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00:04 Understanding Biblical Translations

02:30 The Importance of Bible Study Tools

03:01 Preparing for the Sermon

05:49 Discussion on Psalm 108

08:48 Discussion on Psalm 109

15:09 Discussion on Psalm 110

17:32 Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to Saturday's edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up folks?

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Hey, we're, we are talking

about something that's gonna

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factor into the sermon tomorrow.

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We're talking about a word in a

text that I just thought it would

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be good for us to kick around some

of the understanding what goes on.

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In our study, the Bible and how

it relates, not just to this

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word specifically, but just this

as an example of some things

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that we don't often think about.

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I think a lot of times, especially

for most people, they're gonna pick

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up their English Bible, they're gonna

read their English Bible, and they're

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gonna think that's the word that it is.

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That's what it means.

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And so in our English text, for

example, this weekend, we come

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to a word that is, is unsavory.

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We'll just put it that way.

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And it's the word that God uses in

the text to define and describe.

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A Gomer and the type of life that

she has lived, and you parents

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probably know what the word is now.

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And so there's gonna be a broad swath

of different translations of that word.

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I.

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The LSBI think uses harlet.

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Some others use prostitute.

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And then we have the word in the ESV.

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And so the question is what

should we do as we preach that?

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Do we adjust that word in order

to make it less offensive?

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Is there something to the

other translations, the other

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glosses of that word that.

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Perhaps is more palatable that

we should use in instead of

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what we find there in the ESV.

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And this gets to the

core of what I'm saying.

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We have to remember that the ESV is

a translation as is the LSB, the Lex

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standard or the Legacy Standard Bible.

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That is the New American

Standard Bible is a translation.

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The KJV is a translation and

there's a lot of people that you'll

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run into that are KJV only people

that say this is the open on toes.

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Authorized translation.

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It is a translation.

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In other words, it's a gloss.

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It's a group of editors that decided this

is what the best rendering of this Greek

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or this Hebrew or this Aramaic term is,

and this is the word that we're gonna use.

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It's not infallible, it's not in errand

in that sense, these are choices being

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made by human editors to translate

the original language into English.

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And we feel like they've done a good

job on a lot of these translations.

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But it's important for us as we're

studying the Bible to read and say, okay,

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the ESV translates this word this way.

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The New American standard

Bible translates it this way.

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It's not the translation that's

an errant and infallible.

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It's not the translation

that's breathed out by God.

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It is the original text that's breathed

out by God and we have to do the best

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to understand that original text in

a way that is helpful and profitable.

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For example, we come to this

passage in Hosea this weekend

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as we're gonna be studying it.

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And I don't think it's wrong what

the other translations have done,

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but I do think we need to say, okay,

God, what were you really after?

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What was the intent

there behind this word?

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And that's why having a

good Bible translation is so

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good and important for you.

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That's why having Bible

commentaries is helpful for you.

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That's why if you have the

ability to go out and take.

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Some biblical language classes, for

example, from Compass Bible Institute or

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from a seminary or something like that.

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If that's something that you feel like

God has called you to do or led you to

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do, that's a great thing to be able to do.

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Now not everybody's gonna be able to

do that, so that's why finding a solid

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Bible teaching church, which hopefully

you would consider that already checked

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off if you're a part of our church is so

important for you so that you can trust

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that the pastors are gonna be digging

in underneath all of these things.

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Yeah.

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And we talked about this.

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I think it'd be important

that you guys know that.

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As we talked about this sermon for this

weekend, we spent time together working

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through and Mark was part of that.

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I believe Lewis was also

part of that conversation.

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We spent time thinking, okay is this

the best word for us to say, given the

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mixed audience in the congregation?

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We know some of you guys bring your

kids into the auditorium, the Jim,

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and we wanted to be sensitive to

other ears sensitive, not to the

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point of compromise, but sensitive

to the sense of asking the question,

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what's the best word to convey this?

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Now the word in Hebrew.

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Doesn't matter.

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I don't think anyone cares on

the podcast what the word is.

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But the word has a bunch of different

a bunch of different ways to say it.

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You could say fornication.

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You could say prostitution.

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You could say idolatry.

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As one, one editor put it.

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There's other ways that you could.

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Harlet tree is another one.

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There's other words that are adjacent

to this idea and there's really no one

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perfect word that captures everything

that this word conveys, which is why when

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you look it up in a lexicon, you're gonna

see here's all the ways that it's used.

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Here are some of the meanings

that are intended by that use.

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And here's how to best understand that.

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Now, remember, the ESV is a

traditional Bible translation.

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It's been around for a long time.

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It has a legacy and a

history behind itself.

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So some of the terminology

that we use is traditional.

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It's not because it's the best rendering.

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For instance, in the gospels you'll see

that the disciples sat at table, right?

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No one talks like that.

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We don't say, Hey, pastor

pge, let's sit at table.

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You say, let's sit at the table.

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We don't use the word that we used to

use for donkey in the scriptures, even

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though that's what scripture used to say.

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He came in writing on the.

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A donkey.

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Yeah.

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That's not what it used to say.

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And especially in some translations,

it still says something else now.

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So my point is, human language evolves.

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And so even though a word is

found in a traditional text, our

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job is to say, okay, what's the

actual meaning behind that word?

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And this is not gymnastics

like you find today.

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It's not you identify as this, identify

as that this is more, this is faithful to

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the text it saying, what's the underlying

Hebrew and how do we best understand

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it in English and other translations?

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The word that Hosea uses for his wife is.

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A, a woman of promiscuity, a

promiscuous woman, a harlet in fact,

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there's three translations I'm looking

at right now that use that word.

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Part of our job as Christians is to know

how to handle scripture carefully and

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not to treat it like like a simple tool.

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And my, my, my baby girl, my

youngest girl, Phoebe for her,

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everything is meant to, to.

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It's just a tool.

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It's a toy, rather not a tool.

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And so she treats all

the things the same way.

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She can have something

very fragile in her hands.

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She's gonna treat it the same way.

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She treats her plastic toys.

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She doesn't make the distinction.

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Our job as adults is to make distinctions

and to carefully ask questions that

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scripture doesn intend to answer for us.

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And that might mean using multiple

translations, but just being careful with

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some of the things that we think through.

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And this is what your

pastors did this last week.

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We thought about it.

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We made a decision.

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And so hopefully you can

appreciate the decisions that

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we made on behalf of the church.

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And you're gonna have to show up tomorrow

to find out what the decision is.

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Ooh, alright.

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Psalm 1 0 8, Psalm 1 0 9, Psalm one 10.

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I, when I opened up my Bible to

prep for this one, I was like, oh,

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Psalm one, eight through one 10.

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I thought this was gonna

be another like 17 psalms.

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And then I was like, oh, wait a minute.

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It's only three Psalms.

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That's not horrible.

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That's digestible.

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We can tackle this.

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We can do it.

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Psalm 1 0 8 is a Psalm of David as the

title implies, and or states rather,

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and it celebrates God's victories

and acknowledges that apart from him,

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there is no hope against the enemy.

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It's essentially a combination here of.

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Parts of Psalm 57 and Psalm 60.

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Now those two psalms are Psalms of Lament.

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And so what's gone here

is the lament portion.

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Rather what's left here is where

David gets in the laments, which is

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that his confidence is in the Lord.

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And so in Psalm 1 0 8, he takes the best

parts you could say of Psalm 57 and Psalm

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60 and mash them up together and and

produces this psalm that has a great.

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Degree of confidence and excitement

and exhumation about it, about the

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fact that God is gonna be the one

that is going to deliver the people

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in the end that their hope is in God.

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And that's why they can say in verse

12, God grants us help against our foe.

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Our enemy for vain is

the salvation of man.

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Only God can deliver.

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Yeah, I think it's really cool

that this is basically a remix.

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This is a remix before

remix is worth a thing.

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Yep.

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We do sampling today.

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You'll take a song, you take

a part of a song and then use

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it and to make a new song.

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David does this multiple times.

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Actually, he's, this is not new for him.

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He'll take portions of things

that he said elsewhere.

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He will use them in different parts.

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And so here you have a kind

of a remix, which I think is.

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Interesting and creative.

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I think this speaks to the creativity

that God expects his people to

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possess and to utilize to his glory.

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To take something that

someone's already done.

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In this case, both of those

psalms are David Psalms.

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He's just taking them and remixing them

for whatever liturgical purpose he had.

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But I think that's really cool and I

think that's a good sign for musicians and

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creatives artists to do something similar

and to be okay expressing some creativity.

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Yeah.

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Even this.

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Past Sunday last week, you put

together three songs at the

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beginning of our set and seamlessly

wove in from one to the other.

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And we tried to seamlessly do it.

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I don't know if we succeeded,

but that was the attempt.

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Good.

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It was good.

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And I think that's a great point because

we are we just talked about this recently.

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We're trying to approach services not

as a copy and paste template, right?

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We're saying, okay, how do we best

set up the service to accomplish

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its intended purpose, whatever

that happens to be for that Sunday.

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So I guess that's a really great

application if you come to.

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Compass on a Sunday and you're like,

Hey, this is not where announcements

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are supposed to be, or this is

not where the songs are supposed

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to re to be happening, remix.

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We're doing some remix in here.

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We're trying to approach it with some

fresh eyes with the hopes that we're

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bringing you to the place that God

wants to take you for that Sunday.

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So this Sunday when I'm up preaching a

pastor, rod has the turntables next to me,

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and he's doing that while I'm preaching,

laying down sick beats underneath.

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Yeah.

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No, we wouldn't go that far.

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I don't think.

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People have been asking me, everybody's

been asking me, everybody's been asking,

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will you ever dance during a sermon?

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No.

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I got close during that For Frank Song.

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During the announcements.

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It was pretty, I was moving, dude.

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I'd never seen your hips move.

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That much.

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I don't know that I'd go that far.

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I think it's just the upper part.

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That was moving your hips, man.

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I think Elvis started blushing.

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Did he?

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Did he though?

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I don't think so.

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No.

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No.

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Anyways, alright.

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Psalm 1 0 9, I read this one.

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This has got to be one of the

most emotional and purgatory

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psalms that we find in the Bible.

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It's pretty intense.

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It's very intense.

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He's asking for intense punishment to

be dealt not only to his foes, but also

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to their children and to their widows.

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First off he's saying, Hey, I

want my enemies to die, and then I

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want their children to suffer, and

then I want their wives to suffer.

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I.

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And so this is extreme.

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And it appears from verses 21

through 29 that this was written

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while David was still in the midst

of whatever it is that he's asking

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for God to bring judgment against.

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This is not David reflecting,

saying, you've delivered me now.

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Punish them.

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This is whenever David is suffering here.

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This is him saying the people

that are causing this, I want

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them to suffer as I'm suffering.

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One note here amongst others.

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Verse eight, may his days be few,

may another take his office that

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is applied by the New Testament

authors to be predictive of Judas.

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And so this is an Impre imprecatory

psalm that had to do with whoever

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David was thinking of in this moment.

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And we don't know exactly, he

wasn't thinking of Judas, but in

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the New Testament, it's applied to

Judas that Judas days were few, and

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another was gonna take his office.

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That's in the opening of acts

when Matthias is added to the

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number of the apostles there in

the beginning of the book of Acts.

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So we talked about this.

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Oh man, stop me.

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Was it yesterday?

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I can't remember.

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Federal Headship.

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Yes.

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Yesterday.

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Yesterday.

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Okay.

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Man, I'm getting older already.

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I feel it.

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So we talked about federal headship,

the fact that a singular member can

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represent the members below him,

that, that are part of his progeny

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or part of his representation.

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So again, we talked about Adam.

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Adam represented not only himself,

but everybody who would come from Ms.

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Lo, which includes.

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Everybody.

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We talked about that also for King David.

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When David sinned, it was

as though the people sinned

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because he's their federal head.

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He represents the people to God, even

though it's not a, it's not a one-to-one,

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he's not a priest in that sense.

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Although he was a king, a kingly

priest or a priestly king,

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however you wanna look at it.

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But he had a representation

larger than himself.

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And the same is true today with dads.

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When dad does something wrong,

typically they fall out.

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Hits the family.

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The family suffers because

dad does something bad.

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That even today, even though the law

doesn't legislate against the family

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members, they will still suffer

because of something dad has done.

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We see this also with King Jesus.

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When you become a Christian,

Romans chapter five, you

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are now grafted into Christ.

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You're no longer in Adam, but you

are now in Jesus, and therefore you

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get all the benefits and privileges

therein belonging to Jesus.

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So here's my thought.

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About Psalm 1 0 8, David is

functioning on behalf of God.

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He is not just a king.

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He is the king.

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He is the Davidic king 'cause he's David.

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He is God's king.

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He is God's representative.

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And so God's enemies are

David's enemies and vice versa.

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This is not a personal vendetta,

although there it is personal because

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David himself is going through

it is not a personal vendetta.

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He's God's king.

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Secondly because this man represents

all that opposes God, and notice

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that this man is not innocent.

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Verse 18, he cloaked himself

with cursing as his coat.

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May it soak into his body like water.

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May he says he loved to curse in verse 17.

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May like curses come upon him.

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He did not delight in blessing.

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May it be far from him.

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So David is calling all the sins upon this

man, and he's saying the fallout is gonna

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be on everybody that he has led because

of his position, whatever that might be.

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So that's my thinking here.

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I don't.

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It is still harsh and it is still strong.

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I'm not denying that even a little

bit, but I'm thinking from the mindset

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of how God sees humanity now on our

side, it's not up to us to make a

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father sons die for the father sins.

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We don't do that.

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Scripture prohibits that.

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But in God's economy, God does do

that, and he can do that, and he

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could do that righteously and justly.

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God can say, I'm gonna let the sin of this

man apply to everyone else that he serves,

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everyone else that submits underneath him.

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And that's in God's category.

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That's in God's territory.

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I think he does.

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Keep that prerogative and he executes

it perfectly, so we're never in

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a place to question him and say,

God, why did you do it this way?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's just.

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You're right.

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We can't question why

did you do it this way?

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I'd be careful, probably not to wish

harm against widows and orphans though.

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Can Okay, so this brings

up a good question.

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Psalm, the psalms are here for our

edification, for our instruction, right?

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For our own prayer lives.

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Would you pray an imprecatory psalm

and if so, when, where, and how?

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Yeah.

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I think we've talked

about this a little bit.

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We have, but let's talk about it again.

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Let's talk about it again.

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Yeah.

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I think when you see evil and

wickedness happening in the world you

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want it to stop whatever the cost.

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And for example, let's

take Planned Parenthood.

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I think would it be appropriate to

pray in purgatory psalms against

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the leaders of Planned Parenthood

and those that fund Planned

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Parenthood to say God bankrupt them.

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Cause them to lose everything

that they have removed them.

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That's pretty tame from

compared to David's prayer.

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It's totally, it's, yeah.

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I think there's, there, yeah, there's

room for us to pray in purgatory.

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Psalms, I just think we have to be

really careful about that because

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in part we don't have the spirit.

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Prompting the Imprecatory

prayer within us in the same

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way that it was prompting David.

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In other words, our imprecatory

prayers are not inspired.

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They're not breathed out by God.

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And we have to make sure that we

are being angry and not sinning in

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the sense that our anger is rooted

in the injustice committed against

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God and not the personal injustice

that we might feel about something.

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Yeah, I do think it's

appropriate for us to.

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Still use in Pretor Psalms, but

I think we would just need to be

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careful about that because we're

also called to love our enemies.

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We're called to to share the gospel with

those that are our enemies of Christ.

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And that's something that's different

from David's era at this point

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is we have the great commission.

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And to go and make disciples.

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And so we have to balance our

thirst for God's justice in God's

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vengeance, to be done with the love

that we're called to have towards

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people, to reach them with the gospel.

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I think that's an appropriate cautionary

response and a responsible one at that.

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Yeah.

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We are called to love our enemies in the

New Testament and times are different.

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We're under a different

dispensation as we're often.

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Reminding you, and therefore when

it comes to texts like this, we

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have to be exceedingly careful

with our application of them.

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It's not to say there's never a time.

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Now we gave you one that we

think is a fair one, we think.

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And there's gonna be other times just

because we lack the creativity to know,

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okay, that's the right time to do it,

I'm sure there's lots of Christians

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that are undergoing persecution

around the world who could say, I

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can think of a couple places, right?

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And they'd probably be right, but

let's be reminded in the New Testament,

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Jesus says love your enemies and

pray for those who persecute you.

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As you just mentioned,

that's Matthew chapter five.

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He says it also in Luke six.

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Paul says in Romans 12 that if your

enemy's hungry, feed him right.

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He's thirsty.

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Give him something to drink.

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But as you already mentioned.

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That the apostles quoted

from this passage, about the

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one replacing his office.

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Yeah.

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Mathias.

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So they knew it.

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Yeah.

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They knew this passage and they

didn't quote the whole thing,

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but they did quote part of it.

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Yeah.

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It was in their mind as they

were preparing to replace Judas.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Psalm one 10 Psalm one 10 is shorter than,

certainly, than the one we just read.

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In fact, it's only seven verses, but.

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Interestingly enough, Psalm one 10 is one

of the most quoted psalms in the entire

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New Testament, this one and Psalm one 18.

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And though it's only seven verses, what

makes it one of the most quoted Psalms

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in the New Testament is its content.

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Its content is Messianic.

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And so David being the messianic

line that the Messiah would

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come from the line of David.

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David is praying about

one of his descendants.

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In fact, verse one, the Lord

says to my Lord, this is David's.

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Speaking, Yahweh says to my adenai, Yahweh

says the to the one that is over me.

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Sit at my right hand until I

make your enemies your footstool.

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Now this is gonna be picked up by.

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Jesus and by the disciples

and applied to him.

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It's quoted multiple times.

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Ephesians one 20, Colossians three,

one, Hebrews 1, 3, 1 Peter 3 22

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amongst others to point to the fact

that this is speaking of Jesus.

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Jesus is the one to fulfill this.

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And then you've got also in

verse four, the Lord has sworn

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and will not change his mind.

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You are a priest forever

after the order of milk.

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EK that Jesus would be the priest king.

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You were just talking about how David

fulfilled that role that David was unique

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in that role because those after David

were prohibited from serving as priests.

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So if Jesus was gonna be able to be priest

and king, he was gonna have to come from

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a different line, a line that was capable

of being fulfilling both of those offices.

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And so his line was gonna be the

order of Melek who was a priest.

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King.

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And so that's picked up in the book of

Hebrews and applied to Jesus as well.

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This is a messianic psalm rich in, in

allusions to the fulfillment that would

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be found in Christ, and it's applied

that way in the New Testament as well.

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Yeah, this psalm is a bombshell psalm if.

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You read it this morning and maybe you

read it and said, oh, that's interesting.

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That's really helpful.

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If you have time to study one of the

psalms that you read this morning,

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this is the one to study because

this has some massive implications.

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In fact, this is one of

the best Psalms to quote.

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When you're thinking about the

role and function that Jesus

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possesses, he is the priest king.

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In fact, if you're gonna argue for

Jesus being both a priest and a

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king, this is the text you're gonna

use, which is why it's so laden

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in the New Testament scripture.

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So if you have time.

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20 minutes of spare, I would spend

some time digging into Psalm one 10.

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It's rich, it's got lots of

interesting illusions and I

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think you'll appreciate it.

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Where should they go to dig into that?

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We use logos and we use,

we have lots of resources.

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I used here's, lemme just give you this.

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If you have five study Bibles, read

all five of them on Psalm one 10.

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I think that'll give

you some great rewards.

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That's great.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Hey, lemme pray and then we will

be done with another episode.

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God, we are grateful that Christ is our

priest and our king not just our king.

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If he was simply our king, we would be his

subjects and we'd be in a lot of trouble.

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But because he is our priest, he

intercedes for us as even the writer of

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Hebrews goes on to expound upon the fact

that he has gone in behind the curtain

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beyond the veil with his sacrifices.

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Perfect sacrifice for us.

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And now he is seated at your right

hand, even as Psalm 1 10, 1 says.

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And so we know, Lord, that

his work is done and that he

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is able to mediate for us.

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And the writer of Hebrews even goes

on to say that he is able to save us

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to the uttermost now because he's not

only our king, but also our priest.

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And so we are so thankful for Jesus.

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Just pray that our time spent in the word

not just this morning, but every single

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day, it would be so rich for us that we

would be hungry to come back again and

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again, and we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep you in your Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said