00:00 Watermark Church Leaders Conference Recap

01:41 Reflections on Church Culture and Growth

04:17 Daily Bible Reading: Psalm 50

10:35 Daily Bible Reading: Psalm 53

12:49 Daily Bible Reading: Psalm 60

17:47 Daily Bible Reading: Psalm 75

21:03 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Buddy, welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's happening folks?

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Hey, we were at the CLC, which

is the Church Leaders Conference.

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Oh, that's right.

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This week and with our staff, we took

our team and we got to go down there.

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It was hosted by Watermark Community

Church down in Dallas off of LBJ

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and the Toll Road in that area.

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Yeah.

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It was great and it was

it was super encouraging.

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Probably the highlight that we heard

from our team at least was just the

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fun of being together as a team.

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Yeah.

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And we got some good time together.

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Got to have some meals together.

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Fellowship together on the

drive down, the drive back up.

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And and then the breakout sessions

were particularly helpful things about,

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they were leadership and administration

and student ministry, kids ministry.

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You went to one with their

elders, a q and a there.

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It was just really practical,

helpful things from a church that's

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doing a lot of things really well.

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There, there's some differences

between us and them, but they

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preach a biblical gospel and they're

doing things really well there.

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And so it was a blessing for us

to be able to go down there as a

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church staff and spend some time.

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Rod: Yeah we came away with a, I

think a lot of lessons not everything

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is a lesson in the positive.

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Some of it's a lesson in the negative

in that we see what they're doing

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and say, oh, we wouldn't do it

that way, but that does help us

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think about this a little better.

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So there are so many benefits

to something like that.

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Even though we share the same gospel,

we don't share the same, a lot of things

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really, but it is so beneficial and it

was a great time for us to be together.

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In fact, on the second day we

drove up together in the same van.

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This might be the last

time that we could do that.

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'cause of our team size right

now, it was really special.

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It was really sweet to spend

time together and we're thankful

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that we're able to do that.

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We're thankful that our church is able

to support us in these things and it

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really deepens our friendships, our

relationships, and I think that you're

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going to see that and benefit from

that because of what we're able to do.

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So thanks for making that happen, folks.

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PJ: It was awesome.

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It was awesome.

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In fact, I, I preached last Sunday

about that wave of momentum and

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I just found myself this week

reflecting on that, going, okay, I

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gotta practice what I preach now.

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That's right.

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Because you come back with so many

things that you're like, all right,

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hey, let's be, let's do this.

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And yet, if we don't put

structure couple days later Yeah.

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It's ah, that was all right.

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But I'm tired.

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Yeah.

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It's Friday.

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It's easy to go back to familiar.

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Rod: Yeah.

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PJ: Yeah, so anyways, we're excited

to to see what God does with that and

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still moving towards this this new

facility that we're looking forward

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to getting into and prosper there.

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Hopefully June one we're working out still

some last minute details here with the the

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contract, but and it is just, it's fun.

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This is a good opportunity for us.

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We were talking even

just recently at lunch.

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Our, even our team, our staff is

nimble enough right now because

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of our size that we can really.

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Stop and say, okay, what is

our culture gonna look like?

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And who do we want to be as a staff and

how's that gonna look moving forward?

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And how's our church gonna look?

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And yeah.

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The some of that's overwhelming,

just the responsibility of all

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that, but some of it's a blessing.

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'cause you go into a church that's

been established for a long time.

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There was a guy during the q and IQ and A

that I went to, that's I'm stepping into

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a church that's been around for 90 years.

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Wow.

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And he's and I've been there for

three months and I see so much here

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that needs to turn around and change.

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And that's so hard to

try to do any of that.

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And so we have the benefit to still be

on the front end of a lot of this and

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say, okay, how do we do this effectively?

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What's the best thing for us to do?

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And put things in place that

hopefully when we're 90 years

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old one day, there won't be a

whole lot that's unhealthy there.

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That needs to be changed.

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Rod: Yeah.

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I'm sure there'll be things

that change regardless.

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Oh yeah, there's always a new fresh

coat of paint, that kind of thing.

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But there are lots of things

that even at watermark that we

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learned that I think, man, that's

helpful for us to think through.

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Even, we've been talking a lot about

culture and building that culture and

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that nim that nimbleness allows us

to be both responsive and proactive.

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And so we're thinking a lot about this.

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If you guys think about us as leaders

over the church, we'd love for your

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prayers as we please prayerfully consider.

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Where God wants us to take this thing,

and of course it's God's church.

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We're not saying what do we wanna make it?

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How do we wanna make the church?

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This is not about self-aggrandizement.

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This is really about in our neck of

the woods with our people in this time.

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What does God want our church to do?

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What does God want his church to do?

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More theologically, accurately.

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And we're sensitive to that

because God does call different

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churches to do different things.

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We're not watermark and to try to do what

they're doing would be utterly foolish.

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Yeah.

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For a number of reasons.

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We are Compass Bible Church,

nor Texas, and we're acutely

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aware that we have an identity.

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That God has given us.

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We have a calling that God has given

us and we wanna fulfill that calling.

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So please pray for that.

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As you think about this, as you hear

our podcast, if you're part of our

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church especially, please pray for that.

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We're thinking through that a lot.

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We're gonna be praying a lot

about that, I'm sure, and we

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would love your support in that.

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Totally.

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PJ: Yep.

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Let's jump into our daily Bible reading.

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We've got four Psalms today.

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Psalm 50 is a Psalm of judgment.

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And Israel is gonna be called

before the ultimate judge.

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And verse three is quite a

frightening picture of God.

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Our God comes, he does not

keep silence before him, is

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a devouring fire around him.

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A mighty tempest.

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And so the consuming fire that the

mighty storm that comes with the presence

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of God is not him drawing new to.

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Comfort his people, but coming

near to judge his people.

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And in this psalm the Israelites are

going to be brought before him, and in

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a portion of them at least, are gonna

be confronted by God for just basically

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going through the motions of worship and

living a sin filled life, thinking it

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would go unnoticed by him, by Yahweh.

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And God is saying you're bringing

me these sacrifices, thinking

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that somehow bringing me these

sacrifices, you're doing me a favor.

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He says, I don't need your.

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Cows.

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I don't need the, I've got, I own

the cattle on a thousand Hills.

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A lot of times we'll quote that

verse as God, my God is able

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to supply any of our needs.

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And yet contextually it's hear him saying,

I, I don't need what you're bringing me.

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Don't think that you're doing me a

favor by bringing me these things.

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I own the cattle on a thousand hills.

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Everything is mine.

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And he's saying to them,

Hey, you know what you.

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Are doing all this thinking that you're

getting away with it, but he says you

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verse 17, you hate discipline and you cast

my words behind you, behind your back.

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You throw them behind you, and then

you dare to draw near to me and

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take my covenant upon your lips.

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This is a frightening psalm.

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It is one where God is saying,

I'm not gonna be mocked.

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You are gonna reap what you sow and what

you are sowing is you are sowing towards

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judgment here and not towards blessing.

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Rod: Yeah.

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One of the things that I, that

stands out to me is that God and

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this is repeated over and over again.

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This is not novel.

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This is not something

that God only says once.

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But when he says that it's not

for the sacrifices that I rebuke

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you it's not your burnt offerings.

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Those are there you're doing the right

thing at the right time, so to speak.

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But you're not bringing the

right heart and God doesn't want

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the mere form of our worship.

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We can do this as Christians.

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We could show up to church

wearing our, the right clothing.

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We could say the right words.

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We can amen at the right time.

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We could say at the right time

when the pastor preaches, but

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God is not impressed by that.

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God is not moved by affectation.

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He doesn't just want the

appearance of godliness.

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He wants the actuality of it.

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He doesn't want the form of worship.

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He wants the fellowship of it.

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And this tells us that

real worship is relational.

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And in particular, one theme stood out

to me, although there's a couple here.

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The theme that struck me this

time around is Thanksgiving.

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He wants the sacrifice

of Thanksgiving from us.

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He says it both in verse 14 and verse 23.

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The one who offers Thanksgiving

as sacrifice glorifies me.

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I wonder how your words are, Christian.

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How are you doing with

offering Thanksgiving to God?

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It's so easy for me, and I'm sure

it's for you, for many of you to

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complain about almost anything.

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We live in such a soft, cushy, really

absurdly rich timeframe that I can

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complain almost about anything but sac.

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The sacrifice of Thanksgiving

is what God wants.

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A thankful heart is truly a humble heart,

A heart that doesn't feel entitled to

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more, to better, to bigger a sacrificial.

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Thanksgiving is a heart that recognizes

I have far more than I deserve.

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And even though some people say it

when you say, how are you doing?

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Oh, better than I deserve.

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It sometimes we say that, but

we really don't mean that.

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If God were to take everything away

from us, we'd be pretty upset about it.

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So I think this is helpful for us.

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God wants a real relationship with us

that is built on the humility that has a

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sense and the wherewithal to say, Lord,

thank you for the graces that I have.

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Thank you for these gifts.

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Thank you for my spaceship car.

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Thank you for our admins at the church.

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Thank you for glasses.

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I can see better because

I have glasses on.

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Thank you.

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What an incredible gift

that is, or context.

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I saw Ezekiel came wearing

context the other day that's it.

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He looks fundamentally different,

but I thought how cool someone

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thought about a little sliver of

glass to put in someone's eye.

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I don't even know if it's glass.

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Is it glass?

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I don't know.

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I don't use them.

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Yeah.

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Whatever They are the context.

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Someone you put this little n.

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Moldable thing in your eye

and it helps you see better.

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What an incredible invention.

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Thank you Lord for those things.

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How's your life doing?

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How's your heart with giving Thanksgiving?

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This is what God wants from us.

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PJ: Yeah.

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And going through the motions

and you talked about Yeah.

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They were bringing their sacrifices.

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They're doing that, that,

that's a good thing.

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And I think we would say to the person

that wakes up on a Sunday morning, he's

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man, I just don't feel like going through

church, going to church this morning.

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I, my heart's not there.

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Maybe I shouldn't go

because I don't wanna be.

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I don't wanna be guilty like Israel, we

would say, no, you need to go to church.

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It's always better to go than not to go.

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And you say how do we guard

against going through the motions?

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We're gonna talk about that even

this Sunday, repentance, right?

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When you wake up and you feel like, man,

I just don't feel like going part of the

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remedy is what you were just suggesting.

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Start getting thankful.

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About what God's brought into your life.

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Start thinking about all the reasons why

you do have to praise him and to give him

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thanks and to show up and to worship him.

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But the good news is maybe

you don't wanna be at church

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because you've had a week of sin.

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The blessing that you have in

Christ is the ability to repent.

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And to say, you know what, God I'm sorry.

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I am turning, I'm repentant.

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I'm confessing this.

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I'm agreeing with you that this is wrong.

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This is sin.

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I wanna throw it behind me.

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Not your word, but my sin behind

me, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna go

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and I'm gonna worship you, and I

can because of your grace and your

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kindness and your mercy towards me.

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If you're sitting there going,

man I just don't feel like it.

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I know what that's like.

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I've been there before.

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Yeah.

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Even as pastors we go through times like

that where it's okay, I just feel like I,

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I'm going through the motions right now.

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It's still better to be with God's

people and to be there and to say,

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God, please change my heart on this,

and I want to think about the reasons

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I have to be thankful and to praise

you and to worship you and trust the

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spirit that the spirit will bring

good by your presence being there.

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I.

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Then not now.

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If you just shut your brain down

and you just go to check the box

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because you feel guilt ridden or

whatever, then yeah you're gonna be

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guilty of what Israel's doing here.

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But I would still say

go rather than don't go.

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Rod: Amen to that.

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Yeah.

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There is a Christian responsibility.

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Duty is better than not doing it.

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But delight is better than duty.

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Yeah.

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Doing it because we love the Lord

and sometimes our heart is not there.

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And sometimes I have to push myself

to do the thing to get my heart there.

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And we don't wanna wait for our feelings

to allow us to be in the right frame

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of mind, because that may never come.

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Maturity and the Christian life is

to say I'm going to do the right

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thing because it's the right thing.

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I'm gonna beg the Lord to

help me feel the right thing.

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That might come along for the right.

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It may not.

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There are seasons when God pulls his hand

back because he wants us to draw an ear.

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And there are other seasons where

it is as sweet as it can be.

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The duty is there, the delight is there.

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Everything's just firing in all cylinders.

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But that, in my experience, is

not the normative Christian life.

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It's what we want.

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It's what we aim for.

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But it's not every season, for sure.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 53.

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PJ: Is a psalm of David that

emphasizes the depravity of man.

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And Paul is gonna grab a lot of this

and apply it to mankind in Romans

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chapter three when he is trying to

make the point in Romans chapter

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three that, hey, everyone is guilty.

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He's coming back to Psalm 53 and

he's borrowing from David there.

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So even David was a card carrying tulip.

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Embracer, if I can put it that way.

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At least he embraced the t we'll say that.

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He he opens, he says, the fool

says in his heart, there is no God.

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They're corrupt doing abominable iniquity.

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There's no one who does good.

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Verse three, they've all

fallen away together.

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They've become corrupt.

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There's no one who does good.

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Not even one.

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And I know we don't love this

doctrine, but I think we would all.

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Have to agree with it.

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If we just push back from the table

and consider humanity, consider, and

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we've talked about it before that

with our children, we don't have

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to teach our children how to sin.

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We don't have to teach our children how

to do evil things and wicked things.

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It they come outta the womb, inherently

self-centered individuals, and that's.

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Because of what David's

talking about here.

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And the answer that he gets to

is the same answer that we hope

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in verse six, that salvation for

Israel would come out of Zion.

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Salvation for us came out of Zion and it

was in the form of Jesus Christ, our Lord

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and Savior who came out of Jerusalem, who

literally went outside the city and died

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on the cross for our sins and rose again

so that we could live with him forever.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 53 is a depressing psalm

initially here, but it's a gospel

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psalm too because he gets to the place

of hoping for salvation from Zion.

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And Zion did indeed produce well.

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You

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Rod: were just talking recently

about the fact that Target is

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changing up their exit strategy.

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Oh yeah.

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Because of the ongoing theft, they're

trying to control the fact that a lot

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of people want to go through the aisles

and take stuff, which is bonkers.

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I don't I see it on X, I see it

on different posts and news media.

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They're reporting that theft is going up.

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And then California had that

issue because it wasn't even a

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crime unless it was over $700.

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So people were just going in

unabashedly, taking things, walking

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out with no shame whatsoever.

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And so now Target is saying, okay,

we're getting rid of the self checkout.

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You guys can't handle this.

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You're not responsible enough.

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I see that.

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I think their scripture.

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Scripture is right.

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We are depraved.

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We can't be trusted with

these little things.

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And the reason why is because the

Christian Bible, the god of the

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scriptures is not being preached.

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He's not being presented otherwise.

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I think there would be a right

and healthy fear among us.

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But man, Psalm 53.

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Right on.

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Still today?

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Yep.

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PJ: Psalm 60 Psalm 60

is an interesting one.

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If you look at the title, there's a lot

of information given there in the title.

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It's a mti.

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Of David and it's for instruction.

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And so it was meant to teach and then it

gives the context when he strove with that

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guy's name there and the other guy's name.

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And when Joab on his return struck

down 12,000 of Edem in the Valley of

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Salt, okay, the second Samuel eight.

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We just looked at this yesterday.

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And so that, that's not the issue.

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The issue comes when we read the psalm.

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And we're trying to justify what's

written in the Psalm with what we

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read about in Second Samuel eight.

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When you read Second Samuel eight

you don't see a lot of trials.

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You don't see a lot of defeat.

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In fact, you don't see any defeat.

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You just see, here's the victory,

here's a victory, here's a

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victory, here's a victory.

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And yet when we come to Psalm 60 it

seems like there were quite a few

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defeats in the midst of the victories.

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That that, that led the people even to

verse 10 to say, have you not rejected us?

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Oh, God, go back.

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If you have a second, go back and just

skim over Second Samuel chapter eight

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again, and ask yourself where in the

context of Second Samuel chapter eight.

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Would that make sense?

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Have you forgotten us?

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Oh, God.

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And so the conclusion that we have

to get to is that there were more.

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There was more going on.

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The second Samuel eight is summary and

it provides the high level, but it's

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not getting into the full ups and downs.

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And I think the only reason that's a

little bit odd is because so many times

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in scripture it does go into the valleys

with Israel as well as the mountaintops.

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And so second Samuel, chapter eight

is skipping over the mountaintops.

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I think you've often said Pastor Rod,

when you're standing on one mountaintop

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looking at the other, it looks a lot

closer until you get down to the valley.

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You don't always see the valley.

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Sometimes you just see

mountain top to mountaintop.

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And I think that's Second Samuel

chapter eight versus this is saying.

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There were some valleys there.

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Let's take you into the

valley in this psalm.

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And Israel here is asking

God what, where are you?

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What happened?

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And saying have you not rejected us?

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Rod: Yeah.

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To your point, there's a lot that

happened in the time of scripture that

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is not presented and preserved for us.

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Even.

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John, we're about to finish the gospel

of John pretty soon actually, right?

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Yeah.

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Next week.

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Next week.

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Next week.

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Last time.

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Last, wow.

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The last verse in the gospel of

John is that there's other things

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that Jesus did and boy, I don't know

about you, but I salivated that.

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Yeah.

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Oh, I wish I knew.

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For sure.

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Tell me more.

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And John says, we every one

of those things to be written.

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I suppose that the whole world

itself could not contain the books.

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That would be, so he's saying all of

us, all four, the gospels, everything

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in the Bible itself has to be a

shortened version of what took place.

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So not everything is listed there, and

there's gonna be times where you'll

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read about books like, oh, in the Book

of the Wars, or the Book of Josh, or

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it's written about it here and there.

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'cause we're gonna get to the king

soon and they're gonna use that.

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That phraseology is not the rest of this.

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King's works in the book of such and such.

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You might be tempted to say great.

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Let me go look at my Bible's table

of contents and look for that book.

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And it's a surprise, it's not there.

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That's because not everything that

scripture refers to is in scripture,

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and not everything that happened during

the time of scripture is in scripture.

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So our due diligence as good Bible

exus to try our best to hear one side

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of the phone conversation and put the

other side together without doing.

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Injustice to the text, and

that's really hard to do.

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It means that you know the history.

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It means that you have a sense

of how the language works.

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It means that you have a sense of the

grammar, and this is why surprise is

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what we teach the historical grammatical

approach to the scripture interpretation.

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This is what it looks like

to put the pieces together in

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a faithful way In Psalm 60.

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It's a good reminder that there's a

lot there that we don't know about.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Verse 11 is such a good reminder.

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When things are going well for

us to remember this verse 11,

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grants us help against the foe

for vain is the salvation of man.

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I'm rem reminded of the passage where

it says some trust and chariots.

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Have we gotten there?

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Summon horses, right?

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But we trust in the

name of the Lord God, we

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Rod: trust in the name of the Lord

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PJ: God.

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Boom.

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That's the one teaching

that to our kiddos too.

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But this is such a good reminder for

us that if our confidence is in the

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fact that we've got the right guy in

the Oval Office right now, or if our

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confidence is in, your job is going

right now and you're, making enough

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money for your family and even more than

you need and things are good and things

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are comfortable, we need to remember.

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Our hope is not in these things.

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Our hope is ultimately in the Lord.

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He's the one that has the ultimate

ability to help us against our greatest

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foe and our greatest foe, by the way,

is not is not anything this world

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can throw at us, but it's Satan.

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And ultimately death.

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Death is the last victor, the last

enemy to be overcome and will be

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eventually, but not because of

who's in the Oval Office and not

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because your job is going right now.

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Because of Christ, because salvation

ultimately is not from man, but from God.

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Rod: Yeah.

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I'm just just thinking about

this off the top of my head.

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I probably would say our hope is

built in nothing less than Jesus.

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Blood and righteousness.

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Catch it.

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You should, off the top of my

head, should to some music.

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I'm just gonna keep on

thinking about it here.

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How about this?

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I dare, we dare not trust in the sweetest

frame, but we wholly lean on Jesus.

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Now this is just coming down my heart

and from my head, just top of my

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head, how for a chorus on Christ, the

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PJ: solid rock I stand,

something like all other hope is.

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Fleeting bands.

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How about sinking?

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Rod: Okay,

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PJ: sinking.

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I don't like that.

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You remember when we were growing

up, quicksand was such big.

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What about sinking sand?

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Yeah.

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Anyways.

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Yeah, no, I don't like that one.

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I'll stick with my part.

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Thanks for sticking with us

guys as we nerd out on some.

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Some old hymns.

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Hey, Psalm 75, as we wrap

today this is a Psalm of asap.

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This is about the wrath of God.

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This is another judgment psalm,

and this one has the picture in

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verse eight that always comes

to mind for me with communion.

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You guys have heard me talk

about this, the little juice

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trap in the bottom of the cup.

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Verse eight.

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For in the hand of the

Lord, there's a cup.

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With foaming wine, well mixed, and

he pours out from it, and all the

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wicked of the earth shall drain

it down to the dregs, in other

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words, till it's absolutely dry.

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And that is the cup of God's wrath.

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And that's why the wicked are the

ones that are gonna have to drain it.

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And this is a sobering.

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Passage for many reasons.

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One of the reasons why it's

sobering though we may think it's

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sobering because the judgment of

the wicked is a sobering concept.

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Yes, it is.

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It's also sobering to realize that

this is what Christ took for us on

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the cross, and again, that's why

communion is so poignant when it.

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Deals with the cup there.

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That this is what Christ

did for us on the cross.

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And you might say, okay,

I can even get there.

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This is where we go a

step further with that.

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And we've mentioned this before too.

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Our appreciation of the just wrath

of God on the cross has to extend to

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the fact that the people that have

committed the greatest sins against you.

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The greatest sins that you could

ever conceive of against you

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if they were to be born again.

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If they were to repent from their sins

and trust in Jesus Christ as their savior,

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then their sin was punished as much

as you would desire that person would

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suffer for what they've done for you.

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That.

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Punishment was doled out upon Christ.

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Christ drained the cup for them on

the cross, and it doesn't diminish

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the heinousness of their sin against

you, or it doesn't diminish the

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amount of justice that they deserved.

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What it does is it magnifies the work

of Christ on the cross for us that he

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drained God's wrath for us on our behalf.

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Rod: Yeah, this whole psalm is

about God's judgment, and even

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though it's an uncomfortable part

of our theology, it's also a very.

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Comforting part of our theology.

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It is because God is just and because

God is the judge that we can take.

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We can take comfort and refuge in the fact

that we don't have to avenge ourselves.

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God himself will be our avenger.

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He's the one who will judge.

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And our sin, if we're honest,

has to be judged as well.

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So it's not like we can just

shrug off our sin and look at the

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sins of others and say, I can't

wait for God to judge that guy.

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God had to judge our sin too, which is

why the cup of the wrath of God is E.

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Even though it's uncomfortable, we

celebrate that because our sin then past,

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present, and future is fully atoned for.

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At the at the substitutionary

sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

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But verse two reminds us at the set time

I appoint, I will judge with equity.

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There is a time when it's

all gonna be said and done.

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The curtain call is gonna be called

and everyone's gonna get up to

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leave the the auditorium as it were.

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God's gonna judge everybody.

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This is both, again, comfort and uncomfort

and uncomfortable because it means that

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there's gonna be a lot of people that

won't be able to stand up against him

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because they'll be judged for their sin.

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It's our job right now to remember texts

like this and to let that spur in us

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a kind of urgency and a motivation to

say, I wanna make sure that I'm talking

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to my friends and my neighbors, my

loved ones, about the justice of God.

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He is just, and that's

what demands his wrath.

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And this is something that's good.

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We want this.

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We don't want the bad guys to go free,

but we also know that we ourselves

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are the bad guys and we want our

brothers and sisters better said,

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to be more theologically accurate.

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We want our friends and our family

who don't know Christ to become

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brothers and sisters who won't

have to suffer under God's wrath.

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PJ: Amen.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, that is our heart's desire and

we trust that it's yours as well.

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In fact, you tell us in.

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And you're worried that it is, that

you don't wish that any should perish,

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but that all should come to faith.

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That all should come to repentance.

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Romans two, four, that you are

patient and that patience is meant

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to lead people to repentance.

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And so we pray that would be

true of those that we care about,

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that we love that the wrath that

they've stored up for themselves.

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Romans two, five to this point

would ultimately be realized in, in.

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That which was poured out upon

Christ as they do repent from their

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sins and put their trust in Jesus.

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And yet, that's not gonna happen unless

they hear, like you say in Romans 10.

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We need to be the mouthpiece

we need to be the messengers.

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We need to be calling people to

leave off their sin, to repent from

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their sin and put their trust in

Jesus as they're going to Savior.

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So give us that that compassion, that

love, that heart for the lost we would ask

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and pray, and we ask this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said