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May 16, 2024 - Psalm 3-4, 12-13, 28, 55
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00:00 Welcome to the Daily Bible Podcast

00:03 Nostalgia Trip: Commercials and Theme Songs

00:49 The Power of Music and Memory

02:12 Cultural Shifts and Shared Experiences

02:37 The Impact of Personalization on Culture

03:28 Navigating the Digital Age: Trends and Echo Chambers

03:55 The Lasting Influence of Old Media

05:32 Exploring Imprecatory Psalms and Christian Love

12:18 Diving Deep into the Psalms

20:17 Closing Thoughts and Farewell

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PJ:

Hey, welcome to Thursday's edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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That commercial.

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You were just singing it a second ago.

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Rod: I did.

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I just there's things that you see.

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That just stick in your brain.

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There are and never leave.

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Yep.

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That's why we read the Bible every day.

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It is.

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We want it to stick in

her mind and never leave.

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That's true.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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Like theme songs to different TV

shows that you watched growing up.

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Seven seven cars.

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I don't know.

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Did you ever hear that one yet?

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Uh, that Cal the Worthington Ford.

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You were not in the, in the area

at that point, I had to get back.

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Go see cow, go see cow.

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It was a, there was this guy with a cowboy

hat, and I guess he was in long beach.

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I forget now, but he was selling

cars and that was his theme song.

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PJ: We had 2 6, 7, 8 4 3, 3,

because of the next best thing

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to new is Dow worth clean.

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I don't like that one.

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Yeah.

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Dow worth Dallas, Fort worth downward.

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There was carpet clean.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I get that now.

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Yep.

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That, and then like theme songs, like

fresh prince of Bel layer, teenage

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mutant, ninja turtles, those theme

songs, just play rent free in the

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Rod: back of my mind.

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And I don't like that.

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I want to, I want to push those out

and make room for, for better things.

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That's what I'd like to do.

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Is that how it works?

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No, it doesn't.

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Yeah.

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It's a it's like that meme.

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You can't unsee that like you

want you to see, like you can't

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unhear it, you can't unsee it.

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PJ: But they do get buried in file

cabinet somewhere because I've stumbled

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across songs that I haven't heard

since I was a junior in high school.

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And then all of a sudden I've

got the lyrics to those songs

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running through my head again.

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Rod: Right.

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PJ: And it's, it's been in a file

cabinet somewhere in the back

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of the dusty cobwebs in my mind.

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And.

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I didn't.

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I haven't thought about it in

20 years, but then all of a

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sudden it's like, oh, it's there.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah, that's the fresh,

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Rod: yeah.

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Or if someone plays a song like from back

in the nineties or the eighties where, or

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the 70 sixties, whenever you were born.

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You hear the song and it's like, oh

man, I can still recite all of those.

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They're almost all the

lyrics with near perfection.

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PJ: Yep.

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Rod: Um, you know, I'm at the age now

where the, the music in the supermarket

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is music that's meant to keep me there.

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I'm now the demographic that

they're trying to slow down

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PJ: your music.

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You're like.

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Rod: Hey, put that music up, man.

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Put the bass up, buddy.

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Yeah, it's funny.

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Cause now air, you said listen to

that music on my shopping, my mom and

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I were like, oh, this music stinks.

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Yeah.

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Not knowing that someday.

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That would be my music.

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Yeah.

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Now I'm there and now I spend a

lot more time in the grocery store.

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PJ: Yeah.

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And now you've listened to like

the music, the up and coming music.

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You're like this.

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Rod: Well, okay.

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Here's here's my, here's

my suspicion though.

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You and I have a, somewhat of

a shared cultural experience.

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They will never have that

because so much of their life.

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I mean, besides the major events,

you know, obviously the things

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that we share culturally as a

nation, but there's so much.

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Personalization.

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I mean, music and podcasts and

TV shows, they won't wake up

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to Saturday morning cartoons.

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Right?

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They're not going to have that.

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Like the thing that you and I have, you're

going to have something so different.

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It's going to fit.

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It's going to be known by

a niche amount of people.

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Yep.

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That that's, that's what I fear.

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Like they're not going to, they're

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PJ: not going

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Rod: to know

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PJ: that, which is such an

interesting concept, right?

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Because think about the things

that do rise to the top and do

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transcend that niche culture.

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Like there are shows or movies

or things like that, that still.

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Uh, become that thing that, okay.

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Everybody's talking about.

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Well, I don't know, like a TV show or

a series like that, that everybody is

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watching on Netflix or some of the.

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Something that rises cause

there's thousands upon

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thousands of shows on Netflix.

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Right, right, right.

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And every once in a while, one will pop

up and usually it's TVMA and whatever.

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And it's all this nonsense.

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But it becomes the main thing

that everybody's talking about.

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Again, even though it's not prime time

TV, ABC Friday nights, where everybody's

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watching the same thing at the same time.

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So it's interesting that there can

still be the thing that transcends that.

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The personalization that transcends

that, that everybody still does

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say, yeah, this is the thing.

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This is great.

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I don't know.

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I

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Rod: wonder if it's because

you and I are online a lot.

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I mean, full disclosure, we

spent a lot of time online.

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It's kind of part of our job.

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We want to know what's

happening and all the trends.

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I wonder if it's really as big as

we think, but because we're in an

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echo chamber of news, media, and

resources that we'll see the things

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that make a blip on the radar because

they make a blip on the radar.

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But I wonder if it's actually

a cultural phenomenon.

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To the same degree as TGF on

Friday nights or whatever.

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Right,

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PJ: right.

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Let's take this.

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Okay.

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And this is not a show that I've

watched her endorse it all, but

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it was, it fits this bill, right.

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Game of Thrones.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So that was one of those things that

kind of became a cultural phenomenon,

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like even listening to talk radio,

driving around Dallas, they're talking

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about, Hey, did you see the latest

episode from this last weekend?

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And they're talking about the

season finale or the Sopranos.

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I remember I, again, not a show that

I've ever watched, but I remember when

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this, the finale of the Sopranos hit

everybody was, was up in arms about it.

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And people were talking about it for

hours on, on talk shows and radio and

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sports talk radio, even talking about

it because ended in such an abrupt way.

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And it was something that everybody knew

about and everybody had common ground.

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So they talked about it.

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And so that was, those were a couple

of examples where people fixated on

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one thing that rose above the rest.

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Rod: And let me counter that.

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It was, it was aired for six

seasons between:

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Before the iPhone came

out before we Sopranos.

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Or game of Sopranos.

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Okay.

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So game of Thrones, I

didn't look up that one.

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I was looking at Sopranos, but.

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But I, I think that that's, that's

one of the last vestiges of old

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media, because you're right.

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People knew that I'd never watched it.

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Never saw it, but I heard

about it all over the place.

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Right.

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But that's because we all shared media.

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Yeah.

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Now I wonder, I don't, I don't know the

last show that's transcended like that.

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Maybe, maybe they're out there

and I just haven't paid attention.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Uh, people are rediscovering shows

that are now on the reruns around

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Netflix and things like that.

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Like I think that the office is

still one of the most streamed.

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Shows of all time.

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And it didn't.

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Begin streaming and it aired on

local broadcast radio, but now, or

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TV, but now it's got a brand new

following because it's on Netflix

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and everything else like that.

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So,

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Rod: yeah, there was something

interesting about that.

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So, yeah, there's, there's

weird stuff like that.

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PJ: Well, Hey, we got a

question from a listener,

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Rod: a fateful listener faithfulness.

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PJ: Thank you for listening.

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Rod: You know who you are.

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PJ: Yep.

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And so we are back in the Psalms today.

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And this question was about actually

one of the last songs that we studied.

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So I thought it would be helpful

to bring it up and it comes to us.

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Uh, in this form, it says, Hey,

in Psalm 69, 27 to 28, we read.

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Add to them, punishment upon punishment.

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May they have no acquittal from you?

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Let them be blotted out

of the book of the living.

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Let them not be enrolled

among the righteous.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Again, that's that's

that's imprecatory words.

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Those are words of judgment.

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So that the person that wrote

the email said it struck me that

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this is antithetical to what

Jesus said in Luke 6 28 to 29.

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But I say to you who hear, love your

enemies, do good to those who hate you.

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Bless those who curse you and

pray for those who abuse you.

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It says I'm pretty sure where we are to

honor and live out what Christ commanded.

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So is David's prayer to God here in

Psalm 69, just evidence of his fallen

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nature given so that given so that

we can relate to it, even though

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Jesus calls us to a higher standard.

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Now.

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That's a good question.

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That's a really insightful question to.

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It is.

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Helpful even.

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Rod: That's a helpfully phrased question.

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Yeah.

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So what's the answer bastard, PJ, tell us

all that we want to know and need to know.

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PJ: Tell us all, all the, all that

we want to know and need to know.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 69.

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Just to jog your memory.

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Uh, a song written by David

when he was suffering a lot.

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Um, he was bearing the approach

of God verses four through 12.

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Again, this is one of the ones.

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This is the Psalm that we read for

zeal for your house has consumed me.

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Uh, the approaches of

those were approaches.

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You have fallen upon me.

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So I think when we read these

verses that are referenced here.

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Uh, in, in verses 27 through 28, part

of what we need to remember is David's

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primary offense here in the Psalm

is not an offense that's personal as

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much as it is an offense that is about

God, he's offended on God's behalf.

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And so he's writing and he's lamenting

his bemoaning, these things, and that

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leads to his calling for God to act.

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And he's calling for judgment is a call

for God to act against God's enemies.

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More than it is a call to

act against David's enemies.

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And so when Jesus addresses us

in the new Testament says, Hey,

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you need to love your enemies and

pray for those who persecute you.

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He he's talking about that from our

perspective, from the perspective

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of, of me as an individual,

that my personal offense.

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Uh, is, uh, is, is not on par

with, with God's holy offense.

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And so when someone offends

me, it's not my job to.

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To call down wrath and

judgment and fire upon them.

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In that moment, my job is to, to trust

the Lord vengeance is the Lord's.

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But in this situation, David

is zealous for the name of God.

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David is passionate about

God's reputation here.

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And so when he senses that that

is under attack from the enemies.

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That's why he's calling

for judgment there.

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It's not about him being vindicated,

but God being vindicated.

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Rod: W w okay.

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So isn't it also true that when

we pray things like Maranatha our,

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we pray like your kingdom come.

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Isn't that a form of imprecatory.

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I mean, it's not the same thing.

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It's definitely a few degrees removed,

but we're essentially saying God,

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please come establish your kingdom and

judge your enemies, vanquish to foe.

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It may not be as, uh, you know, as

explicit as some of the Psalms are, but

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we're still, we're still praying and

predatory, like sentences and Psalms.

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Would you agree or disagree with that?

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PJ: Yeah, I think I would agree with that.

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I mean, when we, yeah, when we're asking

God to come back, we're asking for

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everything that accompanies God's return

or Jesus returned to come with him.

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So in that sense?

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Yes, I would agree with that.

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Rod: I would also suggest to

that loving our enemies is not.

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Okay.

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So here's the thing.

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Well, we have to define love

according to how God defines it.

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And sometimes we conflate

the idea of love.

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With art.

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Uh, 21st century.

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Uh, sentimental sappy kind of love

where it's like I'm in love is

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going to just do the nice sweet and

kind thing, which I guess is true.

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Most of the time.

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But God's love is fierce

and it is purifying.

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God's love has rough edges.

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I mean, that's why Don Carson.

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Um, you might know this da Carson

wrote a book called the difficult

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doctrine of the love of God.

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God's love is.

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It's not a monolithic,

it's not single origin.

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It has complex edges that

come from the word of God.

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So all that to say, When we talk about

God's love, it's not contrary to judgment.

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God's love will produce judgment.

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And therefore, when we pray, imprecatory

Psalms, we're not outside the balance

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of still saying we love our enemies.

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We pray for them.

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But we're going to pray in a new

and a new way, I suppose, with

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now that now that we have Jesus

ministry behind us, we can say, Lord.

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Bless them by saving them or

please stop them by judging them.

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Break the teeth of the wicked stop.

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Any, I think about this when

we, when we're praying for.

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Our governing officials, some of

these governing officials want.

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I'm struggling to know how to

describe this without being too

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graphic, because just by nature

of what it is, Uh, so the pro.

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Pro eval candidates.

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The opposite of pro-life.

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They want to have people be

able to, to have a halfway

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situation, man, I'm struggling.

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Um, you know what I'm

trying to say, right?

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Am I.

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Is there a better way to say this?

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Yeah, they partialing

the partial the thing.

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So if you have kids listening, just know

I'm struggling to not offend little ears,

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but you get what I'm saying, parents.

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Hopefully you're all

tracking with me right now.

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They want to stem the population growth.

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And yes, that's a good way of putting it.

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I pray against them

with imprecatory Psalms.

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Yeah.

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I pray against planned parenthood

with imprecatory Psalms.

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And I have no guilt in

my heart about that.

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Yeah.

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But if I were to find out that God

saved the CEO of planned parenthood.

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And that he showed mercy instead of

judgment, I would celebrate that.

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I would count that a win.

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And I would say let's, let's

utilize that woman's platform.

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Right.

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And let's promote that.

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I don't see God's love and

God's justice as antithetical.

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I do.

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It's a hard thing to reconcile it because

our own emotions can get involved, but

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I would see them as mutually compatible.

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PJ: Right?

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Rod: I would agree.

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PJ: And I think that goes hand in hand

with what I was talking about earlier.

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Even the concept of righteous indignation.

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Right, right.

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What's informing our imprecatory

prayer is not an indignation

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over our own sensibilities being

offended, although that does

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offend our personal sensibilities.

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It's ultimately.

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Uh, someone 39 tells us God's the

one that's knitting that, that

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life together, you know what.

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And no one has the right to end that.

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And so that's, that's where

our indignation comes from.

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It's it's again, an offense

on behalf of God, around.

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In in, in God's respect,

not in our respect.

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But that's why we can also say, man,

I've got chooses to save that person.

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That gets to the unforgiving servant,

who am I to hold a grudge against the

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person that God has shown grace to.

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Right, right.

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Good question.

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So we

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Rod: can pray both perhaps.

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And maybe if it is a personal, I guess,

a personal and a, and an enemy of

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God, someone were to do great evil T

because of your, your Christian faith.

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I know this would be a much

more difficult doctrine to

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apply, but I think you can have.

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I don't want to say, have

your cake and eat it too.

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We pray for their salvation, but we

also pray for God to judge the wicked.

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Uh, that's a both and I think,

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PJ: yeah, yeah.

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All right.

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Well, let's get to the Psalms

that we're covering today.

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We've got a handful of them.

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Uh, some three and four go

really well, hand in hand.

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And if you look at the title of Psalm

three, Uh, this was written during

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the time when David was fleeing from

his son Absalom, something that we

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talked about yesterday in the episode.

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Uh, from second team of 13

through 15 there, second Samuel

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15 in particular, when Absalom.

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Uh, made a plea for the

throne and David ran.

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And so this is when David is

writing this particular Psalm and

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he's talking about his enemies.

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He's talking about his foes.

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And yet.

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I love responding.

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I laid down and slept.

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I woke again for the Lord.

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Sustained me.

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So even as David was running for

his life from his son, And in

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all of the tragedy that would be

falling and he was able to sleep.

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He was able to sleep because his

confidence was ultimately in the Lord.

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And so three and four go hand in

hand because if Psalm three is the

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Psalm that the, the morning Psalm

then som four is the evening song.

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David is praying.

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David is, is playing again

in a situation where he is.

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Is his running where he is on.

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Been put to flight.

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Um, and, and again, likely these

were written at the same time.

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And, and so in verse eight, he

prays in the evening, som in peace.

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I will both lie down and sleep for you.

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A Lord make me to dwell in safety.

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So in the morning he praises God.

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He says like, I slept and I woke

because the Lord sustained me.

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Praise God for doing that in protecting

me over night in the evening, he

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says, you know what, I'm going to

sleep because I'm gonna trust that.

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He's going to do it again.

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Rod: Yeah.

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Psalm four always reminds

me of Philippians four.

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The peace that surpasses understanding.

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Because David's a man who continues

to offer up his prayers and God

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is continuing to deliver him.

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Uh, not necessarily from the

enemy, but through the enemy.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Well, some 12, 10 in some 12.

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Uh, David addresses two sources

of speech in this Psalm.

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Uh, the, the first, uh, speech that he

addresses are the words of his enemies.

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And then the second are the words of God.

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And so this song was about how

to respond to each appropriately.

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for deliverance from the lies and from the

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false lips, from the speech of the enemy.

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Uh, the flattering tongue, the.

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The lifts that makes great boasts.

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And so he's praying for deliverance

there, but then in the second part,

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he's, uh, he's, uh, policing is

confident trust in what God has promised.

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He's he's saying I'm not going to

listen to the lies of the enemy.

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I'm going to listen to

the words of the Lord.

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The words of the Lord are pure words.

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Verse six, in contrast to

the words of the enemy.

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So you will load will keep them.

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You will be faithful to

your words, verse seven.

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And that's where the

confidence of David lies.

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Amen.

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So I'm 13, then this is one of those.

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How long Psalms, this is one of those

Psalms that are, uh, at, at times

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can feel a little bit uncomfortable

because it's like, is that it?

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Can we do that?

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Is that okay?

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Is that okay for us to say God, how

long are you going to forget me forever?

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Um, now David had the theology

to know that that God had not

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forgotten him, but David's honesty.

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Is is present here in the Psalm.

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He says, it feels like DOD

that like you've, you've

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forgotten what it feels like.

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You've left me verses one

through two David's despair.

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Uh, verses three through

four, then he's his petition.

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He says, consider an answer me, let.

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Light up my eyes lest I sleep.

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The sleep of death.

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So David's fearing for his life there.

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And then finally the end of the Psalm,

he places his confidence in the steadfast

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love of God and says, I'm going to

rejoice ultimately in your salvation.

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And so this is a how long Psalm,

where he starts in despair, but then.

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Moves himself to the right perspective

of have confidence in the Lord.

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Rod: I like the pattern that if you're

going to lament toward the Lord, I

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really liked the idea that you end

with an expression of confidence.

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Even if your heart's not in

it, I still think that's a

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PJ: worthy practice.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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And, and so often we find that.

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It's rare to find a Psalm where you're

left in that state of unresolved tension.

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Yeah.

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Uh, he usually does get to that, that.

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Correct theology that leads to praise.

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And then some 28, then another

Psalm of David that moves again,

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just like we were just talking

about from despair to confidence.

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Verse verses one through six David's

despair in his, uh, his petitions.

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Um, and he's praying even in verse

three, do not drag me off with the

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wicked, with the workers of evil,

those who speak peace with their

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neighbors while evils in their hearts.

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And so there's David knew betrayal

perhaps better than anyone else

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that we read about in the Bible.

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Save our own savior.

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Um, he knew what it was to, to

have somebody turn their back.

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He knew what it was to have

trusted counselors abandoned him.

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And so he had seen that in

his praying that, that he

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would be delivered from this.

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And then in the last few verses

verses seven through nine, these.

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Establishing again, his trust in the Lord.

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The Lord is my strength in my

shield and him, my heart trusts.

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I'm helped my heart.

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Exults.

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To exalt his, his joyful praise.

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And with my song, I give thanks to him.

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So again, from, from despair to

confidence, I'll write some 55 then

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as we wrap our reading today, some

55, another one of my favorite songs.

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You mentioned that the sound for

reminds you of Philippians four.

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Uh, this one's got a,

an air of that as well.

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Uh, in verse 22, at least.

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Um, But the content of this song tells us

that it was written by David when he had

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been betrayed by someone close to him.

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So this is maybe Absalom, but, but

I think maybe even a hit the fill,

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uh, somebody who was one of his

trusted advisors who turned his back.

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And in abandoned him.

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And we picked that up in verse 12.

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It's not an enemy who taunts me

because then I could bear it.

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It's not an adversary who deals insolent.

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Incidentally with me.

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Cause then I can hide from him.

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But it's you a man, my equal, my

companion, my familiar friend.

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We used to take sweet counsel together.

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Within God's house as

we've walked in the throng.

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That's what leads me to think

that this may have been a hit the

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fel rather than his son Absalom.

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I don't know that he would have

used that language for Absalom.

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I would agree with that.

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Yeah.

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And, and.

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It could have been anyone else who

went with Absalom too, but that's true.

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But the council connection

does feel pretty strong.

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It.

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Yeah.

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So verses one through eight,

then in Psalm 45 David's despair.

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Uh, and then verses nine

through 15, as we just read.

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His plea for justice against this

familiar friend turned pho and.

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Again, the Bible praise.

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He got a suit relatable

because you may have.

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Be reading this or, or, or

listening to us this morning going?

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Yeah, I've, I've been there.

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I've been betrayed.

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I've been, somebody has stabbed me

in the back and so it's helpful.

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Uh, to see somebody like David, who

didn't just live an easy life, but,

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but walks through these valleys

and in suffered under these things.

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And yet continue to place his confidence

in the Lord, which is the rest of

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the Solomon verses 16 through 23.

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Uh, note in verse 17, how encouraging

it is evening and morning.

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And at noon, I utter my complaint

and moan and he hears my voice.

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How great is that, that, that God does

not grow weary of hearing your petitions.

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He doesn't grow weary of hearing

your cries during suffering

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he's willing and does listen.

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Morning, evening, noon.

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Uh, to, to your petitions, to your cries.

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Uh, then there's verse 22 cast your burden

on the Lord and he will sustain you.

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He will never permit the

righteous to be moved.

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That's the one that reminds

me of Philippians four.

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Uh, do not be anxious for anything, but by

everything pray and the peace of God will

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guard your hearts and minds in Christ.

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Jesus, our Lord verse 22

casher burden on the Lord.

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He will sustain you.

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He will never permit the register.

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So some 2 55, such a great chapter

of an encouragement to us that,

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that walks through some difficult

times, but ends on a high note.

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Really

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Rod: appreciate that verse 22,

because I think the contrast

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is what makes it all the more.

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Palpable.

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He is saying, look, I had this close

friend that I loved and I took sweet

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counsel within, and then they failed me.

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Um, whenever you have

your hope in a person.

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Uh, you're going to find yourself

disappointed because that person's

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inevitably going to sin against you or say

something that you, that you feel hurt by.

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I remember even coming across news about

some of my favorite preachers and pastors.

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Uh, being removed from their pulpits

because of some kind of public scandal.

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I mean, that, that that'll shake you.

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Um, but what it should do for

Christians is not caused you to be.

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Uh, angry and embittered or disenchanted

by the Christian faith, but to

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recognize the Lord alone is worthy

of our fullest and strongest trust.

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Castro burden on the Lord.

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He will sustain you.

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People will let you down.

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People will fail.

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You.

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Your favorite pastors will sin.

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Now and sadly, the.

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Pastors even today, I guess we're

being exposed and in some ongoing

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fashion, man, Please pray for us.

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Number one, I don't

want to be that person.

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Oh, Lord protect us.

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But number two, put your

ultimate trust in the Lord.

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He will never leave.

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He will never forsake.

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He will always sustain you

no matter what the season is.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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PJ: Well, hi, keeping your Bibles and,

uh, tuning in again with us tomorrow.

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For another episode of

the daily Bible podcast.

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See you then.

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Bye.

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