20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 93)
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Mike Winger
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2023
⏱️ 113 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we are. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the Friday Q&A, which we do every so often. |
| 0:09.7 | It's kind of like every other Friday at the moment, hopefully we'll get back to every |
| 0:12.9 | Friday once I'm able to do that. |
| 0:16.0 | But right now our first question for today comes in with the following conundrum. |
| 0:23.4 | It says, how do you reconcile the new testaments clear teachings to love and pray for our enemies |
| 0:28.8 | with Psalms, like 69 verses 22 through 28, I'll get into that Psalm in a second. |
| 0:34.1 | Is there ever a time when we should pray against our enemies? |
| 0:36.8 | Now, Psalm 62 is one of what we call an imprecatory Psalm. |
| 0:40.6 | It's a Psalm that imprecatory means like to bring a curse or, you know, bad consequences |
| 0:46.9 | onto somebody. |
| 0:48.0 | And so there's Psalms. |
| 0:49.0 | There's like seven or so, seven eight of them that people will class as imprecatory |
| 0:53.6 | Psalms. |
| 0:54.6 | This is one of them. |
| 0:55.6 | There's others where in the Psalms, somewhere in the Psalm, you know, there's a statement |
| 1:00.0 | where it's like asking for God to cause harm to someone. |
| 1:03.0 | Yet, Jesus said for us to pray for our enemies, bless those who curse us, you know, that |
| 1:08.0 | we should, we love our enemies rather, bless those who curse us, pray for those who persecute |
| 1:11.9 | us. |
| 1:12.9 | So this is, yeah, this is a bit of a conundrum. |
| 1:15.6 | Let's look at the passage and I'm going to walk you guys through like a bunch of specifics |
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