00:00 Introduction and Cinco de Mayo Celebration

00:23 Personal Reflections and Local Favorites

02:36 Understanding Psalm 89

06:17 Evangelistic Message in Psalm 96

08:47 Call to Worship in Psalm 100

10:14 David's Resolve in Psalm 101

12:22 Remembering God's Faithfulness in Psalm 105

14:20 Praying for God's Promises in Psalm 132

16:10 Conclusion and Prayer

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Everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy de Mayo.

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This is yesterday.

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Hey, we didn't forget you guys

Cinco, the Mayo Celebrators.

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We just had more important

things to celebrate yesterday.

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Yeah.

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Like the announcement

about the move the church.

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Yeah.

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That was a pretty big deal.

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I hope though let's see today.

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Oh, today's Saturday.

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I think as we're recording

it, that is, yeah.

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We, our city has a single

de celebration that.

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Actually, oh, I forgot to

mention this on May 3rd.

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Yep.

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The day that we recorded this that

was my two year anniversary for moving

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into our home in Salinas, Texas.

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Congratulations, man.

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Thank you.

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I went back and looked at some

of the photos and I relived the

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experience of driving down Dallas

Parkway when there was no freeway.

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Yep.

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Being constructed there.

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Yep.

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And going through that really bumpy

Dallas Parkway Road, it's still bumpy

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and driving down into that little county

Road 52, where it's weirdly rural, and

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then we get into our development area.

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It's, it is, it was surreal to

think about how long ago that was.

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Yeah.

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It's two whole years nostalgic,

but it doesn't feel real.

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And now here we are two years later.

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Here we are.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But as you're listening to

this, it's the 6th of May.

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That's right.

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And yesterday was de Mayo Cinco de Mayo.

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What's your go-to Mexican

food restaurant out here?

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I know it's been a

labor, it's two years in.

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Have you found anything that you're

like this, I like this place.

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I do like EAs.

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I feel like it's, and part of

the calculation for me is local.

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I like local.

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Yeah.

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So enemy is, I do enjoy, it's one of

my go-to places if I have a choice.

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If I don't have a choice, I don't care.

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I'll just, I'll find, I'll

get some fajitas from anywhere

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and I'll choke that down.

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But I do enemy is a lot.

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They have great tableside, guac,

good service and generally.

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Good food.

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That's my place.

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What about you?

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We go to Blue Goose.

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Oh yeah.

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That bar that you talk about all the time?

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Yes.

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It's a bar.

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It has a bar in the restaurant.

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It's called Blue Goose though.

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How Mexican can it be?

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Honestly, it's Blue Goose Cantina.

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They have, it's called, they

call it Cantina, isn't it?

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Isn't that code for bar?

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No.

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If it was truly Mexican, it'd be as,

I don't know what AGU is in Spanish.

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El Guso as I don't know either.

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El Cantina, it's all I know is their

chips and queso are their chips and

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salsa and their queso top notch, and they

make their own tortillas in store there.

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So yeah, it's great.

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Homemade vodka tequila

that is, I wouldn't know.

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I wouldn't know.

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You wouldn't know.

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Yeah.

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And right next to it is cookie Society.

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Oh.

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So yeah.

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You load up on chips and Salsa eight,

your dinner and you go get a cookie.

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It's great.

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Yeah.

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Not too bad.

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Great date night.

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Yep.

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Blue Goose, CIN de Mayo, cin

to Mayo, happy Cinco to Mayo,

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everybody, Mexicans Army, a Mexican

Army's victory over French forces.

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That's what it celebrates.

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So it's like a freedom

celebration of sorts.

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Yeah.

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And we just get to go eat Mexican food.

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Yeah.

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I'm okay with that.

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Hooray.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Alright, let's get into our

Bible reading, 'cause we got

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a lot, again, a lot of Psalms.

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Shocker.

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Only six today.

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As opposed to yesterday,

which was I think eight.

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Yeah.

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Today's only six, so we're

cutting it back a little bit.

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Yeah, but the opening one is 52 verses.

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Yeah.

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That's why we're only doing six.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 89.

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This one is by Ethan, the

Ezra, who is Ethan Pastor Rod.

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Do you know Ethan?

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I know one.

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Ethan.

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Yeah, he's not his last name

is not Ezra Height though.

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Okay another Psalmist here.

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Just a reminder that not all

of these are written by David.

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You know that by now.

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But here's one written by Ethan.

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Ethan had one shot and he was not

gonna miss his chance to show I.

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Yeah, good try.

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I'm just saying this opportunity

for him, it came once in a lifetime.

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Alright.

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All right.

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So he was gonna lose

himself in the music moment.

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Keep going man.

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Anyways, mom, spaghetti.

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Ethan this longer Psalm spends the

majority of its words praising God for

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his power and his strength and the great

acts that he accomplished in the past.

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Zooms in on God's covenant that he made

with David and recounts the promises

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that he made to be faithful to the

Davidic line, even if the Davidic line

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wasn't always gonna be faithful to him.

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The Psalm turns though in Psalm 89

38, and he begins to, the psalmist

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does lament his present circumstances.

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The circumstances of Israel,

acknowledging that God had cast them

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off in his language here and rejected

them, and even accuses God of having

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renounced the covenant, which is strong.

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I mean that Psalm 89 39, if you look

at that verse, he's saying, God, you

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renounced your covenant which is not true.

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God had not done that, at least if

we understand renounced in the term

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of abandoned or forsaken or undone

or severed I guess the he Hebrew word

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there is to repudiate and and yet

that's how the psalmist feels given the

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circumstances that he finds himself in.

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But in the end, the Psalmist

asks the question, how long, oh,

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Lord, will you hide yourself?

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This is a common refrain in the Psalm.

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Different ones.

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Sometimes David says the same thing, and

then he calls on the Lord to remember and

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ends with one final statement of praise,

saying, blessed be the Lord forever.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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This is he's.

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Really reminding God of his faithfulness

at the beginning, beginning of

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the psalm, and then lamenting his

circumstances, and in the end, he just

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throws himself on the mercy of God

with this final statement of saying,

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God, how long blessed be your name.

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It's a, an emotional psalm for sure.

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Yeah.

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I think one of the things that

I like about this Psalm is that

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everything he says prior to that

statement of Why have you cast us off?

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Why you just rejected us, disregarded

us, is that the 37 verses prior to

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that give you a sense of his theology.

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So you know that he doesn't think

that God could ultimately do this.

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He just goes about saying the opposite.

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In fact, he says, you, you can't do this.

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You have said, I've made a

covenant with my chosen one.

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I have sworn to David my sermon.

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Servant.

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So he's, he recognizes all that God is

and has said and basically is guaranteed.

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And so that's what makes the next part

of this passage also powerful because

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he's saying it, it's true to his

feelings, although not true to fact.

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And sometimes that's a

powerful conveyance of.

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Of how we relate to God.

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God doesn't want us to pretend.

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And neither does God

want us to lie, either.

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This isn't true, verse 38.

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It's not true in the sense

that it's ultimately true,

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but it's true to how he feels.

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And I think there's a place for that

when we're interacting with God.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes our head has to lead our heart.

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We can be honest in our feelings,

but at the same time, we have to

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let what we know to be true, which

is Philippians four, eight, right?

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That the, we're gonna think on the things

that are true and right, and honorable,

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commendable, excellent, worthy of praise.

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When our heart is feeling the

anxiety of Philippians four, six.

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So sometimes, yeah, our head has

to lead our heart in that and and

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yet we can be honest with the Lord

and say, Lord, this is how I feel.

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I know this to be true, and yet

this is how I feel right now.

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And that's an example in Psalm 89.

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I think that's what faith looks

like when it's working itself out.

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Yeah.

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God wants us to bring our

messiness to him and he'll.

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Clean us up.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 96 Psalm 96 is a great evangelistic

psalm, if there ever was one.

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This, the psalmist in this psalm, calls

on the reader to sing again the commands.

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Sing to the Lord.

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Sing to the Lord.

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Sing to the Lord Three times in

the first two verses here tell of

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his salvation, declare his glory.

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Again, notice verse four.

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That, that that preposition

four, four, great is the Lord

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and greatly to be praised.

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He's to be.

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Feared above all Gods verse

five, four, all the gods of the

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peoples are worthless idols.

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Ascribe to the Lord.

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Ascribe to the Lord.

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Verse seven and eight.

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This is a time and time again.

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He's saying, exalt God, exalt

him in the eyes of the nations.

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Make sure that people know

how great and glorious God is.

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And so sometimes we think of evangelism

and we say, yeah, the church is the

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God's evangelistic arm and yet God

intended for his people to be a light.

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Israel was to be a

light among the nations.

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Israel was to have an evangelistic

element to it as well.

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And when they did that well and

decently, we see examples of people

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that were not Israelites who choose to

believe in the God of Israel and come

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along to that and come around to that.

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And Israel ultimately failed to do that.

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And now the church has been

commissioned to do that.

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But but this is a psalm for telling

people about how great and awesome God is.

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One of the cool things about the

Psalm is that it forecasts the

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future restoration of all things.

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And we think about this in two ways.

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Number one, where every tribe, tongue,

and nation gathers around the throne

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and sings praises to God, which is

why it's so important in chapter

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96 where he says, sing to the Lord.

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All the earth declares

glory among the nations.

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His marvelous works among all

the peoples, all families of

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the peoples, among the nations.

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This is such a cool idea, and we talked

about this before, it gets me jazzed up

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when I start seeing a mixture of people

of different backgrounds and ethnicities,

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and even prior different religions

serve in worship Jesus as he deserves.

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This is what God forecasts

and says, this is our future.

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But not only this, you also see

that God is concerned and not only

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reconciling people to himself, but also.

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All the earth to himself.

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The earth is broken.

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It is riddled with sin.

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And consequently, the curse

of sin, death, decay, thorns,

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thistles, Genesis, chapter three.

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Notice verse 12, though.

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Let the field exalt.

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In fact verse 11 let the heavens be glad.

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Let the earth rejoice.

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Let the sea roar, let the

field exalt then shall.

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Look at this, all the trees of the forest.

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Sing for joy.

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The trees are singing for joy before

the Lord, for he comes to judge the

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earth and he's gonna restore all things.

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So it's not just the people,

although that's the most important.

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It's also all creation.

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He's gonna restore, he's gonna refurbish,

he's gonna make all things new.

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And that's such a cool picture if you

just think about it for a few moments.

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Psalm 100, then Psalm 100,

shorter ones, five verses here.

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And this psalm is a

again, a call to worship.

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It's the opening.

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Make a joyful noise to the Lord.

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Notice verse two, serve

the Lord with gladness.

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The word serve, there is the

word that means to work to do

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service, yet to render service.

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And so it's just a reminder to us that

as we labor, as we do whatever you

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happen to be doing, that ultimately

we are working as Paul's gonna say

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later on, not for the approval of

men, but ultimately for the Lord.

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And so we're gonna to serve him in our.

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Our labors were to do that

even with gladness, come into

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his presence with singing.

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That's why, again we've said this

before that, but that's why we don't

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just show up at church and hear a

sermon and then turn around and leave.

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There's singing there because this is

part of what God has commanded us to do.

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And it's all ba based on our knowledge.

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Verse three, know that the Lord is God.

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He made us and we are his.

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And we are his people in

the sheep of his pasture.

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Because he is our creator.

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He has the authority, he has the right

to command us to do what he's calling

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us to do here, which is to worship him.

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So as that creator he holds that

position and we should do well

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to obey him by worshiping him

with joyfulness and gladness and

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thanksgiving, which praise God.

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We've got that God and not

the God that's worship me.

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And I don't care about

how you feel about it.

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Worship me in depression and

sadness and admire because I'm

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the Lord and I'm gonna crush you.

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He's a kind God.

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We were talking about this recently.

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He's a gracious God.

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He's about his glory, but he

is also about our good in the

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process too, which is awesome.

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That's right.

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Psalm 1 0 1.

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Then we talked about David appealing

to his blamelessness, and I think

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that was in yesterday's episode Here.

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We have that in Psalm 1 0 1.

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This is about the resolve

of David in this psalm.

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It's it's his promise.

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It's his vow before the Lord.

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To to sing of God's love and character,

to ponder the way that is blameless and

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to walk in the integrity of his heart.

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And so David is saying, this

is what I'm going to do.

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I'm setting myself towards this,

and I just found that those

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first three verses I will sing.

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I will ponder, I will walk and

then he expounds upon the, I will

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walk in verses three and four.

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I will not set anything before my eyes.

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That's worthless.

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A perverse heart shall be far from me, but

I just love David's intentionality here.

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And that's something, again, like we

talked about yesterday if we're not

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intentional, we're gonna default,

we're gonna drift into our fleshliness.

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So we have to resolve almost daily

with David to say, I'm gonna,

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I'm gonna walk in integrity.

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Psalm one, ones a great psalm to read

at the beginning of the day to say,

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yep, this is what I wanna do, Lord,

I'm gonna set myself this direction.

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And maybe Psalm 1 0 1 verse three might

be a great verse to put on a phone case.

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Maybe put it on the front of your phone

case to say, I will not set before

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my eyes anything that is worthless.

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Now, in, in the context here, David

doesn't just mean things that are

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trivial even though that might

be a good application, but things

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that are sinfully things that are

sinful and things that dishonor God.

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He says, I hate the work

of those who fall away.

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It shall not clinging to me.

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He wants to protect and guard

himself such that the infection of

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sin does not reach his own heart.

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He's guarding his heart, and that's a.

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Good posture as you are confronted

with so many different sources of

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information, infotainment things that

are worthless and even destructive

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on the further end of that spectrum.

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So be aware of that.

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Psalm 1 0 1 verse three is such a good

verse for you to ponder and consider

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as you go about your navigation

of today's world and technology.

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Yeah.

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In fact, the word worthless

there it can mean useless.

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Good for nothing.

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And I think you, your description

of putting it on our phones

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is so helpful that way.

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Yeah.

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The extreme of the sinfulness there, but

so much of just our doom scrolling too.

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We would say at the end of the day,

what is it profited me to sit on

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the couch for 45 minutes and get

a thumb workout by just scrolling

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through reels over and over again.

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Yeah.

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Maybe I'm chuckling.

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I'm laughing at some things, but aside

from that, man, there's so much good

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that we can do to redeem our time and

redeem it in a way that's profitable.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 1 0 5.

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Then Psalm 1 0 5.

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Let me scroll down there since

we're not that far away here.

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Alright, Psalm 1 0 5 Psalm 1 0 5 opens

with a, the call to sing and praise again.

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Again, like I said yesterday, so many

times we're commanded by the Lord to

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do these things, to be worshiping him.

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And so many others that.

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That's what he does here.

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And then from here it declares

that the reader needs to remember

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the acts of God in the past.

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And the remainder of the Psalm looks

back to God's promises to Abraham and

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how from there he had raised up Joseph

and Moses and Aaron ultimately to deliver

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his people into the Promised land.

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Remembering things you often talk about

this pastor out of just those moments

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for us to remember things as a family, to

create those monuments even in our home

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to say, this is God's faithfulness to us.

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And.

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It's good not just to create those, but

to be intentional, to set time aside,

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to go back through those and remember

those intentionally with the family.

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Otherwise they become white noise.

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If you've got a picture, you've got

a shadow box, you've got something

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like that up on the wall that's

got something inside of it that

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reminds you of God's faithfulness,

that's gonna work for a while.

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Yeah.

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But eventually it's gonna

become, stop seeing it.

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You're gonna just be like, oh yeah,

that's, there becomes wallpaper.

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Totally.

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So we have to be.

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Intentional and thoughtful to go back

through even dates on the calendar.

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Like you said, the two year anniversary

of you guys moving out here and

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taking possession of your house.

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That's a great opportunity for you and

your family to look back over God's

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faithfulness in all of the different

things that he did to bring you to where

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you were, to get you into that house.

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That's moments like that, that,

that should not just be like,

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oh, cool, it's been two years.

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Wow.

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Time flies.

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But to stop and reflect birthday and

give things to God, anniversaries, all of

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those things are opportunities for that.

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Yeah, probably one easy way to do that,

in fact I tried to do it while I was

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here preparing for this is to create a

little slideshow on my Apple Photos thing.

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It's really easy today on

some of these platforms.

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You could just say, okay, gimme all

the pictures from this timeframe.

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You can describe it to their ai.

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Machine thing, and it'll

create stuff for you.

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Google, apple, they all do it.

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So that might be a really easy way

for you to do that, to just play it

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on TV and say let's remember this

guys, and let's, oh, look at that.

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You remember when we walked in here

and when we did this, and we drove

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over there and God was faithful to us.

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How good God has been to us.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 1 32 this psalm mash up the themes

of Jerusalem and the Davidic Messiah.

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And it's a psalm of ascent so that people

are worshiping and preparing for worship

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as they, they climb up to Jerusalem here.

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And here they're praying for the city,

but also asking God to establish his

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promise that he made to David that their

future Messiah would also reign therein.

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This is about Jerusalem,

about the Davidic Messiah.

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And I think for us we're sitting

here going we, we don't go to

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Jerusalem and we know the Messiah.

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So what's our takeaway?

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Our takeaway here, I think is just.

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Remembering God has made promises

and will be faithful to those

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promises, and it's good for us.

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It's right for us to even pray for

those things and ask him to be faithful

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to the promises that he's made.

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Promises like the promise that

Christ will come back for his church

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promises, like the fact that he's

gonna wipe away every tear from our

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eyes and that death will be no more.

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And those are things that we can

hold onto as Christians and say, God.

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We're asking you to do this.

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In fact, we're gonna see tomorrow

in the reading the Davidic Covenant

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and after David is given the

Davidic covenant from Nathan, the

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promises of the Davidic covenant.

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David basically says, okay, God, do it.

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He even uses in peral language,

command language with God

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to say, God do these things.

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And I think that's something that we

can we can take away and say, God,

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we're asking you to do the things

that you promised you will do.

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I think that's probably one of the most

redeeming ways to read these things is

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to see what God has done in the past.

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God has fulfilled his promises, but

even though it is right to believe those

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promises, it is even more right to pray

for those promises to be fulfilled.

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I would say every time you read your

Bible and things like this is a good

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example of what piety, godliness, holiness

looks like, takes God at his word, and

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then pleads for God to fulfill his word.

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God wants to do it.

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God's going to do it.

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But God often does that fulfills

his promises through the plead,

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the pleading prayers of his people.

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Your prayers are meaningful, they're

important, and Psalm 1 32 reminds

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us that it is good and right to pray

for God to fulfill his promises.

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Let's pray and we'll be done with another

full episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, we are thankful for

the, for those promises.

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And certainly there are many that we

look forward to as a church, and we

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trust in your character to fulfill them.

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And yet we're also gonna say, God we pray

that you will fulfill them, and we just

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ask that you would fulfill them quickly.

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Even when we pray, Jesus, come quickly.

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That's a prayer that we're making

based on a promise that you will

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return for your bride, the church.

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And so in the meantime, as we await

that day, help us to be faithful.

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God, we pray that our time spent in

the Word like today, and hopefully

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all the other days that we've been

reading your word, would prove to

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be fruitful for us and shaping us

to be more like Christ as we wait.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said