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Song number 112, Be Still My Soul, all together on that first verse.
Yeah.
Amen.
Yeah.
Amen.
By the way, in Revelation chapter 6, there's people in heaven praying in purgatory prayers.
This is Acts chapter 1.
This is the Apostle Peter speaking here about Judas.
Now, what is Peter doing?
He's not being sympathetic towards Judas, right?
So in case there are some bleeding hearts there for Judas,
Peter was there and was like, well, actually, the book of Psalms says this.
So, and by the way, the book of Acts is the New Testament, my friends.
So there's nothing wrong with taking the New Testament, or taking the Old Testament Psalms
and making them applicable in the New Testament, which is exactly what Peter did.
He says this was rightfully done to him because of the fact that he's a wicked
person, and in fact, this is what it says in the Psalms.
Turn with me, if you would, to Luke chapter 18.
Here's another common argument that people have.
You're taking it out of context, right?
They'll say that you're just taking it out of context.
No, because I'm not going to make any apologies for the Psalms.
You know, explain what that Psalm means.
Oh, it means that he wants them to be destroyed and die.
You're making God look bad.
No, you're making him look bad, because you're ashamed of his word.
And if we look at the context of all the Psalms, we just see that David and others
are just righteous people who hate sin and hate the workers of iniquity,
and want judgment to come upon them.
And you'll never find a verse prior to the prerogatory Psalms that says,
don't apply this.
You know, in fine print, this does not apply under these circumstances.
Do not apply in the New Testament.
Do not pray this, use this, for any reason, you know, in small print.
You know, the fast voice that goes in the commercial that doesn't want, you know, the little fine print there?
You don't find that in the book of Psalms.
Now, here's the most common argument, is that Jesus said to love your enemies.
And you know what? They're right about that.
Love your enemies according to Matthew chapter number five, amen?
But here's the thing, folks, is that we have to reconcile this, though.
You see, because we're going to look at Luke chapter 18, which is something that Jesus also said,
and what the problem is that people who don't like the imprecatory Psalms
will look at Matthew chapter five, they'll look at Luke chapter 18,
and say, well, we'll just go with Matthew chapter five.
Just because we think that that's really what God meant.
Folks, both of them are inspired, both of them are words that Jesus said,
so we have to reconcile the two.
We don't choose one over the other.
We don't say one is right and one is wrong.
We say they're both right, we just need to reconcile both of them.
Look at Luke 18, verse one.
This is Jesus speaking.
He says,
And there was a widow in that city,
and she came unto him, saying,
Avenge me of mine adversary.
And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself,
Though I fear not God, nor regard man,
yet because this widow troubleth me,
I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
And the Lord said,
Hear what the unjust judge saith.
So he gives this parable of this woman who comes before the judge
because she wants vengeance, she wants revenge
because of her adversary.
And because she's constantly coming to the judge
just importuned, just persistent about it,
the unjust judge is just weary with her continuously coming,
so he just grants her her petition.
He puts forth this parable here, look at verse seven.
And shall not God avenge his own elect?
So now he draws the parallel.
He's essentially saying
if the unjust judge
is willing to avenge this woman of her adversary,
and he's not even a just judge,
how much more shall the righteous just judge
the God of all the earth do right?
How much more shall he actually avenge
his own elect, referring to Christians.
Look what it says.
And shall not God avenge his own elect, verse seven,
which cry day and night unto him,
though he bear long with them?
I tell you
that he will avenge them speedily.
Now listen to this, don't miss this.
Nevertheless,
when the Son of Man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?
What is he saying?
He's promising us
that he will avenge us of our enemies
when we cry day and night unto him.
But he's saying,
but will I even find this type of faith
when I come back?
Will I even find Christians
who are praying like this
when I come back?
Now when this was written, I'm sure there's believers
just like, well of course,
this is the book of Psalms.
But folks, doesn't this make sense today?
Because so many Christians
are against praying the imprecatory prayers,
now let me say this,
it is an indication that they have no faith in God.
Because they don't think
that God is righteous enough
to avenge us of our adversaries,
even though he said,
vengeance belongeth unto me,
I will repay saith the Lord.
So he says, look, I'll avenge you
if you cry to me day and night,
but am I even going to find this type of faith in the earth
when I come back?
Am I even going to find believers who actually believe this?
Well, we believe it.
I know different churches that believe it.
But the truth is,
is that the vast majority of churches
do not, they find it offensive.
Now, this is not to negate
Matthew chapter 5, because the Bible does say
to love your enemies.
It does tell us to love them,
to bless them and curse not.
I'm going to explain to you at the end of this sermon
how to reconcile that particular passage.
Go to Psalm chapter 2, if you would.
Psalm chapter 2.
And then we're going to go to Psalm 5.
We're just going to look at the imprecatory Psalms.
We're just going to appreciate, study,
observe the imprecatory Psalms at this point.
Look at Psalm chapter 2 and verse 1.
We're going to see God's desire upon the wicked.
Look at verse number 1.
He says, why do the heathen rage?
Psalm 2, verse 1.
Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord
and against his anointed, saying,
let us break their bands asunder
and cast their cords from us.
So he's stating that there is a population,
a group of people in the population,
that don't want God's authority.
They don't want God's restrictions.
They don't want his authority.
They don't want his rules.
They don't want his laws.
They want to break the bands asunder.
Look at verse 4.
God, right? The Lord.
We could even say in context it's referring to the Lord Jesus Christ.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.
You ever wonder if God has a sense of humor?
Apparently he does.
I remember there was an Instagram account I used to follow,
and his bio said this,
I can't wait to hear God laugh.
He's basically saying I can't wait to see the vengeance upon the wicked.
He says, he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.
The Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath
and vex them in his sore displeasure.
The picture that it's painting here
is that he's going to judge them as he mocks them.
For not being willing to submit themselves under his authority.
Go to Psalm chapter 5 if you would.
Psalm chapter number 5.
You know because there's groups of people out there that mock the Lord.
They mock the Bible, they mock the Lord, they mock his restrictions.
They kind of go out of their way to try to disprove the Bible
and how stupid it is and how unrealistic it is
and it contradicts itself
and they make all types of videos and all types of articles
and they do all these blasphemous things against the Lord
and the Lord says, okay, I'm going to have the last laugh though.
You can laugh at my word all you want.
You can laugh at Christian's all you want
but at the end of the day, I'm going to have the last laugh
when I shall have you in derision.
Look at Psalm 5.
Verse 1.
Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.
Harken unto the voice of my cry, my king, my God,
for unto thee will I pray.
My voice shall thou hear in the morning, O Lord,
in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee
and will look up.
He says, For thou art not a God that hath pleasure and wickedness,
neither shall evil dwell with thee.
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight.
Listen to this.
Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Now, did I read correctly?
Does it say hate there?
H-A-T, did I spell that right?
H-A-T-E, hatest.
Yeah, that's it.
He says, The foolish shall not stand in thy sight.
Thou hatest all workers.
Well, when he said hate in the Hebrew,
it just means like he doesn't really like them a whole lot.
No, actually, if you look in the Hebrew, it just means to abhor,
which means to hate, despise, to abhor.
Look at verse 6, in case you didn't get it the first time.
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing.
The Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
What is leasing? That means someone who is being deceitful.
You know, like politicians, liars, right?
Someone who speaks leasing is someone who speaks deceitfully.
Someone who goes out of the way to just lie to people
and speak and be dishonest.
He says he's going to destroy them that speak leasing.
He abhors the bloody and the deceitful man.
Violence. God hates the violent man.
God hates the person who takes pleasure in taking another man's life.
God hates the ones who abort babies.
All these psalms apply to people to Planned Parenthood
and every other institution that helps with killing babies.
Because it says here that he abhors the bloody and deceitful man.
That's what the doctors do.
They literally kill babies for a living.
They kill babies for a living.
Look at verse 10.
Now notice, this is his prayer in the morning.
He's like, I shall direct my prayer into thee.
Verse 10, destroy thou them, O God.
Let them fall by their own counsels.
Cast them out into the multitude of their transgressions,
for they have rebelled against thee.
Go to Psalm 10.
Psalm chapter 10.
And look, another reason why people don't like the imprecatory psalms
is because the imprecatory psalms tells us that God hates certain people.
Yeah, but for God so loved the world.
Yeah, we know that.
We quote that verse all the time.
But hold on a second, does this mean that Psalm 5 is not inspired?
Should we just ignore it?
Should we just like sweep it under the rug, act like it doesn't exist?
No, we have to reconcile the two.
Folks, there's heaven and there's hell.
Eternal life is the expression of God's great love through Jesus Christ
and hell is the greatest expression of his hatred.
No one can say that someone who's in hell right now, that God loves them.
He loved them at one time.
But if they're in hell today burning in fire and brimstone,
they're weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth,
we can't say that God actually loves that person at this moment
because you don't love someone that you burn for all of eternity.
If you think you do, you've got a twisted view of what love is.
Look at Psalm 10.
Psalm chapter 10.
Look down at verse number, let's see here.
Look at verse 4, it says,
The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God.
God is not in all his thoughts.
Now that's similar to what we see in Romans chapter 1
where the Bible says that they don't want to retain God and their knowledge,
therefore God gives them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
He says in verse 5,
His ways are always grievous.
Thy judgments are far above out of his sight.
As for all his enemies, he puppeth at them.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud.
Under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Verse 8,
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages,
and the seeker places doth he murder the innocent.
His eyes are privily set against the poor.
Now let me ask you something.
Is this describing just regular sinners?
Who in the world just kind of hangs out in the dark places waiting to just kill poor people?
The innocent. Yeah, Ted Bundy.
Right?
But why did he have to call out just the most wicked person?
Because it's the only kind of people that do those types of things.
Right?
The most evil, wicked people imaginable.
You know, the people who kidnap children and use them in the sex trafficking trade.
That's what this is talking about.
These are the people that sit, lurking in places in the villages, waiting to take advantage and to murder the innocent.
This isn't talking about everyone, folks.
This is not talking about the dude who drinks alcohol and smokes weed and fornicates with his girlfriend.
Obviously those sins are wicked, but folks, it pales in comparison to what this person is right here.
God can have mercy on that person.
God can have grace and mercy.
God will save that person and use that person.
But folks, a person like this who imagines evil in his heart and desires to take advantage of the innocent for personal gain and profit is a wicked person.
This is not just every, you know, sinner out there.
Oh, we're all sinners.
By the way, I grow leery of people when they start siding with pedophiles.
Right?
Well, they're just like, well, you know, we gotta...
No, we don't.
Yeah, but we gotta reform them.
Well, if you want to reform them, we gotta use God's way of reforming them, though.
Which is the millstone about their neck, as Jesus said, to be cast into the depths of the sea.
That's what the Bible says.
Lurking places of the villages and secret places doth he murder the innocent.
This is sad.
Look at verse 14.
Thou hast seen it, for thou beholdest mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand.
The poor committed himself unto thee, thou art the helper of the fatherless.
What is David saying?
You see all these things because you want to repay them when the time comes.
Verse 15.
Break down the arm of the wicked and the evil man.
This isn't referring to an arm bar, by the way.
Seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
What is he saying?
Disable him.
Disarm him, pun intended.
When he says break down the arm of the wicked, he's like, if he's using the members of his body to commit wickedness and murder and molestations and rape, then remove his capability from doing so.
Okay?
This is not a wicked song, my friends.
What kind of person thinks that it's wicked to pray this so that some child does not kidnap and molest it out there?
Think about that.
Is it wrong to say, Lord, destroy all the child molesters of this world?
Break their arms, those who lurk privily in the villages, to murder the innocent, to molest the children.
Lord, can you just open up the earth so they all just fall in and burn in hell?
Is that wrong to pray so we can save a child from being raped?
That's why these exist.
This comes from the heart of a person who loves the innocent.
Go to Psalm 35.
You can write down Psalm 17 if you want to read that later.
It's another imprecatory psalm.
We're not going to go over that one because there's some more that I want to go over before we're done here.
Look at Psalm 35.
He says, plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me.
Fight against them that fight against me.
Take hold of shield and buckler and stand up for mine help.
Draw out also the spear and stop the way against them that persecute me.
Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul.
Let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Let them be as a chaff before the wind.
Let the angel of the Lord chase them.
Let their way be dark and slippery and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
So who is he praying against?
He's praying against people who are actually persecuting David.
Now let me explain something here, okay?
And this is a simple way to put it.
You know, anytime I put out a video, for example, and there's people who just hate my video,
I find it really weird when they take time to tell me how much they hate me and my video in the comment section.
You say, why is that weird to you?
Because if I see a video and I hate it, I'm going to like comment.
Alright, let me just spend like 20 minutes.
You say, what do you do?
I'm like, this is stupid.
And I flip it and I go to the next video.
Right? Isn't that what normal people do?
Unless it's like some super major heresy of a person that maybe I personally know.
But for the most part, if it's some like heretic or some person speaking wickedly against God,
I'm like, this is stupid.
And it's some Joe Rogan clip talking about God.
I'm like, this is stupid.
And just, I'm not going to spend time on that because that's not how I roll.
But you know who rolls like that?
Wicked people.
You know, wicked individuals are those who devise the hurt of the righteous.
People who actually spend time thinking, how can we bring this person down?
How can we destroy this person?
How do we plant a bomb in that church?
That requires a wicked individual who has wicked imaginations.
So David is speaking of an individual who is putting in a considerable amount of effort to destroy David.
Think about that.
And he's telling them, you know, he's praying, Lord, let them be confounded.
Let them be confused.
Just kind of mess up their plans.
Don't let it come to fruition.
Don't let them persecute me.
Don't let them destroy me.
He says in verse 7, for without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Let destruction come upon them, upon him at unawares.
And let his net that he hath hid catch himself into that very destruction.
Let him fall.
And you know what?
There's a particular person a year and a half ago.
We had a conference in a different state.
And this conference is called the Fundamentalist Conference.
It's a conference that me and my pastor friends have put together.
And Brother Marco, I brought Brother Marco's with me to go hold that conference.
And I remember we were there and we had an enemy of our church that lived in that particular state.
And he didn't like how I preached and he didn't like my doctrine and the things that I stood for.
But we were there to just preach about the fundamentals of the faith.
You know what I mean?
We weren't there to talk about anything else.
We were just there to talk about the fundamentals of the faith.
And me and my pastor friends are preaching there.
But this guy made it his agenda to make sure that the conference was shut down.
And make a long story short, he shut us down like three times.
He called the hotel and was just like, these people are doing X, Y, and Z.
And literally we spent like three hours setting up a live stream.
And then after one day of conference, the managers came up and said, you guys got to go.
You guys can't be here.
You guys have one hour to pack everything and go.
And he tried to stop us and all we were doing was preaching and soul winning.
We wanted to evangelize the area, get people saved.
We weren't even preaching hate.
Put it this way, I didn't even preach in a pregatory psalm.
I didn't even talk about psalms in that.
I preached a sermon against the south.
That's what I did.
Against the bible belt.
That's what I did.
But he was just, I mean, he sent people to the hotel to spy us out.
To spy out our liberty.
I chased them out.
He got us kicked out of two particular areas.
We literally had to finish the conference in a different state.
We had to cross the state lines to go to a different state to have the conference there.
And he was putting up videos like every day saying we got them, we shut them down.
And we're going to get them again.
And this is what we're going to do.
And he's just lying through their teeth about things that we were doing.
He's just lying.
And it was like a grief.
It was just like, Lord.
This person is just trying to stop us from just preaching the gospel to just people.
Getting people saved.
Folks, if there's a Christian out there who disagrees with us,
you know, there's plenty of pastors out there that I disagree with,
but if there's so many, why would I want to stop that?
It's like, I don't agree with their pre-trib doctrine, their Zionist doctrine,
but on Saturdays, we're not going to hold a protest against their church.
You know what I mean?
If they're preaching the gospel, it's like, let them be.
They're still doing the work of the Lord.
But not this guy.
He's like, we're going to stop them by any means necessary.
And it grieved me out of my heart.
I'll be honest with you, it stressed me out a lot.
And, you know, it stressed us out a lot.
Because we were trying to figure out what we were going to do.
But, you know, the conference went on.
It was a complete success.
And we had fun doing it anyways, okay?
And it makes for a cool story.
But when I came back, you know, we had a prayer meeting and I told the guys,
I was like, we need to put this guy on the prayer list
and pray that God destroys this person for being such a wicked person.
And I wasn't the only one who was persecuted.
He persecuted my friends as well and did all manner of evil against, you know, my friends
and, you know, made all types of videos that were railing against my pastor friends.
But that was like the straw that broke the camel's back
because that was the first time he actually went out and did something
to actually try to stop us and actually succeeded to a certain extent, okay?
Well, you know, a couple months after that took place,
that particular individual died a horrible death.
Under very suspect conditions and, you know, circumstances.
I'm talking about criminal circumstances.
After us praying for months on end against him,
I mean, aside from the fact that he died a very horrible death,
and I didn't even want to go into how he died,
you know, we found out about it.
Because they were blaming us, they were like,
they killed him!
They're the ones who did it!
I'm like, well, bro, I just prayed.
All I did was pray, man.
My hands are clean.
But you know what? That showed me that God answers prayers.
And that showed me, listen to this, that God was more upset with that person than I was.
And it showed me that God had the last laugh.
Because the majority of the videos was him laughing at us.
Mocking us, scorning us.
Because he was able to shut us down.
Well, it looks like God had the last laugh on that one.
And I don't take anything back.
Look at Psalm 58, if you would.
Psalm 58.
Now, will that happen all the time? No.
I don't think so.
But should that stop us from praying imprecatory prayers? No.
And let me tell you this, you know, sometimes praying imprecatory prayers
is good, not just because we want God to answer them, but just even if he doesn't, it just helps us to get us off our chest.
Don't be this hyper-spiritual Christian where it's just like,
why have no hatred in my heart and I never get angry and I'm just like a Jedi Christian, you know?
Anger is the way into the dark side.
Okay, Yoda.
Why don't you be honest with yourself and admit that you get angry like I get angry over the things that are wicked in this world.
And by the way, don't give me that. You get angry about the evil things of this world.
You hate the president, okay?
You can't stand Democrats and liberals.
What you need to do is transfer some of that hatred over to the things that God wants you to hate, though.
Invest some of that energy there, amen?
Look at Psalm 58.
We'll start in, let's just start in verse 1.
It says,
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?
Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness.
Ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
The wicked are estranged from the womb.
They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
He's simply, he's using hyperbole here.
He's basically saying, you know, some of these people, you think that they were just wicked from the start because they're so evil.
He says in verse number 4,
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent.
Their are like the deaf adder that stoppeth the ear, which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
What he's saying is that these people are so unmerciful that you can plead for mercy and they're not going to be merciful to you.
They're going to be like a deaf adder.
Scary.
Look at verse 6.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth.
Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
Oh wait, no, let's talk about lions, though. Let's talk about, like, animals.
Okay, yeah, let's pray imprecatory prayers against animals.
Lions is just referring to devils.
The Bible refers to Satan himself as a lion, right?
The Bible talks about people being dogs, people being lions.
He's just referring to the fact that these people are so unmerciful, they act like animals.
Because a lion has no sympathy.
It'll eat your child and it won't think, well, this is someone's child.
It's not thinking like this has feelings, it has a soul.
It'll eat it.
Well, you know what, there's people in this world that act like that animal.
They have no conscience, is what he's saying.
So what's the best thing to do?
God says break their teeth.
Disable them.
Listen to this, verse 7.
This is for all the Planned Parenthood doctors out there.
Let them melt away as waters which run continually.
When he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as a cut in pieces, as a snail which melteth.
Let every one of them pass away like the untimely birth of a woman that they may not see the sun.
He's like destroy them the way an untimely child would die.
Let them melt away like a snail.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with the whirlwind, both living and in his wrath.
The righteous, listen to this, verse 10.
People say, well you can pray that but you shouldn't be so happy about it though.
These people are just sensitive about everything.
You just can't do anything right around these people sometimes.
Look at verse 10.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance.
Now notice it doesn't say the righteous shall rejoice when he executes vengeance.
Because God doesn't want us to take matters into our own hands.
That would be a wicked thing to do.
It would be wicked for us to take matters into our own hands and go find the people that wronged us and beat them up and shoot them or do whatever.
That's wrong to do.
As much as it lies within us we would want to do something like that.
The Bible says that's wrong to do.
But it says here that the righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance.
What does that mean?
When you see that God executes vengeance upon the wicked, what does that do?
That rejoices us.
Why? Is it because we're so bloodthirsty? No, it's because God has shown himself strong on our behalf.
He fulfilled his promise.
Look what it says.
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
That's graphic.
Right?
You know people want to stick to the book of Matthew where the disciples are washing each other's feet.
They'll give you a 10 week series on that.
But how about a one week series on verse 10?
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
He's not saying that that's literally what we're going to do.
What he's stating here is the fact that we will rejoice at the destruction of the wicked to the point where it's almost as if you're washing yourself in their blood.
Almost in a mocking manner.
The fact that they've been destroyed.
Verse 11 says,
So that a man shall save barely there is a reward for the righteous.
Barely he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
You know why it's important for us to see the judgment upon the wicked?
Because it increases our faith.
And it causes people, Christians who are faithless to say,
Wow, there is a reward for us.
Man, God is a judge of all the earth.
Go to Psalm 59.
Look at verse 1 of Psalm 59.
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God.
Defend me from them that rise up against me.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity and save me from bloody men.
For lo, they lie in wait for my soul.
The mighty are gathered against me, not for my transgression, not for my sin, O Lord.
What is he saying?
They're not an instrument in the hand of God to punish David for his sin.
These are people who are just doing this because they hate David.
And let me just say this.
They hate David because they hate God.
And the people that hate believers ardently hate them because they hate God.
Look at verse 4.
They run and prepare themselves without my fault.
Awake thou to help me behold and behold.
Thou therefore, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
awake to visit all the heathen.
Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.
He says don't be merciful to them.
They return at evening.
They make a noise like a dog and go round about the city.
Behold, they belch out with their mouth.
Swords are in their lips.
For whose say they doth hear?
But thou, O Lord, shall laugh at them.
Thou shall have all the heathen in derision.
Go to Psalm 69.
Now those are some pretty powerful and pregatory psalms, right?
But the one I'm about to show you right now is probably one of the most craziest ones.
It's a very powerful psalm.
And you know, the people who don't like the imprecatory psalms, they steer clear of this one right here.
You know, when I say that they use, oh that's out of context, oh that's Old Testament, oh Jesus.
I mean they throw all of those onto this one.
Because it's so graphic.
Look at Psalm 69.
Verse 20.
Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.
And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none.
And for comforters, but I found none.
They gave me also gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Now who does that sound like?
Jesus.
Now did this literally happen to David? Yes.
But it also symbolically represented the Lord Jesus Christ.
Verse 22.
Let their table become a snare before them, and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Let their eyes be darkened that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake.
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Let their habitation be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
This is a prophetic psalm of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And it's specifically referring to those who persecuted the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now is this true in David's day? Absolutely.
But it's prophetic regarding the enemies of Jesus Christ.
Those who crucified or had him crucified in the New Testament.
And by the way, this is later reiterated in Romans chapter 11.
And guess who Romans chapter 11 is talking about?
The Jews according to the flesh.
Because guess who are the ones responsible for getting Jesus crucified?
It's the Jews.
So those Pharisees and Jews who said, his blood be on us and on our children, this is applicable to them.
Well we should pray for them.
Well they said, his blood be on us and on our children.
They basically seal their fate.
Look at verse 27.
Add iniquity into their iniquity and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Verse 28 is the most savage verse of this entire chapter.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous.
Now if you listen to last week's sermon, the book of life, that's what that's talking about.
He's saying blot them out, don't let them be written there.
Let me just interpret what this means in just plain old English.
Don't let them get saved.
You said, no.
I mean, what book do you think he's talking about?
The book of the living, another way of saying the book of the living is the book of life.
And you're only blotted out of the book of life when there's no longer hope.
People who are blotted out of the book of life is someone who dies without Christ
or someone who becomes a reprobate before dying, they're twice dead plucked up by the roots.
Because they've rejected the Lord Jesus Christ in such a grievous fashion that they don't want to retain God in their knowledge
and God gives them over to a reprobate mind, they're incapable of believing.
God assists them in their rejection of Him.
So this is referring to a person or the individuals who hated Jesus Christ.
I mean, this is, talk about imprecatory here.
Now, unless you're dealing with someone who has behaved in such a manner as these people did against the Lord Jesus Christ,
I think that's the only time that's applicable to them, to pray such an imprecatory prayer.
For the most part, we should pray that people would get saved.
But you know what? We actually haven't run into people like this though.
You haven't run into individuals, I mean, Moses, for crying out loud, led a Jew to the Lord.
Right? You're not questioning it now, are you?
You know, this is obviously a select group of people who hated Jesus Christ so much
and you say, well, what people would this apply to?
Well, I would say this, anybody who loves and embraces and believes the Talmud,
that would be applicable to them.
You say, what? Why? Because the Talmud is a blasphemous book against the Lord Jesus Christ,
where it calls him the devil, it says that he's burning in hell in his own excrement,
it says that he was able to perform miracles through the power of devils,
it calls him Beelzebub, it says that he was born of a whore.
I mean, you think of the most blasphemous things that can be said about Jesus Christ, that book doesn't.
And obviously it's not one book, it's volumes of books.
But these books are made against Jesus Christ.
So if there's a Jew out there who actually reads the Talmud, loves the Talmud, believes what it says about Jesus Christ,
Psalm 69 is applicable to that individual.
Now would you say that everyone believes that? No.
The vast majority of the population does not believe what the Talmud is saying.
And let me say this, a lot of Jews don't believe what the Talmud is saying either.
That requires a select group of people who actually read the Talmud and embrace it,
and they say, yeah, well he deserves to die.
If a person says he deserves to die, okay, Psalm 69 is applicable to you, my friend.
Go to Psalm 70.
So Psalm 69 is for those who persecuted the Lord Jesus Christ to have them crucified,
which is a very grievous sin.
Psalm 70 is actually about, let me make sure here,
I'm missing a couple of verses here.
Here, let me look here.
Go to Psalm 70.
Psalm 70 is actually referring to, I'm sorry, Psalm 71.
Let me see if I have the right verses here.
I don't think I have the right verses.
Well let's read Psalm 70.
It says, Make haste, O God, to deliver me.
Make haste to help me, O Lord.
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul.
Let them be turned backward and put to confusion that desire might hurt.
Let them be turned backward for a reward of their shame that say, aha, aha.
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee,
and let such as love thy salvation say continually, let God be magnified.
Now I personally believe that this particular Psalm is actually referring to those who came to arrest the Lord Jesus Christ
in the Garden of Gethsemane, because if you remember, they came to arrest them with staves,
and he said, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.
And what happened to them when he said that?
They fell backward.
But there's not really an explanation in the Gospels as to why that happened.
He said, I am he, and then they fell backward.
Well Psalm 70 tells us that's who that's referring to.
Because it says, Let them fall backward at the fact that he is the Lord Jesus Christ
because he's a stumbling stone unto those who hate him.
Go with me if you would to Psalm 79, if you would, Psalm 79.
Oh, I found the verse, I found the passage that I want to go to, but we'll go there in just a bit.
Look at Psalm 79. Let's just look at verse 6 here.
It says, Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee,
and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Wow.
Now how do you get saved? By calling upon the name of the Lord.
But here it says to pour out the wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee.
Now, why is he saying that?
Well because sometimes the heathen, in spite of the fact that you bring them the truth,
they don't want it.
They mock God, they choose to serve the false gods.
Well David said, well, let your wrath be poured upon them then.
So be it.
Look at verse 10, verse 12, excuse me.
He says, Render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach,
wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Now we've learned that love thy neighbor as thyself, amen?
But what is the exception to that rule?
Well, if they're reproaching the Lord,
then at that point render unto those neighbors sevenfold into their bosom,
as the Bible says.
Look at Psalm 83, if you would.
Now, let me give you a reason why it's important,
other than what I've already mentioned,
why it's important to pray in precatory prayers, okay?
Because, you know, someone's going to hear this and say,
we should pray that that person would get saved, right?
We should pray that they would get saved,
that they would seek after God,
and not pray this in precatory prayers.
But what people fail to realize, listen to me,
what people fail to realize is sometimes we have to pray in precatory prayers
so that that person will seek after God.
Sometimes we have to pray that God removes certain things from that person's life
and essentially destroys their life
to bring them to a point of humility so that they will seek the Lord.
See, most people are like, well, we should pray that the love of God
will be shed abroad in his heart
and he would understand the grace of God and the mercy.
Yeah, but he's not, so we've got to do something else.
You know what I'm saying?
He's not responding to that.
And people respond to different qualities of God differently.
You may have responded to the love of God
and recognized the love of God and the grace of God,
others in this room might have responded to the wrath of God,
the fact that hell existed.
Well, others just need some judgment in their life
in order to wake them up
and seek after God.
Look at Psalm 83 verse 9.
Do unto them as unto the Midianites as to Sisera,
as to Jabin at the brook of Kisan,
which perished at Endor, they became as dung for the earth.
Now, if you know your Bible,
he's basically saying, let their heads be decapitated
because that's what happened to Sisera.
See, these people who want to condemn these imprecatory prayers,
well, they're going to have to condemn what Jael did in the book of Judges.
She decapitated some dude's head off
and was praised for it.
And he's like, you know what,
let what Jael did to this guy, to Sisera,
may it be done to these people too.
Take off with their heads.
Verse 11, make their normals like Oreb, like Zeb,
all their princes like Zeba and Azamuna.
This is referring to the battle of Gideon,
like we were talking about in chapter 8,
who said, let us take ourselves to the houses of God in possession.
Oh, my God, make them like a wheel,
as the stubble before the wind,
as the fire burneth a wood
and as the flame set at the mountains on fire.
So persecute them with thy tempest
and make them afraid with thy storm.
Fill their faces with shame
that they may seek thy name, O Lord.
So he says, allow all these things to come upon them.
Why? So they can seek you.
And folks, let me just say this,
is that some people need a harsh wake-up call,
sometimes.
And sometimes we need to pray in precatory prayers
because guess what?
The grace of God is not getting their attention.
The goodness and forbearance of God
should lead them to repentance,
but if that fails, God says,
we need to pray these things to humble them.
Because the only way people will seek the Lord
is if they're humble.
Only humble people can actually seek the Lord.
But if someone's not humbled,
then they have to be humbled.
So in love towards these individuals,
you know, not the workers of iniquity,
but maybe others,
we would have prayed in a precatory prayer like,
Lord, remove all of their finances,
remove their possessions,
allow them to lose everything,
allow them to become diseased,
break their teeth,
so that in light of that,
it would humble them and they would seek the Lord.
Now someone gave me an example in the Bible
of something when that took place to them.
Who's someone in the Bible
who God even removed his sanity?
Nebuchadnezzar.
He removed his sanity for seven years.
He lived like a beast in the field.
The guy was crazy.
But you know what?
God brought his sanity back
and then he worshiped the God of the Bible.
So before you go on condemning me in precatory prayers,
recognize that they have a place
even in getting other people saved.
Because what shall it profit a man
if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
And you know what?
Sometimes what your uncle needs,
you know what your brother may need,
you know what your sister may need,
you know what your wife may need,
you know what your husband may need,
you know what your family may need,
you know what your friend may need?
Maybe in a precatory prayer.
Not out of malice, not out of hatred,
but out of, Lord, this is the last straw.
Maybe this is what they need to wake them up
because they're so prosperous,
they have no possession, they have no hardships,
maybe they need that to kind of wake them up
to then seek the Lord thereafter.
Hey, without legs, but they're seeking the Lord.
Oh, you know, maybe they're missing,
you know, now they're broke,
but now they're rich in the Lord.
Maybe they're maimed and they're defeated
and you know, they are not what they used to be,
but hey, at least they're saved now.
At least they believe in the God of the Bible.
It's necessary.
Go to Psalm 109.
So Psalm 69 was against the persecutors of Jesus Christ.
Psalm 109 is an imprecatory prayer against Judas Iscariot.
Okay, look what it says in Psalm 109, verse 1,
it says, Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise,
for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
are opened against me.
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
They compass me about also with words of hatred
and fought against me without cause.
For my love, they are my adversaries,
but I give myself into prayer
and they have rewarded me evil for good
and hatred for my love.
Set thou a wicked man over him,
let Satan stand at his right hand.
So by the way, what do we see here?
Verse 5 says that they have rewarded me
evil for good and hatred for my love.
So this is where we reconcile Matthew chapter 5.
Matthew chapter 5 says love your enemies.
But if you're loving your enemies
and then they just reproach the Lord,
they hate God, they reward you evil for it,
there comes a point where the Bible says
not to cast your pearls before swine.
That's also in the Bible and that's also from Jesus.
You know Matthew 5 is not the only time
Jesus spoke in the Bible?
There's other times when Jesus spoke, my friends.
I know you only think it's like Matthew 5 and John 3.16.
But there's other times that Jesus spoke
and sometimes it was very offensive.
He literally says don't cast your pearls before swine
lest they turn and rend you also.
That's what the Bible says.
So yes, do we love them?
Yes, but when it comes to the point
when they start rending us
and they start behaving evil against us,
against our family, against the God of the Bible,
okay, at that point, then we turn to Psalm 109.
This is how we reconcile it.
It's not like, well, Matthew chapter 5 is valid
but Luke 18, what Jesus said in Luke 18, not valid.
No, they're both valid.
They both have their place.
Verse 6, set thou a wicked man over him,
listen to this, and let Satan stand in his right hand.
Man.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned.
Let his prayer become sin.
Let his days be few and let another take his office.
This is talking about Joe Biden, too, by the way.
It's a good imprecatory prayer for Biden, amen.
Let his children, listen to this,
let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg
and let them seek their bread also
out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioners catch all that he hath
and let the stranger spoil his labor.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him,
neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off
and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered
with the Lord and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
He's like, get his mama, too!
Let them be before the Lord continually,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,
because that he remembered not to show mercy,
but persecuted the poor and needy man
that he might even slay the broken in heart.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him.
As he delighted not in blessing,
so let it be far from him.
As he clothed himself with cursing, like as with a garment,
so let it come into his bowels like water
and like oils into his bones.
And by the way, when Judas hung himself,
the Bible says that his bowels gushed out.
Verse 19,
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him,
and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord
and of them that speak evil against my soul.
You say, why would David say such harmful and just vengeful things?
Because it was about Judas Iscariot,
who persecuted the Lord, who betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver.
I mean, this is, I would say Judas Iscariot is probably in the lowest hell.
You know, there's levels of hell based upon how wicked a person is
the Bible talks about that, the greater condemnation, the greater sin.
Well I think Judas Iscariot has the lowest one because he betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ.
And is it any coincidence that he was in cahoots with the Jews in order to do so?
So that's why Psalm 69 and Psalm 109 are some of the most vindictive psalms you can find.
Oh, but that's not inspired though, we shouldn't use that as, you know,
that, that, that, that, that.
It's in the Bible my friends.
I'm going to stop right there because we're already out of time.
I was going to go through Psalm 139 and Psalm 140 but you can read that on your own.
Psalm 139 is a great song, we know about that.
Psalm 140.
But at the end of the day folks, what I'm trying to show you is that the impregatory psalms
are just as much part of the Bible as everything else.
And there's nowhere in the Bible that says we should use all the other psalms
but impregatory psalms has no place in the mouth of a Christian.
Has no place behind the pulpit, we shouldn't be praying.
No, you need to make sure that you're not a diluted, watered down snowflake of a Christian,
a pastor, and just accept the Bible for what it says.
Stop making apologies for what God's word says.
Stop apologizing for the negative parts of the Bible
and just don't be ashamed of God's word.
Maybe God will bless you with understanding of God's word
if you just say, well even the most negative parts of the Bible I believe in
and I'll preach it and I won't make any apologies for it.
If someone says, do you know what it says in the Bible?
You say, oh yeah I love that part.
I love every part of the Bible.
The words of the Lord are pure words.
I can't believe it says that.
Well I believe it says that and I love it.
I want to sign in Hobby Lobby that has Psalm 69 on it.
Cause the word of God is beautiful, that's why.
Well that's so graphic.
Yeah, it is.
But you know what, God makes no mistakes.
He made no mistake when he wrote the Bible.
And for you to criticize God's word to claim that we shouldn't apply it,
we shouldn't use it, we shouldn't read it, we shouldn't preach from it,
is to say that you're ashamed of God's word.
I'm not ashamed of God's word and neither should you.
We should love the Psalms, we should sing the Psalms,
we should teach and admonish one another
even in the imprecatory Psalms, amen.
Let's pray. Father we thank you so much for your word,
we're so thankful for the Psalms.
And of course we love the Psalms of lamentation
because each and every one of us has gone through a tough time
where we've needed those lamentable Psalms in our life
when we felt we were in distress and maybe discouraged and disillusioned.
And those heartfelt Psalms of sadness kind of helped us through.
And it showed us that a man like David was a man of like passions.
And we understand that David isn't the only one who wrote the Psalms,
there's others as well ASAP, even Moses.
But I pray that you help us to even appreciate the imprecatory Psalms
because they are the express depiction of God's justice
and our desire to want you to carry out justice in this world.
We love you for your mercy, we love you for your grace,
but we should also love you because you're righteous, holy and just.
And we should never stand in judgment of God's word
and think that parts that are negative shouldn't be spoken of.
Lord, help us not to be ashamed of your word.
Help us to love it and embrace it.
And that you may not be ashamed of us at your coming.
We love you, Lord, and we thank you.
We pray these things in Jesus' name, Amen.
Song number 124, God Will Take Care of You.
Song number 124, all together on that first verse.
Be not dismayed, whatever be time, God will take care of you.
Be made His wings above abide, God will take care of you.
God will take care of you.
Through every day you're on the way,
He will take care of you.
God will take care of you.
Through days of toil when heart doth fail,
God will take care of you.
When dangers pierce your path of sale,
God will take care of you.
Through every day you're on the way,
He will take care of you.
God will take care of you.
All you may need He may provide,
God will take care of you.
Nothing you ask will be denied,
God will take care of you.
Through every day you're on the way,
He will take care of you.
God will take care of you.
No matter what might be the test,
God will take care of you.
We marry one upon his breast,
God will take care of you.
Through every day you're on the way,
He will take care of you.
God will take care of you.
Amen. Wonderful singing. You are dismissed.
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