537: When is it OK to hate someone? (Psalm 139) || Morning Mindset Daily Christian Devotional
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 1 October 2019
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📜 TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Psalm 139
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!
O men of blood, depart from me!
20 They speak against you with malicious intent;
your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22 I hate them with complete hatred;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, good morning. Welcome back to the morning mindset. I'm so glad that you're here, that you're taking the time to set aside your mind for God's purposes. That's really what we're doing with the morning mindset. We're deciding to think like God thinks and that's what we want to do every single moment of our lives, isn't it? |
| 0:22.0 | And the section of scripture we're going to... single moment of our lives, isn't it? |
| 0:23.0 | And the section of scripture we're going to look at today |
| 0:26.6 | does so in a way that is very uncomfortable |
| 0:30.0 | for many of us. |
| 0:31.8 | Because it uses words like slaying and hating and loathing. I mean those are |
| 0:39.6 | strong words and we instantly hear those words and think boy those are definitely not words |
| 0:46.3 | that a believer in Christ should be using. |
| 0:49.8 | Well let's look at the passage today so you can understand what I'm talking about. This is |
| 0:54.3 | Psalm 139 which is one of my favorite Psalms and this section versus 19 through |
| 1:00.1 | 22 I remember giving me trouble as a young boy when I would read this |
| 1:05.2 | Psalm I would read this and something in it just didn't sit right with me. I |
| 1:09.6 | didn't understand how a person who was a follower of God like David was, such a heroic guy as David was, |
| 1:18.8 | could say the kind of things he's saying in these verses. |
| 1:22.4 | Now as a child, I didn't put everything together |
| 1:25.6 | the way I should have. I didn't recognize that David though heroic was also a |
| 1:29.6 | man of war that's part of his calling in God's economy at that time was for him to become a king and to help deliver his people from the hands of pagan nations that were oppressing them and that were surrounding them |
| 1:46.6 | and threatening to take over their land. And so I didn't see the whole picture as a boy, |
| 1:52.1 | but I also just knew in my gut that there's words |
| 1:56.1 | being used here that I've been taught as an individual, I should not say or do, like you shouldn't |
| 2:00.6 | say you hate someone. So why was it okay for David to say all right I've talked |
| 2:06.4 | about this situation long enough let me just read the passage to you and you'll see what I mean. |
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