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
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's why we read the Bible every day.
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her mind and never leave.
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:Like theme songs to different TV
shows that you watched growing up.
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at that point, I had to get back.
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hat, and I guess he was in long beach.
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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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fresh prince of Bel layer, teenage
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songs, just play rent free in the
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and make room for, for better things.
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want you to see, like you can't
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:PJ: But they do get buried in file
cabinet somewhere because I've stumbled
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since I was a junior in high school.
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got the lyrics to those songs
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:PJ: And it's, it's been in a file
cabinet somewhere in the back
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20 years, but then all of a
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in the nineties or the eighties where, or
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man, I can still recite all of those.
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lyrics with near perfection.
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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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they're trying to slow down
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:PJ: your music.
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that music on my shopping, my mom and
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lot more time in the grocery store.
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the music, the up and coming music.
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:Rod: Well, okay.
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my suspicion though.
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a shared cultural experience.
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because so much of their life.
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you know, obviously the things
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nation, but there's so much.
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TV shows, they won't wake up
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going to have something so different.
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a niche amount of people.
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:PJ: that, which is such an
interesting concept, right?
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that do rise to the top and do
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or things like that, that still.
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a series like that, that everybody is
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there's thousands upon
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up and usually it's TVMA and whatever.
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that everybody's talking about.
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TV, ABC Friday nights, where everybody's
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still be the thing that transcends that.
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that, that everybody still does
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you and I are online a lot.
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spent a lot of time online.
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happening and all the trends.
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we think, but because we're in an
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resources that we'll see the things
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they make a blip on the radar.
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a cultural phenomenon.
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Friday nights or whatever.
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watched her endorse it all, but
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kind of became a cultural phenomenon,
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driving around Dallas, they're talking
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episode from this last weekend?
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season finale or the Sopranos.
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I've ever watched, but I remember when
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everybody was, was up in arms about it.
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hours on, on talk shows and radio and
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it because ended in such an abrupt way.
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about and everybody had common ground.
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of examples where people fixated on
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seasons between:
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out before we Sopranos.
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didn't look up that one.
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one of the last vestiges of old
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about it all over the place.
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last show that's transcended like that.
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and I just haven't paid attention.
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that are now on the reruns around
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still one of the most streamed.
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local broadcast radio, but now, or
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following because it's on Netflix
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interesting about that.
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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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one of the last songs that we studied.
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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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of the book of the living.
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among the righteous.
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that's imprecatory words.
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the email said it struck me that
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Jesus said in Luke 6 28 to 29.
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enemies, do good to those who hate you.
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pray for those who abuse you.
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honor and live out what Christ commanded.
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Psalm 69, just evidence of his fallen
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we can relate to it, even though
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all that we want to know and need to know.
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we want to know and need to know.
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:Uh, a song written by David
when he was suffering a lot.
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of God verses four through 12.
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zeal for your house has consumed me.
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those were approaches.
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verses that are referenced here.
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of what we need to remember is David's
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is not an offense that's personal as
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God, he's offended on God's behalf.
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his bemoaning, these things, and that
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for God to act against God's enemies.
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act against David's enemies.
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in the new Testament says, Hey,
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pray for those who persecute you.
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perspective, from the perspective
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that my personal offense.
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with, with God's holy offense.
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me, it's not my job to.
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judgment and fire upon them.
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the Lord vengeance is the Lord's.
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is zealous for the name of God.
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God's reputation here.
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is under attack from the enemies.
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for judgment there.
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but God being vindicated.
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we pray things like Maranatha our,
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but we're essentially saying God,
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judge your enemies, vanquish to foe.
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explicit as some of the Psalms are, but
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predatory, like sentences and Psalms.
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God to come back, we're asking for
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or Jesus returned to come with him.
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that loving our enemies is not.
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according to how God defines it.
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the idea of love.
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where it's like I'm in love is
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kind thing, which I guess is true.
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and it is purifying.
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wrote a book called the difficult
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it's not single origin.
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come from the word of God.
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God's love, it's not contrary to judgment.
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Psalms, we're not outside the balance
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and a new way, I suppose, with
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ministry behind us, we can say, Lord.
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please stop them by judging them.
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we, when we're praying for.
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these governing officials want.
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describe this without being too
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of what it is, Uh, so the pro.
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able to, to have a halfway
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trying to say, right?
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the partial the thing.
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I'm struggling to not offend little ears,
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tracking with me right now.
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with imprecatory Psalms.
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with imprecatory Psalms.
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my heart about that.
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saved the CEO of planned parenthood.
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judgment, I would celebrate that.
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utilize that woman's platform.
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God's justice as antithetical.
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our own emotions can get involved, but
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with what I was talking about earlier.
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prayer is not an indignation
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offended, although that does
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one that's knitting that, that
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our indignation comes from.
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on behalf of God, around.
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not in our respect.
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I've got chooses to save that person.
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who am I to hold a grudge against the
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a personal and a, and an enemy of
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because of your, your Christian faith.
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more difficult doctrine to
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your cake and eat it too.
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also pray for God to judge the wicked.
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that we're covering today.
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:Uh, some three and four go
really well, hand in hand.
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three, Uh, this was written during
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his son Absalom, something that we
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through 15 there, second Samuel
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throne and David ran.
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writing this particular Psalm and
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his life from his son, And in
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falling and he was able to sleep.
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confidence was ultimately in the Lord.
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hand because if Psalm three is the
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then som four is the evening song.
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in a situation where he is.
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were written at the same time.
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prays in the evening, som in peace.
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because the Lord sustained me.
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me over night in the evening, he
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sleep because I'm gonna trust that.
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me of Philippians four.
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to offer up his prayers and God
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enemy, but through the enemy.
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:Uh, David addresses two sources
of speech in this Psalm.
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addresses are the words of his enemies.
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to respond to each appropriately.
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for deliverance from the lies and from the
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there, but then in the second part,
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confident trust in what God has promised.
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listen to the lies of the enemy.
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the words of the Lord.
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the words of the enemy.
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your words, verse seven.
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confidence of David lies.
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Psalms that are, uh, at, at times
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because it's like, is that it?
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long are you going to forget me forever?
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to know that that God had not
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that like you've, you've
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through two David's despair.
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four, then he's his petition.
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he places his confidence in the steadfast
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rejoice ultimately in your salvation.
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where he starts in despair, but then.
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of have confidence in the Lord.
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going to lament toward the Lord, I
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with an expression of confidence.
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it, I still think that's a
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left in that state of unresolved tension.
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Psalm of David that moves again,
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about from despair to confidence.
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despair in his, uh, his petitions.
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three, do not drag me off with the
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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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: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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: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.