WWUTT 885 Q&A Jesus Culture, David's Righteousness, and Kim Clement?

Why the Podcast Titles End With Question Marks

Should we be concerned the music of Jesus' culture is in so many churches? Was David self-absorbed when he prayed about his righteousness? And did Kim Clement prophesy President Trump? The answers to these questions when we Understand the Text.

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Here once again is Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky. You're welcome. Did you know that we had Elton John just down the road from us in Kansas City? Oh, no, I did not. And this weekend, it's Rob Bell. Oh, great. All these famous people coming to Kansas City.

I don't know what's going on in KC, but we've had Elton John, and now Rob Bell. Aren't you excited?

Um, sure, that I didn't even know about it.

That's what I've been seeing from people on social media, is, hey, did you know we had Elton John here? And Rob Bell's going to be here this weekend. Really?

Isn't that lovely? Let me send you this link to my…. Yeah, right.

I got a video I can show you. I even have a video with Elton John in it. Yes, yes you do. It's the one with Rick Warren holding his hand as they're joking about kissing one another. Yep. That was really a thing.

That really happened. Yes, it did. So, this being the Friday edition of the podcast, we take questions from the listeners, which you can submit to whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com. And I believe in last week's episode, there was a question that I had at the very end.

I said, we didn't have time for. Right. So, I was putting it on hold. So, we're going to come to that one first. Before getting to those questions that have been delivered to us by email, I had one that was asked of me this week in person.

Okay. Somebody became a new listener of the podcast and they said, Pastor Gabe, I got to know why do all of the titles of all the episodes of your podcast have question marks at the end of them? We've answered this question before.

We have. But yeah, good to do a refresher for those who are brand new to when we understand the text. Yes. This started with our videos when we were addressing certain topics like God helps those who help themselves.

We were kind of theorizing, how would somebody find this video? So, we didn't want to say in the title of the video, the Bible doesn't say God helps those who help themselves.

Right. Because then it wouldn't take the 90 seconds to watch it. Right.

Yeah. So, we're wanting to draw you in because that's the topic you're looking for. Right. So, we would just put that title with a question mark at the end of it. We didn't want to say that God helps those who help themselves and we also weren't trying to blow the ending.

Right. Because we want you to watch the video. So, that was how that started. And then by the time we had about 100 videos or so, we started doing the podcast. I don't think we quite had 100 yet, but it was pretty close to that.

And so, then we just kept up the gimmick with the podcast as well. There would be the title of the podcast with a question mark. Like for example, this past week in John Chapter 8, Jesus said, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.

Very popular verse. A lot of people have heard that or they use it as a proverb or a pithy quote. Oh, yeah. And so, we put that as the title of the podcast. So, you know that when you are listening to that episode, that's what you're going to be hearing about.

You'll hear about that verse in context, what it meant, who Jesus was talking to, etc. So, that started with the videos. It continues with the podcast. And honestly, I don't think every single title of every episode of the podcast has a question mark at the end of it.

And if there isn't an episode that has a question mark, it's just because I forgot to put it on there. That's really it. But again, because the name of the ministry abbreviated is what? Yeah. What? With the question mark at the end, then that just kind of became our shtick.

So, we put question marks on the titles of everything, whether it was a video or whether it was the title of an episode. So, thank you to the individual who stopped me and asked that question. Yes, thank you.

Concerns About Jesus Culture and New Apostolic Reformation Music

Now, let's get to the emails. This is one that we didn't get to last week and it's from Alan in North Carolina. Grace and peace to you, Pastor Gabe. I've been a faithful listener to your podcast for over a year now and have been encouraged and edified by your thoughtfulness and commitment to sound doctrine.

Thank you, Alan. I have a question for you. I have been contemplating the effects of the NAR movement into our Southern Baptist churches. So, NAR is the New Apostolic Reformation, Bethel Church in Redding, California, the International House of Prayer, The Call with Lou Engel is just kind of some examples of that network of New Apostolic Reformation churches.

Samuel Rodriguez, who prayed at Donald Trump's inauguration, he's part of the NAR, along with Paula White Cain, who was also one of the persons who prayed at the inauguration. It's a very hyper charismatic movement and it's called New Apostolic Reformation because they actually believe that there's going to be new apostles and those new apostles will supersede the apostles of the New Testament, who gave us the New Testament.

Oh, wow. And Paul already addressed this in 2 Corinthians chapter 11, where he sarcastically refers to these guys as super apostles. Got it. So you've missed, there's an entire chapter of the Bible dedicated to this movement and yet they continue to say there's going to be these super apostles that are going to arise.

Well, as long as they keep skipping that. Skipping that chapter? Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Cut and paste. Yeah. Parts of the Bible they like. Anyway, now I'm a Southern Baptist pastor and Alan comes from the Southern Baptist Church.

So hence why he refers to this movement coming into our Southern Baptist churches. I have a growing concern in particular about Fort Caswell in Oak Island, North Carolina. Last summer, the youth took a trip there as is their custom and they returned to share their experiences.

They led the congregation in singing songs they learned at Caswell. Guess who it was? Jesus Culture. Ooh. I was appalled to say the least. Jesus Culture is the praise band that comes out of Bethel Church, which is kind of the Mecca, if you'll pardon the expression, of the New Apostolic Reformation.

Alan goes on, this year my daughter is old enough to go with the youth on their annual trip. I don't know if I want her to go. Part of me feels like I'm becoming the old curmudgeon that hates contemporary music, but my concern is the indoctrination of my daughter with heretical teaching.

I'm the associate pastor at my church and have addressed the dangers of Bethel Church, yet no one seems to see the danger of simply listening to their music. Would you have any counsel for me as to how I should move forward with my concerns?

It would be greatly appreciated. Alan from Lenoir, North Carolina. I guess that's how you pronounce that. I have no idea. I'm open to being corrected on the pronunciation of that.

I've only lived in Kansas my whole life.

Well, I was born in South Carolina, but I don't think I know of Lenoir, North Carolina. Is it black in French? Le Noir? Le Noir? Le Noir? Is that right? Well, no. Isn't black in French Noir? Noir, yes.

Okay. But it would have to be two different words, not one. The Black, North Carolina? Is that how you would interpret that? I suppose. I'm sure it means something totally different, though.

I would be curious to know the etymology of the name of your town, Alan, if you want to follow that up, and also a pronunciation guide for me would be greatly appreciated. Coming up here in a moment, I got a question from our friend in Nigeria.

He sent a question to us before, and I asked him before recording this podcast, be sure to remind me how to pronounce your name. Awesome. So I copied and pasted, Becky can see it here, I copied and pasted the pronunciation guide for me so I know how to do this.

That's okay. Do you need that for every email now? Yeah, I think so. That's okay. None of y 'all can spell Becky. Some of them can.

Yeah, there are some. That's all right. Some of them get it right. No worries. Just put us both together, Gebeki. Yeah, there we go. G-A-B-E-K-I. You can't go wrong with that. What were we talking about?

We were talking about what he is to do. Okay.

What Alan is to do. Now, my concern with an event like this where Jesus Culture is one of the bands that is presenting is that you're going to have teachers there that are going to say things that you might hear at a new Apostolic Reformation church, whether it would be like at the One Thing Conference at the International House of Prayer or any kind of church service that they would have at Bethel Church in Reading or at the Sozo thing that they do out there, their Supernatural School of Supernatural Ministry or Supernatural Superhero something.

I can't remember the name of it. Anyway, so excuse me. So since you have that kind of music there, I'm just going to guess that there's going to be that kind of teaching there. Now, for the most part, you're probably not going to hear anything heretical, but it's not going to be deep.

It's going to be, you know, an inch deep and a mile wide. It'll be all over the place. It'll be whatever comes into their mind or their heads at that time. It'll contain some scripture verses, but they won't be used in context.

Everything is going to be very positive and happy. There's not going to be any sort of call of repentance of sin. And if they do say anything like that, none of those terms are ever going to be defined.

So you're going to take what you know of theology and you're going to insert it into whatever it is that they're preaching. And you might come away thinking, well, that was pretty good. Well, it's because what you know of doctrine, you're filling in the blank.

That's exactly right. Yeah. It's that whole Mad Lib theology where they're just kind of presenting stuff to you with nothing to find. And then you fill in the blank with your own doctrine. And so that way they can be the most pleasing to the biggest group of people.

Oh, yeah. That's why this is like a charm. That's why this stuff is so extremely popular. So for the most part, you're probably not going to fall into something really bad. My problem with it is a continued exposure over time is that you're not going to get any deeper.

You're never going to have heard the gospel. You think that you did, but you didn't. You know, again, that same fill in the blank sort of theology. The music is never very deep. Now, the music and we've talked about this a dozen times before.

I've written blogs on it as well. The music, it really doesn't have anything blatantly wrong with it. A lot of times they're even taking words out of Amazing Grace or something like that. Oh, OK. And we'll just kind of expand it out, modernize it, stuff like that, or even take a song like Reckless Love.

That's the most popular song ever to come out of Bethel right now, because it just won Dove Award for Song of the Year last year and it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't. It doesn't make any sense. Everybody thinks this is gorgeous, deep song.

It really says something about the song that the songwriter had to stand on stage and read something from his smartphone explaining what he means by reckless love. So obviously this has been really controversial.

And if what you're saying can't be clear, then there's probably something wrong with it. Yeah. But I think it's because of all this controversy that it's generated the popularity that it has and therefore became Song of the Year.

Even though God's love is not reckless, and we've talked about that before, there's a What video on it? You can find Todd Friel talking about it, etc. It nevertheless is not like leading you down some kind of a heretical path.

Nobody's going to go to hell because they sang the song Reckless Love or would even believe that God's love is reckless. It's reckless terminology, but it's not heretical terminology. So again, the music doesn't really expose you to some sort of bad heretical doctrine.

It's just careless and an appropriate word for it is that it's reckless. It's not very thoughtful. It's not considerate of the word of God. And these lyrics are not even driven by what we have in God's word.

If you hear any of these guys try to justify their teaching or even the lyrics of a song, it's not because they were reading the Bible and they turned it into a song. Rather they had this idea because all of it is whatever my thoughts are, the Holy Spirit gave me that.

So now I'm going to write this song and now I'm going to go to the Bible and try to find a verse to justify why I worded things that way in the song. And that way they can uphold this standard of, see, we believe in biblical inerrancy.

We believe that the word of God is perfect, but it's not sufficient. It's inerrant. It's not sufficient because you got it from your head. That's right. I need to rely on my own subjective thoughts and visions and things of that nature.

That's what you're going to come into with a lot of this teaching. You don't have to have the Bible. You can use the Bible to justify your own thoughts that you have, but whatever you believe and whatever you think, God is giving you those thoughts and those ideas.

And it's just as good as anything as you would find in the Bible. Instead, what we need to be doing is studying scripture and we need to have our minds and our thoughts conform to this rather than taking the scripture and conforming it to the thoughts and the ideas that we had.

That's the major problem with the teaching that comes at, well, I mean, the major problem is it's heretical. The teaching at its foundation is heresy. You're just probably not going to hear that when you go listen to one of their sermons.

An example of this is a couple of years ago when Nabeel Qureshi was at Bethel Church, and I did an evaluation of Nabeel's follow-up when he came from Bethel and said, here's what I experienced while I was there.

And he's kind of responding to his critics. All of you were telling me that I shouldn't be going to Bethel Church. Nabeel was... I don't think it was critics. I think it was more concerns. Well, I mean, he was talking to his supporters as well.

It wasn't just like a response to critics, but that certainly was part of his vlog. So Nabeel was suffering from stomach cancer at that time. He is at home with the Lord in glory now. But at that time, he was looking for a miracle.

And so he was invited to go out to Bethel Church, and he went there. And one of the things that he said was, hey, I was there. I didn't hear any heresy. I didn't hear any prosperity theology. I heard the gospel preached.

And so I went to find the sermon that he actually heard. And he attended both the morning service and the evening service. I couldn't find the morning service. They didn't have it online. But I did find the guy that preached during the evening service.

And I said, in playing Nabeel's comments, I said, Nabeel didn't actually hear what he thought he heard. And again, this is that Mad Lib theology of just filling the blanks. Here was the closest, the guy preaching that night, here's the closest he got to preaching the gospel.

And then I played a clip of that, and he uses the word, he'll say something like gospel or believing in Jesus, but the gospel is never actually proclaimed. There's never anything about repentance of sins, the grace of God, faith in Jesus that.

Cleanses us from They just say enough keywords that you kind of put in everything else that should be there. Exactly.

But they don't talk about repenting of sin and believing in Christ and his righteousness and being justified by faith. They don't talk about any of that. It's just the gospel says, and Jesus did this for us, which is always very positive.

Oh, of course. And very encouraging and uplifting. There's my K-love slogan again. Positive and encouraging. Yes. It's all their prophecies. It's all it ever is. But you're never actually hearing what you think you're hearing.

So again, you may So if you have bad theology, then you're going to fill it in with your bad theology. Right. You will.

Yeah. Yeah. And if you have good theology, you'll fill it in with your good theology. The problem is that continued exposure over time is going to cause your own theology to languish. Yeah. Yeah. You're not going to go deeper.

You're not going to grow. You do not grow attending Bethel Church. Period. Right. You get worse. You don't get deeper into the word. And so eventually you do start falling into those false teachings. You follow Bill Johnson for a time or Chris Volatin or any of these guys, and they start talking about miracles and name it and claim it and proclaiming your healing and believing that you can do these healings just by speaking them into existence.

And then you get into the weird stuff they do, like the fire tunnels, the glory clouds, the feathers that fall down, which they claim are actual angel feathers. All of this stuff is staged. The speaking in tongues, the falling on the floor, the random music stuff that they do.

Bill Johnson's kenosis theology, where Jesus Christ, when he was here, was not God. He was only human and he was a perfect example for us. And so everything that he did that was miraculous, he was showing us we can do that, too.

So all you need to do is believe as Jesus did, and you will be able to do the same kind of miracles that Jesus did. He refers to Jesus as Jesus is perfect theology, which, you know, whatever that means.

You should be able to do the same sort of miraculous, amazing things that Jesus did. Now, I'm telling you, this is where the heresy eventually gets to. But if you go to an event where Jesus' culture is playing the music, or even Chris Vallotton shows up as a guest speaker, you're not getting into the heretical stuff, because they're just giving you the very light, fluffy gospel that's going to please everybody.

It's continued exposure to this is where you're eventually going to fall into the heresy. Now how are you going to address this? The question specifically that was asked by Alan is, how can I address these dangers with the people at my church so that they're no longer attending this event where Jesus' culture is present and this kind of teaching is coming about?

I would say get the book Defining Deception by Kosti Hinn. By Anthony Wood and Kosti Hinn. I can't leave out Anthony Wood. Oh, no, definitely not. Everybody knows Kosti because he's Benny Hinn's nephew in the testimony that he shares from that.

This was a collaborative effort between Kosti and Anthony, and I love my brother Anthony, so I can't leave him out as well. Anthony Wood and Kosti Hinn wrote this book called Defining Deception. You can find it on Amazon.

In fact, I'll look it up for you right now and tell you exactly how much it costs. 16 .95 paperback, or if you get the Kindle edition, it's 9 .99. That's what I was thinking of because I was like, I think it just costs you 10 bucks.

I was thinking of the Kindle edition. So 16 .95 for a copy of Defining Deception, Freeing the Church from the Mystical Miracle Movement. Read it so you know what's in the book. You're familiar with the material, and then you need to pass it on to the head pastor.

Alan mentions that he's the associate pastor at his church, so pass it on to whoever you need to have read it. The book Defining Deception mainly confronts the New Apostolic Reformation, but they target Bill Johnson and Bethel Church because, as I said, that's kind of the icon of the New Apostolic Reformation movement, and that's where Jesus culture comes from.

So that's the book that you want to read, and everything that Kosti goes into, Kosti and Anthony talking about the background of Bethel, everything that led up to this movement, from the Azusa revivals, some of those big charismatics through the 90s that Bill Johnson heralds as like pillars of the church, and then what sort of teaching is coming out of this church, what's in their music, et cetera.

The music is what makes Bethel popular. People are getting drawn into Bethel Church because the music is so well known. Hillsong, Jesus culture, Elevation Church, they're all cut from the same cloth, and they all share the same stages at the same events and all this kind of thing.

The music is probably not going to lead you into heresy itself, but it's going to draw you into Bethel Church where you're going to hear shallow preaching, and eventually you're going to get into some of the more heretical stuff they do, and the tricks and the cons.

Definitely, yeah. The glitter clouds and the glory clouds and all this kind of thing, they know they're lying. They know that. They are charlatans and liars. They are lying through their teeth. They still do the grave-sucking stuff, the whole thing of assuming a mantle or taking on somebody else's mantle, where they lie on somebody's grave or even just go visit a grave, and they think that they can absorb the spiritual essence of the person.

Now, whenever Bill Johnson or anybody from Bethel Church gets confronted on this, they deny it. They outright, no, we don't do grave-sucking. Specifically, it's called mantle-grabbing, and you can actually find in Bill Johnson's writing where it is, where he talks about it.

I've read it. So don't believe them for a second when they say, no, we don't do that. They understand how weird it looks to everybody else. So they're going to try the Mormon tactic of denying it and lying about it, even though they actually do it.

And now the Mormon Church is finding a greater difficulty in doing that these days, now that we have the internet and people can just go online and look this stuff up. But Bethel Church is still trying it.

They're trying to just lie about it and deny it, but it's still going on. They still do it. They teach all of this nonsense, soothsaying and communication with the dead, in addition to all of the charismatic tricks and cons that they do.

It is a dangerous deception, which is why Kosti and Anthony's book is entitled Defining Deception. So I hope that book is going to be helpful for you, and it's going to equip you with what you need to protect your church and especially your youth.

Because that's really who Bethel and Jesus culture is going after. Yep, they are. They're going after the youth. That's why they have the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, supernatural, superhero, whatever it is.

Superhero. Where they teach you how to fly. They don't actually do that, but they do teach you that you can just proclaim a healing over somebody.

Just say it and you'll be healed. So you fail if you don't achieve that? Yeah.

Okay. Right. You don't have enough faith if the person you're trying to heal doesn't have enough faith. Interesting. I mean, yeah. It's the way that whole charismatic movement works. I read online earlier this week that Todd White's brand new church in Dallas, Texas has opened up and there was somebody who made a comment about how it's just down the street from her house.

And so at the local grocery store, whenever church lets out, there are a bunch of youth that are coming in there wanting to heal everybody at the grocery store. No one's getting healed at these places, folks.

It's all a ruse. It's completely a con. But like I said, they're going after the youth and they're getting them sucked in. I said earlier that you're not really going to come into a lot of false teaching just attending an event where Jesus culture was there and they sang their music and stuff like that.

I only say that just to put you at ease that your child didn't come home a heretic. Right. Okay. But it's just enough that they put out there to try to lure them in and they get connected with the music and they love the feel good stuff.

Yeah. Because there's closing eyes and swaying hands and the lights are low and it's just good feel good music. I got the goosebumps there. And then you'll go and listen to the song on the CD to try to have that feeling again.

Exactly. It is like a spiritual drug. It's the way they do it. All right. Thank you for your question, Alan. This next one comes from Kenechukwu in Nigeria. Awesome. Here's the guy who put the pronunciation of his name in there.

Yeah. Thank you for that. Thank you. Kenechukwu. I'm just proud of myself for being able to say it. I was going to say it. Are you going to read it? Okay. Hey. No, I'm just basking in my own, I can pronounce this name.

Because he spelled it out for you. But sure.

Precisely. Hi, Pastor Gabe and Becky. Hello. My question is concerning David in the Bible and his prayers and songs. A major component of David's writings was his emphasis on God's treatment of the righteous and the wicked.

And he often used language like, God saw my righteousness and rewarded me. He repaid me according to my righteousness and the cleanness of my hands. He snatched me from my enemies because I did not turn away from God as the wicked do.

And so on. So David proclaiming his own righteousness in the Psalms. These are statements that I feel will be warned against in our understanding of human nature. So my questions are thus, was David in sin for praying in such a way?

Is it in any way right to lay claim to our works of righteousness when we pray? And what is a proper understanding of this sort of language in prayer? I've been reading through 1 and 2 Samuel and I've been learning a lot about the prayer pattern of David and how he utilized God's promises and surrendered to God's sovereignty.

But this part of his language rubs off on me strangely in my readings here and there in the Psalms. I will be grateful if you can clarify this. Thank you very much. Let's go to Psalm 7. Because I think that Psalm 7, as we read through this and understand what David is praying here, this is a good sort of an example for us in the kind of righteousness that David proclaims.

Okay. So Psalm 7, starting in verse 1. Oh Lord, my God, in you do I take refuge. Save me from all my pursuers and deliver me. Lest like a lion, they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces with none to deliver.

Oh Lord, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust.

So before going on here, you can see that as David is praying, he's very humbly coming before the Lord and recognizing, I may be deceived in my own flesh, lest I proclaim my own righteousness. If there is any way in me that is wrong, root it out.

David has prayed elsewhere in the Psalms, reveal my secret sins to me, that I may be cleansed, that I may ask forgiveness for these and you would cleanse me. And so here is kind of the same thing. If there is any evil in my hands, if I've done the same thing that my enemy has done to me, well then let my enemy pursue my soul and overtake it.

But David knows that he has a righteousness that is not his own. And that is what's going to come up here in the Psalm as we go on. The next section here in Psalm 7 is that imprecatory prayer sort of a thing of strike down my enemies, you know.

Okay. Psalm 7 verse 6, arise O Lord in your anger, lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies. Awake for me, you have appointed a judgment. Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you, over it return on high.

The Lord judges the peoples, judge me O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. So here's the very thing that Kenechukwu is asking about. So David proclaiming his own righteousness, judge me O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

Is it okay for us to pray that way? Well in context we can see that David has said, if there is any evil in me, let my enemy overtake me. And in elsewhere in the Psalms he asks to be disciplined so that there would not be any wrong way in him.

So here he is, we see in context that he's not simply on its own asking for God to show him favor because he's righteous. He's not just saying, God, I'm righteous. So you know, give me what I'm due. That's not necessarily the way that David is presenting that.

But even when he talks about his own righteousness in verse 8, he says the Lord judges the peoples, judge me O Lord, according to my righteousness. Now he qualifies that righteousness a little bit more as we go on.

Verse 9, O let the evil of the wicked come to an end and may you establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God. Now it may be that our enemies or our antagonists do not see us as righteous.

So you think of the godliness that we desire to have in Christ Jesus. And Paul said to Timothy that those who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. Right. And he's saying here that if you just desire a godly life, you'll be persecuted.

People will hate you because you want to do the godly thing. And as Peter puts it in 1 Peter, I think it's in chapter 4, where he says that they're going to make fun of you. They're going to malign you because you will not join them in their debauchery.

So just the fact that you desire the righteous way instead of following in the sinful, awful worldly way and the sins that we see people falling deeper and deeper into, people are going to hate you because you desire godliness.

You don't even have to say or do anything to anyone else. They will hate you simply because you love Jesus. Right. And Jesus said, remember that when they hate you, they hated me first. Right. So David is praying here that the evil of the wicked would come to an end and that God would establish the righteous, test the minds and the hearts, O righteous God.

So while our enemy hates us because of our righteousness, it is God who tests our righteousness and loves us because of our righteousness. The world hates us for our righteousness. God loves us for our righteousness.

And again, to qualify, to clarify, because we're coming to this in the Psalm, this is not a righteousness of our own. It is the righteousness of God. Right. Hence, why we can declare ourselves as righteous, not because we're righteous by our own merit.

Titus 3, 5, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy. Right. So the righteousness we have is not ours. It doesn't come from us.

And he's not bragging or prideful. He's not boasting.

Right. He is, he's wanting God to uphold his righteousness, that God is a just God. And so therefore he's going to deliver and defend the righteous. And indeed he will. Even if we will perish in this life, if somebody puts you to death because of the godliness that you desire, we will still be vindicated ultimately in the end.

God will have vengeance. Right. Romans 12, vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. And you have the persecuted, the martyrs in the book of Revelation that are saying, how long O Lord? And then Christ gives them a robe and says, a little while longer, because your number is going to be added to.

There's going to be more martyrs that are going to come before these things are completed. And so that's what David is asking God to do, to judge his righteousness. Everybody else sees me as an enemy.

My enemies see me as an enemy, but you O Lord are righteous. And so judge me, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God. Verse 10 and 11, my shield is with God who saves the upright in heart.

God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation every day. So we know that God does have wrath for those who do evil and he has deliverance for those who do righteous. Right. Because God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation every day.