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september 2021 dim lamp קנה רצוץ לא ישבור dim lamp קנה רצוץ לא ישבור thoughts sermons scribbles of a lutheran pastor search home about links my new ebook quotes stories posts comments church universal sermons wonderings reviews prayers photos 1 funeral sermons scribbles my new ebook sermon for 17 pentecost yr b september 18 2021 2 comments 17 pentecost yr b 19 09 2021 ps 54 jer 11 18 20 pastor garth wehrfritz hanson help god enemies want to kill me psalm 54 has the following superscription to the leader with stringed instruments a maskil of david when the ziphites went and told saul david is hiding among us the background of this psalm then is described in 1 samuel 23 and 26 david and saul are on the outs david is fleeing from saul he goes into hiding in the wilderness of ziph the ziphites betray david by telling saul where he is hiding saul pursues david however at the last moment saul gets word that the philistines raided the land so he stops pursuing david in 1 samuel 26 saul and his army are also pursuing david in the wilderness of ziph and again the ziphites betray david by telling saul where david is hiding this time one night david and abishai sneak into saul s camp saul is sleeping and abishai wants to kill him david prevents him from doing so however he steals saul s spear and water jar he tells abishai that eventually the lord will deal with saul later when saul finds out that david could have killed him but did not he and david made peace eventually however saul was wounded in battle and then took his own life the nrsv lutheran study bible gives psalm 54 the following title prayer for vindication and the good news bible has this title a prayer for protection from enemies the lutheran study bible p 849 identifies psalm 54 as a prayer for help it also has elements of a psalm of trust a lament a liturgy and a prayer of individual thanks in verses 1 and 2 david is desperate and he asks god to listen to him and vindicate him the message captures david s emotionally desperate state by rendering verse 2 like this listen god i m desperate don t be too busy to hear me verse 3 tells us why david is desperate again the message captures how david feels a sense of betrayal outlaws are out to get me hit men are trying to kill me nothing will stop them god means nothing to them just as david felt betrayed by the ziphites so too does jeremiah in today s first lesson he has been faithful as god s prophet and preached to his own people in his hometown of anathoth he predicted their destruction it was a message most likely difficult for him to preach and the people did not like it one bit because it was not a message they wanted to hear or accept so they betray their own hometown prophet and threaten to kill him that reminds me of the following story maclean died in early march 1983 he died in russia maclean was actually british he had gone to the university of cambridge in the 1930s there and had joined a circle promoting communism from this circle came many of the most notorious spies for the soviet union in 1951 maclean was tipped off that he was about to be exposed as a spy he fled behind the iron curtain where he lived in obscurity in britain at the time of exposure there was a sense of disbelief that one of their own citizens educated and part of the aristocracy would be a traitor later other such traitors were also exposed some having given the soviets some of britain s and the american s most sensitive secrets betrayals of course can have tragic consequences they can be a matter of life and death in some cases even thousands perhaps millions or even billions of lives may hang in the balance of course the ultimate story of betrayal involved judas betraying jesus judas betrayal of jesus led to his death on the cross however david and jeremiah did not respond to their betrayals like jesus true they did turn to god for help when their lives were threatened unlike jesus they did not pray or wish for forgiveness for their enemies rather they asked god for vindication vengeance revenge retribution the good news bible renders verses 4 and 5 like this but god is my helper the lord is my defender may god use their own evil to punish my enemies he will destroy them because he is faithful that reminds me of the following story three burly fellows on huge motorcycles pulled up to a highway cafe where a truck driver just a little guy was perched on a stool quietly eating his lunch as the three fellows came in they spotted him grabbed his food away from him and laughed in his face the truck driver said nothing he got up paid for his food and walked out one of the three cyclists unhappy that they hadn t succeeded in provoking the little man into a fight commented to the waitress boy he sure wasn t much of a man was he the waitress replied well i guess not then looking out the window she added i guess he s not much of a truck driver either he just ran over three motorcycles 1 like david and jeremiah perhaps our reaction to the story of the truck driver running over the three motorcycles is that the three cyclists got what they deserved because of the way they treated the truck driver in our humanness in our sinful state emotionally we may be tempted to get angry and take revenge on those who threaten us or treat us badly cruelly and unjustly or even worse we may say what david said in verse 7 of our psalm as the reb translates it i look with delight on the downfall of my enemies there are several examples in the psalter of what are called imprecatory psalms i e psalms that call for vengeance as christians i think we struggle with these imprecatory psalms they depict a go get em god a god who likes to punish and destroy people rather than have mercy on them and forgive them as christians jesus is our perfect example of how we are to deal with our enemies we are called to love pray for and forgive them which is much easier to say than to do there is much wisdom in what lutheran theologian pastor and martyr dietrich bonhoeffer had to say about the imprecatory psalms thus the imprecatory psalm leads to the cross of jesus and to the love of god which forgives enemies i cannot forgive the enemies of god out of my own resources only the crucified christ can do that and i through him thus the carrying out of vengeance becomes grace for all people in jesus christ even today i can believe the love of god and forgive my enemies only by going back to the cross of christ to the carrying out of the wrath of god the cross of jesus is valid for all people 2 god is both a just and merciful god there are consequences for our sinful and evil actions sometimes our sinful and evil actions will be subject to cause and effect consequences we reap what we sow we dig a pit of sin and evil and the that same pit will be our undoing those who live by violence will die by violence and so on god always wants what is best for each one of us therefore even though we may think that someone deserves to be punished by god may not be punished by god god s ways are not our ways when jesus was dying on the cross he prayed for enemies father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing lk 23 34 may god s grace direct our thoughts words and actions in such a way that we like jesus may be able to pray for love and forgive even our enemies 1 james s hewett editor illustrations unlimited wheaton il tyndale house publishers inc 1988 p 486 2 dietrich bonhoeffer psalms the prayer book of the bible minneapolis augsburg publishing house 1970 1974 pp 58 60 filed under church universal sermons tagged with ecumenical homily ecumenical sermon homily homily based on ps 54 jer 11 18 20 homily for 17 pentecost yr b lutheran homily lutheran sermon rcl homily rcl sermon sermon sermon based on ps 54 jer 11 18 20 sermon for 17 pentecost yr b my latest book september 1 2021 leave a comment my latest book the last in a series of three praying the lectionary prayers of the church cycle c is now 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