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Do you not know that we saints will judge the world? We will judge the angels in the world, 1 Corinthians 6. And he says, Paul says, he who is spiritual judges all things and we have the mind of Christ. That’s in 1 Corinthians 2, 15 and 16. The men of Nineveh will rise in judgment against this generation and condemn it, Jesus said. And I saw thrones and those that sat on them and judgment was committed to them. The Bible teaches throughout that God’s people must judge the wicked. And Paul says, when he says, don’t you know that we will judge the angels and we will judge the world on judgment day? You know why he says that? Because they were not judging a man in their church who was committing the most terrible immorality. And Paul said, don’t you know we’re going to judge the angels? I’m ashamed of you because you cannot judge the least things. Get judging. And how could you live not judging? Those who say they don’t judge lie. Let them catch you judging a homosexual or an abortionist, rebuking someone in fornication, and they will condemn you for judging. And we just say, hey, don’t judge me. But they’re hypocrites. That’s the kind of judging that Christ forbid, that he forbade. He said, don’t judge like a hypocrite. So if you believe you’re not supposed to judge and you judge someone who is judging, you’re a hypocrite. Well, anyway, if the church has been wholly seduced by the lie of don’t judge, What does that tell us about the biblical foundation of the average Christian? Are they pretty solid? Most of the Christians who could reel off authors and leaders and experts on all different theological persuasions, most of them who have really studied theology for 10 years are seduced by don’t judge. They get hit with that and are up against a brick wall and they don’t know what to do with it. So it’s not only the Christians who sit in the pews who don’t study the Bible, but even those who make a real concerted effort to study doctrine, they get stymied by the simplest dilemmas. The question of don’t judge. The Bible talks about milk and then when you graduate from the milk, you get into the meat. Judging, is that an issue of deep spiritual truth, or is that sort of like an infant for pre-K? You know, in kindergarten, middle school, high school, or college, when should you learn to judge the wicked? That’s pre-K. Little kids. If you’re parents, you teach your little kids, don’t lie, don’t steal, don’t hit. If someone does those things, don’t accept it, don’t go along with it. but oppose it. Judging the wicked is elementary. And so if the entire Christian church is seduced by the simplest matters, what gives us any confidence that they have mastered the deeper spiritual truths? All right. Now, if God can change, certainly he could change his plans. And I’d like to see examples where he does that. I’m going to read a passage out of Joshua 3, one verse, and then out of Judges 2. Joshua chapter 3. Israel has just gone through 40 years in the wilderness. And they had done so in unbelief. The people rejected God, so they died in the desert. and the younger generation entered into the promised land, and God had promised them that he was gonna give this land to his people Israel. And here is one of the many places where God makes that promise. It’s recorded in Joshua 3.10. Joshua said, by this, you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will, without fail, drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Parasites, the Girgashites, the Termites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites. He’s going to cast them all out without fail. Without fail. Now, That’s a very strong promise. That God will, by this you shall know that the living God is among you, that he will, without fail, drive out all these pagans from before you. That’s a promise. What God will do for Israel. Was that promise fulfilled? Well, if you turn to Judges 2… we will read that which most Christians have one way or another come to realize that God never did cast out these Canaanites and that they’re still there today. I mean, 3,400 years later, they’re still there. Judges 2, then the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochum and said, I led you up from Egypt and and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers. And I said, I will never break my covenant with you. That’s a reiteration, right? God without fail will cast out all these people from the land. And God says, I swore to your fathers. And I said, I will never break my covenant with you. And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall tear down their altars. But you have not obeyed my voice. Why have you done this? Therefore, I also said, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall be thorns in your side and their gods shall be a snare to you. So God tells us many times he promised he would drive out the people. And then here God says, but I will not drive them out. And he did not. And he left them there. I’ll give you another example. Now, Ezekiel chapter 26. We’ll see that God promised Nebuchadnezzar that he would destroy the city of Tyre. and give Nebuchadnezzar the spoils of the city. And Nebuchadnezzar would become rich from the plunder of the land. But God is a living God. So when God gave a five word prophecy in the Hebrew, 40 days in Nineveh will be destroyed. Was God a slave to that prophecy? Was he a slave? Or if circumstances changed, was God able to change and to say, I repent of the disaster that I said to bring upon Nineveh. Of course, God is a living God. And if you promise your children, you’re going to take them on a fishing weekend. And then your son does something that is so despicable. He’s now moved your hand so that you cannot take him and reward him because maybe it’s not a normal childhood disbehavior event, but it’s a really bad thing. You said, we’re not going. Dad, you promised. Don’t pull that on me. We’re not going and it’s your fault. I had every intention of keeping my promise, but how can I reward you? Because then you will only increase in your wickedness. And that is the kind of situation where we see God changing. Not always. Sometimes he changes just because he feels like it. Like he says to Hezekiah, get your house in order, you’re going to die. And Hezekiah, he wasn’t evil. He was a righteous king. But he prayed in tears to the Lord. And since the Lord loved him so much, he said, all right, you know what? I’m going to heal you and you’ll live another 15 years or so. And God healed him. Hezekiah didn’t repent. There was no sin that was causing him to die. But you know, the tragedy is after he was healed, that’s when he became evil. And he sinned, not that he ultimately hated God, but his sin was so grievous that Jerusalem was destroyed by its enemies because of King Hezekiah. Only if he had died when he was about to die. But so there was a case where God changed. God said, you’re going to die. Then God changed his mind and decided to intervene and heal him. So God is alive and he could change. And he has good reasons when he changes the course of action that he’s predicted or that he said he would do. When he changes, it’s for good reasons. It’s not for an evil reason. It’s not for a foolish reason. It’s for a good reason. And it’s because he’s alive and he has freedom. And he’s able to act. And he’s not a slave to anyone. In Ezekiel, we’ll read chapter 26, starting in verse 7. Thus says the Lord God, behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings with horses, chariots, with horsemen and an army with many people. He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the fields. He will heap up a siege mound against you and build a wall against you and raise a defense against you. He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, the wagons and the chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached. With the hooves of his horses, he will trample all your streets. He will slay your people by the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. They will plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise. You see that? And we could go on. But they will plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise. So God… prophesize what will happen to the city of Tyre by King Nebuchadnezzar will totally destroy the city and take its wealth and receive as payment for his efforts, the wages of the riches of the city of Tyre. He will plunder and pillage it. But then three chapters later, we find out that Nebuchadnezzar never took the city of Tyre. In fact, the battle continued for so many years that his soldiers went bald. That’s a long war. And it’s in Ezekiel chapter 29, verse 17. It came to pass… In the 27th year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder rubbed raw. Yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre for the labor which they expended on it. And history teaches us and the Bible teaches us Nebuchadnezzar never took the city of Tyre. He never did. God is a living God. Christians are often so concerned about verses like this and they’re so ashamed that they’re in there that they like to hide them. And they don’t bring them up and they forget them. There are many, we have a seminar on audio tape called Predestination and Free Will. And we go through many prophecies in the Bible that God gave the prophecy and then God said it didn’t come true. And God is not ashamed of being the living God. He’s not ashamed of having freedom. He’s not ashamed of his ability to alter his efforts. He’s not ashamed. He has a hatred for a stagnant God who cannot change, but he loves being the living God who could respond to circumstances. Now let’s go to Jeremiah chapter 18. In the plot manuscript, the book that this seminar is derived from In that manuscript, we list the seven most important chapters in the Bible for understanding an overview of the whole Bible. And Jeremiah 18 is one of those seven. The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter’s house and there he was making something at the wheel. It’s pretty simple story so far, right? It doesn’t get much more complicated than this. God’s message is usually simple enough that children can understand it. And this simple passage is a tremendous threat to millions of Christians. Millions of Christians despise this little story about the potter and completely ignore the verses after it in which God interprets it. I went down to the potter’s house and there he was making something at the wheel. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter so that he made it again into another vessel as it seemed good to the potter to make. Now, as we go on, we’re told that the potter is God and the clay is Israel. Although the clay could be, by extension, you. and me, and everyone in the world. But in context, it’s Israel. God is the potter, and he wants to make a beautiful vessel out of Israel. He wants to give them a kingdom and bless them. And that’s his goal. That’s what he sets out to do. But here’s the question that countless Christians fear to answer. Did the potter complete the vessel that he had attempted to make? The first vessel. Did he complete it? Or did he make it again into another vessel? Well, he didn’t complete the first vessel that he had started to make, that he tried to make. Why? Because he was not a good potter? No. Because the clay was marred in his hand. Why did he not complete the first vessel? Because he didn’t want to make that vessel? No, that was the vessel that he was making of clay, but it was marred in his hand so that he made it again into another vessel as it seemed good to the potter to make. Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, oh, house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter says the Lord? Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. Then God is going to tell them that I have a plan. I have a dream. I have a hope of building you into a great kingdom. That’s what I want to do. That’s what I am saying I’m going to do. That’s what I am thinking I am going to do. But if you are evil, then I will repent of that which I said I was going to do. I will not accomplish that which I thought I was going to do, but instead of blessing you and giving you a kingdom, I will punish you. That’s what God’s going to say here. And that’s God. working with his creation, wanting to achieve something, but he’s alive. So if he says, Israel, I’m going to give you a kingdom and they’re evil, God has the ability to change his mind and not give them the kingdom that he had promised to give them. So let’s look at the verses. OK, we just saw verse six. Oh, house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? Look, you are in my hand as the clay. The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up, to pull down and to destroy it. If that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will repent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.” All right? Now, many of your translations may have said, I will relent. How many said I will relent versus I will repent? I will relent, raise your hand if your Bible says that. Okay, a handful. I will relent. The Hebrew word there is the standard word for repent that’s always used of God when God repents, and it’s always used of man. I mean, it’s the standard word for repent. I don’t know Hebrew, but it’s the word nakam, repent. God says, if Notice God here is bringing us right into his mind. He’s inviting us in. I thought to destroy Nineveh because they were evil. I gave them one last opportunity. They repented. So I did not do that which I had said I would do. I did not do that which I thought I would do. That’s the living God. Why do Christians not see the plot of the Bible? This should become more obvious as we go on today. But the Christian church has come to a place in history where it rejects the living God. Some of our hymns have the words, the living God. But we only sing that. What we really believe is the stagnant God who cannot change in any way. And if God cannot change in any way, then there are hundreds upon hundreds of verses in the Bible that make no sense because God is bragging that he changed. And all those verses need to be discounted in one way or another. So just find a mechanism to discount hundreds upon hundreds of verses where God is changing. So if God can change, and if God prophesies a plan for Israel, and then Israel rejects Jesus Christ, and God says, you know what? I’m not going to do that which I promised I would do. I’m not going to do it. I’m going to cut you off, Israel, and I’m going to graft in the Gentiles with the Apostle Paul, and I’m going to preach a new message through them. How could Christians get a grasp on any of that? They don’t believe God can change. If God promised Israel he’s going to give them a kingdom, then there’s no way that that promise can’t be fulfilled. If Jesus promised Israel they’re going to get this kingdom, there’s no way that that promise cannot be fulfilled. So somehow we have to either make believe he didn’t promise it or make believe they got it. but we can’t even consider the possibility that Israel, that these prophecies did not come to fruition. So now I wanted to read the next couple verses. And this is where it relates exactly to the plot of the Bible and to understanding the overview of the New Testament especially. Because, you know, the whole Old Testament leads up to the new, right? Did the Old Testament, does it exist for its own sake? Or was it all a literary forerunner to the coming of Jesus Christ? The prophets all pointed to the day when Christ would come. That’s what Jeremiah is writing about. Jeremiah is writing about a king A kingdom that would honor its king, Jesus Christ. So this is all prophetic of where God is headed. And look at verse 9. In the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to build and to plant it. If it does evil in my sight so that it does not obey my voice, then I will repent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it. What kingdom is God referring to when he says this? Israel. Right? O house of Israel, you are the clay. The potter is trying to build a vessel out of you, a beautiful kingdom. But if the clay is marred in the potter’s hands, then he will make it again into another vessel fit for dishonor. Paul says in Romans 9. So God wants to make a beautiful kingdom for Israel. But if they’re wicked, how can you have a kingdom where the people hate the king? How good of a kingdom could that be? How does God bless those who hate him? It doesn’t work. So in this chapter, let’s look at two more verses. Verse 12 says, And they said, that is hopeless. So we will walk according to our own plans. Now, this is what the people in Israel were saying when they heard this from Jeremiah. Jeremiah is repeating the message from the Lord that if we sin, God will cut us off. He promised us a kingdom, but don’t be so sure you’re going to get it because if we’re evil, God will cut us off and he will not give us the kingdom he promised us. And what was their response? That is hopeless. We will walk according to our own plan.
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stop the tape stop the tape that was segment number five on kltt radio of the plot bible overview i hope it blesses you as much as it has blessed so many others including myself my dad’s heart was always to help believers understand God’s word from beginning to end, and to draw closer to Christ in the process. Even as we close this chapter of KLTT Radio, the ministry is thriving. We encourage you guys to check out the Enyart Theology YouTube channel, the Real Science Radio YouTube channel, the daily podcasts on KGOV. We’ll see you next time. If you can, subscribe. If you can, donate, especially monthly donations. Help us or pray for us as we continue to edify believers and share the gospel with unbelievers, millions of unbelievers worldwide. It’s expensive to produce content like this that really reaches people and affects people. If you want to reach out personally, my email is enyarttheology at gmail.com. If you want to share any favorite memories of our time here on KLTT Radio or if you have any questions about the ministry transition, again, enyarttheology at gmail.com. This is Dominic Enyart reminding you to do right and risk the consequences.
