Trust in God's Justice

Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning, we're at Deuteronomy chapter 25, 17 through 19. We're going to talk about Amalek. So those are people who attacked the Israelites, didn't like God. So let's have some coffee. We'll pray and we'll get into God's word. OK, can I have some of my coffee? Oh, you didn't even drink any. OK, thank you very much. Let's try not to kick the desk, OK, because the camera shakes. All right.
You ready to pray? God, we thank you so much for this day and we thank you for your word. Lord, we pray that you would please help us as we read your word, that we would understand it. And that we would be blessed by it and that we would. Lord, that we would walk in your ways, help us, Lord, we pray in Jesus's name. Amen. All right. So we are in Deuteronomy, Chapter 25. And Ellie, we're going to read verses 17 through 19.
You ready? Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you on the way. attacked your rear rings as the stragglers at your rear when you were tired and weary and He did not fear God Therefore it shall be when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies All around in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance That you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget so We gotta ask ourselves three questions. A, what is this about? B, what's the second best verse to summarize? And C, what are we called to do? So A, what is this about?
So the people, when they were coming out of Egypt, we've got to redeem them. They wanted to go through the land of Amalek. And they said, hey, we want to go through your land, but we promise you we're not going to take your stuff when we're not going to we're not going to harm your houses or your fields, anything like that. And you know what they did? Do you think the Amalekite said, oh, yeah, sure, go ahead and come on through. We'll be good neighbors. Mm-hmm.
No way they came and they attacked him They chased him and they chased him. They were tired and they were weary and the people of Amalek didn't fear God instead They killed people Yeah, and so God says when you go into the land remember what they did Remember how they didn't love me. Remember how they hated me and attacked your people And so they attacked the king's people and is who's the king?
God. And so is God going to put up with that? He says they might get away from it for a while, but are they going to get away from it forever? Nope. So he says that when you have have rest in your land, then you're to blot out their remembrance. What do you think that means when it says that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek? You ready for it, this is a hard one. Kill them all. Go to war. No, no, please don't go to war. And it's total warfare. Is that pretty hard? That's embarrassing. I don't think it's embarrassing. I think when we understand that they created they committed treason against God. Treason means that they went against the king. They win against the king, and so what's the punishment if you hate the king and you're going to go against him?
Yeah, and Elsa, but she wasn't doing anything wrong and that's it in that part And so the point here is that they did do something wrong. They attacked God's people They didn't listen to the Lord. They didn't let they didn't want to let the Israelites through And so I think the best verse to summarize this is And this is a hard one, it's probably going to be verse 19. But here's what I'm going to say, right? What's going to happen when Jesus comes back? And there are his enemies that didn't love him and didn't follow him and hated his people and even attacked them.
Is he going to let them get away with it forever? No, no, even the martyrs in heaven and the angels say, how long, oh, Lord? How long? When will you? Vindicate us. Yeah, when are you going to repay them for the evil that they did? When he comes back, when he comes back, you will. Yeah, when he comes back. Right. And so even today, I think Christians can know that God, God remembers those who hated him. And he's going to come back and he's going to judge someday. And so we don't need to repay evil for evil now. Actually, God tells us that vengeance is mine, says the Lord. I will repay. And so now as Christians, do we need to go to war? No, no, not like that. And so.
We trust that God will repay. At the last great day, he'll be the one who does it. But thank God we were once his enemies. But what did he do to our hearts? Yeah, it changes our hearts. So instead of hating him and hating his people, he makes us love him and love his people. Pretty, pretty big race, isn't it? Yeah. Are you ready to pray?
OK, Lord, we thank you so much. that though we were once your enemies, you have now made us your friends. Lord, we thank you that you have turned our hearts from the way of death and judgment and turn it to rejoicing and to love. Lord, we pray that you would please help us to follow after you. Lord, we thank you that you, Lord, you took us from being your enemies and you made us into your allies. And we pray, Lord, that we would now trust in you, that we wouldn't be hell-bent on our own revenge, but Lord, that we would trust you. that you will repay. And so make us patient, make us loving, Lord. We pray that we would even love our enemies and love those who do us harm and pray for them because you even loved us when we were your enemies. In Jesus's name we pray. Amen. May God bless you. May you walk in the joy and peace of Jesus Christ. And we'll see you next time. You wanna say goodbye? Did you just eat a booger? Ew! Alright, we'll see you next time. Bye.