The NXR Podcast - SERMON - The Lord Will Be Good To Israel

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00:00:24.060 review on your favorite podcast platform thanks continue our series through the book of ezra our

00:00:30.940 text for today is ezra chapter 3 verses 8 through 13 would you join me now in standing for the

00:00:35.940 reading of god's word i'll read our text for us in its entirety after reading the text i'm going

00:00:40.960 to say this is the word of the lord at which point i would appreciate very much if you would

00:00:44.560 respond by saying thanks be to god one final time our text for today is ezra chapter 3 verses 8

00:00:51.080 through 13, the Bible says this. Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at

00:00:57.560 Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Yeshua, the son of Josedach,

00:01:05.640 made a beginning together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priest and the Levites and all who

00:01:11.560 had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites from 20 years old and upward

00:01:17.780 to supervise the work of the house of the Lord. 0.71

00:01:21.380 And Yeshua, with his sons and his brothers,

00:01:24.840 and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah,

00:01:28.120 together supervised the workmen in the house of God,

00:01:31.380 along with the sons of Hinnadad and the Levites,

00:01:34.960 their sons and brothers.

00:01:36.700 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord,

00:01:40.140 the priests, in their vestments, came forward with trumpets,

00:01:43.940 and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals to praise the Lord according to the directions of

00:01:50.360 David king of Israel. And they sang responsibly, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, for he is

00:01:57.300 good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great

00:02:04.040 shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.

00:02:09.060 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of father's houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy, so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people's weeping.

00:02:30.580 For the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.

00:02:35.800 This is the word of the Lord.

00:02:37.060 All right, please be seated. Let's go ahead and dive right in. If there were two main points from

00:02:42.620 the text today that I would like to, by the grace of God, elevate for our hearts and minds, they

00:02:47.640 would be found primarily in verse 11 and verse 12 of our text. Verse 11 and verse 12. In verse 11,

00:02:55.060 we see the responsive worship. It's not an arbitrary worship. It's not a random worship.

00:03:01.620 It's not a worship that's defined by the preferences of men,

00:03:06.280 but it is a worship that is fitting for the occasion.

00:03:09.640 It's responsive praise.

00:03:11.720 There's a particular event that's taking place within the providence of God,

00:03:15.680 namely the laying of the foundation of this second temple,

00:03:19.480 the first temple that was built by King Solomon.

00:03:23.000 All the materials gathered by his father, David,

00:03:25.760 but the building done under the kingship of Solomon,

00:03:29.080 that temple has been destroyed.

00:03:31.400 Israel had been taken captive for 70 years in Babylon. 0.92

00:03:35.460 But in God's providence, Babylon was sacked and overcome by the Persians and the Medes. 0.83

00:03:41.220 And one of these kings rises to power, namely Cyrus. 0.89

00:03:45.880 Cyrus, under God's providence, decides to send the Jews out of captivity back to Israel, back to Jerusalem, 0.65

00:03:53.520 to rebuild the city, and most particularly to rebuild the temple. 0.83

00:03:57.800 So this foundation of this second temple now has been laid, and with the laying of the foundation of the house of the Lord, there is fitting, appropriate praise and worship and singing.

00:04:12.180 The people are singing and worshiping the Lord in response to what God has just now done, which again is the laying of the foundation of this rebuilding project, the second temple.

00:04:23.660 The first has been destroyed, but now the temple being built the second time.

00:04:27.800 So that's verse 11.

00:04:28.920 We see the song.

00:04:30.380 We actually get some of the lyrics.

00:04:32.020 Perhaps it's the chorus of this particular song.

00:04:35.100 But we get some of the content, the substance, the lyrics of the song that is fitting for the occasion

00:04:41.240 that Israel is singing in worship and praise as the foundation of the second temple has been laid.

00:04:47.540 And the lyrics are as follows.

00:04:52.320 And they sang responsibly, praising the Lord according to the directions of David, the king of Israel.

00:04:57.220 they sang giving thanks to the Lord and this is what they sang for he is good for his steadfast

00:05:04.440 love endures forever toward Israel so I want us to focus on that the words of the song that

00:05:10.980 they're singing especially that last phrase his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel so

00:05:18.400 we'll come back to that in a moment the second point from verse 12 of our text that we'll focus

00:05:22.660 our attention on is that as some are praising some are singing some are rejoicing others at the very

00:05:30.160 same time are weeping again so that it's fresh in your minds verse 12 of the text says but many of

00:05:36.920 the priests and levites and heads of fathers houses old men who had seen the first house

00:05:42.680 right so it's been approximately 70 years now and there's a debate to be had within the history

00:05:48.640 of whether or not the temple was immediately destroyed.

00:05:52.740 Some say that it was destroyed approximately maybe 14 years

00:05:56.700 or even up to 20 years after Jerusalem was taken captive. 0.87

00:06:01.040 So 70 years, certainly, no debate about that, 0.63

00:06:03.860 70 years of captivity for Israel and Babylon.

00:06:06.900 But when Israel was taken captive by Babylon,

00:06:10.780 the temple didn't necessarily get destroyed at that same time,

00:06:14.580 but rather the temple may have been left intact for another decade and a half or so.

00:06:20.140 So it could have been 70 years since the temple was destroyed,

00:06:23.180 the previous temple built under Solomon,

00:06:25.120 or it could have been perhaps 55 years.

00:06:28.400 The point is this, there are some at this historic moment,

00:06:32.600 as the foundation of the second temple is being laid,

00:06:36.000 who were alive and witnesses,

00:06:38.220 they actually remember the glory of the first temple that was built under Solomon.

00:06:43.800 and these individuals the text says that they began to weep with a loud voice when they saw

00:06:50.280 the foundation of this house being laid so some are shouting with joy right shout on pray on

00:06:57.240 we're gaining ground this is a win we're heading in the right direction right laying the foundation

00:07:02.840 of the temple is a vast improvement in comparison comparison and contrasting i mean it's a vast

00:07:10.200 improvement from being captives in babylon right so so all things considered we went from captivity

00:07:15.980 and a strange land to now being in our homeland our heritage and resourced by a pagan king

00:07:23.080 to rebuild a house for god this is a massive win a massive victory step in the right direction

00:07:29.840 let's sing responsibly all right the the correct appropriate response is joy rejoicing worship and

00:07:36.700 praise. But some of the old guys, not to pick on the old guys here today, but these old guys,

00:07:43.840 at least, you know, make it particular to them. But some of the old guys, instead of worshiping 0.77

00:07:48.880 God for a great victory, a great step in the right direction, they're whining and crying

00:07:56.440 and mourning because back in my day, things were better. All right. Yeah, this is good,

00:08:04.520 you young bucks it beats captivity but it's not the america i used to know not the israel i used

00:08:12.760 to know not the temple uh-huh yeah you're right yeah it's it's it's not america in the 1600s

00:08:18.800 underneath the puritans and the pilgrims and the covenanters and the 13 colonies 10 of which

00:08:25.040 actually declared a state allegiance a formal allegiance to a particular christian church

00:08:30.200 yeah it's not that good you're right um but you got to start somewhere so the second point of the

00:08:36.700 sermon um if i was to title it anything would be you got a larp before you can fly okay now again

00:08:43.280 back to the old guys some of you guys i'll use this language from time to time and i was thinking

00:08:46.820 about it this week and i was like i should probably explain myself because this is um it's not your

00:08:51.700 fault it's my fault i'm using super nerdy dumb language so it's it's on me so i'll take full

00:08:56.780 ownership. But that word LARP, for anybody who's not familiar with it, it's an acronym. Capital L,

00:09:02.820 capital A, capital R, capital P. And it stands for live action role-playing, which is a somewhat

00:09:10.160 recent phenomenon that gives you a really good idea of the state of the culture and society,

00:09:16.740 which is not positive. It's where grown adult men, and sometimes women, who typically don't

00:09:24.140 have a job and live in their mother's basements, put on costumes and have plastic swords and go

00:09:31.300 into a field and pretend to be a part of some kind of heroic whatever. It's shameful and it

00:09:41.600 should be out of love. For their sake, it should be relentlessly mocked. So that's the correct

00:09:47.640 response, right? Praise responsibly. If you see live action role playing, you point, you laugh,

00:09:53.340 and that is the correct response. It honors the Lord. It's loving towards them. Hopefully,

00:09:58.120 they'll get a job, move out of their mother's basement, and do something productive. That said,

00:10:03.660 you know, the LARP, L-A-R-P, has been like many things, right? The matrix, you know, the blue

00:10:09.000 pill and the red pill. You've heard me maybe talk about that. That's just a popular thing in

00:10:13.960 internet, you know, jargon to say, you know, some people are taking the blue pill and they're just

00:10:18.500 oblivious. All that means is you're oblivious. You're choosing to be naive. You're the

00:10:23.200 ostrich with its head stuck in the sand. You know, everything's burning down. You're the news

00:10:28.700 reporter from CNN, right? In 2020, he said, mostly peaceful riots. And there's a building burning

00:10:33.980 down right behind you. You know what I mean? That's the blue pill. And then the red pill would

00:10:39.580 be, as it pertains to the matrix, is just, I'm awake. I'm awake. And then that became, you know,

00:10:45.700 there's splinters and shoot off into, you know, views of men and women. That actually is really

00:10:50.620 accurate. They get the problem right, this red pill group saying, okay, the awakened principle,

00:10:56.500 we're going to apply that particular to gender and men and women. And they actually, I think,

00:11:02.460 rightly diagnose the problem, but they have absolutely no solutions. Their solution is

00:11:08.280 basically just give up, you know, or just live for your own selfish pleasure and those kinds

00:11:15.060 of things. And then a lot of Christians, to be fair, on the other side, a lot of Christians,

00:11:18.760 as it pertains, again, to men and women, 0.55

00:11:20.580 they have solutions but won't recognize that there's any problem.

00:11:25.440 They're like, yeah, get married, and things are great. 0.96

00:11:28.040 And most women in society today are wonderful and fear the Lord,

00:11:33.000 which is not true.

00:11:34.560 The reality is that we should, as Christians,

00:11:37.920 older men should be training up younger men to give of themselves,

00:11:42.040 their whole lives, be willing to lay down their life for a wife,

00:11:45.360 to win a bride, all these things.

00:11:46.620 and we should accurately inform them

00:11:50.380 that the entire legal system of our nation

00:11:53.500 is against men

00:11:54.520 and that the moment that he marries

00:11:56.580 and especially the moment that if God would be so gracious

00:11:59.320 God gives him a child

00:12:01.400 the moment that he marries and God gives a child 0.98

00:12:04.060 legally he is the slave of the woman. 0.97

00:12:07.740 Everything culturally, legally, economically 0.83

00:12:10.500 is on her side.

00:12:11.860 She can destroy his life in a moment

00:12:14.000 and it's all over.

00:12:17.280 So that also is a part of discipleship.

00:12:20.760 But then the other part of discipleship that the red pill guys get wrong

00:12:23.780 is that you then tell him, but be a man.

00:12:28.980 You don't tell him, and so all hope is lost.

00:12:32.240 It's all over. That's not helpful.

00:12:34.340 You say, this is what the Bible says.

00:12:35.660 So find a good woman who has a long history and track record of faithfulness

00:12:41.660 in a Bible-preaching local church.

00:12:44.740 Ask her if she's heard the word patriarchy before.

00:12:47.620 See if she throws up a little bit in her mouth. 0.99

00:12:49.760 If so, break up. 0.59

00:12:52.560 Right? 0.78

00:12:52.900 But if she actually is like, yeah, I love godly male headship. 0.99

00:12:57.980 Then you put a ring on it as fast as you can before some other guy swoops her up.

00:13:02.140 So that's, you know, anyway, so that's red pill, blue pill, all these kind of things.

00:13:06.240 LARPing, back to LARPing.

00:13:07.500 So today we're giving a little bit of, some pastors give you Hebrew and Greek.

00:13:11.460 I'm giving you Twitter.

00:13:13.780 her. This is a little silly. But the whole point is, so LARPing, as it literally plays out, is 0.88

00:13:21.040 grown men who live in their mother's basements, you know, with plastic swords and costumes in a

00:13:25.440 field, you know, pretending. But it's been, that word, or acronym, it's been applied in other ways,

00:13:31.320 and I think it is a useful, because it provides a useful visual. It gives everybody can, oh, I see

00:13:37.020 what you're saying. So when I, you know, say you got a LARP before you can fly, one of the things

00:13:41.360 it's come lately is a lot of people will criticize Christians like you, like me, like our church,

00:13:49.500 who are saying Christendom was a good thing and we should seek to reestablish it. And then you

00:13:57.420 take baby steps, right? We're the minority. You know, it's not like you can't just change

00:14:07.060 everything overnight. Christians right now don't have that power to do so. Dusty Devers, God bless 1.00

00:14:14.500 him. He's doing great things. He's in office. He was duly elected. He's putting forward bills and

00:14:20.380 he's doing as much as he can righteously. And so that's a lot of people. Here's the thing. So there

00:14:25.740 are a lot of, I'm not talking about pagans who hate Christ. I'm talking about Christians who hate 1.00

00:14:29.740 Christ. And they exist. That's a massive category, right? At least professing Christians. Otherwise 1.00

00:14:36.940 it's a theological oxymoron, but they profess Christ. Some of them are not Christians and they

00:14:42.040 really do hate Christ. Others actually are Christians, but they're incredibly deceived and

00:14:47.180 ignorant. And so they don't actually hate Christ, but they're spewing rhetoric against faithful 1.00

00:14:53.260 believers that is essentially, if it was logically played out, if that Christian grew up and matured,

00:14:59.160 they would recognize this is a direct contradiction to the Christ who I claim to love. There are some

00:15:03.780 Christians right now who would look at someone like Dusty Devers and say, you're LARPing. Putting

00:15:08.680 forward a bill to abolish no-fault divorce in 2024 in these United States of America, that's LARPing.

00:15:18.160 So that's what I mean with the second point of the text. Okay, but you got to LARP before you can fly.

00:15:23.980 In that sense, LARPing is not being a loser, right? A 35-year-old man who lives in his mother's 0.97

00:15:29.220 basement, you know, and is dressing in costumes and swinging plastic swords in the woods. No,

00:15:34.200 in this sense, you doing your homestead in your backyard, God bless you. God bless you. And if

00:15:42.800 everything crumbles, you're going to be in trouble and that garden is probably not going to save you.

00:15:51.840 But still, God bless you for homesteading in your backyard. You seeking to be financially

00:15:56.800 independent as far as it depends on you. Like Paul, the apostle Paul counsels the slave. He says, 0.78

00:16:03.380 but if you can avail yourself to gain your freedom, then do so. Likewise, if economically

00:16:08.960 and in our current market and economy, if you can be self-employed, if you can be your own boss,

00:16:14.640 avail yourself to do so. And will that change the world, that one action overnight? No,

00:16:20.340 but it's good and anybody who says that's larping one i would say no it's not but two even if you

00:16:29.300 think it is well then see point a you got a larp before you can fly you've got to start somewhere

00:16:36.240 is what i'm saying and sadly there are many christians in the evangelical church like these

00:16:41.460 older heads of households verse 12 and these older priests and levites that when the younger

00:16:48.280 generation of israel the young generation of the church as it applies to us new testament israel

00:16:55.740 as they're celebrating as they seek to be diligent to obey the voice of the lord and they've just

00:17:02.140 experienced a progress a step in the right direction in obedience and they're celebrating

00:17:08.220 and thanking the lord praising him responsibly for his providence his deliverance the freedom

00:17:15.160 that he has supplied through Cyrus

00:17:17.100 and the resources and the foundation

00:17:20.860 of the temple being laid,

00:17:22.020 as they're praising and thanking and worshiping, 0.98

00:17:26.300 older Christians are disparaging.

00:17:33.040 That is not, right, you know,

00:17:35.580 like your grandma would say,

00:17:37.280 that's not where you want to be

00:17:38.160 when Jesus comes back. 1.00

00:17:40.480 An older Christian who should be a father 0.99

00:17:43.000 in the faith. An older Christian who should be a mother in the faith, disparaging a younger 0.99

00:17:49.800 generation of Christians who are trying to actually practically obey Jesus in all of life.

00:17:56.500 That's a bad look. That is not where you want to be. So does this foundation for the second temple 0.99

00:18:03.660 pale in comparison with the glory of the first built under Solomon with all the resources

00:18:10.900 gathered by King David?

00:18:13.000 Uh-huh, yeah.

00:18:14.800 It does.

00:18:17.780 But is it vastly superior 0.97

00:18:20.180 to a decimated Jerusalem with no temple 0.98

00:18:23.440 and all of Israel 15 minutes ago

00:18:27.440 being in captivity in Babylon? 1.00

00:18:29.720 Yes, of course it's an improvement. 1.00

00:18:33.060 And we celebrate progress

00:18:35.320 that the Lord in His mercy provides

00:18:37.680 regardless of how small.

00:18:39.660 And good fathers should know better.

00:18:43.640 Good spiritual fathers,

00:18:45.620 be they pastors or just older Christian men,

00:18:49.680 the Bible says explicitly in Ephesians,

00:18:52.380 fathers, do not exasperate your sons.

00:18:58.280 Don't disparage them.

00:19:01.220 Don't exasperate them in the one sense

00:19:03.160 by demanding of them certain requirements

00:19:07.040 that are beyond their capability.

00:19:09.660 to where they can only fail when i say requirements beyond their capability i'm not speaking to the

00:19:16.620 nature of the child the son in regards to his fallenness but rather in regards to his finitude

00:19:23.000 if you haven't heard this theological category it's helpful especially for parenting for both

00:19:28.600 fathers and mothers with your child at whatever stage of development they're in you need to be

00:19:34.860 aware that there are two things simultaneously going on. That child is fallen. They're a sinner.

00:19:43.800 And so there's going to be within the members of their being, their flesh, Romans 7,

00:19:48.520 a sin nature bucking up against good and right commandments from the Lord.

00:19:54.540 And that should be disciplined. But there's also going to be, not in regards to their fallenness,

00:20:00.240 but regards to their creatureliness,

00:20:03.180 there's going to be not only fallenness, but finitude.

00:20:06.940 So if the command is,

00:20:08.740 thou shalt read at a seventh grade reading level,

00:20:11.680 and the child's four, he's not obeying.

00:20:16.000 We're not discussing fallenness, we're discussing finitude.

00:20:20.080 And you, O parent, are in sin.

00:20:23.620 You're exasperating your child.

00:20:26.520 You're demanding something from them

00:20:28.320 that is not a moral deficiency,

00:20:31.480 but rather it's simply the development of the child at that time.

00:20:36.400 There's also something to be said for train up a child in the way they should go.

00:20:40.940 Now, 95% of my exegesis on that particular text,

00:20:44.640 exegesis would be train up a child in the way they should go,

00:20:47.980 a.k.a. the clear prescribed commandments in the Scripture for all children.

00:20:54.340 But I would also maintain that within that particular text,

00:20:57.960 there is, although it's not the headline, there is perhaps an exegetical footnote that each child

00:21:04.320 is unique. With unique giftings and deficiencies. Not only deficiencies, but also giftings.

00:21:13.940 You may have a particular child who is above average. And so with this child who's above

00:21:20.780 average that you begin to notice, your wife and you as mother and father, you begin to notice at

00:21:26.600 a young age they're three now they're four now they're five now and you recognize they they have

00:21:31.300 a peculiar giftedness in a particular area and although for the average three four five year old

00:21:38.140 this would be the standard we recognize that god in his mercy and sovereignty has given to our child

00:21:44.260 a unique gift we want to steward that well from a young age and so without exasperating or

00:21:50.160 disparaging but recognizing god's sovereign unique gifting we are actually going to require from this

00:21:56.540 child a higher standard in this area because we know that they can do it and that we will not be

00:22:03.760 bucking up against their finitude because they have less finitude in this particular area because

00:22:09.160 of the mercy and kindness of God. And when they fail in this area, it won't be because we're

00:22:13.960 holding too high of a standard. It'll actually be back to the moral, the moral issue of they're

00:22:18.720 just choosing not to obey. Okay, so fathers do not exasperate your children. One way to exasperate

00:22:25.300 your sons is to require something that is outside of their capability. That they're going to

00:22:31.380 inevitably fail, not because they're sinning, but because they're finite. That's one way.

00:22:37.820 But another way to exasperate your sons is not just by holding the bar above their head,

00:22:43.340 but another way is that when they reach the bar, even setting a right standard, right goals from

00:22:49.680 the scripture for your child at that stage of development, they succeed. And yet, instead of

00:22:56.040 praising them for their obedience, celebrating with them because of their success, your response

00:23:03.000 is to reserve encouragement and praise. Because, well, there's been other successes from other

00:23:11.240 people that were better in the past. My kid is four, playing the piano really well.

00:23:19.680 but he ain't mozart yeah and and you ain't a good dad

00:23:25.080 repent and change your head nobody's mozart except for mozart 0.50

00:23:31.280 what's wrong with you the young generation of christians lay the foundation of the second

00:23:40.660 temple and you're weeping and notice that again this this can preach volumes there's volumes of

00:23:46.820 application here. Who's weeping? It's not the young men. It's not the younger generation.

00:23:56.100 The people who are weeping are the older generation that had been alive and seen the previous

00:24:01.920 and superior. That's fair. It was superior, but the prior and superior glory of the first temple. 0.65

00:24:09.600 but but what were what were the conditions of the building of the first temple

00:24:17.100 the conditions of the building of the first temple is under king solomon the wisest and richest man

00:24:25.660 to ever live where other nations are coming to him the queen of sheba is making a pilgrimage

00:24:33.820 to Israel to sit at Solomon's feet and learn from him. What I'm saying is that Israel under Solomon

00:24:43.220 and very much so because of David, a man after God's own heart who paved a trail for him,

00:24:52.000 blazed a trail for his son, because of those conditions and all that stemming ultimately

00:24:57.060 from the sovereignty and mercy of God, Israel had far more resources in the building of the

00:25:03.620 first temple. Israel had far more manpower in the building of the first temple. Far more unity.

00:25:11.060 Far more wisdom. Far more this. Far more that. Of course it was a better temple.

00:25:17.660 But the question is not in regards to the precise results. The question is always in regards to the

00:25:25.780 precise obedience. Is this foundation, this inferior, technically inferior, lesser foundation

00:25:34.240 of this second temple, was it what God asked for? Did they cut corners? Is it inferior because they

00:25:41.980 were disobeying? Is it inferior because they were compromised? Is it inferior because of

00:25:48.180 moral deficiencies, because of fallenness, or because of finitude? And I would argue it's the

00:25:55.520 latter. That it wasn't because of any moral failure on Israel's part that this second

00:26:02.280 foundation for the second temple paled in comparison to the first. It wasn't any moral

00:26:08.620 compromise or failure on their part. And therefore, it should not be disparaged.

00:26:14.420 they should not be criticized and especially from their fathers notice it's the priest

00:26:23.040 verse 12 many of the priest and levites it's the spiritual fathers but not only them and the heads

00:26:31.500 of fathers households so in both sovereign spheres both the church and the household the family

00:26:39.400 You have familial fathers and ecclesiastical spiritual fathers looking at the work and saying, back in my day, back in my day, I walked to school, uphill, both ways, in the snow.

00:26:59.480 Like, sure, sure, you know, an A is good, but back in my day, I would make 110 on every test I took.

00:27:10.200 This is not helpful.

00:27:12.340 This is poor fathering.

00:27:15.280 So that's verse 12.

00:27:16.760 Let's go back to verse 11 now.

00:27:18.440 All that was supposed to be an overview

00:27:19.900 of what I was going to tell you,

00:27:21.840 but I have a difficult time telling you

00:27:23.600 what I'm going to tell you without telling you.

00:27:25.000 So the second half of the sermon,

00:27:28.260 the good news is that the second half of the sermon

00:27:29.980 in many ways has been preached,

00:27:31.260 although I do have a couple quotes that I'd like to use.

00:27:33.420 But let's go back now to verse 11.

00:27:35.700 So before you have the disparaging fathers,

00:27:37.760 both familial and the priesthood coming into play and discouraging their sons,

00:27:45.080 literal sons and spiritual sons, from obedience that they've just committed to the Lord

00:27:51.340 and laying the foundation of the second temple.

00:27:54.660 Before that comes into play, you have the initial response,

00:27:58.900 which is filled with joy, celebration, worship, praise responsibly,

00:28:05.480 meaning it fits the occasion it's a response to what god has just done it's appropriate it makes

00:28:10.960 sense and like i said the particular lyrics of one of the songs that they're singing is for he that

00:28:18.600 is god yahweh for he is good for his steadfast love endures forever and here's the key phrase

00:28:25.560 once more toward israel and all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised

00:28:32.940 the Lord because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. In order to extrapolate some of

00:28:39.960 this significance of God being good, particularly toward Israel, I'm going to use a quote from

00:28:46.300 Matthew Henry on this particular verse. He says the following, whatever our condition is, how many

00:28:52.520 soever are griefs and fears, let it be owned that God is good and whatever fails that his mercy

00:28:59.560 fails not let this be sung with application as here not only his mercy endures forever

00:29:05.920 but it endures forever towards Israel whatever captives in a strange land or strangers in their

00:29:13.260 own land however it be yet God is good to Israel that is to say good to us God is good to us

00:29:24.080 brothers and sisters you are israel you are israel one temple was built and because of the

00:29:33.280 faithlessness of israel according to the flesh it was destroyed and god's mercy and faithfulness

00:29:41.140 our second temple was built that's what we're seeing now in the book of ezra but again spoiler

00:29:47.020 alert but it's the bible it's been around for you know thousands of years if you haven't read it

00:29:51.920 it's kind of on you at this point but spoiler alert Israel is faithless again and the temple

00:29:58.260 gets destroyed again and then the third temple if we can give enough billions to Israel

00:30:06.440 and they can push out Palestine and we can lay on the temple mount no there will be no literal 0.83

00:30:15.680 third temple why because you're it ephesians chapter 4 it tells us explicitly that you

00:30:25.340 as new testament christians are not mere children according to the flesh but according to

00:30:31.040 the covenant the promise and that you and i by god's grace and god's grace alone not because

00:30:36.800 of anything superior in us but by god's grace we are living stones this third temple what material

00:30:44.000 will it be built out of? Unlike the second, which was inferior in glory to the first, where some men,

00:30:50.440 although they were wrong to disparage, there was a genuine, authentic sentiment of weeping because

00:30:56.780 they recognized the second temple is not as glorious as the first. But no, it will not be so

00:31:02.540 with the third. The third is the greatest, most superior temple, not made from cedar or stone or

00:31:10.160 gold but built with living saints as living stones into a temple a house of the lord and there will

00:31:17.800 be no other temple you're it god now is pleased to make his dwelling place be within the new

00:31:25.200 testament saints who have been saved by grace through faith in christ the most pure and precious

00:31:31.080 resource there is hearts and minds of the redeemed that's the third temple and there has been

00:31:39.080 historically attempts to build a physical third temple and i encourage you on your own time to

00:31:44.600 look it up the closest attempt that was ever made the guy was struck by lightning

00:31:50.600 and i don't think it's a coincidence

00:31:53.720 all those who bless israel will be blessed that's right so bless the church that's israel

00:32:01.460 billions to israel no billions to ukraine no you want to bless true israel

00:32:10.920 tithe

00:32:12.880 and pray that maybe we could build a wall at home

00:32:18.740 that's about it i mean obviously there's more in terms of particular application and being

00:32:26.420 obedient to christ and all of christ for all of life but that's what the scripture means when

00:32:31.340 it speaks of Israel as it pertains to our time and our place in the New Testament under the New

00:32:36.700 Covenant. This third temple, unlike the second, the second there's weeping, it pales in glory.

00:32:43.520 The third is better than the second and the first. And that's where we are today. And so when our

00:32:49.740 texts are singing, the Lord is good to Israel. What they're singing, what they're saying is that

00:32:56.160 even when there are difficult times,

00:32:57.880 whether it be in smiling providence

00:33:01.340 or whether it be in dark and foreboding providence,

00:33:06.120 when things are great, when things are bad,

00:33:08.460 in blessing, in suffering,

00:33:10.320 in everything that God does,

00:33:12.240 He is sovereign.

00:33:13.280 He's not just sovereign over victories,

00:33:15.280 He's sovereign over defeat.

00:33:17.160 And everything that God is sovereign over,

00:33:19.440 which is everything,

00:33:20.600 He's orchestrating and directing and channeling

00:33:23.040 all of it for a particular end.

00:33:25.420 And that end is His eternal glory and the good of all people.

00:33:29.480 No, the good of His people.

00:33:31.920 The good of Israel.

00:33:34.400 Nations will come and go.

00:33:36.920 Empires rise and fall.

00:33:40.200 But the Lord will be good to Israel.

00:33:43.220 Whether she be in captivity or whether she be under Solomon in all his splendor,

00:33:49.120 the Lord will be good to Israel.

00:33:50.600 if america is faithful the church will prosper for the lord is good to israel

00:33:58.500 and if america be faithless and a rebel to the things of god the church will still be blessed

00:34:07.760 and yet another light for the lord will be good to israel and as this pertains at the most

00:34:14.660 micro level christian the lord will be good to you to you when your little girl is sick

00:34:24.180 the lord is good to israel

00:34:26.600 when you lose your job the lord is good to israel you are israel and the lord has promised to be

00:34:39.580 good to you. Everything he orchestrates, which is everything, sin and righteousness, blessing

00:34:48.280 and suffering, all of it is being orchestrated by God for your eternal good. Romans chapter 8 says

00:34:59.040 that God works, and that's not merely salvaging a bad situation that was out of his control. No,

00:35:04.940 he works that is orchestrating, ordaining, planning. Like what Joseph says is his brothers,

00:35:13.080 you meant throwing me in a pit and selling me into slavery. You meant, that is you planned it, 0.96

00:35:18.420 you intended it from the beginning for evil, but God salvaged it for good. No, same word. God

00:35:24.780 meant it for good. The same kind of word attributed to Joseph's brothers. And not just you turn the

00:35:31.500 situation but but you actually planned you plotted against me with intent you meant this for evil

00:35:38.160 but god also behind you as the first cause of all things he was using your sinful plotting hearts

00:35:45.960 in his sovereignty to plan and orchestrate this for my good that a great many people might be saved

00:35:52.880 and as it pertains to romans chapter 8 it's the same as genesis what joseph says

00:35:59.240 the lord works that is he meant he intends he plans he orchestrates all things for the good

00:36:07.120 of everyone no for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose aka

00:36:15.080 israel the church the christian you beloved the lord is not just using good things for your good

00:36:27.460 but even bad things for your good.

00:36:30.460 Because the Lord, like a good father,

00:36:32.960 is not wholly committed to your present happiness,

00:36:39.500 but your eternal happiness.

00:36:43.020 And in order to secure for you

00:36:44.780 the greatest and most ongoing duration,

00:36:49.600 indefinite longevity of happiness and joy and peace,

00:36:54.540 necessarily in order to accomplish that end it includes pruning and discipline a rod and

00:37:04.140 difficulty in moments in this life hebrews 12 says a discipline is never pleasant in the time

00:37:13.520 but what it produces is worth it it produces perseverance and character and all these things

00:37:22.560 the fruit of discipline is why we discipline. We don't discipline because it's fun in the moment.

00:37:30.880 We discipline because it shapes the child in such a way that he becomes a more, a better postured

00:37:39.100 and positioned individual to receive eternal joy and happiness and peace from the Lord forever.

00:37:46.820 that's what we do with our children and to think that god would somehow do any less

00:37:53.320 is blasphemous jesus even says which of you fathers though you are evil would not give

00:38:02.800 good gifts to your son if he asks and he goes on to talk about fish and bread versus a serpent

00:38:10.140 or a scorpion how much more so your father in heaven will he not give to you the holy spirit

00:38:16.040 you've heard me say it before i'll say it again there is only one particular resource

00:38:22.660 that god who is infinite and owns the cattle on a thousand hills everything is his everything's

00:38:30.700 at his disposal he has no lack there's only one particular resource that our infinite god

00:38:37.100 would ever perhaps have a logical reason for being tempted to withhold and it would have been the

00:38:43.680 resource of the blood of his son but as the scripture testifies if God gave us even Christ

00:38:51.700 his own son how much more will he not give us freely all things which means if God is withholding

00:38:59.800 a particular finite practical temporary thing from you be it finances be it health whatever it might

00:39:09.120 be. If God's withholding that, it cannot be because he's stingy. Because a stingy God, if he were

00:39:16.200 tempted to withhold anything, would have withheld the most priceless possession he had, namely the

00:39:21.520 blood of his son. But he didn't. He gave you Jesus. Why would he withhold a job? A job is way easier.

00:39:31.800 So then the logical answer, and more importantly the biblical answer, but that's really redundant.

00:39:36.140 I repeat myself, logical, biblical. The answer is God is withholding this particular finite thing

00:39:42.880 because it's for your good. For whatever purpose in that season, he's pruning you. He's sharpening

00:39:50.000 you. He's training you to depend more on him, to trust him, to do. It has to be. That's the only

00:39:56.080 possible answer. It must be for your good. Because if it was stinginess, if it was a lack of

00:40:02.500 generosity, if it was a lack of resources, if it was any other reason, then this withholding,

00:40:08.820 temporary withholding, is for your greater eternal good. Then the thing that God would

00:40:13.700 have withheld would have been Jesus. And he didn't. The Lord will be good to Israel.

00:40:22.400 Ephesians chapter 1 verse 22. One more cross-reference on this particular point. It says

00:40:27.540 this and he that being God the father put all things under his that's Jesus Christ the son

00:40:33.360 his feet and gave him as head over the church no as head over all things to the church

00:40:44.620 Jesus Christ is head of the church and we might also say theologically with accuracy the bible

00:40:52.640 would back it up that Jesus Christ is head of the church and he is uniquely head of the church

00:40:57.880 meaning that Jesus Christ his headship of the church the church is the only entity for which

00:41:03.300 Christ in his headship died and gave himself up for her to purify her that she might be pure and

00:41:10.580 spotless and without blemish Jesus did not die for the state he didn't die even this one hurts

00:41:17.460 but it's true. He didn't die for the household. He died for the church, of which is made up of

00:41:23.880 many households. But in terms of institutions, Christ died for the church. And an individual

00:41:30.380 household may have members of the church, but there may be other members of the same household

00:41:34.500 who are not. And by membership to that particular household, it does not guarantee you the redemption

00:41:41.980 and forgiveness of sins, but membership to the church, which comes by grace and faith in Christ

00:41:47.980 alone does guarantee you that Christ's sacrifice, his giving up of himself was in fact for you. So

00:41:55.820 Christ is head of the church. Secondly, he is uniquely head of the church that in his headship

00:42:00.980 of the church, he died for her. But the last thing that we need to recognize from Ephesians chapter

00:42:06.300 one, verse 22, is that Christ is uniquely head of the church, but he is not only head of the church.

00:42:12.700 Ephesians 1.22 says that God has set him up as head of all things.

00:42:18.760 And any other doctrine would be some, at some degree or another,

00:42:23.280 a version of what we would call pietism. 0.96

00:42:26.840 Which, as with all isms, is bad. 0.99

00:42:30.940 Except for prisms and Christian nationalism. 1.00

00:42:37.720 So I'll throw that one in there. I have to throw that one in. 0.92

00:42:39.920 but pietism is not good piety is piety refers to holiness a piety prefer it refers to the process

00:42:50.500 the lifelong process from conversion to physical death of of pursuing greater and greater

00:42:56.060 sanctification being conformed into the image of christ piety is the personal pursuit of holiness

00:43:01.320 it's sanctification it is often defined by the spiritual disciplines of of prayer and bible

00:43:08.340 reading and meditation and memorization of scripture and fasting. This is piety. And we

00:43:14.820 should all, as Christians, be marked by piety, but not pietism. Pietism refers, instead of piety,

00:43:22.960 the pursuit of holiness, it refers to apathy, really, if we were to sum it up into a word.

00:43:28.360 Spiritual apathy. It makes all the objects of piety ultimately private, reserved for only

00:43:36.500 your home and the church, but that basically the Christian life has no application in any tangible,

00:43:45.200 literal, physical way outside of your home and the church. And that's wrong. All of Christ for all of

00:43:52.720 life. Christ is head of all things. That's what Ephesians 1.22 says. It's not just that he's head

00:43:59.040 of the church. He is uniquely head of the church, as I've already labored. He didn't die for any

00:44:04.600 other institution. He died for the church and died for the church alone. So he's uniquely head of the

00:44:08.720 church, but not only head of the church. He is head of the state. Caesar is not head. Caesar has a lord

00:44:16.880 above him. That's what the scripture means. Have you ever stopped to wonder, to think, what does it

00:44:21.700 mean when we say lord of lords, king of kings? Who are these other kings that Jesus is king over?

00:44:27.860 Earthly kings. Who are these other lords that Jesus is lord over? Earthly lords. And I'll give

00:44:34.320 you an example just to really bring it home and if anybody struggles with feminism it'll help you 1.00

00:44:39.020 know the rapid detox of just you'll cringe and maybe vomit a little bit out and you'll be better

00:44:43.320 for it uh some of these lords are civil lords but many of these lords that jesus is lord of lords

00:44:49.120 many of these earthly lords are not just lords in the civil realm but lords in their home

00:44:53.500 because first peter chapter three sarah a woman of faith that godly women today should seek to

00:45:00.920 imitate called her husband abram her lord as a sign of respect not capital l not savior not divine

00:45:10.920 lord but a lord sir in the same way that husbands should strive to use at times affectionate terms

00:45:19.400 and titles for their wives displaying the husband's obedience to his particular command which

00:45:24.740 is to love his wife sweetheart my bride my love likewise the wife who may be tempted to use an

00:45:33.180 affectionate term if she seeks to be all the more submitted to scripture she would seek to use a

00:45:39.720 term not of endearment or affection but rather respect and honor because the particular command

00:45:45.200 as it pertains her in her relation to the husband is to respect the husband the husband loves the

00:45:51.180 wife. And that's not to say that the wife has no love for him. But the wife is particularly called

00:45:56.500 to respect the husband. And that's not to say that the husband in no sense has any respect for his

00:46:01.240 wife. But there is something particular about the two roles. That the role of the wife towards the

00:46:07.380 husband is first and foremost to be characterized by respect, although there is love. And the husband

00:46:13.260 in his relationship to the wife is first and foremost characterized by love, although there

00:46:18.460 is still dignity and respect. And so the husband would use terms that are indicative of love and

00:46:26.000 affection. And the wife, Sarah, at least, which Peter says under the inspiration of the Holy

00:46:32.440 Spirit, right? So you might want to hold on to that one. Peter, underneath the inspiration of God,

00:46:37.500 says that Sarah did right and that she's worth imitating for other godly women. And she calls

00:46:43.340 Abram her lord. So all that back to Jesus and his headship. He's lord of lords, which at least

00:46:50.380 in part, all my exegesis there sums up to this. He's lord of husbands. That's one of the lords,

00:46:57.740 earthly lords, lowercase l lords, that he's lord of. He is lord of husbands, familial lords,

00:47:04.840 and civil lords. He's king of kings. Christ is over as head. That is head meaning authoritative.

00:47:13.340 in authority over everything, the household, the state, markets, medicine, schools, academics,

00:47:23.020 everything, uniquely head of the church. It's the only thing he died for. But he is exhaustively,

00:47:31.180 conclusively head of all, all things. And so whether we are in times of captivity or times

00:47:40.220 of victory in either sense the lord the lord jesus who is head of all things will be good to

00:47:50.040 israel now with that understanding of scripture in place now go back let's read ephesians 122

00:47:57.240 one final time and he that is god put all things under jesus feet and gave him as head over all

00:48:04.980 things to the church not just head of the church but head of all things to the church meaning for

00:48:10.060 the benefit and good of the church. Jesus is head and authority, sovereignly reigning as king right

00:48:17.640 now, not only in the 17th dimension, but over earthly kings and earthly lords. And he is doing

00:48:23.200 so in such a way that whether it be through providence that frowns or providence that smiles,

00:48:29.700 it will do good to the church that is Israel. The Lord is good to Israel.

00:48:38.080 And then you've got a LARP before you can fly. If you're a spiritual father, don't disparage

00:48:45.420 your sons. If you're an earthly father, as many of you are still, likewise, don't disparage your

00:48:52.960 sons one way to disparage them is by not considering their frame the lord as a heavenly

00:49:00.260 father that we should seek to imitate the scripture says he considers our frame that we are dust

00:49:05.480 he knows what we're capable of and then those things which are far outside of our ability

00:49:12.880 and he does not exasperate his sons so do not fathers exasperate your sons

00:49:17.980 by not humbly and lovingly considering their finitude

00:49:24.840 and putting everything into the fallenness category.

00:49:27.620 Well, it's just because he's sinful.

00:49:28.720 It's just because he won't obey me.

00:49:29.800 And not recognizing the creaturely finite category.

00:49:33.640 But the other way to disparage your sons

00:49:35.320 is when you actually have set fair and right and holy standards.

00:49:40.300 They achieve the standards and you don't throw them a party.

00:49:45.840 You don't praise.

00:49:47.980 You don't encourage. When your son achieved something that was difficult, and you know it

00:49:55.820 was difficult for him. It was within his ability. The thing that was hindering the whole time was

00:50:00.780 not his finitude, but it was in fact his sin. But still, nonetheless, by God's grace, he's grown to

00:50:07.240 the point where he's finally achieved something that he has not yet prior been able to achieve.

00:50:12.040 the correct response is not to weep and say the former temple was better than the second

00:50:19.140 you know sons of former generations they they would have had this you know

00:50:24.500 five years ago any step in the right direction is a step in the right direction

00:50:31.240 or whether it be applied to the household and families and parenting or whether it be applied

00:50:38.760 to our nation. Look, here's the deal. At least I'll speak to the nation for a moment. I can't

00:50:44.000 speak to each individual household. You're all in different places and different challenges. And

00:50:48.040 some of you are further along. Some of you are not. But as it pertains to our nation, these

00:50:52.620 United States, yeah, we have fallen off the wagon big time. So even if everything was perfect

00:51:01.340 and from here on out it would still take decades to get back to former glory

00:51:07.180 and for those decades as we're seeking to restore what we lost by our own sin and rebellion those

00:51:15.540 decades should not be marked with weeping those decades should be marked with rejoicing

00:51:22.560 even though it would take decades to get back to the former glory meaning in all that time as we're

00:51:30.000 walking this direction, trying to rebuild the ruins, trying to restore what has been lost because

00:51:35.580 of sin, until we get there for a very long time, everything around us would still by comparison

00:51:41.680 be inferior to that which came before. But that's not where our focus should lie.

00:51:48.560 It shouldn't lie on where we're at and how it pales to that which came before. It should lie

00:51:53.500 on where we're going by the grace of God and that the best is yet to come. I believe, I truly

00:51:59.720 believe, first and foremost, I believe it's true of scripture, that it's true in the Bible. But

00:52:04.400 secondly, I believe it's also true of human nature, simply winning strategies, what actually

00:52:10.920 works. I think this is what works when it comes to a vision. Vision that people will get behind

00:52:16.080 and find compelling has at least two primary aspects. One, it has a positive vision of the

00:52:21.480 past. Two, it has a positive vision for the future. You might call it this, to replace that positive

00:52:28.000 vision part, to get a little bit more specific. What does that mean? The positive vision of the

00:52:32.020 past, you might call that honor. It honors its fathers, and it has hope for its sons.

00:52:41.760 You want a winning Christianity? You want a winning, compelling vision?

00:52:47.600 honor for the past your fathers hope for the future your sons theology that says your fathers

00:52:59.280 were all racist that dog won't hurt and theology that says and your sons are hopeless because

00:53:10.240 everything will get worse and worse and worse and honestly jesus will probably be back next thursday 0.97

00:53:15.260 and then the church keeps losing and you say look it's proof it's a confirmation that our

00:53:22.980 doctrine is true no no no you just have a self-fulfilling prophecy you rigged the deck 1.00

00:53:28.320 this isn't god this is you things are getting worse uh-huh because you suck 1.00

00:53:34.040 that's why things are getting worse because you've abdicated your responsibility you've withdrawn 1.00

00:53:42.660 you've come to a point of an impotent powerless puny faith that only has application for the

00:53:51.720 sweetness of your private marriage and your sweetness of your private little heart in your

00:53:56.240 15 minute quiet time and the sweetness of an hour and a half on the lord's day in your private

00:54:01.340 little church you've sought to castrate king jesus and then you say well everything's getting worse

00:54:11.740 and that's what the Bible teaches.

00:54:14.300 No, everything is getting worse 1.00

00:54:15.520 because you're a loser 1.00

00:54:16.780 with loser theology 1.00

00:54:20.200 that says that the guys

00:54:22.960 who experienced victory in the past,

00:54:25.220 well, they only really experienced victory 0.94

00:54:26.680 because they were corrupt

00:54:27.620 and they were doing things 0.62

00:54:28.860 that they really had no business doing.

00:54:32.560 Really, they should have been more submitted

00:54:34.040 to the civil magistrate.

00:54:36.500 The war for independence, 0.97

00:54:37.840 I mean, yeah, I guess it was a victory,

00:54:39.340 but only because they were breaking the rules 0.99

00:54:40.960 because if they were more faithful Christians,

00:54:43.300 what they would have done is rolled over. 0.52

00:54:48.800 Charlemagne, King Alfred, Constantine,

00:54:52.400 George Washington, who was an evangelical Christian.

00:54:56.700 And we can debate whether or not

00:54:58.260 he took the Lord's Supper at a later time.

00:55:01.220 There were reasons for that.

00:55:03.540 That is our past.

00:55:05.440 Our past is glorious.

00:55:07.240 How do you make an entire generation,

00:55:09.080 how do you make an entire nation

00:55:10.540 especially when it's america and it was maybe still is i don't know but was at least a superpower

00:55:16.840 around the globe how do you beat a superpower you can't outdo them in terms of literal military

00:55:22.540 might how do you do it well you have to get them to roll over and how do you get them to roll over

00:55:28.680 you teach them to hate their heritage and to be ashamed instead of proud

00:55:32.820 you teach them that all their fathers were bigots and you teach them that all their sons

00:55:42.020 are lost and then you don't have to go to war because the psychological psyop war has already

00:55:52.300 been accomplished there is no enemy in fact in that case you don't want to destroy america

00:55:57.120 you just come inside once they have no resolve left to even have a border you just come inside

00:56:06.560 you don't want to destroy it because you actually want to take it you take all the resources and

00:56:11.120 they'll just give it to you don't have to fight them they just give it to you because they've

00:56:17.080 given up and why do they give up because because there's no will to fight for a country or heritage

00:56:23.920 or history that's ultimately the bad guys if you could convince an entire group an entire generation

00:56:32.000 that they're the bad guys they lose the will to fight and that's not to say that our history is

00:56:38.020 perfect and that there is no sin but if you want to talk about sinful past i would encourage you

00:56:43.460 to look at the history of every single nation in the world ours being the least the least

00:56:49.540 but what about slaves there's still slavery going on in other nations but not ours

00:56:57.860 now it's all been a lie it's all been a sigh of to get you to hate your fathers

00:57:08.220 instead of honor and to be hopeless for your sons instead of hope and what the bible teaches

00:57:14.240 is the opposite the fifth commandment demands that we honor our fathers it demands it and if

00:57:22.480 your particular fathers were not particularly honorable then look for the things with your

00:57:27.520 fathers that can be honored and remember that if you're a christian in the ultimate and spiritual

00:57:32.820 sense your lineage your heritage goes back to the greatest fathers who have ever lived

00:57:37.800 maybe your familial father maybe in your bloodline you can't find quite the honor that you wanted

00:57:43.180 well in that case you can say yeah but calvin is my father and luther is my father athanasius is

00:57:50.020 my father augustine is my father paul is my father and jesus although my older brother in

00:57:55.940 isaiah it speaks of him wonderful counselor eternal father because through him are all those

00:58:03.060 who are spiritually born my lineage my fatherhood is glorious and my sons will not be the lesser

00:58:10.640 sons of former sires but they will take the ball and go even farther than our fathers have gone

00:58:17.000 they will stand on the shoulders of those giants who came before them and usher in if god would

00:58:22.100 be so kind a glorious christendom that makes the former pale in comparison all for the honor and 0.93

00:58:29.380 the blessing of king jesus you preach that and the pietists won't like it but they will lose 0.89

00:58:36.240 because you know what? People respond to that. And you can sit and poke it with videos calling 0.99

00:58:43.120 it prosperity gospel and you're exegeting. You lost. You won't win. And you can take out one

00:58:50.000 guy with ad hominem attacks and get dirt on him and find out this and disparage him because of

00:58:55.900 his past and make character assassination. But you can't beat the substance. You won't beat the

00:59:01.320 argument you it's in the scripture it's it's hardwired into human essence we we respond we

00:59:10.260 can't help but respond to an honorable lineage and a hopeful future that message will go forward

00:59:17.200 whether it's called christian nationalism whether it's called theonomy whether it's called the

00:59:21.200 magisterial uh tradition or what it doesn't matter that that essence if you boiled it down to just

00:59:27.840 the bare minimum honor for the past fathers hope for the future sons that is the message of

00:59:34.280 scripture it's the story of scripture both in the old testament and in the new and it compels

00:59:41.380 and rallies the hearts of men men hear that message and they come and if you get men you 0.96

00:59:47.560 know who else you get their wives and children and the pietists will continue to have churches

00:59:53.840 that are 70% moms and their kids

00:59:56.780 and the men are at home watching football.

01:00:00.880 But those who believe in a potent

01:00:02.680 and powerful Christianity,

01:00:05.060 they will have the men, 0.94

01:00:07.640 which means they'll have the men 0.87

01:00:08.800 and the women and the children.

01:00:10.860 Those churches will continue

01:00:12.040 by the grace of God to grow

01:00:13.320 and the churches of 150 years

01:00:16.440 of dispensationalism will shrink.

01:00:19.640 And to which I respond

01:00:21.100 with a resounding praise God.

01:00:24.360 Let's pray.

01:00:25.040 Father, thank you for your word.

01:00:26.440 Bless it to your people.

01:00:27.440 Bring glory to Jesus.

01:00:28.740 In his name, amen.

01:00:30.340 Let's continue to worship the Lord now through song.

01:00:32.540 As we do, I will worship you.

The NXR Podcast - February 04, 2024

SERMON - The Lord Will Be Good To Israel

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