The NXR Podcast - September 19, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Some Trust In Chariots…


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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

108.44

Word count

532

Sentence count

28

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

4

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Summary

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Psalms 20:6-8 reminds us that God does not require us to trust the tactics and weapons of our enemies, but that we must place our trust in the very things that our enemies have trusted.

Transcript

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00:00:30.800 for christians what we're noticing in verse six should be this but god demands that his people
00:00:39.160 place their ultimate trust in him we cannot place our trust in the very things that our enemies have
00:00:46.940 trusted while assuming that god will somehow bless that rebellion when it's exercised by us
00:00:55.660 that's the principle of verse six it's not that chariots and horses are universally evil
00:01:03.800 it's not that well swords are okay bows are okay there's an inherent goodness to this weapon
00:01:13.120 and an inherent spiritual cursed evil voodoo with this weapon. That's not what God's saying.
00:01:21.300 He's not saying, hey, you can't use the tactics and weapons of your enemy because inherently in
00:01:27.900 and of themselves, they're evil and bad. So Christians have to use swords. Only bad people 1.00
00:01:34.680 use chariots because chariots are cursed and demonic, but swords are good. That's not what's
00:01:40.320 going on. Christians can use the chariots. But this time they couldn't. This time. Why? Because 1.00
00:01:49.600 chariots are bad? No. Because chariots were the very thing that Israel's opponents were trusting 0.66
00:01:56.100 in. And the key for Israel is not that certain things are good and therefore can be utilized 0.71
00:02:02.120 and these things are bad and therefore cannot. No, the principle is the difference between
00:02:07.660 Israel and her foes is that the kings of the earth trust in princes and horses and chariots
00:02:16.880 but the people of God trust in the Lord that the advantage of Israel is not horses and chariots 0.56
00:02:25.200 the advantage of Israel is they win despite being small in number despite being inferior in
00:02:34.380 victuals and provision despite having lesser technology and weapons of war because their god
00:02:43.560 is great is it inherently and universally wrong to go to war against an adversary
00:02:52.220 with greater number than he has oh that's wise in almost every instance but what would be wisdom
00:03:03.780 99.9% of the time would be blatant rebellion and sin
00:03:07.960 if your name is Gideon.
00:03:12.180 Because in that instance,
00:03:14.220 the Lord had something specific to prove.
00:03:18.240 That the battle is the Lord's.
00:03:20.800 And that he can win when numbers are great
00:03:23.480 or when numbers are few.
00:03:26.820 That the Lord is Lord of the battle.
00:03:29.680 and that the advantage of his people is that Yahweh is on their side. He is mighty in battle.
00:03:40.780 Psalm 20 verses 6 through 8 says, Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed. He will answer him
00:03:47.680 from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in
00:03:54.380 horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. They collapse and fall, but we will rise
00:04:01.900 and stand upright.
00:04:24.380 We'll be right back.