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921. Bible Study: Psalm 7 (Solely Trusting in God, Thanks and Praise to Him) · Faith by annm2705

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  Psalm 7 First let's pray a quick prayer.
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  Dear Lord, please open our minds and our hearts to what you have
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  to share with us in this scripture.
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  We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. Psalm 7 This is a Shigeon of
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  David which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush a Benjamite.
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  So it says that in the study Bible, it says that it this
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  Shigeon is probably a literary or a musical term.
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  So it's really unknown what that means.
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  And it's really interesting too, because it says concerning Kush
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  a Benjamite. And so I had looked that up to
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  see, well, you know, there there are people that were named Kush
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  and it seems to say that this person or this place, but it
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  seems like it must be a person because it says a Benjamite.
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  So that would be from the tribe of Benjamin.
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  And then I was curious, I don't remember like who was this
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  person that came after David? And so I searched scripture for
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  for Kush and didn't find anything at all.
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  So whatever it was doesn't seem to be documented.
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  And then this was also affirmed from what's what the study Bible
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  says. So the question and answer was
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  who was Kush and what had he done to David?
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  We don't know who Kush was since he isn't explained here and no
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  such individual is mentioned elsewhere in the Bible in
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  connection with David. Usually Kush refers to the Upper
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  Nile region South of Egypt in modern Sudan and could refer to
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  the people from that region. Now that's what the study Bible
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  says. However, it says a Benjamite.
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  So that seems to be within the southern tribe of Judah because
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  Judah and Benjamin, they were in that.
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  Well, that I guess that's later on.
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  That was after David. So a Benjamite though, would
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  have been part of the Benjamite tribe.
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  So I don't know, no explanation for that.
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  I still have a question mark in my study Bible.
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  OK so I will start reading now beginning with verse 1 and then
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  go through the study bibles, questions and answers.
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  So Lord my God, I take refuge in you.
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  Save and deliver me from all who pursue me, or they will tear me
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  apart like a lion and RIP me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
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  Lord, my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my
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  hands, if I have repaid my ally with evil or without cause, have
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  robbed my foe, then let the enemy pursue and overtake me.
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  Let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in
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  dust. So this is kind of interesting
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  because it seems like he's talking about an ally, somebody
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  who was an ally to him. And we don't know when this was
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  written and and who he was being pursued by.
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  And it seems like in verse three that he has a false accusation
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  against him because he says similar to what we were reading
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  in Job, like, Lord, my God, if I have done if I have done this
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  and there is guilt on my hands, if I had repaid my ally with
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  evil or without cause, have robbed my foe, then let the
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  enemy pursue and overtake me. So it's kind of like if I did
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  this, then I deserve the punishment.
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  But he's kind of justifying himself the first sentence one
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  and two, it seems like he has soul trust in God.
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  He said, I take refuge in you, save and deliver me.
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  And then he says no one with no one to rescue me.
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  So the only person that he relies on is God, which is
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  something I think we can all learn from is that there may be
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  a point or a time in our life when the only one we have to
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  rely on, the only one we can trust is God.
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  So verse 6 says, arise Lord, in your anger, rise up against the
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  rage of my enemies. Awake my God, decree justice.
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  Let the assembled peoples gather around you while you sit
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  enthroned over them on high. Let the Lord judge the peoples.
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  Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness, according to
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  my integrity. O Most High, bring to an end the
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  violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure You, the
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  righteous God who probes the minds and hearts.
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  So here it seems like he is seeking and calling God for
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  justice. And it does seem very similar to
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  some of the statements Job made where he was.
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  He was he was trying to justify himself saying if I did these
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  things then this would be justified.
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  But these people are coming against me for no reason.
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  In verse 10, he says my shield is God Most High who saves the
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  upright in heart. God is a righteous judge, a God
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  who displays his wrath every day.
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  I thought that was interesting. Displays his wrath every day.
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  The wrath. I'd like to see what that is.
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  And I didn't look that up just to see what that word is, if
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  it's a translation or not, because I don't know.
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  Just thinking about God displaying his wrath every day.
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  I know he is just and he may, I guess, on a global basis.
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  So if he does, if he does not relent, he will sharpen his
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  sword, He will bend and string his bow.
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  He has prepared his deadly weapons.
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  He makes ready his flaming arrows.
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  So this section seems to say that God is the protector and
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  He's a righteous judge. So everything will come into
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  judgement at some point. And then then it says whoever is
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  pregnant with evil conceives trouble and gives birth to
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  disillusionment. So this is all like a lot of
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  metaphors for like being pregnant with evil, like evil is
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  on the inside and then they conceive trouble.
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  So if you have evil on the inside, you're going to be
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  involved with trouble. And it also says it gives birth
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  to disillusionment. So maybe this is a way that we
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  can see like have some insight into evil people who are
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  disillusioned. They have evil inside them, and
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  trouble and disillusion come from evil.
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  Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit they
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  have made. The trouble they cause recoils
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  on them. Their violence comes down on
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  their own heads. This is another statement that
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  is echoed throughout Scripture about sowing and reaping.
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  It's like what we sow, we will reap.
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  So our actions, the way we live our life does matter because God
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  is God of justice. So sowing and reaping, it's
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  repeated over and over again in Scripture.
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  And then verse 17, the last one, I will give thanks to the Lord
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  because of his righteousness. I will sing the praises of the
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  name of the Lord of the Most High.
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  So David is ending this with praising God.
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  And I think that's something that we can all learn from.
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  As far as David, you know, it, Paul talks about be thankful in
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  all circumstances. And so David is actually showing
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  this and, and we know David was referred to by God as a man, a
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  man after God's own heart. So this is something that I
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  believe God appreciates. I mean just giving thanks and
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  praise to him because he, he deserves, God deserves that.
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  And especially in all circumstances because sometimes
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  bad circumstances, as we learned from the book of Job, bad
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  circumstances can be a testing. And perhaps the testing can end
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  sooner if we resist the devil by sometimes when testing comes on
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  us, we have well, not sometimes. We always have a choice how we
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  respond to it. We can either succumb to it and
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  then be very angry with God or we can like Joe, maybe you know
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  that question like, why is this happening if we haven't done
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  something, if we examine, I think it's first thing is look
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  at our own lives. What have we done that would
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  make God upset? And if there's nothing that
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  comes, if we're not convicted by the Holy Spirit about something
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  we've done recently, then it may be a testing.
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  And the quickest way, you know, it says resist the devil and he
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  will flee. So the best way to resist him
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  would be to praise God. Do you think the enemy wants to
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  hear someone praising God and giving thanks to God?
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  I mean, the whole test would be to turn somebody away from God.
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  So it seems like that could be short lived.
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  And then another time where we heard about this was when Saul,
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  the first king was of Israel, was tormented by an evil spirit
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  because he was disobedient to God and God took his spirit from
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  him and then sent a tormenting spirit.
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  Then we see that David used to come in with his leer and play
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  that and Saul would get peace when David would come and play
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  music for him. This is, I guess you know, it
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  was during the transition period.
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  But if that is another example of where there was praise and
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  worship to God, where the evil spirit left and actually Saul
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  had peace like that affects other people as well.
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  So just something to think about from what we read in Scripture.
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  And maybe it's a strategy that you can use when testing comes
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  upon you. I mean, obviously if it's
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  something that we are doing wrong, then we need to
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  acknowledge that and ask for forgiveness from God and, you
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  know, correct it, make amends for that.
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  So that's the end of Psalm 7. And then I will read the
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  questions and answers surrounding that one.
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  So why did David want to stir up God in anger?
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  David wanted action, some kind of response from God.
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  From David's perspective, his enemies had gone unchallenged
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  and no one was doing anything about the injustice occurring
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  around him. David may have felt that God
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  wasn't doing anything. So this was his attempt to stir
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  up God's wrath against sinners. How are God's righteousness and
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  wrath connected? Righteousness requires judgement
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  for sin, and I I would say justice requires judgement for
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  sin. A holy, righteous God must judge
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  wickedness and rebellion with justice.
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  Even God's mercy satisfies the requirements of justice.
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  In the Old Testament, mercy was given when people offered
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  sacrifices to atone for their sins.
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  In the New Testament, God's mercy was was given when Christ,
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  the ultimate sacrifice, paid the price for our sins.
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  And then there's also the consequences of sins, which, you
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  know, that sometimes happen even if we've been forgiven for
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  something, there's still like the fallout that happens from
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  doing something that we shouldn't have done, being
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  disobedient to God in some way. There is still something that
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  you know, can be a consequence from our actions, even if we are
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  forgiven. So that is just our own
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  responsibility because of what we've done.
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  So what was David saying about how God punishes sinners?
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  David felt pressed by evil people who wanted to harm him,
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  so he called on God to rise up in his defense.
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  He wanted to remind those who would listen to him that sinners
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  will be punished by God, often through the consequences of
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  their own evil actions. OK.
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  And then there's one more thing that a question here that says
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  is the is the God of love also a God of hate?
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  An interesting question and probably one that a lot of
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  people ask. Yes, God hates sin, and at least
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  in one sense, those who who revel in their evil and
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  rebellion. God hated sin enough to flood
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  the entire earth and destroy cities.
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  Nevertheless, God distinguishes between capriciously hating the
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  Sinner and hating the sinner's sinful behavior.
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  That's found in Hosea 915. It is not a contradiction that
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  God loves the Sinner at the same time that he hates sin.
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  You know, this is an easy way to think about this.
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  God loves his people. He created us.
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  So you don't create something or God doesn't because he makes
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  everything perfect, perfect the way he wants it.
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  And so he you don't make something that you hate like
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  because God is perfect, He would make something exactly how he
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  wanted to make it us, how he would make a person exactly how
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  he wanted to make a person. So he doesn't hate the person.
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  However, when a person rebels against God and chooses things
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  that God says don't do these things, and the person rebels
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  against God. We know from Scripture that sin
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  separates us from God. In fact, sometimes sin,
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  unrepentant sin, can have God, you know, kind of close his ears
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  to us. If we are actively in sin and we
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  are asking for something from God, there's Scriptural support
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  that that may not be answered, that prayer may not be answered.
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  We have to look at ourselves always 1st and see do we need to
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  address anything in our life? Because it also says in
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  Scripture that God hears the prayers of a righteous person.
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  A righteous person doesn't mean a perfect person.
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  A righteous person means pretty much an obedient person to God.
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  If you know God wants you to do something and then you're
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  obedient to him, that's what righteousness is.
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  It doesn't mean that a righteous person doesn't mess up like
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  Noah. He was a righteous person, and
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  the eight people that were put on the ark were considered
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  righteous by God. They weren't perfect.
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  I mean, right after they got off the ship or I don't know if it
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  was right after, but sometime later, as the biblical account,
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  Noah ended up getting drunk. And then one of his sons, you
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  know, kind of, I guess, was mocking him or making fun of
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  him. But the other two sons were
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  respectfully trying to, you know, hide it or conceal it.
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  And, and so Noah cursed his one son.
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  So again, Noah was not perfect, but at the same time, he, he was
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  found to be righteous by God. And God saw that Job was a
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  righteous man. He was like extremely righteous.
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  And God didn't ever say anything.
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  There was nothing in Scripture that talked about how God, how
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  Job wasn't righteous. So, but yet at the same time,
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  you know, he, I'm sure he wasn't perfect because none of us can
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  be because we are in a broken world and we're, we had that
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  corruption in our DNA apparently, and, and it we won't
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  be perfected until Jesus returns and our, we are changed into
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  immortal beings. So God's not going to bring sin
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  into his Kingdom. And so he's, you know, there's
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  this time period where he just is, you know, purging sin from
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  it, just like he purged it during the flood.
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  Thankfully, out of love, God sent his Son Jesus to die on the
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  cross for us and give us a way into his Kingdom.
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  But our response to that death on the cross that Jesus gave his
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  own life, our response to that really truly does matter.
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  It's how do we respond to what God did for us?
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  And anyway, I will continue on what this so God hates sin
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  because sin separates us from God and God loves us.
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  So God demonstrates his own love for OK God demonstrates his own
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  love for us in this while we were still sinners, Christ died
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  for us. Romans chapter 5, verse eight In
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  the Bible, God's love and his hate often represent more than
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  mere emotion. The words illustrate the
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  condition of a person's relationship with God.
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  Either a person has a covenant relationship with God or he does
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  not. Whether we experience the
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  consequences of God's hatred or the benefits of his love depends
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  on our response to him. Exodus 34 verses 6 through 7.
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  So our response, I mean, what I always think about like the
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  response to God is not like, it's not just like a yes, I
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  believe this. It is like Jesus said, you know,
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  if you love me, obey my commands.
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  Obedience is the response that we give to God for what he did,
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  and we do it not to earn heaven. And I don't even like saying
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  heaven, but God's Kingdom. Because when Jesus returns, if
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  he's when he's on the earth, if that's the time that people
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  enter into the Kingdom, it's going to be here on earth.
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  The kingdom's going to be here on earth, not up in heaven.
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  But anyway, our response does matter and, and it's a response
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  of do we love him or do we hate him?
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  If we don't love him, then we will be persistent in
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  disobedience. So if being obedient shows that
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  we love him, being disobedient shows that we really don't care.
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  So those who persist in doing evil by setting themselves
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  against God are destined to encounter God's wrath, as did
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  those whom David mentioned here. The evil, arrogant,
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  bloodthirsty, and deceitful. Those who seek God in humility
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  and reverence can enjoy God's love.
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  God is loving and forgiving, but he opposes those who disobey and
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  thus hate him. So disobedience basically shows
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  God that we hate him. So that's pretty, that's kind of
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  something that really makes us think when we think about the
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  impact of obedience versus disobedience.
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  One way shows God we love him. The other way basically says, I
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  hate you. Do we ever want to say that to
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  God? And so we really do need to look
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  at the way we live our lives. Like what is what are we showing
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  God? He did everything first.
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  He loved us first. Like we were still sinners.
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  We didn't deserve what he did for us.
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  But how do we respond to that? It's kind of like a relationship
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  that you have with a person that gets damaged and maybe let's
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  just say we did it to the other person, like we did something
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  wrong. And so that relationship is
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  damaged and yet that person who we did wrong to comes and gives
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  us something absolutely undeserved, that something out
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  of kindness, out of love, something like extremely nice
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  for us. That would that would you know,
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  how would we react to that? Would we want to do something
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  nice back to that person? Or would he will we just keep on
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  doing wrong things to that person?
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  Even you know, it was unjustified because it would it
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  could never be justified us to do wrong things to God.
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  God gave us life. He wants us to be in his
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  Kingdom. He wants to give us an
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  inheritance. God's never done anything to us
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  that would justify our rebellion to him, our hatred of him.
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  Never. And there are other things
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  there. There is evil in the world,
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  things that, you know, in our lives that we may not be happy
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  with, but we have to look at what is the source of that?
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  Where did that come from? And if you dig deep enough, it's
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  probably not from God. It's probably something evil.
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  And and so we just need to make sure that our hatred is not
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  placed on the wrong person. And so because God is, is love,
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  he's just, he's righteous, that means he doesn't do wrong.
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  We have no justification to be angry with God.
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  And and so I think that's something that, you know, we
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  should also think about if there are times where we get angry
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  about something in our life, think about who is really
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  responsible for this, who caused this?
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  And and you know, God may have allowed something to happen, but
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  did he actually 'cause it? And if God is love, then he
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  wouldn't be doing something just to be mean to somebody.
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  And that's what I think people need to realize because I think
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  people are caught up sometimes when really bad things happen.
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  I think it's a misplaced hatred of something which we probably
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  shouldn't hate, and we should let God have the final say.
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  It says that the vengeance is mine, so God will, just like
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  David was saying in Psalm 7, he trusted in God, like God is
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  going to avenge the bad things. And the other thing that we
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  learned from the book of Job was that at the end, even though God
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  allowed Job to be tested, in the end, he doubly blessed Job and
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  his latter part of his life was better than the first part of
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  his life. So God is just a generous giver,
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  loving God and a just God and a righteous God.
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  And we just need to really reflect on who God is and don't
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  let the enemy distort our picture of God because that's
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  who is, you know, trying to separate us and the enemy's
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  trying to separate us so that we don't inherit what God has
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  planned for us. So we do have an enemy, it's the
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  evil one that is who is the enemy of God and then those with
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  them. So we do have an enemy.
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  We do have somebody that we don't like, but it's not God.
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  And I think if people would read the Bible and really dig deep in
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  it, you will probably find this as well.
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  And it took me a while to go through it too, but you see it
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  very clearly about about. I mean, God has revealed through
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  it. So that's why the words of
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  Scripture are so important for all of us.
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  Anyway, that's going to wrap up this discussion on Psalm 7, and
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