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May 5, 2025 | Psalm 1-2, 15, 22-24, 47, 68
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00:00 Introduction and Big Announcement

00:38 Details of the New Facility Move

01:45 Benefits of the New Location

03:40 Spiritual Reflections and Encouragement

04:07 Diving into the Psalms

04:24 Psalm 1 and Psalm 2: The Righteous and the Wicked

09:01 Psalm 15: Who Can Dwell with God?

11:17 Psalm 22: A Prophetic Psalm

15:10 Psalm 23: The Lord is My Shepherd

16:32 Psalm 24: The King of Glory

18:12 Psalm 47: Worship and Praise

20:22 Psalm 68: God of the Vulnerable

21:45 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

in the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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It is it's Monday, which means

the secret is officially out.

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We have we've revealed what

the big news was on Sunday.

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I can barely stand it.

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What did we say?

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We're not gonna tell anybody I.

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Okay.

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So those that weren't there on

Sunday, you don't get to know.

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Yeah, I got a text message from

one I won't call him by his first

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name, but his initials are g and r.

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Okay.

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And he was asking if his wife

and him could guess the thing.

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Yep.

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And I said you can guess.

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And I'm not guaranteeing that.

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I'll let you know if you got it

right, but he got it totally wrong.

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He did ask a really

good follow-up question.

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And I answered it truthfully,

but he didn't catch onto it.

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So now hopefully he knows

what we just announced.

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Yep.

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The announcement is we are

moving our our facility.

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We're gonna move our facility

from founders in Frisco, Texas

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to founders in Prosper, Texas.

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And you might think.

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If you're not here, okay,

what's the big deal?

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It's a massive deal for us.

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Frisco's been great.

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We have been there for almost two years

now, and and God has blessed our church.

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We've been growing there.

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And so one of the things that we are

bumping up against is a need for more

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space as our church continues to grow.

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And Frisco's not as big of a

campus as prosperous, prosper.

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Prosper is a bigger campus has

a bigger facility more rooms

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for us to be able to utilize.

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That's right.

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And so we are going to be able to

grow into that a lot easier than that.

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It's also up in our

target demographic area.

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Frisco's great, but if you're not familiar

with our area Frisco is built out and

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it's massive, but it is built out.

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When we moved out here, one of the

things that we said is we want to

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hit where churches need to be built.

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Where the community is expanding and

growing and things are being built.

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Schools and Costcos and everything else.

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And we wanna build churches there.

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And so moving up here puts us more in

line with our ultimate lord willing,

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we will see what he does down the

road, but with our target area.

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And it opens up a brand

new area of growth for us.

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We have evaluated the demographics

for the majority of our church.

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Actually, this makes the commute shorter.

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And this keeps most of our people,

most of our congregation, over 90% of

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our congregation, well over 90% of our

congregation, still within 30 minutes

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of a drive to church, which we've

done some research and a lot of the

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organizations that look into these things

have said most people are willing to

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drive about 30 minutes to get to church.

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That's not.

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Out of the ordinary.

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And so this was a good move for us.

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It made a lot of sense.

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It opens up a new area for us to reach

even more people as our 30 minute

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drive area expands further north into

some of these regions where a lot

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of this growth is taking place here.

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The administration at Founders has

in Prosper, has worked with churches

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in the past and is very open.

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So working with us,

they're excited about that.

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We're excited about partnering with

them, and it's gonna be a lot better

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for our people, our setup and tear down

crews, the that we're gonna be able to

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store our trailers on site there, which

is gonna huge, not only save us some

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money, saves us money, but saves us time.

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Yeah.

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Wear and tear on our

vehicles and the people.

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These as people that have to tow 'em.

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I mean that, that's a lot.

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They were towing all the way down to

Frisco, back up to Salina and back.

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And so God has opened doors

that we are very excited about.

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Starting June one, Lord willing, we are

gonna be launching at Founders in Prosper.

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And we are just excited because we'll

see what the Lord does long term as

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far as a permanent facility goes.

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We're not sure what that's gonna

look like at this point, but this

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place allows us to grow and to

really grow into this this school.

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It's gonna be awesome.

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Yeah, there's really almost

everything that we've thought about.

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In, by way of comparison, it is

really a net positive for us.

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We've examined this, turned it

over, we've thought about it.

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We've tried to even find ways

where, okay, are there anything

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that we're not thinking about?

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And all the boxes that we're seeking

to check have been checked by this

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move and we're really pleased by it

and we're trusting that everybody who

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heard us announce it yesterday are

also equally enthusiastic in almost

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every metric that we can measure.

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This is gonna be an up.

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Grade four.

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So if you've been tracking with us

since the beginning as either a church

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member or just someone who's been

listening from afar, we're grateful

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for your prayers and we think this is

a good step in the right direction.

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And this is the thing that God

is doing to position us for

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whatever the next season is.

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And of course, we are hoping

and praying for a building.

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We're praying for land.

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We're just praying for God to open up

doors that's gonna make sense for us.

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And even though this isn't the

ultimate destination, this is a really

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great step in the right direction.

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And for this, we do praise God.

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Yes, we do.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Let's jump into our text

'cause we've got a lot today.

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We have so much to cover.

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We have a, how are we gonna do this?

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Yeah I, we were talking about

righteous indignation right before we

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hit play on or record on the button.

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And I feel maybe a little bit over

the fact that he had us read one

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Psalm of three verses that one day.

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Yeah.

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And we've got all of

these psalms to cover.

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Alright.

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Psalm one and psalm two.

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Really they probably were both,

potentially one text at some point

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in time, but they've been split up.

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Now we've got Psalm one, Psalm two.

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Remember when we read the Bible, these

were not written with chapters and verses.

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Those were added at a latter date.

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And Saint latter.

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What?

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Latter day Saint You said La Latter.

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Latter date.

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Oh, dates.

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Not latter day Saint.

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Yeah, now Latter day Saint.

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Yeah.

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No, we don't like them.

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The Mormons.

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We like them.

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We love them.

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Even we don't like their theology.

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We hate their theology.

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They're better.

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Yeah.

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That's a better way to put it.

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Anyway, Psalm one really

contrast two types of people.

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The wicked and the, just the blessed.

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And scripture does that

pretty much across the board.

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In fact, if you read the Bible, it's

gonna be, you're gonna be hard pressed

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to find anywhere in scripture that has a

neutral man, somebody that isn't either.

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Pursuing the Lord and receiving

blessings like this one in Psalm one

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who's not walking in the council of

the wicked or standing in the way of

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sinners, but delighting in the law.

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The Lord meditates on

his law day and night.

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There, there's that category, or

there's the camp of the person that

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is standing opposed to the Lord.

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And and even if you're listening

out there and going, okay I don't.

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I don't feel like I'm

actively opposing God.

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If you're not actively pursuing

him, then your default is gonna be

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towards the flesh, and the flesh is

gonna pull you away from the Lord.

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There is no neutrality.

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There's no neutrality.

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In fact, we talked about that on Sunday.

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There's the Monday fog that

kills the Sunday faith.

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There's the drift to our default.

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And our default is to be

men and women of the flesh.

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And we have to actively pursue him.

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We have to actively meditate on

his law and delight on his law and

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be like the righteous person in

Psalm one rather than the wicked.

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Psalm two then is, uh, it's an

interesting psalm 'cause there's so

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many different layers to this Psalm.

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On the one hand, it was an enthroned

psalm, so this was a psalm that was

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read at the beginning of a king's reign.

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And so as a king is installed on

the throne, they would've read this

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one because it, it talks about.

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God installing his king.

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And so they would've taken that

language and applied it to the King

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of Israel as the King of Israel is

getting ready to take the throne.

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But it was also a messianic psalm.

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And that's because this king,

this divine figure this royal

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figure, and starting in verse six

seems to be the ultimate Messiah.

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You are my son today.

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I've begotten you.

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The kings in ancient near Eastern

culture were considered to have been

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adopted by the God of that culture.

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And when you had a pagan culture and

they had a king, they would attribute

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that king to the be the adopted

son of the God of that culture.

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This is unique because this is the

God of Israel saying, I've installed

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my king, my son, you are my son.

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They would've applied that in the.

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Enthronement Psalm to the

earthly king, but there's gonna

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come a king in the future.

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That's gonna be the actual literal

the Son of God, begotten by God.

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And that's gonna be the one

that is going to be the ultimate

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king, the messianic king.

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So Psalm two has multiple layers here,

including a warning to the opponents

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of God to say, Hey don't wait too long.

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Honor the son while there's still

chance, because eventually the

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sun's gonna come back in judgment.

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Yeah, that, I don't know if it ever

struck you as strange, but verse 12, where

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it says, kiss the sun les to be angry.

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It's not like romantic kiss, right?

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Let's just be clear about that.

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The notion here is that

you kiss in homage.

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It is a way of showing respect

and reverence to the king himself.

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And so just like you might kiss

the scepter or you might, and

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some of the images of a king, you

might see the subjects kissing the

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king's feet or something like that.

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That's the idea.

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That's the concept that's

being carried here.

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And of course, the son, the capital

S here is Jesus Christ, the son, the

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Messiah, the son of David, who would

ultimately be established and lifted high.

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He's the one that we have to be submissive

to, and he's the one that right now,

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while you still have a chance, if there's

breath in your lungs and you have not yet

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repented, he's the one that you must pay.

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Two.

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Romans two, four don't despise

the patience of God, don't presume

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upon the riches of his kindness and

forbearance and patience which is

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meant to lead you to repentance.

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And so that's what this is about

this Old Testament version of that.

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That's why the nas b the net Christian

Standard Bible those all do translate

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it as do homage to or show honor to.

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That's that that concept there.

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All of those guys, huh?

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They do the NAS B two.

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Nas B 95, NAS B.

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No kidding.

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Early.

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Because the word is kiss.

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The word is the, literally

the literal word is kiss.

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But that makes sense.

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That they would do, that's a really

interesting text too, because that

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I'm sure they know that it's kiss.

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Yep.

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And they translate it to make it make

sense to the English reader, which is

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why you need translation committees to

help them wrestle with these things.

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It's really fascinating.

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What's interesting though, is

the LSB Legacy standard Bible

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chooses KISS and not do homage.

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So NSBE and L SB are, yeah.

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'cause they, they prefer the more literal.

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Rendering and even if it means

that you provoke some kind of

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confusion on the part of the reader.

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It's just, it's funny, a lot of people

accuse the LSB of just being the Ns

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B with MacArthur's name on it and

translating it as Yahweh and slave.

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Oh, mostly, probably.

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Hey man, I love MacArthur,

so gimme his Bible.

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No, same for sure.

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Alright, Psalm 15.

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This Psalm establishes the type of person

permitted to enter into God's presence.

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And so that's the question that's asked

at the outset of the Psalm in verse one,

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oh Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent?

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Who shall.

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Dwell on your Holy Hill.

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A Psalm of David here.

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It would appear that this is

probably written after the city of

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David has been established after

Jerusalem has been established there.

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The hill language the idea of ascending

there and the answer here, right

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off the bat in verse two, he who

walks blamelessly and does what is

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right and speaks truth in his heart.

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Pierre, I'm curious to get your

thoughts but for me, I read that

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and I'm like, okay, so the answer

is who's qualified to do that?

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No one.

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I mean that it essentially cuts the

legs out from anybody to be able

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to say, yeah I walk blamelessly.

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Although David says from time to time

that he does reading this maybe through

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our New Testament lens, it seems like

this is setting up the conclusion

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to be like, I need Christ, I need

the righteousness in order to dwell.

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In the with the Lord on his Holy hill.

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I need the righteousness of Christ because

I can't measure up to these standards.

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I think there is a place for

that for that understanding.

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On the other hand, I do think that there

was a real concept of righteousness

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in the Old Testament mindset.

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Think about job I.

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He walked Blamelessly, he was upright.

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God himself called him blameless.

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And so I think there is a real category

for this kind of person, and David

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intends for us to read it that way.

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In other words, that your

life has to convey a kind of

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integrity that God can say you.

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You live in a blameless way.

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So I would say yes, generally

speaking, it's true.

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We can't ever live up to the

standard by which God gives us.

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The standard is perfection.

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Matthew chapter seven, be perfect as your

father in heaven is perfect, however.

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With the caveat, there is a real category

for the righteous under the Old Testament

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law where he walked blamelessly and

consequently, his life looks like this.

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Not perfectly, just like Job's.

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Life was in a perfect reflection

of righteousness, but sincerely and

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evidently so I would say, I think

he intends for us to say, okay, let

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me measure my life against this.

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Where do I need to grow

to showcase my faith?

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Yeah, I would agree with you there.

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It's, I don't mean to let us off

the hook of saying we need to

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pursue righteousness there to say I

can't do it, so I even bother him.

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Let's sin all the mors

that Grace May a bound.

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But I think there's, we do have the added

benefit as New Testament believers to

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read and understand a broader application

of some of these Old Testament passages

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through the lens of Christ there.

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And so sure, it's maybe a

both and, speaking of reading

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it with different eyes.

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Psalm 22 Psalm 22 is a Psalm of

David here, and you'll note right

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off the bat that there's some

familiar language in verse one.

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My God, why have you forsaken me?

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That is quoted by Jesus, by our Savior

as he's on the cross dying in our

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place for our sins as he's bearing the

full weight of God's wrath upon him.

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I think that's the moment of him

feeling forsaken by the Father There.

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Yet here it's uttered by David.

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And David didn't have a

concept of a crucified savior.

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David didn't know that Jesus, the

his long in the future descendant

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was going to die in such a fashion.

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And yet, it's fascinating to me

that as we read this psalm, we find

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such a clear depiction, it sounds at

least of the elements of crucifixion.

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Just the exhaustion, the.

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Thirst the the dogs encompass

me, pierced my hands and feet.

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Verse 16, they've pierced

my hands and feet.

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I can count all my bones.

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They staring gloat over me.

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They divide my car garments among them,

and for my clothing, they cast lots.

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We don't know of the specific situation

that David wrote this in, but it's

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certainly one in which he felt destitute.

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He felt afflicted, he felt surrounded by

the evil doers and was even suffering.

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It appears physically, although I think

this is where by the spirit, David wrote

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better than he knew as he anticipated the

death that Jesus would ultimately die.

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I don't think there was a point at which

David's hands and feet were pierced.

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In that same sense, David

is called a prophet.

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And so it would make sense that David

would write prophetic songs that would

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speak not only about himself in some way,

shape, or form, but also about the future

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Messiah who would come from his own loins.

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Another comment, I saw this recently,

in fact, this week I saw someone.

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Tweet or X or post, I saw someone

post that said because of Psalm

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22, I have a hard time singing the

song in Christ Alone where it says

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the Father turns his face away.

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He points to verse 24 where it says

that he has not despised or abhorred

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the affliction of the afflicted

that is Christ on the cross.

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He has not hidden his face from him,

but is heard when he cried to him.

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So would quick, I know this is we have

many more Psalms to look at, but quickly

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would you please talk about that?

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Is it true?

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Can we theologically sing

that the father turns his face

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away from Jesus on the cross?

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Man, we're getting into so

much there because even the

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language of his face right is an

anthropomorphism God doesn't, right.

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God doesn't have a face.

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He doesn't possess a face.

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Yeah.

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He's spirit.

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So even to sing anything about

the physical body of God, we

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could say he doesn't actually.

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Have a face, and so he doesn't

turn away in that sense.

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So if we understand that I think

charitably, we can read this from

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the point of view of the author of

that song, which I believe is Stuart

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Townend, if I'm Correct there.

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And one of the Gettys maybe both.

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Yeah.

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And that, to, to understand that there're

really trying to capture the wrath of

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God that, that there was such a shift in.

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The experience of the son to the

father, then that's how they put it

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into poetic language in this song.

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We're not reading this saying, okay

and Getti disagree with Psalm:

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So therefore we're gonna choose to believe

Song Town and getti and reject scripture.

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And I don't think they're

trying to undermine scripture.

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I think they're trying to help

us understand and feel the full

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weight of our sin in that song.

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I understand the sentiment and saying

I have difficulty reading that and I.

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I heard the same thing and thought about

that myself too, and I think about it,

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I think every time we sing that song,

but for me, I just choose to go back

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to going, they're just trying to help

us understand the weight of our sin.

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Yeah, and that's the difficulty with

poetry and song is that sometimes

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we're using symbols and analogies to

get the sense of what's happening.

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And obviously this does not allow

us to be sloppy, but it does allow

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us to give room for the Psalm to

sing what we're trying to convey.

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No one is saying that the song

itself is a systematic theology

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where we're parsing every nuance.

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We're singing with the spirit

of the song to say, okay, this

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generally happened and it is true.

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God poured his wrath upon the sun.

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There was some kind of, animosity

between the father and the son.

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The son became sin.

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He who knew no sin became sin

on our behalf so that we might

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become the righteousness of God.

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There's some kind of interaction

that's happening there that is

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not the normal harmony between the

father and the son's relationship.

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Yeah, I would agree with that.

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Psalm 23 probably the most.

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Famous of all the Psalms, perhaps

it's a one that, that a lot of

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people know, even unbelievers know.

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I've heard of this one.

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It's red time and time again.

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The Lord is my shepherd.

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I shall not want.

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Maybe you've got even got it memorized

and you can rattle it off here.

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But one thing that struck me this time

is a lot of these are, it's, this is

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what the Lord is doing for us or to us.

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He makes us lie down.

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He leads us.

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He restores us.

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He leads us in paths of righteousness.

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He sets the table in the

presence of my enemies.

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And we can think to

ourselves, man that's so good.

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I'm glad God does all that for us.

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But if we're gonna build on the

shepherd analogy, and I'm, hopefully,

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I'm not stretching this too far.

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That's for those that are part of

his flock, that's for those that are

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with him, that's not for the sheep.

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That string, the sheep, that string, he's

gonna go with the crook and the staff.

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And sometimes he might break his leg.

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Sometimes he had to break the leg.

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Yeah.

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To smack that sheep to the sheep to

submit, to bring him back so that Jesus

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is not going off to the string sheep.

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And taking that sheep to a

different stream and being

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like, let me lead you over here.

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Because no, he's gonna bring him

back to the flock and say what's

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good for the flock is good for you.

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That's right.

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And for us as believers, I think we

need to read Psalm 23 and understand,

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yes, we're passive in this.

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This is all stuff that God

is doing to us through Jesus.

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But this is as we are.

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In the flock as we are part of the body

of Christ, as we are being led by the

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Lord through our relationship with him.

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Don't make the Lord come after you.

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I love Psalm 23, but make sure you're

keeping track with the step, keeping

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track with the shepherd there.

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Psalm 24 Psalm 24, Psalm of David, and

similar to Psalm 15, in, in that it asks

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the question in verse three, who shall

ascend the hill of the Lord who shall

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stand in his holy place This time it's

he who has clean hands and a pure heart

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and does not lift up his soul to what is

faults and does not swear Deceitfully.

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And the other refrain and point in this

is the anticipation of the coming of

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the king of glory and the celebration

that's gonna be a part of that as well.

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And so in in Psalm 24, similar themes

to Psalm 15, and he's trying to

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get us to understand, hey we need

to be those that are righteous.

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We need to be those that are,

like we were just saying in

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Psalm 23, part of the flock.

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And if we are there, then the arrival

of the king is gonna be joyful for us.

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If we're not, then back to, Psalm two.

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We're gonna be fearful of that

king 'cause that king's gonna

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come in judgment against us.

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What are the heads of the gates?

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What does that mean?

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Lift up your heads.

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Ou gates, O gates.

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Personification of the gates.

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I'm not sure what are

your thoughts on that?

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Oh I was sincere question, but I agree.

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I know it's a poetic description

of the gates opening to the king.

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Open the gates to the king,

is what they're trying to say.

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But sometimes I, stuff

like that tripped me up.

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For years I read that.

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I'm like, what does that mean?

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I never bothered to look at it.

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I've learned about it recently.

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Yeah.

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In the last few years,

but for a long time.

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What does that mean?

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Yeah.

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The word in Hebrew, I

get it's head or hair.

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Person.

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Pick your hair up.

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Yeah, put your hair, pick up your heads.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So poetry, keep that in mind.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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A lot of personification in the Psalms.

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Yeah.

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They didn't actually have heads.

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These are not likes.

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That'd be cool though.

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I would love to put a head

on my gate, a lion's head.

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You should do that.

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You should get gargo oils

and put them on your house.

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Those are creepy, man.

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I don't, I'm just saying, why

would you put a demon on your house

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to protect it from it's demons?

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From other demons.

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Protect demons from demons.

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Whoa.

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Oh, that demon's scarier than I am.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Alright, Psalm 47.

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Thi this psalm is about fuel

for our worship and why God is

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worthy of our worship and praise.

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We're gonna see that a lot

in the coming days here.

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Just the command to sing

and clap and worship.

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Shout to God.

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These are commands.

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That we're being given in scripture.

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And I just noticed that more and more

reading the Psalms this year through is

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just how many times God is telling us,

Hey, you need to worship me in song.

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You need to, there needs to be an

outward expression of the joy that you

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feel over the things that I've done.

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And I think that the Old Testament,

they did that really well.

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I think we don't do that nearly as well.

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On Sunday, we talked in one of our

points about feasting with Jesus.

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And one of the, my suggestions

to you on that was.

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Creating a worship playlist, one that

you just resonate with that, that

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you're just, they're the songs that you

like to belt at the top of your lungs.

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And just living in that and

spending time with that and

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worshiping God and engaging in your

relationship with the Lord that way.

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We were on our way back from from

somewhere, I'm not gonna put it on a blast

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but we drove by somebody in the church

that we saw out at, it was later at night.

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So we drove, we saw the Compass

Bible Church sticker on the car.

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And so we drove by and we

were like, oh, who is that?

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And we looked over who this person.

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And Amanda text her and

was like, what's up?

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What, why, what are you out doing?

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And she was like, where?

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What was I doing when you drove by me?

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What were you doing when we drove by you?

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She was belting it out.

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She was singing at the top of her lung.

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Ah, that's okay.

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But that's good, right?

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Worshiping God, we're

commanded to do that.

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I think Psalm 47.

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Did she say she was worshiping?

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She, I don't know.

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She could have been doing Dr.

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Dre or something.

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We don't know.

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That's true.

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Knowing her, that'd be a little, that'd

be a little out, out of out of her ilk.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So sing praises to God.

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Verse six, sing praises to our king.

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Sing praises.

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Why verse seven four.

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God is the king of all the Earth.

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Sing praises with the Psalm,

by the way, small sidebar.

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Something I've been doing as I've

been going through the Bible this

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year is noting in, in highlighting

I use a little box in my logos

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Bible software, the word for.

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Every time that it's

giving an explanation.

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It's such a powerful preposition

and it unlocks so much for us

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as we study the scriptures to,

to pay attention to that word.

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Four.

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'cause it's giving the reason.

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And so as he's saying, shout to

God, why verse two, four, the

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Lord most highs to be feared.

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He's a great king over all

the earth sing praises.

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Verse six, why verse seven, four.

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God is the king of the earth.

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Sing praises with a psalm.

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Alright.

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Psalm 68, our last Psalm four today.

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How many is this today?

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Man, we just 30.

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It is, it feels like it.

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We've done 130 of the 150 psalms today

and we only did 1, 1 33 on Monday.

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Yeah.

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And sometimes it's okay, surely

the last few are just short and

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then you come to this one, it's 35

verses what in the world's going on.

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I'm, I've written the editors already.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, here we go.

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It's David again.

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And Psalm 35, or Psalm 35, Psalm 68 is

again a praise psalm and it's one of great

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joy and perhaps written around the time

that he brought the arc back to Jerusalem.

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So we're thinking maybe it's

around that time of celebration.

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But I love verse five, that God has

called the father of the fatherless

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and a protector of the widows that

God cares about the vulnerable in

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our society, and we should too.

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And he is one that has not forgotten

them and has not lost sight of

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them or or lost track of them.

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I was reading something recently about

somebody who loses a loved one and how

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the time right after the funeral can

be some of the hardest times for them

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because everybody else has gone home

and eventually the meal train stops.

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And then they're just left in the void

that's created by the loss of that person.

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And a psalm like this is such a, an

encouraging reminder to us that God

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has not forgotten them, that God

is there in their sorrow, in their

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pain, and he's the God who loves

them in the midst of all of that too.

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Yeah.

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Anything else on, on Psalm 68 there?

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Nope.

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That's a good psalm.

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Okay.

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I like it.

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You should too.

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Awesome.

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Yeah.

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Alright hey, let's pray and then

we'll be done with with this episode.

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God, thanks for your word.

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Thanks for these psalms.

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I pray that we would be able to soak

them in as we, we read so many of them.

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I pray that we would not just

glaze over or walk away quickly

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going I'm familiar with Psalm 23,

so let's move on to the next one.

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God, make them fresh

for us and help us to.

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Walk away with nuggets that we can

think about and chew on and meditate

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on, and even think about how our

lives need to look different as a

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result of our time in your word.

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And so we thank you for this time.

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We thank you for your word.

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Thank you for the provision of founders

and prosper, and we look forward to great

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things in the coming years there as we

continue to serve you as your church.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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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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For more Psalms, bye.

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PJ: Thanks for listening to another

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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