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Ep. 56 - Terrorism, Expository Exultation, Hamartano

Plodcast

Canon Press

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson address the world of terrorism. After that he plods on to review John Piper's book, “Expository Exultation”. Finishing things off, Wilson takes a look at Hamartano in Titus. Happy Plodding! Show Notes:   Terrorism: What does it mean to identify someone as a terrorist? Terrorist has come to mean a bad guy, which is completely inaccurate Terrorism is a particular tactic Terrorism is to directly target innocent civilians in order to spread dismay, consternation and terror in the general populace Half of terrorism is claiming that you committed the bombing   Expository Exultation: Written by John Piper Not fully done with the book, but it is amazing Great read for pastors Piper shows how the preaching of the word in a way that exults in the Gospel that is being proclaimed is a central part of corporate worship Worship is a corporate act The word and the sacrament go together like cooking and eating go together   Hamartano: Looking at this word in Titus Only used once: Titus 3:10-11 He is talking about a heretic who won't listen and is stubborn Heresy is a kind of sinning

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Yes, God, God. So welcome to

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to Plodcast 56 great to have you here. I want to talk a little bit about terrorism and I want to

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talk about the nature of terrorism or define help us think through what it means to identify someone as a terrorist.

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Now, unfortunately, we live in a time where terrorists has come to mean bad guy.

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I saw a bumper sticker one time a terrorist, what the big army calls the little army and this is just as about as

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wildly inaccurate as it's possible to be

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used as a word that should be used as a measurement of evil.

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So terrorist is not synonymous. used as a measurement of evil.

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So terrorist is not synonymous with Ork.

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A terrorist, a terrorism is a particular tactic. It's a particular tactic. It's a particular tactic and it's a tactic that's used by

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bad people because this this tactic of terrorism is one that violates Augustine's approach to just war.

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It's not a it's not a godly tactic, but it's a tactic. So for example, when Pearl Harbor occurred in 1941 on December 7th,

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President Roosevelt didn't go on the radio to declare war on sneak attacks.

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He didn't declare war on sneak attacks.

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He didn't declare war on surprise attacks.

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He declared war.

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He asked Congress for a declaration of war against Japan and got it.

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So the thing that got us into the Second World War was a sneak attack.

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It was a surprise attack.

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But when we got into the war, we were at war with Japan.

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We were not at war with sneak attacks.

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Because a sneak attack is a tactic.

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