concept of prayer. So we

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realize that how we understand prayer should be guided by

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what principle our theology and not guided by our emotions

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and feelings and hopes and desires and fears and anxiety.

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The problem is very few Christians ever pray and accordance

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to their theology. So we looked at specific theologies, we

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looked at the reformed perspective. The reformed perspective would say,

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what about prayer If we're true, being true to our theology,

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that prayer is not asking God to change anything. The

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prayer is simply saying, God, I accept your will and this,

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oh don't. I may not like this, I may wish

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you would do this, but I'm not here to change

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it because I believe your will has been eternally determined

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and that you're guiding it through your providence. And your

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will is what's the key word. What's in the reformed world?

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What do we believe about God's will? Immutable and unchangeable.

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I know that's somewhat redundant, but the idea it's not changeable.

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So I'm not asking you to change anything because you

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can't change anything because your will is immutable, all right,

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So that that would be. But no one whose reform

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prays that way. They pray for God to intervene to

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change something. And now if you're our Minian, you could

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believe that God could possibly change as well. The problem

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with me our Minian perspective is they supposedly believe that

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God that man's will is free. Well, then you can't

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pray for God to do anything because inevitably prayer would

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ultimately go against someone's will. And only that then you

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begin to destroy God's sovereignty. Then you believes don't have

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eternal decrease, then all kinds of things and and logically,

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if you take it to its to its conclusion, our

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Minianism leads to open theism. I mean, it's just the

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problem is most Arminians won't take it to its logical conclusion,

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and if it takes it a lot, you end it

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with open theism, and then you have a God who

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doesn't know. I mean that that becomes major problem. So

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we looked at all of that, right, and so we

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talked about it and we said that that that challenges

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us to consider do we pray in accordance with our theology.

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So you may have thought, well, we were, we should

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be done, we should be done. Well, I grabbed my

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some of my books and I was like, okay, well,

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you know what, the first hour next week, we'll go

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back to the Dividic Covenant because we've been working on

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eschatology and we got to fix that. We got to

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finish that. And as soon as I picked up the

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book and started thinking of the Davidic Covenant, all of

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a sudden, it was like a slap in the face, right,

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and I was like, wait, the Dividic Covenant. Wait, wait

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a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

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I got an idea. I got an idea, I think

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I can fix some of this problem. I got an idea,

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and my idea was this, whenever we read in the

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Old Testament about people praying, because when you when you

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go to saw Maty three, you're like, well, wait a minute,

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this prayer doesn't seem to be praying. They're not praying

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in accordance to the Reformed way. This prayer doesn't really

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definitely doesn't fit the Armenian way, because asking God to

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destroy nations, that's not respecting someone's free will. I'm like,

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where do I put Psawn eighty three in line of

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anythiological system? It makes no sense. Now I could just

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leave it, like, well it makes no sense and I

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don't know what to do, but you know, I can

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never leave things alone, right, But then I was like, covenant, covenant,

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And then I came up with a theory. The pray

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of the Old Testament is guided and directed by one thing,

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and that is God's covenant or covenants with Israel. And

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that would mean they can pray far different than I

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can pray, and that their prayers would then actually be

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in accordance with God's decree providence. And what did you say, Diane,

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His will because that will was re build in the covenants.

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So what would israel struggle be in prayer? Their struggle

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in prayer would be they're praying to a God whom

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they cannot see. I mean, in some cases God actually

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manifests themselves in a way they can see, okay, but

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a God in whom they cannot see as they see

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circumstances that goes against the very promises God made to them.

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So all they have to do is now pray, God,

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do what you said you would do. And they and

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they could pray that way and it would make sense.

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We cannot pray that way. So what we have started

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doing my hypotheses is, is then when we look at

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the prayers in the Old Testament, they are God not

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Can't they sound different than the way we pray because

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it's a completely different situation. And this is why the

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keeping the Church in Israel distinct is so important. So

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we started looking at the covenants God made with Israel.

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We had the Abrahamic Covenant, where the Abrahamic Covenant promises blessing,

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right descendants and land. So obviously, if Israel's facing certain things,

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they can pray for God to do something on the

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basis that really the Abrahamic Covenant established them as God's

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chosen people that God may listen, not spiritual promises to

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I mean there may be spiritual aspects to it, but

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very literal practical promises of land of blessing, meaning you

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can't wipe us off the face of the earth because

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you promise us that we're going to be in a land,

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and you promise us that we're You're a peak. So

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they can pray for things for God to intervene practically,

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because God has to preserve them practically. All right, then

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we have the Mosaic Covenant where there's all kinds of

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promises to them. Right. In fact, if you get to

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part of the Mosaic Covenant will also the land Covenant,

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which is in Deuteronomy twenty eight. And God promised blessing

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after blessing on Israel. And those promises are what materialistic

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and physical. I will defeat your enemies, I will bless you,

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I will provide this for you, I will provide this

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for you. I will provide this for you. Well, then

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their prayers can be very much related to those things

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which I can't pray for because those are specific to Israel. Now,

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all that, we have the Dividic Covenant, and then we

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have and this is where we ended the first hour.

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And I can't go back and go through all of these,

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but we'll work on them a little bit more here

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because we're going to kind of circle back around and

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go into more detail. We have the New Covenant, and

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the New Covenant is where things get really irritating, because

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every Christian that you know runs to the New Covenant

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and makes it about them. But the New Covenant is

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about Israel. And the first passage we ended last hour

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looking at is Ezekiel thirty six, Ezequel thirty six. We

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know this is about Israel. So let's just make sure.

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I want you to start in Ezekuel thirty six. Okay,

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this is your task, right, We're gonna do this in

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real time. There are thirty eight verses in chapter thirty

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six of Ezekiel. All right, now, here's what I want

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you to do. Everybody ready, I want you you can

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work together. I want you to go through Ezequel thirty six,

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and I want you to count how many times Israel is

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mentioned in some way, shape or form Ezequel thirty six.

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Your job is to count how many times Israel's mentioned.

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If you want to use electronic device, it's okay. But

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if you want to use it the old fashioned way,

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I don't care. Find the answer, but don't scream it

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out yet when you find it, because I want other

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people to engage in the work to some level. How

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many times is it Israel mentioned in that chapter? How

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many times in some way, shape or form. If it

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mentions Judah, if it mentions anything that would be related

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to Israel, any term not just the word Israel, any

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term that would be like, oh, well, obviously this is Israel.

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Any indicator, any phrase. I know we're gonna come up

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with radically different numbers, but we'll see if we can

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get within the same ballpark. Don't say it out loud

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if you find it, don't just let everyone do their work.

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Give it a couple of minutes, see what we find.

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Keep marking away.

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Some people would say this is ridiculous and redundant. Why

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don't you just give them the number? But that doesn't

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accomplish anything. If I just give you the number, Steven's

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counting on his fingers. That's real old school. Sarah's done.

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I'm assuming okay. Sarah thinks he's done. Okay, Okay, Sarah

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has fourteen. That's a lot. Thirty thirty seven verses fourteen times,

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the thirty eight verses fourteen times. I'm horrible at math.

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Someone can tell me that percentage. Okay, I don't know

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what that is, but okay, but still a lot. Anybody

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else get more than fourteen? Okay, that's okay, fifteen, I

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mean you're still right there close. If fourteen fifteen, that's

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I mean, that's okay. If someone comes like, I've got

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forty seven, then we need to talk. Okay, right, I've

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got I've got more than the verse is used. Okay,

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then we would need to talk. Okay, you okay, true, Okay,

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that's true, and you could go back and make it.

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You would have to determine who it's about, and almost

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every single case it's going to be Israel, so you

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could definitely increase it. Okay, Okay, that's that's that's easy. Okay, Now, no,

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that's good though. That's a that's a good argument because

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anyone reading it would have to identify that you and

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if THEU goes back to Israel, then that increases the

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number of times. Okay, nineteen and more, counting more counting

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the use. Oh okay, good, okay, good, all right. So

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I think we put it this way, we're gonna be

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I think probably over twenty I think is where you're

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gonna ultimately get. Yeah, I think you're gonna be over twenty, right,

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and you only have thirty seven verses. Yeah, but that's okay.

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I just want you to see because I don't want

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you to think I'm coming at this from some theological perspective.

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I'm coming at it from just reading comprehension. If I

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go read this chapter and over and over and over,

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it's Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel. The author is making it

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very clear, which if we believe this is written under

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the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, God wants you to

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know this is about Israel. Now, if it's about Israel,

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there are specific promises in this New Covenant that we

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know are not for us, which would dramatically impact how

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they could pray. Let's look again briefly at some of this.

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And the reason I get so ticked off at this

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is every church that you've ever been to and you

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don't believe me, you can go home today. You can

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grab the sermons two point oh app look for sermons

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on Ezekiel thirty six. I challenge you to do it.

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Look up random sermons. Almost ninety nine percent of them

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other than the ones you may find for me. Are

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gonna make this about the church and make it about you.

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You are not here. The you is not you. The

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you is them, and the them is not us. Okay,

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it's them and that them is Israel? All right? Is

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everybody under this is just reading comprehension. One of the

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big I think one of the biggest failures in all

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forms of education, public school, homeschool, Christian school, is that

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we have failed to emphasize reading comprehension and reading analysis.

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Like schooling is so much about just go write a

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report on this, write a paper on this. That doesn't

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accomplish anything. They gather facts and then all you have

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to do is then put those facts down. They can't

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analyze it, they can't critique it, they can't understand it.

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Christianity is the world's worst at this. It just says

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that's bad. No analysis, no critique, no understanding. I don't

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care if you know bad or good. I need you

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to be able to explain and analyze. I don't care

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if you can write a paper. I need you to

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be able to analyze it. I don't care if you

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can tell me dates. I need you to be able

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to So much of education is not about understanding. It's

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about what memorization. Memorize and just throw it up on paper.

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You're in the honor roll and you're smart. Talk to

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some people on the honor roll. Ask them to explain something.

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They can't explain anything. Now, I'm not saying all, I'm

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just saying, in many of my experiences, people who have

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done very well in school may know facts, but they

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can't articulate or analyze what that means or how that

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well this. Christians are horrible when it comes to the

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Bible with this right because any reading comprehension. If I removed,

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if I had a group of atheists with no religious

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education and they read Ezekiel thirty six, who would they

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tell me it's about Go to any church. They'll tell

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you it's about How is that possible? Well, look at

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the specific promises here verse twenty five. I will sprinkle

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clean water on you, and you shall be clean. I

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will cleanse you from all filthiness and from all your idols. Now,

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immediately when I read that, I know something is going

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on here. That's not talking about an imputed righteousness, is it.

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That's not an imputed righteousness that's actually leading to what

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transformation of behavior? Because they're going to get rid of

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all their actual idols. This is physical idols they're going

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to get rid of. Right, does everybody see that? And

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then what happens next verse? I will give you a

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new heart and put a new spirit within you. I

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will take the heart of stone out of your flesh

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and give you a heart of flesh, Ladies and gentlemen.

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That is not imputed, that's infused. This is a total

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transformation externally and internally, which should then lead to what

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a dramatic change of behavior. Keep reading and tell me

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how it describes the change of behavior. What does it

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say immediately after this, Well, it goes, I will put

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my spirit within you. Now this is the part I

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want you to see and will cause you. How does

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the King James translate verse twenty seven? I will cause you?

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How does the NIV translate verse twenty seven and move you?

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In other words, God is now literally doing something that's

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going to cause and well, how does he describe it?

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This is how the king are the new King James,

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I will cause you to walk in my statutes, not

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try to walk in my statues, not attempt to not no,

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actually do that, But does he go further and will

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keep my judgments? And then I love the way the

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new King James has it, and do them. This is

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not progressive sanctification, ladies and gentlemen. This is total, complete

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transformation done instantaneously that has never happened to anyone in

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this room. And you know, you know people today who

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go to church. Call them when you get home, invite

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them over and say who is that about? They will

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look you in the eye and say that's about me?

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Then kick them out of your house for being a liar,

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or do better yet, just insult them or slap them

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in the face. And when they don't act right, go

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what's your problem? You have a new heart? Come on,

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be perfect? Do you have my permission to go do that? Okay,

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you have my permission. How do you think that that

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conversation will go? What do you think? Oh, are they

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gonna act like they have a new heart and a

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new spirit and be all perfect? No, they're gonna act

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like a typical sinful human being and may insult you

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and may say, well, my kids are never coming to

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your house ever again. You're like, so what I'm losing? What? Okay,

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get out of my face, Come on, do it? Guess

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what they won't. They will talk up a big game

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that this is them, but in practice, will this be them?

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Now?

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Because you know what, they still have an old heart

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and a sinful nature. You know how I know they

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do because I can make I can prove it in

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five seconds by just provoking just a little bit. Oh,

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you don't know how to provoke? Come on, the women

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are here. Y'all know how to provoke. Your experts in it? Right?

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Come on? Can we agree? Right? The good the if

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you need if you breake skills, the skills of men

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and the skills of women provoking the evil women, I'll

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do men. I mean, we don't even come close. We

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All we can do is bow before their greatness? Right,

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y'all don't agree? Okay? They provoke? Do they not? Okay? Good?

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Everyone agrees. So the point is we know that. Wait

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a minute, and guess what this has led. This one

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ticks me off. Everyone thinks Martin Luther is a great story,

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but nobody can relate to him because very few people

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have that kind of an emotional breakdown. You know why

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he was having an emotional breakdown because he realized, that's

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not me, that's not you. So you either have to

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convince yourself. But now, guess what if those promises are

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given to you, your praying is gonna sound really different

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than for people that promise is not for correct, yes, dramatically, Now,

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how do I know that this promise? How do you

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know when this promise is going to take place? Look

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at the very next verse in verse twenty eight. Okay,

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when you know this takes this is taking place is

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connected to what getting the land? So does this describe

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Israel in twenty twenty four? No? Does this describe Jews

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in twenty twenty four? No? How do I know when

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that takes place? When they're in the land, meaning this

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has not occurred yet. This is not us, This is

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not the church. Does everyone understand that this is not

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the church? I'm saying these promises should greatly impact the

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way they pray. Now for us, this will describe us?

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In what? When? Will this describe us? And glorification? But not? Now?

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Does that make sense? Christians running around claiming this and now, well,

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if they're claiming, and now what are they praying for?

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They should just basically be perfect, but they're not because

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they Oh man, the amount of delusion in the minds

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of Christians is frightening. Okay, So does everyone see those covenants? Right?

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So where are the covenants again? Abrahamic, Mosaic, Dovidic, and

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the New Covenant. They're all related to Israel and they

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should greatly impact the way they pray. Now, let's look

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at how this should impact the way they pray. Are

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you ready? I want you to see the influence of

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the covenants on prayer. All right, First, let's take this

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influence down to this the basis of their relationship. Within

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the covenants, Israel could refer to themselves as what the

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chosen people of God. Right, So the Jews viewed themselves

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as uniquely chosen by God due to his covenant with Abraham.

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This fostered a sense of identity and belonging reflected in

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their prayers. So they could pray in a way that

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reflected what God, we're your chosen nation. And because we're

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your chosen nation, and because you promised to bless your nation,

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then provide this. Bless us with this, protect us with this,

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destroy your enemies, do this, do this, do this, do this.

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We can't pray in that similar way because we don't

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have those specific promises that they had. But when they

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prayed that way, are they going against God's will? Are

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they going against his sovereignty? No? Are they going against

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other people's will? Absolutely? And why could they go against

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other people's will? Because God made promises to them, didn't

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make to other nations, so that could dramatically impact how

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they pray. We can't learn to pray the way they prayed.

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Everybody got that, all right? Next? Covenant faithfulness prayers often

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included appeals to God's faithfulness to his covenant promises. Now,

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according to one source, they say, look at ne Amaiah, y'all,

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look at Neemaiyah, and I'm gonna see you can tell

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me if this is true or false. I'm not gonna

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make any dogmatic assertion here. Look at me a mayah

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Yah chapter one, m Namiah chapter one. Everybody there, Now,

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I'm not gonna say anything. Just look at verses five

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through eleven and tell me what you see. I'm not

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gonna give you. I don't want to give anything away.

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Nam I one five to eleven. You tell me what

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you find. Maybe you don't find anything, Namia one five

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to eleven, tell me what you find, mem I one

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five to eleven. Okay, I'll ask. Now I'm going to

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ask a specific question. Do you believe that this prayer

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includes appeals to God's faithfulness to his covenant promises? Yes? Yes,

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it definitely refers back to them, right, yeah, definitely, because

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because what was the Mosaic covenant based on? If you

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keep it blessing, if you don't curse. So it is

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it is right there connected, it's praying and that we'll

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call that economy. Does that make sense? The economy? Or

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I'm going to use this now, I'm going to tick

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off every reform person who's listening. So, hey, reform people,

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plug your ears right now. Okay, all the non reform people,

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it's okay, you listening. Ready. Dispensation. I know we're not

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supposed to say that word because all the people go

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to reform churches were like, you're idiots. Okay, but remember

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I don't care about who I offend reform, because I'll reform.

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I will offend dispensations just as fast as because I

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don't care about the team. Right. But when we say, dispensations.

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The reason we use that term because that's how God

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is operating in a specific given time. The way he

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deals with Israel under that Covenant is very specifically outlined. Right,

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do this this, do this this now? What that should

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teach everyone if none of us wants to live and

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that system, because if God does blessing or curse based

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on our behavior, we're all going to hell, all right?

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Because it was to demonstrate that under that system they

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could not keep the law. Could they keep the law?

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Did they keep the law? No? All right? And they

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constantly found themselves cursed. In fact, the Old Testament ends

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with the threat of a curse, and then we open

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the New Testament, where do we find Israel cursed? Okay?

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And so then what's the solution? They were thinking of

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a practical solution to remove the enemy. But God had

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to come to fix the thing that causes the curse,

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which is the old nature. And the only way to

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fix that is not an infused righteousness, but in imputed righteousness. Okay, Right,

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so we get the idea, but please note this prayer

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is directly related to the Covenant, meaning that that prayer

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is going to be very different than us. Everybody see that.

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So how does the covenants influence prayer? Well, they pray

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on the basis of that relationship. They pray on the

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basis of those covenants. That's that's very different. Correct Or

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number two. The contents of their prayer, they remember the

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acts of God. Many prayers recounted God's mighty deeds and

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covenant faithfulness. Look at Psalm one thirty six, Psalm one

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thirty six. You just look at it and tell me

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what you find in Psalm one thirty six. Look at

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verse ten. Just I'll skip down to him who struck

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Egypt and their first born for his mercy indors forever,

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and brought out This is all recounting all the things

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God done for Israel. Right, he did this and this

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I'll never forget. Right, And you can say that I'm fleshly.

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You may think that I'm an ungodly person. I'll never forget.

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It was definitely during the time where I was having

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a countless number of seizures. I was having all kinds

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of seizures. My military career was coming to an end.

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They told me I didn't know when I was going

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to get my disability. It could put be a year

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to two years before I got my disability. I'm like,

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how am I going to pay for everything? Okay? Because

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now my pay is going to drop dramatically. I can't

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ask the church for more money. What am I going

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to do? What am I going to do? What am

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I going to do? Okay? Well, now I'm going to

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be able to get a job, as you know, as

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a civilian. But how is this all going to work? Man?

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What's going on? Happened to me? Oh, well, you know,

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there's no way the church can take care of me.

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This is gonna be bad. This is gonna be bad.

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And so I was to say ticked off at God

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would be an understatement, right, because I didn't ask to

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get a seizure disorder. I didn't ask to have neurological issues.

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00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:16.000
I didn't ask for my military career to come to

457
00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:17.960
an end. I didn't ask for any of this. I

458
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:20.519
don't remember doing the Liturgy of the Hours that day,

459
00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:23.599
and it saw one thirty six was the morning prairie.

460
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:25.519
I don't know what time of day it was, and

461
00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:28.759
I remember walking around with my Liturgy of the hours. Okay, God,

462
00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:30.440
you can do this, you can do this, you can

463
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:32.839
do this, you can but you can't fix my problem.

464
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:38.039
I mean that that that's big things. I need a

465
00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:41.000
little bit of interm just a little bit of internet.

466
00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:44.720
I don't need anything major. Just have a check show up,

467
00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:46.799
just to pay off. Because it's always like if my

468
00:31:46.839 --> 00:31:49.200
house is paid off, then everything I don't need anything, right,

469
00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.920
my house paid off, I don't need one thing. I

470
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:55.960
don't need anything, right but my house paid off. I

471
00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:57.920
don't need a I don't need a we don't need

472
00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:01.240
I don't need one thing because everything is taken care of.

473
00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:04.000
My house payment is always the issue, right, because it's

474
00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:07.079
a lot of money, right. You all know about house payments.

475
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:09.839
You know that, right, Okay, so it's like, okay, just

476
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:12.480
fix that. That's all I need. Just fix that. I

477
00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:14.480
don't need you to part the red sea. I don't

478
00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:16.680
need manna to fall from heaven. I don't need you

479
00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:19.720
to destroy my enemy. Like I'm not even asking you

480
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:22.559
to take away my seizure disorder. Just pay off my

481
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:27.240
stinking house and all my problems are over. But you

482
00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:30.839
know what, why now I realize how utterly stupid I was,

483
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:37.799
because that they can pray that way because God made

484
00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:41.640
covenance with them. So God intervened that way to keep

485
00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:53.200
his promise. I'm not Israel. I mean, if I was Israel,

486
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:55.640
I could expect God to do these miraculous things, but

487
00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:00.920
I can't. Now what was their constant struggle. Their constant

488
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:03.440
struggle was wait a minute, if God can do all

489
00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:05.640
these mighty things, why do we constantly find ourselves in

490
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:08.799
the midst of these problems? And God waits so long

491
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:11.400
to show up. Now, in many cases, the reason they

492
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:14.519
had problems was specifically related to the covenant that they

493
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:19.559
were involved in, which required them to do what to obey,

494
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:22.640
which they didn't, which constantly placed them in difficulty. So

495
00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:26.240
many of their difficulties could be clearly explained. Our difficulties

496
00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:29.759
are not that easily explained. Now many people will take

497
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:34.200
those curses and apply them to us, which does major

498
00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:38.359
psychological damage to people because nobody can live under that

499
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:44.519
circum but we are not under that. That's why again, dispensationalism,

500
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:46.799
in some cases, I think makes more sense, does it not?

501
00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:50.279
Do you see them that all of this is remembering

502
00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:52.680
God's acts, and these acts were done for them because

503
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:58.039
on the basis of what his covenant with them? Does

504
00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:00.759
that make sense? Right? I'm going to go through some

505
00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:02.240
of these quickly because I don't want to run out

506
00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:05.720
of time. The content of the prayer remembrance of God's acts,

507
00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:09.639
confession and repentance based on the Mosaic Covenant. Prayers included

508
00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:13.239
confessions and sins, and please for forgiveness. For example, Daniel

509
00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:16.840
chapter nine, we see them repenting and confessing, but there

510
00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:20.719
were many cases. Why are they repenting and confessing because

511
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:23.119
they see the result of the curse, and now they're

512
00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:26.599
confessing so that they can get thee blessing. Sometimes their

513
00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:32.440
confession you may not like to hear, this was very selfish,

514
00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:37.679
not so much godly. Well, they always are, and I'm

515
00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:39.880
not condemning them for that. I'm just saying, let's just

516
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:43.440
be honest if you're I mean, do we not see

517
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.519
this cycle in Judges over and over and over and

518
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:52.559
over they find themselves where bondage suffering, and they cry

519
00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:56.039
out to God. God not on the basis of their goodness,

520
00:34:56.199 --> 00:35:00.000
but on the basis of his covenant. Then does all

521
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:02.920
all those wonderful things for them? Things are good? And

522
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:05.480
then they go right back to And you know why

523
00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:07.880
that's so great to know, because that proves they still

524
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:11.519
had not received the new heart, and they still haven't

525
00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:14.559
received the new heart because if they received a new heart,

526
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:18.559
they would never have gone back to doing see so,

527
00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:21.559
but in some ways it just demonstrates under that covenant

528
00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:24.400
it's not going to go well. But they're still praying.

529
00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:26.920
And according to why can't they pray no matter how

530
00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:30.840
bad they've been because God says, hey, you're my covenant people.

531
00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:33.440
And God shows them and God is not going to

532
00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:38.719
unchoose them, right because He may promise this for them. Correct?

533
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:46.039
All right? Uh, then look at Psalm forty four. Look

534
00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:48.280
at Psalm forty four, verses one through twenty six, and

535
00:35:48.280 --> 00:36:01.440
tell me what you find. Psalm forty four one through

536
00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:03.840
twenty six. Just skim it and tell me what you find.

537
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:08.519
How this relates to covenants and what they're asking specifically for.

538
00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:49.119
What do we find in Psalm forty four Deliver Well,

539
00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:53.079
they immediately are asking for God to do what in

540
00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:55.639
this translation. Look at verse one, Oh God, we have

541
00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:57.960
heard with our ears, our fathers have told us the

542
00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:03.280
work that you did in the past in their days. Right,

543
00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:05.440
So this is all based on how God had dealt

544
00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:07.480
with Israel in the past, and they're now asking for

545
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.519
God to do and just like saw eighty three, God

546
00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:12.719
do for us in the present as you've done in

547
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.639
the past. God's past actions done for them was on

548
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:18.920
the basis of his covenant with them, so they could

549
00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:23.119
pray for the same thing because God's covenant had not changed,

550
00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:30.519
irregardless of their behavior. Correct. Remember, this is why, this

551
00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:33.960
is why we believe. And the Book of Romans brings

552
00:37:33.960 --> 00:37:39.239
this subject up. Right. God's calling an election is sure, right,

553
00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:44.360
and the best proof of that is what Israel. If

554
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:47.519
you believe God replaced Israel with us, then God's calling

555
00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:51.239
an election is not sure. But if we believe God

556
00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:54.320
is not done with Israel, then guess what his call.

557
00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:57.039
His choosing of them has nothing to do with their behavior,

558
00:37:57.159 --> 00:37:58.760
and he will do what he said he will do

559
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.159
not on the basis of their behavior, but on the

560
00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:04.239
basis of his election. That's the whole argument in the

561
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:09.039
Book of Romans. Right, Who can lay anything a charge

562
00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:14.480
against God's elect No one, because it is God who justifies.

563
00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:19.599
So they're all they're praying is constantly on the basis

564
00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:22.480
of that covenant. Does that make sense? All? Right? So

565
00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:26.239
we have in a sense, the basis of their relationship,

566
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:29.599
the covenant, the content of their prayer is directly related

567
00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:32.480
to the Covenant. The forms of their prayers they had

568
00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:36.519
liturgical prayers, structured prayers, and temple worship and communal settings

569
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:40.440
reflected the covenant relationship. For example, all the Psalms. The

570
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:45.599
psalms reflect their covenant relationship with God and throughout. You

571
00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:47.800
can go to any church and way preach the psalms.

572
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:54.000
Then they come about us. It's about them. Oh, I

573
00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:57.320
know nobody's gonna like that, but it's about them. Because

574
00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:00.119
I would use to read those psalms and be like, Okay, well, God, God,

575
00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:01.400
if you can do this and this and this and

576
00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:02.639
this and this and this and this and this and

577
00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:04.760
this and this and this and this, then why is

578
00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:06.360
it too much for me to ask for you to

579
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:14.519
do this? Isn't that the struggle for every Christian? Don't

580
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:16.159
you read all these things that God did in the

581
00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:18.559
Old Testament. You're like, Okay, God, I'm not needing much.

582
00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:25.440
I just need this. You parted the Red Sea. I

583
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:29.320
don't need you to part anything. I just need this much.

584
00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:32.840
Do you not ever get bothered by that? Well, now

585
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:35.880
I realize how dumb I was, because I was looking

586
00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:39.719
at prayers that was based on promises made to them

587
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:42.360
that are not made to me, and I was trying

588
00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:45.199
to hijack those promises and make them for God to

589
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:48.039
do similar to me on the basis of what promises

590
00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:56.920
made to them. I'm not them, right. If I hear

591
00:39:57.159 --> 00:39:59.920
Sarah and Steven talking to their kids, I'm like, okay,

592
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:03.119
so when you turn this age, we're gonna give you,

593
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:07.400
you know, one hundred thousand dollars. And then I'll be like, whoa, Steven, Sarah,

594
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:09.480
I need one hundred thousand dollars. How about what about me?

595
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:12.880
And then they would be like, you're not my kid.

596
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:19.800
I'm like, well, that's offensive. Okay, okay, you're you're kind

597
00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:22.480
of you're kind of stingy. But I made the promise

598
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:24.599
to them. Hey yeah, but I don't know if you

599
00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:29.239
realize this. I've been I've replaced them, they have been removed,

600
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:32.519
they've been kicked out. Your promise was actually made to me.

601
00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:37.960
That in't that what Christians do? That's good. That's literally

602
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:41.960
reformed theology. Hey God, no, no, no, no, no no,

603
00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:44.639
you made that promise to us. And God's like, I

604
00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:47.239
think I know who I made my promise to you.

605
00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:49.239
I don't care what I don't care if you went

606
00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:51.719
to Westminster Seminary. I don't care where you went. I

607
00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:53.880
don't care. I know who I made the promise to.

608
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:58.280
I don't need you to tell me. I'll never forget.

609
00:40:58.280 --> 00:41:01.320
When I was working in Romans and it said all

610
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:03.800
Israel will be saved, someone made a bee line right

611
00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:06.119
to the pulpit right after that sermon. It's like, that's

612
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:12.119
referring to the church. Well, I told them to go

613
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:14.199
look up Israel. Guess what. They never came back with

614
00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:19.280
it done because they wouldn't do the work because it's

615
00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:20.719
easier just to tell me in the middle of a

616
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:24.679
sermon that I am wrong. Now that's you understand how

617
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:27.639
frustrating that is. But the minute you do that, that

618
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:29.760
what happens to your entire hermeneutic for the rest of

619
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:34.039
the Old Testament. You assert whom there? Remember I right

620
00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:36.239
here in this church. I did it night after night.

621
00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:38.320
I kept telling you weoning grabbed the Matthew Henry commentary,

622
00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:40.800
grabbed the Matthew Henry commentary grabbed them at because over

623
00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:42.320
and over and over you read the New Testament. Where

624
00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:45.639
does Matthew Henry always insert the church, the church, the church,

625
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:47.960
the church the church. The church when you see the

626
00:41:48.039 --> 00:41:52.599
problem that leads to I go to these psalms. I'm like, God,

627
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:55.599
do that for me. I don't need you to destroy

628
00:41:55.639 --> 00:42:00.440
a nation. I just need a check. I don't need

629
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:02.519
you to destroy a nation. I just need you to

630
00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:13.159
remove a seizure disorder. Well, now I realize, man, I'm

631
00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:20.559
an idiot. I'm not Israel. Okay, right, Well, yeah, it's

632
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:29.159
that's what it does. Yeah, it's all for us, all right.

633
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:31.960
So do we have the liturgical prayers? And those liturgical

634
00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:34.960
prayers or those lament Saw eighty three is in a

635
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:38.000
sense of liturgical prayer, right, and it's for the people

636
00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:40.199
to cry out to God to do in the past

637
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:42.239
as he has done for them, or do in the

638
00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:44.079
present as He has done for them in the past.

639
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:48.360
On the basis of what is covenant. We can't take

640
00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:54.400
that and make that about us. But it also includes

641
00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:58.480
the personal prayers. Individual prayers express personal devotion and reliance

642
00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:01.559
on God's covenant. Go to first sam two and tell

643
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:03.559
me what you find in verses one through ten. Everyone

644
00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:09.679
knows this prayer for Samuel two. Again, I think this

645
00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:12.159
prayer usually gets talked about a mother's day when you

646
00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:15.159
do the typical mother Day's sermon. I think it's Mother's

647
00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:17.159
Day when they typically You can tell me if I'm wrong.

648
00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:20.400
I think this is the prayer, and this Hannah's prayer

649
00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:24.000
for Samuel two. Okay, doesn't Hannah always get talked about

650
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:24.840
during Mother's Day?

651
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:25.800
Right?

652
00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:29.400
Okay? Hey, you'll be good mothers and you offer your

653
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:32.239
kid to be taken to raised by a priest. I mean,

654
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:33.559
I mean you don't have to do that part. You

655
00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:36.239
don't have to do that part. Okay, you dedicate yourself.

656
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:38.760
You dedicate your kids to the Lord by coming up

657
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:41.119
in front of the church and having a little ceremony.

658
00:43:41.159 --> 00:43:44.440
That means absolutely nothing, but I guess you got some

659
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:47.119
good pictures of it. Okay, don't even baby dedications? Do?

660
00:43:47.159 --> 00:43:49.760
I be absolutely crazy. If you need to dedicate your

661
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:51.519
baby to the Lord. You don't need to do it

662
00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:58.840
in a church service. Right, you do it when before

663
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:01.719
they're born? Right? And what does it mean to dedicate

664
00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:06.840
your child to the Lord? What does that do? Look biologically?

665
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:10.480
What does that do? Like? Okay, Bobby dedicates his child

666
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:13.360
to the Lord and Sarah doesn't dedicate her child to

667
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:18.119
the Lord. Is that going to determine one salvation. Even

668
00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:20.719
if you believe in free will, it doesn't fix their salvation,

669
00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:23.800
And if you believe in God's election, it doesn't. So

670
00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:26.639
you know what it is. It's a stupid ceremony so

671
00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:29.400
people can take pictures and all feel good about themselves.

672
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:33.880
Meaningless ritual, that's what it is. Oh, I'm gonna offend

673
00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:36.760
all kinds of people with that. But it's meaningless ritual

674
00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:40.360
and everybody's taking pictures like, Eh, Mayby's I'm cute. What

675
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:44.599
is this is ridiculous? Oh? I know, I know I'm

676
00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:47.440
probably making some of you upset, but I'm just I

677
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:50.920
can't stand meaningless ritual when it's so contradictory to the

678
00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:55.679
very theology that we claim. Right now, it would make

679
00:44:55.719 --> 00:45:00.320
more sense to do if you believe in a sacramental system,

680
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:02.639
then you do bring the baby up and you baptize

681
00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:06.440
them because you believe something is actually happening. But baby

682
00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:10.920
dedication supposedly is not doing anything I said, dedicating it

683
00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:13.239
to the Lord. But you can't dedicate a kid whom

684
00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:15.159
God hasn't chosen to the Lord. If you believe in

685
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:17.880
reform theology and you believe in free will, what about

686
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:20.239
the kids free will? The kids not asking to be

687
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:22.880
dedicated to the Lord. So why don't you respect us

688
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:27.280
free will? Do Christian parents who believe in free will

689
00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:31.440
respect their kids' free will? No? They ground them, threaten them,

690
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:36.280
make them go to church. Respect your kids free will?

691
00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:39.280
Back off? Oh if I say that, does that make

692
00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:44.800
Christian parents happy with me? Nor? Well, what happens in

693
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:47.320
the prayer? Okay, now went off of my little rant there?

694
00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:51.920
But okay, what happens in the prayer for Samuel too?

695
00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:55.800
Hannah's prayer verses one through ten? Is there any covenant

696
00:45:56.280 --> 00:46:02.000
something with covenant there? You can tell me if there

697
00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:05.719
is or isn't. The reason we're looking at this one.

698
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:08.280
This is a prayer of an individual, not a liturgical prayer.

699
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:22.320
What do we find?

700
00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:36.480
Nothing? Okay? Do you feel like there's any covenant kind

701
00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:44.199
of reference or no? My heart rejoices in the Lord.

702
00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:46.920
My horn is exalted in the Lord. I smite, I

703
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:49.519
smile at my enemies because I rejoice in your salvation.

704
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:52.239
What do you think this is a d do you?

705
00:46:52.239 --> 00:47:01.360
What do you think she's making any references to anything here?

706
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:15.639
Is she She's clearly making a reference to some things

707
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:31.880
of the past. Is she not? She's clearly relying on

708
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:35.039
some past promises. Do you not agree or do you? Okay?

709
00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:36.960
I think you can see it. Maybe it's not as

710
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:40.639
specific or as explicit as maybe we want it to be,

711
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:42.960
but it just seems like that there's a lot here

712
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:46.880
that she's clearly referring to how God has acted in

713
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:49.519
the past. Does that make sense? And I think she's

714
00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:52.519
relying clearly on what God has promised in the past,

715
00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:57.719
and that promise would be for whom Israel now for

716
00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:01.280
a gentile? Correct? Okay? All right? I think that's what

717
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:03.400
I think I would I would I would do. All right,

718
00:48:03.480 --> 00:48:05.920
So let's go with this because we are going to

719
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:08.920
run out of time, all right. So, the influence of

720
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:12.719
covenants on prayer, it's the basis of the relationship. It

721
00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.559
impacts the actual contents of the prayer, and it actually

722
00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:19.239
impacts the form of the prayer, whether it's liturgical or

723
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:22.960
whether it's personal. Now, let's look some examples of covenant

724
00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:26.079
based prayers. You want some examples of covenant based prayers,

725
00:48:26.440 --> 00:48:35.079
all right, go to Genesis eighteen, Genesis eighteen twenty two

726
00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:40.840
through twenty three. Tell me what happens here. You may

727
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:43.239
agree or disagree with these examples, and if you disagree,

728
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:53.239
that's okay. We could probably find better ones. Eighteen twenty

729
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:55.800
two twenty three. What happens in Genesis eighteen twenty two

730
00:48:55.880 --> 00:49:08.440
to twenty three is Abraham praying Who's he praying for?

731
00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:12.480
For Sodom? Now, this is how some would argue Abram's

732
00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:16.000
intercession for Sodom reflects his intimate relationship with God and

733
00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:19.760
his role as the father of a chosen nation, that

734
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:22.840
this is all his entire he directed he kind of

735
00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:25.719
he asks very specific for God to do things, does

736
00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:28.599
he not? In a very specific way? But he can

737
00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:32.400
do this because God has made him, in a sense,

738
00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:35.960
the father of a nation. And there are people there

739
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:40.119
who are related to whom. And God said that He's

740
00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:43.719
going to raise his descendants from him. So he would

741
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:47.239
obviously pray for his descendants not to be destroyed, and

742
00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:51.320
he refers to his descendants. Obviously he has some concept

743
00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:55.239
that his descendants by some definition, are considered to be

744
00:49:55.360 --> 00:50:01.480
righteous based more on the Covenant idea obviously on their actions.

745
00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:09.360
And God does what he does spare his descendants, does

746
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:13.199
he not? Now the wife doesn't make it, but Lod does.

747
00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:18.639
And Lod is his direct and his nephew. Yeah, his nephew, right,

748
00:50:18.639 --> 00:50:23.159
am I right? So has his direct descendants? So and

749
00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:26.000
so God spares a lot, not on the basis of anything.

750
00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:31.400
And he can pray this way. Why because of a covenant?

751
00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:34.880
Do you understand that? Like I couldn't say God, do this.

752
00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:37.000
I mean, I can say this, but I could be

753
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:39.039
our way. At the same time, I've got to respect God.

754
00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:42.440
I can't overcome someone else's will, right, and I can't.

755
00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:45.440
I gotta respect God's sovereignty. But here he can ask

756
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:48.559
this specifically because hey, God, you said from me would

757
00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:51.320
come a great nation. You can't start wiping out my descendants.

758
00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:57.079
Does that make sense? All right? So there's there's the

759
00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:01.840
Abrahamic covenant coming into play. How about Exodus thirty two,

760
00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:10.199
Exodus thirty two, look at eleven through fourteen. Exodus thirty two,

761
00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:12.679
eleven through fourteen, Tell me what happens here. Moses is

762
00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:14.280
going to be the one praying, and he's going to

763
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:17.360
be interceding for Israel. Is he what is he kind

764
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:20.679
of basis or appeal to? Exodus thirty two eleven through fourteen.

765
00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:34.679
Thirty two eleven through fourteen. What is Moses appeals to?

766
00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:43.639
He appeals to certain things God's promised to whom. Here

767
00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:47.199
we go to Israel. He intercedes and says, wait, on

768
00:51:47.239 --> 00:51:51.559
the basis of what the covenant you made. You see

769
00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:54.400
that the Covenant has everything to do with their prayers?

770
00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:57.519
Does everybody see that? We looked at Neemiah one five

771
00:51:57.559 --> 00:52:02.440
through eleven. Nemiah's prayer for Jerusalem's restoration invokes God's covenantal

772
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:05.719
faithfulness and mercy. So we have the Abrahamic Covenant, we

773
00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:09.840
have the Mosaic Covenant influencing prayers. How about the Dividic Covenant.

774
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:13.320
You can look at tewod Samuel seventh, eighteen through twenty nine.

775
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:15.159
I won't have time. We don't have time to read

776
00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:18.599
all of it. David's prayer of gratitude and praise after

777
00:52:18.639 --> 00:52:22.639
receiving the Covenant promises reflects his awe and reliance on

778
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:26.360
God's faithfulness. So he prays after receiving the promise of

779
00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:38.480
the Covenant based on that covenant. Look at Psalm eighty nine.

780
00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:51.239
Psalm eighty nine. Oh, the Dividic Covenant. Okay? Is that

781
00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:53.800
the title or what does it say? Is that the

782
00:52:53.840 --> 00:53:00.079
title you're reading? Oh? Verse three? What does it say?

783
00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:03.199
There we go? This is now the dividic Covenant showing

784
00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:07.639
up in the prayer, so which all the covenants influence

785
00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:11.440
wide praying. So for a Jew, their prayer could be

786
00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:18.159
influenced by which covenant they abraham it mosaic, the Divinic,

787
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:24.239
and the New, which almost explains every prayer you have

788
00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:27.320
in the Old Testament. And and we know the New

789
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:30.280
Covenant Jeremiah thirty one thirty one through thirty four, Right,

790
00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:32.519
Jeremiah thirty one thirty one through forty four, you should

791
00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:36.480
know it. The promises of the New Covenant underscores prayers

792
00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:43.039
for you ready for renewal, for transformation, and looking for

793
00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:47.159
a restored relationship with God on the basis of the

794
00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:58.039
New Covenant. So the covenants provide a foundation for Israel's

795
00:53:58.079 --> 00:54:01.960
identity and assurance and prayer. Believers approached God with confidence

796
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:06.920
in his promise. Prayers frequently appeal to God's covenantal attributes

797
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:10.320
his faithfulness, mercy, and commitment to his people. The Covenant

798
00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:14.159
promises fueled hope and expectation in prayer, especially in times

799
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:17.760
of distress, looking forward to God's intervention and fulfillment of

800
00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:22.880
his promise. The covenantal relationship between God and Israel profoundly

801
00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:26.440
shaped Jewish prayer in the Old Testament. Did everyone hear

802
00:54:26.480 --> 00:54:28.159
that that's not for me? I took it from a

803
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:32.639
different source. Covenant. The covenantal relationship between God and Israel

804
00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:37.599
profoundly shaped Jewish prayer in the Old Testament. The Covenant

805
00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:41.400
provided a framework for understanding God's character, his promise, his

806
00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:45.000
relationship with his people. As a result, prayers were deeply

807
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:48.360
rooted in the assurance of God's faithfulness and the expectation

808
00:54:48.519 --> 00:54:52.760
of his covenantal fulfillment. The covenantal contexts gave the Jewish

809
00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:57.159
people a unique perspective on prayer, characterized by trust, hope,

810
00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:03.079
and a deep sense of belonging to God's chosen community. Meaning,

811
00:55:03.440 --> 00:55:06.880
every prayer you're reading the Old Testament is directly related

812
00:55:06.920 --> 00:55:10.239
to the covenant He made with them. You cannot take

813
00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:13.079
that and make it about us in any way, shape

814
00:55:13.159 --> 00:55:17.039
or form. We can't pray that way because those promises

815
00:55:17.079 --> 00:55:23.320
are not to us. But we constantly pray like we're

816
00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:34.119
ancient Israel and we're not. So. I then went to Ai.

817
00:55:35.239 --> 00:55:40.639
I'm like, hey, Ai, I got an issue here. Well,

818
00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:42.400
I've got a hypothesis here. I thinks the way I

819
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:46.719
put it I believe that the Old Testament Jews could

820
00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:50.360
pray in a way that I can't pray. That's different. Right.

821
00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:53.159
So I started having this conversation with Ai. So AI,

822
00:55:53.400 --> 00:55:58.800
this is its response. I copied it, Yes exactly, and

823
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:02.320
I was like, oh, wow, AI's in agreement with me. Right, Hey,

824
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:04.320
I like something. I'm telling you. I just want to

825
00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:06.400
get rid of all people and just have a congregation

826
00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:10.559
of Ai. That's all I want. But because if you can,

827
00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:13.159
if you if you no, it will correct me. But

828
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:15.719
if I can reason with it long enough, it will

829
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:19.079
be willing to acknowledge, like if I'm right, but it

830
00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:21.440
will stand its ground if I'm wrong. But I do

831
00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:24.239
like having the conversation. So it says, yes, exactly, this

832
00:56:24.280 --> 00:56:27.039
is what I quote. Are you ready? The Jews in

833
00:56:27.079 --> 00:56:30.480
the Old Testament could ask for God's intervention and expect

834
00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:33.800
him to act based on those specific promises outlined in

835
00:56:33.840 --> 00:56:37.800
the covenants. Wooh, that sounds like my entire hypothesis. Right.

836
00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:43.199
They believed that their prayers were consistent with God's eternal

837
00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:50.159
decrees and providence because these were revealed through the covenants.

838
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:59.960
What what that's That's exactly what My whole the whole thing.

839
00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:05.360
I'm like, and they brought in the word eternal decrees

840
00:57:05.360 --> 00:57:08.679
and providence. I'm like, oh, this is so good. This

841
00:57:08.719 --> 00:57:13.000
goes perfectly that they could pray that way, and it

842
00:57:13.039 --> 00:57:15.760
goes nothing against the reform view of prayer. And the

843
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:17.920
reason they could ask for things that seemed to go

844
00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:21.519
against God's will is because they were literally praying in

845
00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:24.960
accordance with God's will that was revealed in the very covenants.

846
00:57:25.159 --> 00:57:27.239
That if we study those covenants and we let them

847
00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:29.760
be about Israel, then we don't have any conflict with

848
00:57:29.800 --> 00:57:32.280
the way they prayed. But we can't pray that way

849
00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:41.039
because we don't have those promises. So I said, well,

850
00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:43.800
what would it look like to pray within the framework

851
00:57:43.880 --> 00:57:46.000
of the covenants? So I asked Ai, what would it

852
00:57:46.039 --> 00:57:50.079
look like? This is what AI gave me, right number one, pray.

853
00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:53.239
If they prayed within the framework of God's covenant Number one,

854
00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:56.960
it would give them confidence in God's promises. The covenants

855
00:57:56.960 --> 00:58:00.119
provided a clear understanding of God's promise and intention. This

856
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:03.559
gave Israel confidence that their prayer for intervention and protection

857
00:58:03.679 --> 00:58:06.119
and blessing were aligned with God's will. They could know

858
00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:08.320
they could know they were in aligned with God's will.

859
00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:12.159
And guess which one they gave as an example. Nemiah

860
00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:14.000
chapter one, which is the one I told you aught

861
00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:16.800
to read. This is what it says about Neemiah. This

862
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:20.440
is Ai ne Amiah praise for the restoration of Jerusalem.

863
00:58:20.559 --> 00:58:24.000
Appealing to God's covenant with Moses. He acknowledged Israel's sin,

864
00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:27.039
but also reminds God of his promise together as people

865
00:58:27.039 --> 00:58:30.719
if they repent so he could, they could remind God

866
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:34.960
of a promise. Hey, God, you promise this. Do this.

867
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:37.679
And even if they didn't have to remind God, they

868
00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:41.639
could say it in a very dogmatic assertion. Because God

869
00:58:41.679 --> 00:58:44.719
would have to keep his they could be very bold

870
00:58:44.760 --> 00:58:49.960
in their prayer. I can't be that bold they could?

871
00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:55.800
Does that make sense? Prayers often included appeals to God's

872
00:58:55.800 --> 00:58:58.800
faithfulness to his covenant promises. This was based on the

873
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:02.880
understanding that God's eternal decrees included his covenant commitments. Do

874
00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:06.679
you see how Ai brought an eternal decrees? I was

875
00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:12.280
like the better than any seminary because it under and

876
00:59:12.719 --> 00:59:16.239
guess what example it gave Exodus thirty two, which I

877
00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:20.599
told you to read. The exact example I want to write,

878
00:59:21.079 --> 00:59:25.599
invoking historical acts. The Israelites frequently evoked God's past acts

879
00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:30.599
of deliverance and provision, which we're seen as manifestations of

880
00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:34.639
this covenant faithfulness, this strength, and their belief that God

881
00:59:34.639 --> 00:59:39.960
would continue to act in the present as he did

882
00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:44.719
in the past based on his covenant promise. If he

883
00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:47.159
was acting in the past in accordance with his covenant

884
00:59:47.159 --> 00:59:50.440
promise now that he would act in the present according

885
00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:52.639
to that promise. And that's exactly what we see in

886
00:59:52.639 --> 01:00:01.760
Psalm eighty three right confidence God's response. The Jews prayed

887
01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:04.880
with the assurance that God would hear and respond. Because

888
01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:11.480
their request were based on explicit promises, they literally have

889
01:00:11.679 --> 01:00:15.519
this alignment with God's eternal decrees. Praying based on the

890
01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:18.719
covenants means that their petitions were aligned with God's eternal plan.

891
01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:28.719
The expectation of divine intervention. The Israelites expected God to intervene. Why,

892
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:32.119
because he had intervened based on the Covenant. All right.

893
01:00:33.119 --> 01:00:35.840
So then I asked, well, what does this mean for me?

894
01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:42.639
Because I'm not Jewish, I'm a gentile, right, And Ai said, well,

895
01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:44.960
I'm sorry for you. No, I did not, So I said,

896
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:47.000
so what does this mean? This is what it said

897
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:51.440
as a gentile New Testament believer, the focus of your

898
01:00:51.480 --> 01:00:56.199
prayer would be on spiritual promises and guarantees found in

899
01:00:56.280 --> 01:01:01.920
the New Covenant, as we've been engrafted in. Now, did

900
01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:07.159
you hear what kind of promises spiritual? How can AI

901
01:01:07.639 --> 01:01:13.199
draw this distinction? But Christians can't? You know why? Because

902
01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:16.760
AI is basing it off philological understanding, not our own

903
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:20.239
personal feelings. We almost have a superstitious view of God. Well,

904
01:01:20.280 --> 01:01:22.360
we just believe God has to do certain things, but

905
01:01:22.440 --> 01:01:29.800
he doesn't. And we've been raised in churches to destroy

906
01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:33.320
our ability to think. So they go on to say,

907
01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:37.440
so some of the key promises AI decided that goes on.

908
01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:40.519
It says a lot here, it says New Testament believers

909
01:01:40.559 --> 01:01:43.239
can ensure their prayers are consistent with God's eternal decrees

910
01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:45.960
and providence if we basically do the following. Here's how

911
01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:48.960
we can do so that are in our prayer. This

912
01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:52.880
is what we can focus on, salvation and eternal life,

913
01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:56.480
eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ. John three sixteen

914
01:01:56.599 --> 01:02:00.880
Romans ten to nine, thankfulness for salvation, intercession for other salvation.

915
01:02:02.159 --> 01:02:04.719
So we can just pray. Our prayers would be focused

916
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:07.800
on what I have in Christ. I have eternal life.

917
01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:10.519
I have the guarantee of eternity. Now, because I know

918
01:02:10.599 --> 01:02:13.159
I have a guarantee of eternity, I can thankful for

919
01:02:13.239 --> 01:02:15.840
that and then pray that no matter what I'm facing,

920
01:02:16.039 --> 01:02:18.360
I know I have eternal salvation, and there will come

921
01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:23.280
a time that there will be no more pain, no

922
01:02:23.360 --> 01:02:26.719
more tears, no more death, and no more suffering and

923
01:02:26.760 --> 01:02:32.480
no more sin. Now, we don't like that because I

924
01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:35.599
don't sometimes guess what I want. I hate to say it.

925
01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:38.840
You know, Sometimes I to think God's spiritual promises are

926
01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:44.719
absolutely useless at my present crises when I need it,

927
01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:47.840
when I need money. I don't care that I have

928
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:53.000
eternal life. I don't care that I have all riches

929
01:02:53.039 --> 01:02:55.199
in Christ Jesus. I don't care that I have all

930
01:02:55.239 --> 01:02:58.079
spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. I just need my house

931
01:02:58.119 --> 01:03:02.880
paid off. When I'm laying in the pool of my

932
01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:07.280
own urine and spit because I've had a seizure and

933
01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:09.199
I wake up, I don't really care that I have

934
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:12.599
all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. I would like my

935
01:03:12.639 --> 01:03:19.840
seizures to go away, because that's a humiliating experience. Amen

936
01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:25.800
come on I'm not. Don't look like I'm so unspiritual.

937
01:03:26.639 --> 01:03:29.639
We've all been there, right. I need hey, God, I

938
01:03:29.719 --> 01:03:31.800
need you to do what you did for Israel, and

939
01:03:31.880 --> 01:03:34.920
I need you to do it for me. And God's like, well,

940
01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:45.199
You're not Israel, but someone told me I am all right.

941
01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:48.280
So in other words, I those are things now? Are

942
01:03:48.320 --> 01:03:51.480
their prayers? Are their situations in the New Testament? All

943
01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:54.639
end with this, which does create a little bit of problem.

944
01:03:54.719 --> 01:03:57.079
There are some that create a little bit of problem.

945
01:03:58.039 --> 01:04:00.679
All right, there are a couple of passages. May God,

946
01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:07.760
let's just look at Matthew six. Now this is where

947
01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:10.880
extreme dispensationalism may get into play here, and we can

948
01:04:10.960 --> 01:04:14.280
have an argument. We'll end with this. And I know

949
01:04:14.320 --> 01:04:17.800
we're almost fifteen after but we don't have Sunday night.

950
01:04:17.800 --> 01:04:19.199
We don't have Wednesday, so we can go a little

951
01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:26.559
long on Sunday. Okay, all right, Matthew six twenty five

952
01:04:26.599 --> 01:04:29.760
through thirty four. I mean this is famous section, is

953
01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:32.280
it not? And I've told you I've struggled with this

954
01:04:32.320 --> 01:04:41.960
section my whole life. What does this say, Hey, don't

955
01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:45.039
don't worry about anything pretending to your life? And what

956
01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:52.599
seems to be the end indication he's going to provide, Hey,

957
01:04:52.599 --> 01:04:55.599
provide for the birds prayer. Now the issue is who

958
01:04:55.679 --> 01:04:58.280
is he speaking to here? Now, this is where? Now

959
01:04:58.840 --> 01:05:01.960
now that. But now just so that you know, now

960
01:05:01.960 --> 01:05:05.960
we're entering into a realm that's very This would almost

961
01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:09.880
be called hyper dispensationalism, and it's condemned by almost everyone.

962
01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:13.159
So I don't want to go into hyperdispensationalism, but we

963
01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:15.800
do have to, because don't you struggle with this passage?

964
01:05:17.239 --> 01:05:26.920
Remember I got he naked about you. That's I got problems, right.

965
01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:29.199
Remember I got in big trouble. I got in big

966
01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:31.519
trouble way back many years ago because there was a

967
01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:35.199
church that had they were doing their VBS and they

968
01:05:35.239 --> 01:05:37.519
had had a picture of birds and it said, like,

969
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:41.119
you know, God will provide and he feeds even the birds,

970
01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:42.719
so you don't need to worry about what you're gonna eat.

971
01:05:42.760 --> 01:05:45.480
Something along this in their VBS curriculum, and so underneath

972
01:05:45.480 --> 01:05:48.320
it I posted a picture the famous picture of the

973
01:05:48.400 --> 01:05:51.199
kid and I think Ethiopia, who's like curled up, his

974
01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:55.360
bones are showing he's starting. He's minutes, probably hours, maybe

975
01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:58.119
days away from death. And there's a buzzard just standing

976
01:05:58.119 --> 01:06:01.000
there looking over at the little kid, and I'm like, oh,

977
01:06:01.039 --> 01:06:06.320
he'll feed the birds. The people did not like that,

978
01:06:09.599 --> 01:06:15.360
but I'm like, if the idea is, if God provides

979
01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:17.679
that way, clearly they wouldn't you know how many people

980
01:06:17.719 --> 01:06:20.039
starve to death every single day in this world. I've

981
01:06:20.079 --> 01:06:22.039
talked about it many times. I've looked up the numbers.

982
01:06:22.440 --> 01:06:27.840
Thousands of people every twenty four hours die from starvation.

983
01:06:31.079 --> 01:06:32.480
And then we add the number of how many people

984
01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:36.559
die from the lack of clean drinking water. Now those

985
01:06:36.639 --> 01:06:42.480
numbers are staggering. Well, clearly that promise can't be for everybody, right,

986
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:48.159
So then who is the promise for? We typically want

987
01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:53.920
to make it for whom us? Now this is found where?

988
01:06:55.960 --> 01:06:59.679
And the Sermon on the mound, Now, the Sermon on

989
01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:04.760
the Mount is Jesus basically doing what what is Jesus doing?

990
01:07:04.920 --> 01:07:08.719
And Sermmon on the Mount, He's basically regiving the law.

991
01:07:09.840 --> 01:07:15.159
Now this sounds like a law promise right now, this

992
01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:17.519
kind of law promise was given to Israel. And what

993
01:07:18.239 --> 01:07:20.280
was required for God to provide that kind of food

994
01:07:20.280 --> 01:07:27.320
for them? Obedience? Now I know that I'm not Look,

995
01:07:27.360 --> 01:07:29.719
I don't have a good answer. I don't have a

996
01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:32.559
good answer because I would like to believe I don't

997
01:07:32.559 --> 01:07:34.599
need to worry about what I wear. I don't need

998
01:07:34.639 --> 01:07:37.400
to worry about my food because God will provide for me. Now,

999
01:07:37.679 --> 01:07:40.119
the way we always get around, well, God will provide.

1000
01:07:40.159 --> 01:07:42.039
But I mean, you're gonna go out and work and

1001
01:07:42.039 --> 01:07:43.840
you're gotta go out and do something to get it.

1002
01:07:44.039 --> 01:07:46.880
That doesn't sound like God providing because antheists work and

1003
01:07:46.920 --> 01:07:49.599
get food. Well, now that's common grace. We try to

1004
01:07:49.599 --> 01:07:51.719
come up with every explanation in the world. Well, if

1005
01:07:51.719 --> 01:07:54.079
someone starts to death, well they obviously wasn't a Christian.

1006
01:07:54.559 --> 01:08:00.360
Well that's disturbing, right, How do you know that? You

1007
01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:03.840
just assume like that's kind of messed up, Right, So

1008
01:08:04.079 --> 01:08:06.239
I don't know, because there's been people starved to death

1009
01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:09.119
and died. I read about some of the early colonies

1010
01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:13.519
in the United States of America with James Town. Didn't

1011
01:08:13.559 --> 01:08:16.960
they freeze to death and starved to death? Right? Most

1012
01:08:16.960 --> 01:08:19.319
of them would have been Puritans or pilgrims, which would

1013
01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:21.720
have been very much believers in God because they came

1014
01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:25.359
here fleeing religious persecution. A right, So don't tell me

1015
01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:28.199
that people who didn't come here didn't starve to death

1016
01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:31.039
while they were praying to God. So don't just stop that.

1017
01:08:31.039 --> 01:08:34.039
That's just a lie. So clearly we have to do

1018
01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:37.600
something with this. I don't have a good answer. I

1019
01:08:37.600 --> 01:08:41.920
don't have a good answer there, right, I don't Does

1020
01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:45.720
it next it now? And you could argue Jesus primary

1021
01:08:46.239 --> 01:08:54.199
message at this point as to whom to Jews? So

1022
01:08:55.079 --> 01:08:58.079
does he give this promise to gentiles. I'm gonna have

1023
01:08:58.119 --> 01:09:00.399
a hard time saying it's promised to gentiles. However, there's

1024
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:03.239
one other passage where people will always go to. Everybody

1025
01:09:03.279 --> 01:09:05.479
knows where it is, right, It's in the New Testament.

1026
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:14.760
Paul's writing to a church Philippians. Remember he makes some

1027
01:09:14.840 --> 01:09:32.560
big promises in Philippians right now. Typically there may be

1028
01:09:32.920 --> 01:09:35.479
I think, if there's another one in Philippians, you can

1029
01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:38.359
you can correct me. But oh, maybe there's there are two.

1030
01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:43.000
Hang on, wait, oh yeah, okay, good, all right. Look

1031
01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:45.800
at Philippians four six through seven. That's the first one.

1032
01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:51.840
Everyone knows this one, Philippians four six through seven. Okay,

1033
01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:55.439
he says, some I don't know how your translations read.

1034
01:09:55.479 --> 01:09:57.640
I think some say be anxious for nothing, some say

1035
01:09:57.640 --> 01:10:00.159
give no thought to or something. Along those lines, right,

1036
01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:04.399
And what does it say Philippians four six to seven

1037
01:10:05.960 --> 01:10:08.119
be careful for nothing, or get or take no thought of,

1038
01:10:08.239 --> 01:10:16.079
or don't be anxious about anything? Everything by prayer and thanksgiving. Request.

1039
01:10:17.359 --> 01:10:25.119
Let your request be made known to God. Okay, Now

1040
01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:29.880
that doesn't guarantee anything other than peace, and that peace

1041
01:10:29.960 --> 01:10:32.000
comes with obviously, if we're going to look at it

1042
01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:33.760
from ur the way we look it by submitting to

1043
01:10:33.800 --> 01:10:36.600
God's will. Now you can give a request, but you

1044
01:10:36.680 --> 01:10:40.880
ultimately say your will. All right, But so that one

1045
01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:42.920
doesn't really cause me a problem. I don't. I don't

1046
01:10:42.960 --> 01:10:45.520
need to do much. The next one in Philippians causes

1047
01:10:45.560 --> 01:10:50.680
the problem. And it's in verse nineteen. And this one

1048
01:10:50.720 --> 01:11:05.399
is quoted constantly everybody see it. What does it say? Now?

1049
01:11:05.560 --> 01:11:17.239
What needs? Is that referencing? Though I know it's according

1050
01:11:17.239 --> 01:11:20.520
to his riches in glory, that sounds like spiritual needs,

1051
01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:22.680
does it not? I mean, I'm not saying that that's

1052
01:11:22.720 --> 01:11:28.960
perfect because think now we always play games. Well, if

1053
01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:34.079
God's the one providing for everyone's needs, then why does

1054
01:11:34.079 --> 01:11:37.680
anybody need anything? Right? And I said, well, he provides

1055
01:11:37.720 --> 01:11:39.680
the needs through you, So I come to you and

1056
01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:41.640
tell you my need and then you provide for me.

1057
01:11:42.119 --> 01:11:45.399
Well that's well, they say, well, God's doing it through you. Well,

1058
01:11:47.399 --> 01:11:49.920
does that mean God won't do anything unless other people

1059
01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:52.600
are around to do it for him? They seem like,

1060
01:11:52.720 --> 01:11:57.199
I don't know. To me, that sounds like spiritual needs.

1061
01:11:58.159 --> 01:12:02.159
But I could be dramatically wrong there. Those are some

1062
01:12:02.279 --> 01:12:05.439
passages that would create a couple of problems with my theory.

1063
01:12:06.119 --> 01:12:09.399
Right now, My theory is rock solid when it comes

1064
01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:11.640
to the prayers of the Old Testament, because that has

1065
01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:14.359
nothing to do with us, all right. Come on, there's

1066
01:12:14.359 --> 01:12:16.439
no way to get around that. We know those Covenant

1067
01:12:16.439 --> 01:12:18.800
promises are not for us. If you think they're for you,

1068
01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:21.600
you're insane, all right, because we already know when we

1069
01:12:21.640 --> 01:12:24.039
start looking at Psaalm eighty three, when we look at

1070
01:12:24.039 --> 01:12:26.760
how God intervenes on the enemies of the past, we

1071
01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:29.640
know that God's not doing that in the present. He's

1072
01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:31.520
not telling us to put down all of our guns

1073
01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:34.399
and grab a torch and a picture and a trumpet

1074
01:12:34.479 --> 01:12:37.560
and go out against an army of thousands and smash

1075
01:12:37.640 --> 01:12:40.319
the trump blow the trump and to smashed the pot

1076
01:12:40.399 --> 01:12:43.279
and boom all your enemies flee. Come on, we know

1077
01:12:43.399 --> 01:12:45.880
that's not happening. We know God is not doing those

1078
01:12:45.920 --> 01:12:49.399
miraculous things because it would be everywhere, right, So we

1079
01:12:49.520 --> 01:12:54.680
know why did God do miraculous things for them, because

1080
01:12:54.720 --> 01:12:58.479
he promised we don't have those. Now. God does promise

1081
01:12:58.479 --> 01:13:01.800
to do miraculous things for us, but those miraculous things

1082
01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:08.960
are imputed righteousness and our glorification and eternity. We don't

1083
01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:11.880
necessarily have those promises in everyday life. We try to

1084
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:14.560
grab some of these passages, but I think in some

1085
01:13:14.600 --> 01:13:17.000
of those cases we got to be really careful who's

1086
01:13:17.000 --> 01:13:22.199
that's being spoken to, because we cannot forget that in

1087
01:13:22.319 --> 01:13:26.279
many cases. Now I don't have time to look this up,

1088
01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:28.560
but at least in many cases we have to know.

1089
01:13:28.720 --> 01:13:32.520
Especially in the Gospels, those messages that Jesus are preaching

1090
01:13:32.520 --> 01:13:39.319
are almost primarily for whom Jews. They don't really start

1091
01:13:39.359 --> 01:13:44.159
going towards the gentiles to win acts, right then they

1092
01:13:44.159 --> 01:13:47.119
start moving towards the gentiles, and then those gentiles are

1093
01:13:47.119 --> 01:13:49.520
not being handed the same promises in any way, shape

1094
01:13:49.600 --> 01:13:52.560
or form. Now that Philippians passage is the one that's

1095
01:13:52.600 --> 01:13:55.520
the most difficult to kind of get around the first

1096
01:13:55.520 --> 01:13:58.439
part is not hey, pray and you get peace. It

1097
01:13:58.439 --> 01:14:01.000
doesn't say you're going to get your problem takes care of, right,

1098
01:14:01.159 --> 01:14:03.640
all right? So that's good, right, because Paul didn't get

1099
01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:05.880
his problems taking care of. I mean he got beheaded

1100
01:14:05.880 --> 01:14:08.239
for crying out loud, all right. So I mean he

1101
01:14:08.439 --> 01:14:10.920
was at times starving and beaten. I mean we know

1102
01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:14.680
all the problems he had. God. Now, sometimes God divinely intervened,

1103
01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:17.600
but that's because those are for the apostles, right, So

1104
01:14:17.720 --> 01:14:20.960
then we even have that once the further you get away,

1105
01:14:21.560 --> 01:14:24.640
when when Timothy is having stomach problems, what does Paul

1106
01:14:24.800 --> 01:14:29.279
tell him to do drink wine? Well, wait a minute,

1107
01:14:29.319 --> 01:14:32.319
why wouldn't God just step in and fix it. That's

1108
01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:34.840
very different than the way it sounds earlier on, does

1109
01:14:34.880 --> 01:14:37.720
it not? And then we know what happens to all

1110
01:14:37.720 --> 01:14:41.520
the disciples. They're all martyred. God didn't step in and

1111
01:14:41.560 --> 01:14:47.920
save any of them. Yeah, the Jews required to sign

1112
01:14:48.119 --> 01:14:51.159
and and and well and then and the Apostolic miracles

1113
01:14:51.159 --> 01:14:54.000
were as a sign to prove their apostolic authority, which

1114
01:14:54.039 --> 01:14:57.359
we don't believe that apostolic authority was passed on, right,

1115
01:14:57.760 --> 01:15:01.880
So I just will argue that the praying of the

1116
01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:06.359
Old Testament reflects Covenant relationship. Our involvement in the New

1117
01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:10.600
Covenant points to spirit. We have what kind of blessings

1118
01:15:11.159 --> 01:15:16.279
in Christ Jesus spiritual blessings right we have? All of

1119
01:15:16.319 --> 01:15:19.560
our praying is focused on God's eternal decree, which do

1120
01:15:19.680 --> 01:15:23.800
we know. We don't know God's eternal decree. So what

1121
01:15:23.920 --> 01:15:26.359
we pray is God, I don't understand your decree because

1122
01:15:26.399 --> 01:15:28.560
it's not outlined to me like it did for Israel.

1123
01:15:28.800 --> 01:15:30.479
I pray that this would be your will or this

1124
01:15:30.520 --> 01:15:32.199
would be your will, and this will be your will,

1125
01:15:32.319 --> 01:15:35.159
but ultimately your will will be done. My job is

1126
01:15:35.159 --> 01:15:37.880
to submit and find peace and your will even if

1127
01:15:37.960 --> 01:15:44.840
I absolutely hate it. And I do know you will

1128
01:15:44.840 --> 01:15:49.560
provide all my needs according to your riches in heaven.

1129
01:15:49.760 --> 01:15:52.880
You will meet all my spiritual needs. I don't know

1130
01:15:52.880 --> 01:15:58.239
if you're going to meet all my physical needs. He

1131
01:15:58.319 --> 01:16:00.720
met all the he can meet the physical needs for Israel.

1132
01:16:01.560 --> 01:16:04.039
Doesn't no guarantee he's going to meet all my physical needs.

1133
01:16:04.039 --> 01:16:05.520
I think to try to bring that to the New

1134
01:16:05.560 --> 01:16:12.479
Testament is detrimental, very detrimental. Even in the Book of Acts,

1135
01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:16.199
how did the people get fed? Remember that they had

1136
01:16:16.199 --> 01:16:19.199
the whole pull out. Basically, what was called deacons to

1137
01:16:19.279 --> 01:16:21.520
take care of the widows to make sure that they

1138
01:16:21.560 --> 01:16:25.560
were fed. They didn't. God wasn't doing it supernaturally. He

1139
01:16:25.680 --> 01:16:32.199
was doing it through normal means. And every church do

1140
01:16:32.279 --> 01:16:34.960
we simply say, hey, guys, we need this much money

1141
01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:38.920
to stay open. Let's just pray and I'll wait for

1142
01:16:38.960 --> 01:16:43.640
a delivery at the door for the money. No, we

1143
01:16:43.760 --> 01:16:46.399
say God will provide through the giving of his people.

1144
01:16:46.520 --> 01:16:50.319
In that a convenient way to say, if you don't give,

1145
01:16:51.159 --> 01:16:56.880
then God doesn't provide. See, that kind of removes God

1146
01:16:56.920 --> 01:17:00.560
from the picture because every organization sounds the same way.

1147
01:17:01.520 --> 01:17:05.479
When NPR is raising money, they need the listeners to

1148
01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:10.359
call in in give, that'll say that's God. But when

1149
01:17:10.439 --> 01:17:12.720
a Christian ministry says I need God's people to call

1150
01:17:12.760 --> 01:17:17.640
in and give somehow, we immediately say that's God, that's

1151
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you giving money. They say, well, God's the one that

1152
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does it. That's just a rounded way. That's just playing semantics, right,

1153
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It's not the God divinely intervened in very very dramatic

1154
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ways in the Old Testament. It doesn't work that way

1155
01:17:33.000 --> 01:17:38.560
in the New Testament obviously, right, So can we claim that,

1156
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I think the reason the way we can understand prayer

1157
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at least in the Old Testament, and how it can

1158
01:17:43.399 --> 01:17:46.359
be consistent with theology is because their way was different.

1159
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How that works in the New Testament is completely different

1160
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than the old is. All we can do is say, God,

1161
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your sovereign, if we believe in His sovereignty and your

1162
01:17:54.920 --> 01:17:57.840
eternal decrees, I'm going to submit to that eternal decree,

1163
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even though this is the way I would like it

1164
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to work. But ultimately your will be done. And I

1165
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do know, and I have complete confidence that you have

1166
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met all my spiritual needs in Christ Jesus, and that

1167
01:18:11.159 --> 01:18:15.680
I have all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus, and that

1168
01:18:15.760 --> 01:18:18.479
I am perfect, holy and like I can pray with

1169
01:18:18.640 --> 01:18:22.239
confidence those things. I can pray with confidence that they'll

1170
01:18:22.239 --> 01:18:23.880
come a time there'll be no more pay no more suffering,

1171
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and no more death. I can pray in confidence that

1172
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they'll come a time that I truly will be a

1173
01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:30.479
new creature and practice, because my old nature will be gone.

1174
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I can pray with confidence anything pertaining to what eternity.

1175
01:18:37.560 --> 01:18:41.520
I can pray with confidence that God hears me, and

1176
01:18:41.560 --> 01:18:47.279
I can pray with confidence that God's will will be done.

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Saw mayty three sounds very different than the way we pray.

1178
01:18:52.119 --> 01:18:54.119
But they can pray because they knew what God's will was,

1179
01:18:54.199 --> 01:18:58.840
which is to do what preserve Israel? Why did he

1180
01:18:58.880 --> 01:19:02.920
have to preserve Israel? Well, because they made a covenant

1181
01:19:03.479 --> 01:19:07.119
whom the Messiah would come. And then even now with

1182
01:19:07.359 --> 01:19:10.439
when Israel didn't exist, they could still be praying confidently

1183
01:19:10.560 --> 01:19:13.960
that Israel would one day come back. And then they

1184
01:19:13.960 --> 01:19:18.439
can pray confidently that one day there will be they

1185
01:19:18.479 --> 01:19:21.760
will get all the promises, all those promises of the

1186
01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:27.159
New Covenant will happen it and they can pray it dogmatically. Right,

1187
01:19:27.399 --> 01:19:30.960
Does that make sense a little bit? Right now? There

1188
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may be other passages in the New Testament that we

1189
01:19:32.760 --> 01:19:34.680
didn't get to. I went to the most problematic ones,

1190
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and I look, it's perfectly okay when we create hypothesis

1191
01:19:38.000 --> 01:19:40.960
to acknowledge word there's weakness in ours. Some of those

1192
01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:43.079
passages in the New Testament. I don't have good answers

1193
01:19:43.159 --> 01:19:46.119
for some of them. It's not that difficult. Clearly that's

1194
01:19:46.159 --> 01:19:48.479
a reference to the Jews. And people say, well, you

1195
01:19:48.520 --> 01:19:51.279
can't say that, Yeah you can, when clearly the first

1196
01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:54.880
all the first believers were wide Jews. I mean there's

1197
01:19:54.880 --> 01:19:57.000
no way to get around that. The early Church was

1198
01:19:57.119 --> 01:19:59.680
Jewish until they started moving towards the Judge. And then

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once the the Gentiles came in, what did the Jews do?

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01:20:02.920 --> 01:20:04.359
We didn't know what to do. They didn't know what

1201
01:20:04.399 --> 01:20:10.600
to do. They had to have an entire council because

1202
01:20:10.640 --> 01:20:13.079
they didn't know what to do. They didn't know what

1203
01:20:13.119 --> 01:20:18.159
to do. Wait, we're confused here, right, because showing that

1204
01:20:18.319 --> 01:20:20.880
up to that point everything was understood from Ajor they

1205
01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:29.680
were even meeting where in the synagogue on the Sabbath

1206
01:20:29.680 --> 01:20:31.439
in many cases, right, there was still a lot of

1207
01:20:31.439 --> 01:20:35.479
confusion right now they started Obviously there was why because

1208
01:20:35.560 --> 01:20:41.119
there was still a Jewish aspect. Slowly but surely that

1209
01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:44.439
goes away. And you know why, it goes away because

1210
01:20:44.600 --> 01:20:48.000
Israel no longer exists. Ok It's easy for it to

1211
01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:50.880
go away. It's easy to go away when you're like, well,

1212
01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:53.560
there's no more high priest, there's no more temple, there's

1213
01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:56.720
no more there's no more any there's not even genealogical

1214
01:20:56.720 --> 01:20:58.800
records to know which tribe were a part of that.

1215
01:20:59.079 --> 01:21:04.039
Judaism is easy to go away when there's no more Israel. Okay,

1216
01:21:04.319 --> 01:21:09.600
Then the Church took on a gentile and then that's

1217
01:21:09.600 --> 01:21:14.279
when the gentile church stole from all the promises of Israel.

1218
01:21:14.319 --> 01:21:16.319
And you can see where that's been nothing but a

1219
01:21:16.319 --> 01:21:20.520
hermeneutical nightmare since then until nineteen forty eight. Well, let's

1220
01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:23.039
be fair, some of the early dispensational started making their

1221
01:21:23.039 --> 01:21:26.880
claims before nineteen forty eight, which is amazing when you

1222
01:21:26.920 --> 01:21:32.560
think about it. Yeah, amazing. They were like, wait a minute,

1223
01:21:32.840 --> 01:21:34.880
Israel's gonna have to come back. And they were like,

1224
01:21:34.920 --> 01:21:37.680
you're out of your mind. Okay, well, that's why we

1225
01:21:38.159 --> 01:21:43.520
trust the scriptures and not what we see. Right, let's

1226
01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:45.720
probably look, got we coming for you this afternoon. Lord.

1227
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I have no easy answers for any of this. Lord,

1228
01:21:49.399 --> 01:21:51.920
I just know that we have to draw a distinction

1229
01:21:52.039 --> 01:21:56.560
between us and your chosen people, Israel. Forgive us when

1230
01:21:56.560 --> 01:22:00.600
we've claimed promises. Forgive us for sometimes true reading you

1231
01:22:00.880 --> 01:22:03.159
as if you have to do for us what you

1232
01:22:03.239 --> 01:22:07.399
did for them. Help us understand prayer better, and help us, Lord,

1233
01:22:07.479 --> 01:22:09.880
act in a way that's in accordance to your will

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and be submissive to it. And we asked this in

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Jesus name, and God's people said