Hey guys what's up welcome back to Cooper's stuff. This is a sort of sword and shield episode about zeal for the Lord. What is zeal for the Lord? What does that actually mean?

Psalm 69 verse 9 says, for zeal for your house has consumed me. We know that right?

The zeal of the Lord has consumed me.

Zeal, what is zeal mean? It's a great word.

Zeal, passion. All right? I want to talk about the

scripture. I think this might encourage you today, but I want to talk about it a little

bit in light of a bunch of other things that Psalm 69 actually says. When we say zeal for the

Lord a lot of the times what people mean because you know we hear these these

phrases from the Bible unfortunately a lot of times we don't hear them in their context what they actually mean, but so we hear phrases and so then we sort of impute our own ideas of what this may mean.

Zeal for the Lord, what is that?

People think of zeal for the Lord as passion and its excitement.

You see this a lot in especially certain kinds of Christian circles that are very, maybe exuberant and maybe they praise loud.

I go to a shouting church, I love to give it a little shout to Jesus, I love it, let's do it,

because zeal for the Lord means shouting to God and it means excitement.

Well, not exactly.

That's not really what zeal means for the Lord means.

Because guess what?

You can give a shout to the Lord and in your heart be denying his lordship.

Let's say it again. You can be shouting and dancing and

dancing,

shouting, dancing, screaming, praising.

It's kind of a Chris Farley moment there.

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