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Should we pray for vengeance?

I recently read at a community event to launch the ninth Psalm Not because I particularly would have it pleasure to do evil to my enemies, but simply because this Psalm in my personal reading Psalm turn came. After I had said a few words on how this Psalm - Psalm a vengeance - is to understand from the New Testament perspective, it broke out of a present:

"The is Old Testament! That makes me angry! We have nothing to do with revenge
more! God's wrath is satisfied by Jesus! "

Then followed general, affected silence. And I was silent because this is not the place was, theological discussions and fight out because I had just tried to indicate in a few sentences, the New Testament view of these psalms to . explain

But the scene made me even more to think about. Does the Manichean heresy of the evil god in the Old and the good Lord in the New Testament still? To what extent we are infected with it? "I want to ask at this point, God's wrath God's revenge against the background of the cross of Jesus in your View to explain. To what extent can we pray with the Psalms or revenge? If we, as I have experienced so far without exception in all the Christian events, stop reading when we get to Psalm 139 in verse 19?

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Full Holy Spirit

Paul asks us to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:18) to lead a life that is worthy of our calling (Eph 4:1). This gonna be Christians from different denominations and backgrounds confirm the same way.
But how this performance looks like and especially how it is achieved, in answering this question a divorce then the spirits.

It's not even that difficult to answer that, if the cohesion of a closer look.
The NIV translation is an important detail visible when the Partizipialform at the beginning of v. 19 with 'by' reflects: full of "Will Spirit 'by' you talk to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs .... thanks says ... " etc.

spiritual truth in song, thanksgiving, these are things that fill us with the Holy Spirit. We might be confused here a bit, as we think we can sing into it to a fulfillment of the spirit, so that the whole is more a matter of mood and feelings. That can
but its not. It's about the spiritual content of the songs, not the experience of singing. This becomes clear when one reads the passage in context. makes

Another context it even more! It is the parallel in Colossians. In Col. 3, 16 and 17, we find the same statements as in Eph 5.18 to 20, except that just at the beginning is not the fulfillment called with the spirit, but the prompt, "the word of Christ richly dwell in us" to let .
This is therefore the same thing in other words expressed. What is to let the word dwell richly among us is to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

that this is true, has confirmed several times in the past. In the most enormous magnitude probably in the Reformation. Where the word is, there is filled with the Holy Spirit, and therefore also life from God, renewal, revival.
Only a return to the Word of God as a measure and resources for the life of a dying church is conceived back to life.
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I. Interpretative sermon

nine characteristics of a healthy church

"The point where we must start is where God begins with us - His speech to us," with these words Dever ( IX Mark Ministries ) the first chapter. Our own renewal and repentance comes from God's word. With the community it is no different. You is built up by the eternal Word and renewed. And that's what the Bible has a central point in our ministry are taking, in our churches and communities and in our worship services. It should be mentioned here, not just designed. This means that a certain portion of God's word carefully explained and applied to the community is. This kind of preaching was in the Old Testament known.

And she laid the book of the law of God clear and intelligible, so that they understood what had been read (Nehemiah 8:8). "

Expositional preaching presupposes faith in the authority of Scripture. This means that the preacher in his proclamation these key subjects. He is encouraged to God's words to say and not to spread his own thoughts. Here it is decided whether a sermon is expository or not. The listener must hear God's words and know the Creator and Savior in the passage.
Who is not anxious in the preparation of his sermon to find the actual main point of the text that is in danger, that he passed on only his own thoughts on a text. The struggle of the preparation is where the idea of God preacher and tries to find healing words in the text. These words are healing and edification are the publishers themselves and the whole community.
God has created every time his men by his word. This is true of the creation, as well as God called Abraham from among the Gentiles, until the very last page of the Bible. Therefore, our preaching only give people cope when it arises from God's word.

"So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ (Romans 10:17)."

The Reformation was also not without reason, a movement of the word. People discovered that they are renewed by the Bible. Thus, a likely departure of the church was possible, which we still owe the Bible in our language.
Our churches and communities need to discover the centrality of God's word again and show in their worship services and meetings. Listening to God and can answer him include praise, thanksgiving, confession and any kind of songs. All these things are secondary. Who builds his church on music - what style it should also be -, is built on sandy ground. The sermon is the fundamental service of the pastor, which is built up by the community.

Pray for your preacher or pastor that he is able to study the Bible thoroughly and that God leads to understanding. The Lord of the word it may give him that he can apply what they read to themselves and to the community. Thus, all listeners, every Sunday fresh, built by God's eternal Word and strengthened.