The NXR Podcast - December 23, 2022


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

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
David Paul
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Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

134.08

Word count

946

Sentence count

50

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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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 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,
00:00:44 but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:47 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:52 Did you know that even now as I am preaching God's word,
00:00:55 that according to God's word,
00:00:58 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 not just vindicate yourself not just how long until you set the record straight in regards to
00:01:29 your own glory that is first that is ultimate but the bible says that the martyrs those who
00:01:39 were killed for their faith and fidelity to christ they are dressed in white surrounding
00:01:45 the throne of God, crying out, how long, how long, until you set the record straight on
00:01:53 our behalf, until you vindicate us.
00:01:57 Read the Psalms.
00:02:00 David, again and again, he doesn't just say, God, my enemies surround me.
00:02:05 Deliver me for your name's sake.
00:02:07 He does say this.
00:02:08 And this, again, is always first and ultimate.
00:02:12 Don't miss that caveat.
00:02:13 First and ultimate.
00:02:15 but he also says vindicate me not just vindicate yourself by delivering me from my enemies but
00:02:26 vindicate me and one of the most well-known psalms when david says you set a table for me
00:02:37 in the presence of my enemies.
00:02:41 It's a beautiful picture.
00:02:43 But I think we sometimes gloss over
00:02:45 what all it actually entails.
00:02:49 It means that David is saying,
00:02:50 I'm surrounded on all sides
00:02:52 by those who seek to do me harm.
00:02:55 And they all think that they're the good guy.
00:02:58 Have you ever noticed that?
00:03:00 The bad guy never thinks
00:03:02 that they're actually the bad guy.
00:03:03 the enemies of God
00:03:06 or the enemies of God's people
00:03:08 always think that they're virtuous
00:03:09 it's not like there's a whole group of people
00:03:14 attacking God's church saying
00:03:16 we know it's wrong
00:03:18 we just enjoy being malicious
00:03:21 the Pharisees thought that they were
00:03:26 being zealous for God
00:03:27 Paul the apostle
00:03:30 he said I was very zealous 0.98
00:03:33 That literally, the phrase he says, I was very zealous for God because I persecuted the church.
00:03:41 They're not malicious.
00:03:44 They're misguided.
00:03:47 That's not to say that malice doesn't exist in any form or in any place.
00:03:52 but it does mean that by and large most of the time the people who are enemies of God and the
00:04:01 people who are enemies of the servants of God believe that they're doing the right thing
00:04:06 and so the enemies of David as they surrounded him
00:04:10 they believe that they were on the right side of history have you ever heard that phrase
00:04:16 brothers and sisters stay true to the word of god and time will tell that you are on the right side
00:04:23 of history you want to be right be right and righteous that's all you got to do put the
00:04:31 enemies of god to shame by being right and righteous you want to be right and righteous
00:04:35 stay true to the word of god it's just a matter of time it's not if it's when
00:04:42 it's win
00:04:44 always
00:04:47 God's never wrong
00:04:49 and as our enemies
00:04:51 surround us on all sides of the Lord
00:04:54 he prepares a table
00:04:56 for us in the presence of our enemies
00:04:58 what does that convey
00:05:00 it conveys a sweetness
00:05:01 it conveys
00:05:04 an intimate
00:05:06 communion
00:05:07 it also conveys
00:05:09 a public embarrassment of your enemies.
00:05:16 You have to include that.
00:05:20 David is saying, vindicate me in the presence of my enemies.
00:05:25 They think they're the good guys.
00:05:28 And God, I'm asking first and foremost
00:05:30 that you vindicate yourself for your glory,
00:05:32 for your namesake.
00:05:33 But secondarily, I'm also asking
00:05:35 that you would vindicate me
00:05:36 because you, the righteous God,
00:05:38 Display your righteousness by vindicating the righteous.
00:05:43 And although I am a man who is a sinner, I am also a man who has a heart after God.
00:05:53 And by the work of Jesus, not my own, you have imputed to me your very own righteousness.
00:06:01 And so for your namesake first, but also for my good second, vindicate me, put my enemies to shame.
00:06:12 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 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 You're wrong.
00:06:42 He's right.
00:06:44 I'm with him, not with you.
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