DAILY TRUTH - God Damns Sinners To The Praise Of His Glorious Justice
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The Lord's answer to the question, "Are you for us or for our adversaries?" is one of the most misunderstood questions in the Bible, and it's one that we often miss the point of which is that God is not for the pagans, but for YOU!
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but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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and jesus comes to him not dressed for some kind of banquet or ball but rather he is dressed for
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battle he's not only dressed and prepared for battle by having his weaponry on his person
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a sword in his scabbard at his side but the text says that the sword is actually in his hand
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and drawn. So he's not only girded for battle, but he's in a battle stance. He's not only prepared,
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but he is ready at that very moment to wage war. And this is why Joshua asked the question,
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are you for us or for our adversaries? Are you for us or against us? It would be one thing for
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the Lord Jesus to appear to Joshua dressed for battle to wage war against their adversaries
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with his sword in that moment in its scabbard, tucked away. But he comes with his finger on the
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trigger, so to speak. He's not just armed. He's at the ready. The safety is off, which is why it's a
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legitimate question to ask on Joshua's part. Wait a second. Clearly you're here for war,
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but you're so ready at a moment's notice to wage war. I have to ask, are you here to fight me
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right now in this very moment? But Jesus comforts and consoles Joshua by answering his question,
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not with the word neither, as many pietist, impotent, cowardly, effeminate evangelicals
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would insist, but rather he answers the question by saying no. You want to talk about Bible myth
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busters. You want to talk about misinterpreted verses in the Bible time and time and time again.
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here's one for you. Joshua says, are you on our side
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And every evangelical wants to answer the question by saying, well
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the answer is neither. Right? Because at the end of the day
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that's really the character and heart of God. If you want to understand
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God, this is all you need to understand. God is fiercely
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the answer is not neither the answer is no and every serious theologian and biblical commentator
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in looking at this particular text says that the no is in reference not to both parts of
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joshua's question but merely the latter are you for us or are you for our adversaries it's two
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questions technically and the Lord Jesus is answering the most recent of those two questions
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namely the second question or the latter portion latter half of this one question if you want to
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treat it as a whole so what he's saying is this not neither but no no meaning no I am not for
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the godless Canaanites. No, I am not here to reinforce your enemies. No.
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In a sense, what he's saying is, I am with you. And brothers and sisters, that is the Lord's
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answer. It was his answer then, and it is still his answer today. The Lord is for you.
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to make you a saint. Praise be to God. That is one way that God overcomes His enemies.
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That is one way that God decimates His adversaries, is that He melts their hearts.
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He causes them to have a new disposition. He causes them to become new creatures in Christ
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Jesus. And He grants to them the gifts of faith and repentance, that the God that we once hated
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Ephesians chapter 1 repeats the phrase three times throughout this single chapter
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And the principle that's articulated in this first chapter of Paul's letter to the Ephesians
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is that we were enemies, but God predestined us in Christ Jesus.
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That he overcome our hostility. He changes our nature.
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And he did this to the praise of his glorious grace.
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So God saves sinners to make himself look glorious.
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but it is also true by way of implication if not even hermeneutically necessary inference
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from Ephesians 1 cross-reference taken with a whole biblical theology the entirety of the book
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of Romans certainly that God saves sinners to the praise of his glorious grace and God
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damns sinners to the praise of his glorious justice he does both fight by flight why leaving
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godless places is loving godless places i've had a lot of people tell me recently pastor joel
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you're post-millennial you claim to believe that jesus is king of every square inch but apparently
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you don't think he's king of california because i've heard your personal story that you used to
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be a pastor there and that you left for the state of texas notice the title not fight or flight but
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fight by flight think of the prodigal son he comes to the end of his rope he's longing to be fed with
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the pods given to the pigs and the parable says no one gave him anything no member of the father's
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house tracked him down to give him a handout he was hurting he had to lie in the bed that he had
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made for himself by his foolish choices you know what the next words in that parable are
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no one gave him anything and he came to his senses he began to repent there are 10 million
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professing christians currently living in the state of california what if they're fighting
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but at the same time while well-intentioned they're also funding what if california could
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be brought to its knees simply by the faithful not fighting there but leaving there and forcing
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gavin newsom and other tyrants like him to actually have to take a spoonful of their own
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