Psalm 83 Pt 5

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All right, this morning we go
back to Psalm eighty three. I don't

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necessarily want to be in Psalm eighty
three, but that's where we are.

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I feel like I have to finish
this. When this all started, I

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thought it was going to be It
was more. It was more out of

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kind of just curiosity and just confused
why. I don't even know how many

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sermons I've listened to on PSAW eighty
three, and the more I listen to,

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the more perplexed and convoluted everything becomes. It's one thing that just people

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offer an interpretation of psawm eighty three
that you can be like, all right,

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that's their interpretation, here's my interpretation. The two interpretations are not the

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same, so there's a disagreement.
Move on. What has been maddening is

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well, the original series that sparked
all of this. It's now up to

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twenty one parts, and I think
I'm at part eleven or part twelve,

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and I can honestly say ninety percent
of it has nothing to do with PSA

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Madi three. I mean it talks
about everything KJV only music, women's dress,

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I mean everything other than saw Mayti
three. And I don't even know

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where they're taking it from. And
then sometimes then after like ten parts,

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then he goes back to verse one
and it kind of just starts walking through

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it. But then as soon as
he starts walking through it, it's never

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about Israel, but then it's supposed
to be about a coming Middle East war,

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which they never identify. The whole
thing is maddening. And then so

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if that's not and then not only
is that bad enough, multiple things said

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in the sermon are just absolutely false. There's just not true. Things he

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says about some of the end of
countries here that he tries to identify with

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modern countries, there's just not any
truth to it. Clearly, things he

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says said about manuscripts just completely fraudulent. And so that was bad enough.

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And then the other sermons, as
we've already talked about, how they some

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of many of them cant sawmity three
to second Chronicles twenty, but then by

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saying things that are absolutely fraudulent,
like johosephat calling in Acef just not true.

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Acef was dead. So like,
I don't understand what it is about

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Saw eighty three that makes people either
one feel like they have to make it

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prophetic. But then don't do anything
to prove that it's prophetic, meaning pointing

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towards a future war. Even for
us, those who try to connect it

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to Second Chronicles twenty seem to have
to utilize complete falsehoods in order to try

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to make it work. What is
it about Psalm eighty three? I don't

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know. So we have worked on
it. I think in some ways,

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I think we've done enough to kind
of have everyone understand what Sam eighty three

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is. But I want to continue
to do more work on it. And

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I'm going to try to do something
today just to try to combat a criticism

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that's usually leveled at me when I
handle Old Testament scripture. So we'll try

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to work on that all in the
next two hours. So let's do this

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simply put, simply put, Psalm
eighty three is what. Let's see how

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if you can simply tell me what
Psalm eighty three is after the I don't

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know, thirty hours of work I've
done on Psalm eighty three, simply what

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is Psalm eighty three? Okay,
it's that simple. Psalm eighty three is

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a lament written by Asaff, who
was the worship leader during the time of

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David. Maybe somewhat into the time
of Solomon. He composes a lament to

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express the fear, concern, worry, doubt that the people have at the

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time. He is composing it because
they are facing a situation where a confederacy

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of nations is coming to wipe b
Israel off the face of the earth.

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That's what it is. I mean, there's nothing, there's nothing in the

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text that makes me go, wait
a minute, we got to make this

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all symbolic. Wait a minute,
this is prophetic. No, it's just

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a lament where he cries out.
And so the as of last week,

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I kept making this emphasis and I
don't know if anyone will remember it.

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It's one of the last things I
said in the sermon on Sunday. I

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said it in the Sunday school Hour. I also said it in the Sunday

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morning hour. I kind of said
the main lesson, one of the main

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lessons we can take from Psalm eighty
three is that Psalm eighty three. I

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won't ask you to repeat it and
see it to see if you remember,

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but if not, I'll repeat it
multiple times today. Psaw eighty three is

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a lament that clearly kind of describes
what living out the Christian life is because

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as Christians, we live a life
believing in a God whom we cannot see,

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while living in circumstances that we can
see. That seemed to indicate and

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at us that there is no God. That's kind of the and Psaw many

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three expresses that right right at the
very beginning. What does psaw many three

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Verse one say, do not keep
silent, Oh God, do not hold

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your peace, do not be still, Oh God. Now that indicates one

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that he believes in God, right, But at the same time, there's

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something making them question, where are
you God? Why are you not doing

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anything? How come you're not being
active? So the Christian life really is

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that life. We all of us
live a life where we believe in a

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God whom we cannot see. Can
we all agree with that? Yet we

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live in the midst of circumstances that
we very much can see. And many

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times those circumstances scream at us that
there is no God, or that God

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is silent, that God has abandoned
us, that God is not involved.

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The God seems not even concerned with
our circumstances. And every day I could

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bring a stack of newspaper articles and
go well, this happened or this happened,

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and what would you say? Where
was God? All right? So

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that's the struggle. That's the struggle
of the Christian life. And Saw maybe

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three it's expressing that very struggle.
So we know what it is. It's

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a lament. We know what it's
expressing. It's expressing fear, doubt,

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and concern in the face of circumstances
they can't see, wanting to know where

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the God is whom they cannot see, because they want the God whom they

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cannot see to get involved in the
circumstances that they can see. So in

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that sense, like what else needs
to be said? Right, that's pretty

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simple, pretty straightforward. Why is
Why are all the sermons about it make

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it so complicated? I truly don't
know. I truly don't understand. And

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many of the sermons don't even bother
to provide an outline or anything. It's

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just weird. I don't get it. That look the low sometimes I can

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understand by going okay, their theology
would lead on that direction, and we

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just don't agree on the theology.
This is just I just don't understand the

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difficulty with SAW eighty three. But
here's what we are going to do.

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Right, we are going to look
at two. We saw eighty three is

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the overall thing. But I'm going
to try to focus on two really really

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two basic concepts, right, or
maybe maybe we could break it down into

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three if I want. All right, So what I'm going to do is

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I'm going to first of all,
emphasize and I'm gonna be repetitive on this

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until we until you almost have it
memorized. I want us to look how

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Asaf the Sawmist describes the enemy's attributes
and actions, and we see that describe

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and verses two through five. All
right, we will read it in a

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minute. So we're gonna look at
how Asaf describes the action and attributes of

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the enemies. All right, everybody
got that. Second, we're going to

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look at the enemies listed, because
he lists the enemies by name. Okay,

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everybody got that. So what's the
first time? We're gonna look at

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the actions and attributes of the enemies. Second, the the the enemies listed,

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and then third we're gonna just look
at I don't know how I want

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to put this. We're gonna look
at how he wants to deal, well,

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how he wants God to deal with
the enemies, right, which is

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starting in verse nine to we'll say
down to eleven or you know, to

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eleven, because what remember the way
the first way he wants to deal with

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the enemies. It's very interesting because
what does he want? He wants God

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to act in the present as he
has acted in the past, all right,

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So that that's to be a major
focus here. So the attributes and

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actions of the enemies, the enemies
listed, and then asking God to deal

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in the present as he had in
the past. Right, So that's simple,

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straightforward. Now, on one hand, I could literally walk through that

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and probably fifteen to twenty thirty minutes
and we've already kind of walked through it.

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But we're gonna step back and do
something different. And here's the reason

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why. Okay, one of the
criticisms that I may receive frequently is my

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constant yelling and screaming that so many
times people take Old Testament passages and they

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immediately kick out the original recipients and
make it all about us. And that

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drives me absolutely crazy when people do
that, right, because it leads to

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major problems, right, because you're
either then claiming that in the that scripture

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talking about someone else is about us, so we get the promises, or

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we get this, or we get
that, and in some cases it's just

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not the case. All week on
the podcast, it's been Joshua one eight,

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Joshua one eight, Joshua one eight, Joshua one eight. I don't

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know how many sermons I reviewed on
Joshua one eight. I'm to the point

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I never want to hear another sermon
ever again on Joshua one a because in

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every single sermon, guess what they
did at Joshua one eight. They kicked

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out the original recipients. Boom made
it immediately about us, not them.

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They make it about us, right, and and they completely not one sermon

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connected Joshua one eight with Deuteronomy twenty
eight. You can't read Joshua one eight

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and disconnected from Deuteronomy twenty eight.
Deuteronomy twenty eight is what we sometimes refer

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to as the Land covenant. God
makes a specific covenant to Israel that when

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you go into the land, and
if you do these things, what happens.

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You get blessings, you get good
success, and if you don't do

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these things, what do you get? Curse that is for Israel. So

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you get to Joshua one. Ain't
he is telling Israel on the basis of

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that covenant. Don't let the words
of this book, those specific instructions clearly

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given an Exodus and Deuteronomy. Don't
let that depart from your mouth, meditate

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on it day and night, and
do everything that's in it. Now,

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what do you know from a historical
perspective, did they do that? No?

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We know this from a historical perspective. Does any of us do that?

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No? All right, so we
already know that our interpretation here,

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We've got to do some work on
it. Right. Well, One,

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clearly those are law passages which only
are going to condemn us and make us

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go to Christ. Because Christ did
do those three things? Did he not

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they let the law of the Lord
depart from his mouth? No? Did

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he meditate on a day and night? Yes? Did he observe all that

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was in it? Yes? So
in Christ he's done it for us.

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But most importantly though, it's specifically
for Israel. So I get so frustrated

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when people go to these passages and
just make them about us, and nobody

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in churches raise their hands. Everybody's
just in the congregation going amen, Amen,

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Amen. I'm like, what are
you ameny? Okay, you're not

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even understanding the text, so I
get criticized for that. What drives me

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crazy is people's criticism tends not to
be accurate. Just because I say that

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most of the passages that people immediately
apply to us is to someone else,

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that does not mean that there's not
ways to possibly make it applicable to us.

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Right, there are lessons that can
be gained from it. But what

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must we do when we find lessons
and any passage of scripture? Right,

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when we're going to make lessons for
us? What must we do? How

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should we be able to find those
lessons without doing what everyone else does,

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which just kicks out the original recipients. Well, I'm not going to ask

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you to identify how you should do
it. You should know how to do

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it. But what you have to
do first and foremost is the first application.

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The first interpretation has to be dependent
upon what the original recipients has to

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be, all right, then any
lesson drawn to us must be consistent with

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what the text actually says. Correct. For example, if you're going to

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apply Joshua one to eight to us, well, then nobody gets any prosperity

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or success without what meditating on God's
word day and night. I've yet to

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meet a Christian even comes close to
doing that. You can't even get Christians

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to read the Bible. You definitely
can't get Christians to study the Bible,

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and meditation goes way beyond reading,
right, So then, but no,

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then what we do is we take
that and I say, well we can

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do it. Nobody does it,
so why do it? If you're going

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to make it applicable, it's got
to be You've got to then follow the

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actual text. You can't then come
in and modify the text. Right.

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If you're gonna say the text is
promising something, well, then it's got

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to be able to be somewhat connected
to reality. Correct. Okay, so

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there are certain things we have to
do. So I'm going to try today,

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based off those three concepts in Saw
eighty three that we're gonna look at,

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I'm going to try to take some
of that and make it somewhat applicable

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to us. So what are the
three things we're gonna look at for the

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next two hours? First, attributes
and actions of the enemies, Number two

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the list of the enemies, and
number three basically them wanting God to deal

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with the present enemy like you did
in the past. Now that third one

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is going to be very difficult,
and it's going to be a challenge to

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see if we can eat if this
is even going to work. We're gonna

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I'm gonna try to put us in
the text to some level, and then

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we're gonna see if it falls apart. It may fall completely apart, and

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if it falls completely apart, well, then no one can accuse me of

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not trying. Okay, but we
got to be honest with it. Okay,

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I think that third part is where
things are going to really fall apart

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for us. But okay, we
will see. All right, everybody ready,

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so that we've already covered this,
but I am going to if all

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we can accomplish in this hour is
being like, I don't care if I

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have to repeat this one hundred times
for each one. I want you to

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know the attributes of these enemies because
this is what the rest of the day

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is completely dependent upon. Okay,
everybody got that? All right? So

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saw eighty three to one. There
is really the heart of the lament God.

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Where are you? Why are you
being silent? Why are you being

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inactive? Right? Everybody got that? All right? Verse two. Right

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now, this is going to give
us the reason for the lament, and

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he's going to give the reason of
the limit. It's going to because of

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the attributes and actions of the enemies, starting in verse two. For behold,

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your enemies make a number one a
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tumult. All right now, remember
we talked a little bit. I want

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to make sure we get this.
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one of their actions, kind of
one of their attributes, is they produce

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and create a tumult. Now,
the word tumult and the King James refers

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to a loud, confused noise,
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When the Saumus mentions that the enemies
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that there is an uproar, commotion
chaotic behavior being exhibited by them. This

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description suggests a sense of disorder,
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God's people. They are not acting
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disruptive and tumultuous manner, likely reflecting
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The use of the term tumult conveys
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by the enemies of God as they
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chaot So they are chaotic, they're
loud, they're unpredictable, okay, which

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could create a sense of panic,
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someone is unpredictable and chaotic, you
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If someone is acting calmly and logically, you may have a way to

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be able to anticipate the next move. But if they're chaotic and loud and

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aggressive and disordered, you may I
don't know what's coming next. Who knows,

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I don't even know how to predict
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description of God's enemies here, or
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in this section is they are chaotic, They're loud. There's no order,

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there's no sense of calm, there's
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in some ways this kind of describes
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sense it describes what not only them, It kind of describes what they're going

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to produce. Right, Are they
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and panic amongst the people clearly,
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they have done. What Look at
verse one, they're crying out to God,

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going, God, where are you? Because there's something so disturbing that's

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making them disturbing. When things around
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are loud, loud, and disorderly, that can sometimes do what create a

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sense of chaos inside of you?
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So what's the first kind of attribute
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I like that word chaos, chaotic, loud, unpredictable. We have that,

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we got, I mean, repeat
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Next, what's the next attribute characteristic? Before that? There's a phrase before

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that, and those who hate you
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the enemies are not only opposed to
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seated animosity towards God himself. Their
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or community, but extend to the
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against God. They hate God.
The enemies hate God. That they are

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loud, chaotic, I mean,
you don't know what to expect from them,

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and they hate God, meaning if
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everything associated with God. Right,
They're gonna hate what God would like,

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or what God would love, or
what God would approve of. They hate

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God, right, so chaotic and
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it simple, they are chaotic and
they hate God. Everybody have that down,

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all right? What's the third?
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phrase lifted up their heads can symbolize
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suggests that the enemies are acting with
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perhaps displaying an attitude of superiority or
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power, influence, or confidence,
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The ideas they're just arrogant, proud, boastful, rebellious. They're not.

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They're lifting up their heads almost in
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these enemies described? Number one chaotic? Number two hate God and number three

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prideful, arrogant, defiant? Getting
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They have taken crafty counsel against your
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idea of crafty counsel. This phrase
suggests that the enemies are devising, cunning,

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and deceitful strategies are playing to harm
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methods, but deceitful, shrewd methods, possibly underhanded tactics and schemes. The

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use of the word crafty implies a
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planning, indicating that they are.
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Right, crafty, council, crafty. Everybody understand that deceitful, underhanded,

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right, subtle, they're not just
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being crafty and deceitful, and that
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to even know what they're going to
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at the same time, crafty,
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I'm shady, all the words we
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even more of a threat, Right, all right, So what's number one?

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Chaos? Chaotic, two hate God? Three arrogant, defiant, just

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rebellious, prideful? Next, cunning, crafty, craftiness, cunning, deceitful,

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manipulative people. Right, Okay,
okay, I think so? Right?

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Yeah, right, exactly crafty.
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examples, lots of examples of that, yeah, all throughout the Bible.

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Right, so we got that all
right? Next, all right, they

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consult together. You see that.
It's mentioned a number of times. Verse

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three, they have taken crafty counsel
against your people. They have consulted together

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against Well, well we'll just say
consulted together. Then if you look down,

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you see it, see it?
Yeah? Verse five, Oh there

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it is, Okay, I knew
somewhere else. For they have consulted together

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with one consent, they form a
confederacy against you. What's the main thing

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to take from that? They're unified. They're unified in their schemes. They're

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unified in their pride. They're unified, and they're chaos. They're unified in

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their purpose. They come together.
They are unified in these areas too,

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because they hate God. They have
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they hate the things associated with God, and obviously they hate Israel. All

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right, So but they come together, they have a unified purpose. They're

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not divided, they're not there's no
division amongst them. They're unified. Right,

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So let's go through these again.
Chaos Number two hate God. Number

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three arrogant, proud, okay,
fourth, cunning, crafty, deceitful,

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manipulative, next, unified. They
come together. They are setting aside whatever

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would divide them for an ultimately common
purpose. Okay, right, do we

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have another one? Okay? They
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of what they have said, Come, let us cut them off from being

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a nation that the name of Visual
may be remembered no more. They are

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dedicated to the absolute destruction of Israel, God's covenant people. They come together,

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and for what purpose? They want
to destroy Israel, the thing that

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God loves, the thing that God
chose, the thing that would be important

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to God. They want to wipe
off the face of the earth. That's

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very important in this. All right, So let's get this, let's get

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these these attitudes and attributes right.
Always. Number one, we got chaos.

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Everybody should have that. That's that's
an easy one to remember since we're

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just using one word chaos. Number
two, hate God. That's an easy

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one to remember, since we're only
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that arrogant, prideful, defiant,
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But the prideful is The main thing
to take from that, they're prideful,

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next, cunning, crafty, deceitful, manipulative, right, shrewd, subtle,

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All right, schemes. You get
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Okay, next unified, and the
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or we could say, committed to
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chosen in loves. That's very important. Okay, Now is there one more.

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We spend a lot of time on
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we that's the same same kind of
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skipped it over up in verse three, but we'll go back to it.

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They consulted together. Okay, continue, No, No verse three against your

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sheltered ones, hidden ones are treasured
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hidden ones, treasured ones. Okay, So what we want to the

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main thing we want to say here
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what God treasures, what God you
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go that way. It's the same
idea of Israel, but Israel's clearly identified

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here. He just says sheltered ones, treasured ones, the hidden ones.

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There's a lot of different phrases each
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has different kind of you know,
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main idea is this is what These
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So you could say, we could
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to going after God's chosen ones,
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a better way of putting it,
right, because is Israel God's elect.

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Yes, he chose them from all
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the strongest, not because they were
the wisest, and definitely not because they

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were the most godly correct. Right, so he goes they go after that,

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all right, So I now I
think we have a pretty good picture.

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Right, So let's see if we
have these. I want these almost

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memorized. All right, everybody ready, Chaos number two, hate God number

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three, arrogant, prideful number four, deceit, cunning, crafty, shrewd,

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manipulative. Next, united, committed
together, they're committed to a unified

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purpose. Next they want to destroy
Israel. Right, and then we'll we're

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going to separate the next one,
right, because the sheltered ones, we're

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gonna say God's elect. The one
that mentions Israel I just want that because

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that's specifically named. All Right.
I know that those are connected to some

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level, but I just want them. I want to separate them for that

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purpose. Does that make sense,
all right? Because Israel's clearly so we

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want to keep it. That's the
enemies. That's the way they are described,

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all right, that's the way that
that's their attributes, that's their characteristics.

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Now here's the question. Here's the
question. All right, everybody ready,

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Okay, Now, I could go
to the enemies listed, but I'm

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not going to do that right now. All right, we'll get to them

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in a minute. All right.
Well, well we'll look at them in

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a minute, but let me just
ask this question here. I'll ask the

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question here and now I'll return to
the question in a minute. Okay.

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So here's the question. When you
look at that description of those enemies,

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is there anything and that description that
could be even remotely applicable or connected to

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us without doing damage of the original
meaning of the text. I'm waiting for

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you to answer. Okay, we're
getting we gotta know. Okay, I

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don't know. I'm just asking you. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna give

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anything away, Okay. I said, what's in the text that could be

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applicable or connected to us? Anything
could be applicable. What what can we

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take from this? Uh without destroying
the meaning of the text? Clearly?

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First and foremost, this is describing
what the enemies that they are facing at

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that time, all right? So
do we just leave it there but that's

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at the end? Or is there
something there that would make you think,

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well, maybe this has maybe this
could be applied or connected to something beyond

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just that. Is there a lesson
or is there something that can be taken

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from it? All right, y'all
don't seem too convinced that there is anything,

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all right, So we should just
say, Hey, that's the description

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of the enemy's ri Israel the end, all right? Okay, that's that's

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how y'all feel. Okay, Well, this is gonna get really ugly because

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I disagree one thousand percent. Okay, but I believe there's something in the

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text that would tell me to disagree
with that. Okay, let's go through

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them again, all right. The
first description of the enemies is chaos number

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two, Hey, God, number
three, they lift up their heads,

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proud, arrogant number next, cunning, deceitful, shrewd manipulate. Next Unified.

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Next, I want to destroy Israel. Next they go after God's elect

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people. Okay, all right,
do what I mean? These are attributes

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that I think we could be able
to say, go way beyond just the

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original context, right, I mean, those are very specific attributes, are

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they not. Yeah, yeah,
don't think it. There's nothing there that

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would make you think, huh,
those attributes sound kind of familiar. Okay,

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why yeah, you're going directly to
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would go. Okay, I guess
we that would make more sense, Okay,

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okay, all right, well so
we'll just leave it there, y'all.

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Don't seem to I thought it would
just kind of jump off the like

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whoa. If you think about those
attributes, this could go a lot of

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directions. Okay, but since you're
not getting that, well we'll come back

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to it. All right, So
let's go to the that's the first part.

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The enemies attributes and actions are described
in very specific detail, all right.

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Typically, when I'm reading a text
and it goes into that grade of

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detail, I think that should get
your attention, right, I mean I

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think they could have said that probably
like, hey, your enemies hate you

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and us. But it puts into
very specific details about the attributes, does

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it not? Or no? I
don't think so? Okay, yeah,

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I think. I mean it's been
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at those specific attributes, I don't
know, I have a hard time just

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saying, well, okay, nothing
for me there. I think that there's

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a lot that we could possibly consider. But next, what do they do?

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Next? The enemies are listed?
Remember I get view that line at

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the beginning, right, the enemies
are listed that starts where it starts in

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verse six. Okay, and what
do we have in verse six? The

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tents of eat them? All right? Eat them? Or the descendants of

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Esau, who held a long standing
rivalry with the Israelites. All right,

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so from a historical context, enemies. Right, they have a long standing

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rivalry with Israel. Next Ishmaelites,
descendants of Ishmael often associated with nomadic tribes

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in the region. You could possibly
see why they may have some issues with

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Israel. Correct, all right,
I think we can all derive something from

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that. I think we should be
able to Next Moab, these are descendants

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of Lot who were historical enemies of
Israel. Okay, Next, the Hagarins

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are the hag Rights, depending on
your translation, possibly a reference to a

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group of nomads or descendants of Hagar
right. Next Geball or Gbal right a

414
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city in the region of modern day
Lebanon. Now we could possibly dig in

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to their possible historical animosity or issues
with Israel, but okay, Next Ammon,

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descendants of Lot, also known for
their hostility towards Israel. Next Emilek,

417
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a long standing enemy of the Israelites, known for their attacks on the

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vulnerable. Next the Felistia or the
Philistines, inhabitants of the Philistine region,

419
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known for their conflicts with Israel throughout
history. All Right, So the point

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is all of these they're naming very
specific enemies because all of these enemies have

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a long history of having conflict with
whom Israel. So these are very specific.

422
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So in this particular case, right
from a historical perspective, the enemies

423
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are listed, and they're attributes and
characteristics are listed, so we know historically,

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this makes perfect sense why there would
be so bothered and concern because you

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take all of these enemies, and
all of these enemies have done what they've

426
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come together, They've conspired, right, They've formed a confederacy. It would

427
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be one thing to have to deal
with one of these nations, but now

428
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they are dealing with all of them, all conspiring, all committed to their

429
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ultimate destruction. You could see,
once again, this confirms my what I

430
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talked about last week. The major
emphasis here, and this is a psalm

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that describes the people who believe in
a God whom they cannot see, but

432
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living in the midst of circumstances that
they can see. That seems to describe

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that would seem to scream there is
no God, and that would write there

434
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when you list those enemies, that's
a great concern. Yes, those are

435
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historical enemies that are all now saying, you know what, instead of fighting

436
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against them separately, let's fight against
Israel together, which then would make it

437
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very very very concerning. Okay,
so we've got the enemies attributes, we

438
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got the enemies listed. Does anything
at this point I just still think it's

439
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:30.719
nothing for us. Why I'm asking
you, all right, So I just

440
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so I'll make sure we understand.
All right, So as individuals, if

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y'all were reading Psaw eighty three and
studying it, meditating on it, your

442
00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:51.400
conclusion would simply be well that's bad
for Israel the end. It wouldn't take

443
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:53.800
anything from it. Go okay,
I can apply this, or I can

444
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take this, or I can learn
this or nothing. Okay, all right,

445
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:04.000
So the so you would take,
you would focus on the limit.

446
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Okay. So I'm just gonna throw
this out there since no nobody else went

447
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there, and just see, all
right. As Christians in the spiritual realm,

448
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I think we can acknowledge that we
face various enemies that seek to undermine

449
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our relationship with God. These spiritual
enemies can take different forms and present diverse

450
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challenges to believers. Would we agree
with that statement? I took that statement

451
00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:52.519
from a different source, all right. That statement was taken as someone's observation

452
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:59.800
of Sawny three because they were like, well, look at those attributes and

453
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the the enemies are specifically listed.
Clearly, Israel's facing what kind of an

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enemy? A physical one. It
could be argued that the physical manifestation is

455
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being driven by something spiritual. It
could be argued whether we want to go

456
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:27.440
there or not, we don't know, right. I think we could argue

457
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that there's possibly something that hates what
God hates. There's possibly something that I

458
00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:38.400
don't know, hates God select there
is possibly something that we would describe as

459
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being very prideful and arrogant. There's
probably something we would describe as being very

460
00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:47.960
bringing about chaos and is chaotic.
There's probably something that we would describe as

461
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:53.519
being subtle and crafty and having schemes. I think there's something in the Bible

462
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that seems to fit that description relatively
well. I could be wrong, but

463
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I think that not only does it
fit the description, I think the entire

464
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:09.159
Bible gives all of the things we
just listed describe something with those exact descriptors,

465
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at least in part. Nobody does
anyone else know what? Okay,

466
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:20.880
Satan obviously right, Okay, Now, what if it possible that Satan possibly

467
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:25.320
does not like Israel and hates Israel
because they are God's chosen. I think

468
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there's a possibility, right. I
think there may be some scripture that would

469
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.639
even indicate that, right maybe,
and I think they would do so.

470
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:37.360
I what I want to do is
if they listed the enemies. Those are

471
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physical enemies, that's true, but
I think that we have enemies that we

472
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can list, And what we're gonna
try to do is go through a list

473
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of enemies. I've got a long
one I made. I think I have

474
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ten. I don't know if we'll
go through all ten, and I'm gonna

475
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try to demonstrate that those enemies have
the exact same attributes and characteristics as what's

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described in Psalm eighty three, almost
to the very word. Now, I

477
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:13.159
may not be able to prove it
for all ten. I don't know if

478
00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.360
we're gonna go through all ten,
but I'm gonna go through some of these.

479
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:19.239
I mean, some of these are
obvious to me. But We're gonna

480
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:27.480
go through and see if what Israel
faced in the physical we face in the

481
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spiritual with the exact same attributes.
Now, where this is going to fall

482
00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:40.360
apart is what Israel relies on to
deal with this situation. We'll see if

483
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:44.440
that's where. If that's where it
won't apply to us. But I think

484
00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:50.320
this is very applicable. Right,
we see physical enemies facing Israel, and

485
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:55.920
I should remind me that we have
what enemies. Now the question is does

486
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those attributes and characteristics of those enemies
do they actually describe our enemies? Now,

487
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:09.840
at any point we may decide what
Ah, this is not working,

488
00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:14.800
it's falling apart, and so we
can throw those out. We'll see,

489
00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:19.159
right, we'll see. I use
multiple sources here to try to compile a

490
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:22.599
list of these descriptors, going,
hey, okay, if this are if

491
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:27.440
this is the description of the enemy, and saw maybe three, how does

492
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:30.440
this spiritual enemy that everyone should be
able to agree as a spiritual enemy?

493
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Does it fit the same descriptors?
I use multiple sources to try to determine

494
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.039
if it works. Some of the
sources are in agreement. Some of the

495
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:44.719
sources don't know. But we were
going to see what we can come up

496
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with. All right, now we
are well, we've got like five minutes,

497
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so we'll just go ahead and introduce
the first one. Everyone should know

498
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.320
the first one, right when we
think of when we start thinking, we'll

499
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do this, let's do this in
five minutes, start writing compiling a list.

500
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Let's see how well you can do
of all the enemies that are Christian

501
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:10.159
faces? What are the enemies a
Christian faces? Start just compiling a list.

502
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To start compiling the list and see
what you can find specific enemies that

503
00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:27.199
we face. What's the first one
everyone wrote down? Oh, everyone wrote

504
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:30.079
the flesh first. Okay, interesting, Okay, that's probably good. Okay,

505
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:34.599
but that's that's interesting. But the
flesh, Now, if we go

506
00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:37.719
with the flesh, just the flesh
kind of okay, when we go with

507
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:44.079
flesh, we'll put flesh self or
nature sinful nature altogether, right because that

508
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:46.159
all kind of describes the same thing, right all right? Uh? Is

509
00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:51.400
the sinful nature the flesh? Does
it not lead to chaos? And it's

510
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:55.400
chaotic? It does not bring peace? All right? Doesn't hate God?

511
00:44:55.800 --> 00:45:00.000
Oh? Oh, way, this
sounds pretty discribed. It sounds pretty similar

512
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.320
or does it not? Okay?
What else? Is it? Prideful and

513
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:08.360
arrogant? That's a very essence of
our nature? Correct? All right?

514
00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:16.440
Next? Oh, it's absolutely the
hardest deceitful above. I mean, come

515
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:20.239
on, that's the simple one.
Like this is like this is like this

516
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:25.280
is like elementary stuff. Right next? Does it hate what God loves and

517
00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:31.840
treasures? Absolutely? All right?
In fact? Does our nature? Does

518
00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:37.599
our nature love what God has chosen
or elected? It hates it? Our

519
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:40.840
nature hates it. It's literally you
could read that description in Saw eighty three,

520
00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:45.079
and what you should have written down
is the first thing that should have

521
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:53.760
screamed at you was like that describes
me, correct, which is gonna be

522
00:45:53.880 --> 00:46:00.480
very interesting because when we see how
what Israel wants God to do to fix

523
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:05.199
their problem, it's fascinating because the
very first one. In fact, i'll

524
00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:07.719
just go ahead and give you a
preview. Look at verse nine. Deal

525
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:14.679
with them as with Midian. Right, everybody know where God dealt with Midian.

526
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:22.239
Gideon had a battle with the Midianites, right, we read it about

527
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:28.400
it in Judges six, seven and
eight. He has an army that's too

528
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:34.280
big. God reduces the army and
he wins the victory. Ooh, okay,

529
00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:38.400
So we want God to deal with
Midian like we want God to deal

530
00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:43.079
with our current enemies like he dealt
with our past enemies. And that sounds

531
00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:46.159
like such a good solution. But
how does that story end? They see

532
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:50.760
Gideon the hero, he returns as
a hero, and they're like, Gideon

533
00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.239
rule over us, and he's like, no, I don't want to rule

534
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:55.000
over you, but I do want
your gold and silver. And he makes

535
00:46:55.039 --> 00:47:02.000
an ephod which leads to idolatry.
Oh have to be a polygamist and an

536
00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:08.679
adulterer. Oh, and an idolatr. That's how the story ultimately ends,

537
00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:19.519
which then demonstrates what having God deal
with your external enemy does not fix the

538
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:27.719
real problem, because the real problem
is you. He can destroy the Medianites

539
00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:34.519
what it means, but destroying the
Midianites did not change what Gideon's sinful nature,

540
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:38.119
because it manifests itself right there in
chapter eight. He has a concubine,

541
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:45.519
he has multiple wives, and he
ultimately guess what happens to Israel after

542
00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:52.559
Gideon defeats the Midianites. They go
right back into idolatry because Gideon has this

543
00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:55.599
Ethod made. It's all right there
in Judges six, seven and eight.

544
00:47:55.719 --> 00:48:00.679
So immediately when I see that,
I'm like, whoa. Even though they

545
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:06.199
want to do with their physical enemy, what's the real enemy for Israel themselves?

546
00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:13.599
So guess what that description describes whom
us lady? That's that if you

547
00:48:13.639 --> 00:48:15.880
want to take something from Ssaw eighty
three, then that's what we see.

548
00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:20.480
The very first thing Sal eighty three
should make you scream is like, oh,

549
00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:23.960
man, I am not reading about
them, I'm reading about me right

550
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:29.119
here. I am the I am
the enemy in Psaw eighty three, it's

551
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:34.360
me. See we read that and
we're like, oh, all these bad

552
00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:37.719
people. And guess what almost every
preacher does with saw Maity three if they

553
00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:40.119
want to apply it. Oh,
it's the liberals, or it's them,

554
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:45.400
or it's them, or you should
be going it's us. Were saw eighty

555
00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:51.280
three? Were those enemies? That
describes us better than anything else? Could

556
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:54.760
you? If you're gonna make an
e harmony profile, make that your e

557
00:48:54.880 --> 00:49:04.719
harmony profile? Right? Chaotic?
I hate God. I'm prideful, arrogant,

558
00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:10.440
I'm cunning and deceitful. I hate
what God loves. Oh, nobody

559
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:16.159
wants to describe themselves that way.
I'm sorry. That's your nature, that's

560
00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:23.000
my nature, that's us. So
immediately we know saw me. And again

561
00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:27.480
the key is when you get to
the Midianites and you go read about how

562
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:30.159
he defeated the Midianites, just read
all the way to judges Ate and then

563
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:37.559
you're like, what is Gideon doing? You're like at that point you're like,

564
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:39.159
well, then there was no point
in defeating the Midianites. It didn't

565
00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:49.039
accomplish anything, because what's the real
enemy. So then that immediately makes me

566
00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:52.960
think, then the enemies here,
even though they're they're literal nations, they're

567
00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:58.159
really what we need to look at
is spiritual enemies because that's where the battle

568
00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:05.039
really is foed correct we did not
fight against flesh and plad to see.

569
00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:07.800
You see where we're going, all
right, So we'll we'll go through all

570
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of them. I don't know how
how many of you got down on your

571
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list, but I came up with
almost I think ten. So we'll work

572
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through them in the next hour.
And what we're gonna do, we're gonna

573
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do. It's gonna be repetitive,
but we're gonna take each one and then

574
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:28.320
look at what those no, no, no, those attributes, those attributes

575
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:31.039
to see if they apply to each
one of those enemies. If they do,

576
00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:37.360
then I think we are then staying
true to the text right and yet

577
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:42.119
being able to find something that's applicable
to us, which every one accuses me

578
00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:47.199
of not doing, which I always
do to some level, but we just

579
00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:51.159
got to be true. I spend
most of our time combating, however one

580
00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:53.960
keeps removing the original recipients. I
think I've been very fair to the original

581
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:58.280
recipients all the way through this,
have we not? So now we can

582
00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:00.960
say, Okay, we've got that
down. Where do we fit into this?

583
00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:06.800
Well, there may be a place
where we fit, but I'm putting

584
00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:10.199
it forth as a hypothesis because guess
what. I got no problem saying it

585
00:51:10.199 --> 00:51:14.079
fell apart. We're gonna test it, right. I like to put forth

586
00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:19.320
the hypotheses and then we test it
what together? Right? So I think

587
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.280
there's a part that's gonna fall apart. But we'll see, we'll see,

588
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:24.400
right. Well, we'll stuck there. So what are the attributes again?

589
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:29.440
Let's just go thro them again?
Chaos, Hey, God, proud,

590
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:39.519
arrogant, cunning, deceitful, shrewd, unified, destroy Israel and hate God's

591
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:44.280
elect or what God loves, God's
chosen? All right, everybody got those

592
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:47.880
attributes. If you get those attributes
down, you can do a lot with

593
00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:52.159
those attributes, and whenever you look
at a lot of different issues. All

594
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:53.679
right, So let's pray, Lord
God. We come before you this morning.

595
00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:59.440
Lord, as we continue to work
on Psaw eighty three, it appears

596
00:51:59.440 --> 00:52:04.679
first and forem we may want to
see ourselves and how we are the enemies,

597
00:52:06.199 --> 00:52:09.239
just as those nations were the enemies
of Israel and your enemy, we

598
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:15.239
are your enemy in every similar way. Help us see that and be convicted

599
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:19.480
by that. We asked us in
Jesus name, and God's people said