Psalm 83: A Coming War?

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Looking at our world from a theological
perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast

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making Theology Central. Good morning everyone. It is Friday, June the fourteenth,

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twenty twenty four. It is currently
eleven am Central Time, and I

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am coming to you live from the
Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene,

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Texas. Why did that sound so
weird? I'm coming to you live

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from the Theology Central studio. That
it felt when I was saying that that

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it sounded all weird. Maybe maybe
why it sounded weird to me is well,

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I'm actually in the studio. I'm
not in a car today. I'm

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not in a car driving to this
place and then driving to this place,

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and then driving to this place,
and then sitting in a parking lot and

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then driving to this place. I'm
not doing that today. I'm actually here

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in the studio. Over the last
two days, I could have been if

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I had a live mic the car, I could have been broadcasting from the

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car. Going on now, driving
to this place and I'm getting ready to

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listen to this sermon. Hey,
I'm driving to this place. I'm getting

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ready to listen to this sermon.
Hey. Now I'm sitting in the parking

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lot of this place, and I'm
listening to this sermon. I could have

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been, I guess, sending you, you know, live reports from the

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car, but well that probably wouldn't
have been very interesting, and the sound

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quality would have been very, very
bad. But I'm here in the studio

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microphone on. And so because I've
spent the last two days doing a lot

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of driving and listening, well,
then obviously we have to do at least

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another broadcast where we talk about,
well, something I heard while driving in

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a car. Right, That's that's
what we're going to have to do,

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all right, I know we did
that yesterday. It was supposed to be

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about a fifteen twenty minute Hey,
I heard this little sermon illustration, and

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it turned into sixty one minutes long. Okay, but I'm hoping this doesn't

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go sixty one. Well, you
know what, I don't really care how

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long it goes. It's gonna go
as long as I feel it needs to

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go to get the point across.
So here's what we're going to do.

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Yesterday, our last two days,
I was driving in a car and I

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listened to a lot of sermons.
I basically said, in the car,

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the only app I'm going to use
is the sermons two point oh app.

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That's it. I'm restricting myself to
that. I'm not going to use any

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of my podcast apps, nothing,
no music apps, just the sermons two

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point oh app, so that I
can make the most of my time,

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at least spiritually speaking. Okay,
so that's what I've done. Yesterday we

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talked about is the Bible, you
know, measuring tape? All right?

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Is it? Is it our?
Is it our measuring tape so that we

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can measure everything by it? Well, on one hand, we want to

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say yes, but then I pointed
out all of the possible issues with saying

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that. I think that was somewhat
interesting, and I don't know if anyone

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else thought it was interesting. I
thought it was a beneficial discussion, even

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though it may make us greatly uncomfortable. All right, So we did that.

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Now I'm getting ready to play something
that I heard in the car.

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Now I'm doing this for a couple
of reasons. Okay, So let me

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just get that because sometimes I don't
Sometimes I just think that people understand what

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I'm doing, but they don't clearly
understand what I'm doing. So sometimes I

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have to explain what I'm doing,
even though for some of you you're like,

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we get it, well, plenty
of there's plenty of people who listen

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who don't get it, all right, So why am I doing this broadcast

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today? Well, I've already hinted
at number one. Number one as well,

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this is what I've been doing the
last two days. I've been listening

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to these things. So I've been
listening to these things. It makes sense

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that that's what I talk about,
right, That's what I've been listening to,

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That's what i've been thinking about,
that's what I was meditating on.

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So it makes sense that that is
what I'm going to talk about, all

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right, So that makes perfect sense. Number two. I love to bring

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to your attention different broadcast, different
ministries, different sermons, series, different

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podcasts, so that you can go
listen, even if I offer some kind

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of criticism. I'm literally handing you
the content, telling you you go listen

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to it for yourself, subscribe to
it, follow it. You may want

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to, you may choose to listen
to that over me. I'm literally not

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trying to keep you from the information. I'm telling you exactly, Hey,

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here's this podcast, here's this ministry. I may disagree, but go listen

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for yourself. To me that that's
going above and beyond. I could take

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the ideas, rip the ideas apart
and say well, I heard someone say

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this or I heard this, and
not tell you the source. I want

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you to go have the source that
you can listen and draw your own conclusion.

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I think that that's going above and
beyond and being fair and being transparent.

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So I because I and not only
that, I want you to find

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out. I want you to,
you know, find maybe your next favorite

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podcast, even if I may disagree
with it, because I want you to

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get the most of all the content
that's out there. There's so much content

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out there. Sometimes you need somebody
to go wait, wait, go look

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at this today, or go check
this out? All right? And then

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number three, I if I'm listening
to things I like to, then listen

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with you. So a lot of
times I'll start listening to something and then

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I'll just hit pause one minute in, two minutes in and go, Nope,

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no, I'm going to listen to
the rest of that live on the

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air because I like that idea,
right if I'm going to listen to it

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one way or the other. If
I'm just listening to it in my car,

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just listening to it here in the
studio. I'm gonna still be pausing

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and making comments out loud to myself. I'm still going to be processing it,

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critiquing it, analyzing it. Seeing
if I agree disagree may lead me

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to look up other things. If
I'm going to be doing that anyway,

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I could do it in an empty
room, or I could turn on the

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microphone and do it with everyone else, and so then it's very real and

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it's very organic. I like doing
that. It's like people get together and

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have a book club, or people
get together and watch a movie and talk

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about it, or a TV show
and talk about well, why not get

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together listen to some sermons and discuss
it. So I think that's another reason

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I do this. I think that
that's interesting and fun. And another reason

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I do this is I listen to
different things and I may critique or analyze

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it, but I'm doing so because
I like to think of it. They

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presented their hypotheses. Now we're gonna
take it and we're gonna we may learn

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from it, we may disagree with
it, we may critique it, but

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ultimately it's beneficial for everyone. You
get to hear their side, and you

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get to hear my side. I'm
challenged by their side. Even if I

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disagree with it, I'm still challenged
to consider it and think about it,

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and then you get to hear two
different perspectives. So those are a number

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of reasons I do this type of
thing. I think people think that I

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just go around looking for something I
disagree with just so that I can be

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negative. No, in many cases, I've not heard enough to make a

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definitive opinion one way or the other. Sometimes I've not even heard one second.

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Sometimes maybe I've heard thirty seconds or
a minute or two minutes and go,

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Okay, this is where this is
something we need to I'm just going

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to listen to on the broadcast.
So I think I think people just greatly

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misunderstand what I'm trying to do.
I think it just makes it more interesting

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to hear a variety of perspectives and
go, well, okay, ladies and

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gentlemen, this is what they have
offered us. So now today, I

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want you to look up this,
and I want you to look up this,

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and I want you to look up
this. That's not In many cases,

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it's not even me saying, hey, that's just wrong. Don't believe

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it. In many cases, it's
me saying they put forth their perspective,

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here's my perspective. But let's go
look up all of this to test their

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perspective, because maybe they are right. We did that with the Book on

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Proverbs, where they made their hypotheses. Was that Solomon repented and made everything

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right by the end of his life. I gave you what to look up.

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I challenged everyone. I gave everyone
an assignment. What's weird a lot

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of times is I'll receive criticism,
but I won't receive them turning in their

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assignment. It's like, hey,
you're quick to criticize. Why don't you

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actually participate in the assignment and then
maybe maybe some of your criticisms would go

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away because then you would just be
benefiting from doing the assignment. But okay,

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so are you ready? So here's
what happened. I was I could

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probably take you to the highway I
was on, and I had grabbed the

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iPad and I started listening to a
sermon series on Psalm eighty three. On

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Psalm eighty three. Now, at
first I did not realize it was a

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sermon series on Psalm eighty three.
At first, I did not realize that,

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right. I just saw this title
the Coming Middle East War, the

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Coming Middle East War, and I'm
like, oh, so this is like

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is this some kind of like they're
going to take the Bible and talk about

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a coming Middle East war? Like
I just thought, Or is this some

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kind of like news? Is this
some kind of prediction? You know?

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What is this? And so I
thought, you know what, I let

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me since I'm driving around, let
me just hit play on this. So

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I hit play and immediately realize,
oh, this is a series on Psalm

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eighty three, And I'm like,
Okay, that's interesting. It's about the

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coming Middle East War. That's interesting. So here's what I want to do.

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Here's what I want to do.
I want to first just inform you

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about this series so that you'll go
download all of it and listen to it.

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Each message is about fifteen minutes long, so it's definitely I think there's

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a trend more and more to try
to do these shorter episodes because I think

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more people. I think there's more
people who prefer that over than what I

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do. Look my, when I
did Today's Focus, right, the whole

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goal for that series was to do
things that are short, like fifteen minutes

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long. I've failed every single time, but there's clearly a place for it,

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and I think there's a trend and
a lot of podcasts to do that

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produce these shorter programs so that people
have a chance to listen because they are

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busy. So this may be right
up your rally, but it Psalm eighty

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three is the name of the series. There's eleven sermons in there so far,

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The saw Maty three, The Coming
Middle East War Part one, saw

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Maty three, The Coming Middle East
War Part two, Part three, Part

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four, all the way up to
Part eleven. You may want to download

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all of them. They don't really
have big numbers right now right Part one

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has twenty three downloads and stream.
Part two has fifteen downloads and stream Part

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three has nineteen. Part four has
twelve, Part five has ten, Part

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six has twenty three, Part seven
has ten, Part eight has thirteen,

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Part nine has thirteen, Part ten
has ten, and Part eleven has four.

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So those we always hate. When
I see that, the same thing

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happens to some of my series.
The first message always usually has the highest

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number, and then in many cases
it's just a downward Ugh. It goes

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lower and lower and lower. And
that is so depressing, Like, that's

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depressing for a broadcaster, because whether
we agree or disagree with his take on

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Psalm eighty three, I feel bad
that he started in part one with twenty

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three people and he ends part eleven
with only four people. I mean,

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that's horrible. So hey, guys, find the series and download every single

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episode, please and actually listen to
all eleven, right, go listen to

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everything that you may agree, you
may disagree, but hey, that's someone

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dedicating a considerable amount of time to
Psalm eighty three. Even if you disagree

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with every single word, when it's
all said and done, you've gained.

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I guarantee you you're going to think
more about Saw eighty three than you've ever

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thought about it in the past,
right, So please go do that.

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All right? It's again Saw maybe
three of the coming Middle East War.

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And this comes from which church?
Hang on? It is from where's the

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broadcast stor Central Baptist Church, Central
Baptist Church, Doctor Andy Bloom. And

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of course you can find this on
the sermons two point oh app So please

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go subscribe to it or you can
follow them if you want. Even if

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you don't want to follow the ministry. At least download all of those episodes

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and listen to them when you have
time. If you do a lot of

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driving, those little fifteen minute messages
probably will take well take care of a

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good drive. Right. That's you
know, eleven messages about fifteen minutes a

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piece. That should cover anything you
need to and if you only have a

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little bit of time each day,
you can knock those out. You could

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listen to the whole series. So
listen to the whole series, make use

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of it, and again the whole
sermons two point oh app challenge. We've

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been trying, and I've been trying
everything I can can this year to get

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you listening to sermons and taking notes
and making the most out of the app

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I really have. I've given you
special assignments on proverbs. I've done so

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many, all the different special assignments
I've given you in things to listen to.

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Hopefully it's been beneficial because we're you
know, we're in June, ladies

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and gentlemen. I don't know if
you realize this before we know it,

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twenty twenty four is going to be
something in the history books. We're going

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to be in twenty twenty five.
So let's end this year strong. Let's

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try by listening to as many sermons
as possible, and then you can you

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can you can evaluate the benefit of
it and what you gained from it or

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what you did not gain from it. All right, but saw maybe three,

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so let's go to that. So
I was listening to this in the

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car. I only made it.
I didn't I made it. I don't

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know, maybe two minutes in,
three minutes in. And then I was

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like, hmm, okay, save
this one because we Because mainly I thought,

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well, hey, they did an
entire series on this. Every once

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you be aware of it, never
one, should at least go listen to

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it. And then it was like, well, this does raise some hermeneutical

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questions and how they're handling Psalm eighty
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anything away whether I agree or disagree. Let's just find out and we do

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that right now. Thy word is
a lamp onto my feet and a light

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onto my path. This is Gary
Neron welcoming you to the Lamp and Light

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broadcast, coming to you from the
studios of Central Baptist Church in Beautiful o'

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Bible, verse by verse, teaching
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without compromise or apology, speaking the
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is to give the lamp and light
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intro. That really is. I
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to men as they are. I
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is to men as they are.
Hey, let's let's just focus on what

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and understanding. We're teaching men as
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try to turn these people into something
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are. Now, for me,
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the Word of God as it is, with all of its difficulties complexities.

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Let's not be afraid of it's if
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its difficulty. Let's not be afraid
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sinners with a sinful nature. We
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not all knowing we are not holy, we are sinners practically at the same

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time we can remember what we are
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really good intro. I like it. I like the voiceover. I do

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like the fact that it says from
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in America doesn't have a studio set
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apt to teach. Pastors should be
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what better way for a church than
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where they can go live at anytime. All the pastor has to do is

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and he can disciple, he can
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analyze world events and say this is
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why doesn't every church have that.
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mean you you do devotions. You
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spiritual things. There's a mess in
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microphone and talk to people about it
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issues from a biblical perspective. So
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church that has studios from the studios
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of the church is. Again,
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I could, I could do so
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idea. I think that's awesome.
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every church, every church. Look
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if that's a pretty common understanding that
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don't forsake the assembly, but even
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as you see the day approaching.
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up the world is right now,
how messed up Christianity is, how messed

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up the church is, how messed
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things are getting worse and worse and
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more churches, turning on the microphone. Addressing those issues, he said,

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well, they need to come.
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Why are they going to come to
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in the culture, are they going
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the church and ask you questions?
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they are. They got a phone, they got a tablet, boom,

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they get a notification, Oh my
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this issue. Now, what blows
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of a church where you try to
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in the church don't even bother to
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That's awesome. Bible sense, the
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the shatrum Bible plans my feet on
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really a nice sounding intro. I
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intro there, very professional, sounds
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a very good job. I don't
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did it very much better than anything
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that together, that's that's really I
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that that sounds I mean that could
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this as a radio program, almost
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know many don't understand that, but
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feed attached to it as a podcast. Okay, so yeah, they do

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everything really well. I got nothing, but that's awesome. That's a church.

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a day, seven days a week
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an RSS feed attached to it.
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oh, this is your radio pastor, doctor Andy Bloom, welcoming you to

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another lamp and light broadcast. Well, it's been good to be in the

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Book of Hebrews for quite a period
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I want to do a between the
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going to be looking at chapters from
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going to go through every psalm in
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to go through all of them,
but we're going to go through quite a

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few of them. And the first
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that people really don't seem to talk
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And it's one I titled in Psalms
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Coming Middle East War. So an
interesting approach. They've been working in the

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Book of Hebrews. They finished Hebrews. Now before they go to their next

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book, whatever the next book's going
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some random sermons are random chapters in
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that's I like that. I like
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awesome, all right. So then
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the title the Coming Middle East War. Now, when I was driving the

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car, when I and some of
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kind of said to myself when I
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church and their introduction, I was
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That's awesome. To have a studio. I said basically the same things

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to myself in the car, because
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yeah, I talk to myself and
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listening to anything, I'm gonna be
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watched If i'll watch a movie,
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when he said PSAWM eighty three,
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know right, I don't know if
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could just sit here and summarize Saw
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I'm like, I don't know if
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mad at myself. I'm like,
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right at the top of my head. I have no idea, but it

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wasn't coming to my mind. And
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he gave it was the Coming Middle
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wait what So then I had to
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wait, no, think, think, think think. Okay, So,

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if we did a chapter summary method
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I don't think I would have ever
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East War? So then I was
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okay, PSAW eighty three. So
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there are so that you know,
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eighteen verses of PSAW eighty three five
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loud when I was done, would
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Coming Middle East War? I don't
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that's the title he's giving given this. I I'm like, whoa, Okay,

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what what did I miss? So
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go and how he gets there,
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eighty three, you're probably looking at
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driving, But if you're listening,
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East War? What title would you
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see if we're going to get some
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East War. And so I hope
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feel free to write us can email
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WTYG or it's at Central Baptistocala dot
org. And just through the website,

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you can email us or you can
send us a letter if you'd like to

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send a letter to us. Our
address is one seven one four southeast thirty

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six Avenue, Okaala. That's O
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the zip code is three four four
seventy one. Well, again, I

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welcome you folks back to this.
You've been listening to Hebrews for quite a

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while, and we've had some comments
here and there about it that we're good

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comments, and so we appreciate that
as well. And we're always like to

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hear from our audience if it's being
a blessing to you and God has used

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something in that. Please write us
and let us know that encouragees not only

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myself, but those that are very
active here in helping us. Doctor Hopper,

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who is the manager of our radio
station and just pretty well runs all

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those things. So here's a church
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radio station. Man, that's a
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I love that, like, I
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was a time I wanted, like
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there's got to be a way.
Is there a way to get like a

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radio station that we could do because
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in the people living in the middle
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you know, access to a lot
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transmitter, even if it was just
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church there in the middle of nowhere, we could the people in the local

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area. Now, of course,
as time move forward, then the radio

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idea kind of was antiquated, right
Like you know online radio now we could

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do that. I could create an
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an online radio station within an hour. If I had the money, I

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could have our own online radio station. In fact, we did. We

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did some testing on an online radio
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I did like a free trial and
I tried it. I'm like, I

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could do this, right, I
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we could get some other ministries that
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would be awesome. And then maybe
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make the voiceovers or pay to have
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this. This could be interesting,
but it was gonna take money. I

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mean, everything is money, money, money, money, money, money.

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I hate money. I hate it
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it's just so true. The more
money you have, the more you can

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do. Look, you've got enough
money, you can have a twenty four

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hour a day, seven day a
week online radio station so that people can

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listen to you via mobile app,
twenty four hours a day, seven days

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a week. If you have enough
money, you can you can be broadcasting

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on ten fifteen different platforms. You
can be doing this. You can do

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this, You can do this.
You can do this. If you have

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money, you can provide curriculum for
If you have money, but so,

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but that's awesome that they've got money
to have studios and their own radio station.

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they're utilizing it. That's that's that's
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for that kind of thing than a
lot of things people use money for in

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churches. I like, get get
the mess if you if you believe in

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your message, get the message out
there. So everything about this I was

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impressed with. Everything about this I
was impressed with. I was like,

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wow, this is this is really
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So I was impressed. Everything's right
now we still haven't gotten a saw eighty

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three and why it's called the Middle
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impressed with everything. All right,
let's see where this is going to go

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though. And then mister Dick Bott, who is the guy that takes all

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the speaking that I do and break
it up in the fifteen minute segments for

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the radio program. And so because
I have all those good men behind me,

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sometimes it makes them sound one hundred
percent better than what I actually am.

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a team of people that's you need

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that he does the speaking. Someone
breaks it down into fifteen minute segments,

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they put the voice over there.
If there's an outro, they do that.

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They take care of everything. And
then and then obviously this so this

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is a radio broadcast that gets broadcasted
on the radio, and then it's turned

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into I'm gonna refer to it as
a podcast because that's what it is.

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You can call it whatever. Well, it's an upload discermnadio and there's an

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RSS feed, so it's a podcast. Right. So, but so they're

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utilizing every every different you know,
avenue that that's available to them. And

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it's good to have a team.
You have to have you got to have

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money, and you gotta have a
team. Now many reasons. If you

417
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.720
have money, you can hire a
team. Okay, so you know that's

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always great as well. All right, so but all right, here we

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go. We sh we got into
Saw eighty three. But these but I

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do want to be very positive on
this. Look I can. I may

421
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.920
end up disagreeing with everything they say, but you know what, I love

422
00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:49.920
the fact that they're using the technology
and they're putting forth their philological position and

423
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:55.440
their theological hypotheses out there, because
that gives people something to listen to,

424
00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:59.279
to be challenged by, and provide
spiritual food for people twenty four hours a

425
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:03.559
day, seven days week. I
know it's so easy for people to take

426
00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:07.160
that for granted. I know it
is. I know it's easy. I

427
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:11.920
know it's easy to say, you
know, I've got this available, and

428
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.240
so much of it is available to
you for free. So it's just like

429
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you don't even consider the cost and
sacrifice that goes into it. But that

430
00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:26.839
I love when a church is doing
all of those kinds of things. But

431
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:32.119
nonetheless, we're so thankful to have
them. And then a brother Gary Neron,

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who does some of the intros and
the outros you'll hear on these messages

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each day. So again, thank
you for listening. And we're asking you

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to be our number one advertiser.
You say, what do you mean number

435
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one advertiser. Well, we don't
pay for advertisement with the lamp and light

436
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:53.720
radio broadcast, we just have never
done that. But we feel that the

437
00:30:53.759 --> 00:31:02.440
best advertisement is for you, the
listener, to tell others people you go

438
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:07.279
to church with, Tell your pastor, ask your pastor to listen in on

439
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.599
the day that it appears on your
radio station. Tell others about it and

440
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:17.000
then listen in to the lamp and
light broadcast, and it will always be

441
00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:21.839
the King James Bible that we use, and it will always be something that

442
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:27.160
is biblical in the sense that it
stays true to the word and not coming

443
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:33.240
up with new translations and new interpretations
of the scripture. So I hope that

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00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:41.759
you will. I do. I
think that's awesome that hey, they understand

445
00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:44.400
that, hey, we need you
to advertise this now. The only thing

446
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:47.960
there that, of course I would
point out is it's great that you're telling

447
00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:52.599
people to tune into the radio,
but you know, it is twenty twenty

448
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:55.720
four. You may want to tell
people how to access your content via the

449
00:31:55.759 --> 00:32:00.440
sermon's two point oh app or how
to subscribe to your podcast, or to

450
00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:04.599
ensure that all of your content is
available on every podcasting app on earth.

451
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:10.079
Because it is twenty twenty four.
It is twenty like at some point,

452
00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:15.440
like I may my podcast, people
can view it as a failure. You

453
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:17.880
can view whatever you view it as
a failure. But I do know this,

454
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:23.359
I do know the whole podcasting world
very well. So I almost wish

455
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:28.079
that I could just start making money
helping churches go Look, no, no,

456
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:30.279
let's get your content here. Let's
get your content. Just kind of

457
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:35.839
serve as a consultant to churches saying, look, it's not nineteen eighty seven

458
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:38.319
anymore. It's not like, hey, write us a letter and listen to

459
00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:44.319
us on radio. It's not nineteen
ninety five anymore. It's twenty twenty four.

460
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:47.839
Let's get your content on every platform
that we can. Okay, and

461
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:53.240
you don't have to pay for advertising. And I understand that it's great that

462
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:58.599
you want your listeners to be the
advertisers. But here's the thing. Let's

463
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:02.119
get your content a vail on every
known platform on earth. But hey,

464
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:08.680
they they are at least doing their
best, So that's that's awesome. Listen

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00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:14.440
and listen closely. So as we
look at these between the books and passages

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in Psalms, I'm going to start
today with Psalms eighty three. Now we're

467
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:21.920
not going to go eighty four,
eighty five, eighty six. No,

468
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.480
I might go back to chapter one, then go to another chapter. So

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00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:29.720
we'll be back and forth throughout the
Psalms, because I want you to get

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all that God has to give you. All. Right, let us get

471
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started then, But I hope that
you have your pencil and paper out and

472
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be ready to write some of these
things down. Okay, immediately, right

473
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:46.039
now, stop what you're doing.
You have to follow them. You have

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to follow this man. He said
pencil. He said, get your pencil

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00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:54.880
and paper, ladies and gentlemen.
You know that this program that we are

476
00:33:54.960 --> 00:34:00.519
reviewing has to be the most sanctified
spiritual program on the internet. He said

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00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:06.279
pencil. He did not say that
abomination called a pen. He did not

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00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:12.239
say that that instrument of Antichrist a
pen. He said a pencil. You

479
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:17.360
know that is the proof of philological
correctness. You know his hermoneutics are going

480
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:21.960
to be awesome. You know his
theology is going to be great, because

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00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:29.840
he said pencil, ladies and gentlemen. And I might even call this sermon

482
00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:31.079
part one. As a matter of
fact, I preached this in my church

483
00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:37.159
back in two thousand and eleven.
That's way back October twenty eleven. This

484
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.480
was preached at Central Baptist Church.
But it still took a few weeks to

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get through this chapter. So I
want you to listen closely, take notes

486
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:50.760
down on it, and we hope
that it will be a big help to

487
00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.880
you. Have your bibles open,
have a King James Bible open because we

488
00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:59.239
stick with it, and sometimes we'll
do word interpretations. If we're going to

489
00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:02.119
have word interpretation, then you need
to have the right word and the only

490
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:07.760
accurate word, and so are the
accurate word is the King James Bible.

491
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So having said all of that,
I want you to listen closely as we

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start reading here in the text in
verse one. Obviously they are very King

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King James, King James only.
For some of you, that world probably

494
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:27.880
seems weird, like King James only. What is that? What is that?

495
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:31.239
I'm very familiar with the King James
only world because I went to multiple

496
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schools that were King James only.
I went to a couple of Bible institutes

497
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that were King James only. So
I'm very, very, very very familiar.

498
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:45.519
The Independent Fundamental Baptist Church that I
attended when I was in Nebraska was

499
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King James Only. The first church
I was ordained in was King James only.

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The second church that I was I
know, we could tell my stories

501
00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:59.039
of what two ordinations, but I
was ordained in two different churches. But

502
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at the second one I don't think
was they weren't hardcore King James only.

503
00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:07.840
I think they used the King James, but they weren't King James only really

504
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:14.039
for not hardcore sense. The first
one was hardcore King James only. And

505
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I think the first time I ever
walked into a church that was King James

506
00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:22.000
only was in Swabrook and Germany.
I walked in and when they found out

507
00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:25.719
I was carrying an NIV, I
got some really strange looks and I'm like,

508
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:29.800
what is happening here? And that's
the first time I was introduced to

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the King James only world. All
right, so they're part of the King

510
00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:36.480
James only world. All right,
here we go, Let's find out what's

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about to happen. Of Psalms eighty
three, Keep not Thou silence. Now

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I understand this is a man talking
to God, not God talking to a

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man. He says, keep not
thou silence, Oh God, hold not

514
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thy peace, and be not still, Oh God. And verse two says,

515
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for lo, Thine enemies make a
tumult. And they that hate THEE

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and the people that actually hate God
hate THEE have lifted up the head.

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Verse three. They have taken crafty
counsel against thy people and consulted against thy

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hidden ones. Verse four. They
have said, come and let us cut

519
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them off from being a nation,
that the name of Israel may be no

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more. Now this is back goodness, back in the book of Psalms.

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Now, look that's that's over three
thousand years ago. This this has written

522
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about three thousand years ago. And
what I'm trying to say is this,

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we have a BDS movement today where
it's to diabst Israel, and countries are

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not just moving it. There are
church organizations. Now I say church,

525
00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:30.400
I use that kind of in a
loose way because they're not the churches that

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God has formed. Okay, Now
this is where I was in the car,

527
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and this where I started to getting
a little confused. I'm like,

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oh, can I wait a minute? So saw Maty three, you're calling

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this the coming Middle East War?
All right now, I'm gonna read Psaw

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eighty three. Now, if you
say the coming Middle East War, you're

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speaking future tents. Now when you
say future tents, was it the coming

532
00:38:55.960 --> 00:39:01.480
Middle East War? For the for
the author who wrote Psalm eighty three,

533
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was he seeing a coming war that
would happen in his lifetime or was he

534
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seeing a coming war that was going
that hasn't even occurred? Yet, like,

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and then how did we get into
the dia vest Israel movement? Like,

536
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like you know, let I'm like, where does that have to do

537
00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:22.039
with so many three? So I
was getting a little confused. So then

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I was like, okay, I
hit pause right there, I'm like okay.

539
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:29.079
So then I'm like, okay,
So when I read Psalm eighty three,

540
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am I reading something that's referring to
past tense, past tense for the

541
00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:37.840
author, present tense for the author, or future tents for the author?

542
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:43.639
Past present, or future? Right? Because again he calls us the coming

543
00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:46.840
Middle East war. That's future.
So that's either future for us or future

544
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:50.599
for the author. Now at this
point he's he's not even talking, he's

545
00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:52.639
not even yet identified what he's referring
to here. But all right, psaw

546
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:58.960
many three. Here we go.
Keep not thou silence, oh God,

547
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:02.199
hold not thy piece, and be
not still, oh God. Now he

548
00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:09.360
reads it very purposefully, very slowly
inphacive, probably reads it much better than

549
00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:13.239
I do, because I always read
things way too fast. I blow past

550
00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:15.519
punctuation, and it's all messed up
and jumbled together. All right, But

551
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:22.920
let me try this correctly. Keep
not thou die thou silence, Oh God,

552
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:28.000
hold not thy peace, and be
not still, Oh God, for

553
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low thine enemies. Make a tumult
now that seems like a present tense.

554
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Hey Lord, keep not thou silence, Oh God, hold not thy peace.

555
00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:45.119
Be not still, Oh God,
for low thine enemies, your enemies,

556
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God, make a tumult that seems
to be present tents and they that

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00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:54.400
hate THEE have lifted up the head
have That's something that's going on. It's

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kind of a mixture of a little
bit of past and present. They have

559
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done this, this is already being
done. They have taken crafty counsel against

560
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thy people and consulted against thy hidden
ones. This is something they have done.

561
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It's something that has happened. It
is happening. This doesn't talk about

562
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seeming to be referring to something future, does it. They verse four,

563
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they have said, come and let
us cut them off from being a nation,

564
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that the name of visual may be
no more in remembrance. For they

565
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:35.599
have consulted together with one consent.
They are confederate against THEE. This seems

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to be referring to something that in
a sense, has happened and is happening.

567
00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:40.599
It's kind of like, right there, this has been going on,

568
00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:45.400
and it is going on a little
past present kind of concept. This doesn't

569
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seem to be referring to anything future
unless I'm misreading this. Unless I'm misreading

570
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:55.719
this. So that's that's when I
got a little confused. And so immediately

571
00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:01.079
though, he jumps to people trying
to divest movement against Israel, and like,

572
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:07.239
wait, wait, what right,
let's see where this goes. They're

573
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:10.320
churches have called out group of people, but they've been called out not by

574
00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:15.440
God. And so they when you
get to a church and they find out

575
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:21.679
they support BDS, realize that's not
a church that is biblically right, and

576
00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:23.480
it's just going to lead you astray, and it's going to lead your family

577
00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:29.559
astray. And you don't want your
grandchildren to end up in hell by following

578
00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:37.199
those type that are involved in such
false doctrine. Now, unless there's some

579
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:42.159
specific group hees referring to, is
that BDS VBS? I don't know what

580
00:42:42.519 --> 00:42:44.960
group he is referring to, But
if he's just referring to those who want

581
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:52.079
to divest money that's going to Israel, do you end up in hell if

582
00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:55.639
you decide that you believe that we
should divest money going to Israel because you

583
00:42:55.679 --> 00:43:04.559
disagree with Israel's actions and Gaza or
policy are against the Palestinians. Do you

584
00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:07.199
go to Hell for that? Like
that? That's a little like that to

585
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:09.880
me is a massive jump. Hey, there's those who want to divest money

586
00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:15.519
to Israel. But now that that's
going to lead you to Hell, I

587
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:20.480
don't think salvation is dependent upon that. Now we could get into a discussion

588
00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:28.400
about eschatology and hermoneutics. It just
seemed like a wild jump. But okay,

589
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:34.719
let's see, let's see where we're
going here. So again, they

590
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:40.840
want no more remembrance of Israel.
Verse five says for they have consulted together

591
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.880
with one consent. Now you think
about that. Some of those people are

592
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:57.360
Presbyterian, some have been the Methodists, and various other denominational churches, and

593
00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:02.159
they have gone across what they say
were they're dones of their church that they

594
00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:07.400
would not join with the other churches. But now, just like the Econmenical

595
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:14.480
movement, they have done that in
moving against Israel, God's chosen people.

596
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:23.039
And now I am so perplexed at
this point. They have consulted together with

597
00:44:23.119 --> 00:44:29.440
one consent they are confederate against the
And now we're talking about Presbyterians and Methodists.

598
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:37.519
What does that have anything to do
with? I am, I don't

599
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:45.320
understand, Like who is the author
of Psalm eighty three referencing. I'm gonna

600
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:50.239
let him go a little bit further
and then I'll just throw out some concepts

601
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:53.480
here. Right, I'll try to
just give you a little like really quick

602
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:59.679
overview with I know the review has
taken longer than you know. It always

603
00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:01.920
does because I because I want to
point out good as well as anything I

604
00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:07.360
disagree with. So I I don't
really know his hypotheses to PSAWMTY three yet,

605
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:10.400
I don't really know what he believes
the sam is about. Somehow we've

606
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:15.920
gotten to those who I guess want
to divest money from going into Israel and

607
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:22.119
against those who have come together as
different denominations Presbyterians and Methodists to stand against

608
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:27.519
Israel. I don't know what this
has to do with PSAWMDI three. Maybe

609
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:30.920
I kind of see what he's doing. People in the past have gone against

610
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:37.280
Israel and people in the present,
But how are the Presbyterians and Methodists going

611
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:40.159
against Israel? Like what do you
mean, like the is that what he's

612
00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:46.679
talking about is that what the author
of Psalmiti three referencing. And so when

613
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:53.079
they do that, they're asking for
big trouble. Don't don't get deceived.

614
00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:57.960
Don't be taken in. When they
try to take you in, they think

615
00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:00.760
you're an idiot. They think you're
stupid, they think you're dumb. They

616
00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:02.960
think that you won't know the difference. And so, but when you stay

617
00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:08.199
close to the Lord, you'll always
know what's right, and you'll then know

618
00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:15.239
what to do that is right.
Verse six. It goes on, say

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the tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites
of Moab, and the Hagarenes, Gibel

620
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:45.920
and Ammon and Amelek, the Philistines
with inhabitants of tire Asher also is joined

621
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with them. They have hoping the
children of lot Selah. Now some people

622
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:05.199
have translated that word she lia means
so be it, But it can be

623
00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:07.880
used, but context will determine if
it means so be it. What has

624
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:10.519
been said here is not what God
says, so be it. What means

625
00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:16.599
here is to think about it.
Think about all these people these nations are

626
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:22.800
thinking this way. They are people
for mostly have opposed Israel. Down through

627
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:25.119
the centuries. And so when you
think of it from that vantage point,

628
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:30.039
he says, you better think about
it before you take a stand with that

629
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:37.079
attitude that you're against Israel. That
is the worst stand that you can take.

630
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:44.800
Now verse nine, do unto them
as unto the Midian Nights and to

631
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Cicera and to Jabon at the brook
of Pisan. Oh. Yes, At

632
00:47:54.360 --> 00:48:00.880
times you pray and say, well, is it really right to pray against

633
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:06.400
somebody? Well, the first thing
that you do pray, whether it's for

634
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:12.400
a nation or another person, is
to pray that they'll repent and get right

635
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.760
with God, get it right there
in according with the King James, Bible,

636
00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:17.239
the Way of God, the Word, the Truth. But if they

637
00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:22.159
won't do that, then they're trying
to do things as this, pray that

638
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:29.320
they'll be soundly defeated and taken out
of existence. Now you say you mean

639
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:31.199
to kill every one of them,
No, I didn't say that. Taken

640
00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:38.599
out of existence is to take out
their false doctrine, their evil way and

641
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:47.400
all that they're doing. Because eventually
when people follow that, they I I

642
00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:51.159
don't know what this has to do
with the coming Middle East war, but

643
00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:54.760
I am even more of a perplexed
that he seems to be taking this about

644
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.519
us and not about like what's going
on here? Like if I was just

645
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:01.239
to say, okay, that names
a lot of people, right, That

646
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:06.000
names a lot of people. All
right? Itam Ishmaelites, Moab, the

647
00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:12.480
Hagorines, gibbl m, i'mon Amelek, the Philistines, the inhabitants of tire

648
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:16.639
Asser also is joined with them.
They have hopeing the children of Lot do

649
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:24.159
unto them as unto the Midianites,
as to Cesarea, as to Jabin at

650
00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:29.679
the brook of Kishan? Now is
that saying? Is that asking God to

651
00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:34.000
do unto them as unto the Midianites? Is this about so? If that's

652
00:49:34.119 --> 00:49:37.079
so, he said, well he's
praying for God to do this? Well,

653
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:40.159
what what happened? What is he
is he referencing a specific historical event?

654
00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:45.519
Is what is going on here?
Right? I understand you could try

655
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:49.159
to make this about us praying,
But first we've got to understand what's going

656
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:52.800
on here in this context, Like
what is this referencing? Like, is

657
00:49:52.800 --> 00:50:00.400
that referencing do unto them as unto
the Midianites? Is that referencing something specific

658
00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:07.039
as to as to cesarea as to
Jabin at the brook of Kishan. Well,

659
00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:15.119
look what is that referencing which perished
at Indoor? They became as dung

660
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:20.280
for the earth. That is referencing
things in the past. I know that

661
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.280
we love to just bring things to
the present, but I this, We've

662
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:28.119
got to figure out what happened here. So now we've got we've you've got

663
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:31.000
a clear assignment today. Your assignment
today is figuring out what in the world

664
00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:38.119
is being spoken of? And Psalm
eighty three will go verse eight nine and

665
00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:44.599
ten, eight nine and ten like
that. That's your goal to figure that

666
00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:51.000
out today. Let's see where if
he offers any historical context end up in

667
00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:55.280
hill. It's a matter of love, the said, Lord, remove them.

668
00:50:57.719 --> 00:51:02.360
Why because we don't want people going
to hell that get taken in by

669
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:07.000
these wicked ways. And most of
them probably think that they're right and don't

670
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:14.079
know that it's wicked. Now he
goes on thatt verse says, which perished

671
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.960
at Ondoor. You know when I
see that word Ondoor in the Bible,

672
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:25.599
I think of one situation involved King
Saul. He went and visited the witch

673
00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:31.119
at Ondoor to find out what's going
to happen next and he found out,

674
00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:37.360
and the next day he was dead. So I want you to understand that

675
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:43.239
sometimes when you go away from God's
way, God's will, doing God's will,

676
00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:46.480
God's way, in God's timing.
When you get away from that,

677
00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:52.719
then my friend, you're looking at
the ways of evil, of wrong,

678
00:51:52.920 --> 00:52:00.280
and perhaps even death, as did
King Saul find out. So again,

679
00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:12.239
don't fall into those sins. So
he says, they became as dune for

680
00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:16.519
the earth. Now think of those
nations he's talking about here in this tenth

681
00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:21.559
verse, they became done for the
earth. This is your radio pastor,

682
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:24.559
Pastor Andy Bloom, saying, may
the Word of God be a lamp into

683
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:30.760
your feet and a light into your
pathway. Today we want to thank you

684
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:35.519
for listening to the Lamp and Light
broadcast. If you would like a CD

685
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:39.119
copy of today's message by doctor Bloom, send us your name mailing it.

686
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:46.280
Okay, that's hilarious a CD copy, but okay, all right, that's

687
00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:52.639
how it ends. So I now, I know that's only fifteen minutes,

688
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:57.920
so that's what you get. So
I just it's so weird that the he

689
00:52:58.039 --> 00:53:02.639
titled this the coming Middle War,
and I'm having a hard time following,

690
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:07.280
but there's ten other parts, so
by all means, go listen to the

691
00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:10.360
rest. But I'm just going to
take just a few minutes to go through

692
00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:15.519
some things quickly, all right,
quickly, so that we have ideas Psalm

693
00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:22.039
eighty three, I think I think
you can see keep not thou thou,

694
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:28.159
thy thou silence, Oh God,
hold not thy peace, and be not

695
00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:30.480
still, Oh God. Clearly you
can see Psalm eighty three as a prayer

696
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:36.280
for deliverance and victory over Israel's enemies. Here is a summary in an outline

697
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:39.440
of a basic teaching of it.
All right. Obviously, verse one and

698
00:53:39.519 --> 00:53:43.400
two we kind of have an introduction. I think, all right, keep

699
00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:45.719
not thou silence, Oh God,
hold not thy peace, be not still,

700
00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:50.599
Oh God, for low thine enemies
make a torment tumult, and they

701
00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:54.840
have hate. They that hate thee
have lifted up, lifted up the head.

702
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:59.280
All right, this is the Psawmisris
crying out to God not to be

703
00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:02.000
silent and to not be inactive in
the face of Israel's enemies. That's verse

704
00:54:02.039 --> 00:54:07.039
one and two serves as a pretty
good introduction. I think. All right,

705
00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:10.360
then, look, starting in verse
three, he begins the description of

706
00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:15.400
the enemies. I guess they have
taken crafty council against thy people and consulted

707
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:19.360
against thy hidden ones. They have
said, come, let us cut them

708
00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:22.559
off from being a nation, that
the name of Israel may be no more

709
00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:27.079
in remembrance. For they have consulted
together with one consent. They are confederate

710
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:30.559
against thee the Tabernacles of Edom and
Ishmaelites, and the Moab, the Hagarines,

711
00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:36.639
the gibbel ammon Amelek, the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tire.

712
00:54:36.960 --> 00:54:40.079
Aser also has joined with them.
They have hopen the children of Lot,

713
00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:45.119
the samist lists the various nations and
enemies who have come together against Israel seeking

714
00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:50.400
to destroy them. Right so,
number so, if we want to outline

715
00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:53.599
this our introduction verse one through two, just that's the introduction number two,

716
00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:58.880
the description of the enemies Verses three
through eight, or a description of the

717
00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:01.840
enemy. Whichever way you want to
go, all right, then if you

718
00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:07.679
start in verse nine, if you
start in verse nine, do unto them

719
00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:13.599
as unto the Medianites, which perish, make their nobles like Areb and like

720
00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:19.320
zeb Yea, all the princes as
Zeba and Zalmuna, who said, let

721
00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:23.840
us take ourselves the house of God
in possession. All right, So if

722
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:28.519
you look at that, it's it's
kind of an appeal to God for action.

723
00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:31.239
Do this, do this, do
this. That's kind of like verses

724
00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:36.239
nine through twelve, Thesamus ask God
to deal with the enemies as he dealt

725
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:40.760
with previous foes such as Cesarea and
Jabin who were defeated by Israel in the

726
00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:45.280
past. So basically what he does
in verse nine through twelve, he's like,

727
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:49.679
Okay, God, I need you
to do something now like you have

728
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:53.239
done in the past. So any
good Bible student, once you get to

729
00:55:53.320 --> 00:55:59.039
nine to twelve, we got to
go find out and see how God acted

730
00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:04.800
in the past and these situations that
are being alluded to. Once you can

731
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:07.840
identify what God did in the past, you then can get an idea what

732
00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:14.360
the psawmist is literally asking for.
It's the way it's written. It's just

733
00:56:14.440 --> 00:56:17.480
assumed that you the reader will be
like, oh, I remember how God

734
00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:22.400
acted in that situation. I remember
how God acted in that situation. Are

735
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:28.960
those situations recorded in scripture? If
so, then start providing them, making

736
00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:34.280
a list of good cross references.
Right, So we have the introduction Verses

737
00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:37.480
one through two. We have the
description of the enemy or enemies. Versus

738
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:39.639
three through eight. We have an
appeal to God for action. Verses nine

739
00:56:39.639 --> 00:56:45.840
through twelve. We have a petition
for defeat of the enemies Verses thirteen through

740
00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:52.519
eighteen. Oh, My God,
make them like a will, as the

741
00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:55.639
stubble before the wind, as the
fire burneth a wood, as the flame

742
00:56:55.760 --> 00:57:00.760
setteth the mountains on fire. So
persecute them with the tempt and make them

743
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:04.639
afraid with thy storm. Fill their
faces with shame, that they may seek

744
00:57:05.480 --> 00:57:09.119
Thy name, O Lord, Let
them be confounded and troubled forever. Yay,

745
00:57:09.239 --> 00:57:15.519
let them be put to shame and
perish, that men may know that

746
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:22.159
Thou, whose name is Jehovah,
are the most high over all the earth.

747
00:57:22.519 --> 00:57:27.280
All right, So I think what
we can say here is this.

748
00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:30.079
So we have kind of an introduction
in verses one through two, we have

749
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:32.199
a description of the enemy or enemies. Verses three through eight, we have

750
00:57:32.199 --> 00:57:37.239
an appeal for God to act.
Verses nine through twelve. He's basically saying,

751
00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:38.840
Hey, act now like you've done
in the past, And then verses

752
00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:44.400
thirteen through eighteen, he's petitioning God
to defeat the enemies. The psalmist cries

753
00:57:44.440 --> 00:57:46.239
out to God to make the enemies
like a like, you know, basically

754
00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:51.559
tumbleweed chaff fire, to pursue them
with tempest and to fill them with shame.

755
00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:58.039
Now you could argue that in verse
eighteen we have an affirmation of God's

756
00:57:58.039 --> 00:58:02.719
sovereignty. Maybe you could see that
that men may know that Thou, whose

757
00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:07.760
name alone is Jehovah, are the
most high over all the earth. Maybe

758
00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:13.440
the psalm concludes with a recognition of
God's sovereignty and power, affirming he alone

759
00:58:13.559 --> 00:58:17.360
is the most high. There's a
basic outline of the chapter. All right,

760
00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:22.599
that's a very simplistic one. I'm
not even positive I would stay with

761
00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:27.400
it exactly. But if I go
through that, I don't know if I'm

762
00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:31.840
going to call this the coming Middle
East War, I'm going to say trusting

763
00:58:34.119 --> 00:58:38.320
trusting God in the face of enemies, maybe something like that, like if

764
00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:42.519
I was going to do that chapter
summary method trusting God in the face of

765
00:58:42.599 --> 00:58:47.079
enemies or God's sovereignty versus the enemies
of God. So I don't know.

766
00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:51.199
There's a lot of different directions I
could go, but a basic outline introduction

767
00:58:51.320 --> 00:58:55.079
verses one through two, description of
the enemy or enemies verses three through eight,

768
00:58:55.559 --> 00:59:00.320
appial to God for action verses nine
through twelve, a petition and to

769
00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:04.440
defeat the enemies verses thirteen through eighteen, and then an affirmation of God's society

770
00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:08.800
and the verse eighteen. All right, I think that that's kind of workable.

771
00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:13.440
It's not perfect, it's not great, but it at least get you.

772
00:59:13.639 --> 00:59:16.400
It'll get you started on Psaw eighty
three. To me, the biggest

773
00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:22.199
task here is, Okay, when
he's asking God to do something in the

774
00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:25.320
present that he has done in the
past, we need to go find the

775
00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:30.519
accounts of what He did in those
situations in the past so we understand specifically

776
00:59:30.679 --> 00:59:37.519
what the Sawmist is asking for.
So that would be a challenge for us,

777
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:39.880
for us to try to work on
right now. For as far as

778
00:59:40.039 --> 00:59:45.159
historical context, I had to look
up some things here to try to find

779
00:59:45.159 --> 00:59:49.840
out. Psalm eighty three seems to
reflect the plea for deliverance and victory over

780
00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:53.920
Israel's enemies. The historical context that
might have inspired the Sawmist to compose such

781
00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:59.880
a prayer could be related to various
conflicts and threats that Israel faced during that

782
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:04.440
time. This is referring to things
at that time, not future, all

783
01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:08.280
right, So here's some of the
possible historical events. The Assyrian threat.

784
01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:14.000
During the time of the divided Kingdom
of Israel and Judah, both kingdoms faced

785
01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:19.239
threats from the powerful Assyrian Empire.
The Assyrians were known for their military prowess

786
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:23.519
and aggression, and they posed a
significant threat to the stability and security of

787
01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:29.800
Israel. So maybe the Assyrian threat
the Moabite and Ammonite aggression. The neighboring

788
01:00:29.880 --> 01:00:36.280
nations of Moab and Emmon often posed
threats to Israel through military incursions, raids,

789
01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:38.840
or alliances with other enemies of Israels. These conflicts could have prompted the

790
01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:44.239
Samis to seek God's intervention and protection
against the hostile neighbors. So we have

791
01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:49.400
the Assyrian threat, Moabite and the
Ammonite, Syrian or Philistine attacks. The

792
01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:53.840
Syrians and Philistines were other neighboring nations
that frequently classed with Israel over territorial disputes,

793
01:00:54.079 --> 01:00:58.480
trade roots, or other issues.
These conflicts may have led themist to

794
01:00:58.519 --> 01:01:02.280
crowd to God for deliverance, and
it could also be referring to internal rebellions

795
01:01:02.360 --> 01:01:07.039
or uprisings. At various points in
Israel's history, internal rebellions or uprisings by

796
01:01:07.079 --> 01:01:12.679
dissident groups our factions could have threatened
the stability and unity of the nation.

797
01:01:13.039 --> 01:01:17.679
The Samists may have composed Psalm eighty
three and response to such internal threats to

798
01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:25.719
national security. So none of that
has anything to do with the coming war.

799
01:01:27.239 --> 01:01:30.639
None of it. Those are all
present situations at the time, the

800
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:35.840
Salmist cries out to God. The
Salmist cries out, Thou Lord, don't

801
01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:39.719
be silent. Hear me. I
need you to do something. Here's the

802
01:01:39.880 --> 01:01:44.679
enemy, here's what we need you
to do. We need you to act

803
01:01:44.880 --> 01:01:47.719
in the present as you have in
the past. And He's going to end

804
01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:52.159
with a confession that you are God
like. I love that. At the

805
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:57.639
end, you are the most high
over all the earth. What's happening is

806
01:01:57.719 --> 01:02:06.519
horrible, but I, in the
face of a bad situation, the Sawmist,

807
01:02:06.519 --> 01:02:09.039
by faith, holds onto the fact
that God is sovereign, and that

808
01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:15.639
that sometimes requires the greatest faith.
When you see around you horrible things happening,

809
01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:22.280
you still trust that God is the
most high over all the earth.

810
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:24.840
That's hard to reconcile if you're the
most high over all the earth? Then

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why is all of this happening?
But the Psawmist just says, Lord,

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I need you to act. You're
the most high over all the earth.

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He doesn't. He just kind of
embraces that, that truth, and well

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there's a lot there. Now that's
just trying to provide something more than what

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we got. But I want you
to go listen to the rest because I

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want to know how does this become
the coming Middle East War? Now?

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What is this? What he's going
to do? This is my only this

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is just my guessing, my specula. He's going to take psal Maty three

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and say this is how the Sawmus
reacted in a time of great threat against

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Israel. Well, there's going to
be a coming Middle East war. Well,

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Israel is going to face the same
type of possible destruction. Now is

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that Is that going to be this
is what Israel should do in the future,

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or is this going to be something
about this is all about Israel right

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or I I don't know. I
don't know why, I don't know.

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So we need to listen. So
I'm going to leave it to you to

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go listen to the rest. Go
listen to the rest. Please, download

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all of them and let me know
what you discover. I'm I'm just kind

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of speculating. I don't know exactly
what what, what where this is going.

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But now I'm I'm now very interested
in trying to do a little bit

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of work in saw Maty three.
Now tomorrow at Victory Baptist Church or not

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Sunday Victor. I don't even know
what day of the week it is anymore.

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What I need to do is work
on proverbs. But we may have

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to go to so now because I
gotta figure this out. I gotta figure

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this out. So I got to
do a little bit more research. But

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if you come up with a better
outline for PSAW eighty three, let me

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know. And yeah that I we
need to work on the fear of the

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Lord tomorrow Sunday, not tomorrow Sunday. So but now I've got these PSAW

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maybe three questions. So if you've
been if you've been listening, if you've

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been following along with the sermons two
point oh app challenge, you know that

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what I've been telling you to do
is work on the concept fear of the

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Lord. Well you can start transitioning
out of that, and let's just go

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ahead and put Psalm eighty three.
We need to continue to do more work

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in proverbs, but let's enter enter
interrupt Psal interrupt proverbs with Psalm eighty three,

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so you can start looking up sermons
on sal maenty three, and I

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would start with this series saw maybe
three of the coming Middle East war.

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Find that series, because you can
make it through that series probably you know

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they're fifteen minutes long. You can
make it through those relatively quick, right,

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So start making it through some of
them, and then look up other

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sermons on psalmty three and just see
what you can discover and what you can

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find. All right, Well,
but here's what I want you to take

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away even this, Like I'm a
little perplexed here, don't quite understand.

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May not even completely agree with the
ultimate hypothesis. He didn't really even give

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us a thesis statement, so I
don't really know what his thesis is.

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But I may completely disagree. But
just look what happened a few minutes listening

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to a message and a car just
a few minutes. I didn't even make

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01:05:42.679 --> 01:05:45.039
it all through that. I paused. It has now turned into over sixty

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01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:51.840
minutes of discussion and contemplation and meditation. That is what any sermon can do

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for you, if you're willing to
put forth a little bit of work and

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01:05:55.840 --> 01:06:00.880
time in it. So psawmighty three, that's what it's in front of us.

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We'll see what else we can do, all right. In the meantime,

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you can email me news I F
at yahoo dot com. NEWSI F

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at yahoo dot com. That's in
NEWSI F at yahoo dot com. Thanks

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for listening. God bless