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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

People who treat others as inferior are those who themselves suffer from a sense of inferiority and insecurity. Others are a threat to them because they don’t have a sense of being important to the eternal God. They don’t have the assurance that this God will look after them more than adequately. When we lose sight of our identity in Christ, lesser identifying features, like race, class, caste, and education, become significant. We try to find our identity by acting more significant than others.
Ajith Fernando

The gratuitous leap of logic comes when church leaders think that because people are searching for benefits only God can give them, they must therefore be searching after God. No, they want the benefits without the Giver of the benefits. And so structuring worship to accommodate unbelievers is misguided because these unbelievers are not seeking after God. Seeking after God begins at conversion, and if we are to structure our worship with a view to seekers, then we must structure it for believers, since only believers are seekers.
R.C. Sproul

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 83:1-19.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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83:1 ‘n Lied. ‘n Psalm van Asaf.

83:2 o God, hou U nie stil nie, swyg nie en rus nie, o God!

83:3 Want kyk, u vyande maak rumoer, en u haters steek die hoof op.

83:4 Teen u volk smee hulle listig ‘n plan en hou onder mekaar raad teen u verborgenes.

83:5 Hulle sê: Kom, laat ons hulle vernietig, dat hulle geen volk meer is nie, sodat aan die naam van Israel nie meer gedink word nie.

83:6 Want hulle het van harte saam raad gehou; teen U sluit hulle ‘n verbond:

83:7 die tente van Edom en die Ismaeliete, Moab en die Hagareners,

83:8 Gebal en Ammon, en Amalek, Filistéa saam met die inwoners van Tirus.

83:9 Ook het Assur by hulle aangesluit; hulle is ‘n arm vir die kinders van Lot. Sela.

83:10 Maak met hulle soos met Mídian, soos met Sísera, soos met Jabin by die spruit Kison:

83:11 hulle is verdelg by Endor, hulle het mis geword vir die grond.

83:12 Maak hulle, hul edeles, soos Oreb en Seëb, en al hulle vorste soos Seba en Salmúna,

83:13 wat sê: Laat ons die woninge van God vir ons in besit neem!

83:14 My God, maak hulle soos strooi, soos stoppels voor die wind.

83:15 Soos vuur wat ‘n bos verbrand, en soos die vlam wat berge aan die brand steek-

83:16 vervolg hulle só met u storm en verskrik hulle met u stormwind.

83:17 Oordek hulle aangesig met skande, dat hulle u Naam kan soek, o HERE!

83:18 Laat hulle beskaamd staan en verskrik wees vir ewig, en laat hulle rooi van skaamte word en omkom;

83:19 sodat hulle kan weet dat U, wie se Naam HERE is, alleen die Allerhoogste is oor die hele aarde.