S3:168 Psalm 83

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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

How can we make sense of passages in the Bible talking about mercy and others where the writers are crying out for judgement on their enemies? Today, Emma Dotter dives into Psalm 83, an imprecatory psalm, to answer this question. The God of the Old Testament truly is the God of the New Testament. All of us in our sin were enemies of God before Christ's sacrifice for us and our salvation. On the cross Jesus incurred the wrath of God, and in so doing he provided mercy and forgiveness for those who would believe. On the cross, judgement and salvation happen at the same time. God is glorified both when he defeats those who oppose him and when he saves those who oppose him.

Additional Scriptures Referenced:
Examples of Imprecatory psalms – Psalm 5, 10, 17, 35, 58
Judges 7-8 – God destroys the Midianites with Gideon's small band of soldiers
Judges 4 – God defeats the Canaanites through Deborah and Barak
Genesis 12:15-17 – Abrahamic covenant
Romans 3:25; Exodus 25:17; Exodus 36 – propitiation
1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10 – Jesus as our propitiation

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0:00.0	All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests.
0:04.5	You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma Daughter.
0:10.0	Thanks for joining.
0:11.1	Today, we're reading Psalm 83, but before we jump in, one quick announcement.
0:16.0	Join the Journey is looking for more volunteers.
0:18.2	Specifically, we're looking for more videographers on our social media
0:21.6	team and more friendly faces on our hospitality team. So, if you're local to Dallas and looking to get more
0:27.3	plugged in at Watermark, check out the link in the episode description. That said, today's Psalm,
0:33.0	Psalm 83, puts a very specific tension on display. When we read the Bible, we see that God wants
0:39.9	to save our enemies. He wants us to pray for them and show them the love of Christ. Yet, at the
0:44.8	same time, we also read passages like today's where people cry out to God to destroy their enemies.
0:51.1	How can we make sense with that tension? Does the Bible contradict itself?
0:55.2	Charles Spurgeon was once asked how he made sense of that tension and the tension that runs
1:01.9	between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. And he answered by saying this,
1:07.0	I never have to reconcile friends. Divine sovereignty and human responsibility, meaning justice through
1:14.1	human wars specifically, is what he's talking about, have never had a falling out with each other, period.
1:20.2	I do not need to reconcile what God has joined together. He went on to say that where these two truths meet,
1:26.7	I do not know, nor do I want to know,
1:30.3	or nor did he want to know. He said, they do not puzzle me since I have given up my mind to believing
1:35.4	them both. And the tension Spurgeon paints in that quote is important, because if we're not
1:40.3	careful and we don't investigate it, it can grow seeds of doubt in our heart.
1:45.3	Nobody wants to be in a place where they're doubting the character of God. The God of the Old
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