Wisdom Literature

“Some of you, God hates you. Some of you, God is sick of you. God is frustrated with you. God is wearied by you. God has suffered long enough with you. He doesn’t think you’re cute. He doesn’t think it’s funny. He doesn’t think your excuse is meritous [sic]. He doesn’t care if you compare yourself to someone worse than you. He hates them too. God hates, right now, personally, objectively hates some of you.

God doesn’t just hate what you do. He hates who you are… “

Mark Driscoll Oct 9th 2011

You hate all who do wrong

Psalm 5:5

The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love

violence, he hates with a passion

Psalm 11:5

Deuteronomy

Reminder:

Terms of Covenant

What will you choose?

15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to

keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your

God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to

bow down to other gods and worship them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will

certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to

enter and possess.

19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and

curses.

Deuteronomy 30:15-19

Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.

Deuteronomy 30:19b

What Happens Next?

Historical Narratives

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The OT in a nutshell

Wisdom Literature

• Psalms

• Proverbs

Commit to the LORD whatever you do,

and he will establish your plans.

Proverbs 16:3

Wisdom Literature

• Psalms

• Proverbs

• Ecclesiastes• Song of Songs

• Job

Blessed are those whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the

Almighty.

Job 5:17

My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline,

and do not resent his rebuke, because the LORD disciplines those he

loves, as a father the son he delights in.

Proverbs 3:11-12

After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the

Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not

spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

Job 42:7

Psalms

• People’s prayers to God, not God’s words

to us

• Poetry

• Designed to express emotion, not to

present doctrine

Psalms – 7 categories

Including:

• Thanksgiving

• Praise

• Laments

• Imprecations

‘Hate’

1. ‘Despise’

3. ‘Be unwilling or unable to

put up with. Reject’

The arrogant cannot stand in your presence.

You hate all who do wrong;

Psalm 5:5

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

1 John 4:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in

him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8

John 3:16

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died

for us.

3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But

because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive

with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have

been saved.

Ephesians 2:3-5