Sometimes the perspectives of the Old Testament feel so foreign to us, and maybe a little embarrassing. For instance, in Psalm 21 today, the candid, unvarnished talk of vanquishing enemies. After all we are Americans, living in 2025, enlightened by college degrees, with no enemies left. Haven’t WE have progressed beyond all that?
But we must interrogate that embarrassment. For I am convinced one reason why we live in a time of chaos and decline is BECAUSE the Church has become neutralized by its embarrassment of the Old Testament.
So we can continue to DESIRE a seat at the cool kids’ table, and do what Andy Stanley tells us to do, and “DECOUPLE ourselves from the Old Testament.” (Which, as we will see, means decoupling from Christ). Or we can recognize that that feeling of foreignness says more about US than anything.
In fact, when we feel hesitation or embarrassment about the Word, it probably means there’s treasure there for us. Which means we need to go further in and further up, into the wisdom of God.
· Praise
· Pluck
· Principle
Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on May 25th, 2025 to learn more.
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