Aug. 17, 2024

Psalm 83 Pt 12

Psalm 83 Pt 12

We bring the study of Psalm 83 to an ok conclusion

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We bring the study of Psalm 83 to an ok conclusion

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All right, Psalm eighty three, Maybe we'll finish. I don't know.

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I'm gonna just really focus on one major point, I think,

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but we'll see Psalm eighty three. We've been working on

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this now forever. It all started because of a sermon

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series for our Sermon's two point oh app Sermon Challenge,

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And next thing, you know, that series went to thirty

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something messages and I don't think they ever dealt with

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Saw eighty three. But uh so, you know, you can criticize,

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or you can then try to turn a criticism into

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something positive. So anytime I do a sermon review and

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I don't like it, what I almost inevitably do is

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turn it into something positive. Because it's easy to criticize,

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it's much more difficult to do what We'll then take

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the text and actually work through it, right, So that's

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what we're doing. So I'm I'm just gonna start reading

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in verse one and we'll just do some basic review here,

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as basic as I can. We've covered so much in

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this that if you missed it all, there's no way

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I can catch you up, right, Psaw maybe three. Starting

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in verse one, do not keep silent, Oh God, do

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not hold your peace, and do not be still, Oh God.

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This established in my mind that it was a lament

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because it's a sum of Asaph. If you see they're

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in the heading. We know Asaph is like the worship

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leader during the time of David, maybe at the beginning

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of Solomon. Then we refer to this as a communal lament.

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A communal lament is where the psawmist and says, takes

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the emotions and the feelings of the people and cry

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out to God. And they are crying out to God.

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And there seem to be pretty upset, do they not?

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Depending on your translation, at least the New King James,

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it has it this way, do not keep silent, Oh God,

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exclamation mark, right, do not hold your peace and do

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not be still, Oh God, exclamation mark. What they're trying

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to demonstrate is that's to communicate what great emotion crying

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out to God. And it seems to imply what that

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they feel like God has been silent, that God has

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held his peace, and that God has been still. They

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need God to do something, so they're going, it's crying

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out to God. It's a lament, right. They're they're very bothered,

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and they're very concerned and then it says in verse

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two for behold your enemies, and then please note make

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a tumult. Do you see the word make? All right?

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What is significant about that? Does not say will make,

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doesn't say had made, but has made. It's a present situation.

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So we've we've we established Psaw eighty three is a

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lament lamenting something that was happening at that time. Remember

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the original series said that this was prophetic of some

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coming Middle East war, and we reject that. Others try

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to take it back to second chronicles and we reject that.

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And they even tried to say Asaf was there, and

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we realized that he was dead. Like, I don't know

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what preachers do sometimes sometimes I'm baffled by what happens.

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And what's crazy is when you're listening to the sermons

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and you hear the people in the pew saying amen,

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and you're like, what are you amening? You're amening absolutely

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fraudileent information. Okay, but it just demonstrates you have to

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check everything. So our feelings some many three is a

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lament lamenting situations that were present at that time and

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what were they dealing with? Well, we get an idea

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verse two for Behold, your enemies make a tumult, and

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those who hate you have lifted up their head. They

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have taken crafty counsel against your people. So the enemies

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are they identified as the enemies of God. But these

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enemies of God have come against whom Israel? And why

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would they come against Israel? While philologically we could argue

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because they are God's chosen people. If you hate God,

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you hate Israel. Okay, everybody can understand that. So these

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enemies are coming after them, right, and we can read

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a little bit more here. They have taken crafty counsel

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against your people. They've consulted together against your sheltered ones.

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They have said, come, let us cut them off from

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being a nation that the name of Israel may be

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remembered no more. All right, These enemies are not just

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people who hate them. These are enemies who want to

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do what wipe them off the face of the earth.

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All right. Now, Remember we looked at the characteristics of

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these enemies and said that these characteristics of these enemies

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are the characteristics of the enemies of God's people, and

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there is similarity there, and we talked about all of that.

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But they're facing a very dire, dire situation. Right, This

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is just not like, oh, we're having a few problems.

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They've got a confederacy of nations to destroy them. That's

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why they're crying out to God. All right, everybody see

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that and remember that, all right. And it says for

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they have consulted together with one consent, they form a

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confederacy against you, the tints of Edom and the Ishmaelites Moab.

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The hagwrites gieball emmon Emelek Felistia with the inhabitants of

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tire Syria also has joined with them. They have helped

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the children of Lot, and we went through all of

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these enemies. They enlist them, right, So from a and

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even though some commentators say, no, those are just symbolic,

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there's nothing there and tells us it's a symbolic, right,

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those are actual nations who actually came together, that actually

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came against Israel during the time most likely of David,

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but at least while Asaf was alive. All right, it's

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a real historical situation, all right. Then verse nine, we

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have like three words. What are the three words in

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verse nine? Do unto them or deal with them? In

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the New King James, everybody see that now immediately. This

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is where we took a slight detour, but it was

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very worth our time. Deal with them? Is them is

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asaf and the people crying out to God basically in

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prayer to do what to do something about the situation.

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And I said that anyone who is a decent Bible

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student should immediately go. That makes absolutely no sense. Prayer

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makes absolutely no sense. Why does prayer make no sense?

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Because we pray to a God whom we cannot see

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to intervene and to deal with circumstances which we can see.

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But at the very least, the God whom we cannot

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see knew these circumstances would happen and had done nothing

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to prevent them. So why are you praying to the

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God who knew and did nothing to stop it. That

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seems foolish. And at the at most, the God whom

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we cannot see did more than just know it and

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not do anything about it. He decreed it and directing it.

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So praying God to do something about it would seem

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utterly ridiculous. And what did we establish, if we're honest,

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What motivates and guides our prayer has nothing to do

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with theology it's superstition, it's our motions, it's our will,

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it's everything about us. So we looked at the different

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theological perspectives to prayer. The reform view says, we don't

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pray God, we don't pray to God to do what.

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The reform perspective we do not pray to God to

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do what, to change anything. We pray to God demonstrating

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our submission. Two the situation. Now you say that even

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to people you know who are reformed, they will lose

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their mind on you. But that's because their belief in

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prayer has nothing to do with their theology. The non

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reform view becomes very problematic, right, because then there's like

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we're changing God. But then that almost leads to what

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open theism. It almost leads to as God doesn't know

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what's going on, he's not in control of what's going on.

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And that's major earlier because if God is not in

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control and knows what's going on, then once again you're

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left with one question, why pray to him? Right? And

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if you believe that God has to constantly protect everyone's

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free will and can never act upon someone's will, there's

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no point in praying because almost every prayer inevitably would

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have God acting upon someone's will in some way, shape

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or form, would it not? They know, crazy, the non

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reform people like pray for so and so salvation? Why

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am I praying for it? You believe in free will.

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God can't do anything, So stop prayer. Wait our prayers.

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I will argue. If you want to know the most

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philologically heretical hour of any church, go to a church

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that has a prayer meeting, because everything in that prayer

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meeting is piologically inaccurate. I know that's not going to

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be very popular, but it just is because all the

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prayers are just so like, what are you talking about?

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What are you doing? You're asking God to change it.

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He can't change it. If he is the one who

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decreed it. You're literally praying against his will, which would

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put your prayer as being rebellious. Nobody wants to acknowledge.

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So we talked about that because that's some difficult stuff

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to do within the Psalm? Is it not? Because you're like, well,

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why are you praying to God? Hey, Asaf, He's the

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one who's decreeing it to happen. Now, what did we conclude?

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Ah Israel and the Old Testament, Israel could pray to

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God in a way that we cannot, because they could

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pray God to intervene, to prevent, protect, and to provide

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on the basis of the covenants God had made with Israel.

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Then you look, well, that makes perfect sense. They're not

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praying for God to go against his will. They're praying

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for God to fulfill the very will that he established.

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Now for us, we can pray all the things promised

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to us spiritually, right, so we don't have the same promises.

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God's will for Israel is clearly outlined. His will for

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us is only outlined for our future, and his will

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for us to pursue holiness. That but even that can

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be complicated, right because if I pray for God to

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stop me from sinning and make me holy, we know

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he's not going to do that, is he, Because if

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he did, he would just remove ours in nature. So

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we already know that they're for us. Weren't a much

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more complicated. So just remember Israel's prayers when you read it.

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Because everyone goes to the Old Testament and then takes

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lessons from prayer based on what they read in the

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Old Testament. That is foolish unless you are a Jew,

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and you're praying on the basis of those covenants. I

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can't pray on the basis of those covenants because I'm

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not a part of those covenant, only the New Covenant,

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only being grafted in. And what do I read from

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the New Covenant The spiritual benefit, not the national benefit.

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I know people will lose their minds hearing that, But look, nothing,

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the Bible doesn't make any he says. If you don't

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separate those, it turns into a mess, or at least

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in my brain, it turns into a mess. So Louie,

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So he says, deal with them. Then verse nine, ten, eleven,

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and twelve, let's read it. Deal with them as with Midian,

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as with Cicera, as with Jabin at the brook of Kishon,

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who perished at Indoor, who became as refuse on the earth.

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Make their nobles like Areb and like zeb Yeah, all

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the princes, like Zeba and Zalmuna, who said, let us

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take for ourselves the pastures of God for our for

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a possession. Now, please note a couple of things we'll

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see here, just that we didn't cover this, But that

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phrase at the end of verse twelve. Every translation is

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going to be different, all right, They said, take for

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ourselves what the King James says, the Houses of God.

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The other translation says pastures of God. Okay, so we

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have two options. If it's the pastures of God, what

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is it a reference to land? They want the land

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to belong to Israel. If it's the houses of God,

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that's a little confusing. If it's plural, right, so then

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it would be like their sacred spaces. You would think

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it would refer to the Temple. But if it uses plural,

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maybe it's a reference to the Tabernacle. I don't know that.

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Pastures of God is much easier for me to wrap

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my mind around. Right. They want to take possession of

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the land, which would make sense, correct, right, So either way,

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these are the enemies. Now what did we learn? We

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went into great detail last week about all of these enemies,

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that God intervened in these situations and what in some

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ways very miraculous, other ways not as miraculous. Even though

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we had a little back and forth with artificial intelligence,

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we felt that even in the passages where God is

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not explicitly mentioned, he's still mentioned enough to demonstrate what

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God was guiding and directing all of these interventions. But

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all of these interventions God is doing on the basis

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of what his covenants. We can't take from that and

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say God is going to intervene in the same way

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for us. This is the major problem within churches. We

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constantly go to the Bible say, well, God did this,

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He'll do it for me. No, you don't have a

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covenant given to you like they had, right, And remember,

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the covenant is very specific, right, especially if you look

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at the land covenant, right, the land covenant is God's

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gonna protect, provide, defeat your enemies, do all of this stuff. Now,

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that land covenant is conditional, right, And it's only conditional

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as far as them what maintaining the land, But it

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is not conditional on them ultimately getting the land, because

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the land goes all the way back to the Abrahamtt

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Covenant and it appears again in the New Covenant. All right,

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So there, but there contanning the land was conditional. But

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whenever they were facing problems, they could pray to God

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to do the things he said he would do, and

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that promise. All right, everybody makes sense of all of that.

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now I'm going to start reading here. I'm gonna I

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think I went through all of those notes that I

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wanted to cover really quick. Let's go see here. Where

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do we want to go? Here? Here we go? You

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ready starting a verse thirteen, asaf pray specifically, Oh my God,

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make them? Who is the them? All the enemies listed

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in verse six, seven and eight. Everybody got that. Make

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them like the whirling dust, like the chaff before the wind,

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as the fire burns the woods, as the flame sets

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the mountains on fire. So pursue them with your tail

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and frighten them with your storm. Fill their faces with shame.

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All right? Let them be confounded, all right, and you

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get you get the basic idea, be dismayed forever. Let

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them be put to shame and perish. See that in

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verse seventeen. All right, now, when we look at this section,

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what would this usually be referenced as that within this

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communal lament, we have a section that would be classified.

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Sarah was the first one to identify it way back

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when we started and precatory prayer. Within this lament, there's

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an imprecatory section. And whenever we think of in precatory prayer.

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What are we thinking? It's a prayer for what ultimately

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the destruction of your enemies? All right? Everybody got that?

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removal of your enemies. Now, as a New Testament Christian,

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we have some struggles with this, right? Why do we

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have struggles with in precatory prayer? As a New Testament Christian,

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I can go to the Sermon on the Mount and

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Jesus says, love your enemy, turn the other cheek, resist

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not evil, Bless them that would persecute you or use you.

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to the authorities over us. Paul goes on to say,

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do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with

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good a complan. There's nowhere in the New Testament that

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calls for us to offer up an imprecatory prayer, not one.

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Even though that is the case, pastors, churches and Christians

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inevitable call on in precatory prayer, always for what purpose

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the destruction or death of a president or political parties,

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typically conservative Christians calling for the death. While they did

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it for Obama multiple times, they did it for Biden

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and I always go after the conservative churches. And I

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say this all the time. Why do I go after

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the conservative churches and not the liberal churches. Why do

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I always go after the conservative churches even though it

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ticks everyone off? Why? Because liberal churches their issue is

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not their political stance. Liberal churches already left Christianity. You

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go to liberal churches, what do they ultimately deny? Almost

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always the deity of Christ, the infallibility and the inspiration

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of Scripture. They deny substitutionary atonement. In many cases, they

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deny the bodily resurrection of Christ. They've already abandoned Christianity.

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So what should I expect from them? I shouldn't expect Christianity, right,

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So for that, So that's why I don't. I don't.

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He said, well, what about I always get the emails?

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What about progressive Christianity? What about philological liberal churches? Why

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are you worried about them? They already loved Christianity. Conservative churches.

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The reason I go hard after them is because they're

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confessions of faith. Sound like Christianity. They believe in the

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deity of Christ, they believe in substitutionary toomey, at least

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on paper. They say they believe in solvation by grace alone,

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to faith alone because of Christ. They say they believe

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all of that, But what have they done, And evitably

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they've prostituted themselves to a political party in order to

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try to then push Christianity upon an unbelieving world. And

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politics is not the way Christianity advances. The early Church

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did not advance and through Christianity had advanced opposed to Christianity.

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In fact, you could argue Christianity was its most pure

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when it was opposed by the political leaders. But once

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the political leaders were in support of it, what inevitably happened.

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The Church and state merged and Christianity became corrupted. All right,

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So let me state it again. Christianity was its most

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pure when it's opposed by the government, not when the

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government becomes its friend, because then we seek fleshly means,

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the set of spiritual means. We rely on the arm

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of the government instead of relying on the arm of God.

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This is why I say it all the time, and

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I know people lose their mind, so everyone remain common,

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don't throw anything. The best thing that could ever happen

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to the Church would be that every Republican. I don't care.

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From the city, to the state to the federal government,

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all of them are voted out of office and there

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is no Republicans left on earth. That would be the

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best thing that's ever happened to Christianity. Why we wouldn't

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have anything except God, So what would we have to

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rely on? Prayer, fasting, preaching. Now I say that everybody

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loses their mind because everybody wants Christianity imposed upon the world.

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The world doesn't need Christianity imposed upon them, they need

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Christianity presented to them. All right, Now, I can say

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all this because you know, we got a force cell

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sign in front of the church, so it doesn't matter anymore. Okay,

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Before if I would have said that, I guarantee what

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we have had people never come back. I guarantee you

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we have people never come back. But I mean, at

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this point, I don't care. I mean, but I've stated

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it on the podcast. I've always tried to keep that

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out of the pulpit as much as possible, but it's

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just inevitable here because when you get to have precatory psalms,

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I remember over and over those things being offered up

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against Obama, and I was an utter shock, Like, why

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would you say that that's a father, he has kids

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and you want him dead because you disagree with this politics.

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And you tell me you're a Christian. There's nothing Christian

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about that. You don't do agree with this policies. You

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know what, the man dead, what should you want salvation

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if he does not have it? That's ridiculous. That's the

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poison of politics. Politics poisons Christianity and precatory psalms are

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not for you to use. So you can have people

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die because you don't agree with their political party. And

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if that's the what do you think then your issue

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is not political. You've got a spiritual problem far worse

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than I can even comprehend, because you're supposed to be

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loving your enemy. So then how do we under So

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then that raises the question, then how do we understand

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the imprecatory psalms? Why is there a contradiction between the

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Old Testament and the New Testament? Okay, I'm going to

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I'm going to estell. I'm gonna throw out an idea.

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I want you to write these words down. Theocratic monarchy.

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Theocratic monarchy. Now, I know Christian nationalists want a theocratic

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monarchy which is frightening and scares me to death. Okay,

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all right, they want a theocratic monarchy with Donald Trump

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is ahead of the theocratic monarchy, which scares me to

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death because I just read an interview of Donald Trump

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who says, if I'm a good person, I'll go to heaven.

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That's not a Christianity, all right. The man has no

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concept of what Christianity is. So you want the person

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in charge of a theocretic monarchy to be someone who

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doesn't understand the basic elements of the Gospel. I don't

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want to theocratic monarchy because what did we see throughout

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church history? Whenever you try to establish something like that,

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people die because what happens theocratic monarchy now takes religion

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and theology and can now make that punishable by death

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under a civil code. And we saw that right, and

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so the church could wash its hands go. We didn't

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kill anyone. No, you just st are the ones who

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declared who was a heretic? Then the civil government killed

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them in your behalf. Your hands are still covered in blood.

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And I don't want anyone dying. I guess what, Sometimes

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when the church can be very wrong and who it

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declares who to be a heretic. If you would like,

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just save up some money, go to Salem and go

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to the Salem Witch Museum, and you'll see the names

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of the people who died because the stinking Puritans accused

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people who were innocent of witchcraft and killed them. And

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most likely they did it because I'm a church split

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or a church division. The people in the church were

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fighting each other. What's a good way to get rid

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of the people in the church. Accuse him of being

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a witch and have them dead. Then they can't argue

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with you in church. Oh, because that's how great Christianity is.

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That stuff drives me crazy about That's why I love Salem.

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But every time I leave there, I'm like, I get

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so furious at everything that happened there. It tells me

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why I do not want Christian nationalism. People died. It's insane.

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A man accusing his wife of being a witch. Okay,

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get you what, Hey, I'm sick of your bad cooking. Okay,

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she's a witch. And then they use spectral evidence, which

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is crazy, right because they could be like, well, Bobby

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was nowhere near your house, but his spectral image, his

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his ghost, his spirit appeared, so even though Bobby would

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be nowhere around, I could accuse Bobby of tormenting me

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or doing something to me because you were using witchcraft

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to do it. Well, they according to the Puritans, they

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weren't supposed to be using that kind of evidence, and

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they used even the right The whole thing was insane. Okay,

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don't give me a whole start on that whole thing.

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Everything about it was ridiculous, right, but it shows what happens. Well,

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this case, theocratic monarchy explains the imprecatory prayers because they

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are operating under a governmental system which we were not

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operating under in the New Testament. And did Jesus ever

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call or Paul call for imprecatory prayers against the Roman leadership.

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I wonder why, because guess what system? They were not

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involved in a theocratic monarchy. So this was my theory

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because I've never heard the imprecatory prayers, looked at it

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from this case. So I immediately started arguing with Ai

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over this because I was like, can someone agree with

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me on this subject? All right? So here's some things

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AI had to say. And precatory prayers which invoke curses

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or judgments on enemies can indeed seem inconsistent with the

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New Testament teaching about loving one's enemies and the New

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Testament teaching such as love your enemies Matthew five and

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example is Jesus praying for forgiveness for those who crucified him,

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emphasizing a message of love, forgiveness and reconciliation. Some scholars

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and theologians argue that a precatory prayers were more aligned

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with the context of the Old Testament theocracy and theocratic monarchy.

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I was like, I love Aii. Always agrees with me.

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I love Ahi, but I was shocked to see that

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it came up with that idea. I had the idea,

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so I just said, well, how do we reconcile this contradiction? Right? Well,

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they admitted there was a contradiction because there would appear

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to be a contradiction, and immediately its first solution, or

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at least according to them some theologians, of course, it

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has to say that, because when it pulls from all

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the information, it immediately finds there's no agreed upon. So

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I know not everyone will agree with me, but I

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think that you are in a completely different world in

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SSAW eighty three, a completely different world right now, how

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would does theocrotic monarchy work? Well? Okay, theocracy and theocretic

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monarchy where Israel as a nation faced external threats and

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enemies in that historical and cultural setting, and precatory prayers

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may have been a way for the people to express

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their trust in God's justice and protection. Because what did

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God say and his promises to Israel he would do

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to their enemies. So if God says he will destroy

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your enemy, then it would not be wrong for you

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to pray for their destruction because you are under what

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kind of a system? A theocratic monarchy? How do we

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what do we mean by theocratic monarchy? God and an

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earthly king together so that the king is being directed

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by God? Right, and we see that right, we have

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in many cases God literally leaning or goiding or directing

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or speaking to one of the kings for them to

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do something right, and in many cases that may mean

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destruction of enemies. Did God not direct specifically for them

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to go into the land and do what I don't

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understand it, I don't like it. But he told them

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to wipe everyone off the face of the earth basically

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right now that it's horrifying from our perspective. But that's

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God doing it. Now. This is another reason why I

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completely reject God speaking to anyone outside of the Bible,

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because if you believe God is speaking to you outside

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of the Bible, we've seen this happen. Parent will kill

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their child telling them that God told them to do

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it right, horrible things. God only speaks to us in

461
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the Bible. We have to draw a distinction between the

462
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Theocretic monarchy and what we live under. We live under

463
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what the New Testament lived under, which is what not

464
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a theocratic monarchy. And there's nowhere in the New Testament

465
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calls for a re establishment of a theocretic monarchy, but

466
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it does describe the re establishment of a theocracy. But

467
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that establishment of the theocracy occurs where Revelation chapter nineteen,

468
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where who comes back Christ on a horse with a sword,

469
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and then what begins to occur the killing of all

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the enemies, and then he establishes the throne. We are

471
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not called to do that. We're not called to storm

472
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the capital or kill people. What we are called to

473
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do is submit and trust God. Right, but under this system,

474
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it would make perfect sense for them to call that.

475
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As Christianity developed the emphasis shifted towards love, mercy, and

476
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forgiveness as a central tenet of the faith. While there

477
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may be instances where invoking divine justice is appropriate, the

478
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overall message of the New Testament encourages believers to respond

479
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to adversaries with love and to seek reconciliation rather than vengeance.

480
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And here's what I would say, whenever you decide to

481
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invoke divine justice against anyone, you better then go ahead

482
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.960
and ask for God to invoke divine justice on you,

483
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because anyone you want to die, they're no more ungodly

484
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:56.039
than you. From a philological perspective, I understand. In a

485
00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:01.240
practical perspective, right, but because they do thiseically doesn't make

486
00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:04.000
you better than them, because you're not doing that politically

487
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:12.079
because you have your own sin? Does that make sense? Therefore,

488
00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:15.759
some Christians view in precatory prayers as being belonging to

489
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a different era and context in the Old Testament, while

490
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emphasizing the importance of embodying the love and forgiveness taught

491
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by Jesus in the New Testament. All right, so here's

492
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some of the lessons AI suggested from a precatory prayers.

493
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Here's some of their things. Number one a trust in

494
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God's justice. The psalmist plea for the destruction of the

495
00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:42.839
enemies reflects a deep trust in God's justice and righteousness.

496
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It teaches us the importance of relying on God to

497
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deal with adversaries and injustices, rather than taking matters into

498
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our own hands. This lesson encourages us to have the

499
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faith that God will ultimately bring about justice and his

500
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perfect timing. So what can we take from inmprecatory prayers

501
00:32:56.799 --> 00:33:00.359
that we trust God to make things right? And what

502
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:04.880
does the New Testament says? Are we to take vengeance

503
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:09.599
binges of the Lord? So we trust God to bring

504
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about justice in his time, and we see him bringing

505
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:18.319
out that justice where Revelation chapter nineteen. Revelation Chapter nineteen,

506
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I'm going to go there over and over and over.

507
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God now comes and he does what he brings justice.

508
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Then he establishes a kingdom where he will rule and reign,

509
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and at the end of the thousand years, then he

510
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wipes out everything, and then the rule continues throughout eternity

511
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where there is no more pain, suffering, or death, and

512
00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:41.400
justice reigns. But so our trust is in that ultimate justice.

513
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Right we rely on God right, So we need to

514
00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:49.279
learn to trust in God's justice. Second, as we recognize

515
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God's sovereignty. By acknowledging God is the ultimate authority and

516
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power over all nations, the Sama symphasizes the sovereignty of God.

517
00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:58.480
This lesson reminds us to respect and honor God's supremacy

518
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in our lives and in the world. Us to submit

519
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:03.079
to His will and trust is his plan, even with

520
00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:08.639
facing opposition or challenges. It's just a God. You're a sovereign.

521
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:13.559
You know the situation. I would like you to do

522
00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:16.559
things differently than you're doing. It's okay to state that.

523
00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:19.800
It's perfectly okay. Here's what I would choose, but not

524
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:24.679
my will, that will be done. I mean, Jesus expressed

525
00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:27.239
what he wanted from him and his humanity. He wanted

526
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:31.760
what not to drink the cop It's perfectly okay to

527
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:35.519
express that. You can even express your anger at the situation.

528
00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:38.440
It's perfectly okay to go to God and go I

529
00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:41.800
hate what they're doing. I despise what they're doing. I

530
00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:45.480
am angry. And it's even okay to tell God I

531
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:51.280
hate them. Because you are acknowledging the reality of what

532
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:56.400
you feel. God can handle that reality. Now, are you

533
00:34:56.440 --> 00:34:59.199
going to God to justify it? No, You're going to

534
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God to admit right. So I can scream out in

535
00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:07.239
a sense and imprecatory prayer to God and has expressing

536
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:10.199
my emotion. But I am not I'm not well. One,

537
00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:13.039
I don't go post it on social media, okay. Second,

538
00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:15.960
because I'm expressed. It's a private matter where I'm expressing

539
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:18.199
to God what I feel inside, and what I feel

540
00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:23.239
inside is not always very good. All right? Everyone should

541
00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:25.559
say amen to that, because what's inside of you doesn't

542
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:29.280
always feel very good, right, all right? So, but where

543
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:33.159
should we express it to God? If we would all

544
00:35:33.239 --> 00:35:36.079
learn that lesson, we'd all be better off. Right, express

545
00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:39.840
it to God, not to anybody else, and God can

546
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.159
handle hearing it. But while by expressing it, you're also

547
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:49.159
acknowledging what He's sovereign. Does that make sense? All right?

548
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:53.320
Protection of God's people the Samist so number one trust

549
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:56.199
in God's justice. Number two recognition of God's sovereignty. Protection

550
00:35:56.280 --> 00:35:58.480
of God's people. The Samist prayer for the enemies to

551
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:01.119
be scattered and terrified serves as a plea for the

552
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:04.000
protection of God's people. This lesson highlights the importance of

553
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:06.960
seeking God's intervention and deliverance during times of trouble and conflict.

554
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:09.480
It teaches us to turn to God for refuge and safety,

555
00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:12.199
knowing that He is our ultimate defender and shield. Now,

556
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:14.760
when it comes to protection of God's people, it makes

557
00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:17.280
more sense for Israel to pray it because God did

558
00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:21.320
promise protection for us. What can I pray? I know

559
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:27.000
that I'm ultimately protected in what way? Eternally? I have

560
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:34.159
no guarantee of God's protection now? Zero? All right? I

561
00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:37.400
know Christians, well, they typically go to the Old Testament.

562
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:41.840
He's my shield, He's my protector. Those are israel promises.

563
00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:45.039
I know, oh man, how many people would be mad

564
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:47.800
at me for saying that. But it's just true, because

565
00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:53.320
what do I know? In our lives. Churches get burnt

566
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:56.800
to the ground, churches get destroyed in storms. Christian families,

567
00:36:56.920 --> 00:36:59.960
people break into their home and kill them. Horrible things

568
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:03.880
happened to Christians just like they happened to Look if

569
00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:05.639
it was if it was, if it was true that

570
00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:09.360
we're always protected, it would there would be news stories, Hey,

571
00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:12.920
this group of people, they never get affected by anything,

572
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:16.360
what's up with this? And then we would be like, well,

573
00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:18.800
because God protects us well, then like, sign me up.

574
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:23.480
Wouldn't everyone want to be a Christian? If we had

575
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:28.320
supernatural protection? Everybody would want it. Forget insurance. I don't

576
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:32.039
need insurance. I've got God. But we but inevitably, we

577
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:35.840
know the reality. That's why churches have in many cases

578
00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:40.000
security teams with armed guards because they alter even though

579
00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:46.440
they preached differently, they themselves know that God's not standing

580
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:54.519
guard at their front door, right, I mean, come on,

581
00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:58.360
we know that. I wish, look, I wish it was

582
00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:04.400
the case that God would always protect me. Right. Look.

583
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:08.199
I remember being a Christian teenager and I wanted to

584
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take the teenagers to the Taylor County Coliseum on a

585
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Friday night because the band Poison was playing, and I

586
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:17.760
wanted to hand out tracks to the teenagers there because

587
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that was back in the days with general admission. They

588
00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:22.159
got there five hours early. They had nowhere to go,

589
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:25.880
so you could just walk up to each one. They

590
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:28.599
had nowhere to go, right there, was like they was simple, right,

591
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:35.800
and guess what the parents said, not my kid. That

592
00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:39.519
could be dangerous. Now, at that time, I was I

593
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:41.440
kind of believed in the idea of God's protection. But

594
00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:44.079
because that's what been preached. So I'm like, well, so

595
00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:47.760
now you're scared for your kid. Don't you trust God?

596
00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:52.280
A bunch of cowards? So I went didn't have any

597
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:55.360
problem now, not because I'm saying God protect me. Because

598
00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:58.800
the people I'd been to nine million concerts from the

599
00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:02.039
time I was first concert was kissed, was in kindergarten.

600
00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:05.320
I mean I saw everyone, so I was used to

601
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.639
the concert crowd. I wouldn't even concern, So I had

602
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.960
no problem, witness had no problem. Everything was great. K

603
00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:13.519
Texas News showed up and thought we were protesting. I'm like,

604
00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:16.079
I'm not protesting music. Okay, if it was up to me,

605
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:18.639
i'd be inside listening. But I'm out here doing this

606
00:39:18.760 --> 00:39:20.639
only because I feel this is important. But I would

607
00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:22.599
prefer to be inside. But I didn't have money for

608
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:25.280
a ticket, okay, but I had money to buy some tracks. Okay,

609
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:28.480
so not even I'm not even God. I'm like, don't

610
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:30.320
put me on the news, because then that would be

611
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:33.400
what it's self serving. It'd be self served. So I

612
00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:34.920
wouldn't allow them to put me on the news. And

613
00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:36.719
it was a big deal. But the point was the

614
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:41.880
parents talked a big game until their little Johnny, her

615
00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:45.480
little Susie could be put in possible danger. And then

616
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:47.239
they were like, no, I'm like, well I think you

617
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:50.119
believed it good, I could protect and gool, I hear

618
00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:52.760
your prayer meeting where you talk about you don't believe

619
00:39:52.760 --> 00:40:00.840
it at all because deep down we know, oh that's

620
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:02.599
not the way it works. We want it to be

621
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:06.519
that way, right, So when it comes to God's protection,

622
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:10.280
Israel could pray away different than I can. Now. I

623
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:13.199
know God is sovereign that he can protect, but there's

624
00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:16.559
no guarantee that he will because I've not been given

625
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:21.960
those promises like they were given no covenant that includes

626
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:26.119
those things, right, not for us, not for us? All right?

627
00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:30.039
And then well there's a lot more here, but I'll

628
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.079
skip some of that, all right. So so when to

629
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:39.039
me the imprecatory prayers can be understood? And what liked

630
00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:44.320
that it happened because of a theocratic monarchy, which would

631
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:49.000
make some sense, and second the covenant. But there's a

632
00:40:49.079 --> 00:40:55.079
third possibility here, right, there's a third possibility here. The

633
00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:58.239
third possibility is that the language at least in Saw

634
00:40:58.280 --> 00:41:02.159
eighty three and this imprecatory prayer, that this we are

635
00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:06.960
misunderstanding the language in our minds to believe that he

636
00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:12.199
wants them destroyed. But that's not how to understand the

637
00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:16.760
way the Jews used language. All right, this is the argument.

638
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:18.800
Are you ready. I'm going to read this so that

639
00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:21.599
you can hear how this argument is. All right? All right?

640
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:27.679
The language of destruction or being put to shame and

641
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:36.800
the context of ancient Hebrew, does not always mean literal annihilation. Instead,

642
00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:41.920
it can refer to being brought low, defeated, or humiliated.

643
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:44.920
The Psamus is asking that God would defeat these enemies

644
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:47.320
in such a way that their pride and false sense

645
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:51.039
of security are stripped away, leading them to recognize the

646
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:57.559
power and sovereignty of the true God. Now look at

647
00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:02.239
Psalm eighty three, look at that entire precatory section and

648
00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:05.480
see if there is any language that would possibly support

649
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:08.400
this idea that they're not actually asking for the enemies

650
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:15.119
to be killed. Okay, what does verse eighteen say, man

651
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:19.920
may know that now his name alone is true? Okay,

652
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:23.360
he asked these things that sound like destruction, but then

653
00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:26.320
he says that they may No, you don't know anything

654
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:29.039
if you are dead. What else does it go on

655
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:35.840
to say for sixteen? Is it saying that they seek that. Okay,

656
00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:40.599
they may seek you, they may know you. Anything else

657
00:42:41.119 --> 00:42:46.639
in that section we have sinkh No, is there anything else?

658
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:54.159
Let's identify those all again with everyone, or a look

659
00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:57.000
at verse sixteen. Fill their faces with a shame that

660
00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:01.800
they may seek everybody see that your name, Lord, Let

661
00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:04.400
them be confounded and dismayed forever. Yet let them be

662
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:09.320
put to shame and perish, that they may know that you,

663
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:12.920
whose name alone is the Lord. So the fact that

664
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:16.639
he wants them to seek and know means they're not destroyed.

665
00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:19.760
So the argument is that demonstrates that they're using a

666
00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:26.440
typical Hebrew linguistic technique, which is basically what how would

667
00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:31.760
we classify this kind of language? Poetic? I like another word.

668
00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:39.440
I use it all the time. Hyperbole. It's hyperbolic. It's exaggerated, right,

669
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:44.840
it's exaggerated. Right, I don't know what. Now. Some of

670
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:47.239
you may all be good parents, but there are times

671
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:49.440
for me being a parent, and I may not always

672
00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:51.320
been good. You know, if you're in the car and

673
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:53.960
they're in the backseat driving, stop it, I'm gonna go

674
00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:57.280
there and kill you. Okay, Well, you don't actually mean

675
00:43:57.320 --> 00:44:00.199
you're going to kill them, right, you probably have, says

676
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.920
something like, maybe you have it, okay, but I probably

677
00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:06.320
have Okay, all right, So there probably times I let

678
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:11.840
my language be very exaggerated, but I never any intention

679
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.920
of beating them to death or killing them or what

680
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.800
other words you would use. Now, they when they're older,

681
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:20.199
they hold it against you and say, you said you

682
00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.639
were going to kill me, and you're yet here, you

683
00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:25.119
are alive, So clearly I didn't. All right, So all right,

684
00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:29.039
The point is it's exaggerated language, and that would seem

685
00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:39.000
to kind of indicate it, right, right, So basically, so

686
00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:44.320
basically we have the idea that the language here, we

687
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:48.599
should just understand that it's using very possibly hyperbolic language.

688
00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:50.639
But even if we don't believe in hyperbolic language, what

689
00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:55.280
can we believe? We can believe that it clearly the

690
00:44:55.400 --> 00:45:00.840
language itself is demonstrating what that. Hey, he doesn't want

691
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:03.199
them destroyed. He wants them to come to know God

692
00:45:03.239 --> 00:45:07.519
and do what seek God? All right? Does everybody see that?

693
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Now there's another possible thing to understand about this language.

694
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This seems to once again support this teaching, all right,

695
00:45:14.920 --> 00:45:19.760
that there's a common biblical theme that judgment leads to repentance.

696
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By bringing about their downfall, God might lead these enemies

697
00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:27.440
to abandon their rebellion and acknowledge Him as Lord. The

698
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:30.440
prayer and visions that through their defeat, they would be

699
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:33.239
driven to a place of humility where they might seek

700
00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:39.639
God genuinely. All right? Does that make sense? All right?

701
00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:41.679
There's a lot more we can say. But when it

702
00:45:41.719 --> 00:45:44.039
comes to the imprecatory section, what are some of the

703
00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:46.960
things that we can derive from that? The imprecatory probably

704
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:49.559
fits under the section or the idea of a philologic

705
00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:57.920
a theocratic monarchy. Right, everybody got that. Secondly under God's covenant,

706
00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:04.280
and third possibly using hyperbolic language to ultimately ask for

707
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:07.280
what that the people would seek God and no God,

708
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:10.719
he does want them defeated, He does want them brought whoa.

709
00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:14.000
He does want something done, but he wants it to

710
00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:16.159
be done in such a way that they can seek

711
00:46:16.199 --> 00:46:20.400
God and know God. Everybody got that? All right? Now

712
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:25.480
that leaves us with what That leaves us with just

713
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:27.559
a very little part. Now, I'm gonna try to finish this,

714
00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:32.440
all right. I'm gonna try to finish this, hopefully I can.

715
00:46:33.239 --> 00:46:37.280
All Right, for just a second, there I almost thought

716
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:39.920
I was going down to have a seizure. So I

717
00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:41.559
came over here and grabbed the pew because I thought

718
00:46:41.559 --> 00:46:43.559
I was going down. Okay. Then I came over here

719
00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:45.280
and grabbed the pulpit, thought I was going down. So

720
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:47.719
I'm gonna try to finish this because we got to

721
00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:50.480
finish this, right, We're so close. So if I go down,

722
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:55.960
just do what. Just Just let me lay there, okay,

723
00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:57.679
Just let me lay there and seeze. Okay, But I

724
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:00.559
think I can finish this, okay, because we only have

725
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:02.440
a couple of parts left. I gotta finish this, right,

726
00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:04.480
I mean next week would be a mess. Okay, So

727
00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:06.960
here we go. I'm gonna do this. You're ready, all right,

728
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:10.440
So what do we have left? If I sit down,

729
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:12.440
just let me sit Okay, all right, here we go.

730
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:17.079
You're ready. Fill their faces with shame that they may seek,

731
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:26.079
they may seek your name, O Lord, Let them be

732
00:47:26.159 --> 00:47:29.119
confounded and be dismayed, Let them be put to shame,

733
00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:32.920
that they may know that you, whose name alone is

734
00:47:33.039 --> 00:47:36.079
the Lord. All right? Everybody got that? All right? So

735
00:47:36.239 --> 00:47:38.159
we're just gonna take some of these phrases and look

736
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:41.880
at some of these. Okay, all right, First, that they

737
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.480
may know. Everybody see that phrase. I know I'm not

738
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:46.519
these in proper order, but I'm not gonna. I'm just

739
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:48.320
gonna try to get through my notes and not worry

740
00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:50.960
about order, right now, Okay? All right? That they may know,

741
00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:55.000
the phrase indicates that the purpose behind God's actions and

742
00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:58.800
the context of judgment and deliverance as revelatory. God's intention

743
00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:02.440
is not merely punit, but it's a desire that his

744
00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:05.239
actions lead to a greater knowledge of himself. In other words,

745
00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:08.920
the psalmist wants them by saying that they may know

746
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:12.599
he wants the actions to bring about the revelation of

747
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:16.440
who God is. All right, everybody got that? So that

748
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:19.440
they may know. It's a it's the significance there, so

749
00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:22.000
the judgement the lesson. Here, God's judgment and actions and

750
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:24.119
history are designed to reveal his character and to bring

751
00:48:24.199 --> 00:48:26.840
people to a recognition of his sovereignty. We learn that

752
00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:29.960
God's ultimate goal is not destruction, but the revelation of

753
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:32.760
his truth, aiming to lead people to acknowledge him. So

754
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:36.000
judgment is supposed to lead to in a sense of revelation.

755
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.920
If they face the judgment and the destruction, hopefully that

756
00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:43.239
will humble them and they will do what know who

757
00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:46.840
God is? Right? Does that make sense? Okay? All right?

758
00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:52.239
Next phrase, find the phrase whose name alone is the Lord?

759
00:48:53.239 --> 00:49:00.880
Everybody see that phrase or something similar that they may know? Okay?

760
00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:05.960
How does that say it? Your name alone is the Lord?

761
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:08.880
Or Jehovah? All right? Everybody got that. The use of

762
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:12.280
name and Hebrew, though it's closely associated with one's character

763
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:14.920
and identity. Here the Lord or now we can get

764
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:18.360
into discussion is it Jehovah? Is it Yahweh? Because remember

765
00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:20.559
they didn't write all the letters of the name, Okay,

766
00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:24.760
so there's always that argument over it. Okay. Is emphasized

767
00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:28.280
as the unique and singular name, indicating exclusivity in God's

768
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:30.920
identity as the covenant God of Israel. This is a

769
00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:34.320
declaration of monotheism. There is no other God besides the Lord.

770
00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:38.880
So that phrase appears where that they may know that

771
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:42.639
you whose name alone is the Lord? What do they

772
00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:45.960
want them to know? That there is only one God

773
00:49:46.199 --> 00:49:49.599
and that one God is the God of Israel? All right?

774
00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:52.559
This teaches us about the exclusivity and uniqueness of God.

775
00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:55.239
He is not one among many gods, but the only

776
00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:58.679
true God. All right. Then it has the idea of

777
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:01.639
the Lord that which is or yahweh. We can get

778
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:04.199
into discussion there, talks. It doesn't say something about the

779
00:50:04.239 --> 00:50:08.239
most High? Okay, whose name alone is the Lord? Are

780
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:11.000
the most High? Over all the earth? Most High would

781
00:50:11.039 --> 00:50:17.719
signify what his supreme supremacy, his sovereignty, all of that, right,

782
00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:21.000
and then over all the earth, just that his control

783
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:25.000
is everywhere? All right? So the bottom line is is

784
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:30.159
what does he ultimately want to happen? Hey, God, defeat them.

785
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:32.960
You may even use language like to destroy them, but

786
00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:36.719
it's really to destroy their pride, their arrogance, and their

787
00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:40.519
faith in their false gods, that they may be brought

788
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:44.679
to understanding the true God. All right, everybody got that?

789
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:49.639
All right? That I'm gonna say that concludes saw maybe three.

790
00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:51.760
I have a whole lot more in my notes, but

791
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:53.880
I'm not gonna make it. Okay, all right? Are we good?

792
00:50:53.880 --> 00:50:57.480
There is that good? Did Did I say anything too ridiculous?

793
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:01.159
I hope I didn't. I hope it didn't. Okay, Yeah, okay, yeah,

794
00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:04.719
so it's not yet that that's not very confident. All right,

795
00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:06.719
I'm gonna stop there, all right,