Welcome to After the Fact, a Knowing Faith mini-episode where we look to take a big question

and address it in just a few minutes. Typically the questions we consider will line up with our

larger topic for the season and that's certainly true for our time today. We are discussing

Romans on Knowing Faith this season and joining us today is Dr. Jim Hamilton. Dr. Hamilton is

professor of biblical theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the author of

several books including but not limited to what is biblical theology, the Bible's big story,

salvation history for kids, and the recently released two volume commentary on the Psalms

from Lexum Press and the forthcoming typology, understanding the Bible's promised shaped patterns.

He also serves as the senior pastor at Kenwood Baptist Church. Dr. Hamilton, welcome to After the

Fact. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Glad to be here. So here's the big question.

In Romans 153, we hear Paul make mention of Christ in a way that calls our attention back to

Psalm 69. Could you shed some light on what's happening here? Sure. So the first thing I want to do is

state my starting presupposition and that is that Paul has rightly understood what this text means

in its Old Testament context and that he's respecting and building on the meaning of that Old

Testament text that he's quoting in its Old Testament context. In other words, he's not just

finding a line that he likes and ripping it out of context and then quoting it and throwing it

down on people. Rather, he's quoting it in context in accordance with its contextual meaning.

So in the context of Psalm 69, when David says, the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen

on me in the wide, in other statements that surround that one, he's talking about the way that his

enemies have rejected Yahweh. And really what he's getting at is the way that the people that don't

like David, ultimately they don't like God. And so they are directing their hatred of God

at David. And because of David's position as the anointed king of Israel, these God haters

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