Psalm 83 Pt 2

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All right. In December, I, for the I kind of set up

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what we were going to be doing
for the podcast for all of twenty twenty

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four, and one of the main
focuses for the podcast for twenty twenty four

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was what I refer to as the
Sermon's two point oh app. Sermon Challenge

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challenged everyone to download the Sermon's two
point oh app. Since you know,

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the largest archive of conservative Bible teaching
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the Sermon's two point oh app.
I told everyone to download the app,

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and then the goal was for each
day of twenty twenty four, people would

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take the app find a random sermon. The key was not to look for

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a specific church or a specific speaker
or a specific denomination. Just go random,

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like you can hit the discover tab
and go to new because they add

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about five thousand sermons every day,
So just pick a new one and just

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listen to it, and then write
down the name of the sermon, write

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down the name of the ministry,
and then write a one sentence summary of

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what the sermon was about. And
then by the end of twenty twenty four

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you can look at your notebook and
you would have a sermon for every day

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of the entire year with at least
a one sentence summary of what the sermon

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was about. So that's what we've
been doing in twenty twenty four. And

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then what I'm doing is coming along
choosing a random sermon because I love to

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listen to sermons because I like to
see how pastors structure them or they're they're

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the way they approach a text or
anything like that. And so since I

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listened to them, then I would
just listen to them live on the air

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for the podcast and then review,
analyze, or critique without knowing what I'm

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going to hear, right, without
knowing what's going on, because if I

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listen to it first, that comes
across as like it's you know, like

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it's a performance. Right, I've
already listened to it. I know I

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don't like it, so now I'm
going to criticize it. No, the

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goal is I have no clue what's
going to happen. Let's hit play and

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find out. That's a That's led
to some interesting things because sometimes after the

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sermon, I'm like, I don't
really know what in the world just happened.

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Sometimes I think, oh, this
is about this topic, and then

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when you're down listening to the sermon, you're like, I don't think they

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ever dealt with that topic. Like, sometimes it's just great. You never

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know what's going to happen. So
it makes it nerve wracking to go live

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not knowing what's going to happen,
right because you're like, I've got to

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talk, and I guess that's easy
for me to do, but sometimes it's

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like, after an hour of talking, I'm like, I don't know if

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we accomplish it. It can be
very frustrating. Sometimes I'm like, I

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have no idea what's going on.
Like I come across some new interpretation I've

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never heard, and all my years
of preaching teaching in school, I'm like,

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where did this interpretation come from?
But that's so that's what we've been

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doing. So in the spirit of
that, this week, I was going

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to be out and about driving,
and so I'm like, okay, I'll

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grab the Sermon's two point oh app
and I'll just start looking for random sermons

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and just start downloading. One of
the things I've done for the Sermon's two

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point oh app challenge is some weeks
I give everyone specific topic or a specific

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verse to look up sermons on so
but this time I was like, okay,

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this for this week for the sermon's
two point oh app challenge. It

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was all about the concept the fear
of the Lord. Proverbs went to seven

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and I think Proverbs nine, ten
and so, and I gave some assignments

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on that. So I'm like,
okay, let me look up sermons on

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Proverbs and I'll just download a bunch
of them, and then i'll choose one

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of them for the you know,
to do a review one. And if

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I don't get to a review,
then I'll just listen to some extra ones,

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right, because I'm trying to make
sure I have one sermon for every

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day of the year. So I
was looking around and I saw this sermon

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entitled the Coming Middle East War,
and I'm like, well, that's not

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going to go with my Proverbs thing. But for Sunday school, we've been

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working on eschatology. Maybe I could
listen to this and I could then bring

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this into our study on eschatology because
it's the coming Middle East War. And

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so I was all ready to go, and then I noticed that the beginning

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of the title was Psalm eighty three, The Coming Middle East War. And

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at that point I was baffled and
confused. I'm like, okay, think

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I know saw MATI three relatively well, how does this have anything to do

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with a coming Middle East war?
So I did two plus hours of review

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of this. It's a series,
it's eleven messages on saw Mayty three the

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coming Middle East War have the sermon's
two point oh app it's easy to find.

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And I was like, after two
hours of review, I still have

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no clue what they're talking about.
I have no idea what they're doing with

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saw Maty three. It was the
most bizarre thing ever. So after two

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hours, I basically said on the
podcast, okay, forget that sermon series.

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Okay, now I'm going to continue
to listen to all of it because

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I want to give the person a
chance to make it make sense. But

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so far they've not even mentioned a
coming Middle East war. After two up

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and two map part like, I
don't even understand right. So, but

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guess what, it's always easy to
do, what to criticize, It's always

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easy to criticize, simple to criticize. Used to tell all my troops when

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was in the military. If you
bring me a complaint, guess what you

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better bring with it a solution.
Right. It's easy to complain, bring

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me a solution. So because I
could sit and complain or criticize how they

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approach SAW eighty three, instead of
doing that, I feel like then I

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have a responsibility to see what I
can do with SSAW eighty three. Right.

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I've got to figure out what I
can do with it, right,

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And I love to do that when
I listen to a sermon that I Sometimes

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my favorite sermons are the ones I
hate because they force me to do what

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Go work on the text. Go
work on the text, like it's easy

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to say, and people do that, even who attend church, and you

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should not do. If you don't
like a sermon, well, then go

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home and work on the text.
Don't go home and go find a sermon

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that's opposite to what you just sart. Go study the text. Usually the

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people who call me and complain,
guess what, They don't demonstrate that they've

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actually studied the text. They just
complain, or they've they've cut and pasted

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some stuff from Google that they did
a search, and I'm like, I

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know the same article, so come
on, do bad. So I try

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to make it a practice. The
more I hate the sermon, or the

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more I'm irritated by it, the
more than I should be required to do.

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What go actually study the text for
myself. Because if I actually study

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the text for myself, guess what
I may find out Maybe they were right

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and my criticism was two I was
too quick on my criticism. Or may

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I may find out hmm, I
don't know. I may come even be

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more convinced that they were wrong.
But it's being convinced based off why the

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study of the text. So does
that make sense? All right? So

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that's what we started in the first
hour. For everyone who missed the first

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hour, all I can do is
just go quickly through this, all right.

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So that's kind of how we got
to Saw maighty three. So the

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first thing we did in the first
hour is we try to create an outline

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of Saw eighty three. I'm just
gonna go through this quickly Saw many three.

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First one, we refer to that
as the plea Verses two through five.

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We refer to that as the reason
for the plea. So verse one

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is the plea Verses two through five
is the reason for the plea. Verses

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six through eight is the enemies identified
Verses nine through twelve, the past and

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the present versus thirteen, and then
this kind of we kind of we kind

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of went back and forth and exactly
where we wanted to break this down.

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We kind of went versus thirteen to
really the verse seventeen. I think it's

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kind of where we went thirteen to
seventeen. We called this the petition for

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defeat, or yeah, petition for
defeat, I think is what I called

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it. All right. Then we
basically said that verses sixteen through eighteen.

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Then we refer to that as the
desired outcome, what the sawmus really wants

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to happen, his motivation for asking
for these things to occur. All right,

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he could break that down a little
bit more, but that's kind of

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a basic outline of what we did, all right. Now, Then after

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we did that, we looked at
the author of the psalm. If you

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have your bibles, open a Psaw
eighty three. If you don't know him

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by now, that's where we're going. Obviously, Psaw eighty three, you'll

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see that it's a psalm of Acef. Acef if you don't know, was

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one of the chief musicians and singers
during the time of King David. He

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was a Levite and a key figure
in leading worship in the tabernacle and later

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in the temple. He is accredited
with composing several psalms. So that's the

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author making this psalm. Then,
since he was a Levite and a leader

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of worship making this, we'll call
this a congregational psalm, a communal psalm.

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It's voicing the emotion of the people. All right, that's a good

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way of doing that. Then we
looked at the types of psalms. We

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looked at the different types of psalms. There are the praise psalms, there

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are the thanksgiving psalms, there are
the wisdom psalms. There is the royal

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psalms. There is the penitential psalms, there's the imprecatory psalms, and then

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there is the lament psalms. Now, I'm don't have time to go through

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and tell you about all those categories. We did all of that in the

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first hour. It'll be posted online
at some point this afternoon. Okay,

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So we went through all of that. Psalm eighty three is a lament psalm,

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and we talked about all the reasons
it's a lament palm. Does anybody

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know what it really what we say
something is a lament psalm? Do we

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know exactly kind of what that means? It's an express expression of sorrow,

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is an expression of They include elements
such as a cry for help, a

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plea for deliverance, expression of anguish, a petition for intervention in times of

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trouble. A lament psalm typically follows
a structure that includes an invo to God,

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a description of the psalm as suffering
or hardship, a petition for help

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or deliverance, and a vow of
praise or thanksgiving. So we went through

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that, and we we looked at
how Saw eighty three meets a good portion

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of the requirements to be a lament
psalm. Now, because it's a lament

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psalm, this is where we ended
the first hour. What can we learn

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about the fact that this is a
lament a lament? I did say,

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sermon a lament psalm? Why is
What are the lessons we can gain from

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this? Saw mayighty three is a
lament psalm? What can we gain from

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the idea of giving a lament So
I put forth, I started going through

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some of the lessons we can learn, and we made it through one all

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right, that's as far as we
made it. So I'm going to go

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through these lessons. I have a
number of them, but here are some

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basic lessons we can learn from a
lament psalm. The idea to give a

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lament, Now, there are two
kinds of psalms that I mentioned. In

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those types, a lament and precatory. Okay, and precatory it really calls

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for the destruction on your enemies.
A lament as you're expressing pain, sorrow,

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anguish, confusion, and you're begging
God to intervene. Both of those

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kinds of psalms, that language used
by everyday people can make Christians very uncomfortable

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and they don't like it. What
I try to say is a laments salm

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and unprecatory psalm are psalms that allow
people to not talk like Christians or not

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talk like church people, because church
people want everything to be positive. When

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you hear someone offer a lament or
in a precatory, you you'll probably it

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makes you uncomfortable and you almost want
to criticize them and their lack of faith,

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but you cannot do that, all
right, The key to be a

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lament psalm basically screams and tells us
this and this is the way I have

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it in my notes. A lament
psalm teaches us the importance of being honest

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and vulnerable before God about your struggle, about your pain, and about your

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emotion. A lament psalm shows you
that it's okay to express your deep,

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deepest feelings and your deepest fears to
God. A lament psalm says it's okay.

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It's okay to say, God,
where have you been? And if

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you look at Psalm eighty three,
verse one, that's literally what the psalmist

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is doing. Look at some eighty
three verse one, it says, do

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not keep silent, Oh God,
do not hold your peace, do not

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be still, Oh God. Now
what he's saying there, there's an imploment

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that he's implying something that he has. He's implying very clearly that he has

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perceived that God has been white silent, that God has been wide inactive,

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and he's like, God, please, I need you to listen, I

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need you to wake up, I
need you to do something. And then

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he goes on to express his reasons
for needing this, because well, there's

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enemies and so the people as a
congregation. This is sometimes referred to as

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a communal lament. Right, this
is the he's speaking on behalf of all

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the people. The people are bothered
because there's we read Psalm eighty three in

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the first hour. I didn't I
didn't just stop to take time to read

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it again because of time considerations and
seeing how far we can make it.

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But if you read Psalm eighty three, look, he tells God, there's

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all these people that they've come together
in a confederacy to wipe Israel off the

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face of the earth. And he's
like, Hey, God, where have

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you been? I need you to
step up, I need you to wake

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up? And he's expressing that.
Well, guess what when people express that,

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it makes Christians very nervous. But
you know what, if you cannot

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be honest like that, there's no
if. A faith that doesn't allow you

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to be honest is not faith.
It's simply you pretending faith is real.

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Faith is where you can say,
God, where have you been? Hey?

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God? I don't know if you
realize this. They've an entire confederacy

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and they want to wipe us off
the face of the earth. Now,

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I don't know. Do you think
maybe now would be the time to wake

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up? Do you think now would
be the time to speak Do you think

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now? And guess what that kind
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that kind of lament many people in
the Bible did. Christianity is not about

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just pretend and saying all the right
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If God is God, guess what
he can handle You're honesty. He

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can handle that, all right.
It may make Christians uncomfortable, but who

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cares what Christians think? They're the
last people really that sometimes you even want

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to listen to speak up. And
I mentioned this illustration in the first hour.

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Phil Johnson for a grace to you
MacArthur's ministry. He's been diagnosed with

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some possibly incurable cancer and he's been
going through a very difficult time and he

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was giving kind of an update thanking
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feels that God has intervened and there's
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great and great and great. Well, if you look that article was posted

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on the Christian Post, I think
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comment was well, congratulations, Phil, So glad God intervened for you,

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because today thirteen thousand children have died
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How dare you say that? Well, first, you better be careful

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not to criticize that person because you
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child to cancer. So that's why
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Okay, but you can see that
person expressing a reality. Christianity is not

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living in denial of reality. Christianity
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reality. Did everyone hear that Christianity
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is having faith in the midst in
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is lamenting and crying out to God, not denying the reality, but doing

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what expressing the Everyone going back to
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in the first hour, so that
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it. Do not keep silent,
Oh God, do not hold your peace.

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Do not be still, Oh God, for behold your enemies make a

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tumult. Those who hate you have
lifted up their head. They have taken

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crafty counsel against your people and consulted
together against your sheltered ones. They have

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said, come, let us cut
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name of visual may be remembered.
No more is he denying reality. No,

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he's doing what confessing reality? And
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little bothered that God has not what. God has not acted, God has

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been silent, and he doesn't come
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give a positive confession. Just stop
that nonsense. I know that's very built

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into many charismatic circles. You can
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speak something negative, you will create
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about before that I worked with charismatics
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about you have to only say positive
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most negative things. Oh, I'm
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a car and probably die. You
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existence. I'm like, if I
can speak it into existence, and I'm

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gonna speak that effect that I'm a
millionaire and I don't need to be here

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for work, okay, But I
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make me God okay with this?
Oh? Like, and charismatics just drive

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me. You know how I can't
stand charismatic theology. It's like you're working

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in a hospital. If you can
speak things into existence, why don't you

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just fix everyone? But you can't. All right, stop talking to me,

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all right, Hugh, I can't. I can't work with charismatics.

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I can't be friends with charismatics.
I can't have anything to do with charismatics

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because they live in a world that
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a world denying reality, and they
think that's faith. Faith is when you

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get hid in the face with reality
and you have no problem saying, God,

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where are you? Why didn't you
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lament teaches us. That's the first
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Number two said. The second thing
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God's faithfulness. Despite the overwhelming circumstance
described in a lament psalm, there is

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often a theme of trust in God's
faithfulness and goodness. The psalmist turns to

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God in times of trouble, believing
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What is the Shalmist doing in Psalm
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for the whole group, for everyone
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and this is for the communal worship
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are probably what Israelites, right of
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They're concerned with a confederacy of nations? Who wants to do what? So

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Israel is no longer a nation.
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have done anything. But what is
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turn to God? That that is
a lament song. You're honest and vulnerable,

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but you're demonstrating trust in God's faithfulness. And I've said it so many

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times. Which is easier to believe
that God will take away cancer or take

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away or fix your problem, or
to trust God when he doesn't? You

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know which one's more faith? To
trust when God doesn't seem to act,

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That requires more faith, doesn't require
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I believe you can fix this.
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when you find out that's not gonna
work, that's not gonna happen, this

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is not gonna happen, this is
gonna be a problem, that's gonna be

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then all of a sudden you have
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To that that's no fun. That's
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what faith is. Does that make
sense? So what's the first lesson we

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learned from a lament Psalm? Honesty
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God's faithfulness. Number three hope in
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even in the midst of suffering and
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The psalmist often cling to the belief
that God will ultimately bring about justice,

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redemption, and restoration. And if
you'll notice in Psalm eighty three,

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right, he's very honest. Right, Hey, God, where have you

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been? Could you speak? Could
you do something? He does? He

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face the reality, He lists all
that reality. Right, Look what else?

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the tints of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, the hag Rides,

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the giebaw ammon Amelek Felicitia with the
inhabitants of tire. Assyria also has joined

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with them. They have helped the
children of Lot. Okay, he's very

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he's describing exactly the confederacy of nations. If you're using the king James.

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Some of those are worded differently,
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lists all of these nations and he's
stating that all these nations want to do

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what watch them off the face of
the earth. Is he being very honest

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with the He is being very He
is not in any way undermining or saying,

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well, you know, whole things
work together for good and the sun

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will come up tomorrow and what just
all the nonsense. No, he's very

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honest with what's going on. Well, look what he does in verse nine

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deal with them and here's the key
phrase. As with then he goes on

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the rest of verse nine, as
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what is he doing there? He
say, God, I need you to

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wake up and do now what you
have done in the past. And he

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mentioned specific situations where God dealt with
people, and almost all of those accounts

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are in the Book of Judges.
So what is he doing He's demonstrating as

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a lament. Is he being honest
and vulnerable? Yes? Is he trusting

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in God's faithfulness, but he's hoping
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he's hoping in God's past actions in
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And he could be also relying on
what the promise of the Covenant, right,

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he could be hoping in that promise, So that a lament salm teaches

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us to hope and of the circumstance. But I want to make sure we

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see a lot of times we would
preach that, hey, in the middle

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of your circumstance, you should have
hope, you should have faith. But

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that doesn't mean you can't acknowledge how
you feel in the circumstance. Does that

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make sense, right? So what's
the first lesson? Honest some vulnerability,

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Number two trust in God's faithfulness,
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number four community and unity. Lament
psalms can also teach us about the importance

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of community and unity in times of
crisis. Some lament psalms are written on

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behalf of a group of people,
emphasizing the collective nature of suffering and the

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need for solidarity and prayer. The
idea is that in suffering, that a

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lament psalm gives everyone voice to that
lament, so that we can all come

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together to voice said lament. It
should bring together instead of doing what what

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can typically happen in a time of
great distress and argue and disunity. This

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is where were they all come together
and what are they saying? They're all

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basically saying, God, where have
you been? We need you because this

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is what's going on. Right,
So there's an aspect of that because this

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is considered a communal lament if you
if you don't know? All right?

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So do we have all of that? All right? So we've done an

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outline, We've looked at the author
We've looked at the types of psalms,

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and we identify some A eighty three
as a lament psalm. Everybody got all

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of that? Are we feel confident
with all of that? Everybody good?

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Everybody an expert? All right?
Let's go to number four? Okay,

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well yeah, well, I'm doing
the best I can right now. We're

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going to put this for number four. We're gonna call this past present future,

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past present future. And the reason
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of that sermon series that sparked all
of this, which refers to psawmighty three

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as the coming Middle East war,
putting this that they believe where and the

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future. All right, So when
I talked about this, one of the

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listeners I think they looked up AI, consulted AI and was like, hey,

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what issaw maybe three future, like
what's going on here? Right?

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And this is what they found in
their research. Some contemporary interpreters see parallels

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between these ancient groups, this confederacy
of ancient groups. You see them,

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the edom Ishmaelites, Moab, the
Hagwrights, and the new King James,

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the Hagarens. I think in the
King James, gieball Amon, Amelek,

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Felictia with the inhabits of Tire,
Assyria, and they've helped the children of

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life. Okay, see all of
that, see them okay. So some

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contemporary interpreters this seems to be a
more modern interpretation. See parallels between these

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ancient groups and modern nation or people
groups in the Middle East. Here's kind

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of an example. AI provided.
Itedom might be linked to parts of Jordan

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and the Palestinians, Moab and Ammon
are often associated with Jordan, Felistia is

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linked to the Gaza Strip, Tire
is associated with Lebanon, and Assyria is

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linked to parts of modern day Syria
and Iraq. These interpreters suggest that the

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coalition described in PSAWM eighty three could
foreshadow a future alliance of Middle Eastern nations

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united against Israel. This view is
particularly popular among those who focus on biblical

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prophecy and end time scenarios. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know

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how you come to that conclusion in
any way, shape or form. Look

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at the language in Psaw eighty three. Just look at it. When the

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psawmist talks about these situations, does
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he talking about them almost in a
past presence kind of way, kind of

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a past this has been going on
and is going on. It's kind of

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a past present situation, right,
And just so that any if anyone thinks

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that I'm making it up, let's
read it ourselves, all right, everybody

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ready, do not keep silent,
Oh God, do not hold your peace,

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and do not be still, O
God. He's petitioning God for act

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when now, in the now when
Asaf wrote this for behold your enemies.

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Okay, So the NIV says,
what are a stir they are? At

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that time? The king or the
new king James says, make a tumult.

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They're doing it right then? Right
now? What else they say?

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And those who hate you have lifted
up their heads. They that have lifted

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up their head, and their heads
are still lifted up currently. They have

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taken crafty counsel against your people and
consulted together against your shelter ones. They

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have said, come and let us
cut them off, for they have consulted

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together. They form a confederacy against
you. They're doing it now. This

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is past present. This has nothing
to do with something. If you want

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to try to find some parallel to
something in the future, then you're just

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finding a parallel that. The Psalm
is not giving us some prophecy. He's

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saying what is happening at that time, and the people at that time are

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voicing a lament to God because what
they're facing at that time. Now,

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can there be lessons and how they
face what they face for what we face

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coming into the future. Maybe,
But this has nothing to do with predicting

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some coming Middle East war. Has
nothing to do with that. I don't

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know how anyone can read that and
come to those crazy conclusions. All right,

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So in our introduction, we have
done what we have provided an outline,

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a pretty decent one, I think, right. We have the next

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thing we've done. We've looked at
the author number. Next we've identified the

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type of psalm that Psaw maybe three
is, which is a lament, or

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some may call it a communal limit. We've learned lessons for the fact that

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it's been a lamit, that it's
a lament, have we not? I

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went through them relatively quick, and
I think that was pretty good. We've

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looked at the possibility that someone could
interpret this as a future prophecy, and

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I completely reject that outright. So
then what does that leave us to do?

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Now? Now we start working through
the song. Now we start working

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on the teaching of the song.
So everybody ready, all right, we've

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done a little bit of it.
Now we just really start digging in.

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Okay, and we're not gonna have
a lot of time, but let's see

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how far we can make it.
All right, So where does our outline

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begins? With? What? What
do we call the first part of our

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outline the plea? And that covers
which verse verse one? So everyone take

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your bible's look at Psalm eighty three, verse one. Everybody ready, here

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we go. I think it's pretty
simple. The psalm is here expresses a

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sense of urgency and desperation. He's
expressing a motion catch the emotion in it.

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Okay, I don't know about your
Bibles. Typically I don't pay attention

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to punctuation, but in this case
I will, all right, because at

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least in the New King James,
I don't know about the NIV or the

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King James. You can tell me. It says, do not keep silent?

407
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What's the punctuation after silent? I
got a comma for mine, right,

408
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do not keep silent? Oh?
God, oh cymical? And what

409
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what I have in exclamation? I
have an exclamation point. In the King

410
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and the New King James. They
want us to capture what the emotion in

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this? Does the NIV put forth
any punctuation there? Okay? With a

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the King New King James wants us
to capture the emotion. I think that

413
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there is strong emotion here because it's
definitely a plea and it's we know it's

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a lamit song. Oh keep Oh
that's interesting, okay, do not keep

415
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silent. That's interesting that they capitalize
all the letters. Okay, oh just

416
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says keep keep not that silent?
Okay, So hey, it's really stressed,

417
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and I think by capitalizing it is
he's really emphasizing the emotion of keep

418
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Lord, keep not silent, Lord, speak up, all right, the

419
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new the new King, James.
Do not keep silent? Oh God,

420
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he hey, because he's he's implying
that he fills up to this point that

421
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God has been what silent, silent
in the face of what a confederacy being

422
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formed of nations who want to do
what kill Israel? And I got Please

423
00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:49.160
speak up, do something, don't
keep silent, and next, do not

424
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:56.839
hold your peace, and do not
be still. He wants God to speak,

425
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:04.119
He wants God to act. Okay. This plea is a common theme

426
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in many lament psalms, where the
psamist the sawmist, implores God to not

427
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:14.240
be silent or inactive in the face
of the current situation or threat. The

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samist is essentially asking God to pay
attention, listen to their cries, and

429
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intervene on their behalf. That's really
the three things that he's asking for.

430
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:29.039
Lord, pay attention, listen,
and intervene. Speak up, do something,

431
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:34.720
do something for us. The sentiment
expressed in this verse reflects the samist's

432
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feeling that God's intervention is urgently needed, and there may be a perception that

433
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:45.720
God has been silent or unresponsive up
to that point, and that's exactly what

434
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I express. He feels like God
has been unresponsive. God has been inactive.

435
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And look, it's one thing for
God not to be active when you're

436
00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:58.400
just like, hey, make my
day better. It's another thing when God

437
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.240
has been active and there's an entire
group of nations forming together to wipe you

438
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off the face of the earth.
I think you're going to probably express that

439
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.759
in a little bit stronger language,
right, Hey God, it's too hot

440
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:10.640
in Texas? Could you lower the
temperature. I don't think you're going to

441
00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:14.440
express that in the same way as
Hey, God, there's a group of

442
00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:17.440
people over there who's ready to come
kill me. You may express it in

443
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:24.640
a stronger way. You have to
capture that emotion here, Right, The

444
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:32.359
salmest sense of urgency and desperation and
calling out to God in times of crisis

445
00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:38.079
resonates with humans and struggles which people
face during difficult circumstances. All right,

446
00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:44.319
and so this, in a sense, what's happening here, it reflects the

447
00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:51.240
human experience, right, It reflects
that, Remember we listened to the lessons

448
00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:54.680
from a lament Palm, but there's
really a lesson in this plea. This

449
00:33:54.839 --> 00:34:00.440
plea reflects human experience because everyone has
found theirselfs in situations where you want to

450
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:07.519
do what? Scream out for help? You want something here? Right?

451
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:12.960
Some of the things I put down
is that in fear and vulnerability, everyone

452
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:16.039
has faithd fear and vulnerability in their
lives. Right in times of crisis,

453
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:24.159
people often feel vulnerable and fearful.
The s ist urgent plea to God reflects

454
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a deep sense of fear and the
need for protection and reassurance. We can

455
00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:35.559
all understand that expression, right,
Yes, have you ever felt fear?

456
00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:43.559
Have you ever felt vulnerable? The
plea expresses that so we can relate to

457
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that. We can see ourselves at
that moment. This man is full of

458
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:52.280
fear and he's very vulnerable. And
guess what, that's okay. It's okay

459
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:58.159
for a person of God to feel
fear and vulnerability and express it to God.

460
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:02.480
Is we don't want to do what
when we feel fear and vulnerability?

461
00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:08.280
We don't want to respond to it
in an incorrect way. We want to

462
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:14.159
respond to it in a correct way. What is his response? He's going

463
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:19.679
directly to God? Does everybody see
that? All? Right? When facing

464
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challenges, people naturally seek help and
support. The Psalmist cry to God for

465
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:29.800
intervention highlights the human longing for assistance
and divine intervention during trying times. So

466
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:32.119
what do we see here in this? We can see ourselves in this way.

467
00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:36.320
We see his fear, we see
his vulnerability. What else do we

468
00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:42.760
see his desire for help? We
see fear, we see vulnerability, and

469
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we see a desire for help.
And can we not all relate to that?

470
00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:52.519
Yes? All right? Another source
says that we can also see feelings

471
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of isolation. Crisis situations can lead
to feelings of isolation and loneliness. The

472
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Psawmists call for God to not remain
silent or aloof resonates with the human desire

473
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for the connection and support. Even
in the midst of adversity. He may

474
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:10.559
feel like what that had been abandoned? May feel like, Look, God,

475
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:15.599
where are you this nation, all
these nations are coming together? Where

476
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:21.079
are you? May feel abandon may
feel alone, may feel isolated. And

477
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:22.679
that's not just the feeling of the
summis. That may be the feeling of

478
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:30.400
whom the entire congregation. The entire
congregation may feel this right, So what

479
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:37.239
is his PLEA express fear and vulnerability, a desire for help, feelings of

480
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:42.519
isolation, all right? What else? Despite the desperation express the act of

481
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:47.039
calling out to God signifies a glimmer
of hope. It reflects the human tendency

482
00:36:47.079 --> 00:36:52.199
to seek solace and trust and higher
powers or forces during times of trouble.

483
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.960
What I'm going to say here is
I can see the fear of vulnerability.

484
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I can see the desire for help. I can see the feelings of possible.

485
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:01.840
But what I'm going to see here, I'm going to refer to it

486
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:07.000
as faith. They call it a
hope and difficulty. I'm going to see

487
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:13.719
do you not see faith there?
Well? How do we see the faith?

488
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:20.719
Because he's doing what, He's calling
on God, He's praying despite the

489
00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:23.559
urgency and desperation. It's an expression
of faith and belief in the power of

490
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God to bring deliverance and relief.
This mirror is the human capacity to hold

491
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:34.519
on to faith and spirituality as a
source of strength in the middle of crises.

492
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.239
I think a way to put it
is this that the whole point here

493
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is we are all we all face
difficult circumstances. Yes, and when we

494
00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:47.239
face that, what do we If
we're going to offer a lament to God?

495
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We need to be very honest with
it, right and very transparent,

496
00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:55.880
and we have to sometimes be willing
to acknowledge our fear, our vulnerability,

497
00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:01.800
right, our feelings of being isolated
for help. We demonstrate a little bit

498
00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:05.920
of hope that we turn to God, but we demonstrate our faith when we

499
00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:10.480
do w when we cry out to
God, we are demonstrating that even though

500
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the circumstances may say what In fact, I think saw mayby three reflects this.

501
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:22.119
There's two realities that every Christian is
confronted with. And this is what

502
00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:27.480
makes Christianity sometimes seem just like almost
like a mental health problem in the eyes

503
00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:30.679
of many people, because we live
in this weird reality, do we not?

504
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:35.599
On one hand, we face horrible
circumstances that seem to tell us what

505
00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:42.039
there is no God, There is
no God. God is not coming to

506
00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:45.360
help you. God is not doing
anything. It may even tell you God

507
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:51.920
doesn't even exist. Yes, I
mean he's kind of worried that God is.

508
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:54.599
Where's God? Right? So,
But at the same time, this

509
00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:59.239
is the weird part of Christianity.
We are faced with these circumstances that scream

510
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:04.800
no God. But at the same
time we maintain faith that in God,

511
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:09.079
even though the circumstances scream there isn't
any God. And that's kind of like

512
00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:15.760
that concept of faith, Right is, how does Hebrews describe faith? Where

513
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:22.360
is that famous definition of faith?
It gives us a certainty of those things

514
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:27.239
we do not see, right,
and what do we see? It's not?

515
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:30.079
Now listen, this is very important. Sometimes people think faith is seeing

516
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:38.400
God fixing the situation. No,
faith is seeing God in spite of the

517
00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:45.280
situation. Right. Faith is like, I know that there's a God who

518
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:51.000
can fix everything. He's choosing not
to fix everything, but I still see

519
00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:54.760
God and put my faith in him. That goes against every human reason at

520
00:39:54.760 --> 00:40:00.639
all. Right, human reason would
tell you to do what the get God?

521
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:05.199
Abandon God? What human reason would
tell me to do? Right?

522
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:09.639
If God's not going to intervene,
then what's the point of God? But

523
00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:15.440
God? The point of God.
God does not have to justify his existence,

524
00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:22.239
does he. Faith is like we
we we can admit all of this

525
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:28.159
is happening, but we still demonstrate
our faith of God even And that's not

526
00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:31.400
faith in God to fix the situation. That's just faith in God that you're

527
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:37.599
believing and trusting that God exists and
that he is even though his actions are

528
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:43.599
not doing what you want. That
is hard to do. That is hard

529
00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:47.440
to maintain that, Right, that's
very hard to maintain. I don't know

530
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:53.360
if you know that's very hard to
maintain that. But that's that's what this

531
00:40:53.599 --> 00:41:01.199
expression demonstrates. The psalmest emotional response
of saw me three reflects the universal human

532
00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:06.880
experience of fear, vulnerability, hope, faith, and the innate desire for

533
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:12.480
support and guidance during challenging times.
Right, I think we can get a

534
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:15.280
lot from that plea can't wait not? So let's read it again from that

535
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:22.400
New King James, do not keep
silent, Oh God, do not hold

536
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:30.800
your peace, and do not be
still, Oh God. That plea captures

537
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:37.360
all of that. It captures the
fear, the vulnerability, captures a desire

538
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:42.599
for help, captures that feeling of
maybe feeling alone or isolated. But it

539
00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.760
also shows a little bit of hope. But most importantly, it demonstrates faith.

540
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:51.760
That is the lesson you can take
directly from that. So there is

541
00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:55.400
the plea. Any questions about the
plea, right, we'll see how far

542
00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:59.599
we can get. Now. What
the second part of our outline goes from

543
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:07.480
verse two to five. What do
we call this section the reason for the

544
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:12.400
plea? The reason for the plea? What's the first reason? And you

545
00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:15.760
may want to make a list here. We should call this the reasons.

546
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:20.480
I don't know why I put singular
reason because you really list reasons for the

547
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:22.519
plea? Right? He lists a
number of them, so you may want

548
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:28.239
to write these out. What's the
first reason for his emotional plea to God

549
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:35.480
to wake up and do something?
First? And verse two for behold your

550
00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:40.840
enemies? I find it interesting that
the Psalmist refers to these people as God's

551
00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:52.199
enemies. It's kind of fascinating,
Right, Maybe there's a lesson in that

552
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:54.000
that I did not put down in
my nose, but I think that that's

553
00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:58.360
interesting. But what's the first reason
for the plea? Behold your enemies?

554
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:06.079
Make a to everybody? See that
a tumult. The word tumult refers to

555
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:10.760
a loud, confused noise, or
disturbance caused by a crowd of people.

556
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:15.519
Right. It sounds like if you
ever knew the peerces back in the day,

557
00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:20.840
and if I called their house for
any reason, or they called me,

558
00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:23.599
I was basically just hang up on
them because there was a loud tumult

559
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:28.880
in the background, because it's like, I don't know the sound of war

560
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:31.920
in the camp. Okay, it's
like just so much of it. Like

561
00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:35.199
I would I would lose my mind. I could not. I would be

562
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:37.440
like, I know, like just
call me back when everyone has grown up,

563
00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:40.639
okay, because it's too loud,
right, but we have lots of

564
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:45.159
kids. It can sound like that, right. When the sawmist mentions that

565
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.679
the enemies are making a tumult,
it implies that there is an uproar,

566
00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:54.960
commotion, or chaotic behavior being exhibited
by them. This description suggests a sense

567
00:43:55.000 --> 00:44:01.199
of disorder, agitation, unrest among
the enemies of God's people. Now that's

568
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:05.880
how one source puts it. The
focus really hears they're the enemies of God.

569
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:08.519
But okay, all right, they
are not acting calmly or peacefully,

570
00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:14.960
but rather in a disruptive, tumultuous
manner, likely reflecting their aggressive and threatening

571
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:19.400
intentions towards the community. The use
of the term tumult conveys a vivid image

572
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:24.360
of a noisy and disorderly situation created
by the enemies as they conspire. I'm

573
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.159
gonna say against God ultimately, but
against God's people. So in other word,

574
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:31.800
what once again, this is a
phrase to give you a sense of

575
00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:38.760
the emotion, right, to give
you a sense of the emotion. Whenever

576
00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:43.920
something is chaotic, it's I'll give
you an example, all right, So

577
00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:45.719
I could drive you to the street
where the teen club used to be an

578
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:50.199
Abelle. But I was in the
teen club one night, right, and

579
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:52.760
so it was me. I think, I don't know who else was with

580
00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:54.320
me. There's a couple of people, and there was a couple of girls.

581
00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:58.199
One of the girls that I had
been dancing with. I had left

582
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:00.800
the floor at the to get something
to drink. She was still on the

583
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:06.239
floor. Well, whenever I was
in a dance club, I always ended

584
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:09.239
up in fights for whatever reason,
Okay, because I typically drew a lot

585
00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:13.159
of attention to myself. Right,
Well, I'd been dancing with this girl,

586
00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:15.559
and obviously there had been a group
of people who had been kind of

587
00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:19.559
watching the situation, and I should
have paid more attention that something doesn't seem

588
00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:22.480
right here, right, right?
Something? Okay, So I get off

589
00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:27.320
the floor and I look over.
This guy comes up on the floor,

590
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.880
had kind of been standing there.
He looks over at me, kind of

591
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:36.559
smiles and then punches her right in
the face, just punches her right in

592
00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:39.400
the face, and so then I
come over the rail and I come running

593
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:45.840
into the situation and then absolute total
chaos erupts. All these people come jumping

594
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:50.440
on top of me. I'm getting
beat up every way possible, like it's

595
00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:52.559
crazy. Someone has a knife that
don't get the knife open, but they're

596
00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:55.840
driving the you know when the close
part of it into my forehead. I'm

597
00:45:55.840 --> 00:45:59.880
getting beat over. I'm trying to
paunch kick and then all of a sudden

598
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:04.079
wham at the back of the head
with a barstool, and I wake up

599
00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:08.039
like I got not completely unconscious,
and like you talk about a tumult,

600
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:13.360
it was complete chaos and soud cops
get called. They're trying to pull people

601
00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:15.920
apart. They're kicking people out,
and I'm like if you and they're all

602
00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:19.559
waiting outside, I'm like, you
kick me out, I'm going to die.

603
00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:22.840
Like the whole thing was just correct. That was a tumult, Right,

604
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:27.320
that was well? And this guess
what whenever you find yourself in one

605
00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:31.079
of those chaotic situations, what do
you feel? What did we just talk

606
00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:37.679
about in his plea fear, vulnerability, right, a desire for help?

607
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:42.719
Right? Okay, I needed help, right, I needed someone who weighed

608
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.079
more than one hundred pounds and was
five six like me. Right, I

609
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:47.840
needed someone who was, like I
don't know, had a gun or something.

610
00:46:49.239 --> 00:46:52.400
I needed someone to help me,
Okay, And I was trying to

611
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:55.119
help, but I was I got
I mean who I got beat down?

612
00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:58.039
I mean, I don't even know
how many people were involved in this sit

613
00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:00.920
week. It was complete chaos.
Right, it was like nuts. Okay,

614
00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:07.679
So that's not a good situation.
That's not a good situation. So

615
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:10.039
the enemies are making a toone,
which and why is that so interesting?

616
00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:15.679
Because it wants you to feel the
emotion. Remember the psalms are spoken in

617
00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:20.559
poetic language. It wants you to
feel something you're not, I know.

618
00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:22.360
We just read it like, oh, well he wants God to do something.

619
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:25.519
Oh, and the people are in
a tumult. Next, it wants

620
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:30.840
you to stop and go wow,
this is a bad situation. This is

621
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:36.639
chaotic. Yeah, and that would
describe the urgency. Right, Why he's

622
00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:39.480
like God, do something now,
because there's a loud noise in the camp,

623
00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:45.199
right, it's happening. It's chaotic. It would have been. Can

624
00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:51.960
you imagine if you lived in Israel
on October seventh, over a thousand people

625
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:57.840
died in just a couple of hours. Or if you live in Gaza and

626
00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:01.639
bombs are dropping on your apartment complex, you're gonna have a sense of vergence.

627
00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:07.599
That's a tumult. Right, So
you can see why the sawmist is

628
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:12.639
doing them. So what's the first
reason for his plea? The enemies are

629
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:19.000
making a tumult? They are what
loud, erratic, chaotic, disruptive commotion.

630
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:28.159
Then there's like a sense of disorder
and agitation. What's the second reason

631
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:36.199
for this plea? And those who
hate you have lifted up their head.

632
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:39.239
Now this is where I'm going to
stress it. It's already been stressed first

633
00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:49.360
in verse two for behold your enemies, right, and then here and those

634
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:52.760
who hate you. So I broke
this down separately. So I have the

635
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:57.760
enemies are making a tumult as reason
number one. Reason number two the enemies

636
00:48:57.800 --> 00:49:05.280
hate God. These enemies hate God. Those who hate God. The phrase

637
00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:09.719
indicates that the enemies are not only
opposed to God's people, but they harbor

638
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:15.920
a deep seated animosity towards God himself. Their hostility is directed not just at

639
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:21.760
the nation or community, but extends
to the divine, reflecting a rebellious and

640
00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:25.239
defiant stance against God. This makes
you even more nervous in some ways.

641
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:32.320
Right, Why why would this make
if the Summa says these people are against

642
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:40.199
us versus these are your enemies and
they hate you one which one and what

643
00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:46.559
emotions does either approach invoke in you? If you know someone hates God,

644
00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:52.599
that to me evokes a greater sense
of urgency, because these people are so

645
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:57.920
committed they even hate God himself.
That's scary. If they just hate you,

646
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:00.920
that's one thing. If they hate
the God God you are identified with,

647
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:07.880
then destroying you gives them a sense
of that they are attacking God.

648
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:15.239
Now, if Israel's identified with God
and people hate that God, then they

649
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:20.199
want Israel to no longer exist because
it's an attack directly at God. In

650
00:50:20.199 --> 00:50:23.039
other words, if your enemy hates
your God, as long as you're identified

651
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:27.480
with that God, they're going to
be your enemy, and that makes them

652
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:31.360
a scary enemy. When they're even
want God destroyed, to me, that

653
00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:39.239
makes it much more powerful. But
he and so now you could argue he's

654
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:44.519
going a different way what he wants. He's invoking this idea. Hey,

655
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:49.480
God, these are your enemies,
because he's trying to motivate God to Hey,

656
00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:52.079
God, forget us. These people
hate you, so maybe you need

657
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.320
to get involved. I don't know
which way do you read it. I

658
00:50:55.320 --> 00:51:00.280
think maybe there's a little bit of
that there. Hey, God, since

659
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:02.239
you're not waking up, I don't
know if you realize your enemies are on

660
00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:06.800
the march. So he may be
using it to try to get God to

661
00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:09.000
wake up, right, correct,
I think there's a little bit too.

662
00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:12.519
I could be wrong, but I
think there's a little bit of that.

663
00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:16.239
Right, So, what's his first
reason the enemies are making a tumult?

664
00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:22.519
The second reason they hate God?
What's the third reason? The last part

665
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:28.840
of verse two, they have lifted
up their heads. What does that mean?

666
00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:36.199
Okay? And no longer slumbering?
I like that. One source says

667
00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:43.800
this lifted up their heads can symbol
arrogance, pride, and defiance. It

668
00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:46.719
suggests that the enemies are acting with
a sense of haughtiness, self importance,

669
00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:52.320
perhaps displaying an attitude of superiority or
triumph. They may be showing off their

670
00:51:52.360 --> 00:52:00.039
powers or influence or confident and their
ability to achieve their nefarious goals. This

671
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:05.679
is the idea that they may be
arrogant and prideful thinking who are you?

672
00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:10.960
Who are you? And it may
be they what what may be provoking their

673
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.079
pride? Let's just think about this. What can be provoking these their enemies

674
00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:17.960
pride that they've lifted up their heads
in an arrogant way. What can be

675
00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:22.559
provoking that pride of the enemies?
What do you think could be provoking it?

676
00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:29.480
Well, okay, true, Now
that is true. If you've ever

677
00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:34.719
seen teenagers, if they're one on
one, they're not always as loud and

678
00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:37.719
ready to fight. But if they
got four or five friends with them,

679
00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:40.719
oh they'll talk a big game.
They'll talk all. If you're by yourself

680
00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:46.440
and then there's four or five of
them, oh they're ready to say something.

681
00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:50.199
If you can separate them from their
buddies, then you're like, now

682
00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:52.480
come, it's just me and you, And all of a sudden, they

683
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:57.360
kind of like that back to numbers
does increase an arrogant pride. That's a

684
00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:00.679
good. I didn't even think about
that, but that's a good. I

685
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:05.480
was thinking more of this idea.
They may, oh maybe their military might.

686
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:10.119
They may they feel like compared to
Israel, they got an actual full

687
00:53:10.159 --> 00:53:14.400
blown military, and Israel probably doesn't
seem that structured. That could be another

688
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:17.880
reason I was thinking more this idea. What could provoke this sense of pride

689
00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:25.400
or arrogance is they're sick and tired
of Israel claiming philological and moral superiority because

690
00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:30.679
Israel claims to be worshiping the True
God, the one and only God.

691
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:40.440
Remember, Israel was what monotheistic and
a polytheistic world. Now over and over

692
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:44.480
and over they became polytheistic, right
over and over and over. I always

693
00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:46.079
can't stand when I watch the Discovery
Channel, a History channel in those state,

694
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:51.639
well, Israel really wasn't truly monopheistic. There's there's evidence of them being

695
00:53:51.639 --> 00:53:55.000
polytheistic. Dull, Okay, it's
called the Bible tells us that because they

696
00:53:55.039 --> 00:53:59.159
constantly turned. I always hate that, like, well, we don't really

697
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:01.320
know if there were mone of what
are you talking about? They were monotheistic

698
00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:07.159
who constantly violated their monotheism for a
polytheis Okay. That drives me crazy.

699
00:54:07.199 --> 00:54:12.400
But I think that if Israel's marching
around claiming we worship the True God,

700
00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:16.679
and not only do we worship the
true God, God has given us land,

701
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:23.599
not other people, you may be
very provoked to arrogance when the other

702
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:28.599
side thinks that they're so great,
perfect and right. So there may be

703
00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:30.159
some reasons that they've lifted up their
head in arrogance. All right, So

704
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:36.360
what's the first reason he's making this
plea? Number one, the enemies are

705
00:54:36.360 --> 00:54:40.000
making a tumult. They're allowed.
Number two, they hate God. Number

706
00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:45.159
three, they've lifted up their heads. They're proud, they're arrogance. Next,

707
00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:50.519
we see this in verse three and
in verse five. What happens in

708
00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:57.960
verse three and five. They've taken
up crafty counsel against your people. They've

709
00:54:57.960 --> 00:55:02.840
consulted together against your sheltered ones.
Look at verse five. They have consulted

710
00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:07.960
together with one consent, they have
formed a confederacy. All right, the

711
00:55:08.079 --> 00:55:12.320
enemy. So this is what we'll
put for the next one. We'll group

712
00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:17.159
all of that together. The enemies
have taken counsel and consulted together, all

713
00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:25.039
right, consulted together. Could we
could also we could throw and throw in

714
00:55:25.599 --> 00:55:29.519
confederacy in there as well. Right, So they have done what. They

715
00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:32.400
have counseled together, they've consulted,
and they have formed a confederacy. We'll

716
00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:38.400
just throw it all in there together. Now, Taking crafty council is how

717
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:42.119
the new King James puts it.
You see it, take crafty council?

718
00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:45.519
Has the King James put it crafty
council. How's the end? I've put

719
00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:57.800
it three? I think with Conny
all right. The crafty Council is The

720
00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:02.280
phrase suggests that the enemies are devising. There's the idea, and deceitful strategies

721
00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:07.039
are plans to harm God's people.
They are not employing honest methods, but

722
00:56:07.159 --> 00:56:12.000
rather using deceitful, shrewd, and
possibly underhanded tactics and their schemes. The

723
00:56:12.119 --> 00:56:16.400
use of the word crafty implies a
level of cunning and subtlety. And they're

724
00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:22.400
planning, indicating that they are strategic
and calculating in their actions. So he's

725
00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:28.079
like, Lord, I need you
to do something because they're they're consulting,

726
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:30.639
they're scheming, they're planning, and
it may be so underhanded that we don't

727
00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:37.320
even see it or understand what's happening. So we need what divine intervention.

728
00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:42.079
They consulted together. The enemies are
not acting alone, but are coming together

729
00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:47.440
and consolation, suggesting a coordinated and
collaborative effort against God's people. By consulting

730
00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:51.679
together. They are pulling their ideas, resources, and efforts to mount a

731
00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:59.119
unified front against their common adversaries.
Their collaborative approach may indicate that the enemies

732
00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:07.280
are organized, united and working in
concert to achieve their malicious goals. All

733
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:13.599
right, they're consulting together, they're
working together. They've come together. You

734
00:57:13.679 --> 00:57:16.920
get the idea there, all right? That by forming a confederacy, the

735
00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:22.519
Psalmist is emphasizing that the ultimate target
of their enemies conspiracy is not just God's

736
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:25.239
people, but God himself. The
enemy's actions are viewed as an affront to

737
00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:30.400
God's sovereignty, authority, and honor. By attacking those who belong to God,

738
00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:34.840
the enemies are challenging his power,
his faithfulness, and they seek to

739
00:57:34.920 --> 00:57:39.840
undermine his divine purpose. All right. Overall, the descriptions insaw eighty five

740
00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:45.920
three five serves to convey the seriousness
of the enemy's actions and their direct opposition

741
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:50.920
to God and his people. It
illustrates the depth of the conflict between good

742
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:54.599
and evil, righteousness and wickedness,
and the enduring truth that God will ultimately

743
00:57:54.679 --> 00:58:00.760
triumph over all those who rise up
against Him and his beloved. Now,

744
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:07.280
let's just go ahead and read then
all of that together we see the plea.

745
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:09.960
Everyone got the plea there. Do
not keep silent, O God,

746
00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:14.360
do not hold your peace, Do
not be still, O God. Then

747
00:58:14.360 --> 00:58:19.079
we give the reasons, right the
reasons. And I know we were missing

748
00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:22.519
one major reason here, But the
reasons we have so far is that for

749
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:25.239
behold, your enemies make a tumult, and those who hate you have lifted

750
00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:30.440
up their head. They have taken
crafty counsel against your people. They've consulted

751
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:35.000
together against your sheltered ones. They
have said, come, let us cut

752
00:58:35.039 --> 00:58:37.320
them off from being a nation,
that the name of Israel may be remembered

753
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:42.239
no more. That's probably the big
one. That last reason that he's making

754
00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:51.639
this plea is because the enemies desire
what to destroy the nation of Israel,

755
00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:57.519
that it will be no more right. The motivations of the enemies towards the

756
00:58:57.599 --> 00:59:00.760
nation of Israel, and there's probably
a number of reasons they want Israel to

757
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:05.119
be destroyed. We've talked a little
bit about some of those reasons. I

758
00:59:05.159 --> 00:59:07.920
won't go into all of them again. We have some possible reasons there,

759
00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:10.880
but we'll have to stop there because
we're at twelve seventeen. All right,

760
00:59:16.920 --> 00:59:22.760
all right, there's a lot there
we want to talk about. All right.

761
00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:25.599
I wanted to get to some other
things here. I got so many

762
00:59:25.639 --> 00:59:30.719
notes it's not funny, but all
right, So what if we have so

763
00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:35.880
far? We have a psalm?
That is what a lament? That lament

764
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:42.360
is expressing despair, worry, fear, anxiety to God, showing that God's

765
00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:45.599
people can express those things to God
because we need to be honest and vulnerable

766
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:50.920
to God. This plea right here
shows that fear and that vulnerability, showing

767
00:59:50.960 --> 00:59:53.639
that fear possible, feeling isolated,
showing that hope and desire. But most

768
00:59:53.679 --> 01:00:00.320
importantly, what does it demonstrate?
Faith? That's what I I want you

769
01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:05.800
to see is that faith is not
believing that God's going to make everything right.

770
01:00:06.199 --> 01:00:09.559
Faith is not necessarily pretending that everything
is right. Faith is trusting and

771
01:00:09.559 --> 01:00:15.519
believing in God in the face of
things not being right, and you have

772
01:00:15.639 --> 01:00:21.519
no idea if they will ever be
right. Okay, but you're putting that

773
01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:27.599
faith in God. So he expresses
it in a powerful emotional way, does

774
01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:30.559
he not? Yes, he does, so then what is he doing?

775
01:00:30.679 --> 01:00:34.679
He lists his reasons. Hey,
God, I'm being so emotional here for

776
01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:37.119
these reasons and what are those reasons? You've got them written down. You've

777
01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:40.679
got a pretty good idea, right. Ultimately we could summarize the reason is

778
01:00:40.719 --> 01:00:46.039
this, there's a whole lot of
people coming together and in very underhanded tactics

779
01:00:46.079 --> 01:00:53.000
and strategies to do what to basically
destroy us but wipe us off the face

780
01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:59.199
of the earth forever? And God, where have you been? We need

781
01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:06.079
you to intervene. Now that that
gets us pretty close. I mean there's

782
01:01:06.119 --> 01:01:09.639
a lot here. We still have
that very important phrase, and they consulted

783
01:01:09.719 --> 01:01:15.280
together against your The new King James
put sheltered ones in verse three. Other

784
01:01:15.320 --> 01:01:21.480
translations put treasured ones. Do you
see that in verse three in your translation

785
01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:27.280
hidden ones? We got hidden ones, treasured ones, sheltered ones. We

786
01:01:27.519 --> 01:01:30.599
need to understand that phrase because I
think there's a lot of significance there,

787
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:34.320
but we don't have time to get
into it. So what do we The

788
01:01:34.360 --> 01:01:37.920
two major lessons I want you to
take from it is this that as a

789
01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:42.039
Christian, it is perfectly okay for
you to offer a lament to God being

790
01:01:42.599 --> 01:01:46.039
vulnerable and honest, because if you
do not do that, it's only detrimental

791
01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:51.119
to your own spiritual health. You
have to start pretending or you have to

792
01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:54.280
start lying, or you become bitter
inside, and that's never going to do

793
01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:58.320
anything. You have to be honest
and vulnerable to God. If you can't

794
01:01:58.360 --> 01:02:02.559
be honest and vulnerable to God,
you can't be is vulnerable to anyone.

795
01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:08.039
Right, Christianity is about fallen,
broken, sinful people being able to be

796
01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:12.599
vulnerable and honest to God, not
pretending to be something that we're not.

797
01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:15.320
Right. That's and then secondly,
I think what we need to take from

798
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:21.280
this is really that idea of what
faith actually is. We st think faith

799
01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:24.639
is, Oh, I'm gonna believe
God's gonna fix everything. No, faith

800
01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:30.960
is I believe you the end.
Whatever God does or doesn't do is irrelevant

801
01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:36.119
to the fact that I have faith
and God his What he does or doesn't

802
01:02:36.119 --> 01:02:43.360
do is irrelevant to the equation.
I believe God because he is the end,

803
01:02:43.559 --> 01:02:46.280
right he is. I believe in
God because he is. What he

804
01:02:46.320 --> 01:02:52.000
does or doesn't do is irrelevant to
that equation. And it's and which which

805
01:02:52.039 --> 01:02:58.400
requires more faith believing in God when
he doesn't act in a way that fixes

806
01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:02.719
the situation for us, or the
situation actually gets worse. I mean,

807
01:03:02.920 --> 01:03:06.559
when I was trying to when I
was a brand new Christian, thinking,

808
01:03:06.559 --> 01:03:08.079
oh, I believe in God,
well, then everything'll be okay. You

809
01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:12.920
know, when I went to the
first Baptist church, t schol and spent

810
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:15.639
the night there praying for my mom. I mean, in my mind God

811
01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:20.079
would do what fix it? And
then by the next day I'd be able

812
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to talk to my mom. By
Monday, my mom was dead with the

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age thirty nine. Some went wrong
there, Okay, this God's thing.

814
01:03:34.840 --> 01:03:37.719
I was not happy. Wait a
minute, so I stopped doing all those

815
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:40.960
bad things. And I'm supposed to
listen to the right music and watch the

816
01:03:42.039 --> 01:03:45.159
right movies and don't date this girl
and don't do this, and don't do

817
01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:46.719
that and don't do that. And
I do all of that, and then

818
01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:50.719
God's like, sorry, you don't
have a mom anymore. Well, I'm

819
01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:57.199
sorry. This bargain here is trash. I want my money back. This

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01:03:57.360 --> 01:04:00.000
is the worst concept of the world. Oh, if you come to God,

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01:04:00.280 --> 01:04:03.239
everything's gonna be wonderful and great.
Your life's gonna be so much better

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01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:10.400
if you come to them. Yeah, well my mom's dead. Oh oh

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01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:14.639
and then you know, well then
what my father did next? You know,

824
01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:17.599
and less than one year less than
one year. He's getting married at

825
01:04:17.599 --> 01:04:23.000
the place where my mother's coffin sat, standing in the exact place where my

826
01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:28.079
mother's coffin was like nine months before
getting married. God, this situation is

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01:04:28.239 --> 01:04:30.880
trash. And then then the woman
comes along and then well then it's just

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01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:34.480
total and complete and utter. It's
a tumult. Okay, chaos erupts.

829
01:04:35.320 --> 01:04:39.880
Okay, everything in my life just
goes from bad to worse to worse to

830
01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:44.679
worse to worse to work. I
mean really everything just spiraled out of control.

831
01:04:47.119 --> 01:04:51.320
So so I can't have you have
faith in God that everything's gonna get

832
01:04:51.360 --> 01:04:58.679
better. That's not faith. That's
that's called you want a genie in a

833
01:04:58.679 --> 01:05:02.880
bottle, Oh I got, I
got rubbed the genie, or say your

834
01:05:02.960 --> 01:05:05.679
name three times whatever however it works
and don't boom, there they go and

835
01:05:05.719 --> 01:05:09.360
they give you what you want.
That's how I thought it worked with God.

836
01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:11.800
Now I have got God. I'm
on God's side. God's on my

837
01:05:11.920 --> 01:05:15.320
side. So that means what,
well, God's gonna do? What?

838
01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:18.920
What? What? What I need
done? And it doesn't work that way.

839
01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:25.199
Now the key is, well the
psawmist here has kind of struggled with

840
01:05:25.239 --> 01:05:31.920
the same concept. Does everything work
out perfect for israel I just go watch

841
01:05:31.960 --> 01:05:34.920
the news. You can say,
well they didn't do the right thing.

842
01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:40.000
Well, job did the right thing. So even doing the right thing is

843
01:05:40.039 --> 01:05:45.400
not a guarantee. Faith in God
is not based on actions. It's based

844
01:05:45.480 --> 01:05:53.880
on reality. He is God,
is the end of story, and my

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01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:58.039
faith is not based or dependent upon
what he does or doesn't do. That.

846
01:05:58.119 --> 01:06:01.559
Look, I can preach that I'm
not so good at living that,

847
01:06:02.199 --> 01:06:10.920
not even a little bit, not
even that much, because I get mad

848
01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:13.639
when God doesn't do what I think
he should do. I mean, if

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01:06:13.639 --> 01:06:20.039
he's got all the power, then
I don't want children dying cancer. Oh

850
01:06:20.079 --> 01:06:24.320
and if God's got power, then
I want him to fix every situation.

851
01:06:24.519 --> 01:06:27.360
And it doesn't work that way.
So all right, let's prayer, Lord

852
01:06:27.360 --> 01:06:30.320
Got. We come before you this
afternoon, Lord saw eighty three. There

853
01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:34.760
was much for us to consider.
I pray that we've done at least a

854
01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:39.480
decent job and trying to understand it. I pray as we look at it

855
01:06:39.559 --> 01:06:44.000
more next week we can hopefully try
to finish it up and we can benefit

856
01:06:44.039 --> 01:06:45.480
greatly from Him. We asked this
in Jesus name. It got people said