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description: (hide) The ninth of Av is a time when the Jewish community commences the fast of Tisha b’Av, recounting the horrific disasters which have embroiled Judah\/Levi over the years, including the destruction of both Solomon’s Temple and Herod’s Temple and the first Crusade, in which Jews and Muslims were slaughtered by "Christians," Germany’s declaration of war on Russia, unleashing a virulent strain of anti-Semitism there, and the mass deportation of the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka. Book Three of the Psalms addresses the compulsion to fast and to mourn. In Zechariah 7, God reminds Judah that their faithlessness and disobedience brought about the horrific destruction of Jerusalem, and if they would get with the program He has outlined for them, curtailing their pity parties, their fasts would be more productive and actually would transform into periods of rejoicing and praising God. If we keep God’s commandments, He promises to help us. If we sin, having the knowledge of His commandments, we are asking to be crushed more than anyone else because we should have known better. We should fast for the right reason-to get closer to God—and not to get Him to do something for us. If we seek God’s Kingdom first (life is more than the fulfillment of physical things which will not last for eternity), we will have no need to weep and mourn. If we repent and draw close to God, all of these fasts could be turned into periods of thanksgiving. After we beseech God, we must discipline ourselves to wait for Him to act. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sermon: Psalms: Book Three (Part Two) A Prayer Amid Destruction #1278 Richard T. Ritenbaugh Given 25-Jul-15; 77 minutes Go to the Psalms: Book Three (sermon series) description: (hide) The ninth of Av is a time when the Jewish community commences the fast of Tisha b’Av, recounting the horrific disasters which have embroiled Judah\/Levi over the … Continue reading “Sermon: Psalms: Book Three (Part Two)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}