Psalm 83: Who Is Praying?

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Looking at our world from a theological
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making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone. It is Friday, June the twenty

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first, twenty twenty four. It
is currently two twelve pm Central Time,

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and I am coming to you live
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in Abilene, Texas. Now,
I am hoping that this broadcast goes a

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little bit better than the last one, the last one I had. You

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know, of course, my daughters
I go live, they can be in

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another state, another country, they
could it could be at any time.

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I go live, Boom, Almost
instantaneously, I'm getting a FaceTime call.

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It's like they they plan. I
think they have a conspiracy. Hey,

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hey, are you monitoring it?
Are you? Yeah? Oh oh oh

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oh he's going live. He's going
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call it, let's enterrupt. I
think they do it on purpose. Okay,

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maybe maybe that's me just being paranoid. Okay, but so we had

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that, and then I'm I'm like, I don't know. Ten minutes into

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the broadcast, twelve minutes into the
broadcast, and all of a sudden,

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I hear, wait, my food
is here. How did my food arrive,

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so it wasn't supposed to be here
for like another twenty twenty five minutes.

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How is my food already here now? And you think I would be

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happy that my food arrived so early, but I wasn't happy because well,

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I was in the middle of a
broadcast. So then it gets cold and

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I don't like, uh ah yeah, so but so then I had to

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abruptly kind of end the broadcast.
It was. It was horrible, but

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hopefully everything goes better for this broadcast, because this is an important broadcast.

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It's Friday. You know what that
means. We are almost at the end

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of another week. And remember this
week turned into the PSALM eighty three week.

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I've given you all kinds of as
and things to do for SSAW eighty

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three. Hopefully you've been very busy
at it. Hopefully hopefully not a lot

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of people have turned in much,
but hopefully people have been busy with it.

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And remember how it all started.
I was in my car, had

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to drive to this place in this
place, in this place, in this

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place, and I had to sit
in parking lots waiting, just a lot

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of driving and waiting, and so
I'm like, you know what, it's

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twenty twenty four. It's the Sermons
two point oh sermon Challenge. So let

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me grab my iPad and download a
bunch of random sermons from the Sermons two

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point oh app and I will listen
to them as I drive. Yes,

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see, I participate. I give
you the challenge, but I participate in

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the challenge. I remember I came
across a sermon entitled the Coming Middle East

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War, and I'm like, Ooh, I wonder what they're talking about.

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This is going to have something to
do with eschatology or prophecy. So I

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started listening, and we realized immediately
that the entire title of that sermon was

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Psalm eighty three, the Coming Middle
East War. And remember it's an entire

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series. It's like up to seventeen
or eighteen parts. Now. I think

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they just dropped a new episode for
that series. I think they just dropped

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one today. I think maybe that's
part sixteen today or Part seventeen today.

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So they're continuing their work on it, which is great because it's more content

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for people to listen to on Psalm
eighty three as we continue to work on

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it. But remember, we listened
to it and we were somewhat perplexed.

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Well, the reason I was perplexed
is how is some eighty three about a

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coming Middle East war? I don't
see it in any way, shape or

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form as being prophetic. In fact, it's not even classified as a prophetic

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psalm. It's not a messianic psalm. It's a palm of lament. It's

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a lament s a communal lament psalm. So I'm like, where, how

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is this being prophetic? I don't
see it, And we were confused.

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So we've done a little bit of
work on it, and you can go

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listen to my two hours of teaching. We did an outline, we've done,

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we talked about the author, we
talked about the type of psalm that

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it is. We started working on
it, and remember we did another sermon

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review. We found out that some
believe SAW eighty three is actually connected to

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Second Chronicles chapter twenty. So I
told everyone to do a kind of a

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comparison and contrast between p SSAW eighty
three and Second Chronicles twenty. Make a

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chart. Remember I told you to
do that. Well, I finished a

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little bit of work today on my
own compare and contrast on Psalm eighty three

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and Second Chronicles twenty, so there's
a high probability. We'll talk about it

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a Sunday at Victory Baptist Church.
I don't know how well how we'll do,

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so I need to get back to
our eschatology. But the PSAW eighty

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three. But the bottom line is
the week is almost over. So we've

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got to do some more work on
SAW eighty three, right, we have

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to. We've got to, We've
got to. We got to figure it

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all out. So I was just
looking, and I was just looking for

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random sermons on SSAALW eighty three,
and I find that entire When you do

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a search right now SAW eighty three
on the Sermon's two point zero app or

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thee Beta dot Sermonaudio dot com website, you're going to see that long series

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on SAW eighty three, the Coming
Middle East War, and then they get

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to like part twelve or part thirteen, and then they changed the title to

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just now Saw eighty three Part thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. I don't know

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why they changed the title. That
was odd, but they changed the title.

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Usually you don't change the title in
the middle of your series, right

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or you go back and change all
of them. So I don't know,

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but they're still talking about it.
So I kept looking them, and then

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I saw all of my messages on
SAW eighty three. I'm like, Okay,

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who's this weird guy? Right?
Then I skipped all of those,

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and then I came across one and
I'm like, wait, wait, wait,

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what is this? We all know
psawm eighty three. It's clearly a

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prayer. It's a lament. Right, and if I go to SAW eighty

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three, remember how it begins.
Some of you should have it memorized by

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now. Right, do not keep
silent, Oh God, Do not hold

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your peace, and do not be
still, Oh God, for behold your

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enemies. Make a tumult. The
psalms is crying out to God. He's

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crying out to God. He needs
God to hear, he needs God to

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listen, he needs God to intervene. He needs God to speak because they're

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in a very difficult situation, because
a confederacy of nations is coming against Israel.

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So this is a sum of lament. Now, we talked about that,

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this is a psalm of Asaf.
He was a Levite in charge of

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the worship, so he may have
composed this for the worship of Israel for

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them to cry out as a community, as in a sense, as a

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congregation of Israel, to cry out
to God in lament. So I would

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say, who is praying? Well, asep is praying, who is praying?

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Israel is praying. But I stumbled
upon a sermon with this title the

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churches cry for help, and I'm
like, wait, the churches, wait,

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this is Israel. Now do we
keep Israel in the church distinct?

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Or do we say Israel is the
Church in the Old Testament, now,

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which a lot of people believe.
In other words, I know this is

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going to come as a shock.
And all the years of theological studies and

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the history of Christianity, there's not
agreement on how distinct do we keep the

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Israel in the church and how much
do we bring them together? So who

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is actually praying? And Saw eighty
three? Is it asaph? Is it?

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Well, if it's a communal lament, it's for the it's for Israel,

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right, is this for? Is
this a national lament instead of calling

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it a communal Do we call it
a national lament? Is this the prayer

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of the nation or do we call
it the prayer of the church? Does

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it really matter? Well, you
know how the reviews work. I haven't

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listened to it yet, So let's
have a little bit of a sermon review

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as we try to finish our week
focusing on PSAU Many three. Don't forget,

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we're still working on the Book of
Proverbs. We got that to work

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on too. So are you ready? Here we go. I hope the

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volume is loud enough. This is
one time I didn't immediately fill the need

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to go, you know, amplify
it in my software. So if it's

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not loud enough, well it's too
late. Now, okay, we're we're

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nine minutes almost eight minutes and thirty
six seconds into this, thirty seven seconds

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into this. There's no there's no
there's no going back. If it's not

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loud enough, I don't know what
I'm gonna. I'll find someone to blame,

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all right, I'll just I'll open
up the map and close my eyes

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and just point and whatever state I
end up on, that's the state I

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will blame. Okay, all right, here we go, ladies and gentlemen.

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The church is cry for help.
You can find this sermon on the

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Sermon's two point oh app as I
always tell you any sermon I review,

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please go download it. Please,
stream it. Listen to it without all

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of my interruption, right, listen
to it, give them the stream,

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give them the download, all right, and if you like what you hear,

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go follow them all right. If
you're using the Sermon's two point oh

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app, how many people are you
following? How many? How many sermons

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appear in your feed tab per week? Do you keep track? May I

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want my feed tab updating all day
is what I want. I want to

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I want every time I grab the
Sermon's two point oh app and I hit

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the feed tab. I don't want
to just see my messages now. I

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follow me because I want to make
sure that my stuff is showing up in

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the feed and it's showing up everywhere, and it sounds okay. But please

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use the app and follow. Find
a number of broadcasters that you find.

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If if you have your list of
broadcasters you follow, email them to me

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news Yahoo dot com, news fit
Yahoo dot com. I would tell you,

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though, you should be following the
Briefing, the Daily Briefing by Albert

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Mohler, because that comes out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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So that's one you want to because
it's there every single day. That's

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Albert Mohler, the briefing or the
daily briefing. Okay, you want that.

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Then what I highly recommend is following
every Bible college and every seminary and

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Bible institute. If it's labeled Bible
institute, Bible College, or seminary,

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follow that because that shows you what
the what's being taught, what's being emphasized

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by those places of higher learning,
training the next generation of pastors. That

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kind of lets you kind of know
where Christianity is going. So you want

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to follow all of those. It
doesn't even matter if it's got Bible College,

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seminary, Bible Institute in the title. I'm following them. I don't

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care if I agree with them,
disagree with them. I follow them.

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So those are something to start with. All right, But are you ready?

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Here we go. I'm excited.
See you hear that? Rubbing my

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hands together? It's like a Now, am I rubbing my hands together?

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Oh? I can't wait? Or
am I rubbing my hands together? Like?

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This is going to be so bad, I'm gonna make everyone take a

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trip to the liquor store before this
is Oh okay, Now I never know,

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so I'm always like I'm almost almost
like cautiously optimistic, Oh, this

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is gonna be good. We're gonna
learn something. And then sometimes by the

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end I'm like, oh no,
it's like ugh, I never know.

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I always hope for the best.
Here we go. We should again read

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God's Word and the Book of Psalms
and Sami T three of Psalms and sam

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E T three. Come on,
it's time to be honest. Class,

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It's time to be honest. If
I play a sermon and the speaker has

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a strong British accent, versus I
play a sermon for someone who has a

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strong Southern accent from the Deep South, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana.

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I'm just naming places. Don't if
they're not considered the Deep South.

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Don't blame me. I went to
a public school. Okay, all right,

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to Texas. I don't like to
be referred to as Texas as the

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South because we are our own country. We don't need anybody else. Okay,

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right, but you know what I'm
talking a strong Southern accent. Now,

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come on, be honest with you, Be honest with yourself. Which

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one do you perceive to be more
educated, more academically sound. Which one

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comes across is smarter. I look, the British accent just comes across the

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the European well not the entire European, but a British accent. I think

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that's fair to say. We could
go through other accents in Europe, but

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okay, you get the idea.
I think we just immediately, maybe at

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least from the American ear, they
just sound more educated, more sophisticated,

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more knowledgeable, just from the accent
itself, which once again always scares me

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because that demonstrates that a lot of
our perception of what we hear is greatly

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influenced by a lot of factors that
have nothing to do with the actual content

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of the messages. A lot of
people when they would hear doctor j Vernon

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McGee with his accent, be like, this guy's an idiot. Well,

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he was very well educated. It's
just his accent. So why do we

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do and which scares me because that
means maybe we're sometimes there's something else influencing

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how we perceive some Remember, we
have to set aside all of those distractions.

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Doesn't matter how well spoken someone is, doesn't matter how well that they

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are, they do all the right
things in communicating eye contact not being monotone.

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All of those things that can be
very they can be very helpful,

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right, great storytellers, they say
a great pacing. They don't talk too

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fast, they don't talk too slow, they don't talk too loud, but

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they don't talk too quiet. A
lot of variation in the volume. All

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those things that they do, they
get to the point they don't spend all

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the things I do wrong. Okay, they do them all right, But

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you can get pulled in and you're
actually follow You're just following something or agreeing

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with something because the way it sounds. What we have to do, at

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least is Christians, and what we
listen to is listen to the content,

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not the accent, not the speaking
ability, not the lock thereof now.

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But we have the same time,
we have to be honest. Look,

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I was review i was listening to
a sermon earlier, and I'm just gonna

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be honest with you. I'm just
gonna be honest with you the way the

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person spoke, and i know i'm
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sound fleshly. Just kind of got
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It just bothered me, and I
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I don't know. If it's the
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across everything about it, just like, oh okay, can I finished this?

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You know what? That's not godly, that's me. That's me.

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That's but I gotta be honest and
come on. You can sit there and

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roll your eyes. You probably get
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take too long to get to the
point. I'm too repetitive. Maybe I'm

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too loud. Some people say I'm
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mid sentence. I do that frequently. I'll be getting ready to say this

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and then just jump to something else. Yeah, my accent probably shows up

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at time times. So yeah,
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as soon as I hear oh wait, this is here his exit, I

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know immediately how it can be perceived. All right, Let's go SA three.

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The title of this sam a song
or Sam of Esaf. Keep not

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thou silence, so God, oh
not thy peace, be not still O

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God, Lo thine enemies make a
tube mount, And they that hate thee

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lift have lifted up the head they
take. They have taken crafty council against

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thy people and consulted against thy hidden
ones. They have said, come and

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let us cut them off from being
a niece, and the name of Israel

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may be no more than remembrance.
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there, he's reading at a very
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any of those things. I just
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like, why did he just say
okay? But please note the title of

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the sermon is the Church's Cry for
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point out, so you have these
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right, they've taken crafty counsel against
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against and consulted together against your sheltered
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look carefully. They have cut they
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cut them off from being a nation, that the name of is Rael,

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of Israel may be remembered no more. Now I find it interesting that the

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title is the Church's cry for Help, when clearly this is identified that the

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individuals that are being attacked is the
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of Nations wants Israel to no longer
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unless you just then say, well, whenever it says nation or Israel,

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we just to automatically call it the
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that is. Look, there's a
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of merge the church in Israel together
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that makes sense hermoneutically right, it
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yet the title of the sermon is
the Church's Christ for help. Now is

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he going to make it a very
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fair, he could make hey,
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going to apply the lessons to the
church today. Now, now we could

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argue, is that is that going
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going to do. Time will tell. They have consulted together with one consent.

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They are confederate against the the Tabernacles
of Edom and Ishmaelance of Mob and

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the Hagarens, Gable and Diamond and
Damalek, the Philistines with the inhabitants of

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tire I should also has joined with
them. They have hope and the children

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of Lot, going to them as
unto the Midianites, as to as to

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Sisera, as to Jabin. At
the brook of Kissong, which perished at

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Ender, they became as dung for
the earth. Make their nobles like Arab

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and like zeb He, all the
princes of Zeba and as Zalmuna, who

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said, let us take to ourselves
the houses of God and possession, Oh,

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My God, Make them like a
wheel, as a stubble before the

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wind, as a fire burneth a
wood, as a flame set at the

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mountains and fire. So persecute them
with thy tempest, and make them afraid

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with thy storm. Fill their faces
with shame, that they may seek thy

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name. Old Lord. Let them
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them be put to shame and perish, that men may know that Thou,

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whose name alone is Jehovah, are
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Amen. So Lord would help us, receiving like is to consider this,

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Sam we might tidally our thoughts.
The churches cry for help. Okay,

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So a reading of the entire chapter, and I do like this right here

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he's articulating clearly. It seems his
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explain it. But it's the church's
cry for help. Now again, he

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may say, this is about Israel, this is about what happened in Second

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Chronicles twenty Maybe he's going to do
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as the church in twenty twenty four
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here's what we can learn from it. Maybe that's what he's going to do.

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I don't know. I always get
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Israel shows up in a sermon where
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Israel is in the title. That's
my own philological that's because of my own

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philological perspective on the subject. But
let's see what he does. The Church

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is crying help. When we think
of the Church of God is very presence

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on earth is a wonder. Who
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the presence of the Church on the
earth is a wonder. A wide speaks

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of the grace of God. Because
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It's not something that happens to people
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wrong with the Gospel. It's not
that Christ is not attractive. He indeed

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is the fadst of ten thousand to
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see clearly. But of course the
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has blinded the eyes of those who
believe. Not this is the turn and

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should be converted and healed, and
say they're thinking as warmed. It's only

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God's grace renewing the heart and persuading
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enables people to come to them,
and they are brought into the church,

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and so the churches build up.
The church are a body of people who

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are called by grace. Okay,
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to do here, it sounds like
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called out people, called out by
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a body of people. So then
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that definition, Israel was then a
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who were called to believe. I
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that way if you want. But
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distinction between the nation of Israel,
and I think you have to maintain the

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distinction or just hermoneutically just stops making
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get a Matthew Henry commentary and read
the Old Testament. Everything's the Church,

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the Church, the Church, and
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Israel, that's Judah, that's the
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that's this. No. So I
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do. Now whenever we say the
church. Now, I know there's major

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arguments about this and the world of
Christianity. This gets into an argument about

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ecclesiology. But you know, when
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who just think of the Church more
as an invisible body, right, a

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universal body made up of all people
who believe. Right, So it's just

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a universal body. If you believe
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you believe you're a part of the
church, right, that's just an invisible

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body. You don't see it.
It doesn't meet, it doesn't have a

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doctrinal statement, it doesn't do the
Lord's it doesn't do it. But you're

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just a part of it. Now. The reason Protestants love that universal idea

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is because the Bible speaks of we
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unity, well says, there's literally
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we don't agree on literally anything.
Then we can say, but we accomplish

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the unity and this invisible body that
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part of it. Well, people
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does that person really believe? Does
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really know who's in it, and
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it gives us a sense of see, there's unity. It doesn't require any

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actual unity. It's just because while
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of it, then magically we accomplish
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really do anything because while the rest
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that idea. Others believe within church
Christianity that there is not the existence of

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an invisible body. That whenever the
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it's referring to a local assembly,
an actual, visible, physical body,

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right, well, a group of
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made up of people who are saved. I mean they're not really there yet.

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living here on earth. But whenever
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to a body of called out believers
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a is a physical institution. Now, so some really emphasize that then it

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must be a local congregation that's the
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so there's major, I won't say
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lines drawn and clear differences in the
history of Christianity over this. I have

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gone to schools who reject the invisible
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that clearly believe in the invisible body. Now how much impact that has You

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could have your own discussion about that. Let's see where he's going with.

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But just please note this is a
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is clear. Israel as a nation
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beginning about the church, the Church, the Church. I find that just

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baffling to me. But why wouldn't
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the text literally says. Can let
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said, this is the confederacy of
nations. The enemies come let us cut

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them off from being a nation that
the name of Israel or israell if we

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really want to emphasize it may be
remembered no more. It clearly identifies.

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Let's continue. I forget thought that
we may give thanks. If God has

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called you to himself, it wasn't
you there anything special about you received mercy

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and being brought under the sound of
the Gospel and of Christ by the Spirit

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applying the truth to your heart.
And not only is it grace to bring

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sinners into the church, it's grace
to preserve God's people in this world,

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to preserve them as believers within the
church. For we have great enemies the

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world, the flesh and the devil. Now, whenever we talk about God

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preserving those in the church, I
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Are we saying preserve them physically?
Because Christians have a weird thing about

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this, right, Like, on
one hand, God is the one who

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protects us. God is our rock, he's our defender, he's our shield,

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He preserves us. Nothing can harm
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then churches want armed guards. If
the church or Christians are protected by God

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and God's our rock, our shield. And you don't mean that spiritually,

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you mean that physically. Well,
then why do we have armed guards and

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many churches want armed guards or deacons
carrying guns. Why do many Christians have

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a gun to protect them in their
home. Why? God's gonna protect you.

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He's your rock, your shield deliverer. Why so it's like one thing

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we confess certain things, and I
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is he the one protecting and preserving? And isn't it interesting he protects

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and preserves until someone dies, And
say, well, now it was God's

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will for you to go. So
God only protects you until God's done protecting

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you. So then how do you
know how long God's going to protect God

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will protect you until the time is
for him not to protect you. So

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he may protect you today Friday,
June the twenty first, tomorrow you may

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be mugged, murdered and killed because
his protection runs out on June the twenty

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second, because that's when it was
appointed for you to die. But if

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then that's the case, then why
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Why do you worry about protection and
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mean, those are questions I think
that halfs. I always find it just

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and remember I say I cut myself
off. I always find it interesting,

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just the logical, the logical inconsistency
that I see in many Christians. And

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I'm not the only one to point
it out. Remember I've told before the

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news story after one of the church
shootings. It was a news story about

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how many churches now have got armed
security. It may be they hire people

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or they have men in the congregation
carrying guns. I haven't talked about a

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sermon here in the Dallas area,
not well about two and a half hours

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from me, where the guy on
radio was bragging, Hey, you come

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to our church and you pull out
a gun, You're going to die,

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basically because I got men here with
guns. I mean basically almost like saying

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bring it on. It was.
It was really weird, and and that

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I tried to find that program,
and I think the radio station pulled it.

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The whole thing was just bizarre.
But there was a news article where

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he was talking about churches having armed
guards, and the photograph for the news

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article was all these people holding up
their hands and on the screen it's like,

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you know, he's my refuge,
my shield, my defender, and

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ever present help in times of trouble, right, and they're they're praising God.

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But the photograph has it's taken behind
the congregation, so you can see

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them all what they're singing because the
words are on the screen. They all

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have their hands up. And guess
what's on everyone's hips? Guns? Guns,

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Everyone's carrying a gun. And so
the author is kind of like he

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didn't have to say anything. Wait, God, your protector, helping defender.

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But you've got armed guards. So
is he or isn't he? Does

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he preserve or does he not preserve? Now I'm not saying that I don't

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know what this church believes about the
situation. The fact I don't even know

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if it's you know, where this
church is located, they may have a

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completely different take. But here in
the United States of America. I always

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find it interesting. So when he
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church, protecting us from what physical
harm? From what? From sin?

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If he's protecting us from sin,
then why do Christian sin? Is he

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protecting us from the devil? Well? If he keeps the devil completely away

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from us, well then we I
don't need to be sober vigilant and looking

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out for the devil because God's going
to keep him away from me, So

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so does God? Does God?
Does God keep me away from does he

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keep sin away from me? Does
he keep satan away from me? Does

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he keep my flesh away from?
Like? What is God doing? I

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think that's a reasonable question. Reliable
to self destruction through our own and dwelling

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sin, the world seeks to draw
as away as the seat. Thanks be

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to God, whom he has begun
a good work, and he will continue

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and complete until the day of Christ. The eternal security of God's people.

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Now I do believe God preserves us
eternally, Yes, because we're saved by

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an imputed righteousness. But see,
it's always weird, like, well,

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we would self destruct, so God
keeps us from self destruction. Well,

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what happens when we fall into sin? Where was God? Like, it's

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really weird, Like I went in, we talk about God's involvement and God's

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intervention and God protecting and God preserving
and God doing this and God doing that.

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Well, then but their sin sin, sin, sin, sin,

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sin. So then do we then
say, well, God decided not to

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protect that path. I mean,
just go I've told you in the last

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few weeks the Christian Post have had
so many articles about very well known pastors

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who have fallen into very very very
grievous sins, very bad sins. So

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now what most Christians do is just
throw the pastors under the bus and say,

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well, there probably weren't even Christians
in the first place. We just

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throw them out of the Kingdom of
God. Or maybe we how do we

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where is God? Like? Those
are the questions. Whenever I ask those

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questions, people get mad at me. You ask way too many questions.

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But these are questions that have to
be asked. And again, now what

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I'm what I'm perplexed by again is
we're listening to another sermon on Psalm eighty

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three, and it seems like we're
going further and further away from psawm eighty

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three. Now I'm I feel confident
he's going to circle right back around and

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get us right into Psaw eighty three. But all of his opening illustration and

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setting up his hypotheses is all about
well, us, us, us,

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It's about us. Okay, it's
not yet about about the people saw maighty

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three, the people in the saal
Maty three who are actually offering up the

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lament, which was Israel is the
reality of Greece. Let us get thanks.

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Are you still placing on? Faithful? It's the grace of God in

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you and through you enabling you to
do that. And so if you're still

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pressing on in your Christian life,
that's God enabling you. Now we're right

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back to the God enabling you.
What does God enable you to do?

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He only enables you to press on? Or does he enable you to fully

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succeed? Or does God for some
reason don't want you to fully succeed.

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If he's enabling you, why would
he not enable you to perfection? Well,

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nobody can be perfect. So then
God's enabling lacks the ability. It's

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it's an enabling that will not get
you to perfection, is it? Or

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is it only? Like I don't
say the enabling is always So many times

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I hear these sermons. God's empowering
you, God's strengthening you, God's enabling

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you. God's doing all of these
things. But then it's like but but,

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but but but you can never be
perfect and you never can be sinless.

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Well, then there's a limit to
his enabling. Why is there a

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limit to it? And again,
if God's doing the enabling, and then

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if I fall, is it because
I did not use the enabling? Well,

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why wouldn't the enabling then overcome my
unwillingness to use the Oh, it

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just becomes so confusing to me.
It's so like I don't I can't follow

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it sometimes. But what we want
here is PSAW eighty three. What we

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want is saw maighty three. That's
what we want. That's what we're gonna

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get. I'm confident, right?
Are you confident? Right? You want

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you want to you want to put
some money down right now? You want

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to? Bed betting is open right
now? Do you believe we're going to

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get the Psalm eighty three right now
and we're going to really understand the text?

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Or do you believe this is going
to just completely almost ignore Psawmity three

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is simply going to become a tool
so that we can talk about us.

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What do you think? What do
you think? What do you think?

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What do you think? What do
you think? I'm going to be confident?

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Right? Maybe it's the Maybe it's
the accent. See the accent sounds

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like this is going to get us
the Psalm eighty three? Right? Maybe?

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All right, here we get we're
going to find out. So it

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is God's grace that preserves the church. The weakness of the church often the

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sins which plague God's people as a
body. There are real problems. It's

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difficult to remain faithful at times.
And then there are the enemies of God.

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And either in us sum we have
a prayer which is very much a

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cry for help and the feast of
the enemies of the church. It's a

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reminder two, the enemies of the
church. And again is so did you

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not catch how confusing that guy.
God's enabling you, God's protecting you,

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God's preserving you. But yet the
church is filled with sin, and it's

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hard sometimes to remain faithful. Well
wait a minute. If God's enabling,

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strengthening, preserving, and protecting,
then why would it be difficult to accomplish

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anything. That's it's the double speak
within christiandom that drives me crazy. But

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now, just please note saw eighty
three and I was going to be about

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the enemies of the church. Didn't
this the enemies of Israel? But okay,

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let's see where this is going to
go. First, you let us

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some that we should know what God
has done in the past. The biblical

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history is useful that Old Testament Church
history is brought to the fore here and

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made and there is something which is
used to be an encouragement and inform this

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prayer. And of course we can
build and that some of God's dealings with

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the church in post Apostolic history,
and think of how God has worked in

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the past, and that encourages us, including in dark times when we may

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need to cry for help. If
in it is also is it? Do

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you not find it? At least? Do you not struggle with this?

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If God's protecting and preserving and strengthening
and enabling, then why do you ever

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find yourself in a situation where you
need a grive for help? Did your

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protection break down? Like sometimes I
just like I don't I don't understand.

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I don't understand. Okay, all
right, but he's still making it about

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the church, the church, the
church. But he's he just turned the

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page in his notes. Did you
hear that he turned the page in his

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notes? So I'm assuming he's now
turning and we're going to actually get into

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the text. Let's see what we
can learn here to Visa, there was

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a consciousness are the enemies of God
surrounding the church? Now cry, keep

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not thou silence of God, hold
not thy peace, and me not still

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God, for low thine enemies make
a tune mount and to hate. Thee

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of lifted up the head. Well, if that was true in his stee

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don't we feel that way in our
own d The enemies of God have certainly

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lifted up the head. There is
a tumult that is so much opposition to

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God and his Christ in our own
land. Surely we meet this prayer,

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our prayer one of the three things
as we just briefly reflect on the sum

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this evening. The Church surrounded by
our enemies, the Church protected by God.

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His entire outline is including the church, the church, the Church surrounded

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by its enemies, and the Church
protected by God. This is Israel surrounded

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by our enemies and Israel protected by
God. Because God made a specific covenant

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with the nation of Israel, not
with the Church. He made a specific

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covenant with Israel, and he fulfilled, He has, he has been,

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and will ultimately fulfill every covenant promise
to the nation. The promise is made

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to the nation, are not made
to the Church. There is a distinction.

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The church is prayer. First of
all, The Church surrounded by our

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enemies. And you'll notice the picture
you have is of the Israel being encircled.

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That are okay, Now he finally
mentioned Israel. He finally mentioned Israel.

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He finally used the word Israel instead
of using the word Church. Finally.

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Right, that's a good thing.
So maybe I see what he's going

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to do. Let's let's see.
I'm going to be somewhat positive. Here.

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Many enemies that are mentioned from verse
for onwards. And it's as if

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you can just draw our circle around
Israel and there they are. She's surrounded

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and she has been threatened. There
are many enemies, there are powerful enemies,

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and there is little Israel in the
midst of them. Of course,

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it's not referring to the circumstances now. It's the circumstances of these days.

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And it reflects the way it often
is with God's people, that they find

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themselves confronted by many enemies and are
plotting together against the Church. Who noticed

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that? How they have consulted against
thy hidden ones Verse three, the taking

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crafty council together. They are those
who are confederates, so they have conspired.

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You've got those who might not very
naturally be friends with one another,

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and yet that hatred of God's people
brings them together. Reminds you of how

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heroine pilot were reconciled in Jerusalem at
the time of Christ's crucifixion. Of how

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you find the Pharisees and the Sadducees, who had little time for one another,

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along with the Herodians, bound together
in opposition to Christ. So when

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you think of people, and even
in our own land plotting, we might

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say the downfall making life hard mean
having no thought for the rights of Christ

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and God's people been threatening, perhaps
even that if we would evangelize people are

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converted, who knows what may come
of that. To be confronted with these

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challenges is nothing new, and we
should recognize that those who oppose Christ and

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as people often are not content except
they would utterly obliterate the Church. You

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got ut in verse four the nations
had come, and let us cut them

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off from being a nation. That
the name of issue may be no more

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than remembrance is under the way many
are they would have no remembrance of the

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Church. And often he just goes
right, Okay, I'm trying to follow.

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Look, the question is when it
comes to Psalm eighty three. Maybe

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I'll just put this question is clearly
Psalm eighty three. No matter what he

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says, no matter what anybody else
says, it's a lament for Israel,

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most likely happening during the circumstances as
we read about them in Second Chronicles Chapter

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twenty. These are nations who come
against the Nation of Israel. This is

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the nation of Israel lamenting to God. And however God intervenes. If if

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Second Chronicles twenty is the historical context, read Second Chronicles twenty and see how

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God intervenes, then is it not
based on God's covenant that he has made

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with Israel. So then when we
are going to apply this to us,

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we got to be very careful here, right. Is God going to intervene

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for us like he did for the
nation of Israel. Go through all the

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times God intervenes for the nation of
Israel, Go through all the different times.

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Are we gonna get plagues to deliver
us from some bad situation like he

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did for Israel? Is he gonna
feed us with manna? Is he gonna

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part the Red Sea? Is he
gonna do all of those things or those

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things specifically for the nation of Israel
based off a covenant He made with them.

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Now the application we can come from
that is God. If whatever covenant

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God, we are a part of
the new covenant because we've been grafted in.

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But that's God doing things for us. Spiritually, those national promises are

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still to the nation of Israel.
We can't take those national promises and make

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them ours. So what can be
applied from Psalm eighty three, Well,

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what can be applied is we find
ourselves in difficult situations and we can be

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honest to cry out to God in
the lament that is applicable, which requires

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us to be honest, to be
vulnerable, and to be truthful with our

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emotions and feelings and cry out to
God. It allows us to be honest

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about our circumstances and not have to
pretend that our circumstances aren't bad. We

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can acknowledge when our circumstances are bad, that's okay. That doesn't call into

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question our faith. Maybe we can
take from this that we may know that

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his name alone is Jehovah Lord,
and that he is the most high over

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all the earth. Maybe that's the
main lesson everyone can take from this.

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But we got to be careful to
say Hey, as God helps Israel,

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here, God intervenes for us and
protects And there's no you can't make that

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claim because God doesn't intervene that way
on our behalf. No way, No,

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how can you say that He intervenes
for us spiritually? He we are

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protected spiritually, we are preserved spiritually. There's a perseverance of the Saints in

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the sense that we are saved and
we will remain saved for eternity. People

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have sought to obliterate any symblems of
the Gospel and alarmed the church thing enemies.

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And I always find it interesting that
we're gonna somehow compare ourself to what's

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going on with Israel. Now,
come on, I can't speak for what

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country he's in because I don't know
what country is in. But here in

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the United States of America, you
hear Christians like, Oh, their enemies

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are surrounding us. They want to
wipe us out of existence. Oh,

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the church is just barely hanging on. They're gonna come take our bibles.

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And we're saying that on our podcast, on our sermon being broadcasted all over

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the internet. As there's a church
on every street corner, there are Christian

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radio stations, Christian television stations.
There's Christian books being sold everywhere. Bibles

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are available everywhere. You can have
church Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

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Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You
can have prayer meetings, you can

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do Bible studies. I can turn
on this microphone and broadcast all day,

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all night, all weekend, all
seven, seven days a week, twenty

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four hours a day, as long
as I can keep talking. But but

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otherways, we're being surrounded by our
enemies and they want to wipe us out

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of existence. Yeah, the enemies
are so hard on us that you're broadcasting

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on the internet. I mean,
come on, now, the Israel facing

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actual enemies who actually wanted to kill
them. Are there people today who hate

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the Gospel? Yes? Are there
are there people today who hate Christianity.

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Yes, there's probably people out there, if given the ability, would take

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away our rights. But there's Christians
who want to take away the rights of

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other people too, so we could
reverse that. So I just don't know

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00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:30.400
how this is turned into about the
church. Friends, when we feel that

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way, we shouldn't be surprised.
It often has been a lot of God's

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people. But what we must notice
Secondly, is the church protected by God?

613
00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:50.159
You see, it seems that they're
left in their own. And so

614
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you have this prayer, keep not
thou silence, so God, hold not

615
00:51:54.920 --> 00:52:02.960
thy peace and be not still God. Obviously it appears that God seemed to

616
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be silent, he was holding his
peace, He was still at least that's

617
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the way it seemed. So there's
Israel surrounded by these enemies who are paying

618
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for our blood, as it were, seeking her utter destruction. And it

619
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seems as if she has left on
her own. But you'll notice she has

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not left on her own. That's
true God's people as individuals, and it's

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true of the Church never left on
her own. He never abandons his people.

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And that's brought out by what we
have in verse three. How the

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Church are described as thy hidden ones, the lovely frees, the hidden ones.

624
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Does that phrase the sheltered ones,
the hidden ones, the treasured ones,

625
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depending on your translation. That's in
eighty three three. Does that describe

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us? Does that describe the church? Or is that describing Israel and its

627
00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:24.639
covenant relationship with God. I'm posing
questions. Remember, I'm trying to get

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you up off the couch. I
want you to really dig into Psalm eighty

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three. I guess the question today
we're going to be left with is how

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do you apply this to us?
What part is applicable? Are you good

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00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:37.519
enough to be able to go?
No? No, no no. That

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00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:43.280
is clearly for Israel. And this
is the lesson we can learn from.

633
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This is what we can take from, because there's got to be a distinction

634
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:49.440
here, right, Because what I
want you to do to do is go

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to Second Chronicles twenty and see how
God intervenes. If Second Chronicles twenty is

636
00:53:54.639 --> 00:54:00.599
the historical context for Psalm eighty three, what happens in that battle and Second

637
00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:06.360
Chronicles twenty and when God intervenes that
way, does he intervene? Are you

638
00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:09.079
going to say that that it's guaranteed
He's going to intervene for us whenever we

639
00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:15.480
face our enemies? Well, what
happens when when when a church is wiped

640
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:19.239
off the face of the earth by
I don't know a storm or or a

641
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:27.840
shoe, a gunman walks in and
kills twenty thirty people like, so where

642
00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:31.800
where? Why doesn't God intervene like
you did in Second Chronicles twenty? See

643
00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:38.079
is it describing what God did for
them? But it's not prescribing how God

644
00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:43.360
is going to intervene for you.
There is a distinction between God describing what

645
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:47.079
he did for a covenant people whom
he made a promise to, and that's

646
00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:52.639
one thing describing that. It's far
different to take that and then prescribe that

647
00:54:52.639 --> 00:55:05.880
that's how God will act on our
behalf. Are you sure those whom God

648
00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:13.639
has hidden, those whom God has
placed in a place of safety, that's

649
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:20.639
the picture. He's taken them,
and He's provided shelter so that they are

650
00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:27.599
hidden, so that they are out
of harm's way. I think of Psalm

651
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:35.599
twenty seven. Now the sam is
saying he's unafraid, and he is rejoicing

652
00:55:35.639 --> 00:55:45.719
and meditating upon God. And the
thing is he is there in a pavilion

653
00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:53.360
or the tent of God. For
he in his pavilion shall be hide and

654
00:55:53.480 --> 00:56:00.559
evil days in secret of thy tent, Me hide, rock me wrayse.

655
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:09.440
There's God's people hidden with God,
sheltered by God. At the same in

656
00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:15.320
Psalm ninety one, here that doth
in the secret place of the Most High

657
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:23.000
reside under the shade of Him that
does the Almighty shall abide. We cry

658
00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:30.400
out for God to protect us and
God is won who surrounds and who protects

659
00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:39.039
his people. And as we flee
to him, as we look to him,

660
00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:44.880
as we pray, as as Samas
did, and as we seek to

661
00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:52.639
remain in fellowship with Him, whether
their thoughts focused on him, then we

662
00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:58.880
shall have that sense of his protection
and his help even in the dark and

663
00:56:58.960 --> 00:57:07.519
difficult days. So we will get
the same protection. I am struggling with

664
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:12.639
this. So while he was talking, I decided to have a conversation with

665
00:57:12.880 --> 00:57:15.599
artificial intelligence because I'm like, you
know, all right, So I so

666
00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:20.239
I asked, what is the significance
of the phrase sheltered ones and Psalm eighty

667
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:22.760
three three Right now, I know
it's translated different ways, it says the

668
00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:27.880
phrase sheltered ones in Psalm eighty three
three carries the significance in the context of

669
00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:30.679
the Psalm as a whole. In
this verse, the psalmist is calling out

670
00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:34.199
to God referring to his people using
the term sheltered ones. This term highlights

671
00:57:34.239 --> 00:57:37.679
the idea that God's people are under
the protection and care of the Almighty.

672
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:40.199
Now this is how this is how
he went after it. This is how

673
00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:44.159
the pastor that we're listening to went
after it. Hey, hey, listen,

674
00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:46.880
if you, if you, if
you believe in God, then you're

675
00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:50.920
under his protection and care. All
right, Well, then how do we

676
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:53.599
completely understand that? Because it goes
on, the phrase sheltered ones conveys a

677
00:57:53.639 --> 00:57:58.480
sense of being under divine shelter or
refuge of God, emphasizing the security and

678
00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:01.039
safety that comes from being a relationationship
with him. Throughout the Psalm and other

679
00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:05.599
biblical texts, God is often described
as a refuge, fortress, shelter for

680
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his people, providing them for protection, comfort, and peace. Again,

681
00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:12.239
if God is the one doing the
protecting, why do then we need guns?

682
00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:15.079
Why do we need to lock our
doors? God is protecting us?

683
00:58:15.159 --> 00:58:22.480
Why don't worry about anything? So
then how does that work? Do you

684
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:24.559
need to protect yourself or do you
not? Does God protect you? Does

685
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:29.440
God not protect you? And how
come you say God protects you if something

686
00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:31.320
doesn't happen? But then what do
you do the minute it does happen?

687
00:58:31.360 --> 00:58:35.039
Then God wasn't protecting you? Why
did God stop protecting you? Like?

688
00:58:35.639 --> 00:58:37.639
How do we understand this? Right? So he goes on to say,

689
00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:40.920
therefore, the significance of the phrase
sheltered ones Asamiti three lies in the portrayal

690
00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:45.760
of God's people as under the protective
wing of the Almighty, finding security and

691
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:50.360
refuge in the presence amidst challenge,
challenges, and enemies. So all right,

692
00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:54.679
So AI goes with this typical way
most sermons are preached, making it

693
00:58:54.719 --> 00:59:00.199
about us. But I wasn't done
with Ai. So I said, isn't

694
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the phrase referring to the nation of
Israel? And then guess what AI did?

695
00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:10.800
Yes, you are correct. I'm
telling you I only want to talk

696
00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:15.199
to a theology to Ai. That's
the That's the only thing I want to

697
00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:16.920
do. I don't want to talk
to a tooth about theology to people.

698
00:59:17.119 --> 00:59:21.360
Because AI constantly tells me I am
correct. All right, here we go,

699
00:59:21.559 --> 00:59:23.199
says yes, you are correct.
And the context of Psalm eighty three

700
00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:28.760
three, the phrase sheltered ones is
indeed referring to the nation of Israel.

701
00:59:29.039 --> 00:59:31.639
I know, it is so complicated
to figure that out. All I have

702
00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:36.360
to do is after it reads sheltered
ones, is just read the next verse

703
00:59:36.480 --> 00:59:42.480
where nation in Israel is literally used
in verse four. So sheltered ones is

704
00:59:42.519 --> 00:59:46.599
referring to the nation of Israel.
Okay, the text makes it abundantly clear.

705
00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:51.440
You don't even need to go to
seminary to figure that out, but

706
00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:53.079
it says, yes, you are
correct. And the context of Psalm eighty

707
00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:57.320
three, the phrase sheltered ones is
indeed referring to the nation of Israel.

708
00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:01.239
The psalm is a plea of God's
protection four is against its enemies who are

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01:00:01.239 --> 01:00:06.320
conspiring against them. The sheltered ones
in this verse specifically denotes the people of

710
01:00:06.360 --> 01:00:14.800
Israel, highlighting their relationship with God
as his chosen and protected nation. Throughout

711
01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:17.920
the Psalm, the Psalmist describes the
various nations and groups that are plotting against

712
01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:22.800
Israel, seeking to destroy your overthrow
Israel. In response to this threat,

713
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:28.239
the Salmist turns to God, acknowledging
him as the ultimate protector and the protector

714
01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:32.599
of Israel. By addressing the Israelites
as sheltered once, the Psalmas symphasizes their

715
01:00:32.679 --> 01:00:38.280
unique status as God's chosen people under
his divine care and relationship. Therefore,

716
01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:43.360
the phrase sheltered ones in Psalm eighty
three specifically refers to the nation of Israel,

717
01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:46.880
underscoring their special relationship with God and
the assurance of his protection and the

718
01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:53.320
face of adversity. It is about
their covenant relationship with God. God intervenes

719
01:00:53.360 --> 01:00:57.760
on the behalf of Israel, protects, and provides in a way he does

720
01:00:57.800 --> 01:01:10.239
it for anyone else. That should
allow you then to make more sense of

721
01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:13.840
the text. Let's listen to a
little bit more of the sermon and then

722
01:01:13.880 --> 01:01:21.800
we'll wrap this up and go Proverbs
eighteen, verse ten. The name of

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01:01:21.840 --> 01:01:25.559
the Lord is a strong power.
The righteous run into it in our sea

724
01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:31.840
God's needs. Yeah, we run
to God's name and we are safe.

725
01:01:31.880 --> 01:01:37.679
Safe from what. I'm safe from
the wrath of God. I'm safe from

726
01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:43.519
hell. I'm safe from condemnation because
in Christ, I am safe in His

727
01:01:43.719 --> 01:01:47.239
name. I come to him for
righteousness. Are you gonna say I'm safe

728
01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:53.920
from every negative thing that can happen
in life? What was I safe when

729
01:01:53.920 --> 01:02:02.840
I was being abused as a child. No, I wasn't. Was I

730
01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:09.199
saved from developing neurological issues and having
seizures that you know could possibly kill me?

731
01:02:09.400 --> 01:02:19.440
Nope, wasn't protected from that.
I could go through lots of horrible

732
01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:28.159
stories. There's a famous pastor right
now who's in all kinds of trouble you

733
01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:30.760
can read about in the Christian post
who supposedly not only had inappropriate relations,

734
01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:36.920
but supposedly possibly was having relations with
the girl's youngest at the age of twelve.

735
01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:51.480
Was she protected? Yeah, those
are We don't like those difficult questions,

736
01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:55.480
I think, because sometimes we make
these assumptions that we have that God

737
01:02:55.559 --> 01:03:01.639
has promised us something that I don't
think reality demonstrates. This is about it.

738
01:03:01.679 --> 01:03:07.519
God did protect them. He preserved
them because he preserved the nation,

739
01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:12.840
because from Israel would come the Messiah. In the Messiah, I am protected

740
01:03:13.159 --> 01:03:16.559
from an eternity, separated from God. I am saved from my sin.

741
01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:22.039
I am therefore nothing can come against
me spiritually speaking, in the sense of

742
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:36.800
taking away my salvation in that covenant
made with me in salvation. Is there

743
01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:45.079
a guarantee of protection from pain,
suffering and death in this life? Absolutely

744
01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:49.840
not. There is no There is
no guarantee of protection from anything like that.

745
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:58.519
In God's character, who he is
and what he is like, he

746
01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:03.480
is our security, and as we
run to him, we're safe. In

747
01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:10.280
the old days, for the people
do if the enemy were seen in the

748
01:04:10.280 --> 01:04:16.480
horizon, they fled into the towns
and they closed the doors. There was

749
01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:20.320
a castle. He went up to
the castle, Edinburgh Castle. Still in

750
01:04:20.440 --> 01:04:25.679
castle, while They're there to be
a refuge, to be a strong tower.

751
01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:30.320
Their safety, their security, God, the security of his people.

752
01:04:34.239 --> 01:04:42.679
We entered into our chambers Isaiah twenty
six twenty. We will hide herself there

753
01:04:43.079 --> 01:04:49.519
until the indignation be overpassed. Looking
down into a bomb shelter, there may

754
01:04:49.599 --> 01:05:01.159
be trouble, but their security in
God, the Church protect eat by God.

755
01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:08.199
You think of how the likes Avon
and just I kept referring to that

756
01:05:08.239 --> 01:05:13.119
as a British accent. That's actually
Scottish soneys. He said something about the

757
01:05:13.320 --> 01:05:17.000
castle wherever it was located. I
was like, I'm ridiculous I refer to

758
01:05:17.039 --> 01:05:23.239
that as a British accent. There's
I'm sorry. So yeah, I don't

759
01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:26.320
know why I refer to it as
British accents. Clearly a Scottish accent.

760
01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:30.000
Why did I do that? Because
I'm from Texas, That's why, Okay.

761
01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:32.400
And the only accent that we recognize
is legitimate is a Texas one.

762
01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:36.400
Okay, So I apologize for that. I got that completely wrong, okay,

763
01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:40.280
right, I don't know why I
said it was British. It was

764
01:05:40.280 --> 01:05:44.880
Scottish. Okay, So I apologize
for that. Someone I probably already got

765
01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:46.400
an email. Let me look at
my email inbox. I probably already have

766
01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:49.920
an email. Someone going, you
don't even know the difference between a Scottish

767
01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:54.960
a British accent. What is wrong
with you? Right? You're probably right.

768
01:05:54.960 --> 01:05:57.039
Hang on, let me look at
my email. Let's see see if

769
01:05:57.079 --> 01:06:01.760
I can apologize to people already here
we go away. Ooh I've gotten Oh

770
01:06:01.800 --> 01:06:03.440
no, no, no, no, no, okay, I see I

771
01:06:03.480 --> 01:06:05.800
do have an email. I do
have an email. Oh boy, hang

772
01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:12.039
on, it came on doing this. Oh no, okay. Election of

773
01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:17.039
the election of the non elect.
Someone says, hope you are well.

774
01:06:17.199 --> 01:06:21.199
If you get a chance, this
sermon might be worth reviewing. All right,

775
01:06:21.599 --> 01:06:25.519
so thank you, Paul, Thank
you Paul. All right, so

776
01:06:25.679 --> 01:06:29.679
good. Paul was not telling me
that I confused a Scottish accent with a

777
01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:33.719
British accent. The bottom line is
what I am not confusing is the identity

778
01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:40.840
of who this is about. It's
about Israel. So this challenges us here

779
01:06:41.079 --> 01:06:43.000
and I'm just gonna stop right there. You can go listen to the rest

780
01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:47.000
of that sermon. The churches cry
for help and you can look that up

781
01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:53.559
all right now, and it comes
from Bethel Free Church. Bethel Free Church

782
01:06:54.000 --> 01:07:03.480
located in southwest Scotland, not England. Okay, all right, okay,

783
01:07:03.840 --> 01:07:15.039
so not in London, right,
my understanding of Europe in the UK and

784
01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:18.119
England and in Scotland and okay,
right, yeah, I'll get it all

785
01:07:18.159 --> 01:07:20.559
confused, all right now Now I
feel foolish. Now I feel foolish,

786
01:07:20.559 --> 01:07:24.800
a right, but I apologize for
that. The whole point about the accent

787
01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:30.800
was whether it's Scottish, British,
wherever it is. It sounds so we

788
01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:34.000
can be greatly influenced by an accent. But in this case, I'm not

789
01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:39.800
being influenced by the accent because I
just have a strong difficulty here. And

790
01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:45.960
my difficulty here is that he's taking
whatever promises he believes is being articulated here

791
01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:51.360
about protection and preservation and help that
clearly is for the nation of Israel.

792
01:07:51.559 --> 01:08:00.559
He's applying that to us. And
I constantly challenge this concept. You can't

793
01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:03.960
take some of these promises of protection
and preservation and make them about us because

794
01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:09.000
it raises so many questions. And
if we are saying that we have a

795
01:08:09.000 --> 01:08:13.519
certain promise that's not for us,
you're going to leave people discouraged, disillusion

796
01:08:13.599 --> 01:08:23.279
disappointed, and possibly deconstructing because they're
not going to understand. So there we

797
01:08:23.399 --> 01:08:29.439
have it. I went sixty minutes
to determine that I was confusing a scotland

798
01:08:29.479 --> 01:08:35.920
An accent from Scotland, okay,
with a British accent. I apologize,

799
01:08:36.159 --> 01:08:40.880
I apologize all right. In fact, I'm going to look something up here.

800
01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:46.800
Hang on, hang on, I'm
going to look something up here.

801
01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:56.199
Hang on, I'm looking something up. Hang on. Stay with me.

802
01:08:57.640 --> 01:09:05.760
Hey, oh I can't hang on, hang on, hang on, I'm

803
01:09:05.800 --> 01:09:30.640
almost there. Hang on, Just
stay with me, hang on almost okay,

804
01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:34.159
Well, okay, I guess the
correct way to say this hang on.

805
01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:41.800
It says, well, well,
there's a lot of things here about

806
01:09:42.039 --> 01:09:46.439
which English accent has the most similarity
with Scottish, and there's certain dialects that

807
01:09:46.520 --> 01:09:51.920
I guess are similar. There are
many accents within Britain, including all the

808
01:09:53.000 --> 01:10:02.720
Scottish ones. There is no one
British accent. So there we go.

809
01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:08.000
I guess, so there is not
really a British accent. I guess according

810
01:10:08.000 --> 01:10:13.199
to this. That's interesting, all
right, So I would have to get

811
01:10:13.199 --> 01:10:15.640
into a whole discussion about accents and
dialects and all of that. So I

812
01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:19.199
don't what's the correct way I should
I should have just said this. The

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Scottish accent is very different for yours. So I don't know if I'm going

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to get people from from Europe who
contact me and from other countries, I

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got to be very careful how I
say it from other countries and say what

816
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are you doing? I'm gonna say, I'm an American. Don't you know

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about us Americans that we don't think
anything else exists other than America. Okay,

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right there we go. That's that's
that's pretty funny. All right,

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So a little bit of a little
bit of humor at my expense. All

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right, thank you for listening.
But the seriousness of Psalm eighty three is

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we got to be careful how we
do that. I don't think that's the

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Church, that's Israel. And I
think any promised protection of Israel is a

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promised protection for a covenant nation who
God made very specific promises too. And

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I don't think I can take those
promises and apply them to me and look

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at Second Chronicles twenty to find out
exactly how God if saw eighty three,

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if the historical setting of Saw eighty
three a Second Chronicles twenty. What did

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God do in second chronicles twenty?
And can I take that and say He's

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going to do that for us?
All right? Thanks for listening. You

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can email me news I F at
yahoo dot com. That's the news I

830
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f at yahoo dot com. This
is the podcast that doesn't know the difference

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between what I refer to as a
British accent and a Scottish accent. But

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according to the first thing I'll bring
up on the internet, there is there

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are many different accents within the brit
within Britain, including all the Scottish ones.

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There is no one British accent.
So if there is no one British

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accent, can can I refer to
them as all British accents? So then

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therefore it was I act correct?
Was I more correct than I knew?

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Or no? Am I just looking
for something on the Internet to prove that

838
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I was right. If I look
long enough, I'll find something to say,

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Hey, actually I was correct,
but yeah, now I'm reaching.

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Thanks for listening, everyone, have
a great day. God bless