1. What Should I Think When Reading Imprecatory Psalms?

2. What Should I Think When Reading Imprecatory Psalms?
Don’t Read these Psalms - Not Christlike (Matt. 5:43-45, Rom. 12:14)?

3. What Should I Think When Reading Imprecatory Psalms?
Don’t Read these Psalms - Not Christlike (Matt. 5:43-45, Rom. 12:14)?
Neither Jesus, Peter nor Paul avoided such Psalms – Why should We?

4. Psalm 69: Context
David overwhelmed by personal enemies (v. 1-3)

5. Psalm 69: Context David overwhelmed by personal enemies (v. 1-3)
David not perfect, but hated by enemies for no just cause (v. 4-5)

6. Psalm 69: Context David overwhelmed by personal enemies (v. 1-3)
David not perfect, but hated by enemies for no just cause (v. 4-5)
David reproached for God’s sake (v. 7-9)

7. Psalm 69: Context David overwhelmed by personal enemies (v. 1-3)
David not perfect, but hated by enemies for no just cause (v. 4-5)
David reproached for God’s sake (v. 7-9)
David pleas for God’s deliverance (v )

8. Psalm 69: Context David overwhelmed by personal enemies (v. 1-3)
David not perfect, but hated by enemies for no just cause (v. 4-5)
David reproached for God’s sake (v. 7-9)
David pleas for God’s deliverance (v )
David Exalts God for deliverance – Zion saved (v )

9. Psalm 69: Peter, Paul and Jesus
Psm. 69:25 Peter – application to Judas (Acts 1: 16,20)

10. Psalm 69: Peter, Paul and Jesus
Psm. 69:25 Peter – application to Judas (Acts 1: 16,20)
Psm. 69: 22-23, 27 Paul – Hardening of Jews (Rom. 11:9-10,21-22, 25)

11. Psalm 69: Peter, Paul and Jesus
Psm. 69:25 Peter – application to Judas (Acts 1: 16,20)
Psm. 69: 22-23, 27 Paul – Hardening of Jews (Rom. 11:9-10,21-22, 25)
Psm. 69:9 Paul – Reproaches of God fell on Christ (Rom. 15:3)

12. Psalm 69: Peter, Paul and Jesus
Psm. 69:25 Peter – application to Judas (Acts 1: 16,20)
Psm. 69: 22-23, 27 Paul – Hardening of Jews (Rom. 11:9-10,21-22, 25)
Psm. 69:9 Paul – Reproaches of God fell on Christ (Rom. 15:3)
Psm. 69:9 Jesus – Zeal for God’s House (Jn. 2:13)

13. Psalm 69: Peter, Paul and Jesus
Psm. 69:25 Peter – application to Judas (Acts 1: 16,20)
Psm. 69: 22-23, 27 Paul – Hardening of Jews (Rom. 11:9-10,21-22, 25)
Psm. 69:9 Paul – Reproaches of God fell on Christ (Rom. 15:3)
Psm. 69:9 Jesus – Zeal for God’s House (Jn. 2:13)
Psm. 69:4 Jesus – Hated unjustly (Jn. 15:24-25)

14. Psalm 69: Peter, Paul and Jesus
Psm. 69:25 Peter – application to Judas (Acts 1: 16,20)
Psm. 69: 22-23, 27 Paul – Hardening of Jews (Rom. 11:9-10,21-22, 25)
Psm. 69:9 Paul – Reproaches of God fell on Christ (Rom. 15:3)
Psm. 69:9 Jesus – Zeal for God’s House (Jn. 2:13)
Psm. 69:4 Jesus – Hated unjustly (Jn. 15:24-25)
Psm. 69:21 Jesus – vinegar to drink (Jn. 19:28)

15. Thinking with God in Psalm 69
God’s Wrath on the Unrighteous is Just – embrace it – do not avoid such thinking (Rom. 2:4-9)

16. Thinking with God in Psalm 69
God’s Wrath on the Unrighteous is Just – embrace it – do not avoid such thinking (Rom. 2:4-9)
We should teach the unrighteous and try to save them – while embracing God’s wrath on the unrighteous (Rom. 10:1, I Cor. 9:22, 2 Cor. 2:15-16)

17. Thinking with God in Psalm 69
God’s Wrath on the Unrighteous is Just – embrace it – do not avoid such thinking (Rom. 2:4-9)
We should teach the unrighteous and try to save them – while embracing God’s wrath on the unrighteous (Rom. 10:1, I Cor. 9:22, 2 Cor. 2:15-16)
Never take personal vengeance into your own hand – it belongs exclusively with God (Rom. 12:19-20)