From our viewpoint, the concepts of Jesus and the kingdom of God are so synonymous that we hardly notice friend Nicodemus on that dark night, He's not so interesting in unpacking all of these theological and noetic

We've been reminded over and over this year of the noetic effect of sin , which causes people to instinctually

they live differently than the people around them - people who are infected by what's known as the noetic

In other words, having had her mind opened and freed of sin's noetic effect , the grace offered to Lydia

This lack of knowledge, called the noetic effect of sin, is passed down from fathers to sons who act Notice the repetition: They have abandoned the LORD, They have despised the Holy One...

We've mentioned before the noetic effect that sin has upon us, meaning that we can't think straight anymore

We've mentioned this noetic effect of sin several times this year - the condition you inherited that

We've seen a couple of times this year that the noetic effect of sin impairs our ability to reason correctly

Asaph mostly uses plural: We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks (although not exclusively - notice But the psalms are poetically versified as well in ways that don't always correspond to the printed verse Psalm 75 has four poetic verses, which are more accurately referred to as strophes. communal thanksgiving (75:1), a divine oracle (75:2–5) a prophetic oracle (75:6–8) and individual thanksgiving (75:9–10) Notice

Summary Psalm 85 poetically presents the process of repentance. Notice where repentance so often begins - conventional wisdom places its first steps in realizing the Notice here that God wanted His people singing of His wrath!