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What is the secret in dealing with enemies? Ps 5: Ep 2796 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: The Gracious God. As we come before your holy presence,
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  Speaker 1: we ask your forgiveness for each and every known sin
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  Speaker 1: that's in our lives, be it words, our actions, or
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  Speaker 1: deeds and thoughts. As we entered the message, we actually
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  Speaker 1: allow your Holy Spirit to take the word, your word
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  Speaker 1: and make it real into each of us as listeners
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  Speaker 1: that may Christ be glorified in Jesus' name. That we
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  Speaker 1: ask you and thank you, oh man. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: Challenges of Faith Radio program. So the question is what
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  Speaker 1: do you do when surrounded by your enemies? Psalm chapter five.
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  Speaker 1: So think about every believer of the household of faith,
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  Speaker 1: have them, whether spirit or two leg whether you want
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  Speaker 1: it to believe it or not, you know it's true.
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  Speaker 1: But here you have David Israel's worship leader. Remember in
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  Speaker 1: Psalm chapter four when he wrote Psalm four. And remember
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  Speaker 1: and now we're in this Psalm which is a prayer
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  Speaker 1: of faith in God, who is a shield and rewarder
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  Speaker 1: of all who seek Him. And the question is do
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  Speaker 1: you seek him? Do you really believe that God is
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  Speaker 1: a shield for your life and a reward of all
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  Speaker 1: who seek him? And think about it's really a song.
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  Speaker 1: You woke up this morning Psalm to be sung in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, think about morning time, wake up time? To
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  Speaker 1: lift your heart to God in prayer? Or are you
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  Speaker 1: lifting your heart to the little g Gods in your life? Materialism,
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  Speaker 1: love of money, zip code titles temporary power, our world.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever God through his Holy Spirit has brought to your
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  Speaker 1: heart and mind, have you lift your heart to that
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  Speaker 1: or to God of the scriptures in prayer? Because you
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  Speaker 1: got to remember, now, when you're talking about God, you
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  Speaker 1: want to be careful because you can't communicate with individuals
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  Speaker 1: and you can be talking about God and then next thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the God of the scripture you're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: not the God of the scripture they're talking about. It
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  Speaker 1: may be a little g God in life. The example,
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  Speaker 1: there was a story, not my story, of a father
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  Speaker 1: and a son. Could have been a mom and a daughter,
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  Speaker 1: but it happened to be a father and a son.
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  Speaker 1: And he said it would go in the room and
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  Speaker 1: the father would worship those that he said were the
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  Speaker 1: God of their life, the little g god stones, and
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  Speaker 1: the son was getting irritated and angry behind all of that.
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  Speaker 1: So one day he wanted to show his father a lesson,
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  Speaker 1: teach him a lesson when his father left. What happened, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta put the picture in totality, you know. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like when you're looking at the move you're
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  Speaker 1: a TV program. You don't start in the middle the end,
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  Speaker 1: you're starting to beginning. So the father leaves and the son,
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  Speaker 1: in his angry and irritation, he goes into the room
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  Speaker 1: where the little g gods that they worship were at.
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  Speaker 1: He took a stick, a hammer like, and he smashed
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  Speaker 1: up all the little g gods, but he put the
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  Speaker 1: hammer like or the stick in the little g god
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  Speaker 1: Idol's hands. Father came home, the son heard a loud
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  Speaker 1: screaming cry. Son ran in the room where the little
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  Speaker 1: g god We're all smashed up except one, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: what was wrong? His father said, look, somebody smashed our
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  Speaker 1: our gods. And the son facetiously told the father it
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  Speaker 1: must have been that little one with the stick the
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  Speaker 1: hammer like in his hand. And his father said him,
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  Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. That stone can't do anything. The son said
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  Speaker 1: to his father, Dad, that's why I've been trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell you all along. It's just stone. It's just a rock.
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  Speaker 1: Who is just a stone or a little g god
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  Speaker 1: in your life can't do anything for you temporarily, The
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  Speaker 1: palmist feels a dead sense of prevailing evil and ungodliness
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  Speaker 1: around him. So David turns to God as he faces
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  Speaker 1: the day. Yesterday is gone, Tomorrow havn't come yet. He
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  Speaker 1: puts his confidence in God, who's going to deliver him
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  Speaker 1: because he loves them. God is not required to deliver
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  Speaker 1: the believer of ouse o the faith. So when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the Psalm chapter five, I know you have
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  Speaker 1: read it. You notice how it gives comfort to the godly.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say godly those who are in a
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  Speaker 1: right relationship with God because of what Jesus Christ did
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  Speaker 1: on the cross of Calvary for you and you and
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  Speaker 1: you and you and you and me too, not because
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  Speaker 1: of being righteous. No one on the planet is but Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at the evil that's running wild
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  Speaker 1: in our culture today, like the beginning of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: nationally and globally, I wonder how God feels. Because you
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  Speaker 1: gotta remember now, he also hates it. Remember he's light,
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  Speaker 1: he can't dwell in any darkness. Remember now, he's pure,
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  Speaker 1: he can't stomach any injustice. But look at us, think
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  Speaker 1: about it that wickedness, that's evil. It can throw full time.
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  Speaker 1: But God has promised the day, not your day, your day, yo,
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  Speaker 1: day was my day. But He's promised a day when
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  Speaker 1: He's going to bring destruction and the eternal shame to
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  Speaker 1: those who practice lies and wickedness. A day of judgment
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  Speaker 1: is coming. And so when you look at all this,
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  Speaker 1: notice David asked the Lord. He didn't ask me, did
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  Speaker 1: he ask you? I don't know. There's somebody out that's listening,
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  Speaker 1: swearing up down, David asked them. David asked the Lord
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  Speaker 1: to lead him and righteousness because of my enemies. But
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  Speaker 1: remember now there's some believers who want to be liked
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  Speaker 1: by everybody. Fence Walker our favor made it clear. If
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  Speaker 1: they persecuted him, they're going to persecute you, and you
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  Speaker 1: and you and me too. But David asked the Lord
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  Speaker 1: to lead him in righteous is because of my enemies.
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  Speaker 1: David knew his enemies was watching him, do you. Because
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  Speaker 1: his enemies, whether it's the spiritual or demonic force or
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  Speaker 1: the two leg ones that you know and the ones
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  Speaker 1: you don't know, they want him to fall. They want
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  Speaker 1: him to stumble. But David wants to glorify God. So
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  Speaker 1: he asked God for help because he wants to walk
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  Speaker 1: through this evil world in a way that honors God.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Paul, do you remember the chapter two chapters where
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  Speaker 1: in one chapter Paul cried out to God because he
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  Speaker 1: knew he needed help, But he cried out to God
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  Speaker 1: because he said the things he wanted to do he
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  Speaker 1: didn't do, and the things he didn't want to do
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  Speaker 1: he did. And he cried out to God. And by
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  Speaker 1: time he got to the next chapter, verse one, I
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  Speaker 1: want to let you do the research, he found victory.
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  Speaker 1: And it was only because of Jesus Christ, under the
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  Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit of God, that all of
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  Speaker 1: us have to rely on prayer. There's David's resource when
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  Speaker 1: he sees the wickedness around him. Do you I mean
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  Speaker 1: you look at this psalm in chapter five, if you
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  Speaker 1: notice how it reflects the proper vengeance that God is
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  Speaker 1: going to show in the Great Trivilation. But today you
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  Speaker 1: and I are to walk by faith because God is
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  Speaker 1: the one who's going to take action. And do you
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  Speaker 1: notice why reading this psalm that this is the first
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  Speaker 1: time in a precatory psalm when David is asking for judgment.
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  Speaker 1: Think about he's asking God for justice to intervene and
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  Speaker 1: bring judgment, and the scripture makes it clear that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to do it in the proper time, his time.
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  Speaker 1: So you and I not to run around here and
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  Speaker 1: praise these imprecatory prayers or take the situation in our hands,
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  Speaker 1: because God, God says to you and me, the vengeance
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  Speaker 1: is mine. I will repay, says the Lord. And you
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  Speaker 1: can see that in Romans chapter twelve, verse nineteen. God
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  Speaker 1: makes it clear, I'll take care of it. But your
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  Speaker 1: role and my role is to walk with me by faith.