The NXR Podcast - December 23, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - You Set A Table For Me In The Presence of My Enemies


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Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

134.08

Word count

946

Sentence count

48

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Hate speech

1

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We are surrounded on all sides by those who seek to do us harm, and they all think that they are the good guys. Have you ever heard the phrase, "Vindicate Me"? It means that you should put your enemies to shame!

Transcript

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00:00:41.720 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,
00:00:44.520 but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:47.360 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:52.500 Did you know that even now as I am preaching God's word,
00:00:55.960 that according to God's word,
00:00:58.060 There are a host of people dressed in white, surrounding the throne of God, and that they cry out, according to Revelation, day and night, how long, O Lord, how long until you vindicate us?
00:01:20.880 not just vindicate yourself not just how long until you set the record straight in regards to
00:01:29.000 your own glory that is first that is ultimate but the bible says that the martyrs those who
00:01:39.000 were killed for their faith and fidelity to christ they are dressed in white surrounding
00:01:45.300 the throne of God, crying out, how long, how long, until you set the record straight on
00:01:53.240 our behalf, until you vindicate us.
00:01:57.840 Read the Psalms.
00:02:00.200 David, again and again, he doesn't just say, God, my enemies surround me.
00:02:05.020 Deliver me for your name's sake.
00:02:07.520 He does say this.
00:02:08.960 And this, again, is always first and ultimate.
00:02:12.100 Don't miss that caveat.
00:02:13.860 First and ultimate.
00:02:15.300 but he also says vindicate me not just vindicate yourself by delivering me from my enemies but
00:02:26.120 vindicate me and one of the most well-known psalms when david says you set a table for me
00:02:37.420 in the presence of my enemies.
00:02:41.040 It's a beautiful picture.
00:02:43.500 But I think we sometimes gloss over
00:02:45.560 what all it actually entails.
00:02:49.720 It means that David is saying,
00:02:50.920 I'm surrounded on all sides
00:02:52.340 by those who seek to do me harm.
00:02:55.880 And they all think that they're the good guy.
00:02:58.540 Have you ever noticed that?
00:03:00.620 The bad guy never thinks
00:03:02.260 that they're actually the bad guy.
00:03:03.660 the enemies of God
00:03:06.740 or the enemies of God's people
00:03:08.160 always think that they're virtuous
00:03:09.800 it's not like there's a whole group of people
00:03:14.540 attacking God's church saying
00:03:16.100 we know it's wrong
00:03:18.220 we just enjoy being malicious
00:03:21.460 the Pharisees thought that they were
00:03:26.220 being zealous for God
00:03:27.800 Paul the apostle
00:03:30.420 he said I was very zealous 0.98
00:03:33.460 That literally, the phrase he says, I was very zealous for God because I persecuted the church.
00:03:41.940 They're not malicious.
00:03:44.540 They're misguided.
00:03:47.400 That's not to say that malice doesn't exist in any form or in any place.
00:03:52.140 but it does mean that by and large most of the time the people who are enemies of God and the
00:04:01.260 people who are enemies of the servants of God believe that they're doing the right thing
00:04:06.340 and so the enemies of David as they surrounded him
00:04:10.720 they believe that they were on the right side of history have you ever heard that phrase
00:04:16.200 brothers and sisters stay true to the word of god and time will tell that you are on the right side
00:04:23.800 of history you want to be right be right and righteous that's all you got to do put the
00:04:31.860 enemies of god to shame by being right and righteous you want to be right and righteous
00:04:35.720 stay true to the word of god it's just a matter of time it's not if it's when
00:04:42.020 it's win
00:04:44.420 always
00:04:47.140 God's never wrong
00:04:49.060 and as our enemies
00:04:51.940 surround us on all sides of the Lord
00:04:54.200 he prepares a table
00:04:56.280 for us in the presence of our enemies
00:04:58.180 what does that convey
00:05:00.240 it conveys a sweetness
00:05:01.980 it conveys
00:05:04.680 an intimate
00:05:06.420 communion
00:05:07.140 it also conveys
00:05:09.740 a public embarrassment of your enemies.
00:05:16.460 You have to include that.
00:05:20.360 David is saying, vindicate me in the presence of my enemies.
00:05:25.160 They think they're the good guys.
00:05:28.220 And God, I'm asking first and foremost
00:05:30.060 that you vindicate yourself for your glory,
00:05:32.420 for your namesake.
00:05:33.340 But secondarily, I'm also asking
00:05:35.380 that you would vindicate me
00:05:36.820 because you, the righteous God,
00:05:38.660 Display your righteousness by vindicating the righteous.
00:05:43.620 And although I am a man who is a sinner, I am also a man who has a heart after God.
00:05:53.580 And by the work of Jesus, not my own, you have imputed to me your very own righteousness.
00:06:01.020 And so for your namesake first, but also for my good second, vindicate me, put my enemies to shame.
00:06:12.160 You set a table for me in the presence of my enemies to give me peace where there should be fear and to put to shame those who seek to do me harm.
00:06:24.060 It is as though God is coming down from his throne to dine with David, to display, to prove unequivocally to everyone who surrounds him, I'm not on your side, I'm on his.
00:06:41.040 You're wrong.
00:06:42.440 He's right.
00:06:44.020 I'm with him, not with you.
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