1 00:00:00,039 --> 00:00:03,609 Obad this week in, in fact, all week long, I've had the song by the 2 00:00:03,609 --> 00:00:05,260 Beatles stuck in my head, OB ob. 3 00:00:07,074 --> 00:00:08,515 Anybody else, life goes on. 4 00:00:09,565 --> 00:00:12,145 Obadiah is not about the Beatles, it's not about that. 5 00:00:12,145 --> 00:00:15,085 It is, I guess about life going on in some sense or another. 6 00:00:15,595 --> 00:00:18,205 Uh, but we are going to talk about something that's probably been a little 7 00:00:18,205 --> 00:00:22,794 bit overdue this morning as we are going through a series on the minor prophets. 8 00:00:23,275 --> 00:00:25,465 Uh, some churches would look at the minor prophets and be like, 9 00:00:25,465 --> 00:00:27,025 we're not gonna waste our time. 10 00:00:27,474 --> 00:00:28,285 Maybe they wouldn't say it. 11 00:00:28,285 --> 00:00:31,555 So starkly preaching through the minor prophets, because that's for Israel. 12 00:00:31,764 --> 00:00:33,295 Uh, we're gonna preach through the, the New Testament. 13 00:00:33,295 --> 00:00:34,315 We're gonna preach through an epistle. 14 00:00:34,315 --> 00:00:35,605 We're gonna preach through something like that. 15 00:00:35,605 --> 00:00:37,735 The gospels, uh, that's, that's the church. 16 00:00:37,735 --> 00:00:38,754 That's what we're dealing with now. 17 00:00:38,754 --> 00:00:40,465 That's what God is concerned about. 18 00:00:41,065 --> 00:00:43,585 Well, as we got into this, as I started studying the Book of Obadiah 19 00:00:43,585 --> 00:00:46,105 this week, I, I was reminded that I probably need to deal with the 20 00:00:46,135 --> 00:00:47,725 relationship of Israel and the church. 21 00:00:47,725 --> 00:00:51,565 And some of you may already be thinking, uh, that you aren't gonna like that. 22 00:00:51,565 --> 00:00:53,965 And, and that's okay because this is a second tier issue. 23 00:00:54,430 --> 00:00:57,130 This is not an is issue of dividing fellowship. 24 00:00:57,130 --> 00:00:58,930 This is not an issue of whether or not we're Christians. 25 00:00:58,930 --> 00:01:02,620 This is not an issue of can we even hang out together in the same church. 26 00:01:02,620 --> 00:01:07,090 I, I trust and hope that we can agree to disagree if we disagree on this, but I, 27 00:01:07,090 --> 00:01:10,510 I do believe that it's important for us to know and for you to know where we are 28 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:12,370 when it comes to Israel and the church. 29 00:01:12,370 --> 00:01:15,850 And that was all before Israel decided to launch a massive 30 00:01:15,850 --> 00:01:17,500 attack against Iran this week. 31 00:01:17,770 --> 00:01:20,800 That was just God saying, here's an illustration for you. 32 00:01:21,130 --> 00:01:21,700 Um. 33 00:01:22,105 --> 00:01:26,935 But it was, uh, it's a situation where we need to, we need to be able to take in 34 00:01:26,935 --> 00:01:31,465 account of what's going on globally and as the church be able to ask and answer the 35 00:01:31,465 --> 00:01:32,905 question, what do we do with all of this? 36 00:01:33,565 --> 00:01:35,995 Uh, Thursday night as all of this was unfolding, I was 37 00:01:35,995 --> 00:01:37,285 awake still and on Twitter. 38 00:01:37,285 --> 00:01:38,545 And Twitter was just a blaze. 39 00:01:38,545 --> 00:01:41,215 I know it's not Twitter anymore, it's X, but X sounds weird to say 40 00:01:41,215 --> 00:01:42,445 from the poll it's Twitter still. 41 00:01:42,925 --> 00:01:46,255 Um, it was a blaze with everybody from just Fairfax reporting to other 42 00:01:46,255 --> 00:01:49,285 people, celebrating this to some people saying it's World War ii, to 43 00:01:49,285 --> 00:01:52,854 other people saying this is GOG and May, and Jesus is on the way back. 44 00:01:52,854 --> 00:01:54,175 He's just at a stoplight right now. 45 00:01:55,210 --> 00:02:00,280 Uh, listen, a a as we dive into this subject in Obadiah this 46 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,799 morning specifically, and you'll see the connection I, I trust, I 47 00:02:02,799 --> 00:02:04,180 hope I pray if I do my job right. 48 00:02:04,870 --> 00:02:09,310 Um, I'm not here to tell you this morning that Jesus is on his way back right 49 00:02:09,310 --> 00:02:13,210 now, and, and, Hey, you, you better get your affairs in order presently 50 00:02:13,210 --> 00:02:15,190 because this is the end of the world. 51 00:02:15,489 --> 00:02:18,609 Uh, maybe it might be, and he might be. 52 00:02:18,940 --> 00:02:22,690 What I want us to think about is, is are we ready for him to come back? 53 00:02:23,650 --> 00:02:28,000 Are we ready for this future where he is going to return to set in motion and 54 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,720 to fill, fulfill promises like those that he makes to the people of Israel? 55 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:35,920 In the Book of Obediah, I believe that there is still a future for Israel. 56 00:02:36,130 --> 00:02:39,160 I believe that there are promises yet unfulfilled that will be fulfilled 57 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,280 in the people of Israel, and I think we as a church, need to do well to 58 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,910 consider our place in this whole picture and ask ourselves, okay, 59 00:02:46,150 --> 00:02:47,620 so then what does that mean for us? 60 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,270 That's where we're going this morning. 61 00:02:49,270 --> 00:02:50,410 Take your Bibles, if you will. 62 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:52,750 Obadiah chapter or chapter one. 63 00:02:52,750 --> 00:02:53,530 It's only one chapter. 64 00:02:53,770 --> 00:02:55,540 It's only one chapter, Obadiah verse one. 65 00:02:55,540 --> 00:02:57,340 But as we get in there, a, a couple of things. 66 00:02:57,340 --> 00:03:00,490 The, the author identified there in verse one is Obadiah. 67 00:03:00,670 --> 00:03:01,450 Who is Obadiah? 68 00:03:01,510 --> 00:03:05,200 Well, we don't know who Obadiah was, aside from his name here, his 69 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,420 title, uh, there are about 12 Obeds. 70 00:03:07,420 --> 00:03:10,090 We believe in the, in the Bible, in the scriptures. 71 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:15,130 Uh, but Obediah is the prophet here as he is called and given a vision of the. 72 00:03:15,445 --> 00:03:18,265 The Lord's message, and we'll talk about to whom in just a second. 73 00:03:18,715 --> 00:03:20,755 But he wrote, this is debatable. 74 00:03:20,785 --> 00:03:25,285 There's confusion and there's uncertainty because there's not a lot of solid 75 00:03:25,285 --> 00:03:26,935 ground for us to point to in the book. 76 00:03:26,935 --> 00:03:31,015 To date it specifically, I'm gonna say that he wrote around 5 86. 77 00:03:31,015 --> 00:03:34,525 This is around the time that Jerusalem fell, that Nebuchadnezzar came in 78 00:03:34,525 --> 00:03:36,055 the final siege against Jerusalem. 79 00:03:36,055 --> 00:03:38,155 The city fell, the temple would be destroyed. 80 00:03:38,450 --> 00:03:40,670 The, the people were gonna be carried off into exile. 81 00:03:40,670 --> 00:03:44,630 And I think that fits contextually, uh, Eden's response to Israel that 82 00:03:44,630 --> 00:03:45,800 we're gonna read about in the book. 83 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,470 But some people take that it was written earlier around the ninth 84 00:03:48,470 --> 00:03:52,070 century BC and there's, uh, arguments to be made on that front too. 85 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:53,630 Either way, the message of the book. 86 00:03:53,965 --> 00:03:55,105 Remains the same. 87 00:03:55,105 --> 00:03:57,954 And the message of the book is about how God was going to judge Edem, 88 00:03:58,165 --> 00:04:01,765 uh, both in the short term, but also in the long term eschatological. 89 00:04:01,765 --> 00:04:05,545 And what does that mean for God's people and Israel's enemies as well? 90 00:04:05,785 --> 00:04:06,565 Who's the audience? 91 00:04:06,565 --> 00:04:09,535 Well, it says in verse one, thus says the Lord God concerning 92 00:04:09,625 --> 00:04:12,175 edem, but it doesn't say to Edem. 93 00:04:12,715 --> 00:04:17,665 And so what is going on here, I believe, is that God is sending obediah to Judah, 94 00:04:17,665 --> 00:04:19,825 to the southern nation of Israel here. 95 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:24,280 To comfort them with a message of judgment against their enemies as they 96 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:29,169 are facing or on the backside of the exile being carried off into Babylon. 97 00:04:29,620 --> 00:04:34,120 A big theme in the book of Obadiah is that God is going to bring judge judgment and 98 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:39,880 justice to his people, Israel, and he's going to show that by targeting Edem, 99 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,870 specifically saying, Edem, I'm coming after you for how you treated my people. 100 00:04:44,169 --> 00:04:46,900 And so as God is writing to this people being carried off in exile, 101 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:48,789 this is a message to encourage them. 102 00:04:49,525 --> 00:04:52,704 To say to them, Hey, I want you to know what's coming for Edem. 103 00:04:52,914 --> 00:04:55,914 And as we'll see, it's not just for Edem, but it's for anybody 104 00:04:55,914 --> 00:04:59,215 that stands against God and against his program and against his plan. 105 00:04:59,544 --> 00:05:02,994 The theme word here as we've been talking about these different words, we had 106 00:05:03,174 --> 00:05:08,514 redemption right back with Hosea, and then we had, uh, repentance with Joel, 107 00:05:08,724 --> 00:05:11,335 and then last week was justice with Amos. 108 00:05:11,544 --> 00:05:14,004 This week the word is gonna be humility. 109 00:05:14,425 --> 00:05:17,665 Humility, that's our word, uh, that we're gonna associate 110 00:05:17,665 --> 00:05:19,105 here with the book of Obadiah. 111 00:05:19,375 --> 00:05:23,035 Obadiah one says this, the vision of Obadiah, thus says the Lord God. 112 00:05:23,035 --> 00:05:25,585 Concerning Edam, we've heard a report from the Lord. 113 00:05:25,825 --> 00:05:29,875 A messenger has been sent among the nations, rise up and let 114 00:05:29,875 --> 00:05:32,605 us rise against her for battle. 115 00:05:32,665 --> 00:05:36,715 And so in verse one, he's saying to Edem, I'm going to bring judgment upon you. 116 00:05:37,284 --> 00:05:39,835 I'm rising up the nations for battle against her. 117 00:05:39,835 --> 00:05:42,415 The her there in verse one is Edem. 118 00:05:42,895 --> 00:05:43,433 Verse two. 119 00:05:43,433 --> 00:05:45,624 Behold I will make you small among the nations. 120 00:05:45,895 --> 00:05:47,933 You shall be utterly despised. 121 00:05:48,145 --> 00:05:52,075 The pride of your heart has deceived you who live in the clefts of the rock in your 122 00:05:52,075 --> 00:05:56,183 lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, who will bring me down to the ground. 123 00:05:57,145 --> 00:05:57,174 I. 124 00:05:57,174 --> 00:06:00,054 Though you soar a loft like the Eagle, though, your nest is set among the stars. 125 00:06:00,264 --> 00:06:03,324 From there, I will bring you down to declares the Lord. 126 00:06:03,624 --> 00:06:05,275 Let's get a little geographical context. 127 00:06:05,275 --> 00:06:08,064 If you can see on the screens there, I know it's small, but that red circle 128 00:06:08,064 --> 00:06:12,684 on the bottom, that is Modern Day Petra, which is in Jordan, and that 129 00:06:12,684 --> 00:06:16,674 is we believe what the capital city of the Emmys was during this time. 130 00:06:17,004 --> 00:06:20,934 So when he is writing about Edem, you'll notice it's south of the Dead Sea. 131 00:06:20,934 --> 00:06:24,924 It's south of Jerusalem, it's south of the nation of Israel, and 132 00:06:24,924 --> 00:06:28,194 so he's writing to them there and he's delivering this message about 133 00:06:28,194 --> 00:06:30,114 them having this pridefulness. 134 00:06:30,114 --> 00:06:34,884 That's the main sin of the Edomites was pride and arrogance. 135 00:06:34,884 --> 00:06:36,924 And it's a pride that is deceived them. 136 00:06:36,924 --> 00:06:38,754 It's a self deceiving pride. 137 00:06:39,099 --> 00:06:43,509 Into thinking that they were secure and safe as they watched Israel destroyed and, 138 00:06:43,509 --> 00:06:46,419 and carried off into Babylonian exile. 139 00:06:46,419 --> 00:06:48,009 Why were they so prideful? 140 00:06:48,009 --> 00:06:51,340 Well, if you've ever looked up Petra, or maybe some of you have even, even 141 00:06:51,340 --> 00:06:53,919 been to Petra, this is an example. 142 00:06:53,919 --> 00:06:56,859 This is some of the ruins, the remains of the city, Petra. 143 00:06:57,069 --> 00:06:59,859 It was literally carved into the rocks. 144 00:06:59,859 --> 00:07:03,009 In fact, here's a, a closer picture of some of the ruins there. 145 00:07:03,245 --> 00:07:06,680 And, and this was a, a easily defendable city. 146 00:07:07,010 --> 00:07:10,760 There was one access point into Petra and it was through a narrow valley. 147 00:07:11,210 --> 00:07:14,120 And so if you possessed Petra, this is where you dwelt. 148 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,340 Then you thought you had it made. 149 00:07:16,789 --> 00:07:21,770 This was living in Prosper, Texas back in, in Old Testament times. 150 00:07:22,340 --> 00:07:24,680 You were comfortable, you had nothing to fear. 151 00:07:25,130 --> 00:07:25,400 Yeah. 152 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,570 The riots may be breaking out in LA and Portland and New York City. 153 00:07:29,950 --> 00:07:31,419 Iran and Israel are fighting. 154 00:07:31,419 --> 00:07:32,710 But man, we're fine here. 155 00:07:32,710 --> 00:07:34,119 We're good, we're good. 156 00:07:35,049 --> 00:07:38,500 And see, the pride of Edem is also something that we have to worry about 157 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:42,130 too, and that is being lulled into a sense of false security, thinking that 158 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,169 nothing's ever gonna happen to us. 159 00:07:44,169 --> 00:07:45,099 So what does it really matter? 160 00:07:45,729 --> 00:07:47,409 How we behave, how we act? 161 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,250 God said, no, I'm gonna bring you down, declares the Lord. 162 00:07:51,250 --> 00:07:52,869 In fact, he says, I'm gonna make you small. 163 00:07:53,140 --> 00:07:55,869 The word small in the Hebrew doesn't just mean in size. 164 00:07:56,140 --> 00:07:58,479 The word small means I'm gonna render you inconsequential. 165 00:07:58,989 --> 00:08:01,809 I'm gonna make you nothing essentially is what God says. 166 00:08:02,229 --> 00:08:04,960 In fact, in verse 10, we're gonna find out that God is gonna tell Edem you 167 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,099 are gonna be destroyed completely. 168 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,060 And if you look up Edem on Google Maps today, guess what? 169 00:08:10,060 --> 00:08:11,830 You won't find Edem. 170 00:08:11,950 --> 00:08:12,219 Why? 171 00:08:12,219 --> 00:08:13,810 Because God fulfills his promises. 172 00:08:14,710 --> 00:08:17,739 And so God is bringing this message of judgment and he's 173 00:08:17,739 --> 00:08:19,539 delivering it to Judah about Edem. 174 00:08:20,170 --> 00:08:20,769 Verse five. 175 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,999 He says, if Thieves came to you, if Plunderers came by night. 176 00:08:25,945 --> 00:08:29,935 How you have been destroyed, would they not only steal enough for themselves 177 00:08:29,935 --> 00:08:33,565 if, if grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave the gleanings? 178 00:08:33,895 --> 00:08:37,525 How Esau has been pillaged and his treasures sought out? 179 00:08:38,155 --> 00:08:40,075 In other words, here God is saying to eat 'em, eat 'em. 180 00:08:40,525 --> 00:08:44,965 If, if only it had been just simply the, the, the thieves. 181 00:08:45,475 --> 00:08:48,415 'cause if, if thieves had come to you, yeah, you would've suffered loss. 182 00:08:48,415 --> 00:08:50,935 But they wouldn't have taken everything or eat 'em. 183 00:08:50,935 --> 00:08:54,925 If, if only I, my judgment has been, had been as the, the grape gatherers. 184 00:08:55,810 --> 00:08:58,480 Because then they would've even left the gleanings behind. 185 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,690 There would've been something left behind, but God says no. 186 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,240 How Esau has been pillaged. 187 00:09:04,810 --> 00:09:08,080 The word pillaged there conveys seeking out that which is hidden. 188 00:09:08,980 --> 00:09:11,590 And so God is telling Edam, I'm going to even find the things that 189 00:09:11,590 --> 00:09:14,710 you don't think I can get to, and I'm gonna take those from you two. 190 00:09:15,430 --> 00:09:17,350 You are gonna have nothing left. 191 00:09:18,370 --> 00:09:18,910 He continues. 192 00:09:18,910 --> 00:09:21,190 He says, all your allies have driven you to your border. 193 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,260 Those at peace with you have deceived you. 194 00:09:23,620 --> 00:09:24,910 They've prevailed against you. 195 00:09:25,255 --> 00:09:27,535 Those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you. 196 00:09:27,775 --> 00:09:29,995 You have no understanding. 197 00:09:30,805 --> 00:09:33,835 In other words, Edam, your sense of security and, and trusting in 198 00:09:33,835 --> 00:09:36,805 other nations and other peoples that's gonna be taken away. 199 00:09:37,165 --> 00:09:39,355 You're gonna find out that your allies have been deceiving, 200 00:09:39,355 --> 00:09:40,315 you have been lying to you. 201 00:09:41,155 --> 00:09:43,945 That what you are trusting in is gonna be a trap door beneath you. 202 00:09:45,955 --> 00:09:48,655 Verse eight, will I not on that day declares the Lord. 203 00:09:48,655 --> 00:09:52,705 Destroy the wise men out of edem in understanding out of Mount Esau. 204 00:09:53,005 --> 00:09:57,775 And your mighty men shall be dismayed ota, so that every man from Mount Esau 205 00:09:57,775 --> 00:10:00,265 will be cut off by slaughter again. 206 00:10:00,265 --> 00:10:01,855 God is going after their source of pride. 207 00:10:02,245 --> 00:10:05,245 Your wisdom Edam, you, you, you boast in being wiser than 208 00:10:05,245 --> 00:10:06,625 all of the surrounding peoples. 209 00:10:07,255 --> 00:10:10,315 I'm gonna take away your wisdom, your might, your power. 210 00:10:10,675 --> 00:10:12,835 You think you have a, an army that's sufficient. 211 00:10:13,795 --> 00:10:17,935 Eden, I'm gonna take away your warriors and I'm gonna replace it with shame. 212 00:10:19,585 --> 00:10:21,445 The grounds of judgment come in verse 10. 213 00:10:22,375 --> 00:10:22,705 Of what? 214 00:10:22,705 --> 00:10:26,155 Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob. 215 00:10:26,515 --> 00:10:29,395 Shame shall cover you and you shall be cut off forever. 216 00:10:30,235 --> 00:10:33,475 The word violence there in the Hebrew is the word Hamas. 217 00:10:34,105 --> 00:10:37,105 Hamas, does that strike any, any bells? 218 00:10:37,105 --> 00:10:38,185 Strike any chords with anybody. 219 00:10:39,775 --> 00:10:44,455 Hamas is the Hebrew word for violence, and so God is indicting edem and, and he's 220 00:10:44,455 --> 00:10:46,975 bringing in this judgment against edem, and he's saying to edem, because of your 221 00:10:46,975 --> 00:10:50,275 violence done to your notice brother. 222 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:55,060 And that reminds us that there's a history here between Edem and Israel. 223 00:10:55,900 --> 00:10:58,330 Edem is not just some random nation that got us pinpointing 224 00:10:58,330 --> 00:11:01,540 now saying, well, let's, yeah, you, you we're gonna judge you. 225 00:11:02,110 --> 00:11:04,090 Let's talk about for a minute here and remind ourselves of 226 00:11:04,090 --> 00:11:05,890 the history of Edem and Israel. 227 00:11:05,890 --> 00:11:08,380 It does go back to Jacob and Esau. 228 00:11:08,950 --> 00:11:10,990 You remember the, the argument, the birthright selling, the 229 00:11:10,990 --> 00:11:12,250 blessing, all of those things. 230 00:11:12,250 --> 00:11:14,140 That was the start of the conflict. 231 00:11:14,140 --> 00:11:16,180 These two, what brothers? 232 00:11:17,590 --> 00:11:22,420 Well, from there, it, it grew only in their conflict, uh, they denied Israel. 233 00:11:22,420 --> 00:11:25,270 You may recall passage during the wilderness wanderings, as Israel was 234 00:11:25,270 --> 00:11:28,720 leaving Egypt, it would've made sense for them and been safer for them 235 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:30,520 to go through the mite territory. 236 00:11:30,790 --> 00:11:34,720 But the mites, the descendants of Esau said, no, we're not gonna let you through. 237 00:11:35,620 --> 00:11:39,820 Later on, king David is going to take Edem and make Edem a vassal state to Israel. 238 00:11:40,435 --> 00:11:42,475 He's gonna subject them to labor. 239 00:11:42,475 --> 00:11:45,475 He's gonna basically enslave the Edomites to the Israelites. 240 00:11:45,475 --> 00:11:46,915 This is first Chronicles 18. 241 00:11:47,755 --> 00:11:48,685 Well, they're not gonna like that. 242 00:11:48,685 --> 00:11:52,135 So then under the reign of King Jehoram, second Kings, chapter eight 243 00:11:52,135 --> 00:11:54,655 tells us that Edomites, they're gonna revolt against Jerusalem. 244 00:11:54,985 --> 00:11:56,515 They're gonna say, we're not gonna do this anymore. 245 00:11:56,515 --> 00:11:59,935 We're not gonna put up with your, your, your oppression of us anymore. 246 00:11:59,935 --> 00:12:03,535 And so they free themselves for a minute until Amiah comes on 247 00:12:03,535 --> 00:12:05,005 the scene and he recons Edam. 248 00:12:05,665 --> 00:12:08,725 And so again, the conflict between the Israelites and the Edomites going 249 00:12:08,725 --> 00:12:10,225 back and forth and back and forth. 250 00:12:10,795 --> 00:12:13,465 Well eventually, here comes Nebuchadnezzar, and Nebuchadnezzar 251 00:12:13,465 --> 00:12:16,165 comes in, and this is what we're dealing with in Obadiah and o. 252 00:12:16,435 --> 00:12:19,345 Nebuchadnezzar takes out the Israelites and he conquers 253 00:12:19,345 --> 00:12:21,025 Jerusalem and destroys the temple. 254 00:12:21,325 --> 00:12:22,105 And what does Edem do? 255 00:12:22,105 --> 00:12:27,265 Well, Psalm 1 37 says that Edem was rejoicing in celebrating the downfall 256 00:12:27,265 --> 00:12:28,855 of Jerusalem, and that I think is what. 257 00:12:28,950 --> 00:12:33,270 Obediah is talking about here when he's confronting the Edomites. 258 00:12:33,540 --> 00:12:36,090 So this is part of the history, but it didn't stop there. 259 00:12:36,090 --> 00:12:39,780 It didn't stop with the exile of Israel, it continued. 260 00:12:39,780 --> 00:12:42,510 In fact, it continued into the Inner Testament period 261 00:12:42,510 --> 00:12:43,590 and into the New Testament. 262 00:12:43,590 --> 00:12:47,925 Even Edem is gonna be resettled to Southern Judah by another nation. 263 00:12:47,925 --> 00:12:48,930 Natia. 264 00:12:49,645 --> 00:12:53,335 And so they're moved fifth century BC into Southern Judah. 265 00:12:53,365 --> 00:12:56,455 Okay, so they're kicked out of their, their part that they love, 266 00:12:56,455 --> 00:12:59,845 the Petra, the, the security, the provision, the safety that they have, 267 00:12:59,845 --> 00:13:01,375 they're gonna be removed from there. 268 00:13:01,675 --> 00:13:03,715 It's the beginning of God's ultimate judgment. 269 00:13:03,805 --> 00:13:05,275 And then intertestamental, period. 270 00:13:05,275 --> 00:13:08,785 You may re recall or be familiar with the guy named Judas Maccabeus 271 00:13:09,235 --> 00:13:10,435 from the Book of Maccabees. 272 00:13:10,435 --> 00:13:12,745 Not a biblical book, not an inspired book, but a book that 273 00:13:12,745 --> 00:13:14,545 does record some history for us. 274 00:13:14,575 --> 00:13:17,305 He conquers Edem in the second century BC. 275 00:13:17,785 --> 00:13:21,625 So Maccabeus comes in, he's leading the Jewish revolt, and he's also 276 00:13:21,625 --> 00:13:23,035 gonna go after the Edomites. 277 00:13:23,035 --> 00:13:26,395 At the same time, he's gonna conquer Edem in the second century bc. 278 00:13:26,395 --> 00:13:30,715 One of his predecessors, or successors rather, is John HERIs or her Canis, 279 00:13:30,835 --> 00:13:34,975 and he's going to force the conversion of all of the Edomites Ju Judaism. 280 00:13:35,189 --> 00:13:40,740 Okay, so you can imagine that went over really well with the, the Edomites John 281 00:13:40,740 --> 00:13:44,100 HERIs, though with, with Military Force Mite is gonna force the conversion 282 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:45,780 of all the Edomites to Judaism. 283 00:13:46,290 --> 00:13:51,900 At that same time, they become known as the Ians The Ians. 284 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:55,500 And, and that may ring a bell for you because in the New Testament, now as we 285 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:59,069 move past the Intertestamental period into the New Testament to the time of 286 00:13:59,069 --> 00:14:04,020 Christ, there's a couple significant figures who are Ians like King Herod. 287 00:14:04,020 --> 00:14:04,050 I. 288 00:14:04,825 --> 00:14:06,145 Remember King Herod, right? 289 00:14:06,385 --> 00:14:09,685 He's the one that the Magi went to and said, Hey, we're looking for him. 290 00:14:09,685 --> 00:14:10,255 Who's been born? 291 00:14:10,255 --> 00:14:14,365 King of the Jews, and Herod went after and tried to kill the Jewish Messiah. 292 00:14:14,605 --> 00:14:16,345 Herod is an Ian. 293 00:14:16,375 --> 00:14:17,065 He's an mite. 294 00:14:17,095 --> 00:14:20,755 He's a descendant of Esau also from his same line comes Anus. 295 00:14:21,685 --> 00:14:26,215 You may remember Herod Anus as the one who executed John the Baptist. 296 00:14:27,025 --> 00:14:31,135 And so we have all of this conflict between Israel and Edem and Israel, and 297 00:14:31,135 --> 00:14:32,515 the mites and the descendants of Esau. 298 00:14:32,515 --> 00:14:34,225 That goes all the way back to Jacob and Esau. 299 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,420 And then eventually when the temple is finally destroyed, and Jerusalem is 300 00:14:37,420 --> 00:14:39,580 attacked by Titus Fist Besian in 70 ad. 301 00:14:40,180 --> 00:14:43,510 The Edomites are once and for all, wiped out the face of the planet, 302 00:14:43,510 --> 00:14:45,220 and no one has heard from them since. 303 00:14:46,330 --> 00:14:49,900 Okay, so that's the framework of what we're talking about here. 304 00:14:50,110 --> 00:14:54,190 That's why back in verse 10, uh, the author, that's why Obadiah, that's why 305 00:14:54,190 --> 00:14:58,360 God through Obediah says, because of the violence the Hamas done to your 306 00:14:58,450 --> 00:15:02,230 brother Jacob, shame shall cover you and you shall be cut off forever. 307 00:15:03,310 --> 00:15:07,450 See, God was particularly agitated by the sin of the Edomites because 308 00:15:07,450 --> 00:15:11,560 they had gone after their own kinsmen because they had gone after their own 309 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:16,510 flesh and blood and mistreated them, and they were indeed the people of God. 310 00:15:16,510 --> 00:15:19,540 Verse 11, on that day, when they were carried off, when they were 311 00:15:19,540 --> 00:15:22,270 destroyed, you stood aloof, loof. 312 00:15:22,510 --> 00:15:23,170 On that day. 313 00:15:23,170 --> 00:15:26,200 Strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates 314 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,710 and cast lots for Jerusalem, and you were like one of them. 315 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,160 The pride of Edem had led to an indifference towards 316 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:34,450 the, the suffering of Israel. 317 00:15:35,230 --> 00:15:36,910 They, they weren't going to come to their aid. 318 00:15:36,910 --> 00:15:40,330 In fact, they just stood aloof and they watched it happen and they 319 00:15:40,330 --> 00:15:45,010 didn't care as the city was divided up amongst the soldiers of Babylon. 320 00:15:45,010 --> 00:15:47,230 Casting lots for different portions of it. 321 00:15:48,850 --> 00:15:50,785 Verse 12, but do not gloo. 322 00:15:51,595 --> 00:15:54,235 Do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune. 323 00:15:54,565 --> 00:15:56,365 Do not rejoice over the people of Judah. 324 00:15:56,365 --> 00:15:57,235 In the day of the ruin. 325 00:15:57,385 --> 00:16:00,145 Do not boast in the day of his distress. 326 00:16:00,895 --> 00:16:07,405 God is confronting Edem Lamentations 4 21 says of Edem, rejoice 327 00:16:07,405 --> 00:16:08,905 and be glad daughter of Edem. 328 00:16:08,905 --> 00:16:14,275 You dwell on the land of ooze, but to you also, the cup shall pass. 329 00:16:14,275 --> 00:16:14,995 The cup of what? 330 00:16:15,685 --> 00:16:18,175 The cup of judgment, the cup of God's wrath and you shall become 331 00:16:18,175 --> 00:16:20,005 drunk and strip yourself bare. 332 00:16:20,590 --> 00:16:23,110 In other words, Edam, God is gonna come for you too. 333 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:24,400 For what? 334 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:25,120 For rejoicing. 335 00:16:25,630 --> 00:16:29,680 Ezekiel 35 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of 336 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:31,570 Israel because it was desolate. 337 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,280 So I will deal with you. 338 00:16:33,430 --> 00:16:35,290 You shall be desolate Mount Sr. 339 00:16:35,410 --> 00:16:37,570 In all Edam, all of it. 340 00:16:37,630 --> 00:16:39,910 They will know that I am the Lord. 341 00:16:41,230 --> 00:16:43,450 He continues back in OB obadiah, verse 13. 342 00:16:43,450 --> 00:16:45,970 Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. 343 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,120 Do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity. 344 00:16:49,420 --> 00:16:51,670 Do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity. 345 00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:54,160 Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives. 346 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,160 Do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress. 347 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:01,210 It seems that what was happening was not only were they uninterested in 348 00:17:01,210 --> 00:17:04,690 Israel's safety and wellbeing, they were actively working against it. 349 00:17:04,930 --> 00:17:09,190 As the Israelites were fleeing out of the city of Jerusalem to avoid capture, the 350 00:17:09,190 --> 00:17:12,910 Edomites were there to capture them and to return them back to Nebuchadnezzar. 351 00:17:14,365 --> 00:17:17,335 The word calamity shows up three times here in these two verses. 352 00:17:17,815 --> 00:17:20,513 Uh, that word calamity in the Hebrew is aam. 353 00:17:20,993 --> 00:17:25,855 So you have edem not to rejoice in the Adam of the people of God. 354 00:17:26,305 --> 00:17:27,655 So God is using a play on words. 355 00:17:27,655 --> 00:17:30,865 He's using words that sounds similar to convey the message, 356 00:17:31,075 --> 00:17:32,845 this calamity, this destruction. 357 00:17:33,415 --> 00:17:36,625 See, Edem was leaching off the victory of Babylon and they 358 00:17:36,625 --> 00:17:37,825 were oppressing the people. 359 00:17:37,825 --> 00:17:41,065 And God was saying, you've become just like them. 360 00:17:41,980 --> 00:17:43,210 Verse 15 and 16. 361 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:44,110 Here's the reason why. 362 00:17:44,110 --> 00:17:48,580 Edam, you need to be careful for the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. 363 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,160 This is now the third book that we've seen the day of the Lord featured in here in 364 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:54,160 the minor prophets, the day of the Lord being that eschatological, that end times 365 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,700 judgment where God is gonna bring his full wrath against all of those that are 366 00:17:57,700 --> 00:18:00,610 his enemies, including here the mites. 367 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,080 So 70 ad was gonna take the Edomites off the scene globally and and temporally 368 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,470 speaking, but the return of Christ and the final judgment is gonna take Edem 369 00:18:08,470 --> 00:18:09,910 off the map in a totally different way. 370 00:18:10,314 --> 00:18:13,465 That there's a future judgment that the Edomites are gonna suffer for the day 371 00:18:13,465 --> 00:18:17,514 the Lord is near upon all the nations as you have done, it shall be done to you. 372 00:18:17,725 --> 00:18:22,165 Your deed shall return on your own head for as you have drunk on my holy mountain. 373 00:18:22,314 --> 00:18:26,185 In other words, edem, you're celebrating, you're in revelry and and you're 374 00:18:26,185 --> 00:18:29,635 getting drunk on my holy mountain, as my people are being carried off, 375 00:18:29,635 --> 00:18:31,135 as my people are being destroyed. 376 00:18:31,495 --> 00:18:33,565 So the nation shall drink continually. 377 00:18:33,565 --> 00:18:36,565 They shall drink and swallow and shall be as they had never been. 378 00:18:36,565 --> 00:18:38,725 In other words, you're gonna get drunk with something else on that day. 379 00:18:38,725 --> 00:18:42,055 Edam, you're gonna get drunk with the wrath of God poured out upon you. 380 00:18:43,254 --> 00:18:48,115 And so this message of judgment, as you've done social will be done to you. 381 00:18:48,115 --> 00:18:49,165 As you have oppressed. 382 00:18:49,165 --> 00:18:50,245 You will be oppressed. 383 00:18:50,245 --> 00:18:52,735 As you have killed, you will be killed. 384 00:18:55,615 --> 00:18:57,955 Verse 17, the contrast though, but. 385 00:18:58,779 --> 00:19:03,279 But in Mount Zion, in Israel, in on Jerusalem's Mountain, 386 00:19:03,549 --> 00:19:05,229 there shall be those who escape. 387 00:19:05,499 --> 00:19:06,580 It shall be holy. 388 00:19:06,699 --> 00:19:11,080 And the house of Jacob that is Israel shall possess their own possessions. 389 00:19:11,259 --> 00:19:13,149 The house of Jacob shall be a fire. 390 00:19:13,239 --> 00:19:16,989 The house of Joseph of Flame and the house of Esau stubble, they 391 00:19:17,019 --> 00:19:20,860 shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for 392 00:19:20,860 --> 00:19:22,749 the house of Esau, for the Lord. 393 00:19:22,950 --> 00:19:24,389 Has spoken. 394 00:19:24,570 --> 00:19:28,170 Now again, I think this is not the judgment of AD 70, but this 395 00:19:28,170 --> 00:19:29,670 is an eschatological judgment. 396 00:19:29,670 --> 00:19:34,500 This is a future judgment where God will use his people Israel as they're reformed 397 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:37,200 together to execute justice and judgment. 398 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,280 Not against Edam only, but against all of the nations at that point 399 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:42,240 that are gathered against him. 400 00:19:44,095 --> 00:19:44,784 Verse 19. 401 00:19:44,784 --> 00:19:47,485 Those are the NES shall po possess Mount Esau. 402 00:19:47,665 --> 00:19:50,995 Those are the shela shall come in, possess the land of the Philistines. 403 00:19:51,205 --> 00:19:54,325 They shall possess the land of Ephrem, the land of Samaria and 404 00:19:54,325 --> 00:19:55,615 Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 405 00:19:56,110 --> 00:19:58,750 The exiles of the host of the people of Israel shall possess the 406 00:19:58,750 --> 00:20:02,410 land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath and the exiles of Jerusalem 407 00:20:02,410 --> 00:20:06,520 who are in Sade shall possess the cities of the Nega Sur survive. 408 00:20:06,550 --> 00:20:10,120 Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and 409 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:12,760 the kingdom shall be the Lord's 410 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,440 mic drop done right? 411 00:20:18,340 --> 00:20:19,480 The kingdom shall be the Lords. 412 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,920 That's the end of all of this, and yet notice it's going to feature Israel. 413 00:20:25,165 --> 00:20:28,764 Israel is gonna possess all of the Promised land again and not just 414 00:20:28,764 --> 00:20:32,124 the promised land that they managed to take under Joshua's conquest, 415 00:20:32,364 --> 00:20:35,425 but the extent of the promised land that God had originally told them 416 00:20:35,425 --> 00:20:39,235 they were to go in and take, they're going to have it all at that point. 417 00:20:39,624 --> 00:20:45,114 Listen church as to, to right now, where we sit today, that has not yet happened. 418 00:20:46,134 --> 00:20:50,215 And when we look at land promises in the Bible, those aren't for you and me. 419 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:54,850 That's one of the clear reasons why we believe and are convinced and 420 00:20:54,850 --> 00:20:59,200 convi convicted even, that there is a future for God's people, Israel, 421 00:20:59,230 --> 00:21:02,410 and he will fulfill these promises and bring them to completion. 422 00:21:02,620 --> 00:21:05,410 So let's talk about that for just a minute before we get into a few 423 00:21:05,410 --> 00:21:08,410 thoughts on what to do with the book of Obadiah as we go from here. 424 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,580 Israel in the church is something that everybody has 425 00:21:12,675 --> 00:21:14,170 a, a, a view point of view on. 426 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,040 If you are a believer, you have to come down somewhere on the the scale. 427 00:21:18,324 --> 00:21:23,844 With Israel and the church, we are what is known as dispensationalist, and 428 00:21:23,844 --> 00:21:27,264 that's become a bit of a pejorative term amongst a lot of theological circles. 429 00:21:27,264 --> 00:21:28,914 People make fun of us as the crazy chart. 430 00:21:28,914 --> 00:21:31,344 People notice I haven't given you a single chart today. 431 00:21:31,554 --> 00:21:32,094 Not one. 432 00:21:32,124 --> 00:21:36,024 I don't have one for you either, but you know, the, the, the whiteboard with all 433 00:21:36,024 --> 00:21:38,874 the wires and the, the, the red lines going from different things and people 434 00:21:38,874 --> 00:21:40,134 are like, oh, that's dispensationalist. 435 00:21:40,134 --> 00:21:40,914 They're they're crazy. 436 00:21:41,215 --> 00:21:42,324 We we're a little crazy. 437 00:21:42,324 --> 00:21:43,014 I'll give you that. 438 00:21:43,554 --> 00:21:47,965 But we are, because I think the Bible lays out that there is a distinction. 439 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:49,390 Between Israel and the church. 440 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,840 The, the church has not replaced Israel. 441 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:53,440 Okay. 442 00:21:53,890 --> 00:21:56,530 The, in other words, let me put it this way, 'cause some people don't like that. 443 00:21:56,530 --> 00:22:00,010 Well, we're not replacement theologians is what the, the other side of this 444 00:22:00,010 --> 00:22:01,420 argument is the covenant theologian. 445 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,240 And so they will say, well, we're not replacement theologians. 446 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,980 We don't believe the church has replaced Israel. 447 00:22:06,190 --> 00:22:06,760 Here's what they'll say. 448 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,740 We believe all the promises were fulfilled in Christ, and our connection to Jesus 449 00:22:11,740 --> 00:22:13,600 makes us partakers of those promises. 450 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,560 Now, as the church, I don't think that's the message of scripture. 451 00:22:18,805 --> 00:22:22,254 As God through Obadiah is writing to Israel about the coming day of 452 00:22:22,254 --> 00:22:25,945 the Lord and telling Israel that you are going to be used by me. 453 00:22:25,945 --> 00:22:28,705 You are going to possess the land, and I'm gonna use you to 454 00:22:28,705 --> 00:22:30,295 bring judgment upon the nations. 455 00:22:32,395 --> 00:22:35,635 If God is gonna abrogate that promise, then God is an unfaithful God. 456 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,274 And it's not just Obadiah. 457 00:22:38,274 --> 00:22:40,764 There are other promises that God has made specifically to Israel that 458 00:22:40,764 --> 00:22:42,504 are going to be fulfilled in Israel. 459 00:22:43,675 --> 00:22:45,985 And so we are what is known as dispensationalist. 460 00:22:45,985 --> 00:22:47,485 Well, what is a dispensation? 461 00:22:47,889 --> 00:22:52,030 A dispensation is this, A dispensation is a recognizable 462 00:22:52,030 --> 00:22:53,980 historic division in scripture. 463 00:22:53,980 --> 00:22:55,030 So let's just start right there. 464 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,040 It's a portion of scripture. 465 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:02,770 It's a period of time in the Bible, right, in which God observes the activities 466 00:23:02,770 --> 00:23:05,680 of man in a given historic framework. 467 00:23:06,205 --> 00:23:11,425 So there are distinct frameworks, distinct ways that God has entrusted to mankind 468 00:23:11,425 --> 00:23:16,705 to operate in relation to him across what are known as these dispensations, 469 00:23:16,705 --> 00:23:18,715 these historic time periods. 470 00:23:19,254 --> 00:23:23,725 And what he does during that time is he passes judgment on that 471 00:23:23,725 --> 00:23:27,774 activity or he tests his people during that period of time. 472 00:23:28,959 --> 00:23:34,060 So Dispensationalism classically has seen seven different dispensations. 473 00:23:34,330 --> 00:23:36,280 You guys are getting way more than you bargained for this morning. 474 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,780 I know this is not normal, but it's important for us to get, uh, 475 00:23:40,780 --> 00:23:43,330 dispensations, according to classic dispensationalism, would say, well, 476 00:23:43,330 --> 00:23:44,980 there's the dispensation of innocence. 477 00:23:45,310 --> 00:23:47,230 That's from creation to the fall. 478 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,120 And, and so that was the framework. 479 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:52,060 The framework was that Adam and Eve were innocent because they had not sinned. 480 00:23:52,989 --> 00:23:57,429 The next dispensation then is the dispensation of human conscience, and 481 00:23:57,429 --> 00:23:59,169 that was from the fall to the flood. 482 00:23:59,709 --> 00:24:04,629 Adam says, the sin of man, that that death reigned from Adam all the way 483 00:24:04,629 --> 00:24:09,999 on until Moses, even over those whose sin was not like Adams in the sense 484 00:24:09,999 --> 00:24:12,699 that what, well, they didn't have a codified law during this time. 485 00:24:12,969 --> 00:24:14,709 What they had was their conscience. 486 00:24:14,889 --> 00:24:18,699 So that's the dispensation of the conscience from the fall to the flood. 487 00:24:19,570 --> 00:24:22,060 After that comes the dispensation of human government. 488 00:24:22,570 --> 00:24:25,870 Where God allowed a humankind to see what they would do if 489 00:24:25,870 --> 00:24:27,129 they were to govern themselves. 490 00:24:27,129 --> 00:24:31,389 Well, that ended up in them by building a gigantic tower, neglecting God's 491 00:24:31,389 --> 00:24:35,230 order to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and God came down and 492 00:24:35,230 --> 00:24:37,480 scattered them of his own accord there. 493 00:24:38,230 --> 00:24:40,419 After this, we move into another dispensation called the 494 00:24:40,419 --> 00:24:41,830 dispensation of the promise. 495 00:24:42,220 --> 00:24:45,669 This is the the covenant promises given to Abraham about what God was 496 00:24:45,669 --> 00:24:47,949 gonna do for his people, Israel. 497 00:24:48,129 --> 00:24:51,699 The promises of land, the promises of seed, the promises of offspring. 498 00:24:52,165 --> 00:24:52,975 From the promise. 499 00:24:52,975 --> 00:24:54,925 Then we go to the dispensation of the law. 500 00:24:55,315 --> 00:24:58,495 This is the Mosaic Covenant, and this is going to stretch all the 501 00:24:58,495 --> 00:25:01,585 way from Moses all the way through to John the Baptist and beyond. 502 00:25:01,855 --> 00:25:03,055 This is the Mosaic covenant. 503 00:25:03,055 --> 00:25:04,225 This is the giving of the law. 504 00:25:04,225 --> 00:25:06,295 This is the framework, the historic framework. 505 00:25:06,295 --> 00:25:09,235 During that period of time through which God interacted with his 506 00:25:09,235 --> 00:25:13,105 people, now we find ourselves today in the dispensation of God's grace. 507 00:25:13,824 --> 00:25:16,405 This is the dispensation that goes from the day of Pentecost, which is 508 00:25:16,405 --> 00:25:19,764 the birth of the church all the way through to the rapture of the church. 509 00:25:20,004 --> 00:25:21,925 In other words, this is the church age. 510 00:25:21,925 --> 00:25:25,195 This is the present dispensation where you and I find ourselves 511 00:25:25,195 --> 00:25:28,615 currently, and then there will be the dispensation of the kingdom. 512 00:25:29,034 --> 00:25:31,044 This is gonna be the millennial kingdom all the way through 513 00:25:31,044 --> 00:25:32,125 to the great white throne. 514 00:25:32,185 --> 00:25:33,834 After that comes the eternal state. 515 00:25:35,155 --> 00:25:36,595 This is classic dispensationalism. 516 00:25:37,705 --> 00:25:39,715 There's another form of dispensationalism that's out there. 517 00:25:39,715 --> 00:25:41,425 Classic dispensationalism says this. 518 00:25:41,725 --> 00:25:44,395 That there is a distinction between Israel and the church that always 519 00:25:44,395 --> 00:25:46,225 will exist forever and always. 520 00:25:46,554 --> 00:25:50,095 Even after the inauguration of the eternal state, you will 521 00:25:50,095 --> 00:25:51,445 still have on the new earth. 522 00:25:51,625 --> 00:25:55,044 There's Israel, here's the church, and the two shall never intertwine. 523 00:25:56,304 --> 00:26:00,145 What we would classify ourselves as is what's called 524 00:26:00,145 --> 00:26:01,824 progressive dispensationalist. 525 00:26:02,125 --> 00:26:04,405 Now, before you throw stones, because the word progressive has been 526 00:26:04,405 --> 00:26:07,165 hijacked by our political culture, to means something horrible today, 527 00:26:07,495 --> 00:26:08,784 uh, it doesn't mean anything bad. 528 00:26:09,144 --> 00:26:10,104 Some people may think it does. 529 00:26:10,104 --> 00:26:11,304 I don't think it means anything bad. 530 00:26:11,814 --> 00:26:13,495 Progressive dispensationalism is this. 531 00:26:13,705 --> 00:26:15,955 We still believe that the church and Israel are distinct. 532 00:26:16,584 --> 00:26:19,854 We still believe that there's a future for Israel where Israel is going to fulfill 533 00:26:19,854 --> 00:26:21,654 the promises of God to their completion. 534 00:26:23,004 --> 00:26:26,485 However, we also believe that some of those promises of God have already been 535 00:26:26,485 --> 00:26:29,784 inaugurated, and we are experiencing some of them currently and presently 536 00:26:29,784 --> 00:26:34,884 as a church, not in their fullness, but there's an already not yet component 537 00:26:34,884 --> 00:26:38,034 to some of the promises of God that will be ultimately fulfilled in Israel. 538 00:26:38,665 --> 00:26:42,475 Case in point, the new covenant, Jesus in the upper room says this is the blood 539 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:46,735 of the new covenant, and he inaugurates that the spirit dwelling within us is part 540 00:26:46,735 --> 00:26:50,455 of the blessing of the new covenant, the spiritual blessings of the new covenant. 541 00:26:50,455 --> 00:26:53,004 We as the church get to participate in right now because it's been 542 00:26:53,304 --> 00:26:55,284 inaugurated, not yet fulfilled. 543 00:26:55,524 --> 00:26:57,834 There is a land promise of the new covenant and a political 544 00:26:57,834 --> 00:26:58,735 promise of the new covenant. 545 00:26:58,735 --> 00:27:00,415 That's for Israel, not for us. 546 00:27:01,554 --> 00:27:04,074 Joel chapter two, I talked about this when we went through Joel. 547 00:27:04,404 --> 00:27:07,945 We saw a partial fulfillment of Joel chapter two on the day of Pentecost. 548 00:27:08,439 --> 00:27:11,799 We did not see a full fulfillment of Joel Chapter two on the day of Pentecost. 549 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:14,529 That's yet awaiting the return of Christ. 550 00:27:15,159 --> 00:27:18,189 Progressive dispensationalism breaks things down a little bit more simply. 551 00:27:18,699 --> 00:27:22,239 They would see four dispensations, the patriarchal dispensation that's from 552 00:27:22,239 --> 00:27:27,159 Abraham to Moses, the mosaic dispensation, which is from Moses to the ascension of 553 00:27:27,159 --> 00:27:31,689 Jesus, the ecclesial dispensation from the Greek word for the church, cia. 554 00:27:32,380 --> 00:27:35,350 Which goes from today or from Pentecost rather, all the 555 00:27:35,350 --> 00:27:36,370 way through Christ's return. 556 00:27:36,370 --> 00:27:38,980 That's where we are in the ecclesial dispensation. 557 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,870 And then the Zion dispensation the millennium into the paternal state. 558 00:27:43,930 --> 00:27:49,000 Sorry, progressive, because God's promises are being, are progressively 559 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,600 being matured and realized throughout the course of human history. 560 00:27:53,050 --> 00:27:55,450 Okay, already not yet. 561 00:27:55,450 --> 00:27:56,680 That's the key understanding here. 562 00:27:57,670 --> 00:28:00,855 Why in the world did I talk about all this stuff when we're dealing with obadiah? 563 00:28:02,245 --> 00:28:03,594 'cause I think it matters for us. 564 00:28:04,794 --> 00:28:08,965 I think it matters for us to read a book that's about Israel and Edem 565 00:28:09,564 --> 00:28:12,804 and to sit here as the church and say, well, what do we do with this? 566 00:28:13,945 --> 00:28:16,404 Because there's a, a couple of errors that we have to avoid. 567 00:28:16,554 --> 00:28:19,914 We can't appropriate the promises given to Israel for us. 568 00:28:20,154 --> 00:28:20,485 Okay? 569 00:28:21,354 --> 00:28:25,945 So we can't alize or allegorize promises given to Israel as the people 570 00:28:25,945 --> 00:28:28,554 of God and say all of a sudden they're here for us as the church today. 571 00:28:29,874 --> 00:28:32,154 The other thing though that we can't do is just look at this book and say, 572 00:28:32,154 --> 00:28:35,904 well, it has nothing to do with us, so why bother spending any time in Obediah? 573 00:28:37,014 --> 00:28:40,254 There are spiritual truths for us to glean from what God is communicating here. 574 00:28:41,094 --> 00:28:43,524 And there's a few of those that I'd like to talk about with us in the rest 575 00:28:43,524 --> 00:28:44,904 of our time together this morning. 576 00:28:47,064 --> 00:28:48,624 First thing I want us to think about is this. 577 00:28:49,225 --> 00:28:52,314 As we think about what does obadiah mean for us, first thing that 578 00:28:52,314 --> 00:28:53,424 we should do, church is this. 579 00:28:53,725 --> 00:28:56,604 We should feel small before God's sovereign plan. 580 00:28:58,330 --> 00:29:00,310 We should feel small before God's sovereign plan. 581 00:29:01,989 --> 00:29:04,870 My family and I are, are leaving after service to, to go on vacation. 582 00:29:04,870 --> 00:29:09,610 We're gonna be driving out to California and every time I, I either drive or I fly. 583 00:29:09,610 --> 00:29:14,139 I'm reminded of how small I am, um, because I drive by so many people. 584 00:29:14,139 --> 00:29:14,679 I don't know. 585 00:29:15,909 --> 00:29:16,719 I don't know any of them. 586 00:29:17,139 --> 00:29:17,919 They don't know me. 587 00:29:18,489 --> 00:29:19,509 They don't care about who I am. 588 00:29:20,409 --> 00:29:24,039 You drive through these towns, these blips on the map, and you drive through 589 00:29:24,039 --> 00:29:25,749 the town and you go, who lives here? 590 00:29:27,879 --> 00:29:33,160 Somebody does, and God knows who they are and God cares about them, 591 00:29:33,820 --> 00:29:35,020 and God's got a plan for them. 592 00:29:37,060 --> 00:29:38,230 You fly, right? 593 00:29:38,235 --> 00:29:40,480 You, you, you fly in a plane, you look out, you see the, 594 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:41,649 the crop circles or whatever. 595 00:29:41,649 --> 00:29:44,920 They are the alien evidence down there beneath, and then you'll see like 596 00:29:44,925 --> 00:29:47,889 a, a handful of houses down there and you're like, who lives there? 597 00:29:48,730 --> 00:29:49,389 Somebody does. 598 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,760 And that's just here we zoom out even further. 599 00:29:55,104 --> 00:29:58,044 You start thinking about what's going on right now in Israel, in Iran. 600 00:29:58,044 --> 00:30:00,174 I mean, six people died through the missile attacks from 601 00:30:00,174 --> 00:30:01,314 Iran into Israel yesterday. 602 00:30:01,524 --> 00:30:03,084 That that's six people with families. 603 00:30:03,084 --> 00:30:06,174 That's six people who are planning memorial services right now. 604 00:30:06,354 --> 00:30:07,374 Well, the families are, 605 00:30:09,594 --> 00:30:10,975 you think about the soldiers. 606 00:30:11,094 --> 00:30:12,894 I mean, we don't know any of them. 607 00:30:13,289 --> 00:30:15,354 We don't know any of them. 608 00:30:16,735 --> 00:30:18,324 You've got Russia and Ukraine. 609 00:30:18,324 --> 00:30:20,814 You've got China doing whatever China does. 610 00:30:20,814 --> 00:30:23,934 You've got North Korea sinking battleships without anybody's help. 611 00:30:26,259 --> 00:30:30,939 All of this is taking place and here we are in Prosper, Texas, and, and if 612 00:30:30,939 --> 00:30:36,189 you're anything like me, then we can so easily be like Edem and, and think that 613 00:30:36,189 --> 00:30:38,860 this whole world is just about us and our own comfort and our own security, 614 00:30:40,389 --> 00:30:43,149 and it's so important for us to zoom out and remember just how small we are. 615 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:49,060 God is doing something in redemptive Sal Salvific history, 616 00:30:50,164 --> 00:30:52,509 and he began that back in Genesis. 617 00:30:53,154 --> 00:30:54,264 Prior to Genesis even. 618 00:30:55,314 --> 00:30:58,374 But in Genesis three 16, we find what's called the proto gelian. 619 00:30:58,374 --> 00:31:02,935 It means the first gospel when God told the serpent, 620 00:31:04,495 --> 00:31:05,995 Eve's gonna have a descendant. 621 00:31:06,745 --> 00:31:09,955 You're gonna strike his heel, he's gonna crush your head. 622 00:31:11,604 --> 00:31:14,485 See from that point forward and we get to Genesis 12, three. 623 00:31:16,104 --> 00:31:19,584 Which Paul says was God telling Abraham and that that this is the 624 00:31:19,584 --> 00:31:22,675 gospel, Abraham, and you will all the families of the earth be blessed? 625 00:31:22,675 --> 00:31:24,715 How will all the families of the earth be blessed through Abraham? 626 00:31:24,715 --> 00:31:27,685 Well, through one of his descendants who would be also that descendant of 627 00:31:27,685 --> 00:31:30,745 Eve, who the serpent was gonna strike his heel on the cross, but he was 628 00:31:30,745 --> 00:31:31,915 gonna crush his head on the cross. 629 00:31:33,864 --> 00:31:35,394 I mean, we move on the Davidic covenant. 630 00:31:35,394 --> 00:31:38,364 God's promise that there was going to be a king, a Davidic king, a descendant 631 00:31:38,364 --> 00:31:42,294 of David that was gonna rule and reign with a kingdom that would have no end. 632 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:49,419 We saw his first coming at his incarnation, his death on the cross 633 00:31:49,419 --> 00:31:53,590 for our sins, his resurrection and the partial fulfillment of 634 00:31:53,590 --> 00:31:55,300 the inauguration of that kingdom. 635 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:58,149 Waiting the full, full completion of that when he comes back. 636 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,490 God's story has been one of moving us towards the end of salvation 637 00:32:03,490 --> 00:32:07,480 history from the very beginning of time, and we're a part of it. 638 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,990 We're just not everything and we need to remember that. 639 00:32:12,669 --> 00:32:16,419 And when it comes to passages like Obadiah, we need to think rightly about 640 00:32:16,419 --> 00:32:20,020 ourselves as the church and say, okay, yes, right now in this dispensation, God 641 00:32:20,020 --> 00:32:24,249 is concerned with the church, but one day he will again be concerned with Israel 642 00:32:26,259 --> 00:32:30,219 and that should give us a humility, but it also should give us an appreciation. 643 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,520 The other thought I have is I'm driving through all these towns, 644 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,780 is God, thank you for your grace. 645 00:32:34,780 --> 00:32:35,350 Why me? 646 00:32:37,449 --> 00:32:41,499 Why was I not born in Tel Aviv? 647 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,860 Why wasn't I one of the six hit with the missile strikes? 648 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,020 Why wasn't I born in Iran? 649 00:32:49,149 --> 00:32:51,820 I mean, the fact that we are here as part of the church and as part of the 650 00:32:51,820 --> 00:32:54,729 recipients of the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ should remind 651 00:32:54,729 --> 00:32:58,300 us yes, of our, of our smallness, but also it should just prompt us 652 00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:00,159 to a humble gratitude before God. 653 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:02,649 God, thank you. 654 00:33:04,419 --> 00:33:07,209 I don't want you to leave here feeling guilty 'cause you live in Prosper, Texas. 655 00:33:08,709 --> 00:33:10,870 I just want you to leave here not trusting that you live in Prosper, 656 00:33:10,870 --> 00:33:13,780 Texas for your security and your wellbeing and your comfort. 657 00:33:15,909 --> 00:33:18,340 Be grateful that we're here, that we're part of the church, that we're part of 658 00:33:18,340 --> 00:33:19,899 what God's doing during this dispensation. 659 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,870 But remember, this isn't everything for God's plan. 660 00:33:23,649 --> 00:33:27,550 There's still a future for Israel and re remembering how small we are is 661 00:33:27,550 --> 00:33:29,889 helpful in assessing our place there. 662 00:33:31,899 --> 00:33:32,350 Second. 663 00:33:33,685 --> 00:33:36,115 We can trust that God won't leave justice undone. 664 00:33:37,975 --> 00:33:40,255 We can trust that God won't leave justice undone. 665 00:33:42,145 --> 00:33:43,885 That's his message in Obadiah, right? 666 00:33:44,215 --> 00:33:46,765 He's telling Israel as they're being carried away into captivity, 667 00:33:46,765 --> 00:33:50,004 as they're being exiled and, and their city is destroyed, 668 00:33:50,004 --> 00:33:51,205 the temple's gonna be destroyed. 669 00:33:52,075 --> 00:33:55,165 Part of the message of Obadiah to the people of Jerusalem and 670 00:33:55,165 --> 00:33:59,965 Judah, there was, Hey, have hope that God's gonna right the wrongs. 671 00:34:01,540 --> 00:34:04,990 Wrongs that have been done against you, not just by Edem, 672 00:34:05,050 --> 00:34:05,979 but by the end of the book. 673 00:34:05,979 --> 00:34:08,409 Remember, he's talking about the nations coming in the day of the Lord. 674 00:34:08,590 --> 00:34:10,870 Hey, there's justice that's going to be done. 675 00:34:13,780 --> 00:34:16,239 I mentioned earlier we can't appropriate the promises to Israel 676 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,380 for ourselves, but we can appropriate theological truths about who God is 677 00:34:20,380 --> 00:34:24,400 as we read books like this that are always true regardless of time and say 678 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:25,540 they're true for the church as well. 679 00:34:27,415 --> 00:34:31,764 Because God is an immutable God of justice and he was going to find 680 00:34:31,764 --> 00:34:33,295 and seek justice for his people. 681 00:34:33,295 --> 00:34:35,695 Israel, you this morning can know that God is not gonna leave 682 00:34:35,695 --> 00:34:36,955 justice undone for you either. 683 00:34:38,905 --> 00:34:42,324 And so I hope and pray that that encourages you this morning to 684 00:34:42,324 --> 00:34:45,925 think about the fact that God is is going to care for you. 685 00:34:47,844 --> 00:34:51,085 You don't have enemies gloating I hope, and trust and prey over the 686 00:34:51,085 --> 00:34:55,255 destruction of your home and watching you be carried into captivity. 687 00:34:56,455 --> 00:34:59,154 But you have trials, you have difficulties, you have things in life. 688 00:34:59,245 --> 00:35:01,735 You've been wronged, you've been sinned against, you've been hurt, and you 689 00:35:01,735 --> 00:35:04,375 certainly, I know for every single person that names the name of Jesus Christ 690 00:35:04,375 --> 00:35:07,465 as the Lord and Savior in this room, you have an enemy that hates you this 691 00:35:07,465 --> 00:35:11,005 morning, who has a legion of demons at his disposal, who wants anything but your 692 00:35:11,005 --> 00:35:15,415 joy and happiness in this life, and so what do you do when he comes for you? 693 00:35:17,575 --> 00:35:20,395 The Book of Obadiah is helpful in that regard. 694 00:35:21,805 --> 00:35:24,415 The Book of Obadiah can calm or comfort. 695 00:35:24,925 --> 00:35:26,485 The anxious soul this morning. 696 00:35:27,745 --> 00:35:30,325 Who battles the what ifs and the if onlys 697 00:35:32,515 --> 00:35:36,415 because though you may walk through the calamity today, remember, as Obediah 698 00:35:36,415 --> 00:35:39,745 was confronting Edam first standing aloof during the calamity of Israel, 699 00:35:39,955 --> 00:35:42,505 though you may walk through your own version of calamity, whatever that 700 00:35:42,505 --> 00:35:46,675 may look like today, you can know and trust that God is moving you towards 701 00:35:46,675 --> 00:35:48,505 the joys of life with him tomorrow. 702 00:35:50,125 --> 00:35:51,895 See, as God is telling Israel. 703 00:35:52,405 --> 00:35:55,915 Israel the day of the Lord is coming for those with ears 704 00:35:55,915 --> 00:35:56,995 to hear amongst his people. 705 00:35:56,995 --> 00:35:59,155 For the faithful, for the remnant of Israel. 706 00:35:59,335 --> 00:36:01,825 The day of the Lord will not be a day of fear and judgment for 707 00:36:01,825 --> 00:36:06,685 them, but a day of great hope and deliverance and justice for them. 708 00:36:08,785 --> 00:36:11,785 And so we can know that too as we battle our own anxieties, our what ifs are. 709 00:36:11,935 --> 00:36:16,615 If only we can know that God is a God who's in control and he's leading 710 00:36:16,615 --> 00:36:18,480 us towards its perfect conclusion. 711 00:36:20,155 --> 00:36:23,305 Obadiah should also be a book that comforts the wronged soul this morning. 712 00:36:24,535 --> 00:36:26,755 Maybe you've been sinned against, you've been wronged. 713 00:36:26,755 --> 00:36:30,715 You've been wounded by someone, and you long for that wrong to be made right. 714 00:36:33,085 --> 00:36:36,655 Though you may not see vindication on your timetable, a book like Obadiah 715 00:36:36,655 --> 00:36:39,655 reminds us that God will see to it that any sins committed against 716 00:36:39,655 --> 00:36:42,625 you will be brought to justice. 717 00:36:44,905 --> 00:36:46,165 God was telling that to Israel. 718 00:36:46,165 --> 00:36:47,905 Israel was not gonna see immediate justice. 719 00:36:48,670 --> 00:36:50,140 They were not gonna see immediate vindication. 720 00:36:50,140 --> 00:36:52,780 In fact, they were going into 70 years of, of captivity at this point. 721 00:36:54,310 --> 00:36:57,310 But God was telling Israel, Israel, you can trust me, that I'm a God of justice. 722 00:36:58,270 --> 00:36:59,860 Here's the difficult part for us. 723 00:37:02,020 --> 00:37:03,280 For us here. 724 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,760 Some of the wrongs that have been committed against you 725 00:37:09,190 --> 00:37:12,675 will have been retroactively dealt with through the cross. 726 00:37:15,205 --> 00:37:18,355 Meaning if you are sinned against by a brother or sister in Christ, 727 00:37:19,255 --> 00:37:24,685 if they are truly saved, no matter how egregious that sin is against 728 00:37:24,685 --> 00:37:31,525 you, the ultimate justice served was already served at the cross of Christ. 729 00:37:33,625 --> 00:37:36,535 And we don't like that because we sit here and we say, yeah, 730 00:37:36,535 --> 00:37:37,765 but I want my pound of flesh now. 731 00:37:40,540 --> 00:37:43,180 And all that reveals is that we don't fully appreciate the 732 00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:44,740 gravity and severity of the cross. 733 00:37:46,390 --> 00:37:49,480 I think if we did, we would say yes and amen. 734 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:50,830 It's been dealt with at the cross, 735 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,500 and if I can tread very lightly on the toes of those that struggle to 736 00:37:56,500 --> 00:37:59,170 forgive in the room this morning, I think that's one of the root causes 737 00:37:59,170 --> 00:38:03,130 of our refusal to forgive other people, especially other believers. 738 00:38:05,410 --> 00:38:08,440 Because we don't fully believe that the cross was enough. 739 00:38:10,990 --> 00:38:16,420 'cause when we understand that justice ultimately was served at the 740 00:38:16,420 --> 00:38:20,110 cross, that, that the justice due, our sin was served at the cross. 741 00:38:20,645 --> 00:38:23,530 When, when we harbor still bitterness against someone and say, yeah, 742 00:38:23,530 --> 00:38:24,730 but I'm not gonna forgive them. 743 00:38:24,730 --> 00:38:30,910 Basically what we are saying is, Jesus, your death wasn't enough to provide 744 00:38:30,910 --> 00:38:32,590 the justice needed for this situation. 745 00:38:35,170 --> 00:38:38,500 I need more than what you gave, even though you gave everything. 746 00:38:41,830 --> 00:38:44,800 See, God is the God of justice, and we can trust that justice will be done. 747 00:38:46,750 --> 00:38:49,690 But as brothers and sisters in Christ, we need to understand ultimately 748 00:38:49,690 --> 00:38:53,950 that, that the, the true justice has already been done at the cross. 749 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:56,920 Outside of that. 750 00:38:58,255 --> 00:39:00,475 People that sin against you, unbelievers, nations. 751 00:39:00,475 --> 00:39:02,905 As we look around the world and we see all the evil and the wickedness going on, 752 00:39:03,085 --> 00:39:07,615 listen, as Christians, we can know that that justice is going to be done, that 753 00:39:07,615 --> 00:39:12,535 God will serve justice, and that will be on that day of the Lord that is coming. 754 00:39:14,155 --> 00:39:16,645 And so we can know that and we can trust in that. 755 00:39:16,645 --> 00:39:19,705 And so if you've been wronged, you can know that God is a God 756 00:39:19,705 --> 00:39:21,595 of justice and he will see to it. 757 00:39:22,975 --> 00:39:26,035 Oh, but I also though should comfort the discouraged soul this morning. 758 00:39:26,935 --> 00:39:29,695 The one that is looking around at the world events and the news 759 00:39:29,695 --> 00:39:33,265 headlines and everything else going, what is happening in the world? 760 00:39:33,265 --> 00:39:38,935 I used to know we've got Antifa attacking ice detention centers up in 761 00:39:38,935 --> 00:39:40,915 Portland with explosives and rocks. 762 00:39:41,665 --> 00:39:44,155 We have riots happening all over our country. 763 00:39:44,875 --> 00:39:47,965 We have members of of Congress being assassinated. 764 00:39:48,835 --> 00:39:52,135 We've got Iran and Israel at war with each other, and nuclear 765 00:39:52,135 --> 00:39:55,855 warheads are being targeted and, and at the center of all of this. 766 00:39:57,055 --> 00:40:00,535 You've got Russia and Ukraine still at odds with each other. 767 00:40:03,055 --> 00:40:05,335 There's probably a new strain of COVID out there somewhere. 768 00:40:05,335 --> 00:40:06,655 I'm, I'm, I'm imagining, 769 00:40:09,085 --> 00:40:12,175 and it's enough to cause us, if, if we, we try to take it all in to 770 00:40:12,175 --> 00:40:13,315 say, what in the world is happening, 771 00:40:15,750 --> 00:40:19,075 OAI is a book for you because though the ruler of this world governs over 772 00:40:19,075 --> 00:40:20,965 the kingdoms of the world at present. 773 00:40:22,375 --> 00:40:23,875 The end of Obadiah reminds us. 774 00:40:23,875 --> 00:40:27,745 The reality is that everything will one day be the kingdom of the Lord. 775 00:40:29,335 --> 00:40:32,425 Though the world looks out of control to us, it's in control of God. 776 00:40:33,475 --> 00:40:34,615 It's in his perfect control. 777 00:40:36,205 --> 00:40:38,425 When Israel launched the attack, God didn't all of a sudden look down 778 00:40:38,425 --> 00:40:39,505 and be like, Hey, what happened? 779 00:40:40,945 --> 00:40:42,445 Hey Jesus, holy Spirit, come over here. 780 00:40:42,445 --> 00:40:43,465 We gotta huddle up together. 781 00:40:43,470 --> 00:40:44,580 Did you see what they just did? 782 00:40:46,910 --> 00:40:48,025 Did you let 'em do that? 783 00:40:50,185 --> 00:40:51,115 That's not the God we serve. 784 00:40:52,825 --> 00:40:53,785 He's in perfect control. 785 00:40:54,745 --> 00:40:56,605 He's in control of the destruction of Jerusalem. 786 00:40:58,615 --> 00:41:01,345 He's in control of the judgment that he will one day bring and 787 00:41:01,345 --> 00:41:03,715 the justice that will be meted out, and we can trust in that. 788 00:41:04,555 --> 00:41:08,785 And so a book like Obadiah reminds us to trust God's program to trust that 789 00:41:08,785 --> 00:41:10,825 God will not leave justice undone. 790 00:41:10,825 --> 00:41:14,245 Third and finally, the Book of Obadiah should prompt us to share the gospel 791 00:41:14,245 --> 00:41:16,045 with those still facing God's justice. 792 00:41:18,279 --> 00:41:20,799 Share the gospel with those still facing God's justice 793 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:24,070 the day of the Lord. 794 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:28,270 There's this weird tension for us, 'cause Peter talks about in 795 00:41:28,270 --> 00:41:31,360 second Peter, that we should be hastening the coming day of the Lord. 796 00:41:33,580 --> 00:41:37,000 So in other words, we should as Christians, desire the day of the Lord. 797 00:41:38,050 --> 00:41:41,050 Be because it, it will mean that it's precipitated by the 798 00:41:41,050 --> 00:41:42,430 Lord coming back for the church. 799 00:41:42,670 --> 00:41:45,460 It's precipitated by the marriage shepherd of the lamb and the, the 800 00:41:45,460 --> 00:41:48,670 culmination of those things and the, all of that, all of the, the good 801 00:41:48,670 --> 00:41:52,690 things for the church will mean that that's already taken place by the time 802 00:41:52,690 --> 00:41:53,830 that the day of the Lord gets here. 803 00:41:53,980 --> 00:41:55,960 In other words, we should long for the day of the Lord because 804 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,910 it means the return of Christ. 805 00:41:57,910 --> 00:41:59,860 And as Christians, we desire that. 806 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,900 And, and yet there's this tension, this paradox where though we long 807 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:08,350 for the day of the Lord and saying, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus, come 808 00:42:08,350 --> 00:42:09,730 quickly like we sang this morning. 809 00:42:09,970 --> 00:42:13,035 There's a tension in which we also have to say, but, but Lord, I, 810 00:42:13,115 --> 00:42:16,180 I, I, I want as many people to be saved as possible before that day. 811 00:42:16,575 --> 00:42:21,580 And so there's this weird tension that anyone in the room as a 812 00:42:21,580 --> 00:42:25,360 parent who doesn't have believing children at home knows all too well. 813 00:42:26,740 --> 00:42:28,720 On the one hand you say, come Lord Jesus. 814 00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:30,940 And on the other hand you say, Lord, please save my my 815 00:42:30,940 --> 00:42:32,320 child before you come back. 816 00:42:35,230 --> 00:42:40,600 And I'm saying we should have that prayer for not just our family members, but 817 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:46,000 for our mailmen and for our cashiers at Starbucks and for our city councilmen 818 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,870 and women, and for the president of the United States and for the people 819 00:42:49,870 --> 00:42:51,340 fighting wars across the globe, 820 00:42:53,410 --> 00:42:55,120 you're not gonna be able to sit down with the. 821 00:42:57,145 --> 00:42:59,905 Iranian regime to share the gospel with them, I don't think, 822 00:43:01,975 --> 00:43:04,345 but you can sit down with your neighbors and share the gospel with them, 823 00:43:06,715 --> 00:43:10,135 and if we don't get the gospel to people who are perishing, then your 824 00:43:10,135 --> 00:43:15,295 neighbors are gonna be on level footing with the ruler of the Iran Iranian 825 00:43:15,295 --> 00:43:18,745 regime, and they're both gonna be standing there before a holy God who's 826 00:43:18,745 --> 00:43:20,095 about to consume them in his wrath. 827 00:43:22,945 --> 00:43:23,605 Do we care? 828 00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:27,340 That's the question. 829 00:43:29,620 --> 00:43:31,600 That's why we're still here, by the way. 830 00:43:32,980 --> 00:43:34,720 That's why there's a church dispensation. 831 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:43,060 Otherwise, as soon as you get saved, God should just take you home to be with him. 832 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:51,370 There is nothing that you can better here on Earth. 833 00:43:52,615 --> 00:43:58,075 Then what you'll be able to do in heaven except for reach the lost 'cause. 834 00:43:58,075 --> 00:43:59,155 You won't be able to do that in heaven. 835 00:44:01,645 --> 00:44:03,235 And so God's got you here. 836 00:44:03,775 --> 00:44:04,855 He has us here. 837 00:44:05,155 --> 00:44:09,895 He has the church here during the church age to reach more people for Christ. 838 00:44:11,875 --> 00:44:15,535 And at some point in time, the last soul to be saved will be saved 839 00:44:16,225 --> 00:44:19,135 and Christ will come back to take us to be with him where he is. 840 00:44:20,785 --> 00:44:27,745 And then it inaugurates the end, the tribulation, the millennial kingdom, the 841 00:44:27,745 --> 00:44:30,445 great white throne in our eternal state. 842 00:44:32,125 --> 00:44:36,805 Here we are though, and listen, this is where whether you 843 00:44:36,805 --> 00:44:39,805 agree with dispensationalism or not, we can all agree on this. 844 00:44:40,615 --> 00:44:44,845 The mission of the church is to see lost people saved mission. 845 00:44:44,845 --> 00:44:45,865 The church is to be liked. 846 00:44:47,050 --> 00:44:49,480 And all of you in this room have a mission field. 847 00:44:51,310 --> 00:44:53,020 All of you in this room are missionaries. 848 00:44:54,550 --> 00:44:55,780 Your mission field is your neighborhood. 849 00:44:56,290 --> 00:44:57,670 Your mission field is your local gym. 850 00:44:58,180 --> 00:45:00,040 Your mission field is the hospital. 851 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:04,300 When you visit somebody there, your mission field is your workplace. 852 00:45:06,700 --> 00:45:11,230 The restaurants you go to, the malls you visit, the sporting events you attend. 853 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,890 All of those things are your mission fields. 854 00:45:16,570 --> 00:45:20,470 And you're here to share the gospel with those still facing God's justice and to 855 00:45:20,470 --> 00:45:25,150 call them to faith and repentance in Jesus so that they can have a hope and a future. 856 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,660 That's not one of terror, but one of great confidence and joy. 857 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:35,920 So is Jesus at a stoplight right now waiting to come back to earth? 858 00:45:35,980 --> 00:45:37,270 By the way, I don't think there's stoplights. 859 00:45:37,270 --> 00:45:39,220 If you're wondering what, what is he talking about? 860 00:45:39,220 --> 00:45:40,780 I don't actually think Jesus is in a stoplight. 861 00:45:41,770 --> 00:45:43,300 Is Jesus on his way back right now? 862 00:45:44,140 --> 00:45:44,530 I don't know. 863 00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:52,360 I don't know, but I do know that, that we need to be ready for his return. 864 00:45:53,380 --> 00:45:55,150 'cause there's a plan that's going to unfold. 865 00:45:55,150 --> 00:45:56,050 Obia talks about it. 866 00:45:56,860 --> 00:46:00,340 There's a plan that's coming and that plan is gonna involve Israel. 867 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,020 We're gonna be with the Lord, we're gonna be in in heaven with 868 00:46:05,020 --> 00:46:06,130 him at that point as the church. 869 00:46:06,940 --> 00:46:09,070 But that plan is coming and it's gonna be precipitated by the return 870 00:46:09,070 --> 00:46:10,090 of Christ for the bride of Christ. 871 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,905 And so the question for us this morning is, are you ready for that return? 872 00:46:16,495 --> 00:46:20,485 Have you responded to the gospel or are you still facing God's justice On the 873 00:46:20,485 --> 00:46:22,735 day of the Lord, let's pray together. 874 00:46:22,735 --> 00:46:23,400 Will you stand with me?